Show SCIENTIFIC SC FIC MISCEllANY In the new electric baUer battery ot of Pop Poppenberg imberg the positive electrode is II a hollow cylinder ot of retort carbon Ailed With depolarizing matter and closed at atthe atthe the bottom by an plate the negative III Ii a lInder ot of zinc and tk the two rest reat on a plate or diaphragm beneath benth which In Ina a thick layer of sulphate ot of suds oda wills Ith or lr without a little common salt When water waler is II pou poured Into the cell part parl ot of It ItUNI UNI through the porous diaphragm the alt lt The solution passes y mOle 1011 the water above forming an electrolyte that varIes but ut slightly with time and cau causes the bat batery battery tery ery to 0 retain Its strength for a tong long period Th to force rot ts Is about aboul two volts The color and character ot of the walls alla have much to lit do wIth the lIghtIng ot of a room and experiments have shown bees percentages or of by bT dlf wall materials material hack velvet 04 black 11 13 11 black blek paper U 11 dark blue 63 dank glean lot pale red redU JU U dark yellow as 00 pale hiale blue bluit 10 pals III l W 48 40 pale green reen pale orAn 48 pure pore white 70 10 mirror covering 12 Dull or varnished paint she alto has WI teli Aside AhSe from trum mirrored w wills l wiatt varnish ensures the best roam mom and thIs ma may be used Id In conjunction with incandescent Cu eta light u as tb the most mOlt economical ot f artificial illumInation Ot rb treatises mostly qI e alleged to to hue have been b Gan less letl than accepted as 1 lore are now naw known A o Greek text fin the ot of just JUit bt been tn published br b pr t of the be Are to et t birds bIrd which hleb irs In arid and lId lib which rockY sOlon Or and anil tic avoid which are aN round Records ot of more than 0 lions Uon showing the deviation ot of the meg needle from th the voyage oat ot of Colum Columbus bus bua In 1411 1405 to 1750 1710 have bun bion by a German Orman physicist Probably no modern discovery in III natural history hA has been bean more mort Inh thin than the finding ot of oti i edIble gun gum exudIng from the of Cen Central 1 India at a Um when the people Are suffering from their greatest famine This I Is pl pleasantly 0 II sweet In white whit or brown bron iode about an Inch long and nd I is found hr bT Da David nd ot of tile the Indian museum at Calcutta W to mainly ot of a sugar related tat to It if not Identical with lIb acne sugar The appear appearance ance In the bamboo of handa WU vu know last Meteli The sugar dIffers urt from the bamboo manna manila of hyt which Is not lIot a sugar ugar but a whit white gritty body inside the stem slem ot of the plant and now called ta 14 bashir by con loins about eo 0 pr cent of silica with varying proportions ot of and or matter mitter It has haa been mush used In medicIne Wherever forests cover tM the theland land special Industries are at their expense Immense forests ot of r 0 C P w t trets In Corsica the most moet industry of oC lb III 1 llanil iii Probably ly the of odd udd hu tom these abOut to 20 sn tons ot of the being 4 now requIred annually for th the tons tona of liquid sent away pway Without niT this wholesale 1151 lr C firsts 1111 is Ie likely to brInK bring sert fr ION lIM e In time It is III feared nut only will the climAte be affect il ii tut that the peasants will suffer uller tb the thelow I low II lIr their staple food tood ot of flour dour from th the dried fruit ot of the Att Attempts m to III the of taste tute are beIng made by E B Toulouse and N Va 4 t They test lt with sodium chloride for tor salty tastes tn for sweet ot of quinine for tor bitters sold and citric ottric acid for tor thins of th these varying In strength along a decimal scale being pre prepared ared wIth water A special Ia dropper gives drops drope of unvarying size 1111 Another series erl of is 11 used fur for determining with sails III or 9 ordinarily experIenced but disappear when th the nope nOH I is stopped toppel With the universal use Ule ot of electric lI light ht of oil gsa au and indies an n statistician tat calculates that tb the Kingdom would lucre I loss deat deaths annually rite rl of oxygen as 1 a remedy for fot wu waa hut suggested 11 by Jr Ia ot of The Id Idea ha has been t up by t I L Dutremblay who ba has Maul numerous successful experiments mind nna has bat brought the matter to the no notie notile tie tile of lh the academy ot of medicine The malady prove to be due Imper feet ventilatIon ot of the lun lung The sud ld and rapId displacements ot of tb the vie I cra ce and the contraction ot of the rails act IU as prIncipal causes and nd bring brine ab about ut such secondary manifestations U headache nausea naUNa chills ehUl eto The Th 01 oxy ten ft rapid relief It Ie Is II Inhaled through tb the mouth from cylinders ot of the ga gas and eight or ten gallons The itAlian system Item ot of for tor halt hall was recently put to toa toa a severe r test with the results multi that ex cx exceeded exp expectations Threatening loud cloud collected In the ot of In the provInce ot of Como omo three times In InI I u n on one afternoon antI and each flach time lIm they were fourteen sial cannon The elouIs were scat Icat scattered only a little Int falling In the vIcinity ot of Alessandri great damage was Wa done don by hall hail whIch tell fell over the dt districts of oC Maslo Ialo a anti JIll In some places piling up to a depth ot of twenty The animals having the warmest blood appear to be some som ot of the ceta cela cetaceans ceans Dr DI Gulberg reports that obier made with great have havethe given the following results In Individual I cetaceans 40 10 degree c Greenland right whale dE degrees au ant and degrees common degrees derre dolphin IU 56 de degrees grees Th The average blood temperature of mn man I ii 37 17 degree C that of other mammals beIng 20 degree while that ot of bIr birds Is U 42 dr degrees which hal has been given Iven th the name of by Dr Lud LudI Ludwig I wig Ig Ellon Elion seems 1 to 10 have proven ver very satisfactory U a a photographIc develop fr Cr This hu has the unIque property ot of ad mixture wih with sodIum In all rock mak makI rockIng I Ing nl possible a combined developing and andI I fixing bUI bath |