Show FIC MISCELLANY The he nce of ot climate may mR bo hc studied In the tho forma torms of ot Mark W v Joff r on out that the Iho pre nrc prevalent valent westerly winds from rota New Kni Kniland l land band to 10 Michigan cause th the slender of ot the maple to tn be bo developed hor horizontally on the east eSt situ Bids and verti vertically ert cally on 01 tile the Ihl t w et eat t arid anil wind vInd effects ninny may maybe be 0 Men e n also in tile the elm OlIn oak olk hickory sycamore and aill black blak walnut The Tho tops tOJ of or tropical trees tree trel are 11 made malIc to south Routh or wont Instead of or cast Prom From Greenwich for tor 89 83 years W V t e C Na Nuh h hinds finds the tho average rainfall to be bl li 2 unil the number of ot rainy days dl iT 67 yearly In Iii II a lecture experiment to show shout the Ih action of ot lightning and RUI lightnIng lon con conductors doctors Sir Oliver Oler Lodge lately represented the electrically discharged ciotti by a thin sheet nf or metal charged from a battery nt itt It pleasure This cloud sloped downward down from front I to tl hunk bark barkHO HO 11 that Ihl the distance of ot conductors front from the this under tinder side Ilde could be by slid tag Ins them th m over oer the tAble tahle Copper iron Itoh 1101 and wet worn tried an as ni conduct conductors ors ore or and alt all al proved although the copper cop r was tho Iho moot monet Intense ami rapid a 1 sharp crack at nt the lash lath while Iron gave long less IC 10 I l and the this wet string Hiring hardly any on Prof Iro Lodge holds haiti that Iron In II I at as al efficIent a con comi conductor COl ductor ns as Ri copper with less lens tendency to set up the tho that Ihn In most moil lo 1 protected buildings has his can caused ml tine the lightnIng accidents He lie Je divide light lightning ning Into two into the first Ill being the th normal discharge e from nn an over overcharged charged cloud to the tho th earth and thin th second when n a large cloud dl dIscharges B Into a smaller moier one on gener generally generally ally aly below It suddenly overcharging the small cloud anti and causing It to tu ills dis discharge charge huge violently to 10 earth The This form moro sudden all violent than the agaInst alln allnA first IH Is II much moro more 11 to protect A remarkable Instance of apparent mimicry in Ceylon hag bun hUl heen been brought to notice by hy Dr A WhIny A lieu lh commonly known at the tho strikingly resembles n a I decayed leaf heat and auth a I recent observer reports pursuing one on of ot these thebes with wih a nt small net when the creature suddenly and the pursuer saw only a 1 yellow gently genty and Inertly sinkIng to the botton boton An As ho turned away awn the tha Il PI led leaf lent righted itself and darted off or orTe The Te city el of or Paris Ianis 1111 has tide this Ihl year car opened n a Information buteau nt Rt the Iho Sorbonne and the Inquiries already reach an liS many nn as Il twenty In II single days dayi While Wile special IB Is li given to matters In Paris and France Franice foreign subjects of at French In Ill terest receive attention lint Hot aCid nold nt ot 45 C with cinnamon or clovo cs es Is recommended hy try u n French rench I physician laotIan for or ulcers norca und and 11 Nature her lf IH is In lit electrIc iIa lt forcing In the tho Into of ot Hlo Bo da rho the tha plant known 11 its fl the Is very common and 1 nd Its Ita 11 little II t hairy hii ry vreda are arc Ion loni distance In the tho nil aIr talc tak taking ing In root they Ihy lodge They ThY have fastened themselves to 10 tl the tho poles miles and anal wires of ot the th new electric light lighting ing log system of or the town toun of ot Home Hero they Iho have grown with nry nr luxuriance In many s cover coI tog ing In the thu with long green studded with twit red nail and white Howard and thIs development IH Is II at nt attributed to the light of ot the this alec elco trIm trie lumps It I Is II to make satisfactory any on theory theor of ot the earliest l condition of or the solar 1111 system Pint R T 1 S 8 Unas 1119 h mathematical reasons ransoms to for that the nebula n buln could not have been ben wholly gaseous at nl this the time tile the th planets wore Wura and ald that thai tho tine only rca ren wimble Idea iden Is I that planets were formed from condensing of ot meteorItes II It I appears that the tho sun mint have been h ell when Mercury loft left ItC It becoming fined awl and vaporized at ot a n later period It ft I seema that the tho la earth should ever have havo been In molten molln condition of or quart are arc in III n certain rentie K IC K N F Clothe shows that similar 1 be 11 can oln bo be bl obtained easily from oa stole h In a Jet ct fuses hillS readily to I a n cleom cl nl bend from 1111 which 1 very 11 eL line fine filaments are aro drawn out Tho rho elastic fatigue arid strength urn 11 almost exactly the u I as n U tho the quartz fibers A d twelve years study of o leprosy at nt hate haH hO huon Dr A Noel that la Is not II nt hereditary Children born ot of if leprous parents and nourished on nil the this milk of or the mother bother do 10 not necessarily nc acquire the dl n as there Is no Infection nt at birth |