| Show scientific WRAPS A neapolitan gardener sd a ater years of experiment lina r e e a ram cam elia witha gitil a delicate perfume and he be thinks it probable bable that these flowers m may ay in avro near future be so cultivated an to rival the rose in the tile fragrance anre of its odor A new theory of the tile so called fascination ci of or bin birda Is by snakes is that the tile bird the snakes tongue which the reptile kerpa keeps in in rap rapid idana and constant motion for a 11 lively ely worm and watches it intently with the an of bf devo illing it M I pasteur a it celebrated french chemist lias has resolved to extend hia his studies in vaccination to yellow vellow fever with a view of determining whether or not the disease indue is due to parasites and can be guarded against b by y inoculation A broad field of investigation is open to pasteur aa as it is suggested by his discoveries thus far that all contagious maladies may be duoto parasitic growths the virulence of which may be so reduced by his method of inoculation as am to render this class of diseases no longer a matter of dread arc Shaler Smith has given the re suits of extensive observations in relation to the tile pressure exerted by the wind the most violent gale recorded by him was at east st Louis louisin ln 1871 when the wind overturned a locomotive the force developed in BO so doi doing ng being no less than 93 pounds per square foot at st charles a axil was Oest destroyed roved in 1877 the pressure required being 84 pounds per square I foot toot at Ma in I n 1880 1980 a brick mansion was leveled the force necessary being 58 pounds per square foot below these extraordinary pressures mr smith instances numerous cases I of trains blown off rails and bridges etc blown down by gales of 24 to 31 pounds per square foot in all the examples the lowest force re required ed to do tho the observed damage zu has abeen rb been een taken as the maximum power of the tile wind although of course it may have been higher enthusiasts who make a special s study t u dy of sun spots and attendant p phenomena h mena believe that th alie cornerstone of a new science is being laid by discoveries pointing to an intimate connection between solar and terres trial meteorology just what the connection is they arc are not yet able to clearly define although the tile effects are manifested upon our planet it is known that the gaseous envelope of the sun is affected by eruptions of such prodigious ious magnitude as to be utterly 91 beyond our power of conception these disturbances appearing to us in the form of rapidly y changing spots and protuberances the tile eras of f the spots or sun storms occur Oat at remarkably regular intervals a complete cycle cycled of the various stages of activity from maximum being performed in about eleven years the so 60 called suns sunspot sun s spot ot i perio period d the sunspot s ot physicists c claim am i a coincidence of tee the periods of maximum spots and years of great atmospheric and physical disturbance in the earth the present has been marked by violent storms and earthquakes upon our globe furth further er than this these scientists claim to have recently detected by simultaneous observation minor atmospheric changes cli anges as the result of corresponding movements in the sun many difficulties attend these observations vat ions but the astronomer royal for scotland and others believe that the state of the sun will some day become an important factor in weather forecasts and like calculations |
