The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-17
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A Parrot at School--A Unique Star in UrsA Major. Forgotten Planets--A Ring of Comets Tail.
 Ozone Therapenticr- The Best Rudder.

come a necessary part of the physicians outfit. pr. J. E. S. Barnes, an English medical man. reports having used the ozoniser in severe case of pneumonia complicated with pleurisy, and the result was an immediate and important change in the air of the room. which was fol- lowed by rapid improvement of the patients condition. ozonizers are being used also for bettering the air of fac tories.
 The shape of the radder of vessel stems to be of more importance than
 has been generally supposed. Experi- ments in Scotland by J. Poster King in- dicate that the rectangular form has de- cided advantages. as 1t presents a larger surface at the load line under all condi-
 tions, and requires a smaller stock and
 working gear than curved shapes. With sufficient area. the narrow blade is as effective as the broad one, while it can
 be set mora rapidly.
 The sixty mastadons found in New York
 have been along well-marked belts, the
 feeding places having been old river
 banks.
 The Russian feat of reanimating the
 heart of a child that had been dead twen-
 ty hours. is shown Dr. R. Romme to be
 nothing new. The heart Is not the deli
 cate organ generally supposed. and for
 a long time physiologists have understood
 the possibility that IL could be restored
 to acticn the effect being of sborter du-
 ration in the human heart than in that
 of lower animals. A current of arterial
 blood. or solution of salt charged with oxygen, Is a common means of restoring the beating to dead hearts. By massage the exposed heart being rhythmically rubbed with the right hand. Professor Prus, of Lemoerg. has succeeded in re- animating ffty-five hearts out of loo. and by combining massage with electrization M. Batelli. of Germany. has revived dead dogs and kept them alive as much as twenty-four hours. Human beings have
 been revived by the latter method. though only for a shcrt time.
 A dust fall of February has been traced over twenty-four counties in England eight in Wales and one In Ireland, ane it has been reported from numerous places on the Continent. The dust over spread the land like smoke, while neal Southampton the cloud was so dense that a person could not see to read al noon. Like the falls of 1901 and lsO2, tn' dust is supposed to be of desert origin probably from Northern Africa, ana ooe' not appear to be volcanic.
 The cradle of the human race is SUI being sought The widely accepted the ory of Max Muller. based on language teaches that mans arly home was 1T India. but some ethnoiogists are now in cIined to agree with Professor Hirt tha the Aryans first lived in the territor! north of the Carpathian Mountains neal the boundary inc between Austria Hun gary and Russia, now occupied by Lett and Lithunians.
 In his latest researches. Professor GU rie has found that radium keeps its owr temperature at Is degrees C., above tha of the atmosphere. This paradoxicai sup stance emits more than enough heat t melt It's own weight of ice, yet there | no combustion, nor chemical nor moiecn
 lar change.