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Ants and bees in Trinidad have been
observed carrying OF coagulated rub
ber fluid. Some species use rssinous
eXudatlons from trees as ready made
wax for their nests, and in some eases
actually cut the bark SO as to cause
flow Of the desired fluids.
DR.. Bizarre, Of Corr, has published
pamphlet In which he tries to prove
that the Adriatic has for more than
1000 years been rising and encroaching
on its shores. The lower parts Of
Trieste are experiencing trouble al
ready, and IN course Of time Venice
viii be buried in the mud Of the Ia
goon.
1t has often been claimed that the
presence of nickel IN dust is sufficient
criterion to distinguish it as of cosmic
rather than of terrestrial origin. 1t
has lately been shown that nickel is
found In SCOT. and hence that nickelif-
erous dust may be terrestrial Gal
lium, also, Is found in all aluminous
minerals. IN many fine dusts, in many
iron ores, IN SCOT and in atmospheric
dust.
Some fifteen years ago Sir William
Crookes called attention to an anoma-
lous band in the spectrum Of sama-
rum. Lines We're also found in its
spark spectrum by De Boisbaudran.
The element causing the band and the
lines has lately been isolated by De
marcay and named Europium. Its
atomic weight is about 151, and its
properties are analogous to those Of
sadolinium and samaritan.
German papers state that Herr
Szcepanill, q former Polish professor,
row serving IN the German army has
invented an impenetrable breastplate,
of which he has sent a specimen to
tie Emperor William. 1t consists Of a
silken fabric, and weighs less than
four and half pounds. A ball fired
by d Mannicher rife at q distance of
five PAGES is said to have penetrated
less than one-dghth of an inch into
the substance. So many attempts
have been made to invent impenetra-
Bile shields and clothing that further
information must be furnished the
wise and wary before entire credence
can be given to the report Of Herr
Szccpanik's success.
A mineral wax, called ozocerite, or
native parafiin, Is one of the queer de-
posits found in connection with rock
salt or coal. Consul Hossfeld, at
Trieste. says that deposits of 1t have
been discovered in Austria Russia
Egypt, Algeria, Canada and Mexico,
but not in quantities that would pay
for mining except in Austrian Galicia
and on an island on the west coast of
the Caspian Sea. In mining it shafts
are sunk until bed is struck, and
then connecting galleries are driven.
1t is a dangerous business. for the
pressure underneath often forces the
soft wax up into the shafts, and lives
have been lost in this way. The wax
is used fUP making ceresin, which,
with beeev'aX, is used for making wax
candles, photographic cylinders and
other similar things.
Absolute zero is the point at which
q substance hoses every atom of its
heat. No one Inns ever produced it,
but the scientists believe that 1t may
be found at 461 degrees below FASH
renlleit zero. Professor Dewar, OF
London, who succeeded in liquefying
air, SIX OF eight years ago, at tenn
pelature of 335 degrees below zero,
and hydrogen more recently, at d tem-
perature OF 443 degrees below, Is now
experimeuting with helium. To freeze
hydrogen he used liquid air as the
agent, and is using liquid hydrogen
in his efforts to freeze helium. He eX-
poets to get temperature Of 4o2 de-
grees below in freezing helium, which
will leave him nine degrees short of
absolute zero. To overcome that q
gas more volatile than helium must
be discovered, when he will attempt
to freeze it with liquid helium.