Show scientific disagree somewhat as to tho highest recorded velocity the wind As the velocity of a wim blow ingin ft straight line it is claimer that miles an hour has been re while ro ary motion attains a much greater velocity probably 10 miles an hour having been observed measurement of such extraordinary gales are obtained with difficult yani can hardly bo considered accurate A philadelphia child was born frith a fair complexion dark eyes and brown hair soon after birth the skin his entire body began borrow dark the color deepening from yellow to saG Troi and in about a year to tho rich black of a full blooded ne the hair became stiff and jet black and even the eyes grew dark er physical weakness and convulsions attended this change until aha childs life bring threatened competent medical attendance was obtained since then sixteen months have elapsed during which time the childs skin has been grad lauy becoming lighter being now ot a chestnut color peculiar disease is a very rare one and is known as or pigmentation the cae has been an interesting one for medical men experiment shows that tarring ropes slightly diminishes their strength against a pulling strain but rope so treated maintain high average of tenacity much longer than un tarred ones on account of the protection the tar affords against atmospheric and other causes of deterioration teri oration A prehistoric cemetery has been discovered near milan italy containing vase and other articles of such artistic design that they might serve as elegant models for modern potters A boston physician writes prof R A proctor from the result of his experience fates that the use of agh heeled boots causes injury to the eyes not only weakening the sight but producing sensation of constant pain it is not altogether sn surprising as might be supposed that the eyes should thus sympathize as it were with the feel for it is weli known to physicians that the eyes suffer in 81 specific manner when other parts of the body are affected and there are some ailments whose presence the physician has ever been able to detect in this way when the t himself would have concealed the real nature of his illness forty three small planets or one fifth ol 01 the total number now known have been discovered by prof peters of clinton N Y for abie service to astronomy be has been aawar led a prize by the french acad eiry of it s believed that the darkness of the deep sea may be mitigated to corae extent by the phosphorescence of certain animals prof mosele thinks it probable that such of the denizens of the oceans depths as have eyes congregate around these ight or grope their way in the from one bunch to another as they lie scattered over the sea bottom just as a traveller may half feel half his way from lamp post to lamp post in a london fog at night A late cattle plague in certain russian province resulted fatally to seventy five or eighty per cent of all the animal effected by it seeing no escape for his ittle one individual resorted to the experiment of inoculating liis fealty beasts with llie virus taken from the diseased ones on the tenth day after the operation the cattle experimented upon were taken ill and it is reported that but eighteen pec cent died leaving eighty two per cent eure from the epidemic bo factory is ahia greult thu the experiment is lo 10 be repeated on a large scale A mathematical prodigy has lately bean exhibiting before the french anthropological society boci ety is an italian boy of ten or eleven years with an intelligent look and larce head but not remarkable in ance among various calculations hewak asked to multiply by the operation took him two minutes when he gave the exact result this boy can neither read nor write he has just become acquainted quain ted with figures but declares that he can calculate less easily than before learning them signer ff agliardi recently commissioned by tho japanese government to explore the ibaraki mountain range report the discovery of rou very rich marble veins of various colors one mountain el a mass of white statuary marble while in another locality he found black marble equal to the finest in europe he predicts that with careful quarrying fand good facilities for transportation jaan will become the great marble producing country of tie from upon human skull ek ull selbon of parie infer that intelligence is usually in direct proportion to the ize of the cranium dr p vy has leeni for bome with an leotric furnace forth purpose of melting in considerable es highly refractory metal tuch iridium and steel the obtained are very so antenne waa the heat accumulated the electric current in one of ey bese furnaces lately exhibited in lAndon that in about twenty min ate tiyo bf broken files were completely melted it stated that the arrangement may be applied on a large ecale |