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most of them could be restored to fe after 24 hours of submersion, a fow after 50 or 60 AROTIC PLANTS—A TONGUE METER-FADING hours, and ona revived momsatarlly after 110 OF STALL CHARTS-ELECTRIC KORTICULTUBE hours. The time of resuscitation varied from NOT FORGOTTEN A SELF-TENDING LIGHT.) 3 or 10 minutes to 3 or 4 hours or more. It BHIPNOW MELTED BY PLANT KINDS was supposed that insects accustomed to live in. TRAINING FOR DOSTAT VISION SNAPSHOTS Water would resist asphyxiation even longer, but this did not prove to be the case, and cer- tain aquatic species could not be revived after being kept for 19 hours below the surface of aerated water.
OF APPLES PERSISTENCE OF LIFE — EYE
BY ANIMALE-ITALY'S PLAGUES — WAR OF BACTERIA.
A lesson in the training of children's syns is road by Mr. Bradenell Carter from the Eouth The reported superiority of African war. Boers over British in perceiving distant objects
me.
with the chl enemy rheumatism, but Beigel's Syrup never fails to set me right, and I would not be without it for anything you could give "If you think othors would benefit like myself, I have no objection to you publishing this lot. ter, because if it were not for Saigel's I should to-day bo in my grave or an asylum, Yours truly (Mrs.) C. NEALE."
-Dismad brains and worn-out stomachs are ke so much serap iron, fit only for Carlylo's rubbish heap.
No man can fight the battle of life with de- fectivo digestivo machinery. No woman can keep her house spick and span who is tormented and driven oraag by a ringing in the ears, back- ache, headache, side-ache, neuralgia, and the thousand and one complaints brought on by Spring climatic effects on the bodily organism. When the system gets clogged up, or rans
The plant life of Arctic, lauds, beginning at the northern limit of tree growth, near the Arctic Circle, has furnished Gannar Audorson. a Scandinavian botanist, a little-worked and interesting field for study. The snow melts late and suddenly. The temperature ut in termediato places like Spitzbergen does not be finds to be that of country eyes over city down like a two-and-eixpenny watch, then you! ted Waters, Deniors in Photographic permit plant awakening nutil Jone, no flowers eyes, and to depend upon the rolative quickɛess are on the way to the great Bage of Chelana's
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appearing before the 13th, but summer comes on quickly and, with great intensity and pro. longed sanlight, July being the warmest month, and Angust marking the beginning of the cooler season. The soil thaws only to depths of 8 to 30 inches. The polar region is so rust, that nearly
of interpreting minute images that in the one case are anfamiliar. While city eyes may see ne much, the brain is slow to recognise man and beast so much smaller than in nenal experi- once. Mr. Carter, therefore, would not only tast childon's oyes, but enltigate them far
distant vision.
overy kind of earth is represented, but the minfall is usually only 5 to 10 inches, or loss, and the hot winds rob, vegetation of much needed humidity. Under these conditions the flora is as low as possible in the scale of develop-on ment. The plants are dwarfod, many of them being kinds that appear in larger form in southern lands. The total number of flowering species in these northern, wilds is estimated at 900, of which 135 appear in Iceland and 286 in. Gresaland. The number of mossos and fungi cannot be guessed.
In the new spiculture, the length of the boos" Fra House Street, Top Floor Permanent tongues is looked upon as an matter of im. Enlargements, Groups, Views, ete; Devel-portance. The longer the tongue the greater opment Works, Amateurs Requisites is the insects honey-gathering capacity and a now French apparatus, the glossometer, is de- signed to aid the apiarist who, by judicious selection, seeks to develop a long-tongued race. The apparatus in simply a glass vessel for syrup, with a lid containing numerous small porforstions, and a floating scale to show the height of the liquid-when-the-bees just reach it through the holes. It is estimated that the ordinary bee cau draw sweets from a depth of about a quarter of an inch, and that selection can increase its range a twenty-fifth of an inch. Photographs have lost 33 per cent of their Crookes has number of stars in ten years. devised a means of restoring the lost images ind making them permanent by depositing gold in place of the original silver of these images,"
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Exact tests of the several methods of in- fluencing plant-growth by electricity have been undertaken near St. Petersburg by Dr. Spyssh- Hoff and Prof. Kravkoff. In the first experiments, electrified goods were planted; and they not only germinated more rapidly than others but yielded crops from two to six times as hurge. Potatoes and turnips were next grown in soil electrified by copper and zine plates place vertically in the ground and con. nected by wires. The crops were three times as heavy as those grown ou nou-electrified soil from the same seed, with exactly the same treatment. In a third series of experimauts, harley was grown under a network of wires through which constant current was passed, and the ripening was twelve days earlier than on an adjoining plot. The effect on the soil of currenin passed through it was investigated. The soil temperature was considerably increased. the moisture was decreased at first birt afterward increased and the decomposition of vegetable
mattor was hastened.
The new lightship for the Ottor Rock, near Islay, on the west coast of Scotland, has strik- ingly novel fenturos. The vessel is built of steel of extra strength, and the hull is divided into three water-tight compartments, the middle one containing two large wolded steel gas holders. The lantern is placed on a cylindrical mast at a height of 25 feet. A large fog-ball in a belfry of the deck not only has an ordinary tengue that is made to strike by the vessel's roll bat is also provided with a spacial clapper that in operated by the passure of the gas from the holder to the burner. No crow in neaded, the supply of gas being sufficient to operate light and ball for several mouths without attention.
The first will flowers of spring often penstrate the last remaining patches of snow. Hadangard, a Swedish naturalist, notes that the common mezone and other plants even sond forth shoots that pierce moderately thick shoots of ice, forming channels alosely fitting the shoots. He concludes that the heat of the plant, which in exceptional cases may ranch or excond 60 deg, F., causes the melting of a path in the mow or loo.
The number of variaties of apples recognised in 1991, according to Pref. Lazenby, was 339.
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Doctor it in time. Seigel's is a Spring tonie and revivar; it stimulates digestion, and is an oil bath to a clogged mechanism.
The Road to Success, and to everything worth living for, lies in keeping a clear brain, and an internally cleansed and invigorated THEODORO. system.
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Birds are made to take their own pictures by the ingenious apparatus of Mr. O. G. Pike, an English photographer. A bait of fat is placed sa electrical wire, which is so connected with camera that when the bait is removed the camera-shatter is released, giving an instan- tanecus exposure of the sensitive plate. An excellent portrait of the song thrash is among COMPANY, LIMITED.
The arrangement may be used with other timid. the interesting results that have been shown.
creatures, and for getting platures of nocturnal animuls the olectrical wire can be made to ignite a little magnesium as it releases the shutter, giving a strong light at the instant of
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Next to malaria, pellagra, or Italian leprosy, seems to be the plague of the Italian peasantry. It is supposed to be caused by musty Indian corn, and it is first manifested by an appear.
of inflamed patches on the skin, which is followed by lesions of the walls of the stomach and intestines, and then hy serious verrous dia- turbance and fatal madness. In the province of Varans, 3,800 cases wero certified last year, nearly one per cont. of the population being vitius, with 82 of the cases in the final stage.
A curious observation has been made by a Germun bacteriologist in a study of the micro- organisms of a constantly used swimming lath.
The number of bacteris was found to increase regularly during the first day after the bath was newly fitted with water, and then to decrease constantly. There was evidence that the decrease could not be due to the action of light, nor to sedimentation, nor to lack of food. The conclusion reached was that it resalted from struggle of bactoria with each other, many being destroyed.
A WONDERFUL MACHINE.
The second most delicate machine in the world is one in the physical laboratory of the Johan Hopkins University, Baltimore. With 15,0 0 to 125,000 lines to the square inch, and ita diamond point this machine can rulo from
is used as on aid in dividing np a ray of sun- light into its component parts. Bo delicate is the machine that the heat of a human body will throw it out of gear.
The first most intricate and delicate peice of mechanism in the world completely oclipses this. It can carry a bevy weight, and yet a few tiny grains might cause it to break doya. It controls every muscle in the world, and all that wonderful grey and white anbstance that is known as brain.
It encompasses your existence from the day when first, bowling in the nurse's arms," you enter life to your lust proximate indrawn breath.
The stomach," saya Health of this machine, makes gastric juice, the liver bile, and the the seases of hearing, sight, smell, tasto, and brain thought. The brain works in response to touch. A well-ordered well-nourished brain will respond in a way that will best serve the individual's interests.
makes blood; the brain receives impressions, The stomach receives, food, digests it, and digests them, and makes thought. An ex- hausted, worn-out or diseased stomach cannot make good blood, meithor can an exhausted, worn-out, or diseased braia inake good thought."
The conarmed dyspeptic has a worn-out diges- tive machine that is unable to make good blood, and, therefore, an exbausted brain that cannot think, and a body that is a physical wreck. He can't work.
But his case is not hopeless while he has the money to pay for a hottle of Beigel's. Let us quote au example.
Four or five years ago I had a dangerous attack of rheumatic fever, which left me in a very foable state of health. The rheumatism had gone, it is trae, bat nervous debility and indigestion set in and sized me in their very
worst form.
"The pais in my chest and back after dating was such that, after a while, I did not darə to look at anything solid, and eventually my appetite completely vanished.
Once or twica, from shoor necessity, I tried
to swallow a little meat, but the way it punished me soon made me repent of my raslines. I got no sleep that night, and the tortures I suffered doly description
In adiation to the trouble in the chest and back I had a sharp shooting pain in the side of my stomach. It was to severe that I could hardly draw any breath, and I got that morrons and timid that I was positively frightened to be left alone. Often I got up with my husband between five and six in the morning, afraid to stay in bed by myself, and to be left alone in the house would almost drive me mad." Mr. Neale, 97, Penistone Road, Sheffield, and (This story of a deranged digestion is told by, dated November 30th, 1900)
The maistance to death of insects has been the gruesome subject of stady chosen by some European physiologists. Signor Canestrini, an Italian, has investigated the effcots of decapita- tion, and has found that motion could be excited in the headless bodies for many hours as much as 30 hours in ants and certain beetles, 30 hours in flies, 8 days in grasshoppers, and 11 days in sarwigs, whils beheaded prickets jumped after 13 days, and headless butterflies were able to 89 for 18 days. The bonds, too, were sensitive for several hours, and in grasshoppers for as much as "I often read of the wonderful enves in
"In this terrible state one of my married daughters found me. She had come on a visit, aud seeing, me look so very ill. said, "Why dor't you try Mother Seigel's Byrup?"
bottle.
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18 hours and in reale-orickets for 78 hours. The the pas. but it never struck me that it might H. F. CARMICHAEL behaviour of the insets on losing their heada do me good. I resolved to try it, at I go
it, ami I got a varied. The coleoptera tuxned upon their
The effect it had upon me was marked. A baks almost intuediately, but the cricket yerng fellow we had living with us said he and some others remained upon their loge had never seen such a change in his life, and antil death, and ants and bees remained long ho was right. I took about a dozen bottles in immovable, as if not realising what had all, but long before the twelfth bottle the pain could sat happened. M. Devzat a Frenchman, has in my side and chest had gone and I
as well as ever. Life and energy soon returned experimented upon the resistance to drown, to me, and a load was lifted off my chest, Ing. Ants under water soon showed signs of I am getting on in years now, and in the distress and then became quite inert, but Spring and fall of the year I suffer somewhat
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