The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-01

/ His achievement opens up a new cliapter
In the history OF Arctic exploration.
Without the loss OF his good ship Fran.
without the loss of single human life.
without any serious mishap whatsoever,
even without serious discomfort, ne sue
eeeded, at single bound, as il were, in
subtracting nearly 200 miles from the dis
lance separating mans actual attainment
from the final goal Of Arctic search. q mad
taken about 300 years, with enormous
| expenditures of money. ships and human
lives, and at the cost OF untold suffering,
| Tor the accumulated labOrs OF ms pTeCle-
| ceSsors TO make an equivalent northward
advance.
| Prof. =. A. Andree's sensational attempt
to reach the north pole by means of a
| specially constructed balloon closed IN
successfully. The professor, with two
| companions, sailed from GOthenburg. Swe-
den, June :, on the Virgo. and took I'D
quarters at Danes Island, spltzbergen.
Advices received at Hammerfest, Norway.
/ August 6, stated that Prof. Andree had
| completed the Initiation Of his balloon and
was awaiting a favorable wind. But on
August "a the Virgo arrived at Tromso,
bringing back the expedition, which had
abandoned its trip for this year owing to
/ tIic lotttttsh Oh Jue season.
The sixth expedition, organized under
Lieut.. Peary's auspices, sailed from Svd-
ney, Cape Breton. on the steamer Hope.
July IS, its main purpose being 10 secure
the great forty-tOn meteorite near Cape
York, which was reported By Sir John Ross
in 1918, but never subsequently seen BY a
white man until located and surveyed by
PeaTy and Lee in May, 1894. IL was found
InDOSgifIR IN fhes
teorite with the appliances at hand, and the
ice compelled the Peary party TO retire
September 4. On the 26th Of the same
month il reached Sydney.
The largest ship in the worlds no w build
ing atthe Vulcan shipyard, in BredOn, near
Stettin, Germany, for the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company OF Bremen, Ger
many, for their service between Bremen,
Southampton and New York. The same
builders constructed the first large express
steamer built in Germany, the Augusta Vic
tOria, of the Hamburg-American line. The
new monster steamer has a length of 625
feet on the water-Iine, and is, therefore,
considerably larger than the Campania,
which is 600 feet ia length bet tween per-
pendiculars. The engines will have 27.0OO
horsepower A speed OF twenty-five knots
is expected.
unique attempt in shipbuiIding 70 solve
the problem Of giving greatly increased
speed without prOportiOnate fncreasein ex-
penditure is that Of NJ Ernest Bazin. q
weli-knOwn French marine engineer. whose
roller ship, named after himself, was launch
ed on August 8 at the Cecil dockyarls OF
the Seine at ST. Denis.
COlOred Photographs.
August exhibited before the Royal So
ciety Of London some specimens Of perma-
nent oOIored photographs, produced by the
direct action OF the luminous rays. They
differed from all other coIOred photographs
yet produced in the fact that they were OBJ
tanned by a gle exposure. The image is
the color is due 20 a ph ysicaI
texture produced in the Photographic film
by the light, and not to any deposited pig
ment.
The picture is obtained by having metal
lie mirror in contact with the photograph
film during the exposure of the plate the
glass side OF the plate being turned toward
the object photographed. The mirror is
readily formed 10 contact with the film
by allowing mercury TO flow from a small
reservoir into the space between the film
and the back OF the holder After the ex-
posture the reservoir is lowered and the
mercury allowed 10 run out. The plate
IS then developed and fixed in the usual
way, and when examined by reflected light
Tie picture shows the natural cOlOrs OF
he object. The film may be either aIOu-
men, cOllOdiOn or geIatine, SenSitiZsd by
The chloride, bromide OF iOdide Of silver;
he developer may be acid or alkaline,
md the fixatiOn may be by potassium bro
nide or cyanide.
In medical annals the chief feature u the
asst twelvemOnth has been the assurance Of
he success of the anti-tOxine tTeatmrntin
iiphtherIa- Reports made by the London
England board OF metropolitan asylI,nS,
md by the Pedriatic Society at its session
n Montreal, Canada, prove that this, for
nerly one Of the deadliest Of diseases, has
net with an efficient opponent.
The serum method of treatment has also
,een developed in Paris, France, by DR..
luux and his cOllabOratorS, for Use IN Cases
4 cholera. and by the psychologists of the
eaIth board Of New York city as a pre-
-entive of tetanus. IL is also stated that
experiments conducted in the laboratories
4 the st. Lawrence State Hospital. at
'gdensburg, y. Y, go to prove that acute
ehrions mania is a germ disease, Co lie
reated accordingly.
In Spain DT. CaraSquilla reports success
uI experiments with theSerum treatmenrin
asses of leprosy He first bleedS a Ieper,
hoosing an adult whose general COndItIonis
airly good. The blood drawn is received
nto steriliZed vessel and kept carefully
overed and away from the light. In from
we've to INVENT -four hours the superficial
aver of serum is removed. IL is injected
ItO an animal the dose being about forty
i've cubic centimeterS at intervals Of Ten
avs The horse is bled in from five to ten
avs after the last injection, and the anti
Dxine is developed from this bleeding blythe
ocard- ROux process. The dose Of heserum
or use on the human SUBJECTS from one TO
We cutie centimeters, given subcutanc-
usly.
The bicycle craze reached its highest
pint during the past twelvemOnth. and -
pparentIy on theinCTease. 1t has wrought
revolution in business, Tehdbihtattng
lany industries and causing the dOwulallor
theirs, while travel is diverted into new
nanneIs II is estimated that at present
lere are 1000 900 bicycle riders in the
nited States, while Washington alone pos
,sses 40, 900 riders There are atieast ESQ
eputable wheel manufacturers IN the
-nited states, besides host Of smaller con-
erns that cannot be strictly called manu-
,cturers. over 100000 900 is invested
|, the plants, which give employment TO
,ore than 10000 persons. IL is eSti-
lated that the wheels turned out last sea-
IN exceeded 1000, 900.