Show SCIENTIFIC FIC MISCELLANY Tho earth within tho Arctic Circle n a hlo population lon but bu t the Antarctic Circle Is IR without trace of human hUIAn life ml Upon square mlle the pole tho Iho foot of ot man has hs never trodden Dr V p A Cook Coole dissents dissent from the Iho belief b let this vast waste wllie nothing to repay lla exploration and Ind points out that seals eals Ind are abundant that deposits II of or exist that the la Is especially d to 10 the of urb Possible future Industries are Arc thus The Tha prospect however IB Is IBa Isa a forlorn ono one to the ecker ns os beyond tho Antarctic Circle Ircle the line lne of or perpetual Ino extends to the eon cn shore and nn only nn un occasional Island or cape Is III bare baro for tor n few fow weeks In glimmer The Tha const 1 I made Ildo Inaccessible by nn almost unbroken from ED to to feet teet high There Thero arc no trees nr or plants except a n few tew HII nd upon rocks too to hold yet H nil al Imal lire life to be bl well distributed The average l I low the extremes than In the Arctic Dr Cook Cok hns experienced W r degrees above boe n zero In summer to lo below in winter In the north while In the the mercury went to 45 degrees below ln In winter but did not reach 2 decrees n ye on 01 any day In summer Bummer The fhe Antarctic Is less trying than tho excessive humidity humid II and tho gales and snowstorm which almost continuous the year An air perfume In two on the Ih plan of or powders Js Is a n French Idea The white paper contains billa Ide III of barium with n a con concentrated perfume while the colored 1011 holds powdered permanganate nf ot In the proper proportions to liberate oxygen oX when the two Iwo powders me 11 dissolved together The liberated or oxygen carries the tho perfume Into the air nIl which It disinfects at the game time An amorphous lleon that IB IR no II active nelve I nc nR to burl when gently heated In the th Is I produced by h two Gorman chemists bv hI causing to net act on the of find subsequently uh fusing the powdered mas with wih aluminum The red end of or the Ihl spectrum has been hren found to b be exciting to the IS tern Henri de Varle points out hl violet Iolet Mile hIlI and have hao a soothing effect Hulls and turkeys nrc ro angered by h red blue are arc sometimes used Isell to quiet In a 11 factory at Lyons Ions sensitive plates formerly made by b fd light Ml the workmen continually f nH or gesticulated but In the green light now nol used med the tho men rahn ta tal little Ilo nrc ur less tired nt night night M effect of or In cheering patients Is IN often very It I has hn boen Ife further HII that the tho of vegetation of the sky Ik thu of or the may ma fully full affect health through thel calm calmIng Ing In such uch ns M wo 10 hAO to the effects of or colors on th thor organism or Dr 10 rI 0 considers tho subject worthy worth of ot thorough Investigation tion ton Petroleum Petrol cum residue Is now used usell as ns fuel tuel for tor the locomotives on thirteen per percent pr cent of or tho Russian nu railroads It I Is r that the oil al be of ot a 1 greenish color never black and tree free from sul sulphur water and an It 11 gravity must not nt nl 3 de e eRr Rr s P F Us Is boiling hain point not to fall In II be below below low degrees To ensure fuel for winter when trani Is storage tanks arc rp placed at nt Intervals along the tle railroad rA I roa II 1 and have bolo up U to 2600 tons The Th locomotive carries fire nn tons which Is II stored under the water tank of at the tender A new OW of photo photograph graph on metal 1 I claimed by b J Pater Paterson son W n of ot Edinburgh 1 Tho TI clean polish J metal Is coated with wih n 1 hot solution Jot of ot 3 ounces of or fish glup In InS InS S ounces of ot water t to J which 5 of ot of o ammonium has hl been leen add added ed cd when th coating Is I col It is I printed by exposure to light II ht under a 1 photographic negative The coating n tn or enamel Is IH then heated heat cd by b a n gnu 11 stove or spirit lamp until Riven n rich brown color The Tho metal under the un unhardened hardened parts of or the enamel Is then chemically etched the design dc Is I sharpness by burnishing Insanity Is I not largely due to mental worry to Dr Clouston of ot th Hoyal Boyal Asylum He Ie traces traNS only per cent c nt of ot the to this rause lS l III faulty development ment tho chief source An n estimate e of or the th possible value aluc of ot thi great peat I 1 of Ir North Germany hns hlll been Jeen made malle by h Dr Frnnk Frnk He Ie that nn acre of turf 10 felt hick ghO 1000 1100 tons of ot dry turf lurt equivalent ent to ISO no tons long of coke cle that tin inches lo cs of ot the Ih 1 u Valley Y covering 1000 10 square suar miles mie might yield IM the equivalent of ot tons of ot lt It vial nl nr or more l re than the total production of Germany Gerany for tor years Ctt It Ith I h Is proposed that the Pent bc be burned nt lt central stations f t power rapacity annually the t e pro product product duct of ot 20 acres The power would woul be bl useful on the rew re canal connecting Dortmund to tho Evus Eu but bil more to In Inthe Inthe the manufacture man of ot calcium for tor j acetylene with Wih 1000 horae power the tho produced would have nn in J nual cmil quil to ot tonn I Hn t Imported petroleum A new arc nrc lamp which seems to bo be of ot German origin Is II designed tu lu a tho Inconvenience of ot regularly renewing the It I of ot a I vacuum bulb containing two I 1 shaped aluminum r dx pointed with wih platinum It II In claimed that the Ihl points between b teen which the arc forme show shul practically ni Il wear The arms lre regulated by hy a pimple pendulum p nl I I Instead of ut re requiring reo quiring mechanism the complicated feed of If usual The lump which Is to be used In rt horizontal position tion lon caste no 10 shadow shu o oTo To produce plates not easily ea IY broken and proof against al It lu to 4 to S parts of hul wool soluble or 01 In II 1 part parI of ot ether or alcohol and 1111 mix tho wih ith 4 of castor oil oi and andI I to 0 G parts of ot Canada balsam A little Ht zinc white 1118 of ur Ivory The Inflammability IH n claimed to tn bo ho los lesu than Ilal that nf ot other plates and andIs Is made less by Iy magnesium chloride are holt hold by h II I Renault to have hAe buen n most powerful factor elor In tho worlds geological Ito no oll l v that they transformed wood Into con coni I ld that of ot the Ihl bacteria ha 0 been dis discovered covered In II coal conI by himself C 13 B |