are the problems now given to the chemist for
solution." We consider Professor Crookes to be one of the most eminent
scientists now living, and any views he may advance are entitled to
serious consideration.--_Popular Science News._

THE KEELEY MOTOR, at Philadelphia, which has long been regarded as a
visionary or deceptive enterprise, is coming out now with the
endorsement of engineers who have witnessed its operation and say that
it develops a new power which cannot be accounted for by any of the
known laws of dynamics. It may, however, be a long time before the
proper machinery can be invented and constructed for bringing this
power into use.

HUMAN ANOMALIES, MOUNG PHOSET, MAHPHOON, AND THE GIANT WINKELMEIER.

[Illustration: MOUNG PHOSET.] [Illustration: MAHPHOON.]

Every departure from the stereotyped plan of humanity is an
interesting proof of the vast capacities of nature, and therefore a
prophecy of possible variation and grander development for the coming
generations; hence the hairy family--Moung Phoset, his mother,
Mahphoon, and the giant Winkelmeier--are deeply interesting to the
anthropologist.

WINKELMEIER, according to the _London Standard_, is now in London at
the Pavilion, standing _eight feet, nine inches high_, a foot higher
than Chang, the Chinese giant, and evidently the tallest man living.
He was born in 1865, in Upper Austria. Neither his four brothers,
parents, nor grandparents, are unusually tall. He is healthy, strong,
and intelligent, and is expected to continue growing.

MOUNG PHOSET, and his old mother, MAHPHOON, whose pictures are here
given, are now in London on exhibition. They were the hairy family of
King Theebaw of Burmah, and when Theebaw was captured by the British
army, they escaped to the jungle, where they were robbed by Dacoits,
but were recovered by Captain Piperno, and brought to England. Moung
Phoset, like his mother, has his face and entire body covered by long,
fine hair, from five to twelve inches long, which even fills the ears,
and on the forehead is so long that it has to be drawn back over the
ears to uncover the eyes. He is an intelligent and well-behaved man,
and has a fair Burmese education. His wife, however, is a common
Burmese woman. Moung Phoset, having no children, is the last of a
hairy species, which it is said, originated in his great grandfather,
who was caught wild in the forest between Upper Burmah and Siam.

Hairy irregularities,