Show scientific miscellany kierr P Pu her a german ch chemist ernist has reported that the value of glue is greatly increased by the addition of twenty five por cent of glyer glycerine in all I cleaving and breaking of the alno being prevented A frenchi chemist lias bas analyzed the tho juice juico of the so called milk tree of central america to the nutritive qualities i ties of wit which fell attention was first dra drawn wn by Ilum boldt and has found that the vegetable product really possesses many of the characteristics of cows milk A new alloy called argas arga oid sold 11 re cenola described by mr V of vienna lias has been used as a substitute for silver its cost is said to be about fifty per cent more than titan brass its chemical composition is as follows tin lead copper nickle zinc trace the electric furnace first described a little moro more khait two years ago has been the subject of further experiment by dr C W siemens and prof A K X huntington who find that it possesses two important ad vantages advantages viz that the temperature attainable is practicably limited only bythe by alie refractoriness frac of the materials of which the furnace is made and that the heat is developed immediately in the substance to bo fasol instead of first having baying to pasa pass through the containing crucible those who yet tiling eling to the old time faith inthe moons influence upon the weather may bo be interested to learn that BO so eminent ft a scientist as sir william thompson hag has recently felt called upon to declare that c careful a reful observation er with the barometer thermometer mo meter and anemometer have bavo failed to establish any such have bare proved on tho the contrary t that at I if there thero is any dekende dependence of the weather th up upon on the phases of the moon it is only in a degree BO so slight as to bo be quite quit i imperceptible t u to ordinary observation i n prof W V W harrington arrington II refers to two kinds of changes on oil the moons surface which may bo be regarded as fairly r established the first fint is hie the f landside land d side side is doubtless caused by the great alternations of temperature to which the moon is bubi subie oct ct many of these slides slide may be easily recognized with good telescopes the second form of change is illustrated by craters which have been proven to be different dil Terent in issize size and shape from what they were recorded by earlier observers many other changes changco have been suspected but they are of a more uncertain and doubtful character cliar acter among the instruments used by bv prof J milne in studying the eartle quakes of japan is a clock which records automatically the velocity oatha of the earthquake waves lie ile describes shocks observed by him as travel traveling n at the raio rate of feet per bocon socon second T decreasing to feet and still getting slower nna and si glower ower as they pr pro gr bressee essee tito war waves es last from m thirty seconds to four minutes prof milne is now at work upon an atlas do de signed to show allow the laree larae number of seismic centers in which the earthquakes of japin originate and arid the tile relative of the the areas affected telephoning by underground cables lias has been pronounced impracticable forthe for the reason that tha such tsuch cables must necessarily each contain a cona considerable ider number of conducting wires and the induction prevents speech by means of a special e cial arrangement odthe of lie circuits M e irs felton and arid guilleaume of Mulli mulheim cial on the rhine claim to have overcome the effects of induction in these cables sya tem was lately tried on a line thirty two miles long and proved BO so effectual that speech was transmitted without trace of foreign sound through one wire while a neighboring wire of the cable was in constant use the tito stinging tree 11 of australia is a thrifty a shrub which grows grow from two or three inches to ten or fifteen feet bigbe mits a disagreeable odorino od orind ia is very poisonous to the tile touch concerning it a traveler remarks sometimes while shooting turkeys in tho the shrubs sli rubs I have entirely forg forgotten atten the stinging I tree till I was warned of its close proximity by ita its smell and have often found mys myself elfin in a little forest of them I was only once stung and that very lightly ita its effects ar are curious verr it t leaves no mark b but ut the p pain a in is maddening and for months afterwards the part when touched is i tender in rainy weather r or when it gets wet by I have abc seen a man mail who treats ordinary pain lightly roll on tile ground in ago agony ay iy after being stung and I have known n own ft a horse so comp completely lately mad after getting into a grove of the tile trees that ho rushed openmouthed at every one who approached him and had bad to bo be eliot dogs when stung will rush about whining g piteously a and nd b biting it n g 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