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Show A Curious rranrrtr of Watur. I Many eimple expermienis show the sunace of water poises"-" winch cans.-.i 11 1 a pwrtv b -3 1 i 1 1 i if 1 ...ret- fvom above or below, l.'iis lino nor. omvof soapy water, lint cr tlec, u t i Ipn 1 1 l i yell A sn rt f 1 n 1 t)f V i iu its weignt orang ivniely distributed eacn ot tno numerous separate wires is resisted re-sisted by the surface film so that tlie water cannot readily pass through the insects and plants utilize this fact in many mtereotiiig wavs. Soma water pi mts w h 3 le i t IE on tu i have a ery simple contrivance to kee-i tne upner suriaces of tne leaves urv. Tins consists of a frreat number ot minute mi-nute hairs coverm? the tons ot tne. leaves. Vv ater cannot penetrate amony these hairs even when tno leaves ars forced down beneath the surface. The littlo rafts of eirgs that gnats set anoat on the water are kept from sinking sink-ing and fiom being upset through tins same prmcmle. The tiny ea'gs have their points all upward, and they are glued togemer so closely that, while tuere is open space ail around the point of each egg. yet the width of these snaces 13 so shgnt that water cannot readily pass through, "ioti may ai'am and again upset such an ecg raft, but it will right itself every time and the unper surface wnl remaio.diy. otith s Companion. |