Do Plants Feel?

plants, as well as animals, feel and move.— C. G. VanBuren, B.^\

Artificial Diamonds in America.

Henry W. Fisher, of New York, has succeeded in making diamonds so much larger than any hitherto made, that there seems to be a possibility of making gems large enough to have commercial value. Fisher's method is essentially the same as that used by Henry Moissan, the French chemist, who first made artificial diamonds six- teen years ago by means of the electric furnace. This furnace is

very simple. It consists of two bricks of quicklime placed one upon the other and grooved to receive two carbon electrodes. A cavity is made in the bricks between the carbon terminals to re-

ceive the material to be melted. The high temperature of the arc,