| Show ODDITIES OF NATURE N curious thans to wonder over by the tb know F it AU ali people I 1 there are re processes of nature which seem as inexplicable as the operation ci aeration ot of the mind I 1 why does sugar always crystallize in ill a certain way and salt in a certain other way an infallible test for some minerals is in their form of says the seattle telegraph why chy does the mysterious movement oi 01 the sap in a plant proceed with such s u ch absolute regularity that in the leaf say of a variegated vaxie gated geranium a little coloring matter of ono one shade is dropped at one point and blittle a little of another a shade ade at another point with nestr a mistake chy does nature or rather how does nature tell the wheat that is grown in northern latitudes that it must produce many seeds to each plant so that some of them may survive the rigor of the winter why do the plants of the tropics expend all their forces in leaf and gor ageous flower and yield only a few seeds eeds as if they knew that t in the genial climate where they flourish every seed stood a grand chance of growing |
