ism is simply." new name for my stated Prof, Calderwood, of Edinburgh, in a recent lecture, The condieof lucid sleep. Tt is artificially not by anything in the nature of electricity or magnetism, and no influence anates from the budy of the operator.
result, in the opinion of the lecturer, may be attributed to the wearying of single organ or line of nerve. The character of the mesimerte sleep is torpor, the cataleptic state, or the state of the somnambulist, Many, and perhaps all, peo ple wre linbty to it, bat not against their wi The operator cannot regulate the notions of the patient, but must burke the sty clear to his subject, 9 rpreis and applies it for himself. The stady of hypootiam for the cure of disease and anaesthetic is desirable, but public exhibitions should be forbida There produced the Krak nation has retly been present staaoatl re.
of more than ordinary briltianey orted last winter, and Herr Busch now finds, from a record of polatise pic observations kept for some years, that the air in February and May Inst was really different optically from tht of the previous three years, and more nearly like that of 1886," Of the beginning, extent, and cause of this ost disturbance nothing is known A new Parisian paving consists of pie of split oak, about 4 inches long, steyd on end in fine sand on a 4-inch bed of gravel. 4 layer of fine sand is spread over all, and alternately beaten and watered several times. The swelling of the wood. after about two days, is claimed to produce a perfectly compact and homogeneous muss, which will support any trafic.
It is said 10 bea fact, though ly known, that the light of moon exercises a deleterious effect on nives and nther edge tools.
While raiv-producing experiments have een in progress in America, scientific men 1 Europe have been studying to influence the weather in a very different way.
round Tarbes, a district of France, serious damage to crops and vineyards has been caused for many years by a number of Violent storms of rain and hail annually,
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