The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-04-19
GEN. PLEASONTON's RE
CEEPE.
A Scientific Examination into
the Blue Glass Remedy.

n I1N1NAAAlS AAA@S
the Blue Glass Remedy.
Much as some people are inclined
to laugh over General Pleasonton
and blue glass, there are principles
underlying his experiments which
may some day work as astounding
results as those effected by the ox-
perimcn:s ofFranklin, Galvani, Vol.
ia, Watt, or others ofhotorious fame.
General Plcasonton states that he
was induced to experiment with
blue glass because certain physical
facts made him doubt the commonly
accepted idea that the sun isa hot,
burning body, emitting the heat We
feel in the sunlight to tha carth.-
Acronauts who ascend very high in
balloons complain of intense cold in
the upper regions of our atmosphere
The SUBMITS of mountains in the
tropics, directly under the most pow
fulrays Of the sun, are covered with
.perpctualsnow. The ordinary effects
of heat are conduction, radiation, re-
lcotion, ycfraction and undula.ion,
all of which tend to reduce the pow,
cr Of heat. Now, from the fact that
on the surface of the earth more heat
is felt and observed than when we
approach nearer the sun, it is very
eyidentthlt- heat does not emaaate
from the sun, Because wo all know,
that we all feel warmer when we APP
proach a hot object. Besides, from
our knowledge of the results of COM
'bustion, no explanation can be given
of the condition df the sun, as for
nearly six thousand years no diminu.
ton whatever can be detected in its
brightness, and we can discern no
indication that it will not continue
in the same undiminished splendor
for six thousand years more; but with
burning sun, of the bulk the sun is
known to be and with the great pow
er it is known to have, and ineXhaus-
tiblc supply Of fuel would be needed,
and very perceptiblo changes would
be disccrnod. This incxhaustible
amount of fuel is not compatible
with limited and infinite sphere,
as the sun, and we have no evidence
that the sun is undergoing any de-
cadence. l would suggest that since
blue rays seem to have so many ben
fetal results in the nursery, hospital
and hot house, Il greater amount of
good results may be obtained if in.
stead Of using fiat blue glass, which
merely ygiyesa a blue tinge to the light,
the glass be clear white, but of pris-
matte form, so as to separate the blue
ray entirely from the other colored
rays composing a beam of light. 1t
appcas to me that ifthorc be any vir-
tue in General Plcasonton's expert,
mcnts with blue glass, the good re-
suits would be more discornible than
in commingling blue rays with the
other rays, which is certainly done
when light is allowed top pass through
blue glass. Let beam of light be
passed through some convenient sized
prism, and let tho blue ray, which
will then be divided from the other
colors, fall only on the diseased mem
Der or limb, or on some plant eXper-
imcnted with, free from all the in
tcrfcring influences ofthc ether col
ors, And, in this way, experiments
may be made with the other colors
composing a beam oflight, the effects
watched, and perhaps some impor-
tant results may be obtained which
may be userully applied in the arts,
manufactures and various pursuits.
Worry respectfully,
LAWRENCE $. BENSON.