Twelve Miles High

The result oL meteorological tests with balloons at immense heights la announced from Bixmen this week One balloon, carrying self-registering Instruments, reached a height of twelve miles. The thermometer could nol egister the temperature, 67 deg. bcly.v zero being markeil at a lower height. Many tests show that the temperatur? sinks gradually up to two and a har miles. Above that the fall is much more -apid: