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Show BITS OF SCIENCE. Several New York photographers are constantly experimenting with the hope :t 130011 lieiug able to successfully photo-grapli photo-grapli colors. , It has receutly been found that certain cer-tain fungoid growths have tho power of removing gold from water containing it in suspension. Geologists have proved that the diamond dia-mond mines of South Africa are situated in vents and chimneys varying from 70 to 1,600 feet in diameter. Like the planets, the sun is all the time spinning like a -top. It turns round once in about 25 days and 8 hours, moving always from east to west. Harvard astronomers have convinced ; themselves that tho bright giant star I Vega, or Alpha Lyre, is not double, as j Fowler, the English rouomer, ruceutly j Aunouixod. ' |