| Show SCIENTIFIC MISCEllANY Whatever may be the cause of the aurora borealis Its height does doCs do s not ap rip pear to be limited limited by b the th atmosphere The rays sometimes touch the earth In Scandinavia coming between the observer and anti elevated places place but FlOgel thirty years ago obtained data showing that a rt larga largo aurora seen In Northern Germany must have had hod a height of at 60 miles and that the tha rays ras oren often rIse to miles their points glowing with red light From observations lIons of ot ah on aurora of tit September Se Ills ms Herr has hu made modo new now determinations It Is III now tiow calculated that un an Immense red rod stripe observed over oer n a large lare part of ot Northern Germany was vas more than titan 40 miles high and It must have hae stretched from Liverpool l to In RussIa tullio A Ion long red band Land of ot otras raya ras ri s seen leen simultaneously at nt LUbeck and lint In Silesia reached a 1 height of 01 GOP COO miles while another band was miles high The rIme light ered very ery much and one OM portion of at the rays rayfl ro moved at a rate of oC more moro than 40 miles milesa a it second The bird fauna of oC Iceland Is credit credited ed by b Henry H U Slater with species Of at these 3 37 are residents 27 2 summer migrants 21 occasional visitors and ond IS 18 rare r re stragglers Tho The land birds ore are few fe Including only 7 residents anti and C P that come In summer to breed The great I r ot sulk lIuk once resorted to the time Island lut tut the most birds bird now no are ate probably the tho northern wren the great gr at northern north rn diver IUd and the tho Iceland falcon Hinging singing birds are ten few fe There ore are 1 16 species of or geese and anti 7 birds of at prey lire but the tha rock ptarmigan 1st ts the only game bird Copper sulphide In the tho opinion of ot Ph Hess HesH solves the problem of or a n per rist preventing coating for Iron IrOIl The Iron is Ii suspend suspended ed Id for a it few Cew minutes In copper sulphate solution rinsed rIMed with water then moved about n a few minutes In tn a 0 solution of sI r sodium by containing a n very tr little hydrochloric odd acid Tho The blut Ll black surface resulting rinsed and dried II Is adherent and durable The species of ot dock known OB Oil can aigre Is nn In annual indigenous to the arid arl 1 lands ot of California Arizona New Mexico and It sends ends upa mil stalk Anti and mass mam massof of or broad leaves leau to IJ Li It rt height h of feet bedra birs pink lowers flowers and buckwheat like hike seeds and has hns a 11 remarkable red root about II U 1 Inches In hes long and covered with eyes like a n potato This root is I of ot Interest at the tho present time as all a the probable source of the world worlds supply of at tannin sham The ht large lorl Or lion tion of ot tannIc annie arid about Z mr or wit Int wa vL u first made known by time States Agricultural in UK lt arid since then experiments u have hll In sending sandIn the rood I ot to 10 Kurop several ueral hundred carloads having been shipped In th the form torm of dried chits x Since Sines Prof Proto P F A exhibit of or nt at time the World Pair Fair steps have taken to supply the demand by b cultivation As an out outcome outcome outcome come the company tom any now has hu a of ot acres acre In the tbt San o valley alley rind and the roots b flowed to remain In the ground und two to year earll will In du clue time Ume start sart nn an extracting factory tAN or Tho The con consumption on lIum of tanning materials oak and andal al ut A J tans tl In the United States last year and gad about 1324 tone tona In En Eni land The chestnut is III of or much importance In France t The Tho tree he thrives In gravelly soil Boll or shale Rhale a 1 time lime soil being fatal and ana It It is claimed that hat where It has bas been planted on the tho mountain sides BIlles tho Iho losses onsen from Crom Inundations have greatly diminished The rite chestnuts form forni nn an Important part of or the thu dally daily food In lr Inmany many places They are boiled pulver lieu and und eaten like mashed potatoes They are ar much used hy by II confectioners r and mn 11 on I the many large largo monte menta is one nt at Lyons employing to 60 50 hands that t t deals deahl with over 23 pounds of the tho nuts annually The ho peeled nuts are nl coated with syrup flax flav flavored ored with Mexican the work worle of or preparation being continued day nut aM nIght for three or four months liAr in 1 time the year car The Tho wood IH is strong stron tenacious anti durable anti itt In some places the trees Iree are cultivated solely salol for the Wood |
