Show QUEER PLANT THAT ROUGHS COUGHS works itself into a nags when dust Is deposited on its leaves all have read ot of carnivorous plants of laughing plants and of plants that weep but wao has heard beard of 0 a plant that coughs there is the authority of a french botanist however tor for the statement that a plant in various tropical regions actually possesses the power to cough in the most approved manner the fruit of this plant resembles the common broad bean it appears that the coughing plant Is something of 0 a crank that it easily works itself into rage race and that it has bag F curious horror at all dust As soon as a few grains of 0 dust are deposited on its leaves the air chambers that cover their faces aces and are respiratory organs of 0 the plant become filled with gas swell and end by driving out the gas with a slight explosion and a sound that resembles so much the cough of I 1 child suffering from a coldi cold as to carry a most uncanny sensation to thoi the one beholding the phenor phenomenon aenon philadelphia la telegraph |