Show SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY Whl b < of IRY l ou 10 UnU 11 IIIU d h ul H 01 111 It A new end simple method of stud ing the stomata or breathing pores 01 leaves lias been suggested by Mr Francis Fran-cis latwin It consists in the use 01 Cninese sensitive leaf a thin sheet 01 specially Heated horn which acts as a hycroscopc and curves away from the source of moisture It the stomata of n leaf on which it is laid are open remaining remain-ing stationtry 11 they arc shut A simple sim-ple scale may be undo to record the degree de-gree 01 curvalure The apparatus opens the way for n variety of experiment by home Lotamstn and shows among other thlncs tint the stonuti remilarly close at niiht as the leaves pisi into something like a sleep often opening gain In the darkness If that be long continued t British astronomers arc hkmg i lively 1 lJ srl sc WpkigF h r interest in the next eclipse ol the sun lo uke place on Jaumy sjnd 1898 nd the KoyM and I Rojal Astronomies 1 bocietien me arranging to send out three parlies ol olserveis The central line eros Western India the duratioi ol totality at the mct worable sa lions being about two minutes The Trospects of fur weather are considered consider-ed rxcipllonally I l good at the liuuiry ikies i ol India snuih ogl Bombay are re niarkable for their freedom Iron cloud and the probability that any ujvcn January Janu-ary dav will be rainy Is less non l In ISO In the Konkin In the evolution cf the trotting horse Mr A J Meston of IMtsheld Massj chuiclt has traced the predominant I tllufncc ol one hone Hambietonlan lo 1949 1876 This Influence hai exIt ex-It nuc in 92 per cent cf tin aio trotters trot-ters and 81 pi r cent of Ihe 2 lo i accrs and Ihe pacmg npeed without llamble tonhn blond has fallen Iw o seconds behind be-hind ihe best record and the trotting speed four second Though Tiow bridge wrote this year that electromagnetic w avts could not be detected mer than too feel from their souce Marcoms wireless l telegraph has nlrea sent signals tight milesl I Some iiitonlihing changes in the physical typo If races as a result olin cicoursc with loieigners hi c been pointej out ly M Albert Ganttaid to he 1 rench Lliinonra hic Society rite ipane < e uiio slice the reto ulion at S6S have tiau rapidly aJcptlng Kuroi em model of hlr are losing the eccen ncily ol thtir cjciurd the piomi unce of their cheek bones while ic cently born children have ItM fljllened lOeillian their nrccsters with akin not to yellow Europeans settling in Japan on the other hand gradually lose he rosy color of their skin anJ tend to acquire > n tcccntrlcity in Ihe eye Another An-other Icslance is reported byAdhcmar Itc ere who has otserted m Cambodian Cambodia-n sttikiug clung m his coimlrj men the icnch 1 residents 10011 bepim ing to ac 1uce the t ypc and the gait of tho na es Thc aerial sea that surrounds the eaith Is In constant but unequal agila t on certain puts of it being little disturbed dis-turbed while other parts are rapidly viijuu from xery high baromctlc pressure I pres-sure mal king a heaping up of the atmosphere I at-mosphere I to very low pressure A study of eihel centers ol action ol j the atmosphere cr reg ons ol mean baro I melilc maxima ann nllnima has btell made by Jr fI 1l deLmuhson of the Meieoiooglcal O > sctMlory of Up sala The monthly differences of pressure pres-sure trom Ih mean were racnlalfd lor he ts 1875 101884 1161 widely ill ttlb J alion and show that the dll f crenel arc zreittr in wlnirr than in sun iier and increase from the equator tow aids the poles Ihe barometric vatla tons it certain localities as the Azures a d 1 the vicinity of Iceland being al mot opposite in sign and tint the great est diHerences are Uund In January and 1ydiec the vicinity i i f Greenland and IcJmJ on Ihe one hand and the north ol Kussia be ween the White Sea anti h > t Petersburg on the other The Let seems to Ic established that a kind cl oscillation exists at ill places in the pressure of air between a center ot I action of h gh presiure and in adjacent center ol low pressure A jcllew orcrangc jetlow coloration ol glass IS found by M I Limal lo take place when the glass is heated 10550 o 600 ° I in contact with any silt or siUcr Gla s intu whose composition salt his entered is c pec ally susceptib of coloring ill thIS Nitunl prspiration nnd the extricls presp ratiun and Ihe rxttacls prepared from It hae been lound by M Ar oing a French biologist to produce poisoning poison-ing when njccled into the veins large does causing the death ol doirs and bbitsu mlly wilhn I thre dav 1 set effscis II r The e dcjree u of toxiclty o iritt i with Ihe edvircnment of Ihe subject and the mode cf preparing the extract the penpiraticn attending arduous muscular lator being 55 to 30 per cent mote poisonous than th it pro luced under or d nary condit ons Altificlil swelling > ieds the lean posonous perspiration unless the patient it sutler ng from a cold when the perspiration H decidedly Ioionoll Montbly Current Chart of Ihe Atlantic Atlan-tic Ocean lor six months of the jear have been prtpired by the lir tish Meteoroogicil unice from about 18 300 mariners logs extending hick to 1830 Amoni the Interest ng Hcts brought to light is thai the velocity of the Gulf Stream var cs with the season bens about 100 mils A day m uno not moro thin 70 milts m October md Noemoer and al tlnle not over 20 miles The Guinea inj equitor il currints also undergo un-dergo considerable vartaticns with the time 01 thejeir 7he observations ol Professor Golu boffo cf Moscow have convinced him that appendicitis U not only a con lagious disease but that It wmelims occurs in epidemics It was unusually prevalent m Moscow list year loll lustrate 1nfrsior Golubofl mentions tnat in a small boarding school where In i several Ia years tlhere hid not been a bingle lease of appendicitis he Heated even caseS within two montha After many trials metallic titanium has been obtained in the electric Inr nacebyM MoU < an llitheito the e n luxe given only i reddish Cenmenis c trld bJiivnst ruwn ntnde but a stronger cuirent y eldinc a higner lenipcraturc hu now reduced titanium oxide lin I i mixture Ulth carbn lo a bead of the metal which contains however two lo six per cf carbon Djon fr icce has a record tricing me ol its tn es back to 71 A D his i a L poolar and 1 is 12 2 feet high and 45 feet In circumfe nee nt the base |