The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-16
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/ gas made from pure crystallized carbide
! OF calcium has an agreeable etheric odor,
| which he has inhaled in small quantities
/ without Inconvenience When the carbide
! is obtained with impure coal and lime it
\ may contain sulphides and phosphides of
/ calcium, and in that case the stencil is
nauseous.
"A portion of the prevulgate Latin YER
/ sion of the Old Testament, containing the
/ book OF Joshua and part of Judges, and
/ forming part of the same manuscript as
/ the Lyons Pentateuch of the eighth CEN
/ fury, was recently discovered by the gov
/ eminent off1ctals at the sale of NJ. de Yer
/ mas library and restored to the Lyons Ii
| brary. says the New York Sun. The manu-
/ script was stolen many years ago. Lately
I another portion of it. which had come into
| the Ashburnham collection forty years
ago from the notorious book theft, Libri,
was given back to the same library by
| Lord Ashburnham.
Pointer dogs can always be trained to
steal, says the Washington Star Many
of them are natural thieves without
taught. There is a dog of this kind in
northwest Washington. He will pick up
anything he can md around yard or
outside OF store, but his speciality is la
dies pOCketbOoks and handbags. When
he sees one of these he grabs it and runs.
always succeeding in getting out of sight
before he can be captured or followed.
No owner has ever been seen, hence no
complaints have been made at police
headquarters, but there is but little doubt,
If it were possible to follow the animal.
that it would be found that he has been
carefully trained as a pufSe-SnaJcner ana
that he takes his booty home to his mas
ter. He seems to be aware that ne is do
ing wrong, jumping fences and lodging
around houses when running away.
The Berlin courts have just decided
an interesting question relating to the
status of dogs, says the Westminster
Gazette. A cabman having, demanded
p pfennigs from one of his fares" who
was accompa panied by his dog. on the
ground that that was the customary
charge for a package, the indignant
/ stf9raH al1v resented S11ph insult
! to his companion, paid under protest,
and brought an action against the driver
! in the law courts. The first court took
| the cabbys view of the canine species,
| but the plaintiff carried the case to
| higher tribunal. Again the decision went
| against him, and again he appealed. AT
! length in the court of third instance, he
| has found both wisdom and justice. An
| animal which moves of itself, observes
| the court judiciously in its judgment, lis
not a package" The dog has therefore
| been honorably rehabilitated, and the
| driver has had to pay a fine of one mark
| for exceeding his rights.
| The manufacture of bicycles on a
! large scale, says the Philadelphia Record,
! has led to the construction of number
| of special machine tools of novel oe-
sign, and to the adoption of some new
| methods of producing separate parts OF
| a wheel. One of the latest companies to
enter the field produces nothing put So
| called jointless rims or felloes. The ear
| lest safety machines had heavy, solid
! rims for the tires, which were subse-
/
| and sitter rims, made of tube in
] dented longitudinally to receive the
tire, and with the ends brazed together
! to make a ring. The jointless rim Is real
| ly composed of two separate rings, which
are ultimately soldered together, the joint
| being longitudinal instead of transverse.
| Users of such rims claim that they are
| more uniform in size than the older style
and that the metal of which they are
| composed is of better quality, as it has
| been softened by the heat of brazing.
| AT the close of the last century, says
| writer in Electric Power, Galvani aston
| ished the world with the experiments he
| performed on frogs. There is no doubt
but what his work, as far as the develop
| ment of engineering is concerned, almost
| retarded the progress, at least for very
| short time; but he has opened field
| as much possibly of more Importance,
than all the practical applications of cleo
tricity to-day. We refer to the physiologi-
| cal effects of the electric currents.
| Now as we approach the end of another
| century, another experiment on tadpoles
| has been made which in our minds eye,
| NAV have tremendous consequences, DIR.
| Waller has observed that tadpoles face the
| positive pole when an electric current IS
| sent through the trough in which they
| live. This is certainly a remarkable fact,
| and we hope sincerely that this matter
may not be taken up as a matter of
| ridcule, or of play, for there may be hid
| den i'm this simple experimental fact a
| vast deal of knowledge; not that we want
| to prophesy, but on the face of it it does
| should be the commencement of knowl-
| edge of lectro-physiology which in a
! hundred years from now might be second
| to none of our descriptive sciences
1T is common to hear people speak OF
| the possibility of the planets being inhab-
tied, and the discussion of the question
| often brings out some curious ideas con-
| corning the supposed planetary beings,
says the st. Louis Republic. The major
| ity of people never imagine that it is pos
| sble that the great world which we know
laf inf hn
| pied by others than creatures resembling
| the highest type of animal life on this
globe. Such persons, although they may
| be able to tell you the exact weight of
the earth in tons, pounds and ounces, the
| minimum and maximum temperature of
| the surface of the sun at different seasons
and the exact day upon which the moon
| became an arid waste, never stop to think
| what would be the effect on stature of
| persons living on such gigantic worlds
| as some of the stars are known to be.
| The dark planet which accompanies the
star Algol is known to be more than 1,O00.-
| 600 times larger than this earth, but it's
density is so slight that it is only about
| COO times heavier than our globe. You
are now thinking that the inhabitants
| must be at least 100000 feet in hight Gf
they are constructed on such a plan as
the world upon which they reside), but
such is probably not the case. The dem
| sity of the planet would have great deal
| to do when it came to a question of size
| and weight. Figuring with density and
size both as basis, Vogel came to the
|
gols companion world would be 24% feet
in hight. and weigh between 700 and 800
pounds. Arnold and Metterich both fig
ured upon the same data, adding that of
the intensity of gravity. and gave a
string of corrected calculations in proof
of the assertion that man on that planet
could never grow to exceed fifteen inches
in hight, but would spread out over a
quarter of an acre Of ground.
| Mexico. according to the Washington
| Star, boasts the richest and most produce
| tive silver mines in the world; the era
| die of civilization in this continent; the
ruins and romance of historic and prehfs-
| toric America; the Garden of Eden, If il
was situated on this continent and IN
the Cholula pyramid the Tower of Babel
| of Indian tradition the spot where the
first known European set foot on this
| continent to which he gave his name
the place, the coast near Tampico, the
man., Americus Vespucci the statue of
| Charles ~ on the Paseo in the City of
| Mexico the first and according to some au-
thorities the largest bronze ever cast in
America, and according to Humboldt the
finest equestrian statue in the world, next
to that of Marcus Aurelius at Rome: the
stoutest tree on the continent and per-
haps in the world, at Tule, l54 feet two