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Show POPULAR SOIEHCE. - A to of sen wnter is supposed to contain about fourteen groins of gold. TitcsuEit fctormsWo moro f rcquont In Java thun In any other part of tho world, thero being nn nvejTigeof ninety-seven dnys In eoch year upon which tboy occur. It Is noted In Hho Mediterranean Naturalist thnt upwards of si.ty per cent of the earthquukcH that havebeon recorded have occurred dining the lx colder months of jtho year tin-maximum number In January nnd tlio minimum min-imum number In Jiily. I.ftho southern part of the Indian ocean, between twenty and fifty de-greos de-greos east longitude, Dr. Schott say that n cold Antnrctlo current lms greater Influcncofthati has lieen attributed at-tributed to It on thojmopi Its effects oro plainly manlfefP far to tho north by abnormally lowJtcmperntuies, tho northern drift of Iccbcrg and tho low salinity of the water, |