Show SCIENTIFIC FIC MISCELLANY V The relics obtained by the French commission In its Ila two year yearl of oC excavation on the site of ancient Perlin cities seem eem to belong to a civil much older than that of Chal Chaldea dea de Under the ancient city of Suu 11 were found tablets hearing pictorial cuneiform characters character and these or are held by d 1 Jaques d de Morgan tb the leader lelder of the th expedition to prove that the were not the laen tore tOIl ot of printed language but bat that It 11 dates from Crom a much earlier time 1 In the latest city about JO 30 feet teet below be below low the surface were without trace Ot ors metal or The earliest settlement 11 was 30 feet teet lower and contained rude pottery and all filet tnt tn while In the I ona bt bf the prehistoric settlements were rf an nor enor enormous mOil I nil number miter of the flint teeth of sickles indicating an agricultural and growing population The were modeled after tb the lower law Of the ox as In ancient Em Egypt but an all pottery below the strata was 1 handmade shawl ng no acquaintance whit 1111 the wheel used uNd In Egypt The highest point at which flowering plan plants 1 have been found to a recent paper to the London Linnean So Mo clet clety wu wan In TIbet at 1120 Oset Oett Nine clety ciely wa was In Tibet at al feet Nine hither The plants were mostly of the order and aad deep perennial herbs herba having a rosette of leaves clo close to the ground with the flowers clotel nestled In the center are characteristic of these altitudes In the And Andes Sir Martin Conway found two species of flowering plants at t feet fHt and N II a above feet Ceet the latter laUer belonging to alt 34 genera and a i natural orders Nearly halt hlf a century ao ago lh the crum of ordinary white whitt tin ill Into tO tang dery try ray tin wu was noticed a as an effect ot of intensely cold weather ather The ph phe phenomenon h has been lately Investigated by br brE byE E CoheN and C Van who rind that not oal only does doe cold produce this I result but that tbt hot bot weather tends tend I to 10 change th the grey tin to 10 white tin the being about io Sal dl de degree gree F Either becomes betom per pere perc c nearer Ue the it If chloride of tin and ammonium be pres prea eat ent In a record of observations on the life or Motto regions Dr states tat that air from numerous localities showed mowed onIT a few tew moulds mould In water tram rom the bac bacteria tens teria were werl ahva always found lound but In very small 1000 to 10 the quart while water train glacier snow streams lee Ice end and melted snout Inow alao gave VI evidence of bacteria but ot of very few fewIn In water from the deep sea lea the these organ orn Lm were Werl 1110 more abundant he han on the surface With the exception ot of a slit gle pel of bacterium found to In one bear ber and two esia all tb the intestinal eon con lens of the white bear seal 1 shark older alder uk duck and other Arctic were absolutely sterile but weN almost almol Invariably present in lh the lowr ower marine animals Th These Lions on germ fre intestines are arl of Importance and Interest II as ashey they hey confirm the Idea ot of Pasteur Sad and a afew few other olben that bacteria are not nol assen n sl to digestion In the epidermis of man and lId main mun nail mal Prof L h has e recognised seven distinct layer which are d de described scribed to the Royal a stratum um am and In n the order of their development The are well wall each layer hay have hayng ng distinct physical characters and nd chemical reaction Th Thew 1 layers are rot not form formed by special element however how ever and La a cell originating In stratum becomes changed and nd 11 asses Into stratum and arul 10 to on through the series Experiments mane mave bean made I by Prof MOllO at Geneva to test teat Ute the food 1004 value elue of sr sugar IUlar In iii eases catel of exhaustion from lunger nil Ills result confirm the It theory theol hat wear I s b 11 tb the IX ex system more rapidly than tread bread and showed a rapid rise In within ten len or fifteen minutes after a small Iman quantity of anal sugar lurar WU via eaten aten by e a anImal the tho reaching a maximum In one olle to towo two wo hour hou Sugar restored lit III to doge dOli from loss lOll of vital heat when albumin could not save laVI them The mixing of Solid metals la Is OD one of he marvels marvell of modern physics After w kt J ing tt a of r 1 and nd of m Jor Irai foor f r 1 I ui I I at about aboul Ii degrees N do II N I I Auster lions that Ih the gold hu e 01 I y but sure lure surely ly Iy made JIll Its way In Inv I a I mixed with the lead Quads crystal cannot 1111 II II Ie be used ilkI Riess on account of the high I lure to melt It II HUSU from It ii by grInding and y yuu yeura floe silica ilia tM for phy I MP p aratus l hare been oln 1111 drawn n out was wal softened hy by ox I dr cen name The late bitable In ting t I ing In thermometer and ti tube S Sen been en reached after ln In a The splintering of the lUca when t ad ha has ben been overcome by dropping red hit hul pieces lecel Into water and With Ih the g thus produced Jf W A And II If U O Lacell have been able Ibl to build buildup buildup up rode rod of small six 11 by successively adding fragment to II a minute spot pot In Inthe lb the silica kept fused b by the blowpipe Tubes Tube are firmed by bind binding ing several of th little rods roda bout a 1 un wire n clueing the ru ruda lea to a ifill In Uta tha blu blow blowpipe pipe d y tie lie wire wre The een be drawn out or by m me a similar to tillie ot of i pa II d It I Is bellev shat small mall i ika sou cou be made It their would tJ expense The IM wIdth ot of a flash of lightning h has been measured r by RU ot of the hamburg Observatory A o graph w was secured HOuNd last August as ae light lightning ning truck struck a tower a third ot of a mile ay away and ad from the distance of the tower nIl and the focal distance ot of the camera It was possible to cal ral calculate the breadth of the discharge shown in the It has bal ben been de that Ibel the flash was wal one of an Inch wide wid shown hi hithe hithe the on each earh side ot of tb the me main In are ara I to 10 the Ihl strong gale ale that wit w blowing th the phenomenon appearing like a ribbon with shreds floating in n the wind In most the pores of 01 the shell hell are re dosed DY by mechanical mM mean Karl Reinhard of dips dip the le eggs eRI Into ml hurie acid for tor a short MOrt time calt ceily changing ehu lq pert of the limo lime It up I of the shell into a dense denae coating of limo Ilmo T ll I Is claimed to keep out tut the air thus thu preventinG for a time |