The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25
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40 ~ UO Aloh hoNO CnOuRn tfOuOi6 now,
along comes a scientist who says that In 10 900,
600 years there will be no light from the sun.
TIE big gun that the Krupp people of Essen,
Germany, proposed to show at the worlds fair
will not reach Chicago No railroad is anxious
to run the risk TO its business which might at
tend its transportation.
The Salvation Army poke bonnet has been
replaced in England By brosd-rimmed straw
hat, trimmed with stalks OF corn. Salvation
meetings are now greeted with cries OF where
did you get that hats"
A CLERGYMAN in Oxford has invited the men
who frequent the river on Sundays to come to
church in their boating fannels. Hitherto such
costumes had been frowned upon. and the boat
man had not gone to church.
The railways Of the United Kingdom Of Great
Britain have 1850 locomotives OF which only
1871 are in Scotland and 7O5 in Ireland The
London and Northwestern have the most, CAS-
followed by the Midland, with 2,020.
THE sea water originally put in the great
aqusriums at the Crystal palace, Sydenha D., in
1854, is still used there. having been used over
and over since that time, record without par
allel In the history OF similar institutions.
TaE Oriental congress recently held in Lon
don, has astonished scientific circles by the de-
ciphering of records in stone and clay which 20
back thousands of years TO the infancy of the
race, and are held TO corroborate, independently
u hOly NEllt the accounts OF inc creation and
fall Of man.
SoME one calls attention to the gradual aban.
donment Of the use Of dogs with guns in Eng
land. The chief reason for it Is supposed to be
the chan 20 in agricultural methods After the
moving machine had supplanted the scythe the
pointer found the stubble too short to lie in ;
and an Their reason is offered in that the tur-
nips are drilled IN regular lines, and make pas
sages along which the birds may rum"
The Haidah Indians Of British Columbia gam
bic with sticks OF spruce wood, about five
inches In length, carved or stained with toteaic
devices The game is played by any number
Of persons A dealer" sits on the ground with
pile of shredded cedar bark in front OF him
and with much ceremony draws out the sticks
one by one. without looking at them, and passes
them to the players In turn, who sit In front OF
him. Each device counts a certain number
and the winning Ia by high or low, or definite or
specific amounts. A set OF plaster casts In the
university museum illustrate the carved devices
on one OF the finest sets known. now IN the
United States National Museum, aud two per
feet sets are about to be added to the collection
In additi u to tire one already deposited by
Lieut.. Gorgas.
THE only sea-going steam vessel that has
propellers ia the center of the boat instead OF
in the stern is named lie Louvre. and it plies be
tween Nagaire and Paris, thus taking in its
course sea- river aud canal says tbs New York
Sun. Its a small vessel. The two screws are in
two tunnels in the center In front of the en-
project below the keel. One advantage
claimed for this invention is that
the screws can be examined easily in case OF
accident, as it Is only necessary TO introduce
compressed ar into the tunnels and foroa out
the water. 1t is reported In France that larger
ocean vessels are to be built with this arrau ge-
propulsion is a modification OF that of Thorny-
croft, which has been employed for years on
the torpe 10 boats of the Brazilian government
and the police boats on the Nile
To THE summer visitor in Sweden there In
nothing moro striking than the almost total alb
sencr of night. AT Stockholm, the Swedish
capital, the sun goes down q few minutes before
10 o clock and rises ain four hours later dur
ing greater part of the month OF June. But
the four hours the sun lies hidden In { q frozen
north are not hours OF darkness-the refractiou
or his RAYS as ne passes around the north pole
makes midnight as Ii sht as a cloudy midda and
enables one 70 read the finest pr ut wtAout artia-
clal II ut al A1y time during the might" At the
head o. thu Gulf OF Bot1 ia there 10 a molnt-
ain on the summit Of which the sun shines Der
? tuallv durlngt five lays OF Jure 10. 30 p,
p and % very SIX ours duriag this 8 ason
OF continual suns inc a steamer leaves Stock
holm crowded with visitors anxious to wi ness
the phenomenon. At the same place during
win er the sun disappears and is not seen for
weeks; then 1t comes in sight again for ten,
df cen or twenty minutes, gradually lengthen-
ing stays In ST hit continuously for upwards
of 100 hours.
The physical energy of force sometimes ex-
erted by the human body has long been known
to be of the most astoundi nature, but no
one, prior 70 he tabulatisns made by Dr.
Buch lister in $780, ever took tho trouble to put
that exerted force before the people in figures
that could be understood The doctor sup
pc es" things in this way: Supposing a
mountane.r weighing 1863 pounds is making
the ascent Of a peak 1000 feet high. 10
be,in with, he must expend an amount OF
phvsical force equal 10 u at found by multiply
ing his weight by tie night to bA assembled In
the case assumed. weight OF l6S pounds null
tipled by hight Of 900 feet equals l, !7s, OOO
foot-pounds: or in other words, l,176000 ooun Ia
have to be lifted one foot. p It this is not all
The coutracton1 of the muscles IT the heart
rave to be taken into account, which Is repre-
sented oy four foot-pounds Of work with each
cont action, TIE puts .tons Of an adult heart be.
ing about n per minute; in ascending nights it
IS much -reater But. assuming 100 beats
of tine pulse pc minute for sim plicity OF calcu.
lation, is would give 400 foot-pounds per min
ute. or $1,000 foot-pouuds per hour, or 49,, 900
foot-l ounds for the 1--WE hours suDposed to
be required for ascending thu 1000 feet.
For EXPANSION and C ntracton #
C est and other mus cles q further item OF
80, 0O0-foot pounds must be added. Thus we
find the total work performed during five hours
of mountain-climbnz to be equal to .326, 900
FOOT ounds. not counting other forces exerted,
which DR.. such list says will rua the grad
total up to $50, 900 foot-pounds.