The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-23
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/ be made the starting point of French
/ thus be shortened nearly a whole day
Massachusetts secretary Of state has
/ not yet been able to secure a suitable In
/ dian type to use in making the new state
/ seal for the Bay state Artists and eth
/ nologists have contributed drawings Of
| aborigines supposed to be historically cor
| rect as to costume. But the secretary is
| only be correct in every detail, but a
/ credit to the state and of value beyond that
of mere work of art
There is a very curious thing at the
| Hoosac tunnel four and a half miles long,
/ near North Adams, Mass. For some rea-
son, which the most expert electrician has
not been able to explain, a telegraphic dis
/ patch will not go through the tunnel It
has been tried with all sorts of wires. and
with a cable such as is used under the
ocean, but the message declines to pass
| through and the telegraph wires have to
| be carried over the mountain. The tunnel
has been carefully explored, but no mag
netic or other ore is found, and the mat
ter remains unaccountable.
Some curious Investigations have re-
Gently been undertaken by Photographic
society in Geneva" says the Photographic
longer a married couple lived together
we apprehend ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS more
and more marked became the resem-
blance which the two persons bore to
each other Photographs of seventy
eight couples were taken, as well as an
equal number of adult brothers and sis
that the married couples were more like
each other than the brothers and sisters
of the same blood. Apparently, there
fore, there seems to be a stronger force
available for the production of family
likenesses' even than that of hereditary
transmission. In accepting the state
ment of tho society in question as true as
to fact it is not difficult, in a certain
measure, to account for the phenomenon
referred to. Human beings, for example.
nave quite faculty for copying each
other in their ways, movements, and
temperaments."
The sun is doubtless in the main
great globe of gas, although so intense
ly compressed in its central parts thar
they may be in thickened or semi-vis-
cous condition, says the Nineteenth Cen
fury. The gravitating attraction Of the
suns mass is ever tending to generate
downward velocity in the gaseous MOLE
cules, situated in any part of 1t, toward its
center. At the same time, the radiation
of heat at its surface diminishes the up
ward counterbalancing pressure. This al
lows the molecules to be actually more
or less drawn inward. Their individual
average velocities are, upon the whole,
increased. Their knocks against each
other become more violent and generate
an increase of temperature And the re-
suit, which might at first seem TO be al
most paradoxical, is explained, viz, that
the sun, as its surface radiateS heat away
(Which so far is a cooling process), may,
nevertheless, through its consequent at
traction, generate a higher temperature
by the fiercer clashings together, or
knocks, OF It's molecules, as they are
drawn inward. This may enable it to
send forth a more intense heat and light
than before.
"A French statistician has been asking
the anarchists why they professed the
doctrine, and has got some curious an
swers. A surgeon attributed his anarchis-
tic principles to the fact that he had been
fiogged at school, which certainly makes
against DR.. Johnson's contention that
there is nothing like a sound Gaming to
beat the humanities into a boys head.
''R00fp0 objection aTrfhnrifN'' W ha
made an anarchist of a journalist who
had first, no doubt through such rooted
objection, become what the French call
"un Journalistic du pave" One can better
understand the case of an artist who had
been driven to anarchy by the arrogance
of critics. and that of an author who
had gone the same way as IAN alterna-
tive to suicide" What one cannot under
stand at all, however, is the analysis of
the anarchist nature, which Mr. Hannah
processes to make on the strength of the
data he has collected. He works out eight
specific characteristics of the anarchist
mind, some of which are obvious enough
such as "a spirit of revolt .'Iove Of
SELF or even 'love of liberty" But IL
seems strange, indeed, to read that bomb
throwers are strongly moved by love of
others, that they have marked tender
heartedness," powerful feeling of JUS
tice," and a keen Sense of logic" AS
a final note of the anarchist il is said
that he has thirst for knowledge
People who are subject to ''thick-com-
| ing fancies" that trouble the brain and
weigh upon the heart should heed the
prescription of the doctor in, Macbeth:
Therein the patient must minister to
himself" The blues are to be cured not
by drugs prescribed by a quack, but by the
Harpers Bazaar tells of the struggles OF
'bluish persons of different sorts and
conditions. from which a sufferer may
choose a remedy for his own case: ~
take a walk" said one young woman,
vigorous of mind and body. IF the trou-
bic comes from indigestion, as it usually
iG n n fat,- 10
/ TO put your internal organs to rights :"
! The reply of a Boston maiden may be
deemed CHARACTERISTIC: Il sit down to
| the hardest mathematical problem that I
/ can md Il go into one of the al
/ coves in the reading-room," said another
/ the DOssessOr of that Boston patient of
nobility share in the Athenaeum, with
/ the new magazine or a pile of local his
/ tories. L suppose the sanity minded
/ would say that the best plan is to go to
see some one who is worse off than your
self, said young woman of feeble con-
stitutioh but brilliant mental endowments.
/ Il only add this misery to mine and the
sum total is suicidal. l just think: III
isn't illness and it isn't death; nothing
else matters Or | try to bring my SELF
TO the admirable frame of mind that Dol
| ly Madison attained at 80: My dear, when
| you nave reached my age you will learn
that nothing matters Il sweep my
room, said an energetic little housewife
usually to the Indignation of the maid
who has just completed the same task
Perhaps the best suggestion of all came
Il
to do something for somebody else For
as the Salvation army sister phrased il
If you make other people Apply, you've
a 'appiness in your art that don't come in
no other way"
The real thinking philosophers of all
| times have entertained some of the oldest
notions imaginable, says the ST Louis Re
public. Those of Sir John Herschel Bah
bage, Newton and Sir William Hamilton
in regard to the permanence of sound
and light waves are worthy of thoughtful
consideration. Babbage's Ninth Bridge
water Treatise" for example, seriously
insists on the theory of the permanence
of all spoken words He argues that the
pulsation of the air set In motion bv
human voices cease not to exist with
the sounds of which they give rise. but
that the waves once started must of
a necessity go on forever He says Waves
so raised perambulate the surfaces Of
land and sea, and soon every atom of the
atmosphere takes up the altered movement
I due to the infinitesimal portion of the
primitive motion which has been con-
veyed to it through countless Channels
and which must continue to influence its
paths throughout its future existence"
In another portion of his work he saws.
Every atom impressed with good and
with i'll retains at once the motions which
have been impaired to it, and these are
mixed and combined in tens of thousands
OF ways. The very atmosphere we brea The