The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-27
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tistTy and diploma from Baltimore, in
| particular has ever been a special degree
of distinction. In Berlin Itself as the Sun
has recently related. American dentists are
on top. The same is the case in Vienna
and Paris. But it would seem as though
they are gradually freeing themselves
of American Ieading-strings in the Father
| land In proof of this it IS reported that
/ German dentist, DR.. Herr, has discovered
| a preventive for toothache His discovery
| consists in an inoculant prepared from mi
/ crobes, which, injected into the gums,
! destroys all pain. In the case of a decayed
tooth, it does not destroy the nerve, but
| again fixes the tooth and makes it possible
| TO put in a lasting stopping. The treatment
is said TO be emnentfy successful.
Prof. Rudolf virchow of Berlin, the
great German scientist, has published a
defense of vivisection. under adequate SUI
pervision, which ought to settle the ques-
ton for reasonable people. He points out
| that the meteorological origin of disease
| being once admitted, experiments upon liv-
| ing animals become Indispensable 10 inves-
ugation. The smallest growth, perceptible
/ only by the microscope, often engender the
most deadly poison, but their effects can
only be ascertained by the incubation of
| a living organism. Dr. Virchow further
shows that for the study of antidotes to
bacteria poisoning like experiments are alb
| solutely necessary. If human life and
| healthy existence are to have all the bene-
| fits which modern science can offer, the
practice of vivisection is the imperative
| condition.
| DR.. Chauncey M. Depew received a sal
airy of $4,000 year when president of the
New York Central, and as chairman of the
board of directors of the Vanderbilt consol-
/ a
ton, says the New York Press. President
Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania gets
$4,000, He is easily worth it. These are
the highest salaries paid, but there are
| dozens of presidents whose annual paw
ranges from $4,000 to $4,000. Samuel
| Spencer, as DR.. j. Pierpont Morgan's rail-
road expert, got $4,000 a year, but do
not think he receives so much as president
of the Southern Railway. ]. ]. Hill of the
Great Northern, Mellen of the Northern
| Pacific, Ripley of the Atchison, Perkins OF
| the Burlington, Miller of the st. Paul
! Sloan of Delaware and Lackawana: Thorn
as of the Erie, Fish of the Illinois Central.
! Walter of the Lehigh Valley, Gould of
Missouri Pacific, Clark of the New York.
New Haven and Hartford, Huntington of
the Southern Pacific, and Burt of the I'm
! ION Pacific are splendidly paid for Their
services.
"A tall steel chimney stack of the Mer-
iden Curtain Fixing Company, at Meriden,
| Conn, which had been thrown nearly one
foot out of plumb by the settlement of its
base, was recently not only restored TO
a vertical position, but removed bodily
distance of fifteen feet horizontally, saws
the New York Times. The stack was of
| rlveted steel three-eighths of an inch
thick, and 100 feet high. II stood sixteen
] al he
enty-two inch horizontal boilers, with an
eight-inch wall between them, under the
center of the stack. In planning for the
Strengthening and removal, ten braces
| We're first riveted to the base plate and
the stack, and the boiler, which had set
tied, was blocked ON four jack screws
! Two pairs of steel girders, twenty-eight
| feet long, were placed underneath the base
plate, and the stack was brought to a YER
teal position by jacks under each end of
| the girders. The girders extended from a
| wall about two feet outside of the boil
ers TO new brick foundation, five and
! half feet square and sixteen feet high
the intermediate distance being filled in
with false work to prevent springing while
the stack was passing. Two yellow pine
! shoes five and a half feet long were in
serted between them and the base plate
of the stack. The top of each shoe was
! beveled at the ends in a peculiar manner
| At one side of each end the bevel was be-
gun eighteen inches from the end, and on
| the other side twenty-four inches, so that
when the two shoes were properly ar
| ranged they could take bearings only I'M
| der the edge of the stack, and strains on
the thin outer edges of the base plate were
thus avoided Iron brackets were clamp
ed to the tops of the Orders TO serve as
| reaction pieces, and jack screws were set
| horizontally between them and the ends
| of the wooden shoes and base plate to
| push the stack along on the girders, which
| were fabricated with oil and soft soap.
| Each jack was worked by two men, who
advanced the stack one-eighth of an inch
! at every stroke, and moved it to the new
position in three hours. They guys that
were already attached to the stack were
| considered too weak to be relied on, and
no use was made of them in the moving,
the base being kept so level that the stack
was never more than six inches out Of
plumb. The work O. removal was accom-
plished by five men in two days
Prof. Selim Lemstrom of the depart
ment of physics of the University of Hell
singfors, Finland, has carried on a series
of experiments on the influence of cleo
tricity on growing vegetables and plants,
| and states that as a result of the action
|
per cent. in the yield was obtained The
| experiments were made by carrying wires
terminating in sharp points about the
| field. The wires were connected with one
| pole of an electrical machine, while the
other was in contact with the earth. The
| electricity was found to accelerate the
! ripening of fruits, berries and roots, and
| also tended to develop sugar. The more
| fertile the soil and the more vigorous the
| vegetation, the more will the effect of the
electrical current increase, is stated as
| a law deduced from results obtained with
plants under exactly similar conditions, ex-
cept in one case the electrical treatment
was use, while in the other only the nat
ural conditions We're called into play. The
| electricity under ordinary circumstances
was given during three or four hours In
! the morning, and during a like period in
| the afternoon, care being taken to avoid
| the time of the highest sun when the sky
! was clear. In case the water supply is
! abundant, it is possible to allow the cleo