Show miscellany plateau the eminent french naturalist finds that a june bug can exert is as great a force in proportion to its size us as a locomotive ann An alkaloid from the thomac jiacallo nia callo alloa a tree of yucatan is 18 recommended by dr rosado as superior to quinine in the lie treatment of intermittent fevers french government commissions sect seem n to favor attempting tho formation of an Altz algerian eriar sea by flooding the daliara Sal Sali iara arap nitwit notwithstanding li stand ill objections made grapes exposed to sunlight contain according to dr A L do N illan villan ova three and three fourths p per C r cent moro more sugar and than onofer one per cent less acid than those which have remained in darkness the city of paris lias has granted a piece of ground in the p park ark of mont souris for a school of the useful insects such as bees aud and silk borros nor ros the ai auxiliary insects or those useful to plants plant sand and the noxious insects will all be andied english a havo have given various facts showing that human subjects havo have been in many cases infected with a much dreaded worm parasite by mosquitoes these carasi parasites tes breed breed in countless numbers in in the human body usually in invading vadin the circulation in the evening increasing till midnight and ind then retiring to other parts of the system the gathering in of cloth stretched in 11 largo argo irgo bleach fields is a new european application of the clec electric trio railway the tile raffi railway vav constructed has twenty one brandies branche each about a third of a mile in length the pieces of cloth arc are connected at the ends BO so as to form long iong lengths and the railway trucks roll up as much in half an hour as could bo to done by the old method in an entire day the annual meeting of tho the british association for the advancement of science will commence at southampton aug the french associations eleventh meeting at rochelle ang alth and the american associations meeting at at montreal aug some of the most remarkable discoveries of of the the year are usually announced at these great gatherings of sa the present increase odthe of alio population of 1 england from excess of births over deaths is about one and a half percent per cent a year car and procter computes that if tile diio world had started with ono one million inhabitants years ago an estimate probably far too low and had made a uniform increase at that rate rat etho the earths present population would would bo be even if the worlds population had been only ten 1000 years ago and trio samo same rate of increase had been kept up that is now in progression pro progress gressin in england the number would now bo be so great that such globes as this awil earth W would ula only give gio standing room for the vast population sup os ing the entire surface of e each globe F to bo be mccu occupied pied tt tho the failure of seeds to grow daring during the cold season proves that a ii higher g or temperature is necessary for their germination and it is a very natural supposition that the best results are to bo be obtained when the beathas been raised toas high a degree as possible without destroying the seeds prof JL 11 baillon shows that this is far from being the case all seeds in an experiment repeated several times lie he lias has obtained a iauch more rapid growth from almond and walnut seeds in a house keptot a temperature varying during the 24 hours from 41 to 59 60 degrees fahrenheit than in a house heated to 59 to 77 degrees furthermore tho the plants started in tho the warm house were earlier arrested in th development than those from the tile cool house A further furl lier study of this subject might lead to valuable results in sli the most favorable temperature for hot houses for tho the various various kinds of seeds and in glinting pointing inting out the plants which cannot bo go e profitably forced in hot houses LIT renan has expressed tile belief that a cent century ur y hence mankind will study little else 11 physical science tho tile curious ideas concertin conc con cernin ernins natural p phenomena ben omena entertained by the J japanese panes a few decades ago arc are illustrated 1 lust rated by a work teaching of heaven and earth written in 1821 and just translated into engliski sli according to this work the earth and heavens are governed by a male and anda a female prin principle cip e kain rain is a changed form of tho male principle and the vapor under the earth of the fornale when mien the rain sinks into the earth it pursues the female principle tile earth is the mother of all thin things and the heaven is is the air or wind in wh which icil the shining and stars archung aro hung the heavens move from east cast to west contrary to the motion of running wa water ter which flows from west to t cast some of the water in the carth flow sto the north where it is turned into vapor by the e car earth thair air and forms clouds which are in turn changed to rain by the wind ivind in tho the male season or summer tho tile quantity of water increases while it diminishes in winter the female season is produced by the mingling of the male and female principles A kind of beast is said to inthe in the air with the thunder which is not considered strange because at a certain island about ten thousand miles fron japan there is a bird birl which is covered with fur instead of feat feathers liers and cats fire earthquakes aro are subterranean thunder snow ia is vapor which lias his become frozen fog is also this vapor haze is tho the kapur mixed with volcano smoke the writer promises in conclusion to make the actions of nature such as quite clearah clear at another time such was japanese science among the educated classes a half century ago |