Show FIC MISCELLANY light ate are r reported to tobe he be luite common In Herman hospitals An jIll l n I Jr r J 8 S Hooker states that bitt he ha hiss halll found them much more effective In rheumatism and like diseases than drug drue treatment and II lid ax as they her I tIle till 1111 the skin with wit It blood lie he sug aug suggest IU gest that thul they 1 he should be lue of ot great rEll Im un Importation I III In bringing out the sup lUll I rash ot of fevers fever such AUdI as II scarlet and suid smallpox This use u of In serious blood diseases has ban given sur sun surprising results remit to rn Prof of ot I Turin in lie He Ie haa has In u it i case CUe of ot a dl eave which arl arhos from Increase In III tho the white corpuscles UnIt ami may mu II endure from sIx x to 10 ten yeats 1818 A strange of the he east 81 Is II long reputed to oute onus most moat diseases Mr Ir David I Hooper finds that Ihu lie Ille name IM Ic I to 10 an art aluminum sulphate exuding from rota the lie rocks In Iii eec cere certain tain perU parts ur of the Himalayas to a black blaek substance probably abl true to 10 torah form an In exudation on rocks In X Nepal NIlI a tend and consisting mainly of com combined blued with an organic and to a third or white whitt that to tobe tobe be IM of or origin targe LAige chimneys are rc usually felled by ly cutting rutting away aWRY the base baM ba arid and setting flit to the tha wooden props prop placed In the A new lien method baa haa bent been tried at nt Open uthaw Ihu hug En thirst th large IlIr e chimneys thrown down by h cartridges exploded simultaneously In lii holes hole drilled III in the brickwork he c lum i iby iH s I Iby by liy Heel Chisel to 10 bo be a II new element existing I In hI a 1 strongly l radioactive earth con coui consisting slating chlell of oC On a 11 duo rillo I blende screen tills lila ruth esith th elvos Hashes brighter than radium The bamboo no po important n a source of In lii Japan antI China Chinn exists exl t In Inmany Inman Inmany many man varieties arlotte and amid not only ani lu the orientals with building hut hilt Is used for ropes mats kitchen n utensils cud And a R host of ot other articles article One kiwI kind In Is even In cultivated ns nM u it table the lie young youn shoots being eaten like The he plant In is not confined to the lie tropics an us Is often orten sup snip hosed hut but Is I found In Japan hern there are Arll heavy hell V falls falle of ot snow In winter A recent writer suggests that It should piove a valuable addition to the plants cultivated In the United States A remarkable of ot tho the bern bam bamboo boo Is lit Ita Its rapid growth and Suid there thre ar urn records of H a gain of three tent In a single day or r nn an average ot of an Inch und and a halt half In an 11 hour This The great weight nf of storage batteries which I Is III so NI serious an objection to their usa ulle on ram cars and attU smaller car Is II an a on nil switching locomotive as at U It gives givis necessary ad lId adhesion hellion hesion Such Stich a 1 locomotive Is 18 being 1 IK tested in the th lie yards of the Prussian state railways Among Its Ita special met its that of being belli always ula ready read and that of or costing lew lesa I than ban steam I Ifor for Irregular service lelIe The fhe buttery battery ot of i tOO SIM cells celia Is II charged once Ont a 11 tiny day la from n R I source of nt constant current at al volts salts This total weight of oC the 1111 locomotive Is III f 1 of wh h 2000 pounds round In is Inthe the weight of oC the and PoUndS pound that hit of oC the othir electric apron apparatus atus atu t n a mixture of th the heavy henvy oils of tar emulsified by b ammonia Is s COIled added adl to I ten or twenty tunes times Its volume olum of or water mutter sod land applied to roads by b an tin ordinary watering three e or four consecutive Co giving a Aler tier per laying liing of the lie dust It seems to tobe 0 be lw less len sll pory th thin n tar lar or and nar a b be without waiting swattIng for the road rOl to become perfectly Il dry dr It In te RainIng gaining favor 01 In Pr FrAnco France noo did to 10 test it thoroughly half of ot one Paris avenue venue U is I treated tr with lh It and the other half with tar Variations In magnitude have 1141 been ben detected tn itt several of or the asteroids or on minor planets Tim The study of oC cna new In progress Is III bringing H M d d of lit views concerning the dIsease In the tho latest report of at the Investigators It ItIs ItI itIs Is I concluded that canter cancer Is lie common In both the civilized and the anti that t civilisation 11 vIII rt is not as 18 linx been e d one of lit its reuses It 11 is I found not only In maui man but bit b t In the lie low lower 10 er or animals Including marine marin Ulies fIshes It attacks ull all it t relatively the Iho same It l It Ii not an all 11 Infectious disease dl U ii I not hot from one species to a strange species The cancer Janer cell can powers of nr Cancer la Is I not In n fl the Increase Inca anti and radium h 11 ha a not cot been shown to have ha any au curative effect erTen The lh diamond 1 curiously II affected liy ihy radium till Mir Willis William 1 UI in Troches I meats monts hive have shown that Ihal the stooP Is III and nd tends to change to the graphite form of carbon arbon suggesting that Ihal our Jewelry suffer suei If IC radium becomes belom common On th Ihl other hand radium may ma prove a desirable wrens of ot coloring the Ihl diamond giving com commercial mercial to this observation The novel nOll theory theM of ot Ur Dr olt a it 1 herman letman astronomer I Ii that the greater part of or the moons moon craters crater represent work of or coral Insects In ll seas 1111 HP lie rinds linda 1111 that If the he earths i tropical ocean were wre suddenly dried up uptime time tile bed would much resemble the th face i of or the Uil moon the coral formations ap ape appearing exactly like hIke the craters crater of ex es extinct eke esmet met volcanoes volcano From the Iho known set et of the currents In the Ihl Arctic Ocean OllIn and nd from observations observations of o tin the tides tide Mr Ir R n A Harris concludes that there thre may my be a tract of r land near the north pole extending near hear the northwest corner coiner r of Hank flanks Und Laud or from PrInce Patrick P Island to n it point north of or New II SI berla V The Idea of ot regulating r he height of or balloons by paean mel of If collapsible airbags airbag seems HIn to be lie 1 as al old M i modern ballooning It la iii 1 i saul aid ld tn to havn hass been suggested by On flea hi iii on all the day before the first rat ascent of oC ofa a It 5 hydrogen balloon but It was warn for forgotten forgotten gotten until 1151 I I when used for maintaining the shape shane of ot captive balloons The ft 1st reel real rea trial ot of the r or us its u it Is II called seems ml to 10 have been in Pu two balloons balloon construct constructed ed d last year The Is II placed around the lower part of oC the Ihu balloon with means macus for Inflating and a valve salvo for emptying and the gas If All envelop Is la closed and provided with a safety valve alve to 10 ensure nure against too great pres pressure pr pressure sure ure In two trip trips described by b Henry de do la Is Vaux the tendency of oC the th bal bul balloon loon to 10 shoot shoo upward on emerging from cloud Into bright sunshine was counteracted by tilling rilling tbs airbag a ft low level hovel blinK being thus In III spite ante of great change In moisture url temperature Protective mimicry hiss has a n curious Illustration III In mi HII Insect of ot hut Hast l ut Africa described by Ore Ire gory fOIlle of ot each cli sex ex arc aru bright hl pink and others other are lire bright green gisen and nd a Rill as they sit lilt motionless motion I fur or hours hour mp sat the pink ones oneil col rol collect leet lect on the hIt lower part of time the stern stem AI where they th tile look like drooping white while time the green Utica ones take taise a I place further out and are mistaken n for foil foli foliage age rite fill gre greatest te t geyser JelI r seems In III be that of In New Zea Zealand land IlInd A recent visitor J A Warnock tha th It l plays about bollt A 22 2 tunes times Urn each AIh month the shut holl often reach reaching ing lag a ll height of m to 1200 feet feel and the basin covers about bout Il 2 acres on Out theory the ry Is I that loose stones fall Into the neck of or a n tunnel tilled with hot water latI losing the until tho ho lie rising eam pressure forcibly oll l ejects them I I I i I I I i I The rIte fh new Iron hardening process ot or two Prussian metallurgists consists In III adding a It small smAil proportion of with a I largo large amount of ear car earbon bon boll The Tb lh Iron Is III placed In ha a Ii tempering powder of oC to which are added JOO 00 grains of or of oC potassium 10 grains of cyanide if of potassium and 00 grains of If phosphorus and ind the receptacle closed lolled and with clay cia rIa IH is raised railed to a a Il clear red riel or white while heat hent Taken out while still hot hol the m tal In Is plunged Into H a warm bath U It Is 18 claimed that a timers mass nf ot 00 of Iron will b be made mauls HO so hard to 10 toa toa a depth of n it of ot an sri Inch that U it can neither b be cut not chipped with the hardest steel hut but that It still can cati b readily welded alloys for Igniting gases fIC RIP are produced by b by h fusing timing one or more of the rare earth metals etc with about 30 80 per lien cent of Iron le or cobalt when such audi nn nil alloy altor IN lii rubbed with a It atile atile tile It emits brilliant sparks lore ure capable of a 11 mixture of or air anti and R n II gas SHI Ii The Fits of or the lie Yerkes Observatory in Is pointed out by py v vW W Wv J S Lockyer er as arching a it new lieu Held field Heldor fieldor or research that apparently has hi no lim Hun limit it The Apparatus consists of ot u II spectroscope scope with two silts slits one of which is A nosed moved slowly over oser nn on Image of the th suns thee disc white the to pass S only a single pingle line of ot the spec train rum that comes comell through the series oC of m anti and lenses Is given gleo A it corres corresponding corresponding motion over H Ii photographic plate The operation gives n It picture of at the sun lUll III In monochromatic light or r light from front a II single element When th thu Ihl Ie IC line hue of calcium Is IB Isolated for In III Instance Instance stance l the lie calcium of ot the solar lolar atmos atmosphere phere appears us Its I bright and patches dark spares representing hy by hydrogen h drogen and other elements The bright hydrogen line gives n a similar hydrogen picture and anti It Is IB ex expected pec tod that other oth r elements may be brought out In like Ilk manner although other othet lines have hae tItus thus fur flit proven too weak for tor good result Numerous changes in Iti lie sun suIt urn lit shown Awl and nn III these the are Art constantly tak taking lug ing In place plc it Is urged that thai systematic observations should be undertaken lu lit all oil countries does dOI cats cata and other oilier animals are known to have havi characteristic odors odon tumid and It appears that man has hu a 11 very Irr variable odor Dr A ti Japanese physician states Ila tel that list Euro luro Europeans reins have an that li t I not noticed by b themselves but Is II very ery per pr perceptible to Japanese end and Chinese To these thue races It Is II intolerable at first but bill gradually becomes colIe endurable and It li is I I probably due In part to the lie i habits of ot the western pope people The fhe I perspiration Inspiration of ot vegetarians hiss has no odor odorA A it Gorman writer that there are provincial odors O hint of be being beIlIg bela ing IlIg la different from rein that of or anti and that Ihal of Savoy different from rein that of Normandy blondes and red reel haired people have havo different o Individuals have odors peculiar to themselves V A Veins n of our who has hili considerable XI 81 In running mm baton stud and ironing ducks hick for the Ih early earty market III gai us UI th these a pointers the other d da 11 y Light are the most rap ra fowls fonts r wl and nd the th best beust for tor quick quIrk returns when the th epars gs are hatched under liens bens but bul the Wale birds too lOO delicate sill and of too growth to III 0 do ito well when handled by modern Incubator and brooder methods chicks hatch out before they have fully absorbed the entire yolk of the eggs anti and are therefore we weakly and audit to raise either with a brooder or hen mother This The White leghorn conies come much the lie Mine Mime WRY said many high br bred d fowls have tills falling ailing Plymouth rocks reeks ar are most molt hardy and seem to hatch best beat bestIn beatin In An ton Incubator loch to most easily grow crow under conditions existing In this arid sri cli climate mate inte Incubator chicks are a as good as ac any If it they hatch Rood good anti and strong but if weakly they are no good |