Show A CURIOSITY IN in 1844 as hill and adamson of edineu edinburgh were taking a daguerreotype of york minster a child sat down on one of the steps in front of the principal entrance and the operators were afterwards surprised that the childs figure was transparent on the plate the stones of the edifice having been impressed on it before were visible through the portrait of the accidental sitter this singular occurrence was boon soon forgotten and it was only of late I 1 since the invention of the stereoscope that efforts have been made to apply such transparencies to some useful purpose the representations of phantoms or apparitions for instance the process by which such effects are very simple the photographer aie are arranges n the actors be he is to represent in their proper order and fixes the place where the phantom is to appear the actors turn their eyes towards that spot with various attitudes of joy fear or horror which the apparition is supposed to produce when there are but a few seconds left of the time required for producing the complete effect of light on the plate the person representing the phantom rapidly steps into the proper per place in the attitude previously agreed upon and is so reproduced in a transparent state everything being more or less dimly visible through the body of the person this process professor mack now proposes to apply to anatomical preparations in a very ingenious way taking the skull fo for r in instance he photographs it stereoscopically on the photograph of auricular the apparatus so that the whole interior of t the e ear is seen through the temporal bone it is easy to conceive thelm the immense advantage that may be derived from this system suppose it ware were required to show photographically the exact position of the heart and its immediate connection in a given posture of the person that part would then be photographed first from a model and the whole body over it the latter would thus form a transparent trans outline showing the relative position of the inner and outer parts AN agricultural paper says clean fine sand sprinkled over seeds when sown in flower beds will cause them to vegetate more readily I 1 DR dit crapin CHAPIN said a few days since that when isaac newton took a glass he raised it to his eye and discovered the hidden wonders of nature but when isaac noodle took a glass he raised it to his lips and speedily got drunk INDIANA is making progress as a manufacturing state at a recent meeting n of her manufacturers held at indianapolis dlan dian di anapolis 0 i s it was stated that there were nive five ve hundred undred industrial establishments in the state several of these having over capital each tim THE illinois legislature at its last session passed cassed a law providing that my any person L bringing into the state seed of the canada thistle in a packet of goods grain or grass seeds or otherwise and permitting the same to be disseminated and vegetate shall be liable to a fine of and any person allowing this thistle to mature and dis its seed upon bis lands shall lay jay 4 nna ana of |