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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
WHEN THE PAIN LESBRNS.
Though a sixth of the land surface of the globe is desert, it is not easy to define
- exactly what produces the desert. In t late paper to the Royal Geographical Society, Prof. D. J. MacDougal, of the Carnegie Institution, pointed out that it is impossible to say what limit of rainfall will give a desert, for latitude and altitude modify the effect of a given amount, and wind-flow and topography have an important influence. But in considering how Eastern America, for instance, might become"" a desert, chief interest centres in the lessening of the rainfall. The reduction would un- doubtedly result from changed in the flow of the wind in a year of a single wet winter season and a dry, rainless summer. The total evaporating power of the air would be increased. The dis-
'Tis then you suffer acute palpitation of the heart, dizziness, faintness, and throbbing in the head; the exertion leaves you breathless and trembling, which in dicates that your blood is defective,
If these warnings are neglected, worse disproportion between the annual maximum orders will follow.
and minimum rainfall would be height- ened, and the daily and the annual range of temperature would increase chiefly through a heightened -maximum. Many streams would show only intermittent flow: lakes would be lowered or dried up. and their wind-swept bottoms would be pilid with dunes. On slopes of loose unassorted material, the wind would tond
coarser pebbles would sink, forming to carry away the finer particles, and the
sand. In the readjustments of man and pavement to be polished by wind-borne
fiercer competitions would be set up. other animals, greater tensions and
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LEAD POISONING AMONG PAINTERS. Showing that there are more deaths among painters than in other dangerous trades. C. A. Lane named to an English poisoning, in the order of their im scientific society these chief causes of
painted surfaces; (2) dust from mixing portance: (1) Dast from sand papering white lead with oil; (3) dust from paint dried on overalls; (4) absorption of lead by the mouth from unwashed bands; (5) possibly fumes from burning off old paint. He would avoid lead paints,
METAL CORROSION.
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The brain, and also the lungs, proved very active: but the heart and liver were less so, and the kidneys and spleen showed only slight activity. Tho radioactive substance seemed to increase with age and in disease. Little effect was shown from such conditions as social position, pecupation, or manner of living, and even locality of living was unimpor taat. Radioactive substances-the effect of which on the vital activity of the body cells remains to be learned-night come from food and drink, or from the air. The testing emanometer includes a re- ceptacle for the ashes of about 100 grains of the organ under test, and this is con- nected by electric wires and a rubber tube to a wire electrometer-with a microscope for fine readings--in the circuit of a stor- age battery.
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appears to be an effective cure for a pain- putation of the entire finger was necesful disease. The effects are attributed in It has long been known that the sculp- this treatment to sulphur oxide fromtors of France in the early Stone Age electrolytic decomposition instead of the worked in dark caves, many of their re- direct action of the electric current itself.markable cave drawings having been dis- A thick layer of absorbent tissue saturated covered, but the first known specimens with a five per cent, solution of the of their art in the open air have just been sodium hyposulphite was covered over reported by Lalanne and Breuil. A cliff a piece of tin as the negative electrode, at Laussel, Dordogne, has sculptures of which was placed on the rear of the thigh two horses, a bison, and other animals. over the sciatic nerve. The positive pole, wet with water, was put in contact with
THE KING the calf of the leg. The patient had been unable to use his legs for ten months, but after ten, sittings of forty minutes he could walk'a mile, and recovery seems to have been complete.
Photographs on copper have been made by G. Reboul, a French experimenter, by holding a bright sheet of the metal in vapours of chlorine or bromide until a thin Glm has formed, and then exposing this surface of copper chloride or bromide in the sunlight under a negative. A posi: tive print is made, which, however, soon fades, as no fixing process is yet known.
TEST FOR SMOKELESS FOWDER. Ultra-violet rays from a quartz mercury vapour lamp have been found to accelerate the spontaneous-decomposition of smoke less powders and are proposed as a test of the stability of such powders.
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