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THE AMERICAN MONTHLY 



[Sept 



delicate tools and measuring- instruments were made 

 specially for the construction of this watch. The prelim- 

 inary work in the making- of the timepiece was very ex- 

 pensive, and the selling price is $1,250. 



A Flying Bullet. — Accompanying- is a diag-ram of a 

 photographed projectil showing- the lig-ht interference pro- 

 duced by the sound waves which it created in its forward 

 rush. Prof. Mach, of Vienna, was the first to photog-raph 

 flving bullets and has described his work in the Open 

 Court. The path of a flying- bullet resembles the course 



of a ship in water. It has its head wave; or bow-wave, 

 and it has its "wake" of eddies. The head-wave, is a 

 sound wave, and when the velocity of a bullet is greater 

 than that of sound, the head sound-wave of a bullet 

 reaches the ear before the sound of explosion, and so, in 

 such cases, a discharg-ing- cannon g-ives two reports. 



■Whooping Cough Bacillus. — It has hitherto eluded the 

 g-rasp of the bacteriologist, but has finally been captured 

 by Dr. Henry Koplik, of New York, whose discovery has 

 been confirmed by Dr. Ozapelewski, a German expert — 

 there being- only one other bacillus — that of influenza — 

 which is as small. The whooping cough bacillus can 

 only be seen under a very high power. It is usually in the 

 shape of a club. Dr. Koplik, who is connected with the 

 Good Samaritan Dispensary, has a laboratory adjoining 



