The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08
MISS MAY peNsMoRE. a. Delaware Pi., Chicago.

new investigation. Immediately after a brilliant flash the second officer was sur prised to find an imprint of his hand on a cabinet on the bridge, and was further amazed to see the silhouette persist as much, as five minutes. Experimenting a little, he obtained a shadowgraph of his observation instrument and one of a life preserver, such details being brought out on the ships paint as the crosslines on the instruments objective and the let tering on the lfye-preserver It was found that only the damp, gray paint over wood work was sensitive, and no effect
 was obtained on the dry paint or on the paint over iron. The composition ana pe- culiarities of the paint are to be deter mined. a suggestion being that some in- gredients have phosphorescent properties.
 In a test of the sense of time, inter
 vals of quarter of a minute to min- ute and half were over-estimated 45
 per cent. by IS men students and III
 per cent by IS women.
 While the therapeutic value of radium has been questioned, striking claims of its powers are still made. Dr. Darier of Paris, has reported cancer of the face
 made painless by rcdium, and has oo- tained prompt relief from pain in cer- tain eye diseases. Even more important were found the effects on the motor- nerve centers. Weak radlum prepara- tions applied to the temples cured ner- yous spasms in two or three days, acute facial paralysis was cured Tn one osy' and inability of motion from nervous de- bility was cured in three days. In the last named case the result is attributed to suggestion.
 The growing of acid fruits-such as to- matoes and strawberries-is among the means suggested for lessenins the mos quito evil. It has been noticed that when mosouitoes have access to acid fruits their bites are less poisonous. ana ois tricts of Italy seem to have been freeo from malaria by the cultivation of toma- toes. the natural food of mosquitoes lt is sunposed that the malarial parasite is destroyed by fruit acids.
 Many European physicians treat alco- hoIism by hypnotic suggestion some practitioners claiming as hign as oo p.I cent of cures. The suggestion IS usuaIy repeated fifteen or twenty times "i'hi' a year.
 The delicate microbalance of E. Sal ..,a-, .ons,sts of A thin thread or rib hon of glass or other material nxeo at one end and placed in cioseo ease, with weights of platinum wire and silk thread to be manipulated py a suitable handle. The hexure or the loaded thread is noted by the aid of an oc,,Isr micrometer. In the experiments made A glass thread four inches long and somewhat less than one hundredth .of an inch in diameter. with an ar- rangement to magnify 100 times weighed to one-thousandth Of a milh- 9ram-or one y-five-thousandth or a. rrain-while capable of supporting by fiexure a weight of more than loV milligrams. With the apparatus the loss of weight of musk by volatiliza- ton has been demonstrated and proven to be proportional to the time.
 Running animals show marked adap- tive notifications. Mir. R. S. Lull points out that the greatest modifica-' tions are In the limbs. but there Is also an elongation of the head and neck Tn long legged types. and the body Is fur ther adapted for speed by a shape giv- ing minimum air resistance and by in- creased heart and lung capacity. In jumping forms there is increase in the length and weight of the tall, which has to act as a counterpoise. The feet often show a reduction of digits. cul- minating in the single toe of the horse and some extinct species.
 The novel night clock of Professor Hirth, of Munich, contains an electric lamp which lights up when a button is pressed and which throws an en- larged shadow of the dial upon the ceiling. Though the shadow has the size of a church clock. the greatly magnified hands and figures are sharp and distinct.
 A German method of increasing the density of steel consists in forcing gas blast downward upon the molten metal. The bottom being allowed to cool the mass solidifes upward and all gases are forced out instead of being confined by the quick cooling of the top.
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