Show sd FtC FIC MISCELLANY The many URe that arc are being round found for tor algIn a n gelatinous product discover discovered cov r red ed II a few Cew years yearn ago by Mr E P C C C San Sanford Sanford ford tord are giving rise rille to great greal expectation lions tion of or wealth form the ocean waste was Ie When Is steeped In sodIum carbonate for tor hours It IL be Le becomes comes collies a n mass having fourteen times the vine of or starch and cen times limes that of ot gum urn arable arabic and anti on filter filtering lug ing this thin gives elves soluble or sodium antI a residuum of ct cellulose i AI ln may lOny bi hi pressed Into a n cheese like cake which tony may bo be kept kert Indefinite indefinitely ly 1 In a II a cool 1001 This Thin remark remarkable remarkable remarkable able material has bias already proven vail valuable auto able for tor f r sizing fabrics as a mordant In dying ns III n a tout fond In thickening soups for tor conversion lon Into Inlo Jelly as ns a preventive tire live of boiler holler incrustation Incrustation on with sea Bea seaweed well weed carbon as aft the lie least leant ing covering for boilers and Ind In com coni combination with Iron ns as a II remedy for tor hitherto Incurable anaemia nut chloro chIaro sis ala Ig Aigle cellulose e or Is I also alpo proving useful ns liS It can enn be hardened turned and polished makes nn an excel excellent excellent lent transparent paper and ami Is a I cheap Insulator III for or electricity Not conquest of ot arms has elevated Queen Victorias reign above that Ihal of ot all other othor monarchs but conquest of or ca eu ease e This reign the tho Public Health Committee of ot Edinburgh point Joint out oUI has hns been preeminently one no of or reform the Factory I actor Acts Acl having eased the hard lot lotof lotof of ot children by ly forbidding long hours of ot toll loll the tho lie repeal of the Corn Laws Lasts hav having ing brought broll ht cheaper and anol better beller food while Improved drainage better Leiter water supply Improving dwellings shorter hours of or labor lahN and tho thia Increase of ot parks larks have brought Improved health With better beller health huts hns come Increased ed cd resistance to Infectious disease The i deaths from consumption In England 1 and Wales ales have fallen from 38 In I In 1831 to 14 In Iii 1891 18 1 antI It Is h absolutely safe to say that the this diminution of at the different forms torms of ot tuberculosis alone Itt It isnow now saving more than lives every ever year ear In lii the lie British Isles Normal Norm air lir Is U found by b A Goutier to contain of hydrogen which Is cutlet to by ex from soil plants plan Is animals etc Some SOllie interesting life lite analogies In In III inert ert rt matter ilia Iter which may ma oven even be regard ell ed d as its 1 constituting nn on elementary form torm of oC f life hIt have been pointed out by C K R I Guillaume These Include the tie fatigue of ot and changes Ihan es to resist thc hive forces An Illustration of at till the latter laller Is s the hardening of n a metal at al the this point Paint if ot constriction Just before breaking and ind this thus effect la Is so flO marked that If it the tho Is turned bar nr before actual rupture down lown to tn a L uniform diameter It 11 will InvariablY break nt at some other place If I then hen subjected to a 1 breaking load loal 1 Cn nore morp striking li ha the protective change or if the She Iodide or of or sliver silver In ho i the i liv a process of or color photo photography photograph graph graphy The Thc sliver silver salt at takes th thi color of ot the light striking It anti and thus re reflects reo fleets the radiation that If absorbed nh would destroy the p pet lt by Ly reducing It Banana Hour flour is n a food tood whose value aluc seems to 10 have haw been heen overlooked In Eu Europe 1 Europe rope and the States The banana was B estimated by b Humboldt to be 48 41 times as ns nutritious as LS the potato and alit richton Campbell has found It Il 25 times ns as nutritious as ns the host best wheat wheal bread Analysis has shown the nitrogenous matter of ot the III flour Ilour to 10 be Le about the samo same as ns that of or wheat Hour Banana Hour flour sold under the name of or I Is ex cx extensively manufactured In Central Am America m erica Colombia and Venezuela and IB its used used d like ordinary flour except that Its lack hack of or gluten It for tor or bread It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is especially recommended lell for or children and adults with weak stomachs A tea lea In a 1 cup liP of ot chocolate or cocoa facilitates the tho digestion of oC drinks and a n sustaining drink Is salt Mil to be made by b adding n n ia teaspoonful to nn an egg yolk olk beaten bl In milk and sweetened with sugar The Tue sap of plants has ha been lately lat l found by Overton to LO depend upon UlOn the lie presence of ot sugar nn on Interesting test heln to grow two tso plants of ot the tho ordinary bladderwort In separate dishes ll hes of ot water containing different I Ions tlona of ot sugar sur Low Lots night temperatures favor the of or such colors and this U its thought to account tar for or the reddish coloration of o alpine species and the tints of or evergreen leaves heaves In winter A new English Idea In decorating and lighting Is the placing In walls of ot trans trane transparent parent panels paMI faced with photographs of ot famous pictures through brought which niter filter subdued electric lights An attempt to explain the mysterious ous Otis phenomenon known ns as globe light lightning JI ht nina ning has hall been made by Irot Max Inventor of or a Will Veil known elec electric Inc machine nail discoverer IlI of the stra titled brush discharge A study of or all nil published records leads heads him to the Ion eon conclusion elusion that this is a form torm of ot brush nrc arc discharge of or the laboratory A light lIeM lightning fling ning flash leaves behind a track of heated and possibly Ionized air along alone which follow folios for far some same time a n slow Flow continuous Otis ous discharge causIn ln a n glowing Blowing for tor several seconds second or even enn half haIr a minute of or any nn point of or the track offering sum lum clent remittance resistance Motion of or the track train from wind or r electrostatic forces may give Ie the usually described traveling of ot the lie fireball Another lightning flash h often follows and the thunderclap p Is III usually reported ns as the explosion of 1 the ball Damage I from rom Globe lightning should hould not be lie melt great Its lis current between 2 Z and SO O 0 beIng found to range amperes while that ot or an till ordinary lash Hash may reach In the earthqUake measurements earrel l on oh for tor several years earll by y Pro Prof u it horizontal selmo graph has been fixed to tu the tile top toil of ot a ti Illicit Will wall of or the Engineering College ollege another being placed on the th ground round In the lie hive five years yeata ending with 1893 1898 ten Ien moderate earthquakes s w score re re rr recorded recorded corded The Tho show that an n earthquake of at slow last bUtt lastIng lug Ins about half n u second cause ally nil the same Fame motion In both plates places while tine one on of ot rapid vibrations caused twice as great motion nt the 1111 lit top lop of ot tilt the Ih wall wail HH nil on in the ground It 11 Is II noticed that destructive de earthquakes generally damage J only thin tha upper story of ot two to tW storied sInned buildings building A it new n British scheme f for or r making sea lea writer wilIer Rives lIre up iii Its gold consists eon In col cal collecting the water wn lor In tanks tendering It alkaline with lime tint after settling removing the th singe e for tor the ex cx extraction traction of at the metallic gold golt by ordinary methods in Innus made Incombustible Sinuses Houses es ore are nus by hy painting with a n solution lit aluminum sulphate followed by b one of ot potash Sulphate of potash is iii formed 11 and Insoluble In sol 1 Is 15 precipitated In Inthe inthe the pores Ilore of ot the be wood Guesses at nt the tho earths earth age are large largey hy h y based on the tho observed work of ot water In erosion solution etc ott The carbon of ot lime iliac In the thc world bus all been n form torm formed ed cd by the lie action of ot water on silicates sll find and that of ot the ocean Is 11 supplied bv Iw rivers risers and the waste of or Proto Irot Rug Eug DuboU DubIs finds reason renson for fr believing that not more titan than part parI of the Ih carbonate of ot Iliac discharged by IJ rivers Into the ocean Is newly formed from silicates From the yearly ad addition ditton to 10 the th son sea by rIvets rivers he hI calculates that the tho formation of oC the Ito whole pull osti mated minimum amount of ot carbonate of ot lime hinie on the earth would require about years anti and tint a n much flinch long longer er time has boon Joen necessary JC for tor the actual amount He lIe H t I led t to 1 front from fro III his Investigation that the forma formation tion Ion of ot a IL solid crust cru t and the beginning ing of oC life lire may ml rote rate rut I back more than a 11 thousand million years Last years eurs production of or saccharin In Germany Is la given as OB equivalent to 10 metric tons of ot sugar The sugar producers demand thud that It Il be tie sold Bold only 10 tIN a 0 thug drug anti and Its use URe In foodstuffs Is prohibited In France Belgium and 0 Greece recce y appeals to be In tn nn an ad art advanced condition In lii Japan The Thie govern government ment meat weather bureau has about 1000 stations and 82 per rent remit Of r Its It I weather welther forecasts und and 70 jO 0 per cent of oC Its storm warnings prove successful lul Besides tire the usual observations records are made of o electrical and other ex cx exceptional phenomena All vessels of ot more Inore than tone ore are to make mako r regular gular observations six times dally daily i I 4 liI I Jt i i Opera Chairs Choirs Church Pews School Desks or fj Book Cases I Tor S Sale la by D 13 A McMILLEN 70 W 2nd So st iL |