Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-24
TIE cALoRrMErER.
Measures Variations in Temperatuss Proc
 duced by Different Foods.


 Prof Francis F. Benedict of Wes- leyan college, describing the colori- meter recently, said: Its object Is to measure with the smallest margin of error the total amount of excreta of all sorts from a living man for an ex- tended period. It is living room, which is the inside of nest of five, the spaces between the rooms, or boxes, as the outside ones would be thought of, beinG ayailed of as lnsulat- ing layers of air, while the material oS different sorts is applied so that no heat shall escape except through the devices for measuring 1t. The inside living room is of copper, air-tight, and all the air admitted is measured, test ed for temperature, and cleared of water and vapor to small residue, and samples analysed at stated inter- gals The same, or even greater, pre- cautions are taken with the outgoing air, in which are the results of the living processes going on in the man within. Provisions are made for a large number of precautions against error, suggested by experience and prompted by ss 'entific caution, so that she entire plant is quite a machine shop, the apparatus being generally of the expensive, specially designed or- der, and built with as near an approach to mathematical accuracy. Elaborate freezing machines for removing the water vapor to constant percentages; nearly 400 electrical devices. sort of thermometer scattered over the coon, designed to record electrical changes in direction induced by heat, measuring thus down to hundredtn of degree Fahrenheit, and means for continuously analysing all the air com- ing from the room are examples of what is required. All that the subject eats or drinks must be weighed and sterilized, and means devised for pass ing them in without disturbing the conditions of observations,~
 at Satisfied the Bishop
 Methodist preachers and laynea who attended the recent conferenca ia Washington have gore home, hni nave left behind them stories which will not appear in the regular report ef the proceedings. Perhaps no man at the conference wielded more power and at the sametlme enlivened the proceeds 'ngs more by his bright sayings ihan Bishop w. A. Ca9dler. One day in ad- vocating more liberal loosening ot the purse-strings he said that several years ago he sent an article to paper In which he said that I've pray too loud and work too Iittle." The intel- iigent compositor got in his fine lfal- Ian hand, and when the article tp- peared it read, I've bray too lond and work too little" 'fl let it go at that. said the bishop, "The fact is, be- lieve the printer was right, and I never attempted to correct t."-Washington Correspondence of New York sun.
 Almanac In Cards.
 Did you ever stop to think that an erdinary deck of playing cards Is 8 perfect calendar? There are fifty-two cards, representing the number of weeks in the year; 365 spots, corre~ spending to the 265 days in the year: f2 faced cards. representing the 17 months; 4 suits, clubs, spades, hearts. diamonds. representing the four seas sons; 13 cards in each suit, represent- ing the 13 moons in each year, and the joker makes up the extra day in the sear.-Georgetown t0hio) Gazette.