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Show 3000 Times More VnlitnbloTlinu flolrt. The greatest wonder in tho line of science Just now Is radium, th new substnnco discovered by a Pacta professor pro-fessor and his wife. Radium looks like ordinary tnbo salt, but It Is wortli about n million dollars n pound, nnd there is only a tnblcspoontul lu existence. exis-tence. "Radium Is the rarest and most precious pre-cious substance lu the world." says Cleveland Moffott, lu McClurj's Magazine. Mag-azine. It has so many mystorlovss powers pow-ers that even its discoverers do not understand It. Some of the strange things that It can do rre ns follows: 1. It gives out heat vlthout being consumed. 2. It gives out l'lht. Two poundR of it would light up a room thirty feet square. 0. If It Is held near tho eyes it will cause blindness. 4. It destroys germs, plants nnd small animals like mice nnd rabbits. Professor DanytK rays that n couple of pounds would destroy tho whole population of Taris if they came within with-in its influence. 5. It cures cancer and similar diseases. dis-eases. , C. It ha! mysterious lufluenco upon Insect?, 1:11'!"' soiuo and prolouglnu tho live of others. 7. It can bo upd to produce new spo-clo? spo-clo? of incccts, birds nnd animals. ?I. Curio r.'ul Ids wife, who dls-ov-rrcd It, have had their hands and nrras burned by tho dangerous substance. It is possible, they say, that radium :;Uy io cheaper, but nt present It takes cluht Ions of material to produce enough radium to fill a rait spoon. |