| Show scientific miscellany in a late medical work which hag excited much attention and criticism dr adeclat of paris argues that all diseases are due to ane develops merit of invisible parasites either in or upon ahe body A horse dashes past a series of cameras at full speed and in the brief interval of of a single bound mr E J Muy bridge secures a dozen or more photographs of the animal in successive stages of the leap edich picture recording a different differ position of the body to represent the living animal upon a screen by means of these view mr Muy bridge haa now perfected an instrument which he calls the it is a circular glass having upon it a series of the instantaneous photographs illuminated by an lantern as the glass is revolved show a single con but ever changing chang ng picture the effect is magical the separate postures rapidly following each other upon the screen the perfect resemblance of a fast speeding borso every motion even to the shaka of the head or whisk of the tail being faithful to life moving men and various animals besides the horse have been shown in like manner an interesting experiment in nerve grafting has been performed by a bucharest physician he removed a portion of the sciatic nerve of a rabbit the ends soon united and ne fowels leg completely recovered its power the inoculation of cattle as a preventive of pluro pneumonia which was first tried in australia has been on a large scale into ed in burgh scotland during the ast three years about cattle have been inoculated in the neighborhood of that city reducing the mortality from seven ty tive to about five per cent A curious and interesting magnetism has judit been eb berged by writing upon a thin of hardened steel i mag iron style a tolerable permanent magnetism is communicated to the parts of the plate covered by the writing if iron filings are then brushed over the plate they will ad here to the magnetized portion rendering the writing visible attempts at submarine floto graphy have been made with some degree of success one negative secured at a depth of several fathoms beneath the surface of the water showed several boulders covered with sea an old anchor and the mooring cables of three yachts the quantity of vapor present in alio air about us derng the hot days of summer has a very considerable influence upon our physical comfort in dry atmosphere from our bodied takes place very rapidly and a large amount of hull being conducted away by the exhaled moisture an agreeable sensation of coolness is maintained at temper lure which would seem hot in an atmosphere already surcharged with moist vapor A rare fossile bird the of which but three specimen are known to exist has just been secured for the berlin university at an expense of nearly salmon in english waters are found to bp largely by a fungus which ais resulted to many of the fish A recent investigation showed abo chief cause of the disease to be overcrowding and an extension of the gemon lor catching was recommended chemical science has recently succeeded in extracting the coloring matter foa human hair three coloring pigments are found yellow red and black the various chades being produced by mixture it appears ahat in pure golden hair there is only hp yeow pigment in red hair abo red 13 mixed with more or less yellow while in ark hair the blak is aitay mixed ath yellow and red evan tho blackest hair contains fla much red pigment as the very reddest tho lighter colors being overpowered by the black according lo 10 PC frankland the persistence of london fog is due to the fact tho minute of water fog become covered with a thin oily coating from the of coal thug preventing evaporation even in a comparatively atsy co of the atmosphere when the youth djs andraw loitering along somo lane come to ft standstill to contemplate with awa and wonder the spectacle of a mian of the familiar hair eeli or hair worms ting about in A pool ho plods on his way fully bat he haa just witnessed the results of tb of some horses hirs into creatures and the theory of uch transformation i often accepted by of considerable culture the blur worms he appearance app of long delicato do licato blac alag move about with great rapidity amid tho mud of pools and ditches theao worm in the early of their inhabit the badiea of in ecta bad anay b found coiled up within the thu kirea shelter to a aguet ciany times aha length of the body of i hait or lar the haar hom ho m or gordau gor diu the boily the insect and lay if eggs in treni etch i a little creathie crea tuie arm pil manuto cooka ia produced and chii young burrows into of gome doeu to repeat tho hattory of it ri nent anch i tho life if the hair worm |
