Show 40 i p OF tur 17 of cultivated plants winch which DC de lecog as useful are natives of ma r d by america while the original home of only three is detill considered doubtful gnosca I dr thomas reids enumeration of six senses namely the sense of oc r e p of sound taste and of smell instead of the the five we have been accustomed to w attribute to in man an i so VAST of the tile a at t j roo mo sphere resting upon u p n tile surface odthe of the earth that it is not surprising if the considerable local fluctuations of its pr suro as shown by the barometer produce some effect upon aitho earulis eart lis crust it has been af fuu y tho the streams flowing through the chalk yield aa an increased supply of water when the pressure upon the earth is anil and a diminished supply when the pressure is a becoming beco nung greater or in other words when the barometer ia is I arising ATTEN ATTENTION Trox WAS first given to double stars by sir W herschel who dis discover coved a at large number of f them known a as a double sta start r is s ox afi course caused when two of the lica heavenly renly bodies arela ancl v er ery nearly in ifil n aline line with the earth one of them being much farther air away than the other but heated observations have shown that many of them thern ar are c really syster ayin ain acieh oue one comp component onen t 11 revolves around L e other the number oi of dincov discoveries cries of OP double stars made up to the time considerably exceeds KINO wife a new serial by james be berry rry bensko whose anonymous novel last year att met with I such success will be begun iltha in the overland Tc erland for march 1883 prof pid martin kellogg in a sensible paper entitled our west will try to correct some eastern ia careful per w will Dof contributed be broha es 31 vf VS I r i if H shinn ri acte poems ins by mill millicent i cen t washburn Was liburn shyin edward warren and others stories and sketches by josephine Clif clifford flord mary 11 field and others will also alzo be found ip the number wilh all the usual departments serials be rials reviews ac MR F FARADAY lias has a ar V novel ticy f d disease aas germs s and eimm pidemia acs ics JaHe he stales P afteu r s all ces bow blat ajtai microbes mic robes may by the action of oxygen lie be modified into comparatively harmless organisms JU assuming timing the change thus demonstrated it appears not improbable that on the other hand band harmless organisms inis may become altered into diseased parasites when lacking sufficient oxygen and just as this tion I may giada deadly cl character rater clr t L P to the organisms maso so may an build abuce of oxygen destroy the virulence of the germs A gale may therefore be more effective in stopping j epidemics than aay any amount of disinfect ants I which after all 11 may be really harmful by reducing the proportion of oxygen in the air and it is possible to imagine fighting d disease is base with a s steam ep engine ine and afan I hirji inar north american review for march opens with an article on P moncy money t i shi i elections u by henry f george who brings to the discussion of that hackneyed subject a ea c nr full avs and keen insight he points cut out with admirable na clearness one source our political ill ills es a remedy W that I decma I both eminently antly practicable and efficient robt S writes of iliof subjugation of til the e mississippi I asip pi a work w h ichi n his opinion and in that of tit mis misais lis i lr s co i mal of which aich ale he is is a member can be accomplished only ellby estby employing for the of deepening and straightening the channel the forces developed by the river itself moncure D conway c contributes a very skillful study of gladstone as a man and a statesman showing how bow even the more or ai ts ii I no eurom a 64 nent ti ina ot sya ett make ninke hini the foremost englishman of liis his time lion george W julians julian I railway influence lit in the land danl office la is a n grave rave judicial df the practices which ag against the of oatlie the ah IS ad n fad tile deter ei i if actions of the ilic it von fur for corpo relious mil liotis upa millions of acres odthe of the public do domain ninin richard A proctor writes odthe of alic pyramid of Cheop prof win G of protective taxes and wages elizur wright of some aspects of life all and flip finally ally there ii duill ajon need by arf G stanley ua ila proff Prof Felix elix thomas thorn s hunter and dr lary putnam jr ht 31 lafayette place nen new york and for salo ealo by booksellers generally r 11 il |