| Show I I SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY Ono of the tho new M methods of producing prO luc ing 1111 ox consists In III distilling tied lIed tho different d boiling points of the ox gen II and nitrogen milking making It comparatively easy to separate the two gases The curious property of Ing In that charcoal possesses ell hu hUI to Dr James D lr an nn even cven si process he finds findl that cheap oxygen may bo he had by b milking making tho absorb nt n 1 low tempera temperature ture and then Ihen expelling the oxygen by mining t l the temperature I At 16 degrees C below degrees degree the liquefying point of air tho charcoal becomes saturated with air In ten 1111 minutes tip tin six liters for every fifty IU 08 On gently heat heatIng heatIng Ing the tl liter of ot gnu In given off o con COli IS per p r cent of ot oxygen the second JO o per pel cent the third M tier per cent tho Iho fourth 72 2 per cent the fifth 79 19 per rent and the sixth 81 per cent Ono of or the wonders of ot Scarborough r III is Ie UH farm a II In on which rare species of ot moths omI butterflies are roared roud with n II i much care ns as tho gives to his prize fowls owl Bach JOch female lays Iny sev several eral hundred eggs The feeding cater coter arc Aro In muslin bags or orIce Ice thello ore moved tOm from to place on the trees The caterpillars mature matur Insects considerable market value Ordinary pillars sell at lit 5 to 51 0 cents each ooch oocha and a II moths are not thought high nt at 11 00 while hybrids sell lell Iy y nt SUO per Iler specimen and rarities lire arc often taken at 12 12 to 16 For un colors color the price may ten reach Calculating tilt the effects of light pre presure of or sure on n the three tolls Mr 8 a A Mitchell evi evidence dence that some other repulsive CoreE acted to Rive give tho observed of these tails The Tho phenomena of or fatigue and sleep p not nol yet ct understood One of tho latest theories of physiologists as OB stat stated I ed by b Dr nr Austin Flint lInt U II that of the known as na I granules or bodies represent energy and It ap I l that bodily ut III activity U by a l and of or these granules the cells becoming b shrunken and ami wrinkled often losing half of or their Hire n With the changes some unknown substance lI b or poison Is produced In the blood caus causing ing InH weariness ns 1111 Is hi shown by the tho fact that Injections of It blood from nn Ull ex exhausted hausted dug Induce symptoms of ot fa In froMi tro h animals Bleep follow s fatigue under fr conditions Is Immediately roused Inu eu by b diminished circulation of blood In the brain In natural sleep p the Ibe their normal conditions condition I I t taking kIll up 1111 fresh stores of or en ell energy ergy org orgA A Herman Is den ds as os being b treated with add Ilk vegetable par lie Ite Is ltd on Oil he foro putting Into water and the material ls 18 then Ihen I with glue Flue and alum ilIum covered with logwood This paper Is used lIed for Ing steel gooda 00 18 such uch ns aR sewing needles to keep them hom tarnishing Tho roots of ot trees M Hem m to vary In length and spread more than the On moist mol t land the tho largest trees RO JO down only from six sixto to 10 ton feet teet but Mr lr T Jl It linker men that saw roots hav been b en from frum n well In III Florida ut lit n depth of ot M 80 feet teel nm In Mine of the Florida sand Mils roots have been known to descend an All much an 1111 feet teet Alcohol li II found by two Italian phy ph tn to be without Intoxicating or effect when Imbibed at nt groat altitudes AS at nt tho summit of or Monte fonto The nervo cells appear app nr to tobo bo quite unresponsive to alcoholic stimulus ulus H the tho skin des destros Itol various of life but bul Its place In medicine la 19 yet ot to he determined When It shall have ben been found tm m ful Dr K I H S London a n phy proposes to make KB It energy cheaply available l with various substances he has haa shown that wool absorbs a large lorge quantity of ot radium and that the em ern n td wool 1001 physiological effects to thon of or radium Itself The wool moreover can be ap III applied plied to any part of ot tho body Five Ive or orten tOil ten R of radium mAY bo bl made ta a 11 large lorge quantity ot or otwool wool and as nB the radioactivity la Is r rl a II long time lime In III hermetically vessels v lIsel emanated wool nUll be 1 0 transported long distances III and may soon loon a 11 part ut of Ista regular stock In trade Is IA now nol fused by lIy the oxy ox hydrogen flame Into Inlo n clear glass glnn This cnn can bo be drawn Into very lIr fine fibers which have nil all the advantages B of the thc quarte fiber used for delicate sus suspensions u pensions Is h likely to provo prove othi wise wile serviceable |
