| Show SCIENTIFiC MISCELLANY I Scientific HmokInllonTh 1Ilng 1IIdThn Old Humbugtli l U of iUum > rt Tory Dot fee I noIIn rlhmVIIgln a lot as I 31mr tic InIeA Thry or Irllo it as ILnglnlg The smoke problrjn seems to have been solved for faculties I In n very satisfactory sat-isfactory way by Austrian engineer engi-neer llerr Fritz Mnler The solution del ends upon closed 1 funiace doors and slow feeding without admission of nlr from Above and It 11 I effected by nlfnn ot an automatic stoker which diouH the fuel In Email quantities on the = front end ot the fire and anther an-ther automatlo arrangement that shovcls the fuel along the fire Tho apparatus Is cooled by water which as It becomes heated In I used to feed the boiler Perfect combustion Is I claimed and a trial of six months In a factory near Vienna la reported to have resulted re-sulted In a saving of 33 per cent In fuel and 10 per cent In labor one stoker doing the work of ten What he calls the sense of return In pigeons and other animals Is I regarded lij Jl Pierre Bonnier In the light of the latest Imestlsatlons as not due to a rlxth sense excited by the earths magnetism hot as all extraordinary development ot the memory of direction or of the power of keeping bearings Whatever It may be this sense Is I one of nine functions of the Inner car This serxe exists In man but It has fallen Into disuse and It Is I In those species dependent upon the Instinct for existence exist-ence that It has attained great power tome murellou feats ot Belng through opaque objects that leave excited ex-cited much wonder at Mont elller France do not stand the rigid tests of science A committee ot the Academy of Science and Literature hid two envelope en-velope containing prepared cards In their coats and placed a third In a box v llh half of an exposed photographic plate at u hOUM A quarter oC n mllo away Only the contents ot the box nern described after an hour and a half nnd fugging ot the I houL on development ¬ de-velopment showed that the box had been opened Roentgen rays have been found to act on > eretatlon like yen weak light In experiments by Signor G Tolomel Volcanic action on A lupendDu a scale seems to leae convulsed our globe at the end of Cretaceous and beginning Inning of Tertiary timOR It WEI a nl tills period that vicre aopoaltcd the 1m mns lavasheets of the Doccan < at India which cover some 200000 squan I miles or nn lOre greater than that ot New England and the Middle Mates I combined and have been regarded as I the grandest example ot the work of ld ou r i dl volcanoes In the world Lava deposits oven more vast are now believed by Newton nnd Tcall to have been made In the Northern Hemisphere at the same period From the geological collections col-lections of tile Jackson Harms worth expedition It appears that Franz Josef Land Is formed of fragments ot an ancient basalt plateau which tram the distribution I of similar I volcanic BJt 11r Iar I rocks Is Eupposcel to have once In eluded Bpltzbergen Jan Mnjen Iceland Ice-land Greenland the Faeroes the I Hebrides and North Ireland In ono can Unuouo area ot IUV1made land mot at Which bas since sunk In the North Atlantic ocean Tho longfamiliar laboratory method ot drying the air by means of a mols turcnbsorblng agent has been bor I rowed hy it Frankfort Inventor for it Iutelld drybai rel or box for lereperv InA vtnblca ont other lubtDIIO The new npparututl Is simply a box with a folio bottom otl slats l under I which Is I placed a metallic tray containing contain-ing caustic potash The vegetables fruit etc are placed on the false bottom bot-tom I and the nlr admitted only through tho bottom Is dried before reaching them by I passage over tho potash One charge of the drier Is I claimed to lost I six months An Indestructible Inkc for writing label oil gloss Ixittles Is thus prepared according to a Herman chemist Into n solution of 20 gram me of brown shelluo In ISO cubic centimeters of lamp spirit Is slowly poured n solution ot 3 > grammes of borax In IliO cubic centl meters of distilled water a suitable coloring malteraueh Of olle gomno of methyl Motel J being then milled Tvpewllters crulnp It appeals has come to take the place of writers tramp We are tohl however IhlLl tile dlscomtrt 01 suh It disease Im more than offset ly the enforced relief from tile corset that the time lOt the trI writer Is I bringing to female operators Hidden flaws In guns engine cranks I lilwny wheels propeller shafts And her steel castings me Prevented In the piocecH 1 ot Mr tills Mav by an Ingenlou use ot Vacuum chnniberst The mould Is I placed In an nlr tlplit chamber from which the air Is I ex hnutcol This chamber la ourround1 by n aerie lOr othpr vacuum chambn Cloth Connected with the central chain Ier h iy valvecontrolled pipiv and In this way a reserve Of vacuum Is produced pro-duced At tilt monlOn whn the tee Is I poured the cOlllrolllll valven ire opened and tin residue ot nil In the casting chaml r Is I sucked Into the surrounding chambers The air and rases In tho fluid metal rush out and diffutse thcmele III the acuum tend the moo It in II It avless homogeneous casting The Russian province of Xursk tOVOBtO ho one ot the moat rmalka hit areaa lOt magnetic disturbances yet known M > Mourenux reports that tho difference i between i th I eery tend 010 serration are eo great that it is not lines Cord Mj < > 8lble to draw Jsomnpnctlc magnetic force Is I as great as It sold be In the Immediate Vicinity I of i I the magnetic i poles I mJh eoI of tile needle ranges from 43 degrees to 79 di I trees At twopointm about ro Yards report the declinations ore mlm 11 di and the variation green and plus 45 dcprees I itlon at two places about a mile ana an-a quarter apart Is I from minus 31 I di Trees to plus 88 decrees Nothing near I the surface to cause these anomalies 13 known to exist III Is n remarkable fact that ot over 100 finds ot Iron metrlteo only nine have heen aOPn 10 rail while I or over 400 fond or stony meteorites more than cllehall have Lesson eeen to fall Sir II L Preston finds several reasons for Iltllvlng that the Iron meteorites are mere the crystallzcd motalllo nodules t a I to ed In the larger and moro call con a picuous stony metuorites I From 123 answers questions rub lIhod two or I Limit Years ago Mpouq V rend C Henri find that a Person first memory mal be 01 on event oc curilrog as early no the age oC six man t he lOr no late am eight yeDrtvo to four years being the utensil age A nlhtbloomlng leguminous plDrt or Trinidad la pollinated by tile agency lOt bats |
