Show Nr Y the remarkable disi wery v hasteen haa been made by two german chemists c that tho the life principle pridu is capable of prodoc ing effect upun upon baits of the they report that living organic cells readily d lav reduce solutions of silver but the thearion action ceases when dead cells are substituted for the living livin gores insects are endowed with much greater geater muscular energy in in proportion to their size than other animals had a man inan of six feet foet m muscular power proportioned proportioned portioned to that ot a flea lie could Kro leap bip more than 00 W fae and lift a weight eight of pounds poun n a A species of beetle L beetle supports times its own weight weigh tand and a another nother lias has been b cell discovered which is stated on oil good authority to havo have agn gnawed awed a liole hole of an inch in diameter in the side afan of an iron canister callister by the power of its jaws it has lately been noticed that liquors kept in colorless bottles opposed to the light soon acquire a dis disagreeable rn taste while hoso contafi contained in in brown or green bottles romain remain unchanged even if placed in direct sunlight the effect is duo due to tho the chemical action of light and liquids liable to similar change should I bo be preserved it in i red orange y yellow belloir or green bottles colors excluding the chemical rays Ob observed serven vcra of the eun run believe that the maxi maximilan milin of bun spots in the 11 c eleven even year period will be readied reached during the present year although M Dupon clial thinks it ft may be delayed delay cd until ISM 1800 or 1892 1802 on oil account of planetary influences among tho the results of a journey bourney acroca the sahara dr oscar lanz enz reports arts i that no depression below bea fc lavel v el could be found the schemes entertained for flooding the desert with water from the soa aro are therefore hopeless and inis misleading leading the use of gas as fuel fael is suggested as a means of freeing tandon froni from the intolerable smoke with which it is now afflicted aulk bcd it is thought to bo be not altogether improbable th atwith that with alio ic general adoption of electricity as a source of light and the em employment I ament of gas for healing alreata dream of a smokeless london may be realized at no very distant period by the adoption of preventive measures td guard against expected epidemics i dac m es in in certain i en english lish towns mr yr edwin chadwick estimates that three fourt fourths lis of a million lives and three million cases of sickness have been saved this seems a somewhat st startling artlin statement but tho the figures aro arc tho the result of statistical compari sons hons and are probably correct dr arvon von fritsch fitsch of that the cause of earthquakes must exist near the earths surface and docs does not reach a greater reater depth than ten or fourteen miles they must be produced lie believes by ti the e iner caSe wid nf of volume lne of rocks tin under the iii influence fluence of dl and physician ial forces and by c concussions s duo due to the opening of assures faszl of tile jocks in 1850 tho the IIo anIIo river of china emptied into the yellow sea now this mouth is dry and tile river has a now cl iannel opening to the gulf of Pe chelc iele nearly miles north of its former outlet and the tile stream turns aside from its old bed at a distance of more than miles from the coast this is the last of many changes back and forth recorded by the chinese du during rind alio past years the changes begin in floods caused by rain in the distant Kuen luen mountains |