The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

walter y. Owens, a farmer Of Okla
homa, was sentenced on Friday, al WI
chita. kan. TO serve a term in the peni-
Tertiary al LeavenwOrth for counterfeit
ing. The case. 10 some extent, IS a re-
markable one. Previous 20 his arrest ne
had always borne q good reputation. Two
years ago he was juror IN the united
States court here and tried a counter
feiter. During the process OF the trial
c0unterfelters' tools were exhibited and
evidence introduced showing how taise
moneys were coined Owens examined the
tools closely and listened 10 the evidence
attentively. After the conclusion Of the
trial ne went home and made counterfeit
ing tools himself and proceeded 10 WORK
Owing 10 MS good reputation ne mace
and passed a great deal Of spurious money
before he was detected.
Isaac S. Long. who owns COO acres Of
farming land in the Lebanon valley, has
made an experiment in corn planting
which will undoubtedly prove of inter
est TO agriculturists al large, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. In planting corn
he Is very precise putting exactly Ine
same number of stalks in each row, ana
for years he had the finest corn neldS IN
the Lebanon valley. Some months ago
he came to the conclusion that if ne
planted corn in flower pots and raised
the plants in that way there would DC
no delay in their growth in case any OF
So he purchased 5000 flower pots, placed
them in his garden this spring and planted
a seed of corn in each. Several weeks
ago, when it became necessary 10 re-
plant the corn fields, a hole was dug
wherever there was a stalk missing and
one Of the tender COrnstalks was trans
planted from the pots. The potted stalks
grew well and are just as large as those
planted in the field in the spring. This
experiment was made on Mr.. Ions
farm, near MyerstOwn, Pa.
There was great excitement in as
tronomic circles in the city of Brussels
not long ago, says the St. Louis Repub-
lie The moon had gotten out of order
and refused, apparently, TO follow the
course which had been marked out Tor
! her all eternity. The situation was grave.
| Calculation upon calculation was made
| by the savants, but no solution OF
| the phenomenon seemed TO be mathe-
mat.cally obtainabe. II was discovered
| that both the fixed stars and the planets
| were affected in exactly the same way
| The whole universe was out OF order!
Fortunately the poor, ignorant pubic
had not yet gotten wind of the AFFAIR
when ii occurred to some one of the as
| trOnomers that the fault might well be
! in the observatory itself and not in the
| general machinery of the universe. The
! observatory of Brussels IS of compar-
atively recent cons truction. 1t is sup
! posed to have been built in accordance
! with the latest dIldlnmenlS OF SCleuCe
/ and art, but, unfortunately, IL was placed,
| contrary to biblical admOniton, upon a
| hill of sand, and the foundations which
| the plans required to be some thirty
| feet deep were only twelve or fifteen. The
sparinG of labor and material caused the
/ building 10 lose its level, and to slip
| gradually away from its proper position.
| This movement threatens to continue.
| But as to the conduct of Dame Luna,
the scientists are completely treasured.
| having revised their calculations with
| due allowance for the enforced bias of
vision.
DIR. Levy has just made a commune
cation to the Berlin physiological So
ciety regarding the latest application of
| the Roentgen rays, says the Paris edi-
| ton of the New York Herald. 1t has now
| become possible, he declared, to obtain a
| complete picture of the internal organs
as regards their situation, size and me-
| chanicism. This is accomplished by
means of the Fluorescenz screen. The
| whole body is lighted up so that the
| shadow of the various parts and organs
| is thrown on the screen. DR.. Du Bols-
| Raymond and Prof. Grummach, wfo had
| aided DR.. Levy in his investigations,
| further reported that they had succeeded
in seeing the organs of the throat. the
larnyx, the tongue and the stomach,
| Prof. Grummach has further succeeded
in making pathological studies of the
| human body. He examined a man who
]
and hemmorrhage of the lungs. He no
ticed that in the part of the body where
the lungs lie Cthe lungs are too transpar-
ent to be visible by means of the Roenc-
gen rays there were number of Opaque
spots. These were places where Ossifi-
cation of the tuberculous parts of tbs
lungs had set in. In another case M
saw small black lines in the heart of q
| patient just where the main arteries lie
These showed that the Justification Of
this part of the heart had set in, al
though IL could not be diagnosed by any
of the usual means. The correctness d
these observations was confirmed by tn
fact that the pulse in the wrist was hart
to the touch, and signs of ossificatiot
could be observed near the elbow and i
the forearm.
Mr. Neville-Rolfe, our consul at Ma
pies, says the London Times. in the cours
of his last report, states that Mr. H. Lin
den, secretary to the geological station
there, has made an invention which ma,
in its development prove extremely use
| full to yachting men, though at presen
it is scarcely more than a scientific play
thing. Taking the fms of fish, and par
ticulaTly those of the porpoise, for hi
model, he has constructed metal fms
which, being fixed on outriggers over tn
stem and stern of any boat, will prope
her by the mere action of the wave
upon them In stil water of course, tn
invention is useless, but In still water !
| Is MUCH easier TO proper Lne DOdI D.
means of oars than 1t is in a head sea
whereas Mr.. Linden's invention work
better in a head sea than under any othe
conditions. The chief feature of the IN
: vention is its simplicity. Flexible fins
: fixed to the boat, are worked upon bot
by the rolling and pitching of the vesse
as well as by the vertical action of tn
waves. The motion once impaired to tn
boat, she can be stored in any desire
direction, in the usual manner. Mr. Lir
l den's early experiments were not yer
encouraging. the speed attained bein
; only about two kilometers per hour; bu
by careful study of the conditions prect
dent to this method of propulsion and b
: various notifications in the shape an
placing of the fins, Which rendered thel
: simpler, and at the same time more eff
: cient, he has obtained such an inereas
, of speed as encourages him to a continue
ton of his experiments. The trial boa
[ which is only fourteen feet long has run
the consul says, at the rate of five kilC
meters an hour against the southeas