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...from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
Gastric Juice. Total loss of gastric juice causes death in five to eight days, unless Ringer's solution (sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and distilled water) is injected into the veins. Even so death is delayed at the most 76 days.?Chicago's Lester Reynold Dragstedt and James C. Ellis...
...Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...Ringer's solution (after Sidney Ringer, English physiologist, 1835-1910) resembles blood serum in composition. One formula contains sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, water...