Odd Coincidences.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 7

Odd Coincidences.

FKOGS HE< F IX SLIEXTIFb IMS < OVERIES. - . - - - ' ■ ■A-b.xs tK*» frog -bvuld 'iretgerv pc'n-.-irliv a-. a - le. *■*. - ’.-’Be ’ar 1 ... nt. for t ■ -.■ -•- ; ' ■■■ ■ ■ ; :■■■■- ' ■ • ■ . - vmc • j■ - ■' ’ -be X-r»y M-.-sS people are familiar w..a ta--:*>ry of . u-- ■•■.r,-’ oi gaJonifin. which was due ; te a x ,:eu..l e.rcuas stance that one oi a van ' jsi e into *ceJ-Act witn c-'-.'-.-G*. wire-. ram’s aife was and .*■. was i:< ’.’ g ready -.o fry the daiisty ;a;ra-. morse!-. n suddenly - - '- ' ... \ . . . . , simple and obvious f-aat any dever have made it. Mere c-aam-e l-'d l*ra ■ '• triec-.y was pas-ed. p.-.-di: .r:j pe.a--j ~ —va - suspended over a table, and in a drawer ben-.'atii there was a patsro board box containing one . ur< x posed photographic flares. It so happened that s «m> kn- .»ere lying ot the table just above the drawer. When an a-.iempt was after wards made to use the plates for photographic purposes they were found to be “fogged.- bus on each one oi them was a fairly -.Tear imprint of the btin-h of keys. Thus it became apparent that ray. of some kind had j-enetrated through the wooden top of the table and had been so far interrupted by the keys as to make a shadow picture of the latter on the photographic plates. It was at once obvious that a new fa t iu physi - had been discovered, and thereupon s series of experiments was undertak-o with objects of various kinds placed on the table-top under like condition*. Everything in*aginable was tried, sine of Profe*~»r Rontgen’s assist**’* picked tip a dead frog twhieh had been used for some other laboratory work ■ ami put it in the place ordinarily oc cjpied by the bunv-h of keys, a fresh photographic plate, a- usual, reposing in the drawer beneath. The reault m* a revelation, for the shadow -picture male was «*t oi the frog but of it* dcrieton. From which fact it was learned that fiesu wa» tratv-puirent to the newlydiscovered rays, wherea- la men watW opaque to them.