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Show root of the growing plant-1, when striking strik-ing results might be expected. The total income of the rhnrcb of England is about 1,000,000 dollars a week. The curiens theory has been advanced by a fellow of the Royal Meteorological society. Mr. U. Harries. that the recent influenza epidemics have been chiefly due to the eruption of Krakatva in 1883. He sapposes that as the volcanic du?t has settled to the lower atmospheric levels, a peculiar form of sickness has resulted in man and beast. Brazil has this season 2,000,000 acres of coffee. William Buys has assumed editorial charge of The Wasatch Wave. One hundred and seventy different species of bees are natives of Great Britian. The governor read the last copy of this paper and immediately issued his proclamation on Arbor day. Who says the pi ess is not a power? With this issue the story "Anotnei Crime" is concluded. Occasionally The Sentinel will give other novels to its readers in like manner, and trusts its efforts to please will be appreciated. A new alloy, which is not tarnished by acid vapors, and has the appearanco and working qualities of gold, is made from coppjr aud antiminy in the proportion pro-portion of 100 to 6. Its cost is sail to be about 25 cents a ponnd. The Salt Lake City Beobachter of last Saturday is pleased'to state: "Die Mad-chen Mad-chen Manli's lernen das Base-Uallspiel, uad man sagt, sie werdea ihre .Scbww tern in aLderen Stadten bald herans-forden.' herans-forden.' iVill our -Salt Lake friend kindly give credit for this item? If te bed of the Atlantic were drained, a geographical writer tells ns, U would be avast undulat'ng plain, with a middle plateau parallel to the North American .coast, and another plateau connecting this cential one w:th northeastern South America. The Atlantic Is thus divided into three great basins. The tops of the sea plateaus are two miles below a sailing ship, and the deepest parts of the basins almost five miles. These plateaus are whitened tor thousands of miles by a minute species of creamy shell, which cover their sides like snow banks. Ia the deepest parts the sea bottom is red in color, strewn with volcanoes and meteoric mete-oric particles, and the deeply incrusted bones of whales, sharks and otner sea monsters. In the black and silent waters of the abysses, lightened only by phosphorescent aDimals, veiretabra li( Is nearly absent, while the scatty ani znal life consists o: a few strange species which only in earlier geological ages could have been common near tha surface. . The Norwegian storthing as known is planning the separation of Norway from Sweden, and claims the appointment of their own foreign ministers and consuls con-suls which the Swedish cabinet and diet strenously oppose as violating the mutual conditional law uniting the two countries. The strife is running high and a climax may be reached any' day, offering King Oscar the alternative alterna-tive of appointing a new Norwegian ministry maintaining the Swedish supremacy despite the opposing majority ma-jority of the stor hing, but whi -h state of affairs could not last long, or giving way to the Norwegian" party, which wonld be too humiliating for Sweden. A last resort might be for King Oscar, who Is heartily tivk of these intestine embroglios, to abdicate both the throne of Norway and Sweden in favor of his eon, the crown prince, to grapple with the national divorce. If "ambitious Norway" succeeds in wrestling herself from the friendly grasp of Sweden, and declare herself a republic, will the great powers recognize Norway as a republic? That Is the question. Grren flowers have been exhibted In florist's windows in Paris, and have ex-elkd ex-elkd a great deal of curiosity. The coloring however, is not natural. A well known chemical fact is that roses, periwinkles, and other flowers are quickly bleached in the fumes of burning burn-ing sulphur: and a French chemist discovered dis-covered nearly twenty years ago that a mixture of ether with a tenth of its volume of ammonia will instantly turn many red and violet flowers such as the violet, red geranium, red and pink ro6es. and heliotrope to a bright green, and change flowers of some other colors to yellow or black. The flowers now shown our color in a different man Dor, by liquid absorbed through the items. The process was discovered by a florist who carelessly dropped some coloring (natter into a vase; and it consists iu placing a little soluble aniline dye in water, and immersing the items for twelve to forty-eight hours. When malachite green is nsed, the carnation la tnrned to a deep green, and the lilac and the narcissus becomes of the same color. Beautiful pink and blue colors may be produced also by using, respectively, respec-tively, a solution of cosine and one of methyl blue. Flowers of certain natural natur-al colors are made to assume different tints, yellow jonquils being transformed by the green dye into greenish jonquils of singular appearance, aud violet anemones becoming bine. These beautiful beauti-ful effects have suggested that interesting interest-ing experiments may be made by apply-- apply-- log various coloiing substances to the |