Show POPULAR SCIENCE KOTES tho annual of alie society of scotland w at glasgow Glat gow oct ast 1st and ul alo grant for experiment in europe h re been inci eased froni to hie engli li A tunnel through mont juanc i being talked cf in france which will be esylit mile in and will cost workmen have up the loco motive that went down with the ill fated arnn and tay bridge have thoroughly repaired it and it on duty drawing train between edinburg and glasgow one hundred and fifty a of valuable good forthie american exhibit at atio melbourne worlds fair were recently lost by the wrecking of the ship eric he lied on the south west coast of australia while being entertained at dinner recently by member of the paris press the noted african explorer M paul Sole illet stated in reply to the toast of his health that he hop cd in ten years lo 10 be able lo 10 return tho hospitality shown to him by the press and to invite his journalistic friend to in sleeping cir to the buffet at tho su ilion the jovenal ftc is authority for the statement that ne est ern union telegraph compan now engaged in entirely now new cable line between this country and europe of the largest wire used for telegraphic purpose which to be and used ex for cable under recent experimental test ot the new eight inch chambered ii tie at the sandy alook naval bome excellent results have been obtained before these guns acie chamfered chami ered they were fired with pounds of powder but will now lake acharya tiye pound and arc capable of penetrating ten inches of iron at a distance of 1000 yards carrying a shot which weigh pounds A new an novel mode for producing electric or what more properly called phosphorescent light is follows take of barium or some other bubs taice which is rendered phosphorescent rays and it in a geisler tube through which liasse liaise a constant electric current of feeble but regular intensity light alius produced i said to be uniform and agreeable and much cheaper gas A new steel bridge lias just been over the volga for the and in russia at coltof rouble or the river at lut point is nearly a mile wide and fifty deep and is subject to very high boils in consequence tho four teen piers carrying the bridge had to be built one li undred feet above alio mean level of the wilar giving them ilia height of feet A balloon society ha been organ itt london anolar anol hr in france and it is proposed to be for med in america and at various other point on alie globe whose object will be to aid in taking of various kind and to bring together members of the learned profession taftt they may belter cooperator coop erato in the furtherance of experiments in science scie ice the director of the central meleo icat observatory of mexico in a recent report states that a largo number of stations will jooa ba established throughout mexico for the uniform record of observations on the temperature rainfall pressure vegetation etc and to fe termine the effect of various change upon ahe growth of all kinds of grain the example h certainly to be followed in this country and one hat would result certainly in great value to pur people if adopted A real mine ef antimony has been discovered in item county caliroi nia bome thirty five miles auth of this is tie crt d e covery of workable of antimony ever made in the united the chief source of the metal having heretofore been alie sarawak mine in the island of borneo the antimony is found in a rue fraire of which three are but three other instances in the world those found in freiberg chill and mexica the property is owned by a mr bouch ey aid hie two one and ie thought lo 10 be of incalculable value scotch chemist of considerable consider ible note asir robert lias been experimenting for several years he effect of cold wet leasin upon alie of bariou kind of tree and linda that during such reasons ahat the normal growth diminished from ln to fifty per cent from eliat of dry and warm the deficiency fici ency in growth much gnau r in tho icino than in the oak notwithstanding hat we usually alie former with very cold rion lie his n by hia observations thu heat ha iloie lo 10 do with the making ol 01 wood hull tuoi iture the chenio of captain lloud for letting the watce of ho into the great bain of tho turning norih o 41 into nn ea i thought lo 10 iw inexpedient and have been lie and surveying the terri tory it rould take a wy aliat odilie duex to attain ahe end in while neptha and tho mot llon tin regions would ba by tho deluge nd ai a ii n the ahro ditte awta af the be de by ilio production afu ofu citing lutu rully fuliar on dh covery la been malici hi the on rem ving A mw of superincumbent sand anil gravel to prepare tot boine lion the rock beneath wn found to be quite willi old the ex clation a of enormous filleul the arral kaid were birj base to the view liole in lie due to the of water which lowing through in the glacier that egea amt pmt covered attic rock set iti movement alio lonee beneath the gant alee a thoy are called were 01 ol luard out iut while alie rock nl luceine thu formation AI solothurn Solo thurn i hird mid |