The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-16
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"A New Jersey woman has invented
rapid clothes sprinkler. consisting Of two
sections OF TIN. which at tghuy together
and the surfaces Of which are perforated
with small holes This Is left resting IN
a bowl OF water while ironing h goine on.
When Il IL desired 20 sprinkle the clothes
the sprinkler IS seized and shaken over
them.
According 10 a report issued by tho
British Medical Association. one Of ting
chief causes OF the prevalent decay OF
teeth Is that the average dental appara-
tus does not get enough work. II Is held
| that cooking has come 20 such condl-
tiou Of refinement that chewing is hecom-
| ing one Of the lost arts and that the
teeth are simply wasting away from lack
| OF exercise.
in is9 there were Jos ncumbents OF
church lvines u England who had occu-
pied the same living for nifty years or
more aud OF these twelve had held their
| places for sixty years. Their average IN
come amounted TO Si2i0 year. ana IN
sixteen cases the income after atty years
| continuous service was between the I'm
its OF $50 ana $40 year.
That Charles Stewart Parnel Is alive
and that ne Is now aghting Great Britain
under the pseudonym Of Christian DeWet
is the astonishing belief current 10 Ire
land. For many years those VINO place
| faith In this theory have denied the great
Irish leader Is dead. NOW they cain 10
| have received Information from South Al
rica that h. Is none other than the daring
and elusive Beer commander who Is Civ
ing Lord Roberts so much trouble.
Most OF the British regiments have
their own newspapers published once
month. The news consists chiefly Of mat
/ tiers pertaining o. the Officers and men OF
| the regiment and their families. but the
papers also devote regular columns 20
sporting news humor. poesy or other de-
partmcnts. All contributions are from
members OF the regiment These papers
are much IN favor among officers and SOL
/ dlers and many OF them are very Weli
| edited.
is there lower limit OF cod-an alb
solute zero beyond which the tempera-
| ture cannot be lowered? Scientific re-
search has shown that there Is this lower
| limit. and from numerous calculations.
based upon different properties. such as
| the amount OF contraction produced by
| cold IL has been assigned az about 45l de-
grccs below zero Fahrenheit. The search
| for this absolute zero. and che endeavor
| TO reach f. has been for scientific men
| just such an undertaking as the geog-
/ raphers quest OF the North Pole Of the
! earth IL has been approached within for
| ~ degrees Fahrenheit and Il is extreme
/ Is probable that hy means Of solid ana
| liquid hydrogen the cold viii be sull fur
Their lowered. Prof Dewar Of England Is
az present working upon this specific prob
lem.
An insanity expert Of bloomington. Ill,
Mr.. James b. Taylor. has given out
series OF statistics on the subject that
indicate an Increase 10 mental maiadies
altogether out OF proportion 10 Increase
| ia population. Among other startling fig
ures he states that between $50 and is@
/ the nation Increased in numbers 3-5
times while the aggregate Of the mental
/ IS afflicted the merely fecblc-mindcd in-
/ cluded. multiplied six times In the state
/ OF Illinois itself while IN twenty years the
| population showed an accession OF 81 per
cent. the insane increased 20 per cent.
/ In Illinois. too. the figures showed one in
/ sane person 20 every 81 natiVe-horn and
one to every 2T5 forelsn-born. All sorts
OF reasons. growing ont of the complex
| condition Of modern life these strenuous
days are offered in explanation Of such
a state OF affairs. but as existence only
seems TO get more complex ana strenuous
as time goes on there Is as little Of COM
fort in the explanation as IN the pros
pect.
As Illustrating the character OF the
late Coils 2. Huntington. the Chicago
correspondent Of the Troy q. " Times
has sent "a that paper letter which the
great railway builder wrote In 1853. At
that time a congressional Investigation In
to tho conduct Of the Pacific roads was in
progress and this had led to che puhllca-
ton Of certain documents which were sup
posed TO reveal irregularities in operations
| Of Mr.. Huntington and his associates
| After commenting on the attacks made
upoi him. Mr. Huntington wrosc. Il have
| been In business for myself over forty
nine years. and probably have done ns lit
| tie IN my life that J wish TO take back
| as any man on the planet. and I have
never stopped to explain what / have
done. and never have spent much time
| watching my reputation. ] am satisfied
II will take care OF itself without any par
| tlcular nursing from me. Perhaps q would
be well to say that the letters that they
have recently been publishing were Of
/ fered 90 me by four different parties when
| I was IN California year ago last sum
mer. with the in'imation that they would
he published IN an sorts Of WAYS n 7 did
not secure them. My reply then was that
| had read them, ana know at ehere was
IN them and therefore dd not care 70
buy them and 7 advised them 20 sell tho
| letters to some fellow that had not read
| them" This humorous reply 10 would
| he blackmailers was "a characteristic mark
~ solf-conhdence. says the New York
/ Times. The letters were published hut
they accomplished nothing and therefore
| the multi-miiionnirc's refusal 10 buy them
was douhly justified.
a subject which has received much at
ten,ion from physicists during tho past
year Is the graphic representation OF
sound waves. and several very Ingenious
| devices have been invented for securing
| this result The latest and most success
| ful or these is "a modification OF tho
"schlieren" apparatus. originally devised
/ by Prof Toepicr II is very simple and
| may d" readily constructed In any phvsi-
| cal laboratory 70 consists Of q good
sized achromauc lens which must Do OF
The hest quality and have tong focus
/ The lens u mounted IN front OF two small
/ brass balls which form spark gan I'm On
| Induction coil circuit. In this circuit a.
placed 70 Leyden jar which Is charged by
the same current which gives the shark
| between the brass halls and then tmue-
| dlntcly discharges itself through another
spark gap. che ilumlnator." consisting OF
two thin magnesium ribbons pressed bo-
tween pieces 81 thick plate glass. Tho ca-
pacity ~ the Leyden Jar IS 50 regulated