Show scientific I miscellany MODS mons paul bert the french physiologist has discovered covered dig that the blood of herbivorous hebi herbivorous vorous animals accle at high elevations contains a much larger proportion of oxygen than tho blood of similar animals hying living in regions but little above sea level the total eclipse of may ath will constitute the important astronomical event of 1883 at the points of greatest duration this eclipse will be total for nearly six minutes but uns un fortunately for observers the central line falls entirely over the south pacific and touches land only in a small coral island in av west wot longitude and 57 south latitude in a recent paper prof willis de hass stated that all the mines of the lake superior region give evidence of having been worked by a prehistoric race and that a greater amount of labor bad been por performed formed by those ancient mines in a space of less than two thousand acres than two thousand men could do in twenty years in our time mr F whitehouse contends the caverns of the island of staffa including the famous Fin gals cae ca e are artificial and created by the hand band of man at some very early period he bases his theory on the gothic shape ol 01 the roofs the sheltered location of the eaves the lace lack of evidence of erosion of the roces rocks b by water ater aird the insufficient ine me ch la anical power of the sea waves at that island to excavate such cave caves according to prof loomis about one fifth of the entire land surface of the globe has an annal rainfall of less than ten in inches clies and still a larger part has a rainfall so small as to mace mare it valueless for purposes of agriculture ri except ia iia the limited dis tracts where who irrigation is practicable in north america an almost almos t rainless region is found in southern california and arizona and in a large dis disc brict about slave lose the yearly precipitation of water is only about ten aiches il ches that great room for improvement in the use of gas exists is shown by dr C W siemens nv who say says the a amount mount of light given out by a paa gas flame depends on the temperature to which the par particles of olid carbon in the flame are raised and dr tyndall has shown that of tho the radiant energy set up in such a flame only the twenty fifth part is in luminous the bob hot products of combustion ca carry rry off at least four simria as much energy as is radiated no so that not more than one hundredth part of the heat beat involved in combustion is converted into light this proportion could be improved it however however by increasing the temperature of combustion mr grant alien allen has drawn this imaginary picture of manas man as evoil zionists ts suppose him to have existed in miocene times A tall and hairy creature more or less erect but with a slouching gait black faced and whiskered with protruding jaws jaw sand and large pointed canine teeth those of each jaw fitted into an i in the opposite row these teethes tee thas mr darwin suggests were used in the combats of the males his III fores head was no doubt low and retreat ing with bony bosses unde underlying flying the shaggy eyebrows aws which g gave ave him a fierce expression something that of the gorilla but already in all likelihood be he had learned to wals habitually erect and had begun to develop a human pelvis as well as to carry his hi head more strail straight lit 11 |