Show that follow the thought of tho times limes la is well enough but fiction that follow follows tho the social waves that clash on tho the shores of humanity is neither clova elevating ting nor entertaining IN ix choso days of eo so many alleged curce cures for consumption oyster oysters ao as commended and aro are given to consumptive patients they contain bodino iodine tho the treatment is L quite common in tho the couth south it is alleged to boa dodge to knock the letter it out cf the oyster trado trade arm coming new newspaper will bo bowater waterproof A special kind of paper has been invented which it la is alleged la Is absolutely impervious to water and will oven overt stand boiling tho the waterproofing can bo be carried out cither either after the paper Is a made or during the operation of making it orm of tho the interesting facts of abys physiology is that tho human body g ener atoo enough boat beat during the tho day to too knelt melt forty four pounds of ico fee and raise it to tho the boiling point A politician discussing ono of tho the leading quest questioned ione of tho the day can develop an equal quantity of heat beat in thirty minutes IT is sometimes astonishing to note bow hoir far people go in of pedigree greo the arab ponies which the sultan recently presented to tho the three elder of the german empe emperors roell six eons are said to havo have a pedigree which dates back to tho the sacred mawl bawl on which tho the prophet fled from mecca to medina SWALLOWS in dry clear weather fly high the insects which form their food aro aro high in tho the air during such weather when tho the weather la is cloudy and damp tho the insects settle nearer the earth and the swallows ol 01 courso course follow thorn them there is nothing like explaining time honored weather prophecies ir IT ts is just about ono otio half of tho the world who think tho the other half if in objectionable and it would put the wisest head into tho the insane asylum trying to decide which one of tho the two halves is correct in its estimate est imato of the other can any one ono tell why intelligent human beings aro are so prone to gauge things great and email from tho the standpoint of personal inclination and experiences with intellect there should bo be a balance wheel that opens the eyes to the fact that the very little space occupied by in this world must necessarily be a most minute part of the whole but somehow the smaller the circles in which we ourselves float around the less lose hesitancy e have in trying to crowd the rest of the universe within the une tun telephone is about to hava a now application that of foretelling storms A new discovery has been made as to one of the properties of this moans means of transmitting sound by placing two iron bars bare at seven or eight meters distance from each other and then putting them la in communication on one side by a copper wire wiro covered with rubber and on the other side with a telephone a storm can be pre pro dicton at least twelve hours ahead through v a dead sound heard in the receiver Ac according corling as the storm advances the sound resembles the beating of hailstones against the windows every flash of lightning and of course every clap of thunder that accompanies the storm produces produce a a shock similar to that of the stroke of a stone cast between the diaphragm and the instrument tire tim london times cays says that novel application of electricity has recently been made in elephant catching it relates that at a recent capture of forty of these animals when the last of their unwe unwell ildy dy bodies had bad passed the entrance into tha khod dr the signal for barring their exit was given instantaneously and without a ord spoken by moans means of ao an electric ric wire wiro if it electricity is useful in capturing elephant why should the people of india longer lle 11 e in mortal terror ot tigers llona lions and snaked thirty or forty thousand natives are killed by these animals every year ae as every bostonian Bost onlan and now yorker would enli them ft a few ji iivo w diroe fools judiciously distributed would in no time destroy every snake lion and tl in the country |