460 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
On the annexed cut, also copied, of reduced ee from Dove, the 
same lines north of the equator are shown on.a rth pole view of the 
globe ; it exhibits the region of greatest cold seat northern Asia. 
Many deductions flow from such a chart. We allude only to one in 
this place. ‘To the north, on the parallel of 60°, the mean temperature 
of the earth varies from —264° F. (in northern America) to —13°, 
—4°, +5°, +14°, +23°, +39°, +40° (in the northern yao vite 
then decreases again regularly to —40°, the intense co d of nort 
Asia; and then i again increases to +23°. Such a wide variation 0 
temperature on the same parallel, contrasts strikingly wit 
uniformity along the line of 60° south; and it suggests reasons 
electrical and other meteorological disturbances on a ‘grand scale at the 
ae which can have no parallel at the south. Re 
is Re- 
elcher’s Artesian Well, in St. Louis, (from the St. Loui 
; of the 
wali in this tet The well, ehiah we think was eo arly 
in the year 1849, has now attained the great — of 1590 feet. 
the hands, 
The iron 
rth, *2 
inches i in Prot and between 700 ean 800 aaa in weig 
attached to poles, severally about 30 feet long, that are screwe 
other to extend to the full depth of the well. The whole is moved by 
a “doctor,” worked by the boilers used for the refinery engines. Bev- 
a 
aa ii at alt iin ne 
