Show 4 SCIENTIFIC The he electric organ ot of tM th rus the formidable electric fish ot of the Nie Nile Is situated In the skin enclosing the entre entire bOd body and cons consists lits of rows of compartments each having havinga n a peculiar protoplasmic disc wih with pro jeering stalk The Tho total number of these discs Is 2000 Each Ench halt half of at the organ Is conn to a sIngle nerve nene Ilber and late Into Investigations show that the power ot of the shock reachIng n a of volts In a fish eight Inches longIs due to the simultaneous development ot of similar changes In al all the discs The electrical disturbance In a single disc Is about the same ns as that In ordin ar any nerves rite fhe shock hock consists of n a series of rapid Impulses and the Interval between the shocks In Ia Increases creases from n a tenth ot of n a second to sev erl seconds as the animal becomes fatigued The ho organ as I a weapon Is lIkened to I a and charging automatic iun The early history of appendicitis can cannot cannot not be traced but Dr Gao Geo M it Edebohls believes the first reference to It to have been In 1642 TIme The first recorded opera Ollera operation ton tion on the appendix was performed Aug 24 21 1883 1613 The Tho frt successful r me moval ot of the wa was carried out outon outon on Ma May 8 1666 and since that time the percentage ot of successful operations luts ns been slowly IncreasInG increasing The obstruct obstructing InG ing bodies found Include n a great var ar lety ot of articles pIns being very try corn com common cornmon mon About tour four per cent ot of al all women are saId aid to have havo appendicitis the male victims being tower fewer The col collected tell by t o Jack sonI expeditIon arC arc found to include 36 species from and U 66 from Fraz ranz Land tl thus be b ing the mOlt most northerly points from which have been Tue Tho total number ot of sp species les known from the COlst coast ot of Norway Is A peculiar property ot of the tho water of Lake to contained said to be Is its lack ot of action acton on Immersed Chains and anchors continue for or weeks as bright and tree from rust as the they were originally The physIologIcal ered ot of alcohol still attract much attention Speaking to 0 a British temperance society Mr Victor Hore I stated that though himself n a rabid teetotaler he could nt not endore endorse the thu assertions on this subject often otten mode made on temperance platforms But Dut the harmful tendency ot of even small doses ot of alcohol has been definitely proven In recent experiments The Tho ncr ner OUI system Is Injuriously affected b bI by I It the oxidation necessary to the pr pro protoplasm ot of the brain Is diminished and anda n a certain amount of tissue degeneration Is produced even een In healthy persons hospital practice wih with alcohol has great greatly changed during the last half century In cases of pneumonia pneumonia and typhoid fever mik milk has been largely substituted for the alcohol formerly used and In surgery the antIseptic SS tern ot of Lord Lster Listen has made alcohol What Is one animals meet mn may be truly another poison polson Mr J E B Hart lag Ing lately reported to 0 the London LIn LInnean nean Society several caes cases In which had been poisoned by eating parel and he recalled that on the theother theother other hand the berres berries or of the yew and privet held to be to toman toman man are greedIly b by black birds thrushes and other birds Caes Cases are on record however ot of the poisoning ot of pheasants by yew leaves 1 The of got goats from yew ew poIsonIng Is remarkable In view ot of the tact fact that deer and cate cattle hare hac died ater after eating the leaves although n a suggested explanation Is that the dried leaves eaten by cattle from the green leaves eaten by goats Abo About t thirty different theories ore are found b by M A D B to have to explain the tho diurnal arIa rin tons ions of atmospheric electricity From n a comparison of various records ho he con eludes hint the Influence or of the tho soil probably due mostly to the evaporation ot or negatively electrified a disturbing cause In the daily variatIon Ind and that the general law ot of variation I Is by n a simple oscillation having n a maxium In the day and a a re constant maximum between and n a m The artificial sik silk ot of Chardonnet Is Isone isone one ot of the mo most t interesting ot of the man many products of t cellulose The value of thIs lois product Is attested by the rapId growth ot of Its manufacture the enlarged works work at ne anon I having a of at 0 pounds dal daily and ond the production nt at being 60 pounds per da day while factories are projected In England Belgium and Germany German The frt first stage of manufacture Is nit nitration nt raton ration ot of the coton cotton or tle pro pr ThIs operation r ne great grent cae care al as mIstakes may 01 occur and ond leeral several rarities ot of pyrex lne line are obtained b by using mixtures of acid The II Is placed wih with ether and alcohol In a cylinder winch Is rotated twelve hour hours the resulting solution beIng The Is filtered through coton cotton wool under a pressure ot of fifteen atmos atmospheres and I is then read ready for use Time The frames have pipes pipe running i CZ aide Cl pIpe hu i u Ec b a of tapes terminating In glas glass capillary tubes and the Is forced b ba by bya a pressure ot of atmospheres from the reservoir through these pIpes ani and the fine tubes I It hardens as I it reaches the air forming fine threads or sik silk The Tho threads are le led to bobbins front from twelve to twenty to each bobbin os as In time the case ot of natural sik silk This sik silk being very inflammable the product products Is s reconverted Into cellulose b by a process of A novel Use of the material Is for the mantles of In incandescent candescent scent gas lights tine the rare metas metals mixIng wih with the beter better than loan wih With an any other thread olds Folds of roce wih with aled allied phenomena nr are reproduced for the Instruction ot of geological students b by a novel noel apparatus apparatus atus devised by Prof O 0 A Lebour of the Durham College ot of Science Two parallel wooden rollers about tour four In Inches Inches ches In diameter ore are mounted abut abou three feet teet apart and oo are provided wih with gear gears and a crank to rotate them slow slowly I ly In opposite directions A sheet ot of rubber 1 firmly attached to both bolh rollers The rubber I is stretched b by rotating the rollers when layers of 01 cloth cay clay or paste are lall laid on I It and on reversing time the rotation the folds are shown hown grad gradually growing wIth the contraction Crystallized naphtha lne Prot Prof S P Thompson points out has sixty per cent greater effect In producing double ro me fraction than thon Iceland spar It Is dUll dim cul cult to work Into prisms prIsm however as asIt 1 It Is extremely Irl brittle te and worked sur surfaces surfaces faces must be covered wih with glass to prevent sublimation |