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Show i , i i.i an tm&tmmt aiii u mil SCIENTIFIC BXLBOTIONS. In a mass of meteoric stone Tref. Molsan, tho eelobrated French physicist, has discovered a number of diamonds ot microscopic dimensions, but of regular regu-lar octahedral form and perfect water. The rjorman Astronomical society of-fers of-fers n prlzo of 1,000 marks for the most exact calculation of the next appearance of Halley's comet. The paper may be written In English and need not be presented pre-sented until the ond of tho year 1908. It has been discovered recently that the sllmo or residuum from the thermal springs at tho city of Baden-Baden, Germany, Ger-many, contains very powerful radium. Prof. II. Oortel, of Wolfenbuttel, Germany, Ger-many, says this radium Is 40 times more powerful than that found In the residuum resid-uum ot cold water springs or la mud baths. Previously tho residuum from tho water at West Baden was considered worthless by the scientific world and ' uas discarded, but It Is now carefully collected and sent to laboratories. The photographing ot variable stars Is one of the uses to whlchi the camera, has been put with successful results during the paat few ycara. Stellar photography, pho-tography, as It la termed, has been brought to Its highest point of development develop-ment In this country at Harvard, where this branch ot tho art was first taken up and tho thousands of star pictures In the nasscafiton of the unlvenltv nrn in charge of Mrs. W. P. Flomlng, who occupies an Important position among the astronomers ot the country. Mrs. Flomlng's assistants, 15 In number, are all women, somo of whom have mado flno records for themselves along astronomical as-tronomical lines. That drinking much water lessen weight Instead of Increasing It causing ono to grow thin Instead of' fat Is the surprising result of late French experiments. experi-ments. M. Maurel fed a guinea pig with bran, carrots and carrot stalks, wjth two Injections of water each day, when the animal steadily lust weight, but on continuing the same diet In smaller quantity and without water, a continuous continu-ous gain was apparent. Variations of tho experiment confirmed the result Tried on human subjects, other experimenters experi-menters gavo a large amount ot water dally for a month without Increasing weight, and trebling for seven days the water taken by another man had no of- fect . utidti |
