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...Prince: "On the day that Rasputin should choose to come to me, I was to call for him toward midnight, and drive him to the Moika in an open car with Dr. Lazovert as chauffeur. While Rasputin was drinking tea, I was to administer a solution of cyanide of potassium, which would cause his immediate death. His body was to be put into a sack, driven out of town and thrown into the water...
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...
Exhaled Alcohol. In Cincinnati Dr. Emil Bogen persuaded persons arrested for intoxication to blow up football bladders. Such exhaled gasses he made to pass through a solution of potassium bichromate, which changed from yellow to green in proportion to the amount of alcohol on the individual's breath. Extra Physical Work up to ten times normal is possible for a human in fair health. Neither the heart nor lungs limited the amount of work the body could do, in the bicycle-riding experiments of Dr. L. J. Henderson of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Unsympathetic Cat. Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon...
...police asked Emanuel Silberstein his occupation. "Selling wine to Negroes," he answered, smiling. He told them he was glad he had "done the job well." They found cyanide of potassium in his pocket and again he said he was glad that he had killed "the old man" instead of himself...
...eighth most frequent element in the world, being preceded quantitatively by oxygen 49.78%, silicon 26.08%, aluminium 7.34%, iron 4.11%, calcium 3.19%, magnesium 2.24%, sodium 2.33%, then potassium 2.28%. All other elements are less than...