The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-29
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had a clear skin. The negative showed
the face 70 he thickly covered with q n
eruption. Three days afterward the child
was covered with spots due to prick!y
neat The camera had seen and photo
graphed the eruption three days before
10 was visible 10 the naked eve. II Is said
that another case Of a similar kind is
recorded. where a child showed spots On
his portrait which were invisible on his
face a fortnight previous to an attack OF
smallpox.
The immense power required to prOpeI
vessel when a speed above twenty knots
an hour is required Is realized says a
technical journal by few people. Take,
for instance. the British torpedo boat
cnasers, which are mere racing machines.
even from naval point of view. The
most perfect specimens OF vessels Of this
class, which have attained thirty knots
speed, carry sixty tons of coal, which is
Iull one-quarter of their entire sea-gOihg
displacement. They burn three and one
nan tons OF coal per hour. To attain
lne tnree Knots over tWenty-seVeu, which
IS the highest speed Of ordinary torpedo
1oatS, II was necessary TO increase tine
fuel expenditure fully 80 per cent.
The principle of the aeolian harp. says
Popular Science News, has been put TO
scientific use. At recent meeting of the
national academy Prof. Carl Barus dis
cussed the sounds made by the wind whist
mig across a slender obstacle, like a wire.
he showed that the velocity Of the wind
could De computed from the pitch Of the
note observed in case Of a given diameter
OF wire, and for a given temperature of
the air By aid of a special microphonic
attachment such sound could be conveyed
10 any distance, and isolated from the at
esHdaht noises at the place of exposure.
30 represented, the wind was given in ev-
cry detail of its gusty and variable char
dcter, and the term micro ane-mometry
seemed to be applicable to observa lions of
this nature Finally. the direction Of the
gust could be inferred from the sounds OBJ
tanned from three wires at right angles to
each other.
The fan Of glacier in the Bernese
Overland last autumn from an altitude of
lcS23 feet above sea lever is thus descrHb-
ed Dy Engineering: The whole mass, esti-
mated to he half as large again as the
largest of the pyramids of Egypt, leaped
DOWN 4,6uO feet TO the bottom of the valley,
then up 1900 on the other side and back
INTO the valley just far enough not to de-
stroy the water course through it, 1t ap-
pears TO have jumped the water course,
moving as a solid mass. 1t only took
ABOUT ~ seconds in its first downward
plunge, 10 in its leap upward and 10 in fall
ing pack, so that at the end of 40 seconds
the mass had changed its place from near
the top of the mountain to the farther side
Of the valley. where il buried nearly one
square mile of rich pasture to the depth of
SIX feet. A similar ice avalanche is record
ed as having occurred at the same spot
on the same day of the year in 1852.
Mrs. Laurie-Johnstone. on February H.
1896, killed the largest tiger ever measured
in India with a tape line, so far as any
body remembers, says the New York Sun
Mrs tombstone, Mrs. Nolan. Miss Collin
Mr.. TOMBSTONE and another man, on ele-
plants, went to the Aghat Reserved For
est to find and Kill a tiger When the big
animal move in sight Mrs. tombstone fired
bullet into 1t, and the animal turned and
charged the elephants, and severely
wounded one of them before it died Five
minutes after the death of the tiger it
was measured twice, and the result was
astonishing. for the fipap fan
half an inch long-twelve inches and a
half larger than the one Killed by J. l..
Shllllnglord on April 19; 1871. The measure
ments OF the beasts skin, without undue
stretching, were twelve feet, one half inch
nose TO root of tail, S feet, inches wide
at the cheek bones, or the zygomatic meas
urement. The tail was feet 10 inches long
which was six inches longer than the aver
age of five other big tigers tails. The
skull weighed three pounds seven ounces,
a portion of the lower jaw having been
shot away by heavy bullet.
Telescope lenses are still far from per-
feet as regards 'achromatism." This i'm
perfection of the ordinary object glass.
says a writer in the North American Re
view, is in no respect the fault of the OPP
tician, but lies in the material itself. Ex-
periments, subsidized by the German gov
eminent, have been going on at Jena dur
ing the last dozen years for the purpose Of
remedying the evil with special reference.
however, to the Improvement of the mi
croscope. In that complete success has
been reached. and there is much reason to
hope that before very long it may become
possible to obtain varieties of glass which
in combination Will give satisfactory
achroma tiSm and in disks of sufficient size
to permit the construction of large tele-
scopic object glasses, as perfect in their
way as the new apochroma tic" micro
scOpic objectiVeS are in theirs. 1t will be a
step almost as important as was Dollonds
invention of the present achromatic lens.
Thus far, however, no great success has
been attained with telescopes of any con-
siderable magnitude, though an English
firm is now offering TO make three-lens OBJ
jectives up to 20 inches in diameter, which
are advertised as practically perfect in
their achromatism a six-inch lens of this
ported on by DR.. Roberts, and it is perhaps
not impossible that a new era of telescope
making may open with the new century
-Folk-lorists will remember the many
incidents relative to the butterfly and
how universal they are. says the New
York Times. The Greeks had a pretty
fancy about the soul and the butterfly,
and so have the Basques, and that the
two were Interchangeable. Among the
cannibals living east of the Gaboon river
lot of folklore about the butterfly AS
Englished from their pigeon talk it runs
as followsi In the old time there were
good and a bad divinity. Case and
Huh. Case was master of all the beau
tiful things, as the flowers and birds
Hull held the serpents and creeping
erpillar, a servant of Hulu's, whose duty
it was to devour the flowers Once he
crawled up a tree and, seeing a flower
began to eat it. STOP" said Case, why
destroy that flower? If you will let it grow
it will be fine fruit" But the caterpillar
answered, Il must do my master Hulu's
bidding" Then Case said: "Nibble only
the leaves, they ought to suffice YOU and
if you will be satisfied with the leaves
when your little ones are born you may
put them in the fruit, which is certain
to grow, if you do not harm the flower -
And the caterpillar agreed to that. and
only munched the leaves, and the flower
grew and grew and in time was fine.
large fruit. In those days caterpillars
always crept, ard never changed their
shape. But Hull was good so when the
eggs, which were laid in the fruit, became,
caterpillars, they took on wings and flew
and flew, and they were not handsome
as they are to-day. Hull was the sun.
so he shot rays of light on the butter
fiy's wings, and they were decked with
| his brilliant colors and some with spots.
| Ingenious folk-lorists will see once more
| in this the sun myth. Following the gen
eral anthropolOgical rule, Mr.. Garner saws
that these cannibals were very much the
superiors in physique, when compared
| with their native surroundings