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d Shrubs growing in poor soil seldom
r produce bright hgh-colored flowers
y Iron filings and scales collected abou
y a blacksmith's anvil have tendenc,
$ to intensity the color Of many plants
+ If dug into the soil about their roots.
The towering of potatoes has beer
found by Mr.. NJ. Michalet to withdraw
much starch from the tubers, and ex
periments in France have convinced
him that the product of the plants MAY
, be improved by removing all blossoms
There has been a marked decrease in
the population of French India of late.
In five settlements, with total of 273,.
1S5 inhabitants, there has been a de-
crease of more than eleven thousand
In the last ten years, though they have
been free from famine and plague.
Beginning with the present year.
Spain has adopted Greenwich time in
the place Of Madrid time, which was
previously used as the Spanish stand
ard. Madrid being west of Greenwich,
the change involved the setting of
clocks IA minutes and 46 seconds
ahead.
The labor cost of scientific research
Is not easy to realize A British ento-
mologist has just shown a series of
about thirty pictures illustrating every
stage in the metamorphosis Of a drag
only from the nymph to the perfect in
sect and relates that he took over one
thousand photographs before getting
his complete set Constant watching
was necessary, as after the first indica-
ton OF change the dragon-fy might
emerge at any time within the next
three days, the emergence being so ran
III that three pictures were taken in six
seconds.
ii. f. Witherby, a recent traveller ON
the White Nile, describes the sacred
bird of ancient Egypt, the ibis, which.
he says, very few travellers in that
country ever see, because it only visits
Egypt during the period of inundation:
but the dragomans knowing the desire
OF all foreigners to see the famous bird.
point out to them, as a substitute, the
Duif-baeked heron, which is really to-
tally unlike the ibis. The head. neck
and legs of the latter, all bare of feath-
ers, are jet black, in sharp contrast
with the pure white plumage of the
body. The wings are edged with black
like mourning envelope, and from
each shoulder droop black feath-
cry plumes. When flying toward one
the bird seems to be streaked with
Dlood, for the wing bones are bare of
feathers on the under side. and the skin
Which covers them Is of a rich vermil-
ion color"
The unusual optical phenomenon of
rainbow produced by the sun shining
not on raindrops. but on particles Of
sand suspended in the air by wind. was
witnessed over part of the Great Salt |
Lake recently by Prof. James E. Tai
mage of the University of Utah. The
cOlors were very brilliant, and tbera
was secondary bow visible The main
DOW was fully double the width of IN
ordinary rainbow. Only segment of
II was seen. The sand was oolitic
consisting Of calcareous spherules of
lairiy uniform size, ranging between
the limits of No. s and No. 10 shot
winch are polished and exhibit nearly
ioster' Prof. Talmage points out that /
the production of the bow must be dine
10 reflection from the outer surfaces of +
the spherules' and cannot be explained G
On the principle of refraction and total p
'ehection, generally applied to the ev-
'lanation of the rainbow.