Show SCIENCE NOTES the efficiency of the electric light in naval operations was put t a test recently on board wo bends vends of the british navy at gibraltar with gratifying success what is en opposed to have been the first successful attempt to ascend to waa accomplished recently by a mr who report iti it i height to bo near feet three attempts were made by mr whimper the lust proving successful during the past few years the pros of nickle in norway has assumed great importance there being already como twenty five minei in successful operation the largest part of the yield is exported in the crude ore to all parts of the civilized world while the rest is reduced on the spot an Av chango says that a house built in 1639 still atan in dedham MIB MI B and is the in new bog it is beautifully aitu aled under heavily branching elms with a moss covered roof much of the original furniture year of age still remains and has been in the of one family named fairbanks buring all that time A report recently made to the french academy ol 01 scientists by a gentleman who has been experimenting during the past three years snows that the application of sulphide of carbon as a cure for the has proved thoroughly successful being highly beneficial to the vines and not damaging to the productiveness of the soil the discovery is considered a most valuable one the largest trees iu the world are in california be tallest in australia an of the forest department in victoria australia measured not long since a fallen eucalyptus in land and found that it A asfour bun dred and thirty five feet long from abe root to ibe highest point of the branches but even this is exceeded by another still standing in the D inde nong district in victoria which ia estimated to be four bun dred and fifty feet from the ground to the top some very extensive gliciera gla ciera have recently been found by mr khym per on the mountains calacat asar aneca and many of them being OB large as tho largest alpino ones lie altes that the upper four thousand feet of and chim borago are almost completely anvel aped by the result ot mr travels shows the inabu racy of the bat edition of the ency clow tedia britannica which men eions the glacier of the mountain as the only real glacier known to exist in the ecuadorian andes A number of scientists are puzzi ling their brains over the question whether or not the south american continent is sinking and naturally enough a considerable difference of opinion exists among them from observation of the principal mountain in that region of territory have been continued through more than a hundred year evidence is of a gradual sinking and this opinion is said to prevail extensively there are some however who founding gieir theory on a comparison of observations mado at the mouths of rivers hat are equally enthusiastic in the belief that the land is rising be as it may the world will doubtless onward as usual and its in habitants loae but little sleep in anxiety in waiting for these begea of wisdom to arrive at a definite and satisfactory opinion in the matter one in which all of them can concur A new race of aborigines supposed to be from malay stock has been discovered on an island called botel tobago some eighty mile eat of the cape of formosa A writer from that region speaks of them 04 a timid raca of people who know nothing of money rum or lobisco lobi cco but who aavo goats and pigs for tin pots buttons and would hang around the thipa all day in their canoes waiting for chiacco to dive for something thrown overboard they lie mainly on tiro and yam and wear only clonts clouts their dwelling placa are low thatch bouses the wall of which are built of heavy abono for protection from monsoons they wear their hair naturally the men partly clipping theirs and adorn their necks with broat beards nd ehll nell their canoes are without nail and rather handsome hand tome in appearance they keep boals pigs ond chicken hut maka little of tin in nd altogether are ai I worthies people |