| Show scientific miscellany an electric railroad of cape town has caused much trouble in the working of the submarine cable of th the eastern and south african telegraph company to avoid anchors this cable is looped around table day bay being brought in this way within ab about out yards of the tramway for a mile or more and the consequence has been that whenever a car was started or the wheels passed over sand or other objects on the rails the record of the telegraph receiver became irregular no effective remedy was found until antt a second cable was laid alongside the first for ten miles and connected to the receiver at one end and to earth at ai the other A metallurgist states that a mixture of equal parts of aluminum and iron casts solid but soon crumbles crumble to powder spontaneously and that that the useful alloys contain but a surprisingly small proportion of aluminum the amount added to steel is usually but two to four ounces per ton this increases materially the soundness of the ingots ingols and causes the metal to pour much more quietly but a slightly larger proportion leads to picking of the ingots ingols and waste A new worm living in colonies in the roots of asters and popularly known as aster worn worm has been described by rev Hil Hilder derle lc friend of tipton eng under the scientific name of par vulus friend it is the most minute member known of the order including the earthworms its length Is ia only about an eighth of an inch yet it has thirty segments the first six or seven being pellucid the acid drops of the confectioners confection ers are suggested by a british pharmaceutical v writer as an effective cure for tha tobacco aam appetite tite smoking while the acid taste remains in the mouth being peculiarly nauseating Fow powdered dered pumice stone has been found by a german chemist to be an effective filtering medium for liquids containing precipitates like barium sulphate phate likely to pass through paper ambergris has been already shown by professors G bouchet and H beauregard eau regard to be an interesting calculus which Is developed in the rec turn tum of the sperm whale this chiv cf culus is composed of crystals ot ofus vas brine mixed with varying of black pigment from the rectal U ing and with star coral debris aaa when freshly removed is soft and at all pleasant in odor after p in an airtight air tight tin case for qt years the faecal faucal odor is lost or formed into an agreeable perfume aba gives the material a value of 2 JW te per pound little weight to Is low losk and this is not a case of slow dest tion which can be or a accey aerated by the withdrawal of watery continuing the researches M beauregard now finds that the change to is duel to a microbe which he names lum is and which av a artl pears slowly to destroy the offense offen sliM sl odor and to produce the delicate perfume it has not been determine dt whether this microbe is capable of pro disease in the whale or in m man am perhaps the most marvellous marcellous marv ellous cease tery known to science is the shee sneeze vt C halk chalk which seems at one time toas to bawa V kol covered the country from so hebe england to central asia beyond sea of aral having an area of miles long by 1000 miles broa this enormous bed was formed esatti ly of the microscopic remains of ral ute sea animals isolated pat orr the great sheet now remain V that A england being more A than 1000 fe thick and covering the island 30 eat ea t of a line extending diagonal dia from the north sea at fla head to the coast of the en english lish auw nel in dorset delirium tremens cremens has been s by dr jacobson a danish from records of recovered caad i he finds that while chronic alcohol lQ is a necessary condition to the e elii tion of the disease it is not a cleS alone to bring about an attack witter requires also some toxic agent as may result from bacteria or of balg diseases of the digestive tract the wr or the liver it is especially ble to be complicated by it resembles itself an infectious li ease having a stage of incubate duration of about four days and tm ing with a critical sleep i NO tony ment appears capable of s h the disease ava spring and others have sho att MW metals may sometimes alloy at wafe k pera tures far below their points and another remarkable alfe covery of similar kind I 1 Is 8 berthil recent combination of oxe oxygen drogen at temperatures below 80 grees C the action seems to decap d largely on the presence of A body as in the well known COM co tion through the influence of platinum with 77 per a mixture of oxygen and by soon disappeared at degrees W the whole of it had turned to water ak 26 hours the at first bines with part of the oxygen form barium dioxide which is chie reduced by the remaining chhy hydrogen is a grayish white fatt pared from beef bone marrow recommended as an ointment it Is claimed to be capable of t up as much as per cent of wai thus rendering the ointment nt eaf absorbable it produces no I 1 of the skin being mild and pe percee neutral A case of blindness from tes crowding has been put on record dr J E gemmel A boy of went to bed one night with n vision but awoke in the mo 0 quite blind the pupils were d fixed and not influenced by investigation at last revealed tha th i that the teeth were wedged to tog when two permanent and taw four horary molars were extracted returned in a few days treatment bricks of good quality are near kladko bohemia from a re e 0 of f clay with bituminous slate from a coal mine the product AT aimed d to be cheap very strong about half as heavy as ordinary beleke and a bad conductor of sound vanoi beat au A u luminosity of the incandescent is increased about 60 per it is stated by the device of dr hott tt of jena who feeds the air inthe flame at right angles instead of jarly parallel ostrich has been successfully acclimatized in russia those born there being less sensitive to cold than others |
