Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-01-16
THE CALoRiMETE7.
Measures Variations in Temperat0's Pro
 duced by Dinerent Eonds.

duced by Different Foods.
 Prof. Francis E. Benedict Of Wes, ieyan college, describing the colori- meter recently, said: Its object is to measure with the smallest margin ot 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 a nest of five. the spaces between the rooms, or boxes, as the outside ones would be thought of, beinG availed of as insulat- 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 $ measured, test cd for temperature, and cleared of water and Vapor to g. small resiius. and samples analysed at stated inter. Va18. The same, oe even greater, pre- cautions are taken with the outgoing air, in which are tha results of the living processes going on in the man within Provisions are made for g large number of precautions against error, suggested by experience and prompted by 6. enttfic caution, so thSt ths sItiFs plant .a quite machine shop, the appartus being generally os the expensive, specially designed or der. and built with as near an approach so mathema tical accuracy. Elaborate freezing machines for removing the water vapor to q constant percentage, nearly 100 electrical devices. sort of thermometer scattered over the room, designed te record electrical changes in direction induced by heat, measuring thus down to 8 hundredtn Of 8 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 cats or drinks must be weighed and eterilized, and maans davised for pass Ing them in without disturbing tba conditions of obserratioas
 WOMEN ES MA aTiNIQUE
 sleep s,c tle Chief Industry
 Taese.
 That tl4a woman who vas Napoleon'E first empress, the unhappy Josephine was born ia Martinique. and lived there til she was fifteen, is remember. cd perhaps, by very few who have read Of the current disorders among the people of that French West Indian is- land, but by the residents thereof it is never lost sight Of for a moment II was in Martinique that Josephine ac- quired thosa qualities which later made her so much trouble-passion indo- fence and indulgence. The conditions that nodded Josephine's character still exist, unchanged and apparently un- Manageable. If there has been any change in recent years the movement has been retrogressive rather thaL forward. Everything tends toward al. most continuous slumber in the French West Indies, from the climate to the rum, and to speak truth, no one seems in the least to strive against the slumberous influence. To che out. slder sleep seems to be the chief in- dustry 5f the islands; ths people ap- pear to sleep, sleep, sleep, from morn ing till night. Of course there are times oi 5he day when the sleeping is more nearly general than at other &1mes, just after the midday breakfast. 7or instance, and again just after din- her; then no one remains awake. The attempt to Christianize the harmless and peaceful savages who originally peopled the islands, now French West Indian, began 400 years ago, resulted in practical eXterm.haton, and the Place of the caribs was taken by the negroes Little by little since then the influence of tie negro blood has increased, since emancipation in 1848 the white population has decreased, the influence and interest of the whites have grown less year by year, home and social life has grown nar- 1oWer, pre- 5udices have grown stronger and more numerous, and there is little likelihood of lasting improvement in any direction. WasherWomen in Mar unique are made, not born. The strength, health and constitution re- quired for their calling is not neces- sary in any other. A habit of standing for days in the cold river is cultivated from ldhood.-Chicago News.