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In order to destroy the vermin with
which domestic fowls are often Unrest |
cd. Canadian inventor, Edwin T. |
Stewart has devised a nest egg which |
l. hollow so that it can be filled with !
an insecticide. The nest egg is OF such
construction that by the movement OF
the fowl upon its nest the insecticide
will be automatically distributed.
The theory that some of the mis-
shanen creatures that abound In pagan
mythologies were suggested by human
monstrosities is advanced by PROFESSOR
Schatz. a German scholar. According
70 him the Cyclops corresponds to
one. eyed monstrosity; the Siren is iden'
/ tifed with one whose lower limbs are
! united. ard the Centaur was suggested
! Inv n monstrosity having two pairs OF
, legs He believes that many mooted
points in comparative mythology might
he cleared up by additional study along
= this line.
A perpetual cloud of SCOT, gradually
settling down, is known to overhang
every large manufacturing city. To
determine the amount of this wasteful
dirt deposit in Manchester, England,
Mr.. w. Irwin weighed the solid matter
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had been lying on the ground ten days,
and has found an equivalent of 1O7
hounds per acre, or three tons per
square mile. AS the sample represent
cd the condition over at least 100 square
miles. the chmneys of Manchester are
convicted of throwing out not less than
400 tons of SCOT in ten days. Analysis
showed 4S.G per cent. of carbon, 6'9 OF
heavy oil and grease and 44.5 Of ash,
from which il appears that each day 5
thirty tons of SCOT is given adhesive
ness by about two tons Of oily matter.
Interesting observations on the influ'
eace of mountains on the fall of hail
have just been published by the Italian
meteorological service. During seven
wears of investigation there were forty
: one days of hail at Rome and eighty
davs of hail at Monte Cavo, about 32OC
feet above that city. There were, now
ever, 176 thunderstorms at Rome, an(
, only 129 at Monte Cavo, which indl
Gates that the greater fall of hall at th'
bieher altitude has nothing to do witt
a greater intensity of atmospheric elec
tricity. Signor Mont, who communl
: Gates these facts, suggests that mucl
7 of the hail that fell at the higher sta
E tion melted on reaching the lower AM
. warmer strata, and appeared as rain.
4 In the Popular Science Monthly OF
1 year ago Professor j. j. Thomson d6
- scrlbed his important investigation
demonstrating that atoms can he spll
@ up into smaller bodies. In late lssu
S of the same magazine Professor j.
G Fleming, the eminent British physicis
t. explains in clear and readable languag
d the electronic theory of electricity,
which Professor Thomson's researche
e were such an important contribution
e All ideas regarding electricity, matte
rs and the ether, as held even by thoS
L. who have followed the progress OF pm!
lie steal science, must, it appears, be r
+. vised. 1t is necessary to regard ele
rs trlcity as atomic in structure, the atom
2? of electricity being attached to II
III atoms of matter and separable fro
c. them. The regular free movements
I'd electrons create what we call the ele
49, trio current in conductor, where's
or their vibrations when attached TO alton
are the cause of ether waves wheth
ed of light or heat. The atom is kind
m. planet accompanied by other small
,e, satellites which are capable of an
dependent existence and are then t
ct. so-called negative electricity. The
ut, ! ertia of matter is due to the electro
Id and all mechanical and material
he fects must be translated into the Ii
in Suage of electricity.