Show SOIE scientific fl C miscellany tb the a record of thunderstorm thunderstorms thunder storm storms kept at the ilia pic da du midi observatory was recently examined when it was found that of tho the thunderstorms thunder storms observed from 1873 to 1882 only 23 were w ere produced at a light above feet the metals which arc are usually ra regarded as firul eyen iron have been found by mon mons Dern demarcay areny to emit real vapors at relatively low le temperatures tempera era turee tures cadmium for instance volatilizes lati lizes at degrees and zinc at dez decrees rees mons liaa has thai eliat the blood of crabs and other crusta crustaceans cei has the tile ealine baline constitution and the strong and bitter taste of tho water thoy inhabit tho the blood i of sea fishes does not partake of fligar peculiarities of the water and thus shows a great superiority over fruit of crabs wheat grains have a vitality ita lity which resists intense cold after having been exposed for five years to the tile varying summer and ft inter winter temperature of eighty one deg degree sixteen minutes mortn latitude three hundred grains of wheat were sown A a australia and sixty of them terminated ermat producing plants from three ta four feet high with cars containing thirty grains each prof feser of af munich bl has h pew been cn tn to show that a connection exists between diet and liability lity dp infect infectious lous aisea diseases es in trials trial mado oh on rats inoculated with ilia poison of cattle di distemper ho he demonstrated tho the fact that the animal aich had bon fed on vegetable diet were quick v vat at tacked cal by the ilia disease clulo those which had been fed on meat exclusively resisted the effects of tho the inoculation ula tion in tile course of a comparison of the site size of the planets a somewhat imaginative astronomer remarks apply the principle that attraction li Is in proportion to the maas and a man who wei weighs elji pounds on the earth v eigas on jupiter and only olly 58 on mars blare while on the asteroids he could play with boulders bowl ders for dormar mar hies bles hurl burl hills like Mil tons angels angel fl lea leap pinto into the fifth story windows with ease tumble over precipices without harm and go around the little worlds at seven jumps it has been calculated according to prof schuster that if the sun were made of the hardest steel and thoroughly magnetized the tile fl distance istance between it and the earth is so great that it could not affect our magnets the connection between the sun and the earth whereby magnetic storms occur on immediately after the appearance of sun spots is there fore one odthe of the greatest scientific mys thus far the efforts of physicists leave utterly failed to account for such phenomena mons has produced a new substance which ho he calls pot eline from of gelatine glycerine and tannin he ile claims that tho the compound p und is absolutely impervious to air and among the purposes IQ which be he has applied it is ilia preservation of meat it becomes nearly liquid at a temperature of degrees deg tees and aid spreads over the meat tilling killing alib th germs of putrefaction and preventing proy tile entrance of new germa germs mons asserts that all the freshness of meat thus treated will bo be retained for two months asses milk ia is an excellent substitute for human milk and at the paris Ilo hospital sital for assisted children all infants which foi foe and reason are da deprived of human nursing aro are now allow lowed ed fo to suck directly from the teats of asses the efficacy of this method of bf feeding is best shown by statistics during a period of six months eighty six bix C children hildren affected with conzen congenital ital and contagious diseases were fed at the paris institution six received cows milk from a bottlo and only one recovered of the forty two tilo nursed at at the teat tent of the goat eight recovered and thirty four died and of thirty eight cuned at thereat the teat of the ilia ass t twenty eight recovered and only ten died to test tho ilia effect of ra rifled air on the animal system drs J deppart Gep part have experimented on a dog by enclosing the animal in a box from which the air could be gia gradually dually withdrawn while the tile results were being watched through a glass ilass window in in the box no effect seemed to be produced until the ilia pressure was reduced to half an atmosphere n mo io when the animal became restless and his respiration grew deeper and faster at sit a little t further rarefaction the movements became uncertain aej addy at a third ot of an atmosphere iho flo animal fell into n deep sleep which it was found could be suffered to last for six or pr seven hours without proving faal fatall chit b cutata at a I little more than a fl fifth rif t th of ali ebere paroxysms of difficult breathing I and convulsions soon death aeronauts Aero Ajero are affected io in this way ascents accents I bul t the tha symptoms occur before th tho air be comes nearly soran fied which is ts I quite likely due to abe alle acton action of the tile cold encountered V by J |