Show am 4 N 11 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 39 31 0 1 1 W 31 M i A 0 M W ai M r w M r N an 2 V M 6 6 A 77 ia i a Z I 1 P 11 t 1 I 1 I 1 CURRENT NOTES AND INDUSTRY I 1 hope for the deaf koch study of leprosy kar or of paddac cotton A comfortable med bed for the alck rh butterfly butter batter fly tongue hope bope for the deaf I 1 dus saud mud of the university of geneva switzerland has invented an apparatus to enable the deaf to tb hear the a p h he has just issued to the world magnifies the human voice in the same way as aleas a lens magnifies a picture it is simply a telephone connected electrically tri cally with a phonograph but a lar far more sensitive phonograph than edi sons sona ordin ordinary model there is of course an electric battery sulphate of mercury being used and from one cell to sixty cells according to the degree of deafness of the person of course the apparatus ap aratus is useless in case of absolute deafness but fortunately such an infirmity is tar far rarer than is suspected ninety five per cent of so called stone deaf persons can be made to hear and understand by means of professor Dussa invention how you speak into int o the phonograph you make it repeat your words which aro are transmitted by a sort of microphone and speaking tube into the deaf ear professor dussaud tussaud in the same order is preparing for the paris exhibition of 1900 an apparatus which w will ill enable people who may be all deaf to follow a lecture kochs koch study or of leprosy Le proy the results of prof kochs study of leprosy in east prussia last year have just been published in berlin he is of opinion that the cases he caw there were not connected like those in norway sweden finland etc with the leprosy of the middle ages but had probably been introduced since 1870 through the close intercourse between east prussia and the russian baltic provinces twenty seven cases revealed themselves before september 1896 and of those seventeen ended fatally of the ten living patients six are being treated at their own homes find and four in hospitals the introduction and propagation of leprosy took place mainly between 1882 and 1890 infection dr koch says seems to be caused mostly by low living or overcrowding in small houses and to some extent also by the wearing of infected clothes he found no evidence of hereditary hes bes redi tary transmission s the duration of the disease is generally from five to ten years new hew P process of a f Pac patching klug cottom the cotton industry is to be benefited in a new way by an improved process of packing according to the manufacturers record the american cotton bale has long been noted as the clumsiest dirtiest most expensive and wasteful package in which cotton or in tact fact any other commodity of like value is put up the new bale is to be rolled and cylindrical it will it Is said fill leed leas than half the space of the old bile bale weight tor for weight cost 25 less to market and is incombustible bus tible the cotton as it comes from the gin is rolled around a rod or cylinder and the new system is expected to save m millions to the south the incombustible character of the bale is perhaps its greatest value it if it really has that quality tty fire has been one of the worst enemies of the planter and the ithe shipper baled cotton does not ignite easily but when once fired it to Is a very difficult substance to extin golsh I 1 ri comfortable bed bd for the blek A new bed particularly adapted to the uses of the sick room has lately been invented the secret of its ita efficiency la is that by its means the patient can be raised into almost any position without disturbance or lifting allowing G m I 1 I 1 I 1 A it I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 the bed tor DC be made and alre aired d and the patient examined without any I 1 exertion on the part of the latter or ther arsea moreover the tedium of illness demmay may be relieved by so raising the sick merw persons as to allow of their engaging in any congenial employ employment en without rit hout strain of or fatigue and what this chii mental diversion means in the war I 1 pf af tightening anxiety and labor only n nurses ma can adequately realize when 1 biot required ed tor foi sick edoin room purposes durpos tho the an hea bed or lounge V required 11 1 1 1 I 1 19 is I 1 I 1 I 1 adhe Barber j t 6 shi drosd uld I 1 alq RW ua 4 h eh f k t n 0 vr aap 1 q tam g 1 A r 1 air Z F caf ai j 1 1 6 ia hii 0 deiv li 4 bip W I 1 eti 6 ni floo voad 4 i Z 4 W I 1 tl 1 hit ahey ap 1 I wl as beough em Z arx r i M hi es m dmd ij lin beai e a w I 1 I 1 BALM WM W F kz M t hekr aw i 0 4 rwal ir 4 1 bm u t I 1 I 1 aft i av 11 7 4 taw I 1 X to iiii t t v MM i i I 1 aig NOM V I 1 g tw mt g I 1 r ta ae P ra D 4 2 a 1 1 I 1 K las h eve f thong thought to the ahe I 1 matter IB ft abax J aware e that the odor ador ot tobacco smoke C stays in the beard for forik a long ions M time and it is reasonable to suppose I 1 that oat other odors with their accompanying germs may lodge there also A elean shaven man to is therefore all of things P ga considered much the more desirable as a family doctor than thel the man with ith bushy busby whiskers 7 new kew method for glycerine in the manufacture of soap there Is often a large amount of laje left over this of course is a waste products product and heretofore no attempt has been made to turn it to account A series of e experiments x peri ments has demonstrated that glycerine and soda can be recovered from this waste by means of electrolysis the following to is the description of the process the anode is ablate a plate of zinc or carbon in contact with the liquor under treatment the cathode la is in a porous pot the current decomposes the caustic soda forming sodium hydrate at the cathode the glycerine ia set free while the and cafor ing matters are rendered insoluble and are easily removed by filtration after this treatment the insoluble matter Is separated out and the liquid is distilled forming a perfectly pure clear glycerine the caustic soda being also practically pure and usable by the Photo graphine a butterfly lg tongue at first glance what would you call the queer object represented in the picture it might be a doormat doorman or a new kind of fried cake or a snake ready to strike but it is none of these last summer prof george S moler of cornell university caught a butterfly butterby and carefully removed its tongue this he mounted upon a glass slide lighted it properly and then photographed it through a microscope and the picture shows exactly what a but ter flys tongue is like As you will see it is very long this enables the insect to reach deep into flowers to suck up the honey when not in use the z 1 I 1 1 I 1 tongue is colled coiled up in the form shown in the picture eating clay that a large number of people live and thrive on a diet of earth may sound incredible to those who have never heard of the clay eaters of the south but in alabama there are many persons whose dally daily food is clay dug from the banks of the small mountain streams it is oily and almost without taste and certainly contains nourishment of some sort as it is almost the entire diet of the inhabitants of theme thee localities when the clay eater begins this line of diet a piece the sl size e of a pea is all that can be taken take n wiz with h safety after they have grown up on it a piece as large as the fist of tha average man may be taken with im eunity clay eaters enjoy avera average health and live to a good old age clearly demonstrating that there is nothing specially injurious in this most curl curious article of food the most marked effect produced by it is a change in the appearance the skin akin grows sallow after a while becoming a pale some looking yellow almost the color of the clay itself those who begin clay eating in their infancy have the look of premature age and never wear the hue of health or vitality they are thin angular and spiritless although rarely ill they are full of a belief in signs and superstitions they raise a little corn potatoes peas and a few other vegetables the corn Is converted into whisky which is probably the only luxury in which they indulge A peculiar accident that one cannot be too barei careful rul in handling anything belonging to electrical plants is demonstrated by the fire that consumed consumed one of the power houses of ther the union traction company in philadelphia ladelphia at the hour of closing an employed swung an enormous crane to which was attached a very heavy chain the chain struck a generator aerator and shivered it to fragments fragment sa a terrific explosion followed every circuit and all the dynamos which were running we were blown out fire immediately followed the explosion and the dynamos of which there were je ight eight were either destroyed or disabled and the entire inside of the building was cleared out the loss was boni something ething like largely on the valuable machinery nebi nery in the building 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