The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-12
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Doly in a glow In the coolest WeatneIs
no matter how thinly one may be cad
lie was himself half-frOzen TO death one
night, and began taking deep Dreams
and keeping the air in the lungs as long
as possible. The result was that ne was
thoroughly comfortable IN few minutes
The deep respiratiOns, he says, stimulate
the blood current by direct muscular eX-
ertiOn, and cause the entire system 10
become pervaded with the rapidly gen
Grated heat.
The blackfish in nature is shy but in cap
tivity, with kindness, il Is easily tamped,
SAYS the New York Sun. In one of the
pools or the city's aquarium Al CastiS
Garden there are a number of blacknsh,
including some fifteen inches long and
weighing two pounds, that viii take food,
live killies. or minnows from the hand.
The killie is held just under the top OF the
water and the blackiish comes UP ana
takes il; some moving a little warily as
though investigating first so as to make
sure that il vas all right, am others COM
ing up with confidence taking the nsb
from the fingers and swallowing 1t with a
smack. Sometimes q minnOW escapes
from the fingers, or from the nsh. that Is
trying 10 take H., and darts away TOT sale-
ty with two or three blacklish. sometimes
more. after it, The little minnoW sticks
close to the edge Of the pool and TO the
surface Of the water. 1t is thus protected
on one side by the wall of the pool, and at
the surface it can swim faster than its
pursuers, and being so much smaller II
can turn much quicker than the blacknsh-
1t may go half the length Of the pool hug
ging the wall and then dart across the
pool at right angles, with the big black
fish still after it, So long as the mInnoW
keeps 10 the top II is safe, but If 1t goes
TO the bottom the chances are greatly
against it, In deeper water the bigger
fish can do better than the smaller FISH.
Weakfsh sometimes become very tame in
captivity; one has been known to llrt ITS
head four inches out Of the water to seize
a live killie held in the hand.
Recent earthquakes have attracted the
ion Of fla.a II-lg mo-
geOlogisr, who has made experiments as
to the cause of earthquakes in general,
and actually experienced one at Nice,
says Public opinion (Eng). lie declares
that IN spite Of Humboldts and other fine
descriptions, nothing short of an appren-
uceship 10 earthquakes VIII enable man
10 encounter one without emotion. At
first vague rumbhngs are heard, then dis
tinct noises under the ground, Wnlcn
eliminate In series of irregular and IN
definite shocks At Nice only three shocks
running were felt but i'm Atlanta, in
Greece, lately, Is many as 365 shocks oc-
CURED in one day. Earthquakes are
not isolated phenomena, but associated,
rs rule; and shocks are felt over vast
areas. The Atlanta earthquake was con-
nected with those Of Zante last year. and
. Ofs Syracuse LegOnegrO and Constantine
I pie this year. The shocks wreck houses.
bridges and other engineering works, and
produce assures in the soil, or circular
I pits, which soon filled with water At
Seville, in 1871 crack opened so SUD
denly as to split a large tree from the root
/ to the branches. leaving one half grow
ing on each brink When the shock oc-
ours beside the sea a hood-wave over
+ whelms the land. strewing fish and YES
sells on the shore, as at Lisbon in 1853.
The moral effect of the shock is even
worse than the physical, for panic oIten
/ occurs. and a disposition to doubt every
thing. as well as bodily sickness and loss
Of equilibrium. The motion OF the soil
I Is compounded of a horizontal and vertical
impulse, which at Charleston, in 1856,
threw "a train off the line. and at Rio
Banda. in 1871. elected the remains OF
/ the dead from their graves near the city,
} to a height of several hundred feet.
A watch has been invented for measur-
/ ing distance by sound, and as II contains
I compass, II VIII also help YOU 10 find
your way when you are lost. says the
/ New York World. French officer named
/ Thouvenin designed this watch which he
/ calls the phOnotelemeter, as an aid to ar
/ tillery work, when it is desirable to know
! the distance OF an enemyS guns. upon
l perceiving the flash of a gun or flash of
/ lightning. this little instrument viii ena-
/ BILE you to know the approximate distance
/ of the disturbance. You press the button
/ when you see the flash and press 1t again
4 when you hear the noise. a needle dur
/ ing this time has traVersed certain arc
/ on a dial. This dial can register as nigh
! as fifteen seconds, and each second IS di-
/ vided into ten parts. There is also Sec
ond dial on the larger one, which permits
/ q calculation of the minutes and quarter
/ minutes. The calculation is very easy 10
| make. Light travels at the rate of ;i0O,OOC
! kilometers per second. This is the figure
! as ascertained by astronomical and by oil
/ rect physical methods. Sound, in the
| same space of time, travels almost 33C
/ metres, or with swiftness almost l,0OQ,-
/ 600 times less. The propagation of light
/ may be considered instantaneous. The
I academicians who in 1922 measured al
! Nillejuif and Montlhery the time inter-
Z Vening between the moment in which they
saw the flash from the cannon fired at one
1 of these stations and heard the sound
knowing the distance between the two
| posts-20 Observation-Disclosures the swift
/ ness of sound. Knowing the swiftness OF
I sound and the time at which you hear the
/ noise, nothing is easier than to calculate
the distance which separates you from a
sOnorOus source. Any one, can make
from good indicator. marking or show
ing tenths. a good telemeter A compass
is attached to the watchstem for trac-
| ing an itinerary from one point 10 another
or to simply direct ones self with a chart
Not a little guesswork has been gone
| through by many as to the probable guam
titles of coal which are daily shoveled
/ into the furnace mouths of the big At
lantic liners, such as the steamers Paris
/ New York, Campania and Lucania- says
Casters Magazine. Ten years ago one
( hundred tons a day We're considered q
most prodigious consumption, little likely
I to be exceeded in the years to come, anC
I wondering comment there was IN plenty
I that so vast a quantity should find q
| legitimate outlet Since then, however
| the public mind has been educated VI
I to higher figures. and statements Of two
ana even three nunO1ed IONS a Gay nave
| ceased to attract more than passing
I notice Three hundred and fifty tons
in fact are said to be burned on the Paris
and the New York in every twenty-foui
hours. but of the Lucania, and Campania
ne particulars have ever been given, sc
that an approximation based on what is
| known of the power equipment of these
ships is all that can be offered. Twenty
eight thousand horsepower has been as
summed to be the amount each of these
vessels requires to propel them at the
/ great rate of speed which they main
tain. Added to this power of the main
| engines must be the appreciable figure
/ represented by the host of auxiliary en-
! gines and pumps which are necessary
/ adiuncts, and which, with the steam
heating systems and hot water apparatus
I help to swell the steam consumption to
such a degree that a total allowance Of
| saw sixteen pounds of steam per hour
for each Of the twentv-eight thousand
| horse power, may be taken as quite with
| in the mark. Allowing. then, to a boiler
| performance of eight pounds of steam
per pound of coal. which cannot be far
| wrong, we have a. coal consumption Of
two pounds per hour for each horse-pow-
/ er. or 5000 pounds, equivalent to 60i
| tons per day. This is pretty plain figur-
ing, though of course, partly speculative
| and while the outcome may seem ex
,-rerer-a n1lN- doubt unite truth.