Show A prussian manufacturer has found that thai treat treating 1 ng tho the woods with ozone grea greatly ti y a adds dd t to the durability of pianos i used in warm varin climates fort Fortl ime lae in british A america merica has been chosen as a british aBritis li government station in ili the chain of circumpolar scientific observatories the swedes have selected a site for their fc tation at wylda bay in west spitzbergen Spitz bergen gen A newly proposed plan fur for tho yenti ventilation til ti lation ot of tunnels is the use of chemicals for absorbing tho the 1 impurities of the tile air A chemical lung based atory upon this principle has been put to a satisfactory test in ili london by bya a number of scientists the sorrowful tree so named because it nourishes flourishes only at night 91 grows rows upon the tile island of goo near bombay the tile flowers flow era w which hano hav 0 a in fragrant grant odor appear soon after sunset t tile y year car round and close up or fall off ir as A the sun rises professor V F A abel considers it doubtful whether coal dust in mines can cause extensive explosions in tile complete absence of firedamp fire damp but only a very small proportion of firedamp is is necessary to make inake the presence of the dust extremely dangerous after a recent V violent storm on alic english coast a quantity of saline matternas matter was observed on oil windows window sat at a distance inland jhb deposit is believed to have been made by ocean spray which in this case must have lave been blown by the wind at least sixty miles when ocean cables me are raised so many of the crabs and other inhabitants of the ocean bottom are drawn up with them then that cable repair repairing ing has lias been suggested ng as a novel method of dredging of which it is hoped some competent naturalist may take ad vantage e an important fact noticed by dr koch in the tubercle bacilli which lie has found to exist in all tissue affected f by tuberculosis or con sump tion is that they arc are unaffected by neutral Bub substances stances or strong mineral acids this peculiarity teaches that alkaline solutions ions which act upon and anti destroy tho the parasites parasite s are to be used for and a as 9 remedies for consumption mr st george lano lane pox fox predicts pi edicts that the incandescent electric lamps will soon altogether ruper supersede sede the arc lights now so rapidly coming into uso use for lighting streets and largo large areas lie ile thinks s the danger to life from contact with the wires used for electric lighting purposes may bo be overcome comety by using using low tension currents which aich arc are harmless As to fire risks ho lie believes that they can only arise from gros carelessness the attempt made ladeby by the belgians to introduce the indian elephant into central africa has not been successful the three elephant elephants taken b by the expedition have died but it Is ay believed that this tin s result lias has been caused by insufficient food and excessive work this experiment is therefore not regarded as conclusive and further efforts will doubtless be made to uso the indian elephant as a beast of burden in african colonization the fat of the body hotly is found by 31 laiq banquer to vary great greatly 1 wi with th age in infants it forms a firm tallow like mass melting inciting at 11 degrees fahrenheit the fat of adults however separates inton into a fluid and a solid layer a er at tho the ordinary temperature i of a room the solid portion melting mcl tins at 97 degrees being completely fluid at blood cicat the variation in ti the e comp composition 0 si of tho the fat is very considerable the oleic acid inc increasing reasin and the and tearie acly acids decreasing with age according Acco iding to statistics recently worked out ono railway traveler is killed in franco france for cadi each kilometres kilo metres about miles run which is a distance e equal ual to 40 times tho the lent lt of a voyage around the world this excursion the computer adds would last during years traveling day and night at the rate of GO kilometres kilo metres miles per hour bour allow ing sixty years to tobe bo the average lifetime in store for a healthy man nian it follows that before ho he could bo be killed by a railway acci accident according to alio law of probabilities biliti bili ties lie would hac have died a natural death fifty times all grebaus has made a series of experiments which convince him that death is caused by alcohol alco liol when the proportion of absolute alcohol in the blood is equal to the hundredth part art of the latter that the condition cnown known as dead drunk exists when tho tile alcohol alco liol imbibed ceases to be absorbed and the blood presents tho the proportion of one pait att of al cociol to of blood blood more than one half the tile fatal quantity this observer thinks that if fewer deaths occur from froni drunkenness than might be expected it is because drunkards stop drinking before the fatal proportion of alcohol I 1 in the blood lias has been reached |