The record-union., 1899-11-23
Science, Invention
and Discovery.

A press dispatch from Coloraoo
Springs, Col, on the 18th inst, repre-
sents Nikola Tesla as being hafu at
work at his experimental station just
east of Colorado City. He spenos
there the daylight hours, not stopping
Tor luncheon, and frequently WORKS
after nightfall," says "Electrlclty.
He has not yet ascended Pixies PeaA'
which may become important in his ex-
periments. His time for four montns
past has been devoted to perfecting IN
ventions for the application of wireless
biography He is also ABSORBED III
working out the problem of transmit
ting power long distances without 'ne
use of wires. He says he discovered
several years ago the principle OF power
transmission He is now at work 10
regulate that power. Mr.. Tesla is sat
isfied with the results OF his Tour
months work He is pleased with the
opportunity afforded in the upper-alr
strata round Colorado City. When ne
went there he expected to return 10
New York by September. He now says
he will not return for two months or
longer. unless on a hurried business
trip
London Globe: 1t is stated by a
French scientific journal that the sur
geons of Austria. and Germany, on the
motion of DR.. Hubenek of Breslau, are
considering whether or not to make 1T
a rule that surgeons should be clean
shaven. Hair is nest of microbes,
some of which are pathogenic. O1
course, there is another preventive OF
danger-that is, to disinfect the hair by
washing it before performing an opera
ton. A Hungarian surgeon would not
accept as pupil a woman doctor with a
fine head of hair unless she cut it short,
and, strange to say, she did.
Everybody knows of the important
traffic that has been going on since re-
mote ages in elephants teeth says the
Revue Scientifique" I'm our own age
we see rising new traffic-that in hu-
man teeth We refer to the artificial
teeth that the New World is sending US
to fill the voids left in our jaws. Ac-
cording to ''L'Odontologie,' May, 1893,
from June 80, 1897, to June 80, 1898,
there were exported from the United
States S65. .242 worth of artificial teeth.
$21 900 to France, $4,000 to England,
and $4,000 to Germany. In 1886 the
expectations were valued at SSS,243. y
Translation made from the Literary Di-
gest-
This phenomenon says the ''Phar-
maceutical Era speaking of the
phosphorescence of sea water, can
not always be attributed to
the presence of lower organ
isms that cover the surface of the
sea in many places. After a storm t
may frequently be observed from shore
that the waves are covered by feeble
light, accompanied by a peculiar, pun
gent odor Closer investigations have
shown that ozone plays q, part in these
manifestations, but it is supposed that
even ozone is incapable of producing in
absolutely pure water such phenomena
as have been observed. 1t is assumed,
therefore, that the phosphorescence is a
consequence of the oxidation, or COM
bustion, of the organic impurities con-
tanned in the water"
Major Baden-Powell, brother Of Col
onel Baden-Powell, the British COM
mander at Mafeking, has caused a re-
vivaf of the discussion regarding flying
machines by drawing attention to the
Importance of the one now being con-
structed in Germany by Count Won Yep