| Show SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY The appearance of strange plants plant oft often often en tn follows sudden change chane In the sur flur surface surface face art nf or the soil foil and many botanists and there others have hire l seen een disputed disposed to tu at attribute attribute t tribute this to 10 i seeds HOOK ls bulbs or fir r spores of 01 ofa II a i former vegetation lIon that have havu remained In iii the ground awaiting favorable con eon condition for lor growth Recent R nt studies In to France are thought lu 11 u confirm con linn this view Ie Some So mIl years ao ago ga large quantities of a 1 plant of southern called Wolfs Milk or spurge I bla bit U I wore were dl discovered coy In a remote two old clearing In a large of if It the canton of or Petite P but bUI two to j years ear later these t had p peered roo while a thick growth th was teen In III a neighboring earold clearing with a few fell P only In III a I clear clearing clearing ing InK a little more than three years yearn para old M I 1 I 1 lIche r Is convinced 1 that the dart have hav been l I e n crowded 1 out cut by hr the th of 01 the forest trees Ho lie 11 finds that large Gallo Iron works formerly ex exIsted Isted at this spot and as the HOmAnN made medical use ure nf or the he concludes that persons liv living livIng ing at the works first introduced d the plants plane and that on the Invasion of ot the region rellon by b forest the seeds lay II dormant until the land was again cleared A 1 curious friction effect lately lalI de described described scribed to the Paris Academy of ot Sciences once Is le produced by b rapidly spinning a i glass globe globo HUM tilled with water containing contain containIng Ing u It line powder When the powder la is than that water venter It collects collert along alons the thi axis of or rotation when heavier the th sphere separates Into three t zones tones wil h two to parallels of latitude equidistant from rom the equator the upper and low lower lower er em segments being clear while the i pow powder ow der Is in time the contra central zone and mostly mUlti on the boundary linos The hillocks of white ants In III Ceylon contain chambers about ac as large lare us as co cocoanuts cocoanuts I which enclose nests each ach occupied b by thousands of or ants The termite d by Dr of ot Munich are art pinhead nodules of tit white while fungus In these theft nests as all food tood The Improvement of our plants Is III Isone Isone one of ot the great world movements now being behag Inaugurated In the opinion of ot Luther Burbank and find we may ma expert expect the gait gain In the production of food foal and other necessities to keep lee for H s long time with the tho demands of o Inv In III Increasing creasing population Not only are lire the theold th old plants to do better beller work lint but we weare weare are arc to have better plants H our authority tells UK us tel sees better hetter grains nuts null fruits and vegetables all allIn allIn allIn In new forms form sizes colors color and flavors flavor with more mort nutrients and IP I less H waste and with eer ever Injurious quality elim eliminated mated and with power ower to resist rt Il sun nun unwind wind vind ruin frost and destructive fun fungus fungus gus KUB and Insect In Nt p pests pest its fruits without stones seeds eeds or better fiber coffee tea Ita spice allies rubber oil taper paper and timber limber trees tree and nd sugar starch color olor and perfume plants Every J Ir one of or these and ten thousand thou and more mort are Ah within the reach of the most mOlt ordinary skill In plant breeding In argon and helium has lias been hn seen een n the anomaly of or elements element without chest chem ical leal affinity Dr T Cooke has sheen he 11 I n the London Royal Raal society that even 11 these thue gases g eR follow folio the rule till as n al at about abr ul 1300 1360 degrees C argon forms torms an un unstable table stable compound with lIh zinc and helium with cadmium The dangers of athletics In excess have been recognized bj by b others other beelike Dr nr Hobert K J Coughlin but he hI has hili put pUI the results Into concrete form Of nt JK US deaths among athletes last laRt year ear M lie were nare lIre duo due to 10 disease and 75 is to accident Cerebrospinal C meningitis was wu the dl net cause rAuse of ot death In 9 cues cases heart dl disesso e e In S pneumonia In 7 i pulmonary flU pulmonary I rno nary In 7 disease In S 5 appendicitis In I 4 typhoid fever In InI 4 I suicide In iii 2 apoplexy in 1 In 1 l anemia In I senility In 1 The accidents arose aros from football foot loa II In K sa cases baseball In 1 12 hone home racing In It 9 boxing box In In 6 gymnasium feats in III t J L Lauto auto driving in 2 golf hammer throw throwIng throwIng Ing bicycle coasting handball polo an and Ind l wrestling being responsible about aboul squat equal equally ly I for the other fatalities The aver average a average age age a e at death from was 11 n from accident 15 26 G years 1 month Th The are that athletes s are re ex exceptionally liable to heart Mart ram fatal I complication nf ot pneumonia with heart I trouble Infectious disease dl M and pulmonary pul pulmonary monn 4 l that they tIMor much shorter life Ilfe than other person and Unit that football Is ii c especially ll Time prevent present atom being made up of or smaller corpuscles attempts attempt tl tau have been made In to estimate the number of vt the latter lutter Some Saine month ago 0 C K OU ait al that list the Ih li hydrogen atom atoni con rn FiMi lIt of une one negative and an one OM ee electron iron and that the tile Utter latter Is M the thern smaller rn Prof Irot J J Thomson latest Indicate that the th number numb tr it f r negative I in the atom t or i oi 01 M n to the atomic weight of the tha th i This theor theory mould RUe give RUehe ht I to the he hydrogen atom atO l one ale le lemi I Iris mi r to 10 the 1111 helium mom atom 4 1 and Arid to the Mit lithium atom t 1 but 1111 It II to b be ut n t vif t i convincing I IThe I The vine In of or British royally Gall lit i Hamp Hampton I ton court Is le J one of the th notable plants It t li is now in Hi Its J l rh h we ye t i and so carefully Is II It t tended that Its II average yield lipId Is II M to n It year e r rand and It hat has U 2300 As A both tee nee Iff and nd fruit are ateo b benefited by b otra oca slona Ional of production only bunches were trl allowed aliened a loti tel to ripen In InI I 1901 the result having been et a of unusually delicious crapes rno mot most t of tI the bunches weighing more than thu a pound each etch A grow growing ing evil 11 reported by b IV Lr Aba AM the Slovaks Slovak of r hangar Is I the habitual use ule of elm cant camphor Internally Internal For Tor K It years yeara he 11 h has hili questioned buyers bums of ot the drug and 1111 1 he hI les that at least lean alt H p per fr r cent Mt of 11 f the large lar and Increasing Ins ing amount sold roll f Ild Is IJ used by the am lIm lImpl pl cateri An Increase In tn ry tern seems to be a I result of fit this Indulgence In I Aluminum cadmium zinc m mag n etc affect the plate 1111 though not M as radii active A late lit i Is Ie that the Ih electric spark Increase the th enrol lesser II It while till ibis Influence M so sup superficial that 1 re rp Stops earache In two minutes tooth toothache toothache ache Ach or r pain of nr burn or scald In dv minutes hoarseness on one hour bour muscle 11 ache ah two to hours houra sore lort throat twelve Thomas Oil mon raon monarch arch anh over pain paiD |
