. The power of the naked eye is here
stayed. By the aid of an opera glass 20,000 can be seen, and with a
small telescope 150,000, while the most powerful telescopes will
reveal more than 100,000,000 stars."

"M. Ligner, an Austrian meteorologist, claims to have ascertained
after careful investigation that the moon has an influence on a
magnetized needle, varying with its phases and its declination. The
phenomenon is said to be more prominently noticeable when the moon is
near the earth, and to be very marked when she is passing from the
full to her first or second quarter. The disturbances are found to be
in their maximum when the moon is in the plane of the equator, and
greater during the southern than it is during the northern
declination."

GEOLOGY ILLUSTRATED.--I have often thought that when coal mines are
exhausted and land is too valuable to be devoted to raising timber, it
may become necessary to draw on the subterranean heat of the earth.
This idea is already verified in Hungary.

Late advices say: "The earth's internal heat is now being used in a
practical way at Pesth, where the deepest artesian well in the world
is being sunk to supply hot water for public baths and other purposes.
A depth of 3120 feet has already been reached, and the well supplies
daily 176,000 gallons of water, heated to deg.150 Fahr."

A MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY.--Reub Fields, living a few miles south of
Higginsville, Mo., though he has no education whatever, and does not
know a single figure or a letter of the alphabet, is a mathematical
wonder. Though he never carries a watch, he can tell the time to a
minute. When asked on what day of the week the 23d of November, 1861
came, he answered, "Saturday." When asked, "From here to Louisiana,
Mo. it is 159 miles; how many revolutions does the driving wheel of an
engine fifteen feet in circumference make in a run from this place to
Louisiana?" he replied, "55938 revolutions." Reub was born in
Kentucky, and claims that this power was given to him from heaven when
he was eight years old, and that the Lord made but one Samson, one
Solomon, and one Reub Fields, for strength, wisdom, and mathematics.

ASTROLOGY IN ENGLAND.--Mrs. L. C. Moulton, correspondent of the
_Boston Herald_, writes: "In old times a court astrologer used to be
kept, as well as a court jester; but I confess I was not aware, until
last night, that the astrologer of to-day might be as important to
one's movements as one's