On the Capillary Action of Fissures, &c. 377 
indigent females is about one half more than that of the 
other sex. ‘There are in Paris 26,801 houses, | containing 
224 ,922 families, and upon an average, the num ) 
or conflagrations, (including chimnies,) is 595. Ey b 
1 000 houses are built — —Rev. Fab 
ly es Sivas Having filled a datas, glass flask fits hy- 
drogen, and left it standing over. water, it was observed 
some days after, that the water had risen in it above one — 
third of its capacity. The only cause wae this effect that 
could be assigned was, the existence of a very minute fis- 
sure in the glass, Filled a second time, and eh over water, 
sheeted: had risen in it above an inch and a half in twelve 
| and in twenty-four, had risen two inches and three 
: Shaitere; during which time the barometer and thermome- 
ter had not sensibly altered. In other experiments, ves- 
sels of other forms were used, and the water uniformly rose 
in those having fissures. 
When one pe csees vessels filled with hydrogen was cov- 
, ered by = pelt glass, or when the vessels were filled with 
her oeyeel ‘or azote, instead of hydrogen, no 
iner ¢ conadaes the effect as pe sbrobalss to 
obe 
eapillery action. He suggests that all gases may be con- 
sata as consisting of solid eran of various sizes, speek: 
Bick not oxygen, and ieee again, ‘whieh will let the oxy 
‘ gen out; but not carbone. acid gasd ee 
it ~t desired to have it rai Qt 
immersed in that fluid, and the 
re bubbles of air escaped the tube 
leohol entered. When again heat- 
bubbles of air oro ara me 3 
would ente er. 
