Show the collection of meteorites iq paris natural history museum i senst boost distinct folls foils an inlew descriptive catalogue of this grew lection has just been published Coro Coron mum jum known tn constituent of the sun has been IS ered by prof of padua ta canic emissions it is a gas gag app ai much lighter than hydrogen th the fertilizing effect of gypsum 1 been recognized though never nevee stood but it is surprising to I 1 ie we do through the new mexico a tural experiment station that tha pure pue gypsum will no nourish af pf f than common soil how wheat E and othir oth ir r plants get nitrogen in such i sell oll is yet to be shown A hybrid between wheat and rye produced some years ago by dr and since improved by herr behrens by repeated selection now ap pears like remarkably fine wheat the grain as aa well as the ears being muen more like wheat than rye it is not yet whether it has the desired hardiness of rye so that it can be grown where wheat does not flourish A new aluminum alloy called vesta daum is credited with remarkable properties it is claimed to weigh only third as much as aluminum of the bulhand bul kand to be the strongest of the lieth metals and the most readily used it la in moreover resists sulphuric acid takes a fine polish never tar dishes end and requires no cleaning three cases of lead boring by insects bave come under the notice of dr L 0 howard of the department of aarl culture in one case a cassus larva bored its way through a large bullet which was imbedded embedded im bedded in the oak tree where the larva lived in another a larva merced a lead pipe dmd nd in the third larva of the genus xystus beetles beetled made holes in a lead A breath figure may be obtained by avesing a coin or like object against 11 a plate of mashed glass for a few moments ants and then bringing out the image ty tw breathing upon the spot during the visit of the czar of russia to parts paris glasses showing the czars azars portrait only when breathed upon were old oh the streets these were made vf applying to the glass for a certain 7 isaae une a rubber stamp moistened with avor hydrate of ammonia and fluor acid the glass being so 80 slightly ditched itched ached by this process that no trace 7 by the breath fv da visible until moistened rj the lack of inventors in lands of constant sunshine doubtless accounts for the small use that has been made of a has now devised a sun heated supply of energy an italian i raven yen is simply a mirror lined booen box at the bottom of which is adall copper boiler receiving the rays ted by the mirrors A glass r or serves to retain the haet in the vaser er with this apparatus any kind food can be quickly boiled stewed sf bake beaked d and any degree of heat heak de bcd may be reached by making the flox aa of suitable liae sie against finishing clotta 30 posture absorbing chemicals was 1 WS Seft toy by mr R P F carse at a recent g ot of british textile fassa ro with no sympathy with those rall rail against filling cloth with aless ess materials he objected to the of such ingred ingredients lents principally tut gnesia and epsom salts as are MW employed today for flannelette flanne lettes li 1 waste shee tings while put in to weight these materials have the liar ar properties les of absorbing and re jig moisture and preventing mil all they make the cloth as danger so as a damp bed and a manufacturer waft quoted who after declaring that r li eb been forced to fill his goods af tier Ur trying vainly to sell them pure said A V would not sleep in a pair of my own ji aeils beets for a hundred pounds iane stability of the solar system n oust rated by laplace from newts 4 9 law ot of attraction is shown by BC PoIn poincare vare to be a mistaken in overlooking the modern cono of energy everywhere ener 0 SY gy is being dissipated work taking the form of heat and instability is the law I 1 of all natural phenomena even the heavenly bodies do not escape the law tending toward final repose their energy is being slowly dissipated through the friction of the tides and we are approaching pro aching a state in which the sun tho the satellites and planets will all revolve with the same speed about a common axis this condition cannot be per manent even if there is no resisting medium in space the planets magnetism will continue to have a retarding effect and in the end all planets will fall to the sun there is good reason to believe that australia may become a diamond producing country second only to south africa at present gold mining is more certain and prot flable than the search for diamonds but these stones axe are being contini continually gally found especially in new south wales and every year considerable numbers from bingera bilgera Bin gera verell inverell In and other places are sold in europe at good prices some of the diamonds are of good size and color others on account of at their unusual cardnes hard nes are prized for diamond drills and like purposes the true matrix has never been found but the abraded appearance of the stones shows that they must mu it have been transported a considerable sid erable distance by an ancient and now unknown river and it is believed that their source will be discovered near the great dividing range deax this point the stones will doubtless be of lorger larger size british india the best known large area in the torrid zone embraces tropical islands and hot plains as well as the snow covered peaks of the himalayas fall inches with arid and sands where rain is sometimes unknown for years in succession great diversity of animal and plant life is to be expected the indian government has undertaken to edve information concerning this and has just completed the flora of british india in seven octavo volumes and tm vertebrate section of the fauna of british india in eight volumes the flora includes only the flowering plants species the fauna gives species of mammals 1618 of fishes of the invertebrate section five volumes also have been published describing the moths species and the bees and aad the wasps sp species clee ecles europe with more than twice the area has less than two thirds as many flowering plants less than half as many mammals about a third ae aa many birdland birdo bird sand and only an eighth as many reptiles |