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Attitudes are calculated from baroy..et rie records according to a formula worked out by Laplace. It is important to know how accurate this formula really is, and to test it Cailletet has divised a photo graphic camera, to be carried on balloons, for recording at the same instant the

SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A Tarpuy Appreciated Proptcr- beight of the barometor and the actua Sourn AraicaN Rarrant -Metat Va- height of the balloon as shown by the rok | muToGgRaPRY~ ALrIve TemPera~} @!8tance apart on the photographie plete gruaes—~A Hetent-Measvrinc CAMERA of prominent objects cm the earth’s surfice

Osoxe at Home—Ieisa Masoxry or | The apparatus coneists,of a priematic box, Last Cenrury—Bairais’s Eaarciesr | with lenses on the upper and lower faces,

between which a band of sensitiz-d celluloid ie moved by clockwork and -x-~ posed at regular intervals. One lens give a@ picture of the scenery below,the otber of the needle of the barometer; and in a recent ascent to a mile and a half 26 photographs were obtained.

A system of 160 electr cally-operated clocks at Brussels, Belgjum, has been in use, with some modifications, since April, 1857.

Ozone, on account of its powerful oxidizing acticn On organic matter, may play a considerable part in purifying the air. It may not be generally known, the London Lancet points out, that every simple and effectual way of bringing ozone into the bouse consists in first suspending moist linen sheets in the keen dry wind, and afterward hanging them up in the house. The air in the room will thus be~ come considerably charged with ozone, and its presence will be easily detected by its peculiar emell, while a moistened starch iodide paper will instantly turn blce. Why ozone is accumulated in wet clothes in this way is not quite uncecstood; but it may be due to the rapid passage of the oxygen in the eir overa large wet surface. (tis not improbable that this interesting phenomenon bas much te de with the cleansing of our linen articles of clothing. The smell of ozone in big laun- dries on bringing not quite dry linen in from cold dry air is almost more than is agreeable.

A singular discovery was lately made by a firm of Belfast coniractors, who had undertaken to restore the leaning spire of an ancient church at Newmarket, County Cork. On attempting to take down the spire, it was found that the stones of which it was built were Lermeticaily~ bound to one another with a combiaation of molten lead and sand, which rendered it absolute ly imposeible to separate one stone from another, the whole spire being, as it were, covered ia the wolffia brasiliensis, of the | ove solid block. The whole building in Duckweed family which appears on stag. | fact, had been erected with nd mortar nant pools asa greenbali a thirteenth of ) except the mixture oflead and sand. ag inch in diameter, As tue epire could not be taken down, it

It is very curious that the great obstacle | was ingeniously moved entire, and brought encountered in tunneling uaoder the snow- back to its original perpendicular position, covered Alps is the excessively high tem- The first English cry dock, late re perature. In the construction of the Mout; Searches by Mr. Mex Oppenheim show, (nis tunnel, according td siatistics collect- — ordered by Henry \ i 12 1°95 for cd by M. Victor Brandicourt, the higheet Portsmouth, and was finished in 1496 temperature recorded was 86° F , which | without foreign assistance, although dry was reached at a point near the center of decks appeer io have been already in use the tunnel about 5100 feet beneath the, Ou the Continent.. The dock, which was mountain summit, on which the mean Jarge enough for three masted ships, was temperature is 27°. The St. Gothard | Of wood and cost 193 pounds ! ae was still hotter, a temperature of 95° A case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a having been observed in the center for; $0@t upsets the deliet in the immunity of this animal, aod shcws that the milk of goats sheuld be used with the same care ag ainst infection as that of cows.

Duy Dock.

Seeds of the kola tree, (Cola acuminata) are «tated by the Secretary of the Roval Botanic Society to have been planted at Kew as long ago as 1880, and the plants propogated were distribuied to numerous tropical stations, where the nuts are now produced. Until recently, however, there has .been no great demand for the produc- tion, notwithstanding its very remarkable properties. The nuts, several of which are contained ina flesny fruit four to six inebes long, have been ured in their vative home in West Africa as far back as it is possilide to trace, and they give to people eating them great eniurance of prolonged labor and exertion without fatigue, the kola paste being estimated to be five times as -ustaiging ss cocoa, The kola nuts contain over two per cent. of caffeine. They are claimed to lack the tendency of coffee and cocoa to create biliousnese, and that of tea to cause nervous excitability, while being fae more nutritious than any of the three. In medicine, they act as a powerfu! nerve stimulant.

From ten years’ statistics at 278 stations in Cape Colony, Dr. A. Buchan tiods that the annua) rajinfail over South Africa, to the north of the latitude of Clanwilliam, steadily increases from west to east the amount on the Atlantic cosst falling saort of five inches a year, whereas on the east coast for eome distance to the north and south of Durban, it exceeds forty inches. Ono the south and southeastera coasts it exceeds twerty inches.

The effect of certain metals on photo- graphic plates seem to be due to vapour of the metals. Evidecce of this has been obtained by Prof. J.J. Thompson, acting on @ suggestion from Sir Jobn Stokce, by pasting @ stream of air Leitween z nc plates acd the sensitive plates, the air causing & distortion of the photozraphs.

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: CAVENDISH HAPPENIN Js. & é a eae » . ie Centennial Divisiou celebrated itseeventh Cher ‘ aoniversary in Cavendish Hall on Friday » r evening, the 24th inst. Stirring temperan:e ) ‘ addresses were delivered by G.W. P., J. D 4 C. Clark, Rev. G. C. Robertson, Rev. C ) Pectoral 4 W. Jackson, and P.G. W. P., A. Simp f son. The programme also included « musicand some excellent readings and » . 9 recitations. costs more than other medi- ‘ ) : ( One week previously we were > cines. But then it cures more ¢ favored in out Literary Society by a very > than other medicines. ( interesting and scholarly paper by Rev. G. % |C. Robertson. Subject: “Prof. Drum-

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43 are mond’s writings stated in the discussion rary relief, Ayer’s Cherry ( that followed ad they would do so at the Pectoral does not patch up or « first opportunity. Thus a stimulus is

» palliate, It cures. @ ‘given to reading standard authors. ) ¢ The Rev. G.'C. Robinson has received, » Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, ; a> Christmas ee fur coat ceil ; , ( and cap from the Cavendieh section of his Whooping Cough,—and every church and from the Stanley section a » other cough, will, when other , vice set of sleigh robes. ee ‘ tev. C. W. Jackson also received from remedies fail, yicld to ( his congregation a'véry fine coon coat. ) 4 These gentlemen are exceedingly popular A er’s a in the community, and are always ready to y ¢ take the platform in advocacy of any good cause, The semi annual examination of

Cavendith echoo! was held on Friday the 24th, and was well attended by the people

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of the settlement. The scholars, as } Tt has a record of 50 « usual, acquitted themselves creditably, ) years of cures. 4 When the examination was over—Santa

Clads appeared dressed in his garments of

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@% J. 0. Ayer Co., Lowell, M {§ | school full of children in Queen’s County.

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Christmas is qu:e here today, not much to interest oue except it be the smell of roast turkey and goose, which even while we write tickle onr olfac wry o gaor.

December 25th.

A Reminiscence of Exhibition Day.

BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE.

“Well, no,’’ the boy said, ‘‘the thing didn’t go off exactly as I expected. You see, I was the sixth boy in the class, that was next to the head when the class formed left in front, and I was pretty near the first boy called on to declaim. I had got a mighty good ready and had a bully piece too. Ah, it was a rip staver.’’

And the boy sighed as he paused to lift a& segment out of a green apple, and placed it where it would do the most good, for a cholera doctor. We asked what piece it was.

“Spartacus to the Guladiators,’’ he said. *‘ Just an old he raker of a piece. I got it all by heart, and used to go clear out to the Cascade to rehearse and hook strawberries. Old Fitch’’—Mr. Fitch was the boy’s preceptor, one of the finest educators in*the state—‘‘he taught me all the gestures and inflections and flub drubs, and said I was just laying over the biggest toad in the puddle—’’

**Excelling all your competitors, prob- ably Mr. Witch said,’’ we suggested.

**Yes,’’ the boy replied,, ‘‘he’s a toney cld cyclopedia on the patter, is old bitchy. But him and me was both dead sure I was goin’ to skin the rag off the bush—’’

““Win all the honors,’’ we rected.

**Yes,’’ he said, ‘‘and the way it went off was bad. You see, I didn’t feel easy in my Sunday clothes on a week day to begin with. And my collar was too tight and my necktie was too blue, and I was ina hurry to get off early, so I only blacked the toes of my boots, and left the heels as red as a concert ticket. And the crowd there was in the school-house. Jammed. Everybody in their good clothes and everybody looking solemn as Monday morning. When my name was called something came up in my throat as big as a football. I couldn't swallow it and I couldn’t spit it out. And when I got up on the platform—oh, Godfrey's cordial! did you ever see a million heads without any bodies?’’

We felt ashamed bf cur limited expert- ence while we confessed that we could not recall having witnessed such a_phe- nomenon,

**IT never did till then,’’ the boy went on, “‘but they were there, for a fact, and I began to remember when these heads danced round and round the room that I had been forgetting my piece in the last five minutes just as fast as I ever for- got to fix the kindling wood at night, But I commenced. I got along with ‘It had been a day of triumph in Capua’ and ‘Lentulus returning with victorious eagles’ and all that well enough, but when I got on into the heavy business, I was left, sure: If Spartacus had talked to the gladiaters as I did, they would have thought he was drunk and hustled him off to bed. It was awful. I stumbled along until Il came to ‘Ye stand here now like giants as ye are. ‘The strength of brass is in your rugged sinews, but to-morrow some Roman Adonis, breath- ing sweet perfume from his curling locks, will with his dainty fingers pat your red brawn and bet bis sesterces upon your blood?’ "?

* «Dat was excellent,capital,’’ we said, applauding, for the boy had growled off the last sentence like a first heavy villain.

‘Oh, yes, Js it though?” he said, with | Souie® ASperity,

‘*Weill, that's the way I was going to ay it that Friday, but what I did say was ‘The strength of brass is in your rugged sinews, but to-morrow afternoo (you see I got to thinking of a baseball match) some Doman Aronis_ breathing sweet perfumery from his curly socks, | will pat your bed rawn and bet his sister sees your blood.’ ”’

‘*Did they laugh?’’ we asked.

“Oh, no!’’ he replied, with an inflec- tion that type won’t take. ‘‘Oh, no; they never smiled again; they didn’t. When he says, ‘If ye are beasts, then stand here waiting like fat oxen fer the butcher's “sife.’ I told them, ‘If ye be cat fattle, then wait here standing like a butcher for the carving knife.’ And I got worse and worse until it came to this, ‘Oh, Rome, Rome, thou hast been a_ tender mother to me. Thou hast taught the poor timid shepherd boy, who never knew a harsher tone than a finte note, to gaze into the giaring eyeballs of the fierce Numidian lion, even as a boy upon a laughing girl. Thou hast taught him to drive the sword through rugged links ef mail and brass and warm it in the marrow of his foe’ ’

‘*Pravo!’’ we shouted.

* Cheese it,’’ he said, sententiously; ‘‘I didn’t say it just that way. I said, ‘Oh Rome, thou hast ten a hinder mother to me. Thou hast taught the poor boy who never knew a sheep ‘note to glare into the langhing ear of a fierce Numidian eyebaH even as a lyin’ boy at a girl. Thou hast tanght him to mail his ragged brass through swords of link, and marry it ‘in the warmer of his foe’ ”’

‘‘And then?’ we asked.

**T eried,’’ ‘he said, ‘‘and went down. Everybody was cryin’. They all had ‘their faces in their handkerchiefs or he- hind fans, and was shaking’so it nearly jarred the school house. ’

‘*You should practice elocution during ‘vacation,’’ we suggested, ‘and you will not fail again."’

He bolted the rest of the green apple, threw his bare feet up in the air, and walked around on his hands 1n little circles. ‘'Don’t have no’speakin’ in va- eation,’’ he said.

And we knew that, boy-like, he was going to let the day and the morrow take care each of its own evils, and we won- dered as we came away how many fathers would recognize their own boys in the hero of this sketch, and if dear old Fitch, the oldest boy, with the clearest head and the tenderest hear? we ever knew would renyember him.

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Ascent of Pike's Peak.

While making the ascent of Pike’s peak, before the completion of the cogw heel rail- road, a traveler had an amusing experi- ence—amusing after it was over.

Speaking of that experience, the moun-

fnineer said: ‘I hired a burro at the Half Way house, stating that I would not re- turn until next day, as I was ambitious to sleep, ‘if just one night,’ on the highest inhabited spot in the United States—the summit of Pike’s peak. The liveryman gssured me that the burro was all right. ‘All you've to do is to hold on, and he'll carry you through,’ he said.

‘In about half a mile the burro stopped short, puffed out his sides as if he was very tired, and looked around at me with such a sorrowful expression that 1 thought he was surely broken down and sick near un- to death, I dismounted and led him about half a mile, sympathizing for him and re- serving my opinion of the liveryman who would with malice aforethought hire toa tourist a broken down burro, Finally I re- mounted, and had not proceeded a quarter of a mile when the burro again stopped, began blowing like a bellows, and looked

around at me with his sleepy, blinking | eyes, ; ashamed to impuse upon a sick mule. I

mutely asking me if I was not was, and dismounted. Coming to an al- most level part of the road I remounted, and in less than 1,100 yards he stopped and gave me another mute appeal. I then thought that the burro was really about te yield up the ghost and was fearful that he would not last until the summit was reached. I walked along up the remain- ing two miles of very steep grade, the burro trudging along after me with appar- ent difficulty. On arriving at the summit I gave the reins to the liveryman, relat- ing the circumstance, and after expressing my opinion of the keeper who rented to me the sick mule suggested that the burre be not fed for at least a few hours.

‘The liveryman’s face wore a broad grin, and he gave me a look which seemed to express sympathy for my overkindness or greenness, He gave the burro a thump in the sid@, saying: ‘That's one of his old tricks. This burro ain't no more sick than you are—not as much.’

‘‘The burro kicked up his heels and scam pered away as if enjoying his bunko game.’’—Los Angcles Times.

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