Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-03-17

THE WEIGHT OF LIGHTING. Crookes
has applied his remarkable discovery that
radiated light exercises a repelllng foic in n
vacuum To weigh the light of a candle. He
uses the repel1ug power so as 10 twist a GER
IAN glass thread round and round. and the
numoer OF turns required 10 uDtwist il again
Is registered on scale. aud supple s a meas
ure oRjhe twisting power eNerted. A little
iron weight of one hundredth OF a grain
which is within the tube il lifted by mag
net on TO the little cross bar. and the torsion
caused by its weight liz observed in the man
ner explained. Then the light of the candle
was tried In the same way, aud IL was found
tbat whlle the iron weight OF hundreith OF
agrain caused q torSion of only 1O,G2I deg
or torsion between a sixth aud a seventh Of
that Que to the iron bar. In other words, the
Impulse due TO the light of the candle was
weighed. Mr.. Crookes calculates that the
force exerteo by the suns light Is equal to 81
grams on the square foot, or 81 tons on the
square mile, or three thousand millions OF
tons on the whole earth, repellent force
which, but for the far more powerful attrac-
tive force of gravitatiOn, would drive the
earth of into space. AS not a little of the il
MIGRATING effect of fine weather is sail 10 he
due TO the Increased pressure of the atmos-
phere, so Ii Is possible that the stimulus GER
ta!nly given by light to the nervous system
may be partly due TO this minute pressure.
DANIEL DREW has been puzzle TO the
Methodist denomination. A leading clergy-
man of that body reports him as a Vigorous
revlvalist at Carmel in the cos. His house
IN Union square during Mrs. Drew's life was
Always open 10 MeUnOUlsL clergym and
laymen, who were wont to partake of its
inequalities, when any conference brought
them TO New York. A front room down
stairs was his favorite abode; the calls at his
bell OF an evening he WAS likely to answer
himself, slippered and benign, referring all
who came on church errands to his wife, ~
less some special message to himself was
concerned: and he spent hours before the
crate In the same room OF evenings, occu-
pied, not even with the Bibles and hymn
books that figure as personal assets on his
schedule, but with only tOasting his slippers
cozing and thinking. His habits were OF ex-
IRENE simplicity, mighty seal-skin cna'
reaching nearly to his feet being the only
snowy garment remembered of him. He has
been reported confined to his bed for several
weeks, and sees no visitors.-lN Y. U0rld.
No PLACE FOR TRAMPs-Orange county.
n. Y, adopted the work system" last wear
TO rid itself OF the great nuisance OF being
overstocked with tramps. In their annual
report, just submitted the aims house com.
mlss1oners OF Newburgh say: "While they
did not suppose themselves able to suggest a
plan entirely free from objection 10 deal
with the evil, yet they were convinced that
relief associated with labor was the surest
plan TO break IL up. After testing the mat
ter The commissioners are glad to be able to
report that their labor plans have been en-
tlrely successful, in proof OF which they
would state that last year at this time IL was
no uncommon thing to have as many as .
a day, while at the present time we seldom
nave more than one or two"