The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

IA his work as director of the In- digln Meteorogical Department, Sir JGhn Eliot has found that while one hemisphere of the earth, which includes Europe. Southern Asia, Africa. India and Australia. is experiencing high att mospheric pressure on the average, the other hemisphere. which includes North and South America and Siberia. is es- periencing a deficiency of pressure. and vice versa. This see-saw of pressure has an average period of about four years or little less. This and other facts that must influence 1ong-period forecasting lead Sir John to declare that the next development of weathef study will almost certainly be, fin the direction of international or world me- teorology and it's relation to sun-spots and terrestrial magnetism.
 Hysterical persons imagine diseases and deceive doctors in an astonishingly number of cases. according to a French writer. In diseases requiring surgical treatment this is serious,and in one case of simulated tuberculosis peritonitis the patient was operated on three times, the peritoneum being found ab- solutely healthy. Tn another case a woman of 26 became dumb after an accident. Fortunately no operation was attempted, and she suddenly re- covered her voice during an x-ray ex- animation.
 The coal-tar colors on the market in 1894 numbered 454 distinct com pounds. A new survey enumerates ey5 products. the actual number of new dyes being 300. as 59 have been drop ped from the list as obsolete.
 
 On a vessel of coco tons, Otto SchlIclz. German naval architect, would rotate ten-ton fywheel at a circumference velocity of $50 feet per second. He be- lIeyes that the gyroscopic effect would practically overcome the ships tenden- cy to roll.
 We have been told of fossil rain and fossil wind, and Prof. Stapisias Meunier has now pointed out the existence in cer9 tain rocks of fossil ocean currents. In many localities the stratified sand and sandstone show peculiarly curved and in- teTIaced layers. This interlaced structure. Is now to be seen in formation by the River Seine, and the rivers of the ocean have transported sand and mud to de- posit in their windings in a similar way If the seas were dried up the course and history of the Gulf Stream and other cur rents iulRnL De traced III tneSe deposits. The sand and sandstone of interlaceda structure are found from widely sepa- rated geological epochs. and an interest- ing lesson taught by them is that the ocean currents and their work have been substantially the same at all periods of the esrth's evolution.
 Since 1896 the effects of Night and, dark ness upon erustaceans batrachians and fishes have been studied in a biological of the Catacombs of Paris. In the underground portion of the labora- tery. animals accustomed to daylight are kept constantly in darkness. while in a section above ground cave animals are kept in ordinary light. Life in darkness brings a gradual fading of color. The organs of smell. touch and taste soon in- crease to three times their former size; the eyes remain normal for time, but in fishes doubled in size at the end of five years, though with loss of power and evident coming atrophy The size of fishes becomes much reduced. The cave show that light is disagreeahle to them, and in a few months develop color
 The N-rays of Blondlot seem to Rive