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• Scientific Scraps.
Saccharin# appear* to canes raaseft
and dyspeptic v interna.
The Laplander#, a]tljoufla entail in
‘tature, have v<-;y large skulls.
Basin, a* nsed ia building pap#r, i*
Ijtiag largely replaced bv a petroleum
product called “still wax,” or wax
ailiags. /
The northern hemispheres contain
fourteen par cent, of the ccld
ihirty-£v o p Cr cent, of tha tempera*®*
aad fifty-oao per cent, of tba hot.
Ia a paper on Earthquake Sonnets,
Prof. Milne suggests that there is a
close connection fcatwsaa sounds that
precede the shock and the smaller vib
rations that bear a lika relatien to
them.
Prof. Daniel Kirkwood point3 ont
that seven o£ the twenty known com
ets of short periods have disappeared,
either by breaking into fragments,
like Bield's ootnot, or by tha transfor
mation of the orbit.
Sable Inland, in rhe north Atlantic
is fast dieappea’iog. Some years ago
it was forty miles long by two and a
quarter wide, but it has shrunk to nine
teen and a halt miles in length and
less than one in width.
Waters which circulate or stand in
leaden pipes or vessels, not only take
np particles of lead through mechanic
al action due to friction, but attack
the metal, the ie:u't of this being goa
orally lead carbonate.
An instrument called tho phonoza
nograph is intended by tho Due de
Feltre to indicate the direction of any
distant sound. A microphonia plate
of peculiar construction ia moved about
until the maximum effres is obtained.
The surface of tho Mediterranean
has been found by accurate measure
uient to lie a little below that of the
ocean, it resembling somewhat a shal
low funnel with greatest depth coincid
ing with tha regioo whore tha water is
uroat salt.
la a paper recently read before one
of the English associations of ©ngin
aers, the wsiter asserted that, accord*
ing to the present methods of dealing
with the motive power of the engine,
qrlv some 20 per cent, was made avail
able, $0 per cent of the energy dovl
oped in the furnace being thiown
away.
In a recent lecture, Mr. J. Hutchin
son expressed the belief that arsenic
may produce eancc-r. Its effect upon
the skin is most marked, but ir may
spoil the complexion instead of im
proving it, by making it muddy and
ansightly. It may also cause *oit
corns to grow-, on the palm* of. the
hands and soles of the feet.
While the most rapid cannon shots
scarcely attain a veloaity of 600 yards
a second, over 1 500 knot* per hoar,
meteorites are knows to penetrate the
air with a Telocity of 40,000 or ev*n
60,000 yards per second, a velocity
which raises the air at once to a tem
peratare of 4,000 or 6,000 centigrade.
Tho reported discovery of the “elix
ir ol life’* in baths of acetie acid, ap
plied daily, has elicitsd some interest
ing scientific comments. These de
monstrate the biological impossibility
of living forever, and show that S°ot
tish physicians have used acetio acid
since 1850 for dissolving away dead
tusae from diseased joints, etc., and
hare thas effected some remarkable
cares.
For a quick filter take a dear piece
of ehemeic skin, free from thin place*,
cat it of tke desired length, wash in a
weak solution ot salsoda or any alkali
to remore tlio grease, and rinse thor
oughly in cold water before uaiag.
Tinctures, elixirs, sirapi, and even tun
cil#gas arc, say# a writer iu DtUggi***’
Circular, filtered rapidly. A pint o I
the thickest simp will run through in
fear or five minute#. By wishing
thoroughly after each time of using L
will laat a leag time.
The S appes cl vke Irtish.
Under the aboya title George K n*
nan contributes to the Century some
lOfhia experiences in Siberia just pre
vious to hi# first meeting with politic
al exiles. It is with a feeling of ia
tense pleasure and relief that ore leaves
Hch a village and rides ont upon the
wide, clean, breezy iteppa where the
air is hlled with tha fragrance of clov
er and singing o? birds, and where the
eye is conitantly delighted with great,
sweeps of gnico’h, velvety turf, or vast
undulating expanses of high steppe
grass sprinkled in the foreground with
millions of wild roseses, white margu
erites, delicate fito angled harebells,
and dark, red tiger*lilies. Between
the village# of Krutaya and Kalmako
va, oh Friday, we rods across a steppe
which was littorally a great ocean of
flowers. One could pick twenty dif
ferent species and a hundred epeci
mens within the area of a single square
yard. Hero and there we desertoJ the
miry road and drove for miles across
the smooth, grassy plain, crushing
flowers by the score a* every evolu'
tion of our carriage wheels. In the
middle of the steppe I had our driver
stop and wait for me while I alighted
and walked away into the flowery soli
tude to enjoy tho stillness, the perfnm
cd air, and the sea of verdure through
which ran the long, sinuous black line
of the muddy highway. On mv left,
beyond the road, wa3 a wide, shallow
depression six or eight miles across,
rising ou tho opposite s’dr in a long
gradual sweep to a dark blue lino o
biioh forest which formed the horiz n
This depression was one smooth ex
panse of close green turf, dotted will
grazing cattle and. sheep, and broket
here and there by a eilyery pool oi
lake. Around me, upon the highei
ground, the steppe was carpeted wit!
dowers, among which I noticed i-plen<
id orange aateis two inches ia iliauu
er, spotted tiger h ies with strongly
rt-fli-xed petals, white clover, daisies,
harebells, spires, astragalus, imdliotue
and a peculiar flower growing iu long
slender, curved spikes which suggest*
ed flights of miniature carmine sky
rockets sent up by the fairies of the
steppo. Tho air was still and warm,
and bad a strange, sweet frtgrairc
which I can liken only to the taste o
wild honey. There were ao sounds to
break the stillness of the great plain
but the drowsyhum of beck, the regu
lar measured “Kate did Kate did” oi
a few katydids in the grass near me.
and tho wailing cry of a steppe hawk
hovering over the nest of some field
mice. It was a delight simply to lie
on the grass amidst the flowers and
see, h<?ar and breathe.
In Providaace, tha other day, they
were setting some very tall poles for
telephone wires—7o footers. A coun
tryrnan came along and asked the fore
man what his man were doing. Nsw,
the foreman of that particular gang is
a mild mannered man and means to be
patient and forbearing, bnt he is wor
ried a good deal with questions and
gets tired of answering them. Ia this
particular case ho told the country
man that he was building a wire fence
“Is that so?” said the farmer, looking
up, and then added: “Well, I guess
yon’Ye got it bull high, but I don’t be
lieve you can make it pig tight.” That
foreman hae been very thy of Rhode
Island _faraaer6 over since.
Tho Picket Counted Nine.
As tho sun want down and dark
ness began to cresp over the face
of the earth tho. angry artillary
died away and the crackle of mus
ketry was less spiteful For awhile
thefightingon the extreme right
hung on, to settle the question of
who should occupy the old earth
works, but at length dead silence
fell upon tho whole field-
Silence? No! It was silence
*
compared to the awful roar of the
long afternoon, but it was a silence
broken b3 r the gefeanis and groans
and prayers of wounded men—by
the movements of wagons and ar
tillery—by the subdued voices of
75,000 men as they camped for the
night without fire, and anxiously
debated the chances for the mor-
row
The sergeant marches off to the
left at the head of half a dozen
men. He drops a man at “Post
No. 1,” and gives him whispered
instruction. It is the same at posfs
2,3, 4, etc , until the last man has
been stationed.
There must be vigilant, wakeful
men between friends and foes
while the long night wears away."
“Post No. 6” under a great beech
free. Shof and shell have scarred
and riven its trunk, and shot and
shell have scattered and riven its
thick limbs. A quarter ct a cen
tury lienee tiiis free will bear wit
ness to the terrible struggle of to
day.
“From this tree to the edge of
that thicket, and the countersign is
‘Justice. 111 whispered the sergeant,
andas lie passes on tho picket tak
es up his heat lie counts as he
passes them by—one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight. What?
Corpse! They are lying on the
grass so near the path lie travels
that he can touch any of them with
his foot There are others to the
right and left, farther away, It
was here that the enemy charged a
battery—here our heroes rallied to
preserve it. Grape-shot and canis
ter, bullet and bayonet, found vic-
tims there Some lay as if asleep,
worn out with the tremendous con
flict—others raved and prayed and
cursed God and man before death
released them from their suffering.
The picket counts them as he
walks, and a sigh escapes his lips.
To-morrow night some sentinel
may number his mutilated corpse
with others on the same meadow.
To-morrow night tho autumn
winds may vainly seek to rouse
him from his death sleep.
From tree to thicket and turn.
From thicket to tree and turn. He
must watch and listen and be on
his guard, but by and by he finds
time to count again. One—two—
three—four— five—six —seven—
eight—nine! What! He counted
only eight before! Was hemistak
en, or can the dead of the battlo
lield creep and crawl?-Six—seven
eight—nine! Yes, there are nine.
In the darkness he had made a
mistake. Nine! Well, what mat
ters one more or one less corpse
upon a field of battle?
As the lone picket was on his
last turn he was stabbed by a mur
derer whom he had counted the
ninth man. He was slain to rise
no more.
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