| Show SCIENTIFIC MISCEllANY h having suffered from rom excessive raInfall Mr J H II Knight of ot suggests n a plan for Cor changing tho ho climate Ho Ito would have havo trees tres planted In nil available spaces In the lie wc t and south of ot Ireland and In la parts of ot Cornwall nod and he ha believes lint In 16 IS ISor or 20 O years these trees would draw much of ot the Iho ho rain from tho lie clouds com coin n r from tram the Atlantic causing the lie In tenor of ot the iho country to become drier The rho winter would perhaps become n II lit hit little littie hittie tie tle colder though not with vIli the present dump damp cold A similar forest orest was planted Pian Cd no or Ot years ago along tho ho coast const of ot Franco France to atop stop the Inroads of or land sand slid and now serves as an nil effective barrier for tor more mora than miles Tho The heat bent lost lod by 11 radiation from bare baro pipes containing steam t nm nt lit pounds pressure b n b ben in by Prof Prot 13 H P Thompson to bo be that of ot two to tons of ot coal coni a n year CIU for tor each 10 square feet teet of ot 11 Another expert cx rl has os ns found that 88 83 per cent of ot the loss Is IR prevented by the tho ho best beat mica cov coy covering ering but that asbestos covering Is II much Inferior Interior to mica and ond cements are less lUll effective still Carbon monoxide has been recently found to play pili a moro more Important part In III poisoning by tobacco smoke than nico nicotine nicotine tine This Thill poisonous gas taa forms a n con can part of ot tho the smoke and as uS much ot of the smoke from cigarettes Is 11 Inhaled It Is Ja thought to explain tho the harmfulness of ot this use u e of ot tobacco Thunder cloUdY clouds sometimes reach re h a II thickness of ot eight miles with varying strata of ot damp mist milt and ond frozen snow and Ico Ice particles V Lp to 1903 a IL total of ot CM Cst meteorites was known of ot which 18 Irons Irona and only 74 14 stones atones were from tho ho western hemi hemisphere sphere and 23 29 2 3 stones italics and only 79 iD Irons were WOI from Um thin eastern hemisphere phere The falls of ot only about n out of o theo meteor meteorites meteorItes ites have hlo been recorded tho the records tinting dating back bock to the tho fifteenth century Despite this small number of known specimens specimen sp Prof Proto of ot Vienna has hils calculated that about 00 meteor metor hes not counting shooting stars that lint disappear dl In tho the atmosphere must fall upon tho the earth each year ear and that at least W 83 of ot these thee should come corns under ob observation Irot Prof has noted some Interesting facts concerning the distribution of ot the tho known falls talla He lie finds that HUlt meteorites have hae been recorded In civilized countries but that they are sometimes more numerous In thinly settled tI than In thickly populated areas and that they seem teem to be spec specially specially attracted to mountainous regions regIon The camera records of ot human emo emotions ions obtained at nt Geneva Genova by Dr Br E Magnin and M Edward lenh are of ot remarkable artistic and scientific value The experiments have hlo been made upon a II very ery susceptible subject who has hos been Influenced by byboth byboth byboth both musical and oral suggestion and the lie entire range ot of human passions joy anger fear sadness Badness gluttony greed creed etc havo been recorded in about tOo 00 photographs of ot the woman under the Iho various arou forms fornis of ot suggestion Tho Tint Intensity of ot the tha expressions Is said Bald to have huc been rarely equalled by the tho great groat artists A curious effect of ot the lie J canal In Egypt I has been tho the making of ot n a des den denert de deser ert er of ot certain lands lando formerly fertile The canal hits has not only raised tho the gen crill level lovel of ot the lie subsoil water but buC bu It has hall brought to the lie surface moro more or less Injurious salts of ot soda The wanderings 8 and migrations of ot In insects sects ets Is a 1 new subject of ot which has hns bc b been n begun I at the Eddystone light house by Mr Ir W B 1 Clarke An Investigation at nt Harvard college observatory has haR shown tint that the tho milky way has about twice as many stars ah Rb nn other equal area arell of ot the sky sk This ratio does not Increase for tor faint taint stats star down to the tho twelfth magnitude but the lie proportion of ot stars of ot any In given magnitude Is IB the samo ilIUM as lis In other re regions glens gions The milky way WI covers about of ot the sky Bk containing about one halt of ot the lie start stars About stars are of ot magnitude GG 60 or brighter of ot magnitude 87 S of ot magnitude 11 and of ot magni magnitude tude tudo 11 whIle It Is thought but not certainly known that about stars are ara visible In a IL telescope of ot 15 lG Inches aperture that Is la down to o about tho lie magnitude There Is no evi oi evidence dence of ot any on limit to the faintness of ot the Ute stilts stars although the tho proportionate becomes less loss for tor each cach successive sIre sive magnitude the Invention of ot Herr hem Herran van an Westrum Is to n II mixture of ot oil all v which may lx lie diluted as II desired and over oer a II road with an nil ordinary watering curt cart The Tho water evaporates leaving heaving the wo as a a 0 moist Him film which absolutely prevents prevent the rising ot of dust Tested In London on a n dry road roadway way wa n where every vehicle raised clouds cloud I of ot dust the material so M o affected the th surface that several automobiles at lit highest speed raised no dust whatever i iA A new system of ot wireless telegraphy Is it I based blUed on a n detector of ot electric waves described de crl lt by a German Tho The detector depends lepen ls on the tho property that lint when electric waves tall fall on a po ito polarized Ionized electrolytic cell coli placed In cir dr circuit cult with a II source of ot current of ot slight slightly ly h 1 higher force torce tho the cur current current rent In the tho circuit Is III increased from some cause causo While rays ras emitted by muscles R ap liP appear appear pear to be the tint of at A finds that tho those train from nerves differ In being arrested by b aluminum |
