Show p V Facts of Interest At a recent contest in rapid telegraphing telegraph-ing in New York J W Rolosson of the Stock Exchange transmitted 500 words in 10 minutes and 32 seconds To do this he was obliged to make 1350 movements move-ments of his wrist and arm per minute V Having shown the effect of zinc acted upon by potable water F P Venable Ph D says that when the dangerous I nature of zinc as a poison is taken into consideration the use of zinccoated vessels ves-sels in connection with water or any liquid food should be avoided I The Ladies Health association of Ne1 York have takerfmipiim earnest the question I ques-tion of removing the slaughterhouses I from New York city with a yiew of preventing pre-venting cholera and other sickness I Deaths in the slaughterhouse districts i are far more numerous than elsewhere in I the city i A water bicycle has been invented I i amounts in fact to a small raft or boat with wheels These are propelled by pedals li those of a bicycle I is steered from the front The craft moves up stream at the rate of six miles an hour The force required to propal it is so slight that a child can move it V The society of naturalists of St Petersburg Peters-burg has receivedpermission to send sev eml of its members to join the Russian on the Afghan boundary I representatives I Afghtn boudar rep1 conmissionr with the view to the scientific f scien-tific exploration of Central Asia The I i British commission which is now on the ground has with it a geologist a natural isti and several topographers There 13 i ist thus a good prospect Qf something accurate accu-rate being made knoWn to the world at large regarding a rejriorr i of which very with precision I little bas teen described lte writer in the London Lancet makes i himself deaf at wi1 He puts some sper of I maceti ointment upon a tiny square I thin limp cotton cloth brings the corner I together and ties them with a thread This forms a little plug which he presses litte but into each ear It makes gently firmly int I him quite deaf to ordinary noises and he lim able to sleep through the sound of pianos cat babies and thunder The ointment must not be too soft and must I botobout the size i ofa pea Bj l must lie loosely in the little cottdnTbajj |