| Show SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY I h A b ur X 11 II A r orb slisluoIll RI 11111 1119hVir n pit to nl 1 nun nu-n The theory that under snall pressure as in the upper aimosphere oxygen hctiM exist entirely as ozone has been worked out by Mr William Sutherland 1 he ozone changes rait ally to oxygen as the pressure Increases although the change is i not ompleie even it high preisure It is i found that the plopor tlon ol alone in the atmosphere at the ssjrface shculd be about one vol I lire In 7 coo while the actual pop r tloi Is about one volume in a millicna I difference between theory and fact that Is accounted for by the chemical activity ol I the crone which causes It to I unit I reidily with I m tsls I 7atdt ad U Cba i explain i the I current viewtlatth airol elevated regtnis is hijhly clurgcd wi ith I ozom and show also tnat there must be stlfli lent ozoie in the atmoipheie to give tne sky much of its biutnss In experiments by Mr Guy 0 Iver Harrison of Liverpool Lnmnd the ccnsitlvcniss of the retina lo X nvs was evident after t the Clot had bienln the I I dark for ten to twenty minutes Tie trookes tube was placed u der a table 01 one1nth del and the rays wre perceived per-ceived os a faint illumination or the Ie tina on bringing the head above the tat le I while the shadow ot a p tee ol metal coud be distinguished and rlfc was even posbe to make out letters about I a quarter 01 an inch long In a sheet or lead It made lIttle difference whether ehae eye ds were closed or open From many yeirV observations the Director of the National Observatory at Athens finds ilnt the absolute > x remcs of temperature vary front 105 3a to t 96 ° a range of Sj 70 Ranfalisong9dayii In the Year tile annual amount bein4 IG Inches In 1891 Athens hid 3517 hours of sunshine wnilein oOe sealsonsilut sun Is I unclouded for a month at a time The records or 33 years shaN that tornidoes have a width cC lo 1010560 feet a legth ul t track ol 30 yards lo DO miles and a vcocily ot pro resion ol 7 to too miles an hour Diseuestme their local limitations say ilia ondjn I Saturday Review Some like tropical animals and plants live oily in the tropic some like consumption con-sumption are gradually spreading over the whole earth others like leprosy and smallpox are gradually becoming limited In their distribution and may nclinllv be tending toward extinction Again there are regions to which diseases have never reached On the summits of high mountains and in the circiimpolar snowfle < the earth and air and wtr are at harren 01 the microbes or disease os they are or nni mallile Without question Nnsen md his companions end been exfOied to he sane halhipl I and the sim unsanitary un-sanitary C01dions in thee Islands the lowered tuny ol their budits certainly would have beer linab to rrst the continual mbardment 01 germs to which we ire all sntjected In a country like lln am thickly populated for many centuries and with ih frees I flrrueu of population u canrot be ro1 > ell 1 that every yard 01 surface rontoln the it tatS of tie more commcn I diseases nd the native 01 some rcer Nod brouht over here fills a victim to our Jo I aut Irackrn soil BV celIions 01 a de IIUCtlve elimlnatlcn lie have becun h gly resinnt recur naive a dbes ustal thr I Gold Cot native are IE I smccpttblc than we ere to their on local I diseases Hut we are no fully protecoJ and allcer ard consu lIftlen two of our common scolifirt ns0l size a large annual toll It mal te assumed that both me due lo micrc rg n srns the microbe 01 cansunipt 0 I being wel I known that ot career t emu vs vet only suspected 1rjoah J no Inhibiting ol Brltail iscipcj Inlnltoub tc en cer oriaiiisic rtam v nine crape i feet fee-t on by the micrub 11 I tub t Ie Most d us crunatty elot he intrude and are untied by the d sea c A new Hu ly ot human development his teat pu hshe l by a Gernon author E llahu He mintius that primitive mm vvninti nmnivDrctis feeder upon whatever could be picd up and tint I I he tl en became severally uluntcr I a 6 her a planter and a heroer rut that these mods ol Kanns n iivehhcod were rot takin up sucressively as an oolulio > eri < < lie finds barky to have been the first ctreal I ard wheat the latest LittlB I were stdomcsticHed dln drought animals riptcial lodra the plowand their milk was net utcd as food until Icng rlCrwrd The wagon Is I as 1i I lIed a religious origin It is I belieed to 1 he had love heel derived from > i Indie whors and to first transported effigies of the gidcess of eriihty The diving cab n cr submarine traveler trav-eler ofM I Ili till del PCzzo when has bIij6d been used in the Sri e and Is believed to be suitable fee deep sea exploration is ten feet in diameter nod w ijhs ten tons It is I moved by three screws and al 111nhd a helm worked utc y electncly Ihe cabin w Men li inte jed thr < < ugh n man hole Is claimed to have an air supply stfli ent tr t 48 1 ours or lor p rsons is ightetl by electricity Ornd0 prcvt ed with livers or hand 11 is far working the shovcK picks gr pphng irons etc on elf a it i Tick ihe nnciirc i Con cil tubes provided hh len gve ven so the ground and cxltmr obiecs In all decllons Comm imication ith Ian Jar a coat can be kept up through 11 tele phne und even if the cable supporting the appiratus should bleak it Is I only necessary ti touch a lever to call a two links containing ballast to overturn when the gobe nil 1 at once rise to the top 01 the water If I the results claimed by Koilovski i Russian phvii iiu are ionfrmed the at ctrl > arc lulu Ins an aslonidilag effect in ihiuntism and neuralgia I he patient ills about five feet rom Ire powerful light tie rays of which are sentenced I by crdbar1 from all parts ol Ihe body exc ptthnfl ctedregon In tireemon In 38 patens were treated and recovery was lep r id in 8 case of Utica ll 2 caves out of oj 1 of nctirts in it casts cut ol 18 chronic rheuinati and in 3 caics of lum bjgo Tne fcposures last from three fourths of a minute 10 Iwo minutes riot more thin a Ritz n apphcalonat intervals in-tervals of thr e or lour davs being necessary in any case The proreas cf crstallization I i is being tdc b Professor I Von Schrien who h taken 280 pho ogrphs to show the transfer 01 organic Into inorganic mailer It sem that this laclled t to a I recent sensation I and Incorrect report that hd been found to b or mgtals garlic fill stances Petroleum ether h proved to be adapted rot low hmperaturethemcme terFo as h Is slill in a sergillirl iJ condition condi-tion and capable or lurther I contracticlI at the temperature or the liquefaction 01 a belo zo Fahr n |
