The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-26
CATHODE RAY DIDN'T COME.
There Was Gathering at the High
School,
BUT ONLY A BASE IMITATION

Was Seen, Though Prof Eyer Says Hs
Could Get 1t All RIghs with a
CrOOkes Tube.
1t was advertised or rumored yester-
day, through a mistake, that Mr.. K
Rosntgen Cathode Ray would visit To-
peka for the first time last evening, and
there was great deal of scrubbing up in
consequence.
Consciences that had not been polished
for many year were bright and glossy
last night by supper time and timorous
male hearts, with "Yes, darling, on them
in glad blue letters, were lying about in
easy sight of MIR. Ray and the new wo-
man.
The intentions of the county COM
missioners and of the bond dealers in re-
gard to the new bridge were buried
deep under the cellar of the court house
and rocks piled on it and the family
skeletons around town spent the night in
the wells suspended by strings so they
could be recovered when wanted.
The ghosts of the several dams and
the sugar mill and the wooden mill
walked abroad with labels on them
Mr. Troutman tackled his acceptance
CT the gubernatoriaI nomination on the
front door of the Colum bian
building and Governor Morrill, got
out his intentions regarding Wich-
ita and second term and
threw them in the coal hole, while Mr.
Baker took the date of the completion
of the asylum car line out of his safe
and tucked it safely away in his inside
vest pocket.
But after all this it must have been
that Mr.. Ray was unable to "rays" the
necessary ''X," and Mr. Black had failed
to send him pass, for he did not come
a PhiInSnThina1 OF
the high school and waited in vain and
Prof. Eper, of the high school, who was
chairman of the reception committee,
was compelled to apologize for the omis-
sion.
''lf anything has been printed" said
Prof. Eyer, ITO create the impression
that 1 was going to produce a Roentgen
ray here this evening l am sorry, for
have not Crooke's tube, which is neces-
sary. l shall be able to produce some
thing very like it, however"
On the desk in front of him was an
electrical apparatus to which he attached
a hollow glass tube with a bulb at each
end. The tube part was crooked like a
snake, only it was very crooked snake.
When the wires were attached and the
light in the room put out there was a
green and white light in the tube and a
purple, blush light in the bulb.
''rhis light in the bulb" said the pro-
fessor, sis not quite but very near to the
Roentgen ray"
If the Roentgen raw proper makes as
much noise as Prof Eyer's ray did last
night it will be a dead give away, for
people will be able to hear it in time to
get ont of the road. A threshing machine
doesn't make much more.
The phenomenon" said the professor,
is thought to be due to ether " ayes. The
term TX applied to it 1 have thought is
given it by algebra in which x means an
unknown quantity"
At the close of his lecture Prof Eyer
threw some stereopticon pictures taken
by the Roentgen ray on a canvas. All
of these have appeared in the newspa-
pers most of them in the JOURNAL.
The Camera club was present by re-
quest, and the audience numbered about
forty, of which perhaps fifteen were
women.
The meeting ended with a discussion
of the publication of water by Colonel
VIM. Tweeddale. The paper was pure
~ technical and not of local nature.
At the next meeting of the Philosoph-
ical society on April 9Th, T. F. Riley will
read paper on "Oceanic Currents" and
probably J. c. Cooper will talk of
HAIuminum