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...mountains. The city in the middle distance is evidently meant to represent Florence, and some of the characteristic buildings, like the Duomo and the Campanile, are perfectly distinguishable. The landscape has a drark brownish tone, in which the river appears as a light winding path. The sky is light bluish green...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...previous breath-holding record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore. In the Journal of Experimental Medicine they tell how the thin...
...telephone wires his voice, his face, the minutest movements of his lips and head were brought to the watchers and listeners in Manhattan. As he spoke into the transmitter, small circles of light moved across his face, so rapidly that they seemed to bathe it in a uniform bluish light...
...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...