Show ODDS AND ENDS dr willing says A simple remedy for a cold in the head is the juice of a r ripe ip e lemon this is squeezed into the band and sniffed well up the nose two or three applications may be necessary mathematical calculations show that an iron ship weighs 27 per cent less than a wooden one and will carry tons of cargo for every loo tons carried by a wooden ship of the same dimensions and both loaded to the same draught ol of water A new york doctor attributes the violent thirst which afflicts the majority of riders to the habit of breathing through the mouth while riding the vigorous I 1 exercise causes all te beginners and many old riders to breathe through the mouth with the result that the lips and throat become dry and parched the remedy of course is to keep the mouth shut children should be furnished with employment which is sometimes difficult to provide what we call a natural love of mischief is nothing more than activity children are restless for employment they must have something to do and if they are not so furnished they will do mischief do not blame them it is in their nature and should be encouraged rather than checked in furnishing little employments you can form the habits and cultivate the tastes what is begun should be finished care should be taken with whatever is done ind and neatness should be encouraged A sudden and wearing attack of coughing often needs immediate attention especially iv in consumption and those chronically ill in an emergency that ever useful remedy hot water will often prove very effective it if is much better than the ordinary cough mixtures which disorder the digestion and spoil the appetite water almost boiling should be sipped when the paroxysms come on A cough resulting from irritation is relieved by hot water through the promotion of secretion which moistens moi the irritated surfaces hot water also promotes expectoration and so relieves the dry cough dr Pohl felt explains why it is so dan berous to use alcohol in very cold weather A moderate use of alcohol causes a deposit of fat alcohol is not turned into fuel in the muscle and nerve ells cells but serves as a pure fuel in the organism and replaces the combustion of tat fat alcohol is therefore dangerous in the extreme cold because it assists the throwing off of heat in a great degree the effect is as if a stove in a room should be seated red hot and then all the doors and windows thrown open heat produced by muscular work in in the body is best obtained from carbo ayd rates in the food but besides this the indispensable production of heat beat is best obtained by bv fats this explains the instinctive choice of the food of men in the tropics they eat little fat and much fruit fruit while the polar dweller requires immense re quantities of fat to keep up the bodily combustion the engineering news new york says around the world in thirty three days is the possible pace set by prince Hil kofl the russian imperial minister of ways and communication now officially studying american railway methods to make the circuit in this time modern fast ships and railway trains are alone considered but with these available on the routes specified he gives the time as follows new york to bremen 7 days bremen to st petersburg by rail iya i days st petersburg to by rail at 30 30 miles per hour io 10 days cladi to san francisco via Hak straits io 10 days sao san francisco to new york cyz 4 days the present shortest time for circuiting the globe is is g given iven i as follows new york to southampton 6 days southampton to Brindi sivia paris pari 3 days brindisi to yokohama via via suez 42 days yokohama to san francisco xo 10 days and san francisco to new york 4 days or 66 days in all the processes for preserving wood are numerous one of them very generally used consists in immersing im mersine the timber in a bath of corrosive sublimate another process consists in first filling the ports pores with a solution of chloride of calcium under pressure and next forcing in a solution ot of sulphate of iron by which an insoluble sulp sulphate bate of lime is formed formed in the body of the wood which is thus rendered nearly as hard as stone wood prepared in this way is now very largely used for railroad ties another way vay is to thoroughly impregnate the timber with oil of tar containing creosote and a crude solution of acetate ot of iron the process consists of putting the wood in a cylindrical vessel connected wl with th a powerful air pump the air is withdrawn and the liquid subjected to pressure so that as much of it as possible sl ble ia forced into the pores of the wood yet another process consists in impregnating the wood with a solution ot of chloride of zinc an arizona hunter named john mccarty has brought into prescott a mummy that is believed to antedate the indians and is of a decidedly different type he found it while hunting a lion i which he be had treed and brought down in the verde canyon in ina a cliff dwelling he had found a seated sealed chamber feet tearing it open he met a ghastly sight it was his mummy skeleton on a soap weed mat with the body and head erect the long arms hanging straight down from the shoulders in life he was about five feet seven inches high in one hand band was grasped a stone axe in the other a bundle of barbed flint headed arrows As A q the air ru rushed S hed into the vault the rawhide shafts of the arrowheads arrow heads beads and the rawhide handle of the he I 1 ax crumbled to ashes as did the mat and the mantle which covered the mummy the fine brown hair about two teet feet in length fell from the head in the cave were found several earthenware bowls a tortoise shell and about i worth of best grade turquoise in in the e rough just as it was taken from the ledge ge the pieces ranged in size from the dimensions of a walnut to those of a hens egg |