Show ANY physicians of rio janeiro reco recommend m all the oil of anda a brazilian tree as a substitute tUte for astor castor c oil it is plea santer cr to take and the dose lose is smaller A french government ve vessel vesel sel has recently succeeded in ill dredging in the bahof bay of bi biscay cavat nt a depth of feet or of three three and one fifth miles the animals found at that d distance istance beneath tile lie surface were numerous but of small size logs and planks split at the ends because the exposed surface dies faster than the inside it acid be saturated with limo lime and applied P I led to the ends like chloride of calcium formed attracts moisture and prevents splitting above A novel application of the electric light is intended to diminish the risk of collision at sea th the light with a reflector is placed on a movable arm in such position as to move with tho the rudder thus indicating di tho direction of its course steered by the vessel an ali iron chessboard chess board provided with magnetic chessmen chess men nien is a berlin novelty the small Magi magnets letS concealed it in the figures cause them to adhere to the iron board and retain their place in ill spite of considerable shook shocks such for instance as aro are received on oil shipboard or on oil railway trains dr fleck a dresden chemist attributes the production of pini pimples ples and on the forehead of some person persons ill in hot lot weather to the pre presence of fat or fatty acids in the leather lining of hats by experiment peri ment lie has bas lately shown that the tile fat is contained in all leathers and mid although small in quantity is sufficient to produce the result in question to avoid the gnp unpleasant meant effects he recommends rubbing the greasy leather with burnt magnesia herr kepner at salzburg in the tyrol lias has observed that heating eating li earths and rocks causes them to become magnetic with various specimens of baked and unbaked bricks he lie it lias tested tho the accuracy of the observation which is still further confirmed by experiments with several minerals bj by two other scientists the magnetism of newly heated rocks appeals appears to diminish somewhat in time but some specimens of slag perhaps thousands allds of years old were found to be still magnetic prof Pro frait tait describes three ace forms of mirage mirac the first and most mammon is s that seen in ill the desert where the st sunlight is reflected from front the heated layer of air resting upon the sand to the eye of the observer hand and irresistibly gives rise to thelan the impression point in the desert from which the rays are projected A second form is that observed in the arctic regions of which many beautiful illustrations have been by scoresby the tile principal phenomenon is what is called looming distant objects showing vill an extravagant increase of ve vertical height without alteration in breadth distant hummocks of ice are thus magnified into immense towers and pinnacles and tind a ship is sometimes abnormally drawn out until it appears cars twelve or fourteen times as high as it is long tha celebrated jata morgana of the straits of messina sina is of this character rocks are seen drawn up to ten tell or twelve times their proper height and houses as is well us as human beings and animals appear in like exaggerated shape the most remarkable instance of this kind of mirage was observed in 1798 when from hastings a portion of the french coast forty or fifty miles away was seen as plainly as though buta but a few miles ul distant tant although ordinarily hidden bidden by the earths convexity the third and perhaps most extras extraordinary rd form of mirage is that observed by vinco vince in 1799 in which a at fit sea three distinct images inia ages a lower and an ail upper one in in an i upright position ail and usper an ail intermediate ternie ter mediate diate one in which the object stood inverted |