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• KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[Oct. 24, 1884. 



Day Sign for the Month. 



unmarried. The sympathy of Grewgious for both these 

 young men is in great part due to bis own past hopeless 

 love for Rosa's mother. 



If the pen had fallen from Dickens's hand just here, all 

 that need have been known to make the drift of the story 

 clear would have been told. We should be certain that 

 Jasper was to be brought to condign punishment, Neville 

 to be cleared though he was to die young, Edwin to become 

 the valued friend of Tartar, Ciispaikle, Helena, and Rosa, 

 and these four to enter on that "happy marriage " condition 

 which has been regarded from time immemorial as the ap- 

 propriate fate of the heroes and heroines of happUyending 

 novels. We should regret our loss in the absence of those 

 chapters in which the progress of events to this happy end 

 would have been pleasingly narrated. But as to the general 

 nature of the denouement we could have no manner of 

 doubt. 



More, however, was written, and in what was written we 

 have evidence even as to some of the details which would 

 have appeared in the closing chapters. 



(^To be conthiued.) 



ZODIACAL MAPS. 



Br Richard A. Proctor, 



"'[T' E give this week both the day sign and the night sign 

 V V for the month, one showing the zodiacal sign now 

 high in the heavens at midnight, the other showing the 

 region of the zodiac athwart which the sun pursues his. 

 course at this part of the year. 



Cats at Elevated Stations. — Notwithstanding the affection of 

 cats for the tiles, they do not thrive at great heights. A scientific 

 observer, who has recently tested the matter at a lofty station 

 (12,000 ft. above the sea) on the Wahsatch Monntains, in Utah, 

 finds that cats become subject to fits at such heights. The affec- 

 tion is partly due to the increased action of the heart and lungs, 

 partly to the direct effect of diminished pressure. 



THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 

 EXHIBITION. 



XXI.— ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS (continued). 



IN our last communication we gave a brief account of 

 some of the more important inventions which come 

 under the title of our present subject. Their mode of 

 application, in a few instances, calls for the assistance of 

 specially constructed apparatus, and amongst these James 

 Robertshaw's " Improved Disinfecting Tripod " * is note- 

 worthy as a remarkably convenient instrument for the 

 application of sulphurous acid gas in cases where the fumi- 

 gation of tenements is imperative. The instrument con- 

 sists of three wooden rods arranged somewhat after the 

 fashion of a photographer's tripod camera-stand. To the 

 summit is affixed a brass rod crowned with a pan-shaped 

 holder for the re-agent, and the entire system is so con- 



* Of 3 and 5, Simpson-street, Manchester. 



