The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-05
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SIX months, and now has neither faith
no. teeth.
/ M. Tassinari. a Partisan scientist has
I been experimenting with the smoke of
tobacco and finds 20 10 be one OF the most
I perfect germicides and disinfectants ever
used In proving his claims smoke from
l "A cigar was blown across a strip OF linen
which had been dipped in a fluid contain
l ing thousands Of virulent microbes. When
/ the cigar was finished the linen was inn
HtuidJely placed IN q bowl OF beef broth.
Wfere common microbes are expected TO
I breed and multiply very rapidly To the
I surprise OF the dOubters it was found that
I the smoke had had the effect Of delaying
Z the growth OF the organisms, that the
I majority of them were dead. and that
I these which managed to live never fully
I developed.
/ Setting the Thames on fire.
/ is phrase that is in con-
| slant usage. but few people seem
| TO know its origin 1t seems that in the
I times of our forefathers. in England,
/ corn was ground in rough instrument
/ called a tense This was merely a
/ stone followed out TO receive corn. with
/ piece of wood passed through it, which
/ being rapidly turned. ground the corn to
/ Hour If the wooden handle was turned
| with sufficient force. the friction OF the
wood against the stone would cause the
/ stick to catch fire, but, as it requires
considerable energy to produce this effect
/ me person VINO could accomplish u was
thought smart and he who could set
/ the tense on fire" was pretty sure to be
/ a successful person in other ways.
"A test of shipping a carload of fruit
and flowers from California to the east
without the use Of ice has been made re-
Gently. y car was sent from Los Angeles
/ TO New Orleans, which was supplied with
sterilized air during the whole time of
/ transit east and returning 10 California
] carrying back part OF it's shipment to
4 show how it had been preserved. After
Delng out fourteen days, both the fruit
and the flowers says the Tulare Reg
/ lister, were perfectly fresh, and even
! the stems of the grapes had not wilted
7 nlfhOngh he q = 4
! as lO4 degrees during part of the Journey
The sterilized air is produced by con-
densing air by means Of the arbrake cyl
/ inders. and thus generating heat, which
/ destroys all microbes. bacilli and fungus
germs. The supply of sterilized air. it IS
! said. can be kept up as the train proceeds
/ at almost no cost The new process is
! called the Perkins method, after the in
/ ventor an. Episcopal clergyman of Cali
/ fornia. The process can be as easily ap-
! piled to ocean vessels, and II Is. claimed
! that it will revolutioniZe the carrying
trade Of perishable fruits. another
| method which Californians are expert
| menting with having the same end in
view, is shipping fruit in carbonic acid
Both methods are claimed TO be very
! promising.
Suppose a railroad train at first sta
| ton Srys SAYS the Figaro. a traveller
| fires a shot towards some exterior oh
| ject; it will require say two seconds Tor
| the ball to reach the object. Imagine
next the train moving at the rate OF
| thirty feet second. The traveller aims
| but the ball, in addition to the impulsion
| which he has communicated to II, pre-
| serves the general movement OF the tram,
/ which in two seconds makes II traVel ut
! orally sixty feet. 1t will strike then at
! some distance beyond the object. The
/ rotation of the earth produces an effect
! of the same kind upon movements which
| occur on its surface All tbs points OF
| the globe turn together from the west
/ to the east in twenty-tour hours; put
| they all have in reality different rates of
| velocity according to the position which
| they occupy. At the poles the velocity
| is nothing. it increases regularly to the
| equator where ii reaches the enormous
| rate of 1.520 feet a second. Let us take
| for consideration two places in our coun-
| try France)-Paris and Dunkirk While
the Partisan, affected by the movement
of the earth, passes through about 1000
feet, the inhabitant of Dunktrk travels
only 1863 feet. Let us imagine now at
| Paris a wind from the south that is
| blowing towards DunkirS, which IS al
| most directly north from Paris. AS Paris
moves from west to east at the rate or
| 81 feet assecOnd faster Shan does Dun
| kirk the wind from the south at Paris
will be like the ball fired from the moving
train ii will be devated towards the
| east that is. towards its right From be-
! ing a south wind, which it was at Paris,
it will become a southwest wind; and II
| will reach Iiege or Cologne instead of
| Dunkirk which it would have reached
had the earth been motionless. Thus all
| winds are turned from their first direction,
and in the Northern Hemisphere this de
Walton is always towards the right, while
! in the Southern Hemisphere 1t is to-
4 wards the left
"A great deal of nonsense apears in
| the newspapers from time to time con
cerI-ng rapid shorthand writing" said
leading court reporter in this city the
| other day, says the New York sun. IN
stances of stenographerS who are able
/ to write at a speed varying all the way
from 800 to 400 words minute are men
! toned, apparently, merely TO call at
tentiOn to the development of the Steno-
graphic art and the impression is given
that such rapid work is so common as TO
! excite no particular comment. AS mat
ter of fact, however, the stenographer in
constant practice who is able to keep
IN a sDeed of 225 words a minute for
| any considerable length of time is re-
markably clever man, and it is perfectly
safe to say that not one court reporter in
a dozen is capable of verbatim reporting
at the rate of 200 words minute. To un-
derstand what the writing of 300 words
minute means let any one count out that
number of words of ordinary matter
and then undertake to read it aloud in
one minutes time, pronouncing each word
distinctly as it would be necessary to do
if a stenographer was taking II down.
Estimating an average of two syllableS
to a word, it will be necessary to enuncl-
ate clearly about 800 syIables in one
minute, or ten syllableS second. The
reporting style of shorthand writing has
many eXpedents for running wol Is to-
gether into phrases, so that three or -FOUR
words are often written quite as rapidly
as they can be spoken, and contracted
signs are frequently used for the longer
words. Still the writing OF SUI WORDS a
minute in the briefest style Of shorthand.
would require the formation of consider
ably over 200 signS-about four every sec
ond-and these signs must be accurate
enough in form to be readily deciphered
bv the writer Chicago has long claimed
to have the fastest shorthand writer in
the world and while this Individual has
given some wonderful exhibitions of
speed it is doubtful if he ever wrote
| anything near the go words in single
minute that would pass inspection. A few
wears ago. at a public exhibition he took
notes of legal testimony read at the rate
/ of about $50 words q minute for five min
utes His notes were so illegible, as a
result of the speed at which they were
written. that even the most expert steno-
| graphers could make nothing out of
| them. and when compared with the mat
ter dictated Il was found that at least
| dozen words had been altogether
omitted 1t is upon such imperfect work
as this that the prepoSterous claims of
30O words or more a minute are based
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