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may be spoken into II to-udy- Inc use
fulness of such a timepiece is manifest.
Suppose, for example, you have an i'm
portant appointment for tomorrow at
5 O'Clock in the evening and do not
wish to forget it, all that is necessary.
for you to do is to take the photograph
attached to the clock and say into 1t:
Il have an appointment to-day with
- at 5 o'clock" If you utter these
words at o'clock to-day they will be
reproduced at 3 o'cock tomorrow, and
thus you will have ample time to keep
your appointment. AS an aid to MEM
DRY a knot in ones handkerchief has
hitherto proved of much service. but
it is certainly not as useful as this
photograph clock.
According to La Revue. of Paris,
the United States is pre-eminently the
bookish nation. France has the larg
est library and Germany is the larg
est annual producer of new works, but
the American people own the largest
number of books. La Revue computes
the existing stock of books in the world
as follows: In the United States, 700,-
100000; in Western Europe, 1.s00, 000.-
900; in Eastern Europe, 460, 000, 900; in
other countries. 100000. 900. Whence
these figures are derived is unknown
here, but, assuming their correctness,
one can see offhand that the American
people as whole lead the world as
book owners. The population of Eu-
rope, from the Atlantic to the Urals and
from North Cape to the Bosporus and
Gibraltar, in round figures, is S74.00O,-
900, with almost exactly six books per
head. With 700,000.O00 books the 76,-
900, 900 of the American people have
over nine volumes per head.
No eruption of Vesuvious since the
destruction of Pompeii and Hercula-
neum has been more volcanic than the
tremendous agitation in Italy over the
proposed divorce law, say une New
York Times. The descendants of the
ancient Romans have been shaken to
their centers by the rebates concern
ing the possible severances of mar
riage relations under the findings of
referees confirmed by the courts. Ro-
man legions of this era portest earnest
ly against divorce express trains of the
traditional Chicago and Sioux City kind.
Five minutes for passengers who want
to be divorced" was reported at one
time to be regular announcement in
palace cars which made brief stops in
Cook county, on the shores of Lake
Michigan, in the course of their jour-
neys westward. But the tendency at
10 III Tile ulIGCllOn OI d more
reasonable elaboration in the setting
apart of welded couples. The old eek
less methods of divorce have passed
out of public favor. Divorces are
now looked upon askance, at least to
some extent. even in the Dakotas.
-Foucault's famous experiment
demonstrating the rotation of the earth
by the swinging of pendulum has
been re-exhibited in Paris, under the
auspices of M. Flammarion. The proof
depends on the fact that a pendulum
hung by a perfectly free suspension,
if carefully set swinging will continue
to oScillate in the same plane, and as
the earth turns beneath it, the pendu-
lum seems to alter the direction of it's
motion with respect to surrounding
objects. If one could swing a pendu-
lum at the North Pole it is easy to see
that as the world turns from west to
east the pendulum would appear to
change its line of movement in the
same direction as the hands of a clock,
and at the rate of a whole revolution
in twenty-four hours. If the trial
were made at the South Pole the
change would be in the opposite direc-
ton; and if on the equator the bob
of the pendulum would not deviate
from its first position. In termediate
ATTITUDES the effect lies between these
extremes. The Foucault instrument
hangs from the dome of the Pantheon
1t consists of ball weighing twenty
eight kilograms-about 80 pounds-and
hangs by piano wire about seventy
two yards long. Visitors see the steel
point of the bob, at first passing over
a line due north and south, gradually
deviating at the rate of about II de-
grees per hour.
-Lorenz of Vienna became interest
ed and an advocate of the cutting
operation. which he continued 20 per-
form until 1892, when be abandoned it
for the bloodless method of reposition,
which has since been known as the
LorenZ method, says American Medi-
cine. Paci of Pisa, previous to this
time, had tried unsuccessfully to re-,
duce congenital dislocation of the
hip in an adult, and by some is re-
ferred to as having originated the pro-
cadure which Lorenz perfected. Lo-
REM clearly proved his applicability
to suitable cases, and established it's
permanency and freedom from the
mortality, which followed the Hoffa
cutting operation. To Lorenz belongs
the credit of discerning that the meth
cd is applicable in early childhood,
before gross changes to the aceta-
bulum, head of the femur and sur
rounding soft structures has taken
place. He has observed that his blood
less method was unsuitable in the case
of a patient who had been allowed
to walk until the age of seven years.
because the acetabulm would by that
time have undergone permanent
changes. These patients of seven years
or over can be permanently cured on
ly by a cutting operation, but much
of the severity of that procedure is
rendered unnecessary if the bloodless
method is first efficiently practiced.
The method has often been applied in
unsuitable cases, and yet the perma-
nent cures by American operators has
been rs per cent. Lorenz himself has
had about so per cent. of cures, due
to his skill and by not applying the
method in children over six years of |
age.
The public anxiety regarding the |
outcome of the illness of Mr.. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, says the New York Her
aid, gives rise to more Shnn ordinary |
interest in the usual phenomena which |
attended an attack of typhoid fever |
and their significance as affecting the |
prognosis. Typhoid being a systemic |
affection depending upon a toxine in /
the blood, all the vital organs suffer
in greater or less degree. The lungs |
may be attacked with bronchitis, pneu-
monia or pleurisy the brain and spinal |
cord with meningitis, the kidneys with,
incipient Bright's disease and the heart
with a septic Inflammation of its SUBJ
stance. The blood vessels also are
involved in the general infacfiop The 1