The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-26
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! tathOms a barren zone intervenes where ma
! rine life seems absent But still deeper,
| strange to say, has been discovered an album
| dant and varied fauna, new to science, living
| under conditions of tremendous pressure and
! pauctty of the DEMONSTRATING element of oxy-
| gen.
1t is familiar fact that persons born deaf
are usually mute not from any congenital de-
| feet in the organs of speech, but from the fact
! that, never having heard others speak, they
cannot initiate artiCulate utterance. 1t is
! probably true, too, says the New York Sun,
! that the source of some current errors Of
| speech among those who are not esteemed
| deaf lies in defect of hearing. Many per
| sons who habitually tack on the ''r'' sound to
words ending in W. say that they are unable
to distinguish, for example, between law"
and Tor" 1t Is not uncommon to hear this
! INSTRUMENTATION from the lips of New Eng
| landers not Of Dr. Holme Brahmin type, but
! II is dif1cult to draw from such persons the
admission OF the error.
Besides sightseers from the provinces the
churches of New York that are open on week
days have other visitors and sometimes fire.
| quent onesi says the New York Sun, In
! Trinity, in Grace church, in the big cathedral
| on Fifth avenue will often be found people
who do not go in to pray or to look about, but
| simply to rest. A business man, not conSpicu-
| ously religious says that he drops into Trim
| ity three or four times week just to cool his
! brains: He finds the solitude and stiffness,
| the rich windows the stately roof and par
| tlcularly the organ practice, when there is
! any, conducive to ordered thought and re-
! treshment. He wonders why more churches
| are not kept open for the benefit OF the peo-
| pie who dislike crowds on Sunday and inten-
tionally stay away from preaching.
! The attention of German chemists has been
| for some time occupied with the utilization of
electricity in photography. and Herr Liese
| gang of Dusseldorf has succeeded In develop
! ing Photographic negatives electrically. He
passes the current from six Gassner dry cells
| through a concentrated solution of bisulphate
| OF soda, containing two electrodes of plati-
mum, separated by a porous vessel If the
| Photographic plate is immersed in the liquid
| surrounding the negative electrode the image
! is developed in a few minutes with a reddish
brown tint, The liquid remains quite clear.
| No inconvenience is experienced from the
decomposition of the liquid, as the separated
| elements recombine under the influence OF the
current. In the fixing bath 1t loses in inten-
sity, but preserves its reddish tint
The Kimberley Kafirs are extremely fond
of cigars, but they smoke with the lighted
end in their mouths. Says the Million. When
this popularity was first mentioned to me l
supposed that my informant was cracking a
somewhat vacuous joke, but to my amaze
ment L saw numerous instances of the reality
in the compound. The native first lighted his
cigar by the ordinary method then turning it
around he deity arranged the hot, glowing
end in his mouth, and tucking away his ton
que in his cheek proceeded to inspire and ex-
plre the fumes, gradually consuming the
whole of the cigar. The smokers assured me
that the process was warm, comforting deli
clous and FAR superior to the usual mode. On
subsequent trial found that the knack is less
difficult to acquire than might be supposed.
In the ordinary process of elecrOplating it
is necessary to employ an acid bath, in order
to effect the disposition of the copper or other
metal. This method, which is usually EN-
plOyed only for small household and other
articles, has been so developed that the sys-
tenn has been patented for applying copper
coating to the bottoms of iron and steel YES
sells. Necessarily, however, this entails much
time and expense when applied to ships, re-
qutring bath of immense proportions. Now,
according to the London Electrical Engi-
neer, an this is changed, and a ships hull can
be plated as easily as a spoon or teapot,
Instead of bath, we are to have insoluble
salts ground to a fine powder, and mixed
with water This is painted on the metal to
be plated by fine wire brush to which one
pole Of a dynamo conductor Is attached the
other polo being connected to plate. Not
only pure metal, but all sorts Of alloys can be
used, Aluminium can be so plated IL is said
with silver or gold.
Women florists and horticulturists have
! been very successful in California. One wo-
man s fruit trees last season netted her over
| $1,000 Another, living near Pasadena, has
made out of what seemed an unpromising
! tract Of land, "one of the finest places in Cal
! ifO"nia.' She has in all 1900 grape vines, an
! orc hard containing thirty varieties of apples,
! twenty-five of plums twelve OF persimmons,
! ten of mulberries, besides apricots. cherries
| figs, guavas, jujubes, loquats, prunes, pears,
| peaches: ten varieties of small fruits and
| eight of nuts. A woman florist near San
! Francisco daily ships during the season 8 900
! ChrySanthemums, 1000 punches of ViOletS
! 800 to LOO Duchess de Brabant roses She
| has five acres in vioets alone, and for this
| flower she receives $3.50 per dozen punches.
| These women, says the Review of Reviews,
| have succeeded by taking care to lie first in
! the market by studying the problem of neat
| and secure spacklng, and the still greater
| problem of finding hardy trees and flowers
and choosing those that can stand the invas-
| ion Of moth and disease.
Everybody knows that there are no snakes
! in Ireland, said a native of st. Johns N. F.
to a New York Sun writer, but very few l
! guess, know that Newfoundland is just like
/ Ireland in that respect-and there is no record
| that Newfoundland had a st. Patrick to
| drive the snakes off either There is plenty
| of game in Newfoundland, but not reptile Of
! any kind-snalIe, toad frog, lizard. or even
| turtle Another queer thing about the prov
! ince IS that, while some wild animals are
! abundant there, no one ever saw a squirrel,
! porcupine, mouse or lynx anywhere within
| its boundaries. This is all the more
| singular because the adjoining prov
! inCeS of NOvia Scotia and Cape Breton have
all of these animals and many kinds of snakes
! and other reptiles. On the other hand the
! Arctic hare is abundant in Newfoundland but
| is not found in Nova Scotia or Cane Breton
| The summer nights of Nova Scotia are made
| brilliant by f1ret1es but no FREELY ever lights
| up a Newfoundland nocturnal landscape by
| us sparkling UlRnJ. Y ct JQer6 are SWamDS
| and Dogs innumerable in Nova Scotia which
| one would naturally suppose would be the
| choicest kind of breeding places and retreats
! for reptiles of all kinds to say nothing of
| insetcs of which there is a remarkable scare
| ity in Newfoundland"
| Some interesting tests have been made to
! determine the rate OF fall or rise OF a mercu-
| rial thermometer under different conditions,
| the result showing conclusive1y that the We
| 4ocity of current has altogether too great an
| influence to be neglected. In one of these
| tests the thermometer was heated to 345 dc
! grees F. and allowed to cool in the center of
atroom at ~ degrees F., without any artificial
circulation Of air: and in this case, radication
and connection together reduced the tempera-
! ture at rate which gave a constant of 1870
| In obtaining and applying this constant, the
| mean difference between the temperature of
| the thermometer and the room at intervals of
ten seconds lis divided byuits fall during the
| same time. In another test the air was famed
quite violently and gave a constant of $50,
while with the same thermometer under like
conditions, except such difference as would
naturally result from the imperfect methods
| OF cooling, the constant was found to be 5.44.
| In still another test the thermometer bulb
was held in front of a threefourths inch tube
| frCm which issued violent blast of air, 74o
| Fahrenheit, generated by strong foot bel
| lows, and this gave constant Of 1.S0. In
| each of these cases the radiation, IL is as
| serted must have been the Same Z