| Show SCIENCE ITEMS another severe outbreak carlet fever which occurred near manchester eng has been traced by the health to the distribution of the infection through the milk sup pi the finding of a petrified shaik at the la panza gold diggings cal is reporter eu 18 weight is about two hundred pounds and its original length was about eight feet A pet some forty feet in length is in the earth in the fame locality some experiments with reference to the spontaneous combustion of barou materials such as wadding raw flax hemp sponge wood dust and the waste of silk wool and cotton spanning appear to demonstrate the important fact that small quin titles really take fire sooner than large ones dr abercrombie Aher crombie relate that a gentleman who had been a soldini dreamed that he beard a signal gun say ohp for displaying the signals heard the hustle of the streets the of troops etc just he was aroused by his wife who had dreamed precisely tho isaiaa dream with the addition that she saw the enemy land and a friend of her husband killed when she awoke in a fright this occurred at edinburgh at the time when a french invasion was feared and it biad been decided to fire a signal gun at the first ap of the foe the drumn was caused t appears by lie fall of a pair of tongs in the room above and the excited ol 01 the mind was quite sufficient to account for both dreams same in by lightning four were found in which roda were used o carry off the elec trie fluid an investigation of the four casci by a scientific expert lias shown the conductors to have been in every case faulty jt Hana bruck fl ermany building atone is manufactured on a barq scalp from tho slug of blast furnaces six million brick were delivered by one firm during last year the artificial atone is valuable for ventilation as it permits the fl of several times as much air as ordinary building stone it has the advantage over burnt clay brick of being lck easily saturated roon ture gome ciaio linca a manufacturer bad occasion to construct a machine for cutting bars ot cold hardened steel for this purpose he mounted a disc made wrought iron up on a horizontal axisa sq lys to lo 10 rola bcd titu y with a moderate peed no cutting was produced but on baui ing the periphery of the dic to move at the rate of about lia fret per minute a ee iras pu by tie bof iron were hroon caffi n a of imiru anil welded to geler hy fall abo aad the eel bars ere but very slightly heated gan in 1819 an urea ol 01 2000 square mile about the delta of alie indus became nn inland remand the fort and village of sin sunk until the of the houses were just above the water five and a half miles from Siu dree parallel with the sunken territory a region fifty milca long and ten miles broad waa elevated ten feet above the in reference to its origin the natives call this bp god in the fort of kindree hiis still hall buried in the ea and during ari earthquake in the imako wa turned into a fait mirah A naturalist in brazil tells of an ex he made to one of lie ait ef the aroian koshoot eloon billa ibises fligl otylior lairds his design was completely by a wretched little sandpiper tand piper that preceded him continually uttering his cry which at once all the bin within hearing throughout alio day did thia individual bird continue hi duty to othera effectually alio of the lowler to iho game and yet manag ing to keep out of the ranga of his gun the oldest working in the world ia 31 chevreuil of paris who in bif ninety year has iut a course of lectured lec turea on chemistry late esperi menta have a slightly increased tenacity in iron when magnet wed |
