Scraps Of Science

Successful experiments have been made for obtaining alcohol and sugar from pine and birch sawdust.

Chemical union is the result of the attraction of unsatisfied electrical charges on different atoms for one another.

Professor Dall Osso, inspector of the museum of Naples, has just published an article in which he affirms that researches and excavations prove that there existed a Pompeii nine centuries before our era.

By means of an ingenious instrument, the hydroscope, the human eyesight can penetrate the ocean depths and clearly distinguish objects over a mile below the surface. The inventor is Signor Pino, an Italian, a schoolmate of Marconi.