Show POPULAR the outside fabre fibre of the coconut is being manufactured extensively for shoo heels and is said to be a most excellent substitute tute for leather in fuel its wearing qualities are laid to be superior to that of leather and is much cheaper is a new invention for tha determination of time and the instrument is laid to acte sup erfe to tho transit atrus meat iu calculating the correct time and is much more simple in its con clion and workings combining as it does a timo and latitude instrument in one the manufacture of glass cloth is becoming a profitable industry at ritt pa the thread which is made any desired color with min arala when he alaa is originally bolted molted is down out of a molten bar by meang of a rapidly revolving wheel at the rate of 2000 yards per minute the weaving is done about the same as with silk on looms A new coilet a remarkably large one was discovered by lennual Pen nual at copenhagen denmark on the of december last in right ascension 18 hour 49 minutes north dealina de clina tion 19 degrees 35 minutes its motion u northeast something more than one degree daily and it can be berf with an ordinary telescope telea cope quite plainly but will probably not be visible to the naked eye A strange ami rare phenomenon of an inverted rainbow was observed at inns bruck on november last for some thirty minutes the endpoints of the semicircle centre of which was the sun rose and moved westward with the latter the remarkable spectacle then vanishing no satisfactory theory has as yet been given explanatory of the cause of the phenomenon the laboratory for tho johns atop kin zoological investigations calab dished at beaufort north carolina some three ago hs proved a most useful one some especially valuable results in the examination ot have been obtained four hundred and eight species of animals have been found in that lo 10 bality which is pronounced an excellent ono for scientific study A remarkable bed ne covering an area of eighty acre and of considerable depth has been dis covered boar bremond texas A factory for tha manufacture of tho article into porcelain ware has been established at new orleans and it is is turning out work fully to that made from imported nd which will compare favorably with ware made in other foreign countries an eminent physician of edin burg scotland dr maclaren who has given much attention to the subject of lat years states that the types of insanity have changed with modern times A fw year tince acute delirious mania wa quito prevalent while it is now comparatively rare ai a result of the overwork and worry of the struggle for exists once at the present day mental en attended with paralysis a thing ulmot wholly unknown in the pat am is be comins more and more common and in temperance li alo cited as ono of the modern caules ot mental auca juca lacity and insanity to a great do greo A an answer to the question ca the hii change hia skin a c ma U reported by dr J II 11 thompson of goshen N Y the subject being A Q quita advanced in that village unique example of the ikin affection known among medical men al or the doctor th attlio aaion lias been in gradual progress pro greas for everol bearg halll at the pw ent dato the man fori of tapi cal lia become of fair in att least half extent ual la looked upon a a decided curi dosity and n extraordinary specimen of lealon |