| Show sd FIC MISCELLANY A record In 11 im steam steal economy Is claim claimed ed cd tom for a I Parsons built bui for tal foran talan foren an en at nt Elberfeld J Ocr Ger Germany many The Tue steam telI consumption on trial was Wi only ani 13 12 1 pounds per ner Indicated horse horsepower horsepower power per hour hor which Is probably 1 or ar Hi 1 pounds less leu than the thc lowest con can consumption of or reciprocating engine engines while 15 1 pounds Is a n good result resul with triple expansion engines fever is 18 g found by iy b Dr H n O 0 Hall hail to bo ito unknown In China Chinn Japan where cows milk mil l Is not used anti and into In India where such eLicit milk mik Is 18 used only by b adults He lie contends that time the disease tIl ease Is chiefly chieM distributed by b milk mik Osmium wires having been produced by a n Invented by b Alter Auer Aler von audi Mich fuch wires have been bem tried In Incandescent lamps They The are arc heated by b the time passage aKe of ot the electric current like time tho ordinary carbon filament find well as ns they stand high wel osmium being tho the most of 0 all nil metals metal to fuse lighting Is effected great rent economy Time The current Is It used at pressures of ot only out 25 to CO to volts Experiments have havo shown hown that for or the time sammie same candlepower ower the osmium lamps canle use list only 40 per uter cent of at the current of ordinary ordnary Incandescent lamps of ot the caine voltage and ami that when whet an In osmium um thu lamp anti and ri a I carbon filament lamp consume time tho same samne energy thc th former gives 3 i times the tho candlepower of or tho the litter latter The Thc Th life of ot the tho osmium lamp may mn range from to ta 1500 hours Dry heat Is li Ingeniously applied to the tho body boty by n a new apparatus of or Dr Hugo huge Davidson This Title Is either a n ill pil pillow pl low or n a mattress of ot rubber cloth t to the tho under side matress of or which Is II sewed rubber tubing at ut distances of ot an to 11 three fourths of ot nn an In Inch the time whole being laid upon OrIon n a suitable support covered by b a n layer of ot asbestos n A stream of ot hot ht water running through the time tubing maintains maintain an even oven temperature or any required degree Ip To the the time tubing Is so arranged that tha cither r tho the lower or the he upper extremity may be lie heated anti ant the apparatus terms forms a n soft toft and comfortable couch Besides BesIde other applications this offers n a avery very convenient method of or Inducing perspiration Electricity Is reported to have proved an effective remedy relod for tar frostbite Cir Clr Circulation et Is IA set Ret up and ontI continues for a 1 time after current has been passed between poles applied 1 ppl I to opposite sides of or if tho the affected member but bitt several applications may ay be necessary necessary sary to complete completo the restorative r process One who has thoroughly tested the treatment On wh claims that reasonably prompt application lieS always resulted in n tt 1 cure without sloughing or gan gun gangrene grene greno One Ono of at the time problems now awaiting solution Dr Br l Monroe Monroe points out Is the tho suppression of 0 a I plague that has haA wrought rought greater destruction than all ni the time wars sars of or history More Ioro thun than 40 0 OGO square miles out of ot the timo miles of ot the thc Inhabited globe nr are n square devastated mies by b locusts locust at nt more or less frequent Intervals rind and In iii one ono tion alone OO people were known knowl ton to have tiled died diCt of oC starvation while In n a single visitation In tn the time United States the tho money mone loss lOls was placed at Tho The work of at these theo destroyers Is IscO constantly 00 cO going on somewhere Dur During DurIng ing lag the last laRt ten years ean they have done great damage In time the Sou them republics of at South euth America In North and South Africa tlc etc countries widely separated The creatures are little known In their per permanent permanent manent or true homes The Time only ani suc suo success cess Celia tints thus far In this plague has hns come rame from taking advantage of the fact tact that the time younger and weaker lo Jo locusts cannot adhere to smooth sur eur surfaces faces like glass their claws being too short and weak A study tudy of ot color glass bottles halts to de tie determine termine their efficiency In protecting medicines etc from tram the chemical ac action o action tion of light hUB has Ito been made by H 1 J cf or Copenhagen Black ack red re or orange ornge orange ange and dark dane yellowish brown brwn glass daTe brown brownl gave cave the best beat protection light l k green and dark brown glass good and bluish green violet milky miky bluish and color colorless colorless less ices glass glas very ery little It has haa bc be been n noticed that a Q body sue sus suspended I above liquid air receives strong negative electrification Ebert and anti Hoffman find that this title charge Is not riet due to the tho fn liquid air Itself but to the time action of oC minute particles of 0 very ver cold colt Ice suspended In It I This may ac account account account count tar for the tho electric effects of lf polar Vegetarians are rare among fish says an n English naturalist the thc tench teach and gray rn mullet mulet being perhaps the only British species with ruch uch tastes tuteR The Time carp Is mistakenly ml so 10 called a D favorite I food toad being frogs frog For I or a 1 considerable time tho tue conviction than tion lon has hl been growing that electric dp tie Is IA destined lo to cheek check chek tho time flow low of population to cities Of at extraordinary interest in this connection is II the time bout ment rent at nt gerent a small ul vii 1 lage lago lalo near Munich where tho tha Ih cr er ot of the river Is used 11 to generate electric for Cor or agricultural tural url anti and ont other oIlier mi ll i over O I nn an n extensive area A total of 23 2 firms and tI tO 0 premises of ot various arlous kinds In 21 and rural districts are arc now nol supplied light anti power Four tur toe blue yield 2000 O horsepower steam engines keep In tn reserve nn an In ad additional 8 1000 horsepower and antI this en on energy onery energy ergy ery Is 18 used for tor m moTtoes with 13 60 Incandescent lamps and antI arc lamps The plant Is la to ha on nn early extension of 00 horsepower hone power The Th most significant feature of or the enter is 18 the drawing of ot factories from tram Munich where certain firms firm have hIe closed their works to open new now shops In tho the country |
