Show scientific it atia is maintained by that tho aurora is is a permanent phenomenon hi in polar regions appearing constantly when the aim sun is below the horizon and stud the tile moon is invisible it was ascertained by a ier brazilian a za n delegate to the geneva aulta sanitary r y congress ia n gr e that coffee is a natural antidote to alcohol and that the consumption of alcoholic stimulants ia is coni comparatively para small coffee ia is a popular drink un us in his own country prof moos bloos of Hei heidelberg delber has found good reasons for believing be believing lievin g that many any railway accidents h have ve been due to defective defect iv e hearing bearing on the part of engineers ii inders or others in cha charge ra e of trai trains na expert medical testimony shows that railway employees are especially ally liable to affections of the car A natural intermittent spring has recently formed in the french alps the water appears app cara at regular intervals office of and seven minutes about ten quarts beins being yielded eacil each timo time AeIn A singular gular circum circumstance stanco is that one flow of water is lukewarm and color less while the tile next disc discharge harve is cold and wine red scientific investigation by prof pon fick of breslau las verified tho the suspicion that all common niah rooms are poisonous gand boiling debri deprive ire them of their poisonous us qualifications in a greater or leaser lesser erde degree grae dried pried mushrooms require at least a month of d drying i n and are not really eafe safe until ll 11 after aner four months dr burea has suggested that solution of copper salts be used to impregnate pr egnate cloth inglut breand building n materials as a it preservative against infectious diseases lie ile was led to offer thia this by observing that workers in in copper who absorb a considerable sid erable amount of dust duit from tho the metal eta enjoy a quite general immunity from cholera typhoid fever and like complaints while copper salts protect various materials from para sites prof young in the light of Meyers ca calculations regards it as highly probable that the comet of 1880 1680 was wits a return of that of 1843 concerning the comet of too little is known to form the basis of a theory as bolts to its identity lie he is quite certain however that the comets of 1880 and 1882 arc not the same as they have periods too great to be consistent with such a view lie thinks it more likely that they are twins moving in nearly identical orbits with a common origin in some ancient disruption like that which divided bielas comet in 1840 A report by lions mons girard Gir aril director of if the tile paris municipal laboratory gives ivea some interesting information incoming the adulterations adulte rations by which tho french people are victim zed the most o wa at r is a mixed with various mineral substances often of a poisonous nature it has been certainly ascertained that artificial flours f are tre imported into F france rance frum from rotterdam containing as much as 30 per cent of plaster and 20 00 per cent of sulphate of of 31 flours exam ned ined at the laboratory only 13 proved to lobe be genuine all the others being adulterated the old experience of table turning has given evidence of an wn force which has perplexed scientific men and fostered the trickery of charlatans and professors of the black art in gennino table turning phe ph bomena where the table is too heavy to bo be turned by the unconscious muscular action of the hands placed upon it the movement is said to be slight but is nevertheless remarkable far aday demonstrated that lateral pres pr burcon diiro on the part of tha the operators always accompanied the movement of th the e table and dr percy R wilde now claims to have proven by means of instruments of his own construction that the unconscious lateral pressure is due to a slight motion imparted arted tot to the lie body at eatery even breath by P the action of the tile powerful muscles of the chest it is a very general beneral belief that during ng a consi considerable deable fall a person must be e asphyxiated asphyxia ted by the rapid rush through h the air which constantly accelerates cele cole rates as the distance fallen increases the suicide of a young girl baft by a leap from a hight of about feet lias has raised a discussion of this subject among french savanis ta sa dr Bron ardeli suggested that tb at asphyxiation may h bavo ave caused the girls oris death before the ground was reached mons bontemps eb objects ejects to this view and points point sout out thattie that tha velocity attained in such abfall fall must be sometimes exceeded by railway trains and yet en ginebra and stokers smokers are never alphy mons remy elates states that in ill 1852 1832 ho lie was shown a native ot of the ibalaud of oahu bahu who had fallen from a verified hight of about 1000 feet with but little injury his fall having been broken near the end by byn a growth of ferns and other plants the weight of opinion seema seems to favor the view that if it asphyxia ever results during falls the distance fallen roust must bevery be very great |