Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-08


The steam propelled neroplane ui
.to...s y rattn and Charles Richet
IL, gu,, -c,,,ared wood
mas u very 's"' - a.. -,
frame, to which are a'uhe"'u "
wires. two similarly constructed fXed
,,,,.r' .d a tou steam engine
WINGS "'i" - ,,,,, a,
drives TWO screw PiVp0''N'a
each end-rotntins IN opposite u''e
'o"s' " a,,a,,. t,tl so,,are
cehtly tespu'! "'' -, TIT
yards of wing surlhce' WelBhc" 'i''''
10 pounds, including water ana coal
co.,. a nlgtt az three miles. and devcl-
-, 90 On ,,oras n second. the
oped u spceu VI ~ y","9 - -. 80.
size and epced being cohsluer""'s
greater than those OF Langley aero
dro,,a trbn tonaast flight thus far
has been about loO yeius, 'he "i'
chine having tendency IN lts preseh'
stage to take headers. The start iH
,,oda ON a ca,. rolling down an in
clined plane 81 yards IohB' AT t'le ei,n
of which the aeroplnne is automati-
,,u,, raiooead for free flight.
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Inc accurh'e Wv =,
atomic weights IL SHOWN ny ~ -. =
w. Clarke to he n matter OF Tc"i Ptta
of chromium is sim plaeeu Ny bu ,i,
pean analysts at the old deteimlhatlon
of $50, while American cheHllsts n"N.
adopted the corrected value OF 81. y
result If that chronic iron, when IL
imported by the Baltimore chrome pre
works In cargoes of about 2,5Vo TONS,
is valued by Glasgow assays at SSo''oo
per cargo more than by Baltimore as
says
sol uf
of Herr Diesel, of Munich, is stated 10
be the bringing of the fuel In the work
ing cylinder into contact with AR SO
highly compressed as to be intensely
hot. The engine may be adapted 10
use conl dust, petroleum or coal gas
the second form consuming about 0.5o
of n pound of petroleum per horse
power hour.
The measurement OF degree OF Int
itude In Spitzbergen Is a Swedish pro-
1ect, Russian cooperation to be in
vited.
Much of the problem OF life Is inter-
mingled with that OF the vitality of
seeds, which IL still n matter of differ
there is simply a slowing down of life
in the dormant seed. imperceptible
change and respiration continuing To
take plnce; while others believe that
absolute rest for n time, to be started
again when external conditions become
favorable. In n recent Royal Society
paper Messrs Horace II. Brown and f.
Escombe pointed out that the former
hypothesis oyerlooks the remarkable
evidence available The late q. j.
Romanes kept seeds fifteen months In
n vacuum followed by nm atmosphere OF
carbon monoxlde, carbon dioxide, by.
...t.s.. ....... -; ,,n,,ra and a,tpb tran /.
mcnt had little effect upon subsequent
termination There could have been nc
respiration of ordinary kind. In 1888
Pictet and C. de Candollc exposed seeds
and microbes four days to a tempera-
out effect: and the authors have since
been enabled by Prof. Dewar TO keel
seeds at 1888 to 1872 degrees below zero fol
ITO hours, still with no perceptible In
fuence on termination. Chemical ac
ton being annihlated at 100 degrees
below zero, molecular interchange In
the protoplasm is likened by G. de Can
dole to that of an explosive mixture
whose comnonents can remain indie
flnitely in cantact without combining
until Il certain temperature is reached
A Photographic apparatus for diver;
on submarine excursions has beeen de
vised by Senior Bortens, of Rio d,
Janeiro. II consists of an incandescen
lamp with reflector In the divers head
piece, and an ordinary camera en-
closed In rubber envelope having
glass front. Electricity for the lamp Il
supplied by II small dynamo in a boa
above. Pictures are taken by pressing
buttons through the rubber covering
and objects In Rio de Janeiro Bay hav'
distance Of ten or twelve feeet as easll,
as In full daylight.
Hydrophobia has animal instead o.
bacterial origin, in the view of DIR. A
Grigorjew. a German biologist, VIII,
has isolated what appears to be a pro
tozoan from patients suffering from
rabies.
In dealing with chronic constipation
the bane of so many persons existence
massage Of the abdomen and electricit,
are expensive and require too mucl
time. while drugs ordinarily soon los
their action, leaving the patient NOR
consolidated that before. DIR. Vladimi
de Holsteln of Paris, reports the hes
results from the use of creosote, whicl
of that of purgative-of neutralizinl
some toxin causing iaaction of the In
testinal tube. The creosote should b.
given pure In water or other liquid
beginning with small dose-say
single drop-on account OF the burninl
sensation, and increasing gradually 4