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A City Constable

Nervous Depression,-

Lassitude, Rheumatism

From all lands, deputations come to study the method which has made the London Constable superior to all others. "The method by which I make myself equal to say work," says Constable Lawrence, consists of taking Phosferine at intervals, as in this way I keep myself alert mentally and physically." Since taking Phosferine, Constable Lawrence can remain on "point" dury in all weathers, controlling the amazing volume of City traffic, without experiencing the terrible nerve strain and weariness. which formerly distressed him. Even amongst men who excel, Constable Lawrence is known as an exceedingly capable officer, equal to any emergency, and he declares that Phosterine alone enables him to maintain himself in this fine condition,

Quite removed.

Constable Lawrence, 398, High Road, Tottenham, writes: Possibly there is not an occupation more nerve trying than that of a "point-duty" policeman, especially when the roads are slippery and the drivers have a difficulty in holdin's up their horses. Add to this, the skidding of motor omnibus and the dodging of taxi-cabs, &c., it will be seen that my duty is not a pleasant one. I am sure that no one would care to change places with us for more than a few minutes, for it would at once be felt that the dangers are too numerous to cope with. Policemien look big, strong men, but are just as likely to get run down in health as other men, and this is what happened to me sometime ago, when I suffered from headaches, necve-depression, lassitude and.rheumatic pains. After trying many remedies, I was recommended Phoxferine, and can say that it is a wonderful-renewer of health, and seems to put fresh life into one from the first dose. 1.am now quite myself again, and very thankful that Phosferine was brought to my notice."-March 5, 1910.

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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY,

ALLOYS THAT CRUMBLE.

The liability of certain iron-aluminum alloya to fall to pieces spontaneously was made know mearly twenty years ago by Roberta Austen, and since then the same effect has been noticed with cobalt, "nickel, autimony, molybdenum, manginose, and aven with zine. It caunot he stixibuted to oxidation nor to silica. In a late paper to the London Faraday Society, it was stated that the disintegration follows the alloy's marked expansion, which on slowly cooling in a crucible may continns for days and even months. Chilling seems to arrest disintegration, as samples of the same alloy that had been cast in iron moulds vere per footly sound years afterward, Many alumi Dum alloys have shown the property, and rea. rons have been found, for boring that aluminum exists in two allotropic conditions, Very pure aluminum has shown want of cohesion when near the melting point, making if appear that one form must be very weak and quito useless. An interesting problemi remains for the metallurgists, and they are expected to show how the alloys can be made safe.

many

HOW RADIOACTIVITY IS MEASURED... Radioactivity, which has appeared in so substances, is measured by .com. paring the time takon by the emanation in discharging a charged electrometer with the time of discharge by a standard radioactive

oxide substance, Black

of uranium is the standard material. This is so spread on á digh of 50 square centimeters that the radiation per square centimeter corresponds to that of a contigram of oxide, and ou aunther diso 50 centigra me of the substance under teat are spread. Then the time of the normal dis charge of the electrometer is noted, then the time with each dies in turn under the verdle the results giving the radioactive value by a

formula.

AN ALLOY FOR CUTLERY, The cobalt-chromium alloy of Elwood Haynes. Indiana metallurgist, is claimed to rival the Anest steal in hardness and durability, and its resistance to corrosion specially fits it for out- Jery, surgical instruments, and varioni tools.

AN ELECTRIC ERASER.

To ensure usat correction of ink lines on tracing cloth, on o'cotrigally drivon, eraser has | been devised for draughtsmoa. The fexiblo shaft of a small motor carries at its outer end a aireular eraser, and as this is rotated it operates lightly and rapidly, effectively removing all as- desired lines. Clogging with particles of ink and paper is aroided by the use of a cleaning rubber, which tears lightly against the erasing rubber

MILK CELLULOID.

The milk collars now much used by trades mon and artisans in Paris are made from a cellaloid from goats" milk and are preferred to

finish. The material is prepared by separating. ordinary celluloid or acsonal of thair dalier the whey of the milk from the cards, then sub jesting to grat pressure. This cellaloid is already quite extensively made, being employed

for collar buttons, billised-balls, knife-handloa, combs, and other purposes.

WATER RETURN.

Level and storage of water in Reservoirs on the 1st March -

CITY AND HILL DISTRIOT WATER WORKS

LEVEL.

1910.

· 1911. Below overflow. Below overflow. 35 ft. 3 in. 28 ft, 103 in. 23 ft. 4 in. 26 ft. 6 in. Abora orertow.

Tytam Tytam Byewash

Tybom Laterma-

diate

0 ft. 6 in. 7 ft. 10 in Below overflow. Pokfufum... 13 ft. 1 in. 34 ft. 0 in.

35 ft. Wong-nai-chaag 45 t. 4 in.

STORAGE GALLONS,

1909. Tytem

151,180,000 Nil Tytom Byewails. Tytam Intermediate 198,768,000 Pokfulam

37,830,000 Wong-si-ching........... Ni

in.

1910. 184,590,000

320,000

154,420,000

~4,107,000

1,900,000

345,399,000

Total 387,778,000 CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN THE CITY AND HILL DISTRICT DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY

1909,

1910 Consumption 118,082,000 109,604,000 gallons Estimated

population.. 209,910 211,560 Consumption per

20.1 head per day

18.5 gallons Constant supply in all districts during February, 1910, Intermittent supply by Riler malu during February, 1911:

KOWLOON WATER WORKS.

LEVEL.

1910.

1911 Below overlow. Below overflowy

14 ft. 10 in. 11 ft. 6 in.

STORAGE. GALLONU.

1910.

Kowlook Gravitation

Reservoir

ANOTHER PLASTIC MATERIAL. The new rubber substitute of Dr. F. G, Weishmany, colled "protal," is prepared by adding an animal albumin, with a suitable Entrant, to a vegetable albumin base, which is supplied in a specially adopted form by the seeds of certain palms. Profal is perfectly plastic at first, soon acquiring the hardness of stone. When first produced, it can be pressed into monids or otherwise shaped while cold, and when made into dry powder it can be pressed or moulded on heating. It can be loaded "with any of the materials commonly used with rubber. Dr. Wiechmann has wed it with more than eighty different substazers, including Kowloon Gravitation

Reservoir............ 215,933,/.00 asbestos, shellac, linseed oil, cork flour, pig-

CONSUMPTION OF WATER IN KOWLOON ments, rubber and bakelite, and has prednesd

DURING THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. compounds having a wide range of proporties,

1910.

1911. and claimed to be adapted to the many purposes

21,110,000 20,980,000 gallons Consumption for which rubber is smployed. As advantage

Estimated popu sisimed for these compounds over those of Intion

91.300

95,700 rubber is that they are not liable to deteri- Consumption por oration from oxidation. The great variety of

head per day...

2.3

7.8 gallons objects for which these products are recom-

The Government Analyst reports that the mended include buttons, chessmen, door knobs water is of excellent quality. picture frames, phonograph records, spools,

telephone receivers, battery jars, gun stooks,.

trays, tiles, grinding wheels, electric insulators, automobile tyres, door-mate, soles, weather strips,

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etc

NICKEL LITHOGRAPHIO "STO 28.7 The fine grained slaty limestone used in litho graphic printing is expensive and umbrous, and attempts have been made to use alamin and other materials in its place. The latest substitute is a plate of nickel. A sheet of brass or other metal in scoured so as to laku ink, and is then coated with graphite and made to serve as the base of a deposit of nickel by the electrolytic process, "The nickel is stripped off after being given a backing of zino. The face of the plate is in a suitable condition for printing, and is claimed to make an effective lithographic stone,

PLANTS AS LIVING PUMPS. The old problem of the rise of my in trees has been solved by E. Roinders, a Datck botanist, who has shown in a novel manner that the living wood acts as a pump. Pressure- moters placed at different heights in the living trunk indicated independent and irregular variations, but when the trunk was killed the pressure differences became simply such as would

be expected in a glass tube.

, A VACUUM FURNACE,

INDIGESTION.

It is not the quantity of food we cat, but what we digest and assimilate that nourishtes When the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition are diseased, and

the body,

the food eaten only imperfectly digested, there is lose of nutrition, and the body loses strength as a nutural consequence. Not only does the system suffer from fack of nourishment, but the derangement of the organs must inevitably cause further complications. Indigestion is a most prevalent source of constipation, which in its turn cases a disordered fiver, and finally you become burdened with Chronic Dyspepsin Indigestion invariably arises from improperly prepared food, hasty eating, over- indulgence, fatigue, and exhaustion during the hot weather, breathing foul air, excessive brain work, and more frequently from cares and worry which exhaust the nervous force and weaken the organs of digestion, Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills are a safe, sure, and reliable remedy for all stomachic complaints. They aut in the digestion and assimilation of food, and in a mild and gentle anser regulate the system, restoring the weak and dyspeptic to health and strength. They give you clean bowels, a healthy stomach, a lively liver, active lúdneys, and blood that is rich and red.

They are a perfect Blood Purifier and a positive and permanent cure for Biliousness, Indigestion. Constipation, Headachen. Salow Complexion. Liver and Kidney Troubles. "Mles. Pimples, Bolls and Blotches. and for Famale Ailments.

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1911

243,300,000

The Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE.

W. CHATHAM, Water Authority.

THE WORLD'S TRADE IN 1910.

The following table gires a comparison of the imports md exports of Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, the United States of Amories, and Japan for the twelve months of 1910, those of Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, and Italy for eleven months, with the increase as compared with tho sumo period of 1909-

.

d.

Great Britain Germany Trance Austris Hungary

(11 months) Rassin (11 months) Belgium Italy (11 months) Spain (11 months) United States of

America Japan

Great Britain Germany

Franco... Austria-Hungary

(11 months)

IMPORTS.

1910.. Increase, £678,440,173+ £53,735,216 4,112,950 430,459,050 + 270,901,000+ 20,549,400

103,783,333+ 432,431,000+ 158,3 2,320 + 114,620,639 + 35,627,270 +-

312.561,524 + 17,457,380 46,423,380 + 7,003,496 EXPORTS...

1910.

1,295,833

63,434,000

14.796,000

2,698,369

1,153,285

Increase £430589,811 + £52,409,464 43,637,700 373,355,400+ 240,229,400 ++ 11,537,240

The electric vaopum furnace of O. Ruff Russia (11 months) 639 940,000+ 117,212,560 +

German, consists of a tube of retort carbon Belg months) 72,482,052 +

with walls about a twentieth of an inch thick Italy

90.804,166 +-

2.837,500

6,251,000.

9.057.240

4.633,141

*3,659,248

27,242,525 4,531,418

THE PANAMA CANAL.

PROBABLE DATE OF COMPLETION.

and opposite view holes near the centre. The Spain (11 months) 34,5 5,331 + ends have close-fitting jackets of retort carbon, United States of

America ... 372,832,254 + copp red on their outer ends, where they are Japan

45,842,669 + connected to water-cooled iron blocks receiving. öurrent. A non-condusting jacket encloses the. whole, and is contained in a water-coolod brass ease, having two quartz-glass view-holos for visual and pyrometric observations, and with

pump connections

air

to

(£72,000,000).

Colonel Goethals has also told the Committee of Congress, which is considering the question of dues, that a toll of one dollar per ton would dis- pose of the competition of the Tchasateped Railway, and would at least meet the competition of the American transcontinental lines, ̈ ̈

exhaust, the air. With varying ourrents, According to Colonial Goethals, the chief temperatures were produced ranging from engineer of the Panama Canal, the Canal Will 1,000 deg. to 2,700 deg. U., greater heat certainly be completed by September, 1913, being impracticable on account of the rapid at a comprehensive cost of $360,000,000 volatilization of the carbon. Among the uses to which the furnace has been put is that of measuring melting points. Through the quartz windows the sinking of the metal as it begins to fuse can be seen, and at has been shown that platinum melts at about 1,755 deg., com mercial iridium 2225 deg, molybdenum 2,110 deg., pure tangsten 2,575 deg., and kalin 1,915 deg. In an atmosphere of nitrogen zlumina melted at 2,065 deg., and me at 2,035, deg., magnesia remaining unmelted at 2,400 deg.:

The Senate confirmed last month the action of the House of Representatives in giving to San Francisco the privilege of holding there the great Exhibition with which it is proposed to celebrate, probably in 1915, the opening of the Panama Canal. New Orleans was the only city which seriously disputed San Francisco's

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