The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1900, Page 4

clever, clear-brained heads eriments to verify or dis- m of professors, rooms more long es more glirls. True ough there is an occasignal suppressed gele and eyes may be seen to twinkle r books whese dry facts suggest no t that is t are and sertous inted microscopes are N THE cHEMIC A 5y LABRCRATORY proper is a dismem 1 preserved animal sered bones scientific fingers daintily turn over t @ bones and take up the preserved re- ex mains of great spiders and ugly bugs, e 2 LEEP. n took the form of helping to ster into the realms of the a Morph . b At the Paris Exhibition there {s shown oy i model of a cave once occupled by a | - ver | faMOUs Greek 1 1. who was in the Lit of being sent to sleep by the drop- &4 ping sleces of gold from the roof of | : i = | the e on a carpet beneath. The gold s sting insom- | 1hUS dropped represented some of the gep a | booty that he had acquired from passing avelers, and 5o dear had the sqund of e Shah of Persia | ©0in become to him that nothing but its o thime | © upon the grcund would soothe his evelids to sleep. Of all queer methods of | € drowsiness, the foregoing would Iy seem to be the queerest. A gentleman who reslded for many years ata his eyelids. So admirable | !n the town of Worcester was unable to . nd 1o be that It was | 4rop off to sleep unles half ‘a dozen i by the Shah, and it | peaches were placed under his pillow. as which accompa- | he averred that the perfume of the frult ned among oth- | brought with it a certain degree of drows!- lonaries two “patters,” whose sole | ness. rope co: proof of the school | EXPERIMENTS WITH THE M™MICROSCOPE- _ | with no thought of horror or anything other than the purpose of study. The % In physics, comprising some cla thirty girls, Is a very earnest and a very busy one, Electr! v is everywhere; small steam engine apparatus and con- trivances for taking captive the forces of nature lie about upon the tables: small volcanoes are in operation; mimic ty- ranged | phoons and trade winds gr¢ jurned loose, | Somewhat similar to the device of this was the plan of a Parisian :ner- chant whose cnly remedy for sleeplessness was the insertion beneath his pillow of a sachet of lavender, tHe smell of which, he declared, would send him to sleep In less than five mir Very pecullar was the following: A mid- dle-aged engineer who had lived for many years close to the beach of a seaside town had grown so accustomed to the lullaby of the: waves that when business took him to Manchester, where he was thenceforward compelied to live, he found that the absence of the sea murmurs rob- bed him of sleep. He therefore fitted up in his bedchamber an apparatus which | was so constructed that the sound of the waves as they broke upon the shore was most cleverly imitated. Alded by this fic- Illtloul appliance the engineer was ena- bled to sleep perfectly, and the apparatus continued in constant use until the day of | his death, some years later. i ANIC i7/ HER OVHE MR L ) ) A BOTANY CcLASS IN THE cONSERVATORY, CTHE HICH 7. b A s & a and planets and suns are set to revolving Laround each other | lect limitations c of the = who wears a N { heelea In some Oriental climes the natives who find themeelves unable to sleep by natural means prevail upon their friends to ad minister to them yery sound ' floggings with bamboo canes. The pain thus sus- talned is supposed by the natives in ques- tion to induce a sensation of drowsiness, followed by sleep. All the same, there are few insomnia patients In this country who would resort to so drastic a measure for curing their complaint. —_——— Indented neltr!ll show meanness, wide nostrils a spendthrift. A tip jutting out far from the face is a token of vulgarity, refinement NP‘ the possession of the owners of noses that do not stand out far at 'the end. An agulline bend denotes firmness of will and sense of justice; the | long, narrow bridge proclaims a fastidi- ous, self-sufficient, vet often tender n ture. All the active qualities—combativ ness, eagerness, passionate temper, power of hatred, jealousy, ambition—go with the more common type of Roman nose. The the end of two they sensitiveness | And 1t is all done by girls | of the suppression of the feminine Intal- rt who be! equal station in life,” ¥ . a masterly style. Advocates IN THE L ABORATORY oF The day of crochet lamp mats s gone. No longer is the most important part of a young woman's education the learning of intricate stitches for the creation of PHYSICcS patchwork quilte sald a prominent manyfacturer. born s d bred woman . 3 B shoe come to the city to live and I'll bet a pair of French | IS bound up in hot we opera slippegg against a pair of | IP the year. | brogans that inside of six months she will | °" a0 adult is something be wearing a No. 312 C, and that before TS, or say three years, she will be glad to get into a No. 5 B. “Asphalt and cut stone pavements are responsible for this peculiarity, Just as are responsible for the increased and enlarged growth of a Greek form, on Yhe contrary, tells of artis- | horee's feet. The feet of the et tic capabilities and love of inanimate|pred that has never cantered over amy. beauty.—Stray Storfes. =% Y i thing save —_——————— Golt has infected every Eurépean lv- | ing in the city of Singapore. There are |has been a two golf clubs, and the members are very | harq city enthustastic. I Hebrides the natives, 1t is sald, have come to regard human food as second best, | 1 4 streets. Were it not for P skill of the veterinarians and the adj Since pigs were introduced into the New | ment of rubber pads about the tender por- | tlons of the hoofs they would often be obliged to suffer excruclating patn. “As the soft ylelding nru:\u the only . vielding sod of a stock | | farm or the <oil of the race course show a | *"0 Mauritius—filling | marked difference after the same horse | €¢TieS—on 162 da ust- f the m arge “The womar 1 have such s \ his acts as a 1 | » much cannot be said in f t the custom of r £ s applies to y« ke. - bowv. no matter how old, s ald > at least arf he at either shos or stocking o 2 4 the boy or girl who >mp: > | Tun barefoot at lea. e ¢ months of the yes It m, 1 ! but understand how impor > | the future beauty and we v | children's feet the custon . have become so tabooed. N w ever gttain its possibilities in beauty t er twelve An abs ately perfect foot that is never seen In a shoe-wearing country.™ In the year ending May 10, 150, photo- | 8raphs of the sun were taken at wich on 180 days, according ta the 1 Port of that observatory. For ¢ | 1599 photographs were selected for | urement and preservation | on 22 days, and photographs fr up gaps om India fn the lea ing only one day riven several years over the | I the 3% on which no photograph of the the | SUn wes secured. These photographs are | taken for the purpose of keeping a record { of sun spots. During the past year a | steady decline in the number and area of the spots was observable, this being & “minimum” sun spot year.