| Show SClENTIFlCjSCELLANY INTITriatal Cnrn Tlio Allantle Cnrreolo vroter11 of Icitrie 11IlhOol Orion 11ii14II3jivrictirs of 1tln Arlloii liirlmlK Acid roptring if hthlThe UJ Ubco111t Cricket Thermon ter PI n I The cnnning DC SWht corn 10 an Industry In-dustry ot remarkable growth the first corn having been Packed about 1S5J while 7000 tons were put up In the United l States In 1S95 Recent large loose from souring hove led to an Investigation In-vestigation at the Massachusetts Institute In-stitute ot technology The souring la I round 10 be tills 10 fomentation set Ul 1 by bacteria which exist on the corn In the Held and are not destroyed by the temperature of 180 degrees to 150 degrees de-grees at hleh the corn Is cook1 In the can To effect sterilization the packer places the cans In retorts heated by steam under pressure Kx perpment I has shown that a temperature above the bulling point of water must be reached throughout the corn to kill all bacteria and that exposure uC the cans for sixty minutes to 250 degrees r ensures complete sterlllzitlon but sun = the stilailnutis time and temperature of safety are still to be determined Considerable Con-siderable time Is I essential on account of the slow conduction of heat through the corn A demand for corn of light color oeomi to haVe led the packer to reduce too much the limo or temperature tempera-ture of the sterilizing process and the soured corn of late years has resulted From record of all Immense number of observations Dr Gerhardt Schott draws the conclusions that the so called Gulf stream does not exist as II Warm current cast uC 40 degrees W and has no rapid movement east of Cfl degrees W that the Labrador current does not nnywhcro touch the sea board l ot the United States and has nothing to do with the cold wall and that on the Great Hanks there Is I radically no current The warm and cold l streams ore Irregular movelllut not liable to definite changes with sell eons A recent calculation shows that elec tric heating for cars costs over five limes na much In fuel as heating by Moves an expenditure equivalent to six horsepower being required to raise the temperature DC an ordinary car for twutyroUr poul from 0 degree to 00 degirtes 17 It Is I estimated < l that doubl < Indows would re duce the fuel expense onebalf Glass Is I usually colored hy fusing with a metallic oxide the entire mss being changed In the new process oC M Leon Lemal patterns are beaull fully stained upon the surface by lien I ctratlon a yellow color being given i when n silver salt Is I placed In con tact with the glass and the whole heated to ISO degrees to 930 degrees r The depth ot penetration depend upon the time of heating the shade upon the quantity of the alt applied in live minute the color had reached a depth of 11H of an Inch In nn hour this depth wn doubled and 10 18 hours a plate 110 of an Inch thick was colored throughout The yellow has 0 line greenish or bliilth lIuore once Iho rraph collodion nega lives enn Ie npplled directly to the gloss and lace patterns can be tr ns rerre by simply dipping the loco Into a weak solution of nitrate ol silver anti then Into potassium sulphld Other salts such ns those oC gold copper and lronelln lie used lIver with a little copper giving a red color Psychologists have vet to record manycurbilus working of the mind Dr Glnoslo line reported to a IInr devolve society tile con oC 0 Young man mho since he was ten years old has hod nn Irralllbl Impuls to count the letters In words anti phrases Thl lie < los continually while await I without Interfering In I any wily with his dally work his reading or his con vroallon When not talking he Invents In-vents phrases Unit count the letters S3 being a number that give him sells faction Title 13 displeases him At night he sleeps lIhout dreaming The editor of Scientific Miscellany Inuy add a similar experience having been frequently aroused to the consclous ness i that while absorbed In some m ork ho hall been uutomalllly grouping word on a printed page In pyramids each word chosen having one letter more than Its predecessor irbollc acid has been effectliely used for tempering steel tools by M Levat n French engineer Two cat steel grner oC fine quality were heated to a cherry red nnd one WaJI dipped Into wutor and the other Into a oolullon or commrelal carbollo acid They were then i tried on chiselled I Iron and on extra hard mhlte cast Iron The watertempered I graver Tian notched In several places while the other resisted pc rf cells Itain guhs In thunderstorms have been lUlouly explained but Prof ClcvIA Abbe finds It still un often question hcthr these gushes Alston fthout the rormllllon Ot lightning or vice versa Some curious experim onto and pec nlollon which sm to have been lalecn I with more or less sprinusness have beon brought before the Paris Society of Pnjchlc Science by Dr liar nduq The Instrument Use called th < blnmetcr Is I claimed to show that the vlllli forces oC malt 10 not dpnt on the laws n4 either hlIlt or electricity U eon lit > of n pointer like tho hand < it a watch suspended over a dial Inside In-side a glass vessel Insulated by I three compact layers oC mien albumen linen cloth and ollo < lIon tho lotion oC the pointer sit It Is nmertrd Indicating I the vital forces of the person touching tho Instrument and varying with Instate In-state ot mind If the Person Is I happy the hand Is I attracted In grief It Is I I roplied Dr Itaraduc furthr clalme i to have photographed the AW forcivis a picture being taken by force ot will In complete darkness and even tile N Ren 112P vital forces ot a corpse being sufficient three hours after death to Impress tho sensitive plate In the dark The con clualon Is that there exists In man 0 vapor of life which Is I the quintessence of Movement Its cause the expert Mentor confess himself unable to de termite hut he suppose tile move insult to ho conOlcll l with Ibrntlon of the soul And to be palpable Intolll gence A similarity Is I noted between tho suns photosphere and the vital atmosphere oC man The rate ot chirp of the cricket Prof A U IJolbear notes In The American Naturalist seems to bo entirely determined de-termined by the temperature and this to such a degree that ono may easily computo the temperature from tlitj chirps per minute Thus at CO deffroe r tho rate Is S3 per minute At 7J degrces r the rate Is 120 a change tit four chirps a minute for each degroo of change Below a temperature of rO I degrees the crleket has no energy 10 I Women In mule and there would be but 40 chirps per minute I The listing of Iron under paint Is I usually supposed 10 be dno 11 nlllut cracks In I the paint A study if the I subject by Edmund Simon shows that paint resists temperature changes hut Is always hydroRcoplc and when swollen by moisture readily admits water and names To prevent it e rust Ion Hcrr Simon recommends three ir Tons coat of very adherent paint I cnn talninc the largest possible quantity of 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