The air you breathe is as full of conjuring tricks as it is of oxygen and nitrogen. These tricks, as disclosed thy Sir Napier Shaw, the famous meteorologist, in his Rede lecture at. Cambridge, are as peculiar as those of the Heathen Chinese, of whom Bret Harte sang.
"The Air and its Ways" was the theme of the lecture. The air as we knew it in the laboratory, said Sir Napier, is a very mobile fluid, yet in the atmosphere it manages to take on a sufficiency of the, character of an elastic solid.
It does not go the way it is
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