| Show SCIENTIFIC MISCEllANY IH its the Did hi singular for fill IS bt ought I forward by b Dr M I do tie Mouin of oC l A t un the thc belief Is that a u of ot rattle bile hili Is III f n tills this and ho he has hns cAreW I the tIme poison glands nul It to patients some somo Internally und amid lv t In lii tho tile form torm of It u sub subcutaneous The lie results have hale been heen so that thai ho lie Is Id ed tile Iho will become a n genuine cure curo A man pharmacIst while admitting that this lila may be points out that tho the poison In iii Mils idlis lepers us easily ea na tie oUter other persons A useful Imitation celluloid Is I pro produced according to a 11 German Gelman method methodi by h i dissolving In 16 0 parts by weight of ot glacial Mill field IS 18 parts of nitrocellulose adding G 5 parts aitS of K Gentle heating find anti stirring are necessary After tho Ice muss hut has strolled It Ills Is mixed with with 7 7 parta of oC 00 Dr per cent c nt alcohol with continued ll stirring The product If I pouted Into molds mol lis or after further dilution may ma be spread lI In iti thin laHs on glass An As s an underlay for fol i sensitive photographic films the ma omit material material tonal hits has Important advantages not tho the least being that It remains tint In III developing It Is often otten to use a camera In libraries A 4 new flOW method of obtaining reproductions of books consists In placing a piece of with luminous paint behind the engraving or writing to be anti and I a photographic plate on the ace for IS 18 to 10 60 0 minutes The plato pinto IB Is trans to time the book antI and back to a dark box under n a suitable cloth clothA clothA A book on the COts cars ns as an Index of character having been published bv by an English a learned earned I reviewer Dr A Keith mentions his hilt own clabor ate study of the ears cars of more than for forty fort ty t thousand people Including crimi criminals oats nals nod 2000 Insane persons besides those of apes lie was forced to con conclude elude clude that the tho ears gave no clue to per personal traits Time The great problem before the en engineer engineer states Prof J A EwIn Is the tho efficient utilization nf energy Time Tho of today Is more efficient than that of Watta time but much remains to be done One possibility Is the use of steam nt at n a lure ture In engines am a system of thus superheated steam is now being In Introduced from Germany German by which 1 lAi pounds lounds of coal con can be made to yield 1 horsepower one hour against about 2 pounds required by the best beet ordinary engines From gas gna engines n a Rain gain 1 I horsepower per ner hour may be obtain obtained ed for 1 pound of coal The Tue modern turbine engine ns as developed bv by time the lion Hon Charies Parsons t is remarkable not hot only because balancing troubles ore removed but also because In Us Its latest form oral It gives n a greater return for or a given quantity of steam than any other engine The Tue belief that buildings over the craters of slumbering volcanoes must be In lii n a state of constant tremor un tin unknown known In iti the tho more marc stable Is by A amid U L Franco France observations have been made at the observatory near the tho summit of Mount Etna nt at n a of nearly feet anti nt at that of Cat anla ut itt the he foot of the mountain rend rendIng Ing ings been taken six times n a day iHy for eight The lime crater station proved to bo be moro moore quiet The Tho was In motion In 62 per percent cent of tie the nt at but In only 46 per cent nn on Dur DurIng Ing in n it tough rough sen the trembling Is never absent nt at while n a strong wind has more effect lion on the mountain A noiseless alarm clock would prove din tim The Is made tint n a silent alarm cnn can be givon by sc it boon to n a opt lost of sufferers from tin no nn an electric lump lamp upon the h head nd of time tho person tp to be awakened anti arranging ft a switch so that the lie current to light the tho lamp would be iii turned on cia onby by time the clock nt at the tho desired time It Is claimed that flint tIme the flash of light would Invariably the steeper sleeper The poisoning from toni arsenic arsenical nl al wall papers has hns been liv the tic discovery of nn an organism that feeds on arsenic This l is a mold anti under Its Influence the paper emits a gas arsin to which the linen per persons sons living In the room ore found to tobe tobe be mule due In the tho experiments In France and amid Italy the tho acetylene cannon seems to hide given tIme HIP t premier as n a safe and op for bombarding th II tt t of a generator In which ie cO acetylene Is nod mind with air And a strong upright Iron shinder with n a narrow Iron extending upwards The gaseous mixture Is Ii fired by ly nn an electrIc lighter near the bottom of he The force ot of the ex cx ft a great height rind ex ox experienced ore convinced of Its Iti effectiveness In Ia preventing the formation of Itoh In threatening clouds As Ar the ice gus gns Is in produced only when lieIs need cd ed one charge of the generator with calcium carbide giving more lucre than 1000 for six si months or cit more A battery of 50 or more lucre some somewhat what scattered cannon connected electrically one onn operator on en dangerous clouds hastens hi to the he con een trill In chute lease n a supply of gun and cause nn an ex cx explosion In every cartoOn The replacing of lost jost parts patta by new nets growths Is n a power nasser of at that given much mitch Interest bv ht ex ox experiments of In tic the eight century Among the facts now learned Prof J 5 Arthur finds Anus that an earthworm may n a head nr or tall or a tall In iii place 4 of a ft head n a arm a frog frag fragment mont ment of disc may become a whole an arm anImal Imal a limay a alost alost lost limb antI and sometimes nn on antenna Instead of nn tin eye n a snail replace Its long iong horn times hInes In succession n a newt many get n It new leg or nn an eye or a lene lense from an Iris margin n a lizard may recover Its lost tall anti and a cock time tho greater oath nf of Its beak What hint Is known ns nit how tends to occur In and In thoo ports of which In natural al at conditions condition nio lIable to Injury The novel navel then Men of n it r dat t l is to IC nil p t tor or nit o hi a olive ni I tn oil i 1 sti II liquid 1 carbonic neld tinder pressure The Tho net tin lit when the tue oil ill U is nut lilt to 1 lie tf V n tn II tho n ii pl n nt n a further effect time tho acid nold Is t to keep time the Ails from rein spoiling |
