Show SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY HIIA r an h AIo P roo 10 IIAbbli trA8 r rd IS lor LU II A unique phenpmnon > that puzzling astronomers afforded by the double star 44 Bootswhich was discovered by ferjchel m 1781 For thirty years the tirsol thlssStern gradually increased heir distance from jaeh other at a nearly unifoim rate the position angle at the tame time slowly advancing but for neatly an equal period down to Ihe present lime the motion In been apparently ap-parently arrested and the carefnl ecords of the best star observers show only absolute rest Even so expert an observer ai Mr S Burnham confesses bat this Is not easily explained On the usual dark body hypothesis how ever it Is I poslblc to conceive that one of the stars with an invisible companion both moving In a very eccentric orbit In a plane parallel to the line of sight may tave a period and direction of motion hat will explain both the motion and absence ol motion shown by the obser ations The return of the period of islble motion will be awaited with no i I mall degree of interest A simple thermoelectric generator apiblcol tunning a sixinch or eight I bJi nch fan rroter t ftha a third of the gas used by an ordinary burner the invcn 11011 ot Mr fl B Cox and is being made In Iondon 1he element conSISt con-SISt of short strips of Seebecks alloy composed oi two parts of antimony and one of zinc the outside ends cf which are Oioed in a srar shape by copper connecting con-necting strips The desired number of elemeats are st In a ment cvllnder whh a central open ng The opening fil is over a Bunsen gasburner and an annular an-nular metal casing contains circulating water to cool the outer ends ot the elements ele-ments Area being considered Greece seems o be more a land of earthquakes than J orR foeaf apan Reports for 1896 appear to how a total of 529 einhquakes lor the kingdom or nearly ij a day no fewer ban 306 having been recorded in Ih stand ot zante alone Pasteur suggested that the microbes oll chicken i crolera might I be efltctive in iuppresslng the rabbit pest of Australia One of Ihe chief reasons why the emedy was not tried was the reluctance of New South Wales to Introduce a new and unknown disease an objection that has now been removed by Mr C J ound Government bactenlogist who hat discovered chicken cholera in both Queensland and New Sou h Wales Tnls of this method of destroying rab bil have lately been made with results 0 i encouraging that permission to us Its It-s lkely to be granicd t to farmers and ithers Calculations I show that two gal I Ion 01 brot containing microbes of chicken cholera are sufficlenl wben id Jed to pollard to destroy at least IrfJI KPOOO rabbits without considering tht spread ol the disease rom one antmil mother As bright sunshine renders he microbe infected food harmless ill three hours it is recommended that the poison pellets be scattered over the field near sunset An instructive experience has ben eported by the Mexican International Railroad At the burning of their repair re-pair shop at Piedras Negras the supine endent saw that tin building could not be laved and instructed the fire department depart-ment to throw no water on il but to allow al-low all the men available to shovel sa id nd earth upo the embers covering ihe fine machine tools Tnls precaution sed the metal to cool slowlv Tejv tho aIF Ut he tools were warped nearly all being be-ing put to work satisfactorily soon after tlio fire whereas most of them wou d nave been conpletely ruined by drenchIng drench-Ing with water 1 he general trend of weed migration I enbak feeff is I found by Mr Lysler II Dewey to have been westward m the States eat t of the Rocky Mountains except in New England This westward course corresponds cor-responds with the progress of cultivation cultiva-tion and the movement of the supply of fiId seeds while In New England such weeds as the Canada thistle yellow daisy and orange hawkweed have spread to Ihe eastward chiefly along railroads in baled hay grain and wool What is i claimed to be a very satisfactory satisfac-tory mutation ol camphor Is I now manufactured manu-factured by passing hydrochloric acid into spirits of turpentine surrounded by a freezing mixture The attention of a Trench surgeon Professor Lannilongu as lately drawn to blisters produced on ihe scalps ol several children who had been playing In the shadow of a wall whose top was under bright sunlight The idea that this might me an xray eflect suggested Itself Experiments w ere then made on a number of ptrssnj when several who were exposed unprotected to similar radiations were burned while otricn who were protected by strontium glass Coughi Iltllttrd AI Oner And nor bit ot rIIII l part ol B cura tint will it j a cure Use Btllardi HorehouudHTrupintl note bow quickly quick-ly you are cured and how well you fuel II rw rJ BpeclOo also for Whooping Coujli and Croui John Coffin Kir win Kaniu i > ii Wlin I began la um llallardi lluteliounu Hyrup far Consumption the Doctor bad old tbil I would die In rw dy Am now uu nd around Have no more pain lucheslirlungi1 Price 23 und 50 eeuii No bat DO pay Bold < by Z O M I Drug Depl Ill I II MOJI to 1aln Rheunictlim Nourdlgli aud other painful ifUlolloui are now ai latllr rUled AS tney wcro ono bard to cure Holtnohu learned wtiit pain l > and Ilillardt Bnow Llnlmrnt Is Ibo mule Ourm titialut Culo lirulsei Him Julnlaund CootnoivJ Musolei POll ttralei to the very Ilanu mil rellnvci almost from Ihe mjmont II toucru When liniment li needed you twv II to yourtelf to net the bl Iba l alr li I > ullinnz a to guarantee tuli our 1rlce M cauu Mold by Z C 111 Dru D pt Tho II lioeps 1e i Well WUeu tno liver Ib I P lIb all other oreus are tny lul u lorrom Coullpallou Dlllouo Jundlce Hdcho lodigullno Palo III JIek Chilli anil IOM ut Energy Von will nt tr know bow promptly Ibeee trouble oan be cured until loa ut > IlKliltiHE Ucin i quickly wbeu other rweI tin uUrly Iil lUguUtti 10 Ilvir Pur nth Bloou HER Linn n lUtuil t V < tabl > Hrinnly tnal gives new U uml utterly almoit from the llrtt uoie 1rlr 75 Uenti Free Trial 11 nils at Z O U I Dmr Department escaped The Investigator declares that xray dlicovenes will revolutioulzs the treatment I > if sunstroke He thinks the ancient Greeks may hive been wiser than we know in covering their head with brasi helmets and their chests and backs with light metal cuirasses and concludes that future proectlon from sunstroke may bo sought behind strontium stron-tium glass hrlmeis It Is probably Impose bta to estimate how man > injured limbs have been sacrifices sac-rifices to Ibo professional pride or fallible judgment of the surgeon Dr lUclui at the recent French Congress of Surgery Sur-gery described a submtme fur the ordinary ordi-nary operation or a kind of natural amputation am-putation in which ihe dead tissue Is I embalmed em-balmed and allowed to become separated from the living without violent Interference Interfer-ence The wound is i carefully shaved and cleansed with either etc In the usual way Ills then irritated with water at a temperature of 140 ° to 144 ° F which has the tnree old advantage ol destroying microorganisms and Increasing Increas-ing Ihe potency of antiseptic 8ub lances of stanching blood and of helping I to compensate for loss ol heat Irom the bleeding The dead tissue is finally Ir wrapped In antiseptic substances until It has separated Irom the living when Ihe surgeon may divide the bone If necessary neces-sary Great success Is I repotted the treatment being much less fatal than amputation and saving a larger part of the limb If not the whOle Falcon J Island in Ihe Friendly auf was first noted as a shoal In 1867 In I77 smoke was rising Irom the sea over the shoal In October 1885 an Island 3700 meters lougandys 1 meters high had formed and a tremendous eruption was in progress The height was 90 meters In iS > 7 The ashes have rapidly washed away leaving a he ght of about S meters In 1891 and the island is fast 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