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POPULAR SCIENCE.

POPULAR SCIENCE.
The average human life in Rome,
under Cesar, was eighteen years; now ii
is forty.
A Russian mineralogist, K. D. Chrust-
schoff, claims to have discovered new
metal, which he proposes to name "Rus-
sum-"
The largest incandescent circuit in the
world IS forty-ive miles in length. The
company working it is situated at Ot-
tawa, Canada.
No fewer than 1910 patients bitten By
dogs were treated at the Pasteur insti-
tute in the year ending October 81.
There were thirteen deaths.
According to the eminent Psychologist,
NJ. Sappey, the stomach contains 5,O00,-
900 glands by which the gastric juice is
secrcted, and few others which secrete
only mucus.
To the perfumes of flowers NJ. Un-
gerer ascribes the. power of protecting
against, and even arresting, consump-
ton. In the perfume stilling town of
La Grasse lung troubles are but little
known. '~--~
The elephant skeleton setup in the
front hall of the Madras Qndia) museum
is ten feet six inches high, and it has
been stated that this is the skeleton of
the largest elephant ever killed in that
country.
Oil for locomotives in place of coal
will, it is stated, be largely introduced on
one of the English railways soonA 1t is
probable also that petroleum refuse will
be used for fuel in consequence of the
high price of coal.
A complete list of the flora of New
foundland and Labrador, in preparation
by Rev. A. C. Waghorne, will contain
about nine hundred species of Towering
plants, fifty ferns and over two hundred
and fifty moses and ichens.
Surgeons are finding constantly inereas-
ing opportunities for making use of elec-
tricity in the service of their profession.
1t is said to be admirably adapted for the
treatment of neuralgia pain, and its ap-
plicatlons in chronic cases is very beneti-
cial.
Among those who have worked out the
problem of procuring aluminium by elec-
trolysis NJ. Minet is one of the most sue
cessful. The electrolyte used by him is a
mixture of from thirty to forty per cent.
of cryolite with from sixty to seventy per
cent. of common salt.
DR.. Burden Sanderson foresees another
division in science. He observes, in a
biological paper in the British Associa-
tion, that morphology and physiology have
now diverged so widely, as regards sub
ject and method, that there seems to be
danger of complete separation of one
from the other.
A new style of horseshoe has been
patented by two Wisconsin men. The
shoe is made in sections, with elastic
cushions between and rivets connecting
the sections, making a shoe in which
there will be vertical yielding of spring,
avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while
travelling over hard pavemcnts or roads.
A new mode of teaching music has
been proposed in France, based on the
periodicity of the octave. A radical re-
form is aimed at, the system being ex-
pounded in a series of fundamental prop
ositions-such as musical effect is quite
different from acoustic effect; there can
be no physical gamut, major and minor,
but only one, that of the white notes of
the piano called the major and so on.
After the lamentable experience Of this
country, it is interesting to know that
there is a part of the world where the
buffalo is not only not dying out, but in
creasing in numbers. Vast herds OF these
animals are now running wild over GER
tain districts of northern Australia. The
animals are said to be massive and well
grown, with splendid horns. The first
buffaloes were landed at Port Essington
Queensland, about the year 1929.