The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-22
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The city of Greenoble, France, says
an English Journal, has been running
municipal restaurant and kitchen for fifty
years. Meals are supplied at cost in the
restaurant, or delivered at residences, as
may be desired. The food is of the best
quality, the cooks are as skillful as any in
Paris, and the service is excellent. One
may dine there for 3 cents on bread and
soup, and have his hunger thoroughly APP
peased; or one may pay u cents and en-
JOY a full-course dinner.
Twenty-Five fine trout, of an average
weight of five pounds, were recently
brought to London by the steamship Ota-
rama. These fish five weeks previously
were swimming about in one of the rivers
of New Zealand, and were taken with rod
and line. They were brought TO England
frozen into blocks of ice, as certain flower
blooms had previously come from the An
tipodes. Perhaps the most interes ting
part of the story is that these fish We're
Matched in New Zealand from trout ova
which were originally sent to the colony
from Britain They return as very sat
isfactory proof that the acclimatization of
British fish in New Zealand is an accom-
plished fact.
Surgeon Beevor, who recently accom-
panied the frontier campaign in India, has
submitted the first report of the Use of the
Roentgen rays in warfare to the United
Service Institution, in London. Many i'm
portant cases consisted of bullet wounds
received by officers and men who were in
jured in the bones, joints and internal or
gans, which injuries but for the X rays
would have resulted in the amputation Of
limbs and probably loss of life. The pic
lures shown included wounds in the arm,
leg, chest, back, finger and other parts
The most remarkable results, perhaps
were the case of bullet imbedded in the
backbone another in the hip, and the case
of an Indian soldier who was shot in the
foot, pieces of bullet finally lodging in the
back of the heel; also the case of Gen.
Woodhouse, who received bullet wounds in
the leg and arm during the memorable
skirmish at Dargai. In all these instances
the bullets were, by the X rays, success
fully removed, the men subsequently, re-
joining their commands al the front. The
portable apparatus weighs from 50 to 100
bounds.
Prof. Dewar recently gave some furth-
er particulars with regard to liquid hydro
gen, explaining that just as in the middle
of the last century chemists were startled
by Cavendish's discovery of the Fictitious
gas Cviz, hydrogen, having a density only
one-fourteenth of air, so now it was
stratljng to encounter a liquid having a
density of only OF, or roughly, one-four-
teenth that of water. An odd point is that
hydrogen occluded in the element palla-
diurn appears TO have a density of 60
which is more than eight times as dense
as its condition in the liquid form. This
seems TO suggest that hydrogen occluded
in palladium is in a state of chemical COM
bination not only of liquefacHon. Prof.
Dewar has determined the boiling point
of his new liquid in air to be -23S degrees
c. Analogy does not warrant our eX-
pecting THAI forcing it to boil in vacuo
would lower the temperature more than
another ten degrees or fifteen degrees
| Consequently, the very lowest tempera-
ture that science can dream of realizing is
some twenty degrees to twenty-five de-
grees above The theoretical absolute zero
II. v Gill has been investigating the
theory of singing flames and the results
are printed in the American Journal of
Science. The phenomenon of a gas jet
burning inside an open tube emitting a mu-
steal note is one of those facts which, al
though known for many years and much
written about, has never been fully eX-
planned. Gill sums up his conclusions as
follows; We lhink we have made it clear
that the pressure on the gas plays the i'm
portant part n this phenomenon, and that
a consideration OF the reactions we have
described viii be found 10 explain the
many facts noted in the case of a singing
flame, some of which we have alluded TO-
We look, therefore, on the chief cause as
a mutual reaction between the pressure in
the tube and on the gas, the energy nee
esSary to sustain the note being supplied
! by the pressure on the gas and The action
of the flame. We may compare the sing
ing flame to the siren, in which the cur
! rent of air causes lhe disk to rotate the
] being 0ti OF
disk on the current of air. We
| have, then. three kinds of singing flames
one depending on changes of pressure, an
other on air currents and a third depend
ing at once on both changes of pressure
and on air currents.
Here are unpleasant possibilities sug-
| gested by a note from the science column
of the New York Independent: A meteor
lite, described as half the size Of st. Paurs
Cathedral in London, is said to have fallen
| at Port Alfred in South Africa. 1t made
! hole in the ground 50 feet deep. 100 feet
| long and 60 feet wide, lich would make
| il the largest known meteorite on record
| Being single piece. apparently, it was
| probably solid iron, like other meteorites
! known, some of which have WEIGHED a
number of tons, but none of this size is
| recorded. Yet there is no reason TO be-
| lieve that multitudes very much larger
| may NOT be travelling In the celestial
spaces, and il is only good luck that pre-
! vents our falling in with them. There Is
no inherent impossiblity thai a meteorite
or little asteroid, as large as one of the
multitude that revolve between Mars and
! Jupiter might come within the spbere Of
the earth's attraction, large enough to
cover an entire state. They may be even
| moving in the tracks of comets although
| we know perfectly we'll that the bulk of
! the material comets is very considerable
| and the earth has more than once PASSED
| through the tail of a comet without anv
more effect than a shower of falling stars
| what the effect would be of striking the
head Of comet we do not yet know.
Gibraltar was taken by the English in
1874, during the war of the Spanish spc-
cession-a war which was evoked bv the
| aggressive policy of France in endeavorino
10 place monarch of the French famiiv
! upon the Spanish throne, and thus CON
solidate the two Kingdoms into one savs
the St Louis Globe Democrat The fort
ress was then captured, almost bv sur-
prise, though the Spaniards and Frenan
| approaching the strategic value of the
place made desperate efforts to recover II
but We're repuised at every point Bet vreen