Show scientific explorations by a russian party par afo show that tho eastern deboro of tho gulf of obi in northern L aberia ia is nearly fourteen miles west of the place assigned to its exia existing ting innee dr wm A hammond ammond II finds overheated apartments to be a potent cause muse of nervous irritability if we would preserve oar our amiability end and our tranquillity of mind wo we should live in well ventilated rooms kept at a temperature of about sixty five da do grees grecs A operation during which abo patient was kept immersed in water for sixteen days was recently performed by dr langenbeck of Berlin among other applice applications actions at ions these permanent baths are said t to b be especially valuable in cases of burns of the sense of taste prof kendrick states that the flie base of the tongue is most da t to bitters and the tip ilo 10 sweets A substance must be soluble ible in the fluid of the mouth to create taste but no dell definite nite relation lias has been found between the chemical condition of bodice bodies and their taste A now white metal and malleable bronze is produced by the of copper by means of f ferro manganese the composition gives a m intal tal as white as silver and as malleable lei bleas as the german silver obtained with nickel for fora a lamina lilo lolo white metal I in plates zinc or braes brass is added to the tile composition dr T sterry hunt has calculated that tho amount of carbonic acid stored I in n the lime stones of the earth would form not less lem than two hundred atmospheres equal in weight to our own this together with the carbon of the coal beds must have bave been drawn frona from the air which ho lie believes gradually receives ita its supply of tho the gas from interstellar space german jerman measurements give the following as among the greatest daily quantities of ra rainfall infill recorded in europe at colberg apt pt four inches of rain min fell in seven hours liours at breslau august 1858 four and a half inches inches fell in the harz the daily maximum observed ia is four and a half inches and at ho ilo hon hen in the black forest it Is avo five in inches clies the auroras observed by taron at llie the winter quarters of the vega in latitude 67 deaf degrees ree B minutes north wore were mostly feeble ee b I c and lacking id the ray like formation so ef characterized of these phenomena I A simple luminous barclow in in the sky was most common and abia distinguished navigators theory is is that the arc are forms a portion of a per permanent m anent luminous crown abo above the tho earths pole modern improvements have in tro ased the power of the microscope so greatly that it is now made to magnify about diameters the best unaided human vision can eee see no objects much smaller than tho sooth of an inch in diameter but the most skillful with their best instruments sare are ablo able to examine monads a th of an inch in diameter beyond this minuteness is obscurity it has been estimated that the ultimate particles or atoms co composing M g all matter can bo be no more than f th of an inch in diame diameter tei so that it seems hardly probable that they will ever be revealed to human deyess if the astronomical view that tho the moon was once a part of the earths mass bo be true the moon in its oaly ase age must have revolved much nearer to the earth than now and must leave caused prodigious tides ades upon ita its parent planet aa recently shown by bruf ball prof J S rry finds in ecological geological evidence a refutation of this theory to the extent at least of proving conclusively that no such tides could have existed since lie the commencement of the go geological record lie ile docs does not hesitate to assert therefore that the astronomers astron omera are in error in regard to the moons genesis or that if it was once a portion of the tile earth the reparation separation took place at a period so remote that it had lind receded to nearly its present distance before the dawn of life on the earth in rese resea arehea relies upon the of the caucasus mr lias has observed that although conducted with the utmost care his analyses frequently showed more than one hundred per cent of matter A like result was obtained with two other substance substances following up the investigation ti he lie has found that sodium and copper appear to affect certain products As as to produce the anoma anomaly observed while if the articles so affected arc tire exposed forti foru choit time to sunlight they giro a normal analysis it is suggested ca j as a possible explanation I that t tho h weight of atoms may ma vary within certain narrow limit sand that in the case of the hydrocarbons it may be modified bv by the action of sodium gr or by light if confirmed 31 Schutz enber ors discovery will have an important bearing upon the fundamental da principles of chemical science |