Show scientific miscellany i dr ott hasle amed that the rattle snakes tail makes ixta vibrations fib rations a second ft mo na F bayol ol 01 lias has found that tile duration of oa oak timber used in ili collieries colli eries Is iner increased veed and sometimes doubled by treatment with tar the barne same substance has however little infill once upon the tile durability of ospino pine the distinctness with which small stars appear in photographs grabke odthe of the croat great comet of last year car leads mr gill astronomer of the capo cape of good hope observatory to suggest the possibility lity of anak I n istar maps magsby by direct photography of f t anc ie heavens heaven S mons brown sequard recently did diot covered that carbonic acid has a re mark ablo action when n blown into the upper opening of tho the larynx insensibility being produced not onla in that organ but in the entire tiro body it is found that ilia effect is i not due to the ilia passage of carbonic acid into the blood as might be supposed but to an in influence exe exerted arted on the nerve centers by irritation of the sensitive nerves of ilia larynx good reason exists for believing that liay hay fever is caused by pollen accord according lagl to I sir mr C B rio wright an english i who says the tile pollen rapidly begins to throw out pollen polle ai tubes when brought brou glit into contact wi with ill the tile warm and moist raucous mucous membrane of tho tile bronchial tracts similarly lie thinks that the spores orsome of some fungus growing on grasses grames must enter tho ilia bronchial tubes of sheep and germinate therein to produce the sheep cough known ton 04 english sheep gro growers the readiness with which cert certain aill solids conduct sound ia is a familiar fact of physics which mons gobin meni men eions as having long iong had a curious a application on tho the rhone considerable quantities tiei of gravel are carried down the river by the current and by placing one end of a cane in tho the w water a and appl applying the other end to the applying King eer the clash oatlie of the moving pebbles agthe as they strike together Is distinctly aicard by persons in in boata boats on tho the surface aur face the is a crackling like produced in frying in ill tha white band sand of the argent mountains at sarepta Sara pta asiatic russia aro are found somo some curious stones they hare bare round cylindrical and target shaped forms form sand and ranee range in size from lumps sin smaller aller than walnuts to masses of more than fourteen inches in length and from two to seven inches in thickness each of the cylindrical s atones tones which are often forked and root in appearance is found to contain a brown kerner with a white spot in tho tile centre these ming singular formations have perplexed flexed many pr per sons including Alex alexander anier von boldt who while de declaring clarin the atones stones to be of recent date could not explain their origin aiex alex becker decker now be licefi that he can with certainty certainly as a sert that they have been produced around the roots of planta plants containing milky juico juice several such plants prow grow abundantly in the white band sand the tile long roots are lacerated by in irl sects and tin the milky fluid flows continually from the wounds sticking the chalky sand firmly around the roots in time the roots die and disappear leaving in their places white often ft hollow bollow kernels together with the brown color ef of the root cor tex the round and tarbet tobies only olly few of which have havo a brown kernel may have formed where the milky fluid ran away into the sand |