The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-28

From chemical analy sis and the char
acter of prevailing vegetation, kel'nCr
and lmai find Japan 5 soil poor.
Glover does not seed in New Zealand
because there are no humblc-litcs TO
fertilizo the flowers. Various attempts
which have been made to introduce the
insects have proven futile, but Mr.. j.
c. Firth has succeeded at length in get
ting consignment Of mble-bees,
which were transported in torpid
state in chilled room. If successful in
acclimatizing them, Mr.. Firth expects
them to'save him IS, 0J0 year in clo-
yer seed, all supplies now having to be
imported.
At the London Health Exhibition Mr..
Francis Gallon has established labo-
ratory for the measurement of human
faculty." Each visitor will leave re-
cord of name, age, sex, occupation,
place of birth, color of hair and eyes,
height standing and sitting, weight,
length of span of arms, strength of
squeeze and pull, swftness of direct
blow, capacity of chest, acuteness of
vision, conditions of color sense, and
acuteness of hearing, and will take
away duplicate. Mr.. Gallon regards
the art of measuring human faculties
as the dawn OF new and interesting
science.
Dr. o. j. Lodge has been engaged in
certain researches concerning atmos-
pheric dust, n summary of which he
has given in n lecture to the Royal So
ccty in Dublin. DR.. Lodge believes
that dust-which properly includes
fogs, smoke and clouds or mists-may
be artiicially withdrawn from tho at
mosphere, and by experiment he has
shown that small quantity of air may
be freed from its dust by discharginc
electricity into it He thinks that 1t
may be possible to clear the air of rail-
way tunnels in the same manner, and
that some impression may be made on
q London fog by sufficiently powerful
electrical discharges. lie intends to
experiment in u genuine London fog
with large machines.
At recent meeting of the Physiolog-
ical society Of Berlin, Prof. Busch call
cd attention to the fact that carries of
the teeth appear to be peculiar to man,
as it has been observed in no other an
imal. 1t is not however, character
stic OF civilized man alone, us it has
been seen throughout large collec-
ton of skulls, even in those of pro-his-
toric time. Some races are more dis
posed to it than others, the Celtic, Ar
abian and Polish races being but little
affected with unsound teeth Certain
families are particularly predisposed to
carries. General habits of body, and
certain diseases have great influence
upon It's development Teeth with I'M
dulating enamel have much less power
of resisting carries than those whose
surface is smooth. AS is we'll known,
diseased teeth are rendered practically
sound by removing every particle of
carious substance and covering the
sound dontine with protective coating
of gold. gutta-percha or other acid-re-
sisting material
The results of special investigation of
tornadocs in 1882 and 1889 have led
tho United States Signal oilicH to adopt
aplan for thoroughly studying tornado
phenomena. Tho work is now carried
out by about 800 observers. called tor
nado reporters, whose stations are
mostly located in tho states of Alaba-
ma, Georgia, South Carolina, North
Caroline, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Wis
consin and Minnesota. Since March
10, 1884, according to Sergeant j. p.
Finley, tornado predictions have been
made matter of daily study. The av-
erage up to June |, shows that it has
been possible on iifty-iiyo days to sue
cessfully predict from the morning
weather map that no tornado would
occur on that day on twenty-eight
other days tornadoes were predicted
for particular states or larger regions,
and of them the tornadocs on seven
teen days occurred in or near the spec
flied region, while on eleven days tor
nadoes occurred in regions for which
they were not predicted,
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