Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-04
THE CALORiMFTF1
asasures Variations in remperatuss Pro
 dueed by Different Foods.

Ns -'i ooiie5V, deScf1DlnS the cOl0rI- 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 a living room. which is the inside of a nest of five the spaces between the rooms. or l boxes, as the outside ones would be thol ght of, being availed of as tnsulat- ing layers of air, while the material O, different sorts is applied so that no heat shall escape except through the devices for measuring it. 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- ga1s. 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 q large number of precautions against error, suggested by experience and prompted by St 'entifie caution, so that ssssle entire plant ss quite machine shop, the apparatus being generally nf the expensive, specially designed or. der, and built with as near an approach 10 mathematical accuracy. Elaborate | freezing machines for removing the water Vapor to constant percentage; nearly 400 electrical devices, sort of thermometer scattered over the .oom, designed to record electrical changes in direction induced by heat, measuring thus down to a hundredth of degree Fahrenheit, and means for continuously analyzing 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 observatiens,s
 Whale & Disturber.
 Last year the sardine fishery on the Biscayan coasts was a good deal spoin by the presence of large whale, which seemed to have got itself "cor- nered' in the wedge of the bay Of which the Bidassoa's estuary makes the apex. All the sea here, for some thing like 200 miles out, is shallow. so one can imagine the commotion l that rather badly fustered whale would make on finding himself threat ened by stranding among the sardine l population. Naturally enough the fishery did not prosper with such large disturbing influence about But l 1t is not a little singular that this year again, so far as the season has gone, little has been doing, and surely this cannot he oeeasioned by fear of | last years whale. But whatever 1 the reason, the fact is too true that l the sound of the lookout mans horn has been seldom heard (they post a man on watch for sardines in the bay whose duty it is to sound his horn on their appearance, to summon the fish ermen to the boats1, even though the ceremony of the "Interlo ,e los sar- iiinos" has taken place. with all it's childish pageantry, in all the BiseayaD | villages that the sardine fishery con- cerns. Luckily the Basques are not wholly dependent upon their fisher les; but. of course. their degree of sucs cess makes a difference to them.- Chicago News.
 wsa 8 Playmate oS the Gaee2A
 There has just died at Clapham, Eng. land, somewhat interesting charac- ter in the person of Mrs. Middleton who was we'll known throughout the district as having in her younger days | been a playmate and close companion of her majesty the queen The old lady, who at the time of her death had passed her hundredth birthday, was during the early part of the century. maid to one of the queens ladies-;D waiting, and used to converse freely l of her recellections of her majesty's l childhood, witk which she was closely associated, and of which she retained some very pleasant memories. She was recently the recipient of a substantial gift from her majesty on the occasion of her birthday.
 rrofeI 4a Graveyard
 one of the largest hotels in CentrsA America and by far the largest 1n Be- 1 lize. Honduras, is surrounded by tomb- stones. As this old and abanuonea cemetery was located in the center oT the town, and afforded an excellent ,1te for an hotel, the necessary permls- sion was obtained from the proper au- thorities, and in less than a year large and handsome hotel was erected In digging the foundation hundreds or skulls and bones were discovered, all of which were carefully collected ana inferred in the new cemetery. The mo-