Show POPULAR SCIENCE generally speaking we say that th the J curvature of the earth amounts to about seven inches to the statute mile it is exactly inches or inches for a geographical mile lightning is zigzag because as it ft condenses the air in the dimmed immediate aate advance of its path it flies from side to side in order to pass where here there is the least resistance to te its progress scientists say that no negro has ever tamed an elephant or any wild animal though negroes frequently perform with wild animals after they have been cowed into sub submission miWon by white men snow appears white because it is an aggregation of an infinite number of minute crystals each reflecting ecUng all the colors of the rainbow these coom colors uniting before they reach the eye cause it to appear white to every normal eye A sun dial made for london would be useless for either paris or edinburgh EdInburg lL the altitude of the pole star varies with the latitude and hence is greater gre at edinburgh and less at paris than at london and as the stylus must always point to the polar star the angle it makes with the dial plate must vary with the latitude dr burton ward according to the AM age declares delar that there is 13 one infallible faMble In symptom indicating IndI caling whether one is sane or not let a per son speak ever so 90 rationally and act ever so sedately if his or of her thern thumbs remain inactive there Is no doubt do abt of at insanity lunatics seldom make use um of their thumbs when drawls A asas S es a |