| Show scientific miscellany to remove the out ot of place articles that have hia ve reached the human stomach gestro tomy has been performed since aa early as 1602 although only 36 35 ces cases in all ail had been recorded down to 1887 with 22 since that time the patients have been usually lunatics or fakiri fakirs in a st louis hospital dr A H madsen bach recently took from the stomach of a human ostrich who had given null nail swallowing exhibitions in great number during several beveral years the following articles 26 25 wire fence staples staple a 16 1 inch screws 6 2 inch horseshoe horse shoe nails 16 2 inch wire nails so 30 linch l 1 inch wire nails 16 32 cartridges 2 knife blades 2 inches of brass chlain and 2 small staples a total of pieces besides 8 cartridges passed after operation operate on there was also an ounce of fine glass the total weight of the objects being cn ne pound A sum mazy of the gastro toniy opera operations tiona shows that forks have been removed in 13 cases hair haAr balls in 7 knives in 6 plates with teeth in 6 spoons in 6 5 pieces of wood in 4 nails mails in 4 buttons in 3 needles in 3 toothbrushes tooth brushes in 2 safety pins in 2 peach stones atones in 2 and screws bax bar of lead piece of earthenware tracheal pr oban part par t of sword blade clay pipestem pipe stem mior razor pocket knives hair hadr pins glass keys window latch piece of graphite and tacks arf 1 case each last years remarkable re marka ble discovery that certain metals and ana other substances may affect photographic plates like light even at a distance has been a subject of f urther further study while it la in believed that the action is due to toa vapor which may even penetrate thin sheets of such substances as gel gelatine allne pure mercury very curiously seems to be without effect although it becomes very atie active on the addition of a trace of zinc or lead temperature has effect fact and an action may take place in a hours at degrees F that would require days at 60 degrees antiseptics being preferred are mixed with wath the water waiter used foi tor sprinkling the streets of brussels the use of explosive missiles missile below a size too large for the rifles curried carried by soldiers te its prohibited by in international terna treaty and the ingenuity of inventors has been taxed to produce a bullet having the greatest possible effectiveness festiveness without being explosive the lee metford bullet with a diameter of inich inch has hae been given great penetrative power by its uke like slenderness and an outer coating of hard metal in british experience in india and egypt this bullet has produced terrible effects on striking a hard bone at short range but it has passed through soft parts of body with too mittle little injury to stop atop determined fighters in their rushes upon he english troops in the dumdum dum dum durn bullet de signed to overcome thle this objection and incorrectly accused of being explosive the point is left uncovered the lead and antimony core projecting through the covering of at copper and nickel alloy on striking stalking the body the soft metal tends to spread into a mushroom like end and thus to inflict geater injury A than the lee metford bullet but I 1 it t to like the uncovered bullet in th this to respect its advantage resting reefing on its much greater muzzle velocity the farm established at adheres for or purifying paris sewage before it lassef to the setae seine contains 2471 acres and so effective has it proved that elhat the water flowing from it contains fewer bacteria than most str streams eamiL As each acre of suitable BOO boll can take about 1680 1580 cubic feet of se sewage W dally a farm of about acres would be needed to deal with wath the total discharge from the cites sewers TM mhd sewage is carried by gravitation to where pumping engines aggregating 1200 horsepower horse power raise it no U feet and distribute it through a main of inches to a secondary system of pipes feeding the irrigation trenches the farm to Is now mainly devoted to t beetroot beet root this crop however can stand but about cubic feet of sewage per year for each acre while cabbages and celery can tolke take c uble cubic feet and grass Is ds uninjured by cubic feet sewage irrigation ha has is given the land five times its original value mild winters have been a subject of study in berlin by dr G hellmann i he defines a mild winter as an one in which the mean temperature of do de oember and january is ait least leasta 2 degrees degreen C 36 de degrees glees P F above e th the above the average and from the ac curate records available he finds that since 1720 berlin has had 48 winters of this type which have always occurred in groups of two or three years and especially atter after a long period of cold winters from nine to twelve years have elapsed between two groups of mild winters after a moderately mild winter the chances are 44 per cent that july and august will have a higher temperature than usual and bitter atter a very mild winter the chances of a warm summer reach 68 per cent dry mild winters such as the last one are exceptional if such a season is not followed by an abundant rainfall in the spring the summer is likely to be wet and consequently cool electric transmission of water power is i now to in operation in over places in the united states according to mr wm baxter jr the horsepower horse power transmitted ranges from lens leas than to the distance from one mile to thirty five A case of disease of the jaw bones due to inhaling phosphorus vapor from matches snatches has been reported by a french physician the patient frequently used more than matches a day in lighting and amid hiting the figahs he smoked a A new idea in ship PrO la in to be tested on a english boat the propeller to la to be placed in a central apace ace a short distance from the bow and from this space apace two orifices inclined downward and outward are to to the boband two similar ones ernes to the stern the inventors theory la in that as the water enters the orifices at the bow the upward gradient will wild tend to reduce the movement of the water an the propeller chamber and that the screw will be more effective in this still water than in the flowing race past the propeller in ordinary ships earth is recommended by M J hauser to the french academy of silences Soi So encee lences as the most moot perfect filter known for sterilizing liquids it is cal mined and at a high temperature powdered made into an emulsion with water waiter ana and allowed to settle as a fine layer which need not be more than a fiftieth of an inch thick ou on any suitable support such a filter retains the most moot minute or particles of matter |
