The record-union., 1899-11-10
Of thousand each, could be placed
upon a penny postage stamp"

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A peculiar property of the nernst light
IS its deceptive luminosity. One OBJ
server says: Persons looking at it
and at its apparent illuminating power
upon the walls Of q room. etc. have
made the widest and moss .extravsb-
CANT guesses at the photometerG read
ing. know that although 1 have had
considerable experience with the pho
tometer, both In gas and electric light
ing work, guessed fifteen candle
power when the Nernst lamp was Civ
ing three. ! heard one man, 6f more
experience than myself, guess thirty
Two candle-power when the photometer
was reading hve. And another thought
1t was eight candles when the reading
was only three-fourtns of one candle
power Why this IS so, can not pre-
tend to say
A writer says that there is call for
a good marine governor" to stop the
racing of the propeller when it lifts
clear Of the water He says:
Any one who has made a trip ON an
ocean steamer-particularly on one of
the 'greyhounds' that cut their way
through the water and always have wet
decks Knows that the CURING Of the
screw Is about the most disagreeable
feature of the voyage. It aggravatey
seasickness. and never gives let-up,
day or night, If the sea- be in the least
bit rough-that is. II it be anything but
mill-pondy, which it very seldom is
The chattering makes every partition
o1yo
pleasant and lessons the number of
transoceanic passengers: but 1t has a
still worse effect-it racks the engines
themselves, particularly the shaft and
the cranks. and it gradually destroys
the whole structure (which. after all.
is only riveted together) by working
the contracting surfaces against each
other and making the rivets fit less and
less tightly. Thus the evil increases
from year to year. and the danger with
1t. The life Of a racer or.
at least. her life as a racer. is much
shorter than it would otherwise s.. If
1t was supplied with good marine
governor"
Philadelphia Record The Bureau of
Ordnance has stopped the manufacture
q
OF the Krag Jorgensen gun of the 1898
model, there being on hand an abund-
ance OF guns of this type, says a Wash
lngton dispatch to the New York
Sun" The number ready for use at
the Springfield armory and at the BENZ
cha arsenal is. about $4,000 to go 900.
The reason. however, for the issuing
OF orders stopping any further man
ufacture of these guns IS that the de-
partment is perfecting a type of gun
that will be far superior 10 that row
In use. The new 1899 model will be
an Improvement in every way. The
sight will be provided with wind
gauge and the gun will have a greater
velocity. the sight being graduated to
2,2OO feet, as against 1000 feet in the
gun now in use. The work Of expert
ment and investigation with reference
to the new gun is nearly completed, and
1t Is expected that the manufacture OF
the new small arm will begin within a
short time
The new volunteer army will be sup
piled with the Krag-J orgeasen rifle of
the 1893 type. 1t is the same kind of
a gun as the regular troops use and
has a velocity of 1900 feet. Only
smokeless powder ammunition will be
furnished the volunteer regiments. The
value Of target practice for the recruits
has caused the Ordnance Department
to make extra effort to provide ranges
at the different rendezvous. At each
of the places named there are facilities
for target practice, but the department
has found that it Is necessary to sup
ply in many cases range material to
put the ranges in proper shape for use.
Accordingly orders were issued to off,
GERS of the Ordnance Department di-
recting that the ranges be put in
proper shape as soon as possible.