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Show CLIPPINGS OF SCIENCE. Tiie man who is perfectly proportioned propor-tioned weighs cxaetly twenty and three-quarters pounds for every foot of his heisrht. , Canceh has been discovered in American Amer-ican brook trout in a pond in New Zealand. Zea-land. It was supposed that the disease was unknown to fishes. " Tun Gaudaloupe bees lay their honey in bladders of wax about as lare as a pigeon's egg", and not in combs. The honey never hardens, and is of an oily consistency. CnvsTAl.MZKB nitrogen is one of ihe greatest chemical curiosities. Ity cooling cool-ing nitrogen gas down to 3(j7 degrees below the freezing point and allowing Si. to expand, solid snow like crystals are fornn-d. If the earth were to revolve on it-; axis with seventeen times its present rapidity, the pendulum would not vibrate vi-brate at all, and v.e would weigh imth-ing imth-ing at the equator, f..r the centrifugal f.uve would be so great as to throw us off. Or a summer is a few days longer than the H'A im. unieal winter, which arisen from two i-a.ises. I-'irvt. Uie earth d.ir-inv d.ir-inv winter i--. traveling nvt-r the mailer half of its orbit; and sec.-n.l. its m.v-tinii m.v-tinii in that period ..I' its orbit is inorc; mpiil. |
