Show sntos rost arm the colors of AK M rt at the present the maagero maa geri of tha zoological society paric baa an unusually harfe number rf toura cos a of birds which has not before been exhibited in that country as chambers journal explains is lh native name of a beautiful group of birds peculiar to africa and sometimes called from their food plantain eairs thea lra generally supposed suppo aed to bs allied to th cuckoos and they are not altogether unlike some of them in thair external characters an african traveler tra valer observed BO long ago as 1818 that the plantain during heavy showers bide theat selves in the thickest foliage as if the had a special dread of getting wet there ia nothing particularly remark able about thia in fact many birds show a dislike of getting wet feathers but the kouracos tou have a much better reasia for this dislike than moat other birds M Verre aus the traveler referred to discovered the reason when he attempted to catch a which was sheltering during a rain storm he found that when he grasped the feathers th brilliant crimson coloring matter stained his hands and later ho discovered tha the feathers could be washed almost white to find colors that run in the feath MS of bird is most unexpected and 6 a not surprising to hear that ona katwal to who purchased some skins thought himself to have been deceived with artl filially painted birds the color comae out so readily that when a i shot and falls into a pool it stains the surrounding water abot so anch with its blood as with the red dye from its wing feathers Toura cog are not however entirely colored by this peculiar sub they have a great deal of gree about them and this green is due to presence of green pigment which ay peara to be convertible A browning is tha first poet la the history of the world whose boio lives after death he survived laj enough to win a touch of literal immortality from the hand of science the phonograph has preserved hia voice anaf if all boea well browning can speak ia his own living becea to the unborn gea era tiona of a thousand years begue there ia a chance now for some benedo lent millionaire to win a unique distinction let him found the first phonogram library on eurth let him give ax endowment to be applied to the systematic collection of the voices of all abr greak actori oratory ora torb and poeta of the world lettie emissaries of library pnat rata all the recesses of bai banana and the fugitive chang ing languages of african polynesian and indian let pronouncing phonographic dictionaries of all civilized tongues be compiled from the lipa of th beat for comparison with the standards of the future in a hundred years the scientific historical and arti tic alue of such a library donld be beyond all A stream would be thrown upon the laws of lao guage at present we can only grop for the principles by which speech ia developed ve we know how latin and greek were written but we can only guest how they were the phonograph will make philology an exact enca it will do 90 equal to art by en abang our descendants to compare theia music and oratory with those produce by the masters of previous ages what a different thing the imad would be fc us if we could hear its cadences in H aws noiea how many coin rna batora tatora would find their occupation gom if and moliere could recite us their own plays as they meant them to be delivered san francisco esaia haw oyster sek fothergill ou in ap ing of the oyster being eaten habitually and by preference in the raw or ua cooked it ia interesting fe know that there 3 a sound physiological reason at the bottom of this the fawn bogorod asnass constitute the dainty of the oyster Is ita w this is little less than a raws of glycogen glyco gea associated with the glycogen but held from actual contact with it duria life is its appropriate digestive dis estive farmer the hepatic diastase dia stace the mere crud ing between the teeth brings these tw bodies together and the is rf digested other help by it awn diastase dia stace tha oyster in aba WB looked state or merely warmed sa fa fact self digestive but tha advAnt at f this provision prOT ision ia chols scat y choh ing for the heat employed immediately destroys tho associated ferment aad cooked oyster has to b digested alk food by tha eaters avro powers halls journal of haltli |