| Show SCIENTIFIC lISCELLANY rinntrood IlllsSou ot Mtln I > 11 A nok to A ln lIoy A Ihuto 10 01 11 I h A Ol Ilon Colo bond A nmol method or feeding plants grown In IMt i Is creilltid M Qdirges TrultTent a Trench hortlcullurlnU The needs 01 the IMn plant me nisi ascCllalacd by malls whcn Iho pall necessary for a certain umhor of montr are elghca out and lumcd Into n pill by enclosure In ft ineln covering and the j > lll Is planted in the pot The rals slowly diffuse throuBl the metal without acting on It such regulation of the thickness of the nelal and solubility of the Bat uelns Bald to be POBBlbl U tu gle a 1111 to nt lat either thre or 1 lontilf 1 Is clear what ld vantage U4U expecttd 10t of periodical to Justify the cxp nsu Ierlo analyses but It is I stated that large vv ellcolored plants are grown In l > e > ts of < less than half the usual sue I Much of the dans ten lnl the use Vlvl I L ol acetylene Icorlng to Trot i f nn V Lewes y due to the making otofl tn r r the cnlclu arbldlible materials n n lrcclabl nount ot ulphur phoBphuruB ul sUcla compound com-pound In he coke may give rlBe In the actyleno to Ihoslho et reultnl lIablB to ed hydogen ani simiar gaBH Bpontaneoos Ignilon ald giving on on InJurlou to loducH hcallh and to lahrlcs The Iure acetylene acety-lene can be deeomped ohrply Ino carbon nn1 hy by tontoc wllh a detonator or rogn Ihe onger betweon two Bt howOer belnl lght mophereB of preBure nnd grcater o the I > rsuro IncreUed Th ot aluminum ucceruinl hecn by a wih copper IIU annunce annan umd Wnchwlx Moo oh 10 alnmlnum are thUB or com and the co per coalng Is so thhl as not to add mnlerlolly to he eight nhlle the union of the two metals la IBO I-BO perfect that plate mayb rolc1 or stretched without peeling The copper covered vvlrcs may bo plated with silver or gold Flv or 1 yors Rg 80colled dnrk meters re obBervc by M elu Cel leo Muller to cross the mons dlc Announccment 01 thlH dlslVery were received with much eptlclsi by nB trunomer me 01 whm BeKstet that the dak bodies were birds In lllght others that they were seeds HoaUns In the air and stilt olhers i that they weif imrtlcles of dust In th eyeB of the oberver Subequnt obea ton have Iven beond al douht II wc may accept n conchlvo a recent paper to the Ilrltlsh Astronomical society popel so-ciety by Jlr 1rltz Iloptnan that the object are really bodies moving In pece outld tho eolhB olmoB her Tie Blxe 01 these bodlei vnrleB gret ly mot Of them appearing very smol but two huMliK looked as large an tin lunar crater Tycho and their npparen velocity also Is ver different for dlf ferent meter tho RA aClo the lunar dlso having occupied from a frac tlon of a second to three seconds Tin lnn dak meteo havo been seen passim blore the Bun tot In conlderable umber CurIous rult havo ben obtained by M Oulaume In ex erlmont wllh alOYB 01 Irn amI to 45 per eent ot nlcjel the object of the tests being to he metal most suitable I for nr t prmonence In length undr varying temtr tur A rul modo or nn oloy with 25 per cent 01 Ickel and an eold conlnue1 to elongate hon kept at 0 lowr temprnture An alloy conlanlng 23 per cent 01 nlck1 panded on halnA conBlderbly more tha ordinary steel but with 37 per < nt of nickel the character of the metal I was entirely changed the alloy Bcnreely expanding l nt all Vacclnalon hoe received frh en doment lrm the late Bvere e Ilem Ic 01 nailpox at Oloucster England Dr Sl ne Coupland roprtB 0 total 01 1 S78 cases with 434 deaths the mortality mortal-ity haxlng been 408 per cent among the unvncclnnted ont only 08 per cent among the previously vaoclnntcd Only 3 coses moroo er of the 601 accounted evre wer among the vacelat < oml Is I attributed Tho severity of the epidemic atrl buted to tha large number of unvaccl nated children The heBt color for sehool exercise board Is I stated by an authority to be oreom uhlte with orolnnry croyola 011 hlue ami tm olor of cary yelow and a clear dork gen IJIacI IB the orstotallfortll ces V I The tTct 01 awotor on metal during prolonge1 Immelon hoo heen tudl anew In Fonce rlou moal lie objects drtdftxd froiil the harbor of lrot having Ieen proenlet tor omlnoton A bronze arquibus pup los1 to ole trom the ono of 110 Ix tenth ontlry waB f0111 10 oontan aorwhat mor thon so Ier cent 0 co per ahout 9 Ir eent 01 Bllphido or cOIper about 96 Ir ent ot tn and trnce 01 lend 011 Ih mtnl wo In an eirellent state of 1elaUn SIh was the ease also it Is 01 < 1 wllh the bronze Runs of tho 11AIh Mol Hone which vveret re < Ino being under wnter 252 < 1 gl tran r1 li come so soft that they eoulo h cut vvlth I a knife hut vinn oJ 1 ncre n little better Eh g i ul Boun melol under the rul rhe ame etTet on 10m were 10 In the fannon of the Hoynl Oeorgo anr beg I be-g sunk i oaly 2 ear 1 Whie nllm i been reted In l e Unied imro Iho divining rod has tamed n fresh hold In England Th mjstery of this Instrument H I explaIned by Prof II t Wadnnortl or tho Michigan Bchool of Mints who ha if ten shown his classes that I any tOIKh twig fork Is grasped with the pain upward the branches t nterlng the i clenched hands from the nldiH failhe o ort the twig wi hend downwar heneo tho grp Is Ightelt Tin hatde the grip the more it mut i C ate or no waler minerai u n mine raJ tho reult mlst alway be tho Bam when tM conHUons or fOIOhd 011 It can b oolly indtrstood > iof adsorth alb how on Inornt operator may deceKo himself and be perfectly honest In supposing thlt some occult tore and not his hands forces the fork downward CoJorhearlng Is found by Dr W S Colmnn to be of two kinds In on a tranpnrent colored film seems to 01 poar In front 01 Ihe Ieron on heaing corlaln lunds n those of the oelo mlslc1 nteB or partlculn l mulcal In BtumntB In the Bcon group each i leter r word wh1 ol > ken or thought h il c ghbo 1 e CI II Ihnomenn a Boelnted n8Uon I analoAou to Bhhcrlnc ut night ort or-t a I a ocln nt n Teol 11 ale rrely the Bame II two Ildhl unls I |
