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Show r(P yTJr?4'- com;i!,a relationship to yond'-r ySfz? tr 'fa:n the Armament Popular " --" Scienr" Monthly. Ql a common relationship to yonder stan within the firmament. Popular Scienre Munthiy. How llradarha May IM (iM There are many kinds of headache, differing in their cauas at well a la the location and character of Uie pain. Ordinary headache are due usually to stomach or boa el disorder, eiposure to the heat of t!ie sun or to cold winds, eye-strain, surh as reults from vista to picture galleries, poisoned air. such as is too often breathed in churches and theaters In winter, to beginning fevers, and so forth. Another kind of pain In the head Is simple neuralgia, whii h Is usually confined con-fined to a limited area, and in which the pain Is sharp and of a burning, boring or stabbing character. Mlfralne, or sl-k headache. Is a special spe-cial disease, different from ordinary headache or neuralgia, and Is believed to be due to constitutional cause. It often occurs in families, member of which have had migraine or other nervous ner-vous troubles, such as neuralgia or PREVENTS RAPID EATING The feed trough which we Illustrate below has Just been patented by Geo. E. Comb, and Is Intended to prevent the animals from eating their feed too rapidly, and also to prevent the waste of feed when the animal Is inclined to push it out of the trough. The new trough Is of semi-circular shape, with a hopper mounted on a raised base in the center of the rear portion of the trough. At the bottom of the hopper la a disk which can be raised or lower ed by the adjustment of a thumbscrew, thus varying the siie of the discharge opening. The feed falls through the opening around the disk into the trough below, and a little watching on the part of the hostler will soon show the position to give the disk to regulate regu-late the discharge to the proper quan- epilepsy, or gout. The attacks commonly com-monly begin In childhood and tend to Increase In frequency and intensity up to middle life, after which they often disappear spontaneously. The attacks may seem to be brought on by many of the Influences that cause an ordinary headache la one not predisposed to migraine, but they occur oc-cur from time to time when no cause can be discovered. They are generally more frequent in winter than in summer. sum-mer. Sometime a definite cause may be found on careful examination, such as Irregularities of the nasal cavities, astigmatism as-tigmatism or other eye trouble, the so-cailed uric acid diathesis, and so forth. In such cases a cure, or at least a marked Improvement, may be brought about by removal or diminution diminu-tion of the cause. Warning of an impending attack is often given by a feeling of lassitude or drowsiness during the preceding day. The sufferer wakes In th morning with a pain, of a throbbing character. In one side of the head, and this Increases In-creases in Intensity and extent until work must be abandoned. There may be disturbances of vision; sometimes an eyelid droops, nausea Is felt, and often vomiting of bilious matter occurs. oc-curs. The face Is usually pale but may be flushed. During an attack the patient may obtain some relief by remaining quiet In a darkened room, with cold applications appli-cations and pressure to the head. A cup of hot water or tea Is sometime soothing. The sufferer should be careful care-ful to take medicines only on the doctor's doc-tor's advice, for any drug that ran cut short an aitack of sick headache Is too powerful to be used carelessly. Youth's Companion. IMPROVED HAND STAMP. Here we illustrate a convenient hand stamp which Is sn Improvement over those now In use. With the old style of stamp It has been possible to use but one set of type, snd when th tamp wa purchased the desired lettering let-tering had to be sot In place permanently. perma-nently. By the addition of the little hook shown at one side of the frame and by a slight chane In the type base the lettering may be varied without limit. A full font of rubber type is provided, snd by pressing the knob downward and locking the mechanism tlty. Projecting from either side of the hopper Is a short arm, which i connected with a stirring device In-Ide In-Ide of the hopper, this arrangement being useful in starting the flow of feed If It should become clogged In the hopper. If the feed stops the animal will move Its no.se about the trough to pick up the stray grain, thus coming In contact with one of the arm and dislodging the feed and surting the flow again. Ttaa fcoa Destination. ilore than a century ago Sir William Herschel was able to fix roughly what we call the apex of the sun's way In space, or the point among the stars toward which that way is directed. Herachel found that a comparison of old stellar observations seemed to Indicate In-dicate that the stars in a certain part of the sky were opening out. as it were, and that the constellations in the opposite op-posite part of the heavens seemed to be drawing in, or becoming smaller. There can be but one reasonable explanation ex-planation of this. We must be moving toward that part of the sky where the star are separating. Just so a man watching a regiment of soldier approaching ap-proaching will see at flret only a confused con-fused body of men. But as they come nearer the individual aoldiers will seem to separate, until at length each one 1 seen distinct from ail the othera Herschel fixed the position of the apex at a point in the constellation Hercules. The most recent investigations investiga-tions of Newcomb. published only a few months ago. have, on the whole, verified Herschel s conclusions. Later Investigators have increased the precl- ion of our knowledge, until we can now ay that the present direction of the aolar motion I known within very narrow limit. A tiny circle might be drawn on the sky. to which an astronomer as-tronomer might point hi hand and aay: Yonder little circle contain the goal toward which the sun and planets are hastening today. Even the speed of this motion has been subjected to measurement, and found to be about ten miles per second. The objective point and the rate of motion thus stated, exact science holds her peace. Here genuine knowledge tops, and we can proceed further only by the aid of that Imagination which men of science need to curb at every moment. But let no one think that the snn will ever reach the so-called ap- T0 do ao would mean cosmic motion on a ' .tralght line, while every eonsiderat on of celestial mechanics points to mot on on a curve. When shall we turn uf-tlclently uf-tlclently upon that curve to detect Its bending? It 1 a problem that w must leave as a rich heritage to generations gen-erations that are to fellow us. The visionary theorist's notion of a great central sun. controlling our own sun way In space, must be dismissed as rar too daring. But for such a central sun we may substitute a central flgur oi gravity, belonging to a great system ot which our sun I but an l"1"1"' member. Then w. reach a conception that baa lost nothing In the trandeur of Its simplicity, and 1. yet with the probability of sober mechanical me-chanical sc ience We cease lonely world, and .tretch out the bonds against revolution the type-reoelvlii plate Is presented In position to Insert the desired lettering. The device will also be found convenient In altering the dating stamps In common us. |