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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
acacias
THE RICHEST SOURCE OF TANNIN. Some of the acacia trees are recom mended by the Department of Agriculture na having especial value for cultivation. in the United States. About 450 species aro known, of which about 300 species belong to Australia, and the remainder. aro chiefly distributed in Asia, Africa and western America. The chief product VE
at present is tanbark. Australian species yield 24 to 48 por cont. of tannin, while oak and chestnut species, the woods chiefly employed in the United States, supply only 8 to 13 per cent.. Some acacias, kriving on three inches of rain, are of value for-reclaiming sandy and semi-desert lands. Acacia timber is beautiful in grain and very durable, and the hard, close-grained and tough product. of the best species is comparable to walnut and rosewood. Besides the timber, there are various by-products,. such as gum arable, cutch and other gums, and, the perfume of the so-called cassic species, much used at. Grassig France
A POWERFUL WIND-MOTOR. - The explosion motors that have replaced. wooden windmills in draining parts of Holland are giving way to wind-motors of strel. The largest existing motor of this kind, lately put to work at Harlingen in Friesland, is 60 feet in diameter, bas steel sails, mounted on a steel tower, and is credited with a pumping capacity of G0,000 to 70,000 cubic feet of water an hour. It drains 1,850 a cres of lowland.
THE GREATEST MUSEUM FISH..
The marine sunfish" (Mola mola) is one of the queerest animals known, having its body lopped off just behind its perpendi cular dorsal and anal fins, and being as high as long. With a tiny mouth, an even stranger part of its structure is its diminutive spinal cord, which: Gensures considerably less than an inch in a list a yard long. A specimen of this species taken three or four years ago off the coast of southern California was ten feet one inch in length and nearly eleven feet in height, and lately mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is believed to be the largest fish of any kind ever shown in a muɛgim. The specimen is supposed to have been more than twenty years old when taken
possibly nearly one hundred.
A HEAT-STORAGE RESERVOIR.
The heat-storing apparatus of a Stock- holm inventor, which may be charged frem electric stations during periods of lig load, contains a cuil of resistance wire enclosed in heat-storing material, which in turn is surrounded by heat- insulating substance. A damper may be opened to permit radiation from the top when it is desired to use the heat. A radiating covering encases the whole apparatus, and air passages through the hout storing material aid in radiating the heat. In a trial apparatus, having a capacity of about one-half cubic yard,
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a heavier loss than the sacrifice of many army corps. The naval guns have yet to make themselves heard: the French feet Germany is a formidable foe, but nothing showing signs of waking up in the Mediterranean And the Adriatic will satisfy the French this time but the Admiral Sir John Jellicoe is laying siege The aroma of coffee has been variously e-possession of their two lost Provinces to the Kaiser's fleet; be holds it as closely- attributed to caffeine, furfurol and other Alsace and Lorraine. Progress in this invested as is compatible with his desire aromatic principles found in it, but the French do not expect to win every battle, Whereas Britishers know
direction is very marked so far. The
that it should coran out and ight, real source is still undetermined.” In a
where the late investigation hy Bertrand and but it is clear that there is to be no going German battleships are, the Germans do back no matter what the consequences Weisweiller, one part of pyridine was
Rot know as well at least-where the are, The French troops-both home and extracted from 4,000 or 5,000 parts of
iron walls of England are concealed. roasted coffee. The infusion of powdered Colonial have already given an excellent That is precisely one of the principal coffee freed from this substance was de-account of themselves, thanks to their reasons for the German navy keeping so
and cavalry and cidedly insipid, and it seemed evident superior artillery that pyridine was largely responsible for exemplary bayonet charges, all of which quiet; to emerge out is to court disaster.
Austria is in a bad way; not only has the fine flavour. Pridine is a pungent, have done terrible execution. The she to repel enemies now at her gate, bul colourless liquid, which is extracted for heroic resistance of the Belgians has been civil war having broke out in the dua medicinal use from coal-tar.
all in France's favour; a must really Monarchy it is not wise to be too welcome was extended to the British venturessine. As in Germany, the general soldiers on landing at Boulogne on their The apparently impossible seems to have way to the front, as Treaty aids of the scarcity of foud is a serious drawback. been achiered in the process of nickel-Belgians, Sis John French's arrival in
It is bad enough to have to deal with the Servians and Montenegrins, but the plating aluminum announced to the Paris Paris left not a shadow of a doubt as
keen opposition of Russia and France is Academy of Sciences by Le Chatelier. No to the sincere admiration the French have
more than Austrin-Hungary can janage. method of giving an attractive surface by foy him and his plucky comrades. Like Russia is a slow-moving machine, but her a coating of any metal has hitherto re- the Belgians and Russians the French advance is steady and unshakable. warded the efforts of metallurgists, but are most pluckily contesting every inch Germany is now fighting for her life, but the much desired result is now attained of the bold German advance.
she cannot expect to survive the present by scouring the aluminumn in a bath of The Germans who by their breach
contest. France is sanguine of success hydrochloric aeid containing a certain of faith stand condemned in the eyes this time, which accounts for the "spirit" proportion of iron, and then passing into of the world, have lost much valuable of Paris at this present moment the nickel bath. Iron precipitated from time as well, as made useless sacrifices. France's black warriors have for several the acid on the surface catches and holds They have been must cleverly outwitted years distinguished themselves as born the nickel. The deposit adheres firmly, and outgeneraled so far, their suprated ishte s. This is not the first time that WELDING AND CUTTING OF METALS BY OXY-ACETYLENE and in the tests made the plated alumi
blunders, Jack of foresight, and France has used coloured troops against num has been rolled, bent sharply, and miscalculations have caused them to be her present enemy.
"La Forco Noire otherwise worked without causing any severely criticised by those in a position separation of the coating.
to do so. Brussels is now at their mere but being a defenceless capital, it could Real cheese from the seeds of a. tree not, as Liége did, and continues to do, (Treculia africana) is the peculiar pro oppose the invadera. The Germans have duct made by negroes of the Kamerun still a tremendous task before them; while region, in western Africa. A German they have been fighting the Allies, home witness of the process states that the seeds complications caused through famine, are first cooked, then shelled, crushed into war-proteste, and restricted means, are estimation, but there is nothing certain thin pasty inass, flavoured with pepper, adding to the numerous difficulties to be about it. The sooner the slaughter is freed from liquid by draining, and finally surmounted. Much as they would like
is
VEGETABLE CHEESE.
a flavour very unlike cheese to a distinct
Bour, and finally becomes that of strong cheese. The ripening is found to be duc to the same bacterial changes that yield the flavour of cheese from milk..
HAND-CAMERA MOVIES.
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the mother country as regards efficiency Estimates given for quick construction and repair of Ships, Engines,
Now that war has begun in grim earnestness, people are beard to ask when the war--and war is bell-will end? This is a diflicult question to answer right away. Six months is a general
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moulded into grayish-white cakes. These to do so; the Germans at present cannut misery it. It causing all round. The THREE PATENT SLIPWATS taking wesele, up to 2,000 tons displacement, providing cakes are ripened lite ordinary chocse. direct all their force upon the Belgians great war of the future," remarked With time the colour changes to yellow, without transporting a whole army over then to brown, and the taste alters from the Meuse, which at this point cuts from General Nogi, the celebrated Japanese 100-Ton ELECTRIC CRANE ON QUAY-ELECTRIC OVERHEAD CRANES
East to West across the vast theatre of Europe as its field of co-operation, and 50-Ten Hydraulic TESTING MACHINE for Chains, Wire Ropes, Rivets, etc. dangerous one to undertake with the and the Anglo-German rivalry. Erance. JOHN L. THORNYCROFT & CO., LTD. Belgians on one side of the river and the and Germany will perform that decisive French on the other, while the Liége forts part in the Belgian plains, very probably are declared to be still as good as ever,
hear Waterloo, the only susceptible place which means that the Germans have still allowing the deployment of the formid- To look for good moving pictures from to leave a considerable force around them. able masses wito will combat. The a hand camera would seem to be expecting On the other hand the position of the frontier of France and Germany, such over much. But the new type of cing French is a strong one, and they will no
as it actually exists, bristles too much matograph apparatus, of E. Proszynski, doubt, desire to form the Germans with fortifications for the two enemies to lately described to the Royal Photoffensive operation, knowing as they de graphic Society of London, is designed that time is on the side of the Allica.
cross it. The result of this war does not appear to me to be doubtful; the French to be used without supporting stand, and
Germany has three alternatives. She will beat the Germans on land and the in practical tests is reported to have given must break through the chains of forts English will inflict a maritime defeat. excellent results. A powerful gyrostatic on the French Eastern frontier, which This war will be the last struggle by force TLEHONE NO. 212. wheel in the front of the camera gives she is evidently unable to do, for the of arms which will be preduced is steadiness in any position, preventing French now hold the passes of the Verges, Enrope any effect of vibration. A set of cylinders and will goou be on the plains of Lower
of compressed air in the back of the Alsace, Germany can drive straight at camera drives an air-motor, and thus sup plies power for operating the film and shutter mechanism and the wheel.
SHIPPING REPORTS.
the French troops between Mezieres and Namur, and be smashed up in the task. Finally, she has the third alternative of trying to outflank the Belgians, and thus partly disorganise the Allies' line of position. That is what she is now trying, and that is why the brunt of the fighting is still being borne by the Kelgians, though it is no doubt true that the French are also being attacked, if only to keep them cccupied. The Russians are Dow pouring huge force over the Eastern frontier, compelling the Gormane to rate north-easterly wind, north-easterly withdraw some of their troops from thei
The British str. Normaton reports Fine weather throughout the passage, nothing particular to report.
The British str. Taking reports: Mode
wind and occasional showers from Swatow | West. fine wind variable with sea smooth.
In the pending great baitle we must expect the Germans to sacrifice men
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