Middletown transcript., 1908-11-28

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AGerman BIOLOGIST has calculated sissl
the human brain contains 600 ooooOc
nerve cells, 5000, 900 of which die and
are succeed by new ones every day. At
this rate we get an entirely new brain
every sixty days.
An Englishman named Shelford, while
travelling in snmatra, heard from the
natives OF the existence of flying snakes.
de found that there actually were such
reptiles, and that they had an anatomical
peculiarity which enabled them to de.
scend safely from high trees to the ground
or water.
Europe is growing colder, says NJ,
Camille Flammarian, the French astron-
omer. He declares that from actual fig-
ures recently obtained be has become
-certaln that the temperature of Europe
has been falling. France has been suf.
terIng for long time from an excess OF
cold weather, the temperature at Paris
having been one degree below the normal,
Other readings show even less favorable
results. The fall is more noticeable in
the spring than at other periods of the
year. Similar conditions are recorded in
England, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Austria
and Germany.
An alloy that gives off showers of sparks
when struck with metal-igniting not
only gas, but alcohol soaked wicks-was
a recent accidental discovery of Auer Won
Welsbach. 1t consists of iron with GER
lum, ianthanlum or other of the rare
earths used for incandescent lamp man
ties, and the sparkling is found to reach Il
maximum with the percentage of iron at
thirty. A use for igniting explosives Dis
suggested.
Ihe illustrations preserved of Egyptian
iron manufacture show that the process
was precisely the same as that still OBJ
tanning among Ethiopian races. On a
stone, preserved at Florence, negro
slave is depicted working bellows from
which the blast is conveyed by bamboo
pipe to shallow pit in which the iron is
smelted. In a second illustration is shown
the forging of the iron by hammering it
with a rounded stone on stone anvil
with wooden base. 1t is clearly proved
by pictures on Egyptian tornbs that bel
lows were in use in the fifteenth GEN.
tury B. G.
Plans for the new Grand Central Station
in New York have beer completed. 1t
will cost about twenty million dollars.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry, Department of
Agriculture, was honorary president of
the First International Congress for the
Repression Of Adulteration OF Alimentary
and Pharmaceutical Products, which met
1t Geneva recently
1be rayages ofs ptios, traohoma
and other 1Jeases =. ! ~ " , > rratll - are sd
great among the native of Alaska that
N few decades the races of that section
will be extinct, Statistics from typical
settlement of the natives show a greater
mortality than that Of any other primitive
ace which has come in contact with
Anglo-Saxon civilization. report by
Army Surgeon Paul Churchill Hutton
tates that he doubts if any country in
he world can show such percentage OF
tuberculosis natives, and the mortality
rom this disease is really terrible. He
proposes that Alaska be divided into SAN
tary districts and that l6 sanitary officers
'e appointed. He also suggests that an
Intelligent Indian inspector be appointed
Or each town having 200 or more inhabi-
ants, and that each Indian inspector
tuay under the regular inspector and dis
efainate his knowledge among his own
eople.