Show scientific miscellany the size of the rosebush sli at hildesheim hanover believed to lo be more than 1000 years old was erroneously stated its height is about 33 38 feet and its branches extend to a width of about 34 feet the velocity of the wind IS R much gloater at high altitudes than on the earth duo due probably to the resistance of the uneven surface of tho tile earth part of a recent balloon trip across the english channel by mr simmons was accomplished at the rate of miles an all hour it is stated that in the volcanic districts of italy an unusually ill high gli barometer is regarded as an indication of the tile approach of an earthquake if this be belief approach ler is shown by Bei scientific entitle investigation vesti gation to be well founded a new field of usefulness will bo be opened to thew the weather cather service in countries liable to violent earthquakes oxygenized water or hydrogen di dioxide oxide is attracting attention in various ways a cheap process for manufacturing fac turing it having been announced this substance is an oily liquid having a bitter taste and differing from water in composition only in containing twice as much oxygen it is a powerful oxidizing agent land Sand is the tile only bleaching substance known that does not injure textile fabrics attempts have been made to utilize it on oil a large scale for bleaching purposes es but the difficulty of preparing it losas has made it so expensive that it lias has been but little known if it can be mada made cheaply it will doubtless be applied to many purposes bert and regnard have suggested its use in in treating wounds as it possesses advantages over carbolic birb 0 lie acid in the absence of danger of poisoning eiso ning and freedom from freia bad sameh smell three kinds of light aro produced during thunderstorms thunder storms and known as forked lightning sheet lightning and ball lightning mr B G jenkins FRAS P R A S contends that only the arst first of these is true electricity thunderstorms thunder storms according to his view being manifestations of chemical rather than electrical ifer ho believes e that hydrogen exi fits in ili the earths upper atmosphere and under certain conditions is drawn into the mixture of nitrogen and oxygen about us the chemical union of ot the hydrogen and oxygen ca causing using the second form of lightning which appears to bo be almost wholly flame among the tho clouds and is the form most frequently seen the thunder is not so much the noise of electric discharge as the report of gas explosions ball lightning is probably not electricity but gas in intense ignition the of the tile last two seems to indicate their non electric character the inventor of the fusing disc mr jacob reese is credited with having alar ili expressed the belief that if it were possible to produce A nameless combustion the tile intensity and quantity of heat obtained from a given i amount of fuel would be very greatly increased thereby mr thomas fletcher of warrington england has succeeded eucce eded in producing a combustion without flame and lately gave at owens college a striking practical illustration odthe of the new theory 11 he e directed erected the flame of a simple gas blowpipe upon a three inch ball of iron wire for a few seconds and then blew out the flame the beat rapidly increased and the iron quickly lickly melted and ran into drops lie ile even succeeded in fusina fusine refractory fire clay the intensity of heat being much greater than eyer before obtained with the fuel used even in the dark the burn burning irig of the gas ga was shown to be entirely invisible it appears that flame really indicates an imperfect combustion |