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 Sir William Thompson calculates that the number of molecules in a cubic inch of any gas is 100 900, 900 900, 900, 900 0O0 900, and in each of these molecules there are several atoms moving among them selves at the rate of 70 miles a minute.
 Dr. Alexander, who has lived in Paso del Norte and Fl Paso since the Mexi- can War, says: T never knew a case of consumption among Mexicans until within the last three years. The germs of the disease have been brought into the country by American consump tiyes."
 To facilitate the transportation ana preservation of hay, an apparatus has been devised at Buenos Ayres for con- pressing 1t to one-tenth its normal bulk. Tn this form, as hay biscuits" it can be preserved dry and sound an indefi mite period, without losing It's flavor or value as food
 The Atchison (Kansas) Globe tells of a man in that city who has been fooling his wife for two years by telling her that he has been spending the evening at the Y. M. c. A. gymnasium, and she has just discovered that that estab- lishment has been closed for more than three years. Foolish man. What he has gained in the last two years he will lose in the next two.
 Rev. Washbourne West, who died re- gently in London at the age of 86 years, had the distinction of being able, through a judicious distribution of his property, to cast twenty-three votes at each parliamentary election. As he was interested in politics. he was kept busy rushing from one polling place to another on election day. At the 1892 election he managed to vote the con- servative ticket seventeen times.
 They are telling of a Kansas farmer who bought forty acres of land last year for $80. He has just marketed from this tract 960 bushels of wheat at seventy-five cents per bushel, raising an average of twenty-four bushels per acre. After allowing $2o0 for seeding, harvesting, threshing and marketing, counting also for his own time and labor employed, he is $520 ahead, or has raised wheat enough to pay for his land ct over six times the original cost.
 Three Italian physicians, Drs. Lus- tig, Galeotti and Malenchini, have re- turned from Bombay with preven- tive serum for the plague, which they assert is superior for the purpose to pr. Yersin's. It is not intended to cure, but to prevent the disease, is more easily prepared than Yersin's, is free from bacteria, dry, and harmless to man and beast. It is introduced by injection in small doses mixed with sterilzed water. producing a slight local rash, which disappears in twenty-four hours. The doctors tried it on their own persons.
 The electric current has been utilized by German inventor for changing peat into coke within very short time. while it requires centuries for nature to perform that work. The peat, spongy and full of water as it comes from the earth, is placed In an electric oven with capacity of forty bushels. The oven is lined with asbes- tos and spiral wire runs through the center. The wire is raised to white heat by the electric current. After the water and all volatile gases have pass ed off from the peat, fifteen minutes is sufficient to reduce it to irst-grade coke, with heating power equal to the best coal, and containing but 3 per cent of ash.
 The Meteorologische Teitschrfft, a German scientific publication, contains treatise by Dr. F. Maurer on the reg ular periodical repetition of cold and warm years. During certain intervals of time, extending as a rule to about fifteen years, there is a recognized change of warm and cold periods. The warm periods, he says, do not simply include series of summers of extra ordinary warmth, but also a series of