Show ss WT scientific DRIPPINGS GLUE from whale refuse is a new ar tide of commerce in germany CORK if sunk twenty feet in the ocean will not rise on account of of tho water A of mathematics says thai the simple tearing up or cutrig of paper is a great relief to the mind after mental labor TOUGH paper is made by ide of zinc with the pulp the more concentrated the zinc solution the tougher will be the paper As AX instance of the wonderful fecundity of vegetable life it is said that a single tobacco plant will produce three hundred and seeds A in the channel of the river stour at sandwich eng has revealed the wreck of a vessel belie red to have sunk at that spot during the reign of henry VIII IN the ten years after he passes thirty a mans foot grows in length nearly an inch in the case of ar woman however her foot is generally smaller at than it was when she was eighteen classes bf substances have been found to affect the taste in the following order bitters acids saline substances sweets and al kalies the taste nerves are nearly 2000 times as sensitive to quinine as to sugar i IN each respiration an adult inhales one pint of air a healthy man respires or times a day a child 25 to S times SL minute while standing the adult respiration is 22 times per minute while lying down 13 t THE manufacture of butter from the marrow of cocoanut coco anut is a new but grow 1 jag industry in germany the butter lisoni a clear whitish color the price of is from twelve to fifteen cents pee pound it is suitable for cook inet and is not disagreeable to taste or smell A edgr is exhibited in the museum at buda besth hungary it is an egg of the prehistoric bird and but few museums possess such a specimen hens eggs would find room in it and it would hold nearly nine quarts it was found in 1850 in madagascar |