Show THE DEATH of dr F helen prid eau called forth many espres wl libua of regret in england she was most distinguished cf the woman graduates of london her examination in 1882 sh held the first honors in anatomy and gold medal and scholarship in she was accorded honors in V each subject her death was due to diphtheria contracted while at her 1 post burgeon in the padding ton hospital for child ren 18 df 1 at EXPLOSION iu a cann that was exhumed lately in yorkville S C is reported place the coffin which contained the re mainson main a three or four years recently the parents of the child bought a family lot in the cemetery and the disinter ament was for the purpose of transfer yin the body which beeh found in an excellent detato of preservation there was a glass pane in the casket and the heat of the of sh ningon this is believed to have caused an expansion of gases the explosion which ia reported to lave of a dynamite cartridge in forced 4 7 T ans told of grain having lail dormant for thousands of years in the hands of mummies do cot seem to have any foundation in fact mr II 11 K parks states in the journal of science invests in vesti gated all the cases he ran find and shows that thero is not a ai instance of corn found in a mummy having been grown of the seeds found in mummies jiahe germinated but as aliey produced plants for instance ecart h v S to the of yeara ago lr afi evident that they were system ati cally put in the hand of the mummies by the avaricious arabs of more modern days THE DISCOVERY of a safe and efficient fa agent to take the the costly hemlock rf H 1 bark has long been i desideratum 1 foote the various lUew bich have been brought for bardt wardt recently considerable haa been said of the discovery made como time since by an arizona tanner of a carriea a large proportion of tannin and which when aeed inthe manufacture of leather ia extra weight to the article produced this plant is of annual growth indigenous to the des artand dry uplands and is knonk aaD athas a loncer and more bd aggy than the cultivated beet though resembling li an appearance and practical use has its tannin properties te p e about three almea as great as t hep taly bark and that in la euper tor to such bark inthe manufacture of leather it haa now been in use for pur pose rable time bey r a ea adapted ness while in respect to cost pared has has immense advantage oyer tho latter IN A paper on the action of light pigments employed in painting j an edinburg ardiet states that hla ex peri menta bavo led him to the conclusion that prussian blue in oil the most beable of colors he asserts however that it would never do to employ the fleeting aniline pigments upon the same calva with the stable prussian blue painting one portion of the picture with tho former and another with the latter in fact the aniline colors aru found to be for the li inott part quite unsuited for painting purposes and bonie of them as is well known are so changeable in licht ag to bo used in the production of photographic ima imata tB they are extensively employed for colorin photograph their thin transparent character ren dorine them par suitable for alio purpose ie it to see the shadowy and outlines of the image beneath the layer of color nevertheless photographs tinted in this way boon lose their bloom and the colors are often while the pictures aio yet exposed corsale in the chop windola win dowa |