Show ITEMS OF scientific DISCOVERY the moona influence on the weather has long been asserted hy by popular opinion and science feema seema to be it as a fact mr park Harri from a study of the thermometric observations at greenwich finds that there is a tolerably constant increase ot of temperature frem from the new moon to the tha full and a decrease from the full moon to the first quarter ile he also finds that the maximum of rainy or cloudy days corresponds with the first hait half if f the lunar period and the maximum of fine clear days with the last half he explains the fact by the dispersing dis action ac t ion of odthe the full moon upon the clou clouds bersing this dispersing action is in turn accounted for b by y sir john He herchel rEchel thus the heat rays of the moon are almost inappreciable even by the most delicate instruments niel Alel loni ioni found that the index of an extremely sensitive thermoelectric thermo electric pile scarcely moved wilen when a moonbeam wab was concentrated cent rated on it by a lens so powerful that a sunbeam thus converged would have burnt platinum an into vapor the heat rays sent from the moon therefore must be interested inter apted and ab orbed by our at koshere mo mosi shere here being thus concentrated in the upper strata of the atmosphere the beat heat necessarily warms that region and thus dissipates the clouds and hinders their formation the full moon will therefore clear the sky and by so doing will lower the temperature of the earth for clouds act as a blanket to the earthy earth keeping its heat beat from radiating into space the new moon deprived for some time of the suns buns heat beat is incapable of a similar influence and the rainy or cloudy days are therefore more frequent during the first half of the lunar period leverrier Le verner accepts this hypothesis of barschel Har schel but it has been combated by other astronomers mers and must still be considered sub judice the influence of the nurse upon the nursling has haa been the subject of a series of experiments by AT Flou tiou flauren Fl ouren rensy and he has lately su submitted mated their results to the Acad academic emle emie des sciences thebe these experiments are most important P ota t 1 in their suggestions to humane mothers especially pe cilly ci lly liy to those who bugger suffer their children to be brought up by wet nurses or by hand these are ba M flourens facts the 1 he litter of a sow was kept carefully separated from her except aurill during the he mom ants of sucking she was fed on f food d with which madder bad been mingled min ged in a fortnight or three weeks all the bone bones of the little little littie pigs were reddened now the milk of such a sow is to the eye as white as that of 0 any other sow nothing reveals the presence of the madder save savo the re remarkable mai mat kabie kable effects on the bones bonea of bot both h mother and offspring this raised a doubt as to whether the pigs piga really received the coloring matter through the milk and ail bil flourens observing that the sow when she was admitted to her young ones hait bail her snout covered with there the reman mals mabs s of the food in which she had plunged it and this the little ones speedily licked off therefore choose other animals with which he could certainly avoid such a course cf of error white rats and rabbits were the animals he fie selected for their 3 oung do not eat in the early weeks but only suck BI flourens began to feed a rat with madder directly after she had fed her young and on the eleventh day every martof their osseous tissue red it was the same with the rabbit on the he carefully examined in each case cope the mouth throat stomach and intestines 0 of f these oung animals without finding a trace of madder the conclusion seems inevitable the milk of the mother effects the OT ganini m of the child and aird whatever the mother eats or drinks effects her milk it has long been known that medicines administered to the burte nurse effect the bur hur alir and it the nurse indulges bulges ai in n alcoholic drink the nu nursling suffers f for or it but it is now clear that influences less obvious than these are not riot without a mark marked edl edi and action the practical deductions eions from these thebe facts must be so obvious to parents that we need not specify them therb |