Show scientific SL rolet of the french academy has determined th value of different substance in manures for beets to be in the following order phosphoric acid magnesia lime pot aali soda nitrogen the great map of the moon completed by dr julius schmidt of athens after twelve beirs labor shows craters and ring like formations on the lunar surface und rill and clefts dr osti mates that tho number would be increased to craters in a complete chart showing the moon as seen with A magnifying power of six hundred A french physician who has studied the effects of turpentine on some iid red painter arrives artlie conclusion that ennois produced fumes never be sufficiently s everesto cause deater unless they are contain ed in a very confined space with good alien no fear need be entertained of fatal from this cause toughened glass seems to be capable ot a great variety of applina ap eions alasi railway sleepers have already been tried and noan english manufacturer proposed pro posea using this material aid wiler pipes as well as for bricks andic veral other articles A berlin inventor has produced a new kind of cloth prin or entirely of sponge by means of relays it is stated that coiron loiron has frequently been placed in direct communication with calcutta over miles ot wire the forests of the globe are esti mated to cover about one fifth of the land surface some time ago pro D EHn ghea noticed that when iron or steel wire was immersed in acidulated water for even a few minutes only it became excessively brittle and that this effect was invariably produced upon all kinds of iron or steel he has bince performed some experiments to learn the cause of this phenomenon and has become convinced that it arises from the absorption of hydrogen by the wire lie there fora calls the product hydrogen iced iran another observer has proven the curious fact that notwithstanding the brittleness brittle nets produced the teneille strength of the wire remains unaffected when tha rire is heated tho hy drogen is expelled and clr roberts quantity of gs thus evolved amounts to twenty times the volume of the wire it is expected that useful applications nuy be made of this new compound during last winter whenever A zone ot high barometric pressure covered france it was found to be warmer at the mountain jt of the ruy dedime observatory than at the clermont station which is feat lower this remarkable wv B tt li from meteorologists it is reported that in the the entrance of conser v stories has been fount to hasten the lowering of certain plants in the height of ho seamona sea sona queen bee lays from to eggs in twenty lour hours it has been a quite general belief that extremely cold winters exert a powerful effect in reducing the numbers ol 01 insect but observations dur ing the years show abar cold produces pio duces little or no result as an insect destroyer A tube of cantons phosphorus or sulphide of calcium prepared more than a century ago ia found to be abill calab of phosphorescence As it 13 to this substance that the phosphorescent properties of the new luminous paint are due the of tho to be th ui assured to illustrate a recent lecture M raoul viclet coined a medallion I weighing thirty three pounds from filzen quicksilver in a recently published work asserts chatin bolivia peru and other south american countries he has met with an insect which after ita death is transformer i inlo ft plant ue describes and fig ures this creature as a thick hard arub with distinct articulations when to die it buries itself in the earth and there gradually increases W circumference until it pro tenta an appear somewhat similar t a potato A stem is then put forth which in the spring months beam a crop of plue flowers under tho auspices aus of the king of the Belgian san establishment ia to be formed in eastern africa cpr alio capture and training of lr carpenter considers it possible that at some remote geological period a connecting strip of land may have existed between drope and america ind that lew zealan tasmania and america may liams iund together toy adges dry land while ag m in 21 similar roan to the african continent gol have hat ecat continents which hate called atlantia once between afreda aej but dr car regarda the evidence of ital very unsatisfactory TIO total valan af export of breadstuff a in against in april ciffo for abo ten ine 1880 for period llie previous oua |