Show SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY line tb nl livilisvel or X 1IYMahang sk ClOY by SI Wlsl lie tied 1krobtrin or lainver Joel air is ve oyr wer usrr nr h An Int Lod ar UskillI off itakles EVse Ik seek In his latest observations just communicated com-municated to the Berlin academy Prof Roentgen finds that the Xrays emanate front irradiated air In all directions so that if I they were visible the appearance appear-ance would be that ol a room filled with smoke and lighted up by a candle When a pive impervious the rays Is placed In fpnt ol a fluorescent screen the barium platlnocyanlde still remains leminoas I but the fluorescence disappears disap-pears when the screen is surrounded by a thin olitider of lead The observation observa-tion tnat the rays may be iade visible presumbly by causing fluorescence of the r o < na is confined Our prelt knolelc cf Xjys may be ummed Lp I > J baying > that k jxi rays from a di charging nrparatus ae a mltivi vary ing ill absolbat illtv jn1 icuntity that the conr aitliyi defends chiefly on the turation of the disc rllng current that d Nrent bodies Mi b difleri kinds of ayi aril that the Xra1 art produced by the cathode rays is the ib nom Nkna 01 both ae rotooly ci tbs hm nature Th eaperlment of producing light I I from hensehold relne now being tried or the first time at horedltch a Lcl1don uburb win toe watched whir interest by the cvilcll world firs refuse is brned twelve riHrucor cd s each havm a grate area of twentyCve square Cer and each pair heating a walcHu bollr which work at R fires sure Of 200 pound Suitable engines use the Iealll lor driving three high anti three low tenlon electric generators The de structori are operated throughout the twenlyfour hours but as Ih power is chie f I required for light heat is I stored dar by day warmin water to Iced the LII as at night Tile Itruetors are resigned to burn 20000 ton 01 refuse per annual It is I estimated that this will furnish electric light and poer and vrarm baths for the 124 000 Inhabitants of ShredIl The Moses Iver In Troneancasla lies shifted its ancint bed and now flows drectly into the Ca p an sea instead in-stead of into the Kura nt a point sixty miles from the lattsrs moui1 The idea that the moon has an appreciable ap-preciable actiod inon earthquakes and the weather has bern maintained far a quarter ol a century by M I de Pantile tire French phjsictst who notes that the scientific world Is I now beginning to recognize rec-ognize such n cts Concerning the muchdiscussed question ol the Influence of the moon upon vegetation Al de ParvUe says If we mast sietk with a certain reserve of the lunar Influence on treegrowth we should add that no one has shown tht such influence does not exist ke a a M Uoussct in his critical criti-cal study calls to mind an experiment ihat I made a long time ago in the Iropici by planting side mbrol tide ten seeds In the waric of moon And tell others at full moon The plants so edt ed-t new moon grew noticeably more rapidly than those at full moon I explained ex-plained Ilib phcuomcncn by saying that I the first appeared Just In time to profit by the m ons light while the othvj alter geimmatton I were not exposed so long t the lunar rajs The hpotlisis may be gooci but perhaps it does not correspond tj the reality Nevertheless It Is I confirmed by an ob see vtllon of M Carbcnnler who has on his part shown that at lull moon co > fervod and cryptoranlc Vevctaton t is 1 mo re active than r ntoozanlc I lunir 1 periods However I this may hire the arguments = nyl d a mnt1Ke lln presented against the lunar lnfle are insufficient to reverse the popular prejudice preju-dice Since Ihe beginning of Vv a new tyEtem of reckoning the bones has been in lore in Belgium nron beiog represented repre-sented by 12 and midnight by 34 or o according o circumstances A train Stirling exactly at midnight is toe to-e at a hour and one arriving at that time Is considered due at 24 oclock Tire > dials ol exisIng clocks at railway stations have been adapted lo Ills new system bv placing the nucibers 13 tc 24 under the i to i Iz The ptnoHithesUt principle has been applied in Trrnce to a machine for producing Xray The apparatus con loins tile stored electricity and a Crookes ube In a small box separated from wblchbya i little I space Is the fluorescent screen A suitable coin enables any person to view his bones and other mar vela ir a I ccruin time Dr VVemeks great photographic Allis of the moon is i to lie made on scales often of-ten to thirteen feet for the muon3 diameter di-ameter From scientific experiments upon mere than i coo persons Dr 1 H Kellogg Kel-logg I ol liaitle Creek Michigan II has de farmland the eflects cf one ounce of alcohol al-cohol odmmUered Internally to be the following It To diminish nrve activity ac-tivity 2 lo cimnsli cerebral aellvity 3 to impair the coord nitirg power of 1 I a brain t 4 to lessen muscular strengthS strength-S to deireatc digestive activity to II notable extent Both his medical ex pericn and laboratory research have convinced him that It is an error to regard re-gard alcohol as an aid to digestion as it InsDrovenhigilyd mental This influence in-fluence tpon file digestion lie declares Is I exactly what would be expected ol a drug that like ulcJi 1 is i a paral > zer of protoplasmic activity an anaetithelic and II sedative and not as Ills been erroneously errone-ously supposed a stimulant Ireland of prehltoilc times was the gold country of Europe In no other country at any rate has so much manufactured manu-factured gold of early ages been lound not less Ulan 400 specimen of Irhh gold antiques being contained in tin museum of the Royal Irish acadtmy alone while the British museum gold antique Illustrative ol British histmy are Cellist Iy Inh Tr nity college Dub In Ian hIS in I-an 3 fiae examples and It ere re large p ivate collections Native I gold occurs in seven localities In 1 Ireland 1 and the ancient miners may have bad sources of supply that are now worked out or lost Painful wounds frequently result from pricking tie finders with a pen An examination of slxlvpeven samples ot school inks has been made by Dr Markmin of Leipzig who finds molt ol the inks to be made of gallnutt and to contain saprophytes bacteria and micrococci In two instances a bacillus that proved fatal to mice in four dajs was cultivated from migr sm ink The poI soniin from pen pricks is attributed to pathogenic tncroUj and it is I assumed as-sumed that keeping I the ink covered lessens les-sens the risk A fljceulent precipitate resulting when gaseous lluonue Is I passed into I liquid bopa ox > gen has been shown by Moissin and Uewar to have 1 the curious property de tlagratinl Violently whcn Ihe mpera lure me |