The Chronicle's weather reports from tha
south denote that the temperature has been!
rather low in some sections, but that as a;
rule the weather has favored the prepara- 4 '
tions for the next crop.
Some Florida cabbages measure five feet
across the top and weigh twenty-five pounds, so the
Florida papers say. They also tell of a potato
twenty-seven pounds in weight and a turni] weigh*
ing ten pounds.
OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX.
Germany. K
Enn ors Con stitution : What kind of a gov
ernment has Germany, and what is her pop f’n’.ion?
1:. H. V
Germany is a constitutional monarchy, the em
peror < xercising imperial power in the name of that
twenty-five confederate states. The population o£
Germany by the census of ISSS was 46,852,450.
Why the Ocean Is Salt.
Editors Constitution : Why is the water
of the ocean salt ? L. J.
It is possible that the saline elements of sea water,
may be iu part derived from geological formations'
which consisted largely of these elements, but it is
generally considered that the saltness of the oceai
is sufficiently accounted for by the deposition o/
soluble salts by means of rivers. Salts of various
kinds form part of the constituent ingredients of
the earth’s soil everywhere; they are washed out by
Springs and rivulets and carried to the sea by large
streams, and as the evaporation which feeds the
streams carries none of the dissolved matters bacMf
again, the tendency is to accumulate in the sea.
