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The eucalyptus, claimed to be the world's most useful tree, and the source of our fature timber and fus), embraces about 150 species. I These are adapted to `n great variety of soils and climates, some species thriving in swamps while others grow in arid deserts, and some reach a great size at six times the rate of growth of the ook, yielding abundnot faol in six or eight years
In Australia, where the trees have been most multivated, the hardwood timber is not only used for many parposas, but la exported to many distant countries. Dr. A. J. McClatchie, who is encouraging the planting of these tress in the | United States, Ands that they exert a bonsficial juftaence upon the atmosphere by absorbing the water from staguant pools, changing oxygen to -czone by their exhalations, and destroying germ a
REDUCTIONS by the leaves Battered upon marshy ground.
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Human life is possible under varied con ditione, and, if a recent raport in correct, British New Gaines how a tribe whose on vironment has made thom incapable of walking- These people live in a awmapy region, and. as walking and causeing are alike impractic
de, they rumsin constantly in their deelings. which are built in the teams just aloes the marshes. Disuse has caused their limba to shrin, while their truuks have become bloated, giring them an apo-like appearance and guit.
Antemie pare us and convalescents seeking strength and great benefit in the grape-care, which is an autumn attraction at Wiesbaden The officts an orpl ined by the sugar, which forms 25 to 50 per cent, of the grepos
In the electric farines of H. Goldschmidt a ion of steel is made from the ors by 4,000 horen. newer hoars of energy, and from scrap iron by
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Mma. Patti say that "the Apollo nevar has given her the al ghtest, trouble and that the new concert traud is one of the most wonderful and perfect piano-players tirat she has ofur suði," →Hongkong. L5B, etohár, 1982,
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The thoughts of all scientis men continue to turn to the marvel of r dium, which, sa Prof. C. V. Boys declarce, is ant a mere mystery, but a miracle. Rudio vetivity, first obarvad in orsoium, is the extraordinary characteristic of radium, and it soms to be qaito indepɔn- dent of chemical combination or chemicaleliänizə, The activity is even ibarersed by the intense cold of hydragon in liquid form. Particles, of inconceivable minuteness and highly eletrifid, ars projected with tremendous velocity, and in the spintbariscope of Crookes the bombardment of a fluorescent soren by a mier-wcoph spock of radiom giver shes producing the affret of mo nlight on rippling water. The omination a penes to be of three kinds, all of which affect photographic plates and render sir cou [2484 * | ductivo ofalectricity. The first kiad, apparently comprising particles of a size comp trable with hydrogen atoms, is rundily abs rhelorstopped by obstacles; the secon), thous ad timem Jar. penetrates such objects as a foot of slamicam or wood or fire.sighios of an inch of lead; and the third grosti resembles X-134,
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In the vast space betw. Mes and Jupiter, a little plane was discore ed on the Brit day of the nineteenth century, and ine tuon tan formuse gap in the phas of the solar system he been filled by the Ruding of a ring of nearly 500 tiny worlds. "It is cal wated that there astero.da togather would fara. A globe 8:0 mies in diameter, or a litle more than thousandth of the size of the oirth. Vesta, the largest of the grou, is 518 miles in
required exposures of two hours with the 96-Inch | Cromaly reflector. Stars fainter than the seven. teenth magnitude were included,
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