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lean continent, will assemble In Boston
in September. This convention Is not to
be an exhibition of air ships In station
cry positions, but an exhibition of ac-
ton to bring out flying machines and
every kind of device to develop locomo-
t;an in the air. The Aeronautical soci-
oty has Prof. Pickering OF Harvard at
its head.
A young tiger in the New York zoo re-
Gently refused to eat. At the end of the
third day the willy keeper introduced
another Tiger cub into the same cage
and Immediately fed it with a large
piece of meat and made no show of Civ
ing the other tigerlany. The next morn
Ing he did the same thing, when the
tiger who had before refused to cal
rushed forward, seized the meat from
the other animal and devoured 1t.
tuberculosis is affected by the Roent'
gen ray, according to MN. Loret and
Genoud's report to the Academic des
Sciences. They inoculated eight guinea
pigs with tuberculosis virus, then ex-
posed three of them for an hour daily te
the rays during eight weeks. The five
who were kept from h raps developed
abcesseS and their health was deranged
The three kept in good health and grew
fat or the avs.
Australia is turning gu a new variet.
of Mannlicher repeating rifle for it!
army, which is the lightest repeating
rifle in the world, Weighing Z pound!
and 4 ounces, instead of 8 pounds !.
ounces. the weight OF the old pattern
All tt,a ;rlj,i1na1 ,orfs in tha nnu
rifle, including the locking box, the mag
azine and barrel, are lighter than il
the old. The hayonet and sheath ar,
also mazda lighter.
1t is impossible, unless possessed o
considerable means, to live with com
fort in a private ous in Johannesburg
Rents are in proportion to all othe
prices aSked-enormous. 1t is Difficult
for white ~workingmen engaged in tn
mines to obtain a single room In a tin.
shanty under a rental of $50 a mont
at the very least, while a small villa o
five rooms, built of corrugated iron
will easily let at $50 to $40 a month.
The discovery has been made that tn
Paris opera is the most dangerous the
alter in Paris. Apart from certain peril
attached to the defective arrangement
of the electric lighting, none of the regu
lations ordered after the Opera Comiau
disaster has been carried out. 1t Is es
tlmated that there are &c, 1000 tons of in
f%lan1nable n piled up in sue
way that 1T takes foul days to dislodg
q scene required.
The Buffalo board of aldermen vote
the other day to grant an appropriate
of 81. 600 for the entertainment of tn
American Association for h Advance
ment of Science during the meeting Q
that body there. But the councilme
promptly killed the measure, the sent
ment being that, though the scientist
would be more than welcome. the cit
government could not afford to estat
lish such a precedent.
The ~voracity of the eagle and simila
birds Of prey is well known, out the cor
tents of a nest which was recently dis
covered in the Alps by a Swiss hunte
shows the following remarkable variet
in daily menu A hare, twenty-seve
channels feet, four pigeons feet. thirt
~pheasants' feet, eleven heads of fowl:
eighteen heads of grouse and the re
mains of a number of rabbits, marmot
and squirrels.
Three hundred bicycle riders recent
attended al Anglican church in the dis
cese of Toronto. Canada, the recto
preaching a special sermon to them. :
silver plated bicycle covered with flow
ersivas one of the special decorations c
thet chancel, which a church paper de
r. nn11,,1as n 9 SO ,,,st ,,orctN,,,, i.,o,,a
ent and ~distracting intrusion into tn
house of'God's presence"
The peculiar flavor, resembling cherr
phosphate. which characterized the mil
of one of his COWS one morning, was eS
planned by Amos Grim of Wabash cour
ty, Indiana, as being due to the COW
having eaten wild cherries. She was
reak COW with six teats. One day TIL
milk tasted of berries, n Grim foun
h a she had got into the garden an
eaten his raspberry bushes.
In May a Guyandotte, w. Va. woma
bought a rustic stand of willow link
from a country cabinet maker by til
river side, and a, fortnight age buds an
leaves appeared, sprouting from parts {
table legs where small branches {
twigs had been cut off in fitting the leg
and cross pieces together. Some of tn
sprouts are now two or three inche
long.
1t is found that steel articles hardene
In petroleum show Mt cracks, do nc
warp, and after hardening remain lea
~ white, SO that they CAN be blued will
out previous rubbing; with emery. TT
articles to be hardened should be tho
oughly rubbed with ordinary washin
soap. heated to a cherry red in a cha,
coal fire and then quickly plunged int
petroleum.
Although Americans claim to posses
the most sun.ptuously a%ppointed trair
in the world, they have o. h a ca
surpass in general excellence the famor
Orient express, which runs from Par
to Constantinople, via Vienna and Be
grade.
Recently the night freight out Of Ws
terville, Me-, conveyed a hearse on a tla
car to Portland. Near Monmouth, a
the brakeman was going over the trail
he discovered the feet of q tramp pro
truaing from the hAarse and the ma
himself sound asleep.
In pressing wooden fabrics in order
give them a smooth, fine appearance
both a uniform pressure Inc a uniforl
heat are required. BY a recently deve
oped system the heating is done electric
ally, the fabric being placed betwee
the metallic plates, through which su.
ficient current is passed while under h,
draulic pressure to heat them to Slight
more than the temperature of boilin
water. One dynamo Of fifty volts an
700 amperes Will suffice for five presse
having 120 plates to be heated; the COS
OF heating for one press for a period {
half an hour and for seventy plates
about 81 cents.
Three hundred letters by Andrea Do
ria, high admiral of Emperor Charlie
", have been discovered in the Est
archives at Modena by Signor Carbon
and will be published soon. They forr
part of a collection OF 100000 letters BIZ
queathed by the Marchese Campori t
the town of Modena and placed in tn
Este library.
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