The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-08-03
MODERN SOAP BUBBLES.

When great scientists drop their
dignity and resume the sport Of child
hood they are apt to introduce some
Improvement. This has been done in
the boyish pastime of blowing soap
bubbles. Some English physicist took
up the matter, and found that the
youngsters were right in preferring
clear honey soap to other kinds for
making bubbles. The true reason lay in
the fact that the favorite soap con-
tanned tri1e more glycerine than 9TH
er popular brands. A number of ex-
periments disclosed the proportion of
glycerlne in soap in order to obtain
the best results. With this combination
the gray-haired scientists blew, bub-
bles two and three feet in diameter,
and one of them Is said to have had
wild enthusiastic audience of little
children, who sat watching him for an
hour or more.
The Investigations have utilized by
several enterprising soap-boilers, who
now turn out soap-bubble soap With
this three-year-old can make bubbles
as large as himself. Not only are the
iridescent spheres large than usual.
but they last longer. When launched
carefully from the end of the pipe they
will float from two to three times as
long as do those made from ordinary
soaps. A very pretty experiment Is to
blow bubble with cigar or cigarette
smoke instead of the natural breath.
The glycerine gives a play of rainbow
color on the surface Of the bubble, and
the space within being rendered
opaque by the cigar fumes, the entire
effect is that of a giant pearl floating
in the air. = T.. Il 8
If a few drops Of any essential oil,
such as violet, Glove, or geranium, is
stirred into the lather the particles
will be separated, and, on account Of
| the soap and glycerine, will not segre-
! gate upon the surface, as they do on
water. A bubble blown under these
circumstances communities the drops
| of oil to almost inconceivable small
ness, and when the bubble finally
breaks the oil is sprayed in every di-
rection more finely than by the best
atomizer. A single large bubble launch
ed In this way will fill a parlor or
drawing room with an Invisible film
of perfume, which will last for twenty
four hours. ;.4.@ q.
/ THE SIBERIAN FISHERIES.
Fishing is one OF the leading indus
tries on the eastern coast of Siberia
and on account Of the rigor Of the, eli
ma mate and the poverty of the soil in
some parts Of the Amur country it is
1 the only means of obtaining food.
Many Of the Russian settlers moving
into that region are compelled to take
up fishing for livelihood. Fortunate
i ~. in place where they are So sore
4 ly needed, fish are extremely abundant.
Il and the sea along the coast teens with
i them. The gathering of seaWeed is
I. another imp ortant industry OF eastern
Siberia, but is CARED on almost ex-
clusiyely by the Chinese q, ss
4 Movable Electric Platform.
There is project on foot for the
4 construction Of a movable electric
4 platform underground on the right
j bank of the Seine. The first platform
Twill be stationary, the second will have
4 velocity OF one and a half meters q
j. second, the third three meters and the
/. fourth five meters or sixteen and one.
eighth feet. This will enable pedes-
IL TRANS TO have q very rapid means OF
transit afoot in portion Of Paris
which u greatly encountered by trafsac,