The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-06
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81 10 the stick is hrst melted, led up
Inc WICK by the so-called capillary az
ttacl-on, Ndp0rlZed and burnt in the form
OF gaseous hyGr0-carD0n. The flame in
now IN 10 take the place Of the ASCENDING
ar heated by the na-le. This inflow Of
cold air keeps the wax around the cir
celnIerence cool, and hence L melts much
more slowly than that in the Interior
mus the melted wax round the wick
Is consumed far more quickly, and so the
cup is formed.
1t is probable that so long as there
have been ships al all, their masters OF
owners have loved TO Dit one against the
other, says an exchange. Students II
Nirgiis 'Aeneid" viii remember partic-
uldrly spirited account Of a race between
Tour Trojan men-Of-War OF the coast Of
SICILY. But the earliest recorded yacht
race, In the modern sense of the word.
was one in which Charles II took part.
The Merry Monarch had a pleasure boal
built for him after a Dutch model (the
word yacht is itself Dutch), but with inn
provemeuts. and the little vessel earned
the appreciation Of Samuel Pepys. the diar-
ISL Wfo, as secretary to the English Gd-
miralty, may be supposed TO have been a
DIT OF judge, and who described her as
very pretty, and as zone of the finest
things that ever l saw for neatness AMI
room On Oct. !, 1861, the king sailed her
against his brother. the Duke of York s
yacht, for 100 guineas, from Greenwich
to Gravesend and back and won his
wager.
All that now remains of the apostles
of Christ are in the following places:
Seven are sleeping the sleep of the just in
Rome. namely. ST. Peter, ST. Philip, ST.
James the Lesser, St. Jude, St. BarthOlo-
new, St Matthias and St Simon. The
remains Of three lie in the kingdom OF
Napies-St. Matthew at Salerno. St. An
drew al Amalh and St Thomas al or
tona. one, St James the Greater, was
buried in Spain a St. Jago de COmpOs-
coll - b. b.
remains of St. John the Evangelist there
is much dispute St. Mark and St. Luke
are buried in Italy, the former at Venice
and the latter at Padua. St. PauIs re-
Peter is buried in Rome in the church
which bears his name; so, too, are ST.
simon ana St Jude. St. James the Les
ser IS buried in the Church of the Holy
Apostles, ST. Bartholomew in the church
on that island in the Tiber which bears
his name. The Legends of the ApOs-
ties places the remains of St Matthias
under the altar of the renowned Basilica.
Glass has hitherto been the best ma
terial known for skylights, but it was
forever cracking, breaking and leaking
owing TO the effect on it of heat cold
blows, storms, expansion, contraction,
etc, says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
To overcome these defects many and va
r.ous forms of skylight frames have been
invented, but the troubles are not mate
rally lessened. The Introduction of iron
and steel in the construction of buildings
has made matters worse for the glass
skyight. The expansion and contraction
of the metal framework plays havoc with
the glass, and the yearly cost of repair
ing Is considerable To meet the need for
a more durable sAylight material. a trans
lucent wire cloth has been invented.
which, when filled in with a semi-trans-
parent, lmpervious substance, does all
that glass can do and a great deal more
While transmitting a large amount of
light it is strong. flexible. ather-proof
durable and practically unbreakable. The
substance covering the wire cloth is COM
posed almost entirely of boiled linseed oil
which is subjected to an OXidiZing process.
The material is claimed to be virtually
hre-proof, and TO cost much less than glass
skylights.
The sense of touch dies last, and it is
for this reason. among others, that the
sense of touch is not confined to partic-
ular parts of the body of small extent.
IKE the other senses. On the contrary,
all parts capable of perceiVing the pres
ence of a stimulus by ordinary sensa-
ton are in certain degrees, the seat of
this sense; for touch is simply a modfi-
cation or exaltation of common sensation
or sensibility. As long as life lasts in
a body that common sensib.lity cOntin-
ues, and 1t is purely question of degree.
SO far as the other senses are concern
ed, they may all be dead, and vet the
dying person up to the last moment may
be conscious of touch 1t is we'll known
when every sense has gone-that of touch
has fingered. so that there has been a
tremor when the test has been made, say
by thruSting a needle into the most senSi-
tive parts. Indeed, that has become the
test for death with many. II stands to
reason that the sense of touch should
be the last. !nasmuch as capacity is not
a local one, such as eyesight, hearing,
smelling and taste. The nerves on which
the sense of touch depends are the same
as those with confer ordinary sensation
flD ~ Na hr,.1v
those derived from the posterior roots
of the nerves of the spinal cord, and the
sensitive cerebral nerves AS long as these
are available, the sense of touch en-
dures, that IS, until actual death of the
body sets in.
Concerning the much discussed ques-
ton whether wood, charred by long-con-
tinued contact with hot steam pipes. and
thus brought into a state in which even a
slight touch will reduce ii to powder
Will ignite from any cause except actual
contact by spark or flame from an out
side source, Mr.. Edward Atkinson, pres
ldent of the widely known Boston Man
ufacturers' Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, cites an interesting example from
ms own experience. He says: Having
mad occasion to test heat retarding sub
stances on my own behalf l once OBJ
tanned some sections of beautifully pre-
pared wood pulp, in slabs of ~ inches in
lnlGkhess ana OF a very porous quality
winch are made use of in the construc-
tlOn OF fetflgera tors. My purpose was To
determine whether or not such slabs
could be used to prevent the escape of
neat from lamp oven. l therefore
raised the heat of my inner oven, which
IS tight iron box one inch distant on ali
SIDE from an outer case made of Will
eanlzed and very solid wood pulp, to A
little under 400 degrees Fahrenheit In
the center of that inner oven, isolated
from any metallic contact with the walls
placed one of these slabs and there
left 1t, subject to heat at less than 400
Fahrenheit, for about one hour / then
removed the front of the outer oven and
opened the door of the inner oven LET
ting very quick and large supply of
fresh air into the chamber in which the
oxygen. had probably been, in part. ex
hausted by subsection to the hours heat
The slab of wood pulp had turned from
pure white to dense black, having been
converted into very porous charcoal In
less than minute after the fresh air
was let in it took fire and burned n
ashes before my eyes. I then repeated
Inc experiment with the same resuIt
Four hundred degrees Fahrenheit will he
developed by pressure of steam Of 92S
pounds per square inch, but the sane
carbonlzation ensues by lapse of tine
even at boiling heat or PIP degrees Fab-
renheit. The conclusion to be drawn from
this is evident. - 0i1