Show SCIENTIFIC MISCEllANY This The lc bacon on In associating Ideas that Pierre 11 Ire lIach t has ha taught n a par parrot parrot rot opens a 11 wide vista vis In of o sI in Instruction lolly was brought dally daily Into the Die laboratory and ami noon learned to 10 name minnie a cupboard a n lad Iud ladder ladder der and to 10 my etly II elliOt climb when her master masler went up Ul the latter iatter Tho The reward of ot cor cur correctness corre re was the opening of ot the cupboard to 10 allow altow time the bird to help herself to hemp hempseed seed therein Ono One day when whim Polly Poll oll WOK ovas brought In tin tilL cupboard cup wee Willi near the th ceiling and the tIle ladder stood with other articles In III ii a 11 corner the tho purpose being to test teat li list r ability to put together the Ihl words she elms knew The experiment was a fail failure failure ure The rho next day Polly in a n furious temper struggled to break troD from root her hr caRe cage II but bUI at last espied the cupboard near neur the tM ceiling when wh n she tho Instantly I I dd r cupboard This remark remarkable remarkable able sentence making was promptly re no rewarded roo warded wardell wardellA A new variable star which has hns been un under dar der observation at nl the tho Potsdam Observatory Observatory tory for tor more moore tItan than tho n a 11 year ear proves to bo be boot beof of ot extraordinary interest on account of ot Its short purled period Its cycle of light changes change being completed In four than three hours less leu than thun that of oC any other known tar star The Tue magnitude varies from frem to 79 and It Is supposed that the changes 8 hiu t be duo to 10 the revolution of ot two bright bodies at short distance around center of oC gravity Some of oC the itte too roo asteroids so 80 laboriously found within tho the last century are liable to heroine become bl ome lost loam Prof Irot E fJ C Pickering points out Unit that GS of them have nut not been live II years while about 35 S Shave have hn Ie notice for 10 1 to 9 years y anti and as their orbits are arc but Imperfectly known there Is I risk rl k that thal when next seen sell these little planetary companions will not bo be recognized Comets shed a n portion of oC their tails talis Prof Prot Lewis Swirl SwIft tells us and us they have havi bt been m doing doln this since creation the probable result Is a II ring rinK of nebulous mat matter ter surrounding the tho earth and possibly I extending to Neptun 1 orbit Reflection of oC sunlight ht hum from these castoff taIls lulls of or comets ID is Prof Prot Swifts Sniffs explanation of ot i tIme the zodiacal light TItle This light tight which Is in Just beginning to attract the time serious at attention of tiC astronomers is u a II faint glow seem peen In tho time west after I sunset and In tn thu tho east Nut before sunrise und stint It takes taken the tue form onto of a cone conI 3 degrees wide at III the buss base and amid often otters extruding nearly to the While hile In some countries or It Is 18 CecIl een only on In winn Illing and autumn In I U th tho west In the thu former fornier er season s lUIon and In the east In the thu latter lilitH It Is II visible throughout the year from rein the Lowe Lone Observatory In southern California Even mare mure mysterious terl Dun ous ou Is In the a II faintly shinIng circle In the midnight ht sky sk exactly opposite opposite site silo tho lie sun and Joined jounce to the zodiacal cones by b broad bards banis of ot scarcely scarce perceptible light 1 While making mallin Ills hl gUC guess uc s Prof roC Swift doubts whether hether the cause cluse of or these liens phenomena will ever le lie proven apparatus for Cor vitalizing the tho atmosphere pere of or the aIk chamber may be tome OntO u IC I necessary part of ot the physicians p num Dr J K h F S 8 Barnes an English En moan man reports having h used tIme the In III U a severe case lIse of oC pneumonia complicated with pleurisy and the tho result was liS un an immediate and Important change chango In the air of the room which was 11 ful fol towed by lIy rapid Improvement of oC the pa patients patients condition arc are being used uDell allio for buttering the tho air of oC factories The shape ot of time the rudder of a 1 vessel fuel seems to be lie of oC more Importance than thun ha has been generally supposed Experiments r In Scotland Scotlund by J J Foster King I Indicate that the thu rectangular form ferns hns lies decided ad Bd advantages vantages as liS It II presents a 11 larger burger er at UI the loud line under all nil conditions condition ami and require requIres a II smaller stock and working gear G nr titan than curve curet shapes With area the narrow blaue Is us II effective as tin ll l the broad one while It can be lie set et more moors rapidly The Tue 0 CO Cd mastodons found Count In New huva lIa been along well marked 1 belts tho the thoI feeding places having hn Ing been old river riverbanks riverbanks I banks The Russian feat Cent of ot reanimating th the tho heart of n II child that hud had been ticen dead V hours Is shown by hg 10 Dr It 11 to be b nothing new The Time heart Is not the tIme dell deli rate eato organ orun generally centrally supposed and for tor a n along long time physiologists have understood the mite possibility that It could bt he restored to C action thus the effect b bein ln of ot shorter dur duration atton In tn the tho human heart henrt than In that of or lower animals A current curren I of Jr arterial blood or u ci solution of oC salt charged wIth oxygen ox cn Is n to 1 common means of restorIng Tl the time beating to hearts By fly the thA exposed being rhythmically rubbed with the right hand Prof Irua of Lemberg lien has hn succeeded in m reanimating ing lug li t 6 hearts out of oC 10 and t hy y combining massage with M Hut fill u oh of Geneva line has dead dogs o s and kept them alive as much an all 21 hours Ito II 18 Human beings have huc been revived b 11 bl the thu latter method though only for tor a II short time timeA A dust fall Cull of February has been traced over 21 II counties In 1 eight In Wales arid and one In Ireland and It has been t J from numerous places on the rOil eon continent The Tue dust overspread t te tie e land smoke hll near Southampton the Ihl cloud was wan ro so dense denso that a 11 person could not see sec to read nt lit noon the Ito falls of ot and loot lId the dust Is he supposed to tobe tobe tobe be of ot desert orIgIn probably from Crom north northern northern ern em Africa and does not appear to be lie volcanic Tho Thu cradle crallie of ot the human race Is still being sought The widely accepted theory of Max Mutter Muller bated based on language teaches that mans early corty home was waR In India but some porno ethnologists aro am now in inclined inclined to agree with Hh Prof hUrt that the Aryans first lived lId in Tn the tIme territory north of tho the Carpathian mountains near the boon boun boundary dory dary liar line between bel anti and Russia now occupied by b Letts LeUI vJ J Lith Lithuanians In lit his latest researches relle Prof Curie Curle has hns found that radium keeps keels Its lis own temperature at C above that of ot the atmosphere This substance emits more than enough heat to melt macit Us lis own weight of Ice Ico yet e there thoro Is no combus combustion lion tion nor chemical nor molecular change Recent have found that plumb lines for Cor accurate work should bo be beof of o copper cOIler or bronze A Steel wire tn a n adeep deep shaft harl was wall slightly lIghtly deflected by b the tho earths magnetism Pygmies are art now hOW found only In th this In Interior teflon of Africa A Herman German gist t shows shown that they the once tired lived in Switz Switzerland erland And nd and in Silesia down to of the thu the Ihl tenth century that some Home race ere loss hoes than four tour feet in m height The Thc automatic baby IJ nurse of ot a n Swiss SWiRl mechanic mt MI set In motion by b air wave from the Jaby crying line has a n phonographs phonograph lullaby and clockwork that that sings a 1 rocks rock the cradle In the ihie body changes that hike tik t kp place as all allI I w WI m w old oilier r pity I i l lt irl ts l that un an important part partIn partIs In Is h taken Ink by lIy time the phagocytes or devouring ago aso It was wan manic made to toI I tells clU 1111 Some years I that some of ot thi c cells lIs arc are color enters that lint they whiten tho the hair by hy selling tIme tho pigment grains tutu and convey concY conveying ing log them liens into the skin or out opt of ot the tho or On Oil farther study the theory has hitos been evolved that old ohl lite Itself Is lit duo due to phagocytes that destroy tho the nerve cells The nerve eating cell have Ima hl been found to In its the tho brains brain of ot moistly many old people und and old mammals mammal as Lu well ns nl In persons sufferIng from front nervous disease dl but In lii no Ito case clue havo they been beell known to reach rench such luch develop mentor montor to havo have no so nearly taken thug tho of f the limo nerve in III in tho bruin brain ofa of ofu ofu u a thru thu t died at nt thu great tige It of ot SI ii after atter some earll of If feebleness and senility Semi lilly |