| Show scientific miscellany ANY jabe production of depton by dr is one of the many results baat are being achl achieved eved in a department of chemistry that is doubtless I 1 destined dea dap tined to make great future progress an announcement to the belgian royal states that electricity is being r called to the aid of the chemist who seeks to make in the laboratory the products product is of living organisms a sugar was urea having been obtained elec 1 the former from a mixture r of 0 one volume of dry and pure cari sonic acid with two volumes of hy ar capen en and an the te lattre from one volume t of barboric bar bonic acid with two volumes of r dry ary ammonia each mixture was placed ju ii ew ordinary ardinary berthelot ozone tube submitted to the action of a brush for fl five ve hours this forma ajob of sugar is in close imitation of nature being comparable with the process in plants under the influence of bt the cold days of may have been i investigated by dr R hennig of ber esst from the weather charts of awen tr years he finds that with rare ex Aft the phenomenon occurs every asay although it does not always af hect abe saime parts of europe and haat 43 cold period may last from the usual isae or four days to the entire month et usually commences during stormy northwest west winds although the frosts S a mst most common after the area of low dietric pressure lias has passed r I 1 the of the geological G sur efcy fwu reports that surveys have been I 1 of connecticut massachi I 1 I 1 4 rhode island delaware and the district of columbia of about one half tte reas of arinzana Ar izana kansas mary attah virginia and west virginia afat of rf not more than ten per cent of KW other state at the present rate 7 ayears Wy years ears will be needed to finish the K rpm atlas of the united states edve of alaska beane so ame mme large pines near couper city X JM have e merald emerald green sap due to from waste solutions reaching F SUK roots ts tae new chemistry chamlis try of the atmos sere already includes argon helium Se oa targon me neon coron lum sa et terion erlon as known or suspected euse eted elements with th the e prospect of additions to the list in the near forture fur ture w in lum which has not yet been iso toted seems to ito be of lothal lo oal occurrence ifft p presence nce in the volcanic gases of tansy tn having 1 been indicated by a a spectral 1 line ine I 1 hitherto cherto hl known only in the arum of the suns corona as seen eclipses lp Bt Mt herion was waa an by prof charles F brush aa a aw recent meeting of the aberdean for the fhe advancement of bejoe but was discovered a year and ago during a search for oc ac awod hydrogen in glass and his has now bei fairly pure by successive of air it Is by no means the interesting of the new gases its maty Mj ty ia estimated to be only a thou af ith that of hydrogen its specific float gie 1 times gr greater than that of hing heretofore here known it Is a i rand imsand better conductor of than hydrogen and its molecular aty which bears close relation ftp to heat he at Is miles 0 second at freezing temperature it Ww jt name to ito its mip supposed posed Ident identity tty kal tle hypothetic ial ether filling apace between the stars hollowing ROl lowing his success in preparing calcium M henri nois mols announced the discovery of a abound und of this metal with hyon at atom of the metal uniting 1 ro of the gas when toe former is heated to a dar red in an atmosphere of hydrogen the most remarkable gives oft off pure hydrogen when thrown into water the new product of the electric furnace may te oe found valuable as a means of starling ng hydrogen in the same manner that calcium carbide la is useful as a source of acetylene the use of holy water has come under the ban of science prof vincenzi of the university of sassari bassari Sas sari having found that the practice of touching the face and lips to it taints it with such germs as the bacilli of appendicitis and even diphtheria during his investigation of the water four cases of diphtheria broke out among the churchgoers church goers in thirty years ace according t to dr john sibbald suicide sul clde has haa increased in england from 67 to 86 per million inhabitants and in scotland from 40 to 54 uric acid poisoning to which Is due so much of human misery Is held by dr haigh to fco be a leading cause of suicide in studying the relations of topo to the frequency of earthquakes commandant Montes sus de ballore of the french army has been able to refer to the records of shocks at centers distributed in regions of the globe these records include the lists of mallet extending back to 1606 they show that moun 1 gainous regions are more unstable than plains instability being favored by short and steep slopes and that earthquakes and volcanic phenomena are in general independent os off each other earthquakes as a rule contrary to a we well 11 established belief are no more frequent at one season of the year y ear than at another to show the rela relative tive frequency in different parts of the earth the various arms areas have been divided into squares number of earthquakes and the sides ot of one square measured in kilometers is given as the seismic number of the locality in eastern java example the seismic number is 56 an average of one earthquake a year oo oc curing on a square of 56 kilometers miles on a side for western java the tilde side of the square Is 60 50 kilometers om orn eters porto rico 23 island of luzon 28 manila 3 central cuba 41 western cuba hawaii 37 central california 76 new england 90 the carolinas michigan boklo japan 12 it Is surprising to be told tofu that parts of the new territory of the united states are so 0 o much more disturbed than japan which we have been led to regard as the home of earthquakes certain physicians of europe have attempted to fix the time of day at which icse aleathe occur from many thousand cases a glasgow medical man Is inclined to believe that 6 a m Is the favorite farewell faire weli hour a berlin brig doctor finds the time to be from 5 to 7 a m another observer gives it at B 5 to 7 a m for men and the evening hours for women an italian authority has found the afternoon to be the me usual time and a paris hospital attendant tat noted a mil lull in death deatie from 7 to 11 p m |
