Show J VI SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY on I a late lata strikIng exhibit In Naples Is a 11 microscope cope of very long focus the tho tube Ing I a system of achromatic objects And nn an eyepiece of wide field The mug blower Is I more than 12 11 dIameters III at a 11 distance of 20 Inches The Tho new thAt are aro marvellous as 8 It II shows the tho rind of such creatures II as ants and Illes In their or undisturbed life lICe Hives gives wonder tullY clear vIews of the doIngs of aquatIc animals And enA s the cat cal flail to peer Into the th and other bodY cavitIes a aS never borc It opens I a new era cra In the tho study tudy of na nature ture Lapland has a weather of at nu apparatus At AL tW stations In inthe the Alpl M nt at 1100 feet tet on and one t feet on the e be II Installed the lie apparatus devised by Prof Alex Hamberg of Stockholm and tails of snow anti the direction und and velocity ot of the wind are kilt kept with I human In Iii except at long Intervals It ItI ItIs I Is necessary to wind the clockwork nM Ito paper regIsterIng cylinders rI onlY Once f ti year duo to rust frost anti moisture have Welt been largely overcome anti tIme the mechanIcal ob have dOM dolts their work two iso years earP with lIh little Interruption The Tho rubber meteorologIcal used III at Pavia Italy are usually sent UP In pairs lairs a anti d rapidly rIse rill to meters or more where 10 0 degrees Cent nt below zero may be recorded The up lill upper per balloon bur tJ when the tho lower one smaller gaul In inflated acts aciN s ft to tiring ng the ff registering Instruments gradually h to the ground around Something like tangible proof of I a between storm nail appears appear In the dl ot of l I W tV Maunder of at the Ireen wl with h observatory It was WI bug ago 1110 policed noticed the magnetic needle I is tie t lit at intervals ot of m 27 days dartt And lifter after a long attempt to 10 the tho of spots and on the sun lIun It hue hall at Iut Iset been bile se een n bitt n a series s rl ot of magnetic storms often olten follows follow I II a large spot at like intervals This perIod of 37 TI clays is II the time Ume required for II a point on the theun and again appear sun un to o around once opposIte the earth storms often otten several times Ume after the Ite IUle to be visIble and nd they usually orne ome 26 21 hours after the arrival of the tho spots place opposite the earth this Ihl being evidently the line lime taken by the stream ot of magnetic matter to reach Certain centers ot of the tho sun lun the thu notably the degree of at leshow a remarkable to 10 develop ond streams tr tn The railways lira ar the great preserVes of It native plants plante An American botanist out that |