New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-04

r,,,s must be some extraordinary u1hne wo
u-,,.;.s omitted IN all thsse and s'ml1 eN;1s.
,;,ee The csble breaks sometimes OFT OF
-.,., and sone.imss st the bottom. Ao ocsa1
rio. d,ep received k1r hundred miles OF
..N. ,long II, bed in TIE last expedition Of tie
.,;n. One would think that if il lay IN sszsgh'
nps or hupg m . cstenary curve, paIed o. oo.o
ends BY the retiring shps every mn oi u "'u''
ak, and not col! e)uld ,tsy 10 It. fe. one
nf ,,.ss ms,berns,cians tells us lie hs pyor:d thst
al stfsin ceases TIE nomeDt the c.ole touches oot
TN, and ays Itself along. Tie other says .AasC
can pever0. There We are
With ell our science, much we koo~ ao9u' II
Tie Royal Society pressntsu Us with another eIsm-
ne ~ of,uspended Judgment in the nstter OF the al
,oys bo,esls and the magnetic needle, objecs OF
brg ard curious observation about which amo'I
,, little 10 known DOW as vas century sgo. az
Pon: Barrow, the ultima thule or north cipe oi the
American continent, between Mackenzles RIVER
AID Behring'S Strsts, the Brtsh relief inip Pio7er
waited for Sir John Fraukn-waited and hoped
for twe l,Dg years, from the Summer OF 1872 70 me
Summer Of 1854, when hope failed, aud her crew
cane home. During those tao long, drea'y, sohd
Winter nights, Capt. Mssaire and hi' officers
amused themselves with observing and recOrdiog
for seventeen months unremittiugly the hourly va
ris.ous Of the needle and the shifting scenery OF
the Aurora. Their observatory wss the sand Of the
shore with dome Of ice slabs lined with seal-skia
far. Their instruments had c me from Woolwlch;
their observations we're as sklful and exic. as
thofe Of their fellow t:ers at Toronto, and their
results have been reduced, under the eye of the
some master mind in London, MsjorGen Sabine,
tie highest authority Lying in thi' particular branch
Of science. To the aston'shment Of sll, these o.
servstops at Point Barrow have turned on. to be
in soms respects the direct reverse OF those az To-
rooto. While he regular solar de,ins.ion of the
needle follows the same law, the needle bending
f,ihsst 20 the east aud west az the sane hours OF
the day at both plsces the disturbance diurnh va
ration at the one is just the opposite oil wds' IL s
1t the other-the west Of one agrees with the esst
Of tie other aud the east Of the one with the west
Of the other, difference the more remarkable
s:rce at both pisces there csn be no doub; that
the suns heat is tie cause Of tie disturbance Of
the needle At the same time the auroral e1h-
titons keep time with the magnetic disturbances
Out Of one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight
hourly observations in three months Of le52-53,
four hundred and sixty one showed an aurora; and
out Of one thousand eight hundred and talrtyseveu
in the corresponding quarter Of the following year,
SIX hundred and sixteen exhibitions of the aurora
took place. Six days out of seven, during these
s;x months of pight the auroral Light replaced the
sun light For the first time, then, in the annas OF
meteorological science, the appar.ions of this polar
ko-o kaan utuIai etasdv and lbnQ anouOl
10 fx them 10 the different hours of the solar day.
and il is found that not single re,ord of their ap-
pesrance was made between eleven O'Clock IN tne
morning and three in the afternoon, whereas one
hundred and two ate recorded at one o'clock az
night. From tbs, their fay0rite hour, their
yists regulsrly decrease in number until mid
day, and increase as regularly through all the
evening hours up to midnight. But this beauti-
faI cycle of illumination for those polar wastes
leaves ne in total dsrkless to its hidden cause.
And, to m.ke perpexing corjectures more per-
plexed, there seems 10 be law of agreenen.
between the frequency of the aurors and the
disturbances of the needle toward tue west but
not toward the east.
Flounderirg in these profundit'es, let US waste
little more energy upon Oz)ne-Ozone that inter-
lection Of science that Dudeian trusteestip of the
las. five years that shooting g-match turkeys head
Of transcendepta conjecture among the philosophers
Of mole cules and equivalents A new idea about
Ozone "Csrne, let US have il, every one viii cry.
Then here it if. The chemist Clsusius concluies
that ozone is simply splitup orygen. Oxygen really
consists of psrs of atoms, and ozone Of single a.oms
Of oxygen notpaired. Everybody now knows thai
Oxygen is a meek, mild, patierc gas, compared with
its furious cousin, Ozone, but wherein lay the es-
sence Of this difference Of temper none has been
able 10 ssy. Now it s out. Oxygen as Sweden
borg would enunciste it, corresponds to con-
iusa ,ociety, aud Ozone to siogle-olessedDess.
The married duets Of oxygen are in harmony those
Of ozone in discord. The oxide pairs are 50 en-
crossed with their domestic affairs that they msddle
with others not st al, or are only rousod to
activity by the approach Of ssme ravishing
hesu CT lovely belle Of metaloid; but
tAe unhappy benedcts and spins.e,s of ozone are
forever on the qpi r:re for alliance or even for
misalhance, 10 be broken up as soon as made.
Dumss Laurent Gerhard. suspected that "eyen
IN simple gases the molecules are composed of
more than one atom, that hydrogen WAS H. H,
AMI Chlorire Cl, Cl bu. il remsns for Causius 10
account TO- ozore as the odd a,oms of o, o driven
pel.mel ssurder By elect7ci.y, or left out 10 its
invitations 10 dinner by phosphorus, and to exp.in
by tbs ample method why rsrifed oxygen or
oxygen mixed with hydrogen and nitrogen is more
es,ily "ozJnif,d' (sic) than the denser or the
p-rer gas. Heat is vibration; vibration brings
~ 81. .r;ti in Of