Show scientific algerian lias a river of ink formed by the union one coming from region of terra coil and the other from ft peat swamp iron of the on and the gallic acid of the other unite to form A true ink during a series of photometric ob ioni prof wm U pickering bag found that the total brilliancy the lun is aquil to about ful moona to belter illustrate this re lation it roay be stated that if the whole visible heavenia were turned into one full moon it would give rather lesa than one fourth of the basset the animal trainer of berth aught an orang to wait on the able and to perform other domestic duties A chimpanzee has abeen trained to feed and tend a fire under a bakers oven A female chimpanzee in the london zoological gardens could lock and unlock a door or drawer and thread any needle in taking her meals she aed knife fork spoon and drinking cup with as much ease as a human being in scotland considerable interest is taken in A new method of tanni nj hides effected not by beani of tanning in any form but of chrome the new process is said to be cheap er and more expeditious than the old and to produce leather stronger more durable and especially less pervious to moisture about three hundred chrome tanned hides have lately been exhibited in glasgow some of them made into belting harnesses boots etc female torpedoes are an al traction at belgian fairs in the centre of a booth is a pit which the spectators encircle and in this pit a woman attired as a gymnast walks about on a platform now and then she touches a spectator on the hand or cheek and the latter receives a smart electric shock but the woman feels nothing she is evidently highly charged with electricity by means of an induction coil and the platform on which she stands is one pole of the coil the electrified a great success and her stinging ca elicit doirs of laughter from the visitors perhaps the moat remarkable operation hitherto recorded in the history of suba trine telegraphy is that which has just attended the work of the eastern telegraph corns banys steamship chiltern in 1870 f cable was laid from the coast of portugal and recently persevering efforts have bean made to grapple and raise this old cable at ft point where it lay in 2000 fathoms of water ahti general idea M that a cable must be rotten after so long an ammerson im merson and cannot be raised but this cable has been brought to alie surface and was found to be as good and as strong as lud tn fifo aft a mere thread in feet of water is a triumph even in this naf A vast cloud of flies was observed on the hudson river between new hamburg aej newberg on september the ath traveling in a north sard direction A similar phenomenon was see near halifax nora leotia on september ath the insect da ascribed scribed as about a hilt inch in length with light wings iu such large numbers n to appear liko a great drift of black snow driven by a strong wind A writer states thai from the indefinite description given by those who beheld them possible that they may have been ichneumon flies which have had nn unexceptionally favorable season for multiplication owing to tho in which they deposit their fes however this theory is doubted by scientists as being a correct one and pronounce the migrating insects as strangers on this continent 13 ia a place thai hai al at once from total obscurity into comparative compa ratiTe account of having been made tho lone of contention between turkey aal montenegro it is a own and seaport of european turkey province of albania and situated on tha bore of the adriatic 15 miles west southwest of the inhabitant were long notorious for piracy but are now more creditably engaged in the oil and coas ing trade dili he teat of d komin catholic bishop and ha a population A writer in he london athu gastile give the following historical date the harbor of alj Dul cigno in one of alie oldee f n the adriatic and alio llio best that exist on that coast between the point of the mouth the haven is a ure safeguard from the south wind the fierce n rucco but M exposed on it northern nor thein side aie about a il ien linte now on the boich makings little so tit men t exclusively albanian iino calad in the beginning of alie sixteenth the t of alo harbor wa very dill erent the town rell into kinkish very alte in 1571 and th oscr who was lie district priced or to cheak lle gava 1111 evil cianic in the sixteenth ami centuries the light que the italian It ulian al banian even areek coast the porte undertook to put chein down but the governor of iri chosen from a anticuar borth albanian family was accessible and moreover the porte bud no particular objection object iou to feeding feeing austrian and italian commerce comme ice damaged an paha at last fiade li in the per son of Su eiman and alo whole dul cigno fleet numbering num berine no fewer thi aioo was burned to the water cheo its own gaibor this blow ruined old Dul cigno and the present town was planted lilola further inland to take alfi place in 1878 the montenegrin took it by storm most of tho turkish garrison navin previously got away by autra however at the berlin con press objected to its retention by montenegro and and alava were with what result all the world knows |