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I SUKiiEKV 1>C?XE 15Y H.\MOSCOl?K.| Xew Method*, of Extracting in War Ho>pitaU. * I In the new "radioscope surgery" of the war hospitals, the surgeon is guided by an X-ray picture. The special equipment designed by Dr. Wullyamoz includes the X-ray stand, with a fluoroscope. and surgical instruments differing from the ordinary in being bent at a right angle. ? ' - - - * V* rt 4 h /\ The patient is so piaceu mai mc X-rays projected upward from the bulb in the stand pass through the wounded part and fall upon the fluoroscopic screen. First locating the bullet accurately by observations from different angles, the surgeon guides his probe so that the shadow at its point touches the shadow of the bullet, then cuts the skin. and. adjusting his forceps by the shadows, presses it vertically downward. Opening the forceps and grasping the foreign body, and kind of bullet . > or shell fragment can be removed in less than a minute. Some interesting facts in the rapid development of the aeroplane were lately brought to the notice of the { London Royal institution. In 1912, the Cody machine, winning the military prize, traveled at a maximum of 72 and a minimum of 48 miles an hour, a speed range of 33 per cent; and in 1914, a Sopwith machine had maximum and minimum speeds of 92 and 37 miles, a pange of 60 per cent. The power required for flying at 70 miles an hour has been lessened more than 10 per cent, by simply changing the shape of the aeroplane i wires from round to oval. The air's temperature range near the earth's surface is given as about 131 degrees F.?or from 127.4 degrees accepted as the highest reading lor Ouargla, Algerian Sahara, to 97.6 degrees below zero at Verkhoyansk, Siberia. Thermometers not properly shaded from the sun's direct rays are thought to explain the higher temperatures reported by travelers. The very lowest record is 135 degrees below zero, but this is the register of a sounding balloon at a height of 10 miles above Java. Honhajar/l invention has brought i to the United States results so marvelous that one can only vaguely wonder what limits of achievement will be reached in the dawning era of scientific research by trained specialists with apparatus of the highest type. The research laboratory of the General Electric company has already put upon the market such epoch-making products as drawntungsten wire, the nitrogen-filled damp, and the Coolidge X-ray tube, and has just made known the "keno. tron" rectifier for high pressure elecItric currents. Based upon a curious effect noted by Edison, the kenotron has been worked out chiefly by Dr. Irving- Langmuir. A metal plate is sealed into a vacuum bulb with a carbon or tungsten filament, and a current passes across the high vacuum when the filament is charged negatively by an electric current and the plate positively, but when the filament is made positive no current passes. The 60-called "heruiionic current" is attributed to the passage of a stream of electrons, or negatively charged particles about 1.800 times smaller than hydrogen atoms. The kenotron changes alternating into direct currents very effectively. I but so far has been chiefly useful for j producing small direct currents at very high voltages, as for X-ray work, precipitating dust. etc. A new gasoline-electric automobile depends for its power on a two-cylinder water-cooled engine connected directly to a five-kilowatt generator operating at 50 volts. The storage battery is .in two sections, one-half being placed on each side of the, chassis outside the frame; and the motor is connected directly to the rear axle through a double universaljointed shaft and four to one reducing gear. The car's total weight is about 5,000 pounds. On ordinary roads it can be run 20 miles by the battery without1 aid from the engine, and tests have shown an 'average efficiency of 58.5 ton-miles per gallon of fuel. ; The fire alarm siren heard 17 miles from its Colorado station is the rotor of an electric motor. At 3.600 revolutions per minute air is driven through 12 apertures in the rotor lasing with the production of about 100 vibrations per second, giving an Ktraordinarilv penetrating note early two octaves higher than midlie C. As the alarm switch interlipts the current, the peculiar wail Ig produced compels attention. The venom of the poisonous sernts that swarm the damp. hot forts of Brazil is very curiously not [ected by the antidote serum of Dr. llmette. of Lillfe. and special serns for the prevention and cure of V effects of Brazilian snake bites I prepared at Dr. Vital Brazil's fc-acre Serotherapic institute. I)iffcnt venoms are produced by the K chief families of snakes- -the hrops and the Crotales. An acnt by Dr. Jacques Bover states B. the Bothrop's venom decompos <;h;ai:> and r.u k eyes. When I'retty < ??I Took Charge Trade Uecame Yeiy !lri.?k. A gray-haired man who wore a skull cap had operated the cigar and news stand for years. An air o:' quiet and peace, sometimes the omnious forerunner of commercial disaster, had lately hung over the place. One day there was a change. Even from across the street it could be discerned that a metamorphosis had 1?~ * ' aIM AP Krio-Vttnocc laheii piclCt;. Ail an vjl uii^ntu^ and business surrounded the old news stand. On closer investigation it was found that the outside had been repainted and an attractive window display arranged. A new name had been painted in gold letters across the window. And just outside the door stood the new proprietor. She was a vision in a light blue, carefully tailored dress, big blue eyes and a mop of blonde hair arranged in an intricate but extremely attractive pattern. A bystander continued to gaze surreptitiously at the apparition under the pretense of looking at some magazines fastened in the window. When the vision started toward him he was too startled to retreat. The door opened and a soft voice inquired if he would not come in and look at the better things that were in display inside. He went in, although he wanted neither magazines nor cigars. Inside there was an unwonted air of order and busi ness. Under the spell or tne Diue eyes and the blonde hair the man bought two two-for-a-quarter cigars, although he had always found fivecent ones perfectly satisfactory before, and a thirty-five cent magazine tihat he had never seen before and in which he was not at all interested. Soon others discovered a new interest in cigars and magazines. Business grew better with each day. A group of young fellows who spent money as well as talked constantly about the place, and its presiding genius served all with impartiality. Business was good. Another chapter, however, remained to be added to a story which properly should end here. The young woman proprietor was missing one day and a young man was in her place. He was one j of the young men who had hung most faithfully about the place for , some time preceding. He seems now to be a permanent fixture at the old stand. Occasionally the young woman relieves him for an afternoon, and sometimes she comes just before -i ? * - ? - V. rt-rr orr\ a vi'Zi v tr? Closing (.line, auu me; 6>w ?... +.J v? ( gether, but the young man seems to be directing the business. And business is not so good now.?Indianapq? lis News. No Use For Them. While a traveling man was waiting for an opportunity to show his samples to a merchant in a little backwoods town in Missouri, a customer came in and bought a couple of night 6hirts. Afterward a long, lank lumberman, with his trousers stuffed in his boots, said to the merchant: "What was them 'ere that feller bought?" "Night shirts. Can I sell you one or two?" "Naup; I reckon not," said the Missourian; "I don't set around much L? _ ?? U UigULO. es the blood and causes internal hemorrhage, with great congestion of liver, kidneys and brain, and the venom of the Crotales, or rattlesnakes, paralyzes respiration, circulation usually causing death within 24 'hours. Serums are prepared for each of these poisons, a third?compound or polyvalent?being made effective for any bite where the kind of snake is unknown. The institute keeps its snakes in shelters in a water-enclosed park, and healthy horses and asses are injected with their venom in increasing doses every five or six days for a year. The animals thus immunized supply antidote serum for a long period. Be sides serums for plague, diphtheria and tetanus, the institute in 1913 distributed about 900 tubes of rattlesnake serum. $00 of Bothrops. and 4,500 of polyvalent, and it received 4.500 snakes. A newly-patented alloy of iron, boron, carbon and copper is claimed to be practically non-corrosive, and. while hard and tough, it can be rolled into sheets or easily machined wit-hrmt annonlinp. In nrcnarin? thp metal, boron is added to copper in greater amount than will combine. Added to iron or steel, the mixture forms a homogeneous alloy; and So parts of Bessemer scrap with 20 of the copper-boron mixture give a metal that yields perfect and easily worked castings in ordinary moulds. In a novel combination of humidifier and insect trap, an electric suction fan draws flies and niosquitos. or other insects, into a wire cage, and a wet sponge in the cage adds moisture to the air passed on into; the room. The insects are lured by J a syrup-sn eared plate in the day and i ?. lamp at night. f"" . - - 1 your tires after we have repaired the punctures until they I /s&L I 1 /r^Y^ are as stiff as iron. You can ftA j ride your wheel with confidence anywhere after we have repair- 1| ed it. Take it from us that if ^// we repair your bicycle, it will QAjNi VK jf/ Kr* ronoi^ad rio*1lt ~ \ X \y (~< \ \ / I 1\y I I J. B. BRICKLE <M Bicycles, Guns and Automobiles Repaired. Bamberg, S. C. 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