Show Cutting Things Under Water When science was in its infancy much and mixed with nonsense of its fact was wonderful some of the nonsense shows a vitality A casein point is the recent republication of a nonsense bit that was ears ago It is a current at least forty years with shears or glass recipe for cutting scissors The statement is that sheet can be cut with the greatest ease glass with a pair of scissors if the glass is kept under water and kept in a level position That there is not a word of truth in it with on a trial easily prove one may anyone of shears the result of dulling a pair that can is one cutting process There better done under water than out of be onions that is the paring of water When pared under water the acrid so unpleasant to the mucous emanations dissolved of and nose are membrane held in the eyes water But neither the or of scissors the power nor quality of glass immersion in waterSci is changed by i entific American |