Show miscellany event borings bolings indicate the exie exie tenca of workable coal scams underneath london observations ly by 11 lauranie Lau I lanie of toulouse elbow that something very like tuberculosis is produced I in i the lungs gs of dogs by a worm it lias bis lately been proven provell experimentally that ca calomel loinel may inay be decomposed in th alie e human system with the formation of corro Ave sublimate a it powerful poison lecturing at giltrow glasgow lias called attention to the adap adaptable ity of abo light for general ei al use tho the illumination is very brilliant and beautiful the tile gages gams may be stored and delivered it in the same sanne manner as its coal cos gs and lie believes thattie eliat the system may way be bia made economical by using wind or water power to produce lie the gases in ili low vi of the ravages of the u which aich have havo eo beriou ely i interfered with vine gron growing in g a french algi agriculturist has sou sought attio to discover it substitute for the vine and ia said to have bave obtained very good with a variety of red beet this beet yields a wine irine which is said to bo be equal to many of southern growth and the plant lias the adv advantage in tage of being adopted to all soils and elli climates nates several interesting ical finds in europe arc near sicily several caverna have been found foun which are evidently burud burial places dating from froni the period when tile ancient sicilians bad already been ousted by the italian tribes but before the greek colonization had lind begun at nordrup denmark the remains of seven I human I bodies have been found under a fe few w feet of pumice stone nuni numerous erous bronzo bronze obi objects ejects gold rings itoman roman glasses mosaics glass beads c etc te being ingalzo also discovered among the remains R to clerence to file microbes or microscopic mir crose cro or organisms anesin s of fermentation and find disease c bave become so frequent that this clas classification of their varieties by mr IV hamlet may bo be of interest microbes Mic robes which appear as poin points sare arc called mona ino nade ilK rno vi nero onera or micro cocca they arc ire motionless and may be regarded as the spores of other microbes mic robes al motionless tion m linear microbes mic robes cie t ic ians and the bacilli to them belongs bacillus produces the dreaded fever of cattle and sheep cylindrical mobile microbes mic robes havi having n rou rounded ends or contracted in th the middle so as to form forin an in arc are the bacteria proper anio among nath them eni is jac dac ferna fermo termo of putrefaction futrea r iol j tile corn coln in onesto of all flexuous mobile microbes mic robes they look and act like eels and dp diner er but little from the equally active bacteria they arc are the vidrios vib tib rios spiral microbes mic robes resembling ein bling a corkscrew cork screw and mobile eloe their presence ill in human blood appears to be connected with fever C microbes Mic robes licaus very ins ing globules glo bules larger and more refract li e than the rest of the body at one or both ends these globules glo bules are apparently patently ly spores ivady to be detached from a bacterium besides these those six principal states tile microbes mic robes form agglomerations in in their ipp appearance is somewhat changed these buass masses es receiving distinctive tive names there seems to bo be no way wity at present of distinguishing between a it disease producing bacterium win anda and a harmless one by astronomers knowledge of the remarkable mark able riny ring of small planets traveling it g between the hibits of mars and jupiter commenced with the first day lay of the present century when piazzi discovered the first of ot alie thence e objects which lie named ceres other discoveries co veries followed at irregular intervals until in ill 1845 tho the number of these small planets or asteroids as they are usually called was increased to five since that year yio vie list haa has extended very rapidly and have now been discovered ko no estimate can be formed of tho the total number of the asteroids they are ver very small and Lo leverrier verrier lias has computed that at combined mi m miss i is probably less than one fourth of the earths mass from the size of vesta which ia is estimated to be miles nailes in dia diameter they dwindle to an all unknown minuteness ifera lias has communicated abed to the vienna Aca academy denly the result of recent researches which appear to prove that the number of with a diameter of over 25 milca is extremely y small and that probably all lucli were discovered before 1859 the nuin berwith a diameter less than five miles seems also to bo be very small at least in the inner parts of alie asteroid zone next mars in the outer regions next jupiter there may be a more consider considerable able number ot of these very small bodies most asteroids seem to have diameters between five and fifteen miles the average number with a diameter of five to ten en miles discovered during the last twenty years is about three each year tho the yearly number of ten to fifteen miles diameter one and three fifths II Il believes therefore that unless much more inore powerful telescopes aroused arc used future discoveries of asteroids will be chiefly confined to those measuring five to fifteen milet in diameter |