The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1ork FreSS, haz VOtld to employ fonetic
spelling in all ov its ofishul publcashuns.
This may be an eXtreem mcclure, but oni
oldfashund nobuddiz will Xix"
IA process of three-color printing has
been devised by Herr Hoffman, which is
said to furnish very satisfactory results
The ordinary method of first taking three
negatives is used, and then carbon It's
sues in the three requisite colors are
made. The advantage of the new process
is that very large sizes can be worked
without difficulty of registering, and the
paper prints are as brilliant as transpar-
ences.
"A mirror camera for color phhotogra-
ply has recently been patented in Eng
land, in which a movable mirror is en-
ployed for successfully diverting the beam
of light from the lens to number of SEN
sItlzed plates. The mirror is fixed at an
angle of 45 degrees on a shaft which re-
vol es coaxial with the lens, and the four
plate-holders used are placed at the sides
of the camera instead of the back, as is
customary In this way four successive
pictures offthe same subject can be made
under the same conditions, changing
merely the color-screens.
The following is taken from a hotel ad-
vertisement in the Calcutta Times: Gen
lttiItu WHO COME III QOlSl NOT say any
thing about their meals they will be charg
ed for and if they should say beforehand
that they are going out to breakfast or
dinner, etc, and if they say that they not
have anything to eat they will be charged,
and if not so they will not be charged, or
unless they bring it to the notice of the
manager of the place, and should they
want TO say anything they must order the
manager for one. not any one else. and
unless they bring not it TO the notice of
the manager they will be charged for the
least things according 10 the hotel rate,
and no fuss will be allowed afterward
about it.
Among the explanations of the earths
magnetism special interests attaches to
the recent one mentioned in Prof Henry
A. Rowland's address, namely, that THE
huge gravita tional mass" of the earth, re-
Volving on its axis, has a feeble hold on
the ether sufficient to produce the earths
magnetism" The labors of Maxwell and
Hertz have shown, said the speaker, that
"all wave disturbances in. the ether are
electromagnetic in their nature We
know of little or no ethereal disturbance.
says the Baltimore Sun, which can be set
up by the motion of matter alone; the
matter must be electrified in order to
have sufficient hold on the other to com
municate its motion to the ether. BY
electrifying a disk in motion it appears as
if the disk holds fast to the ether and
drags it with it, thus setting up the Pc
Culiar ethereal motion known as magnet
ism. Matter with an electrical charge
holds fast to the ether and moves il in
the manner required for magnetic action"
The fact that the earth does have hold
on the ether is not yet, it seems, fully
shown, but it is a helpful speculation.
The report of the 1899 meeting of the in
Of iohf nd
ures has recently been published, and COZ
tains the results of a determination of the
density of water at 4 degrees centigrade
The method employed consisted in weigh
ing carefully measured solids in air, and
then in pure water, from which the air
had been withdrawn. The measurement
of the cylinders was most accurately
made, and the density of the water, which
was at different temperatures, reduced to
4 degrees. The accuracy of the work is
stated at two parts in 100000 or two cent?
grams per kilogram. In 1880 the interna-
tional bureau adopted as redefinition of
the litre the volume of one kilogram of
water at 4 degrees centigrade, its temper
allure of maximum density, instead of the
original definition, which was the volume
| of one cubic decimetre. Scientific men are
pleased to learn now, from this report,
| that the discrepancy between the litre
| as thus REDEEMED and the cubic decimetre
| is but five parts in 100000, or one two
| hundfedth of per cent. In all engineering
| and the vast majority of scientific meas
| urements such discrepancy is quite I'M
important, and the volume of one gram
| of water at 4 degrees centigrade may be
| assumed to be equal to one cubic cent?
metre, and the litre equal to the cubic
| centimetre.
| -Londoners will, before long, be able TO
| battle in sea water without going out of
| their own houses. There is an enterprise
| afoot for the construction of works which
| will supply the metropolis with between
| 100000 and 100000 gallons of sea water
| daily. The particular point selected for
| the intake is Lancing, between Brighton
| and Worthing, one of the cleanest spots
| around the coast. Here the main Will run
a considerable distance out 10 sea, and
| near the pumping station at Lancing will
| be a reservoir which will act as a set
| thing tank, so that the salt water will be
| free from sand and Seaweed. From this
| point the water will be pumped 10 a huge
! reservoir on Steyning hill, which rises al
most immedia tely behind Lancing to a
| hight of over 500 feet. No further pumping
| will be required, for the water will then
| flow by gravitation. There will be a stor-
age reservoir at Epson, 240 feet above the
| sea level, so that, flowing from there to
| London, there will be sufficient pressure
|
| highest buildings. Many English towns
| already make use of sea water for street
| watering, as well as for baths. 1t is claim
| ed that once watering the streets with
sea water is equal in efficiency to twice
| or even thrice watering with fresh wa
ter. II keeps the road surface moist for
long time but without slush, and it har-
dens and binds macadam roads and forms
a preservative crust which prevents dust
from rising.
Gen. Dabney Herndon Maury, whose
death was announced a few days ago
was a nephew of Matthew Fontane
Maury. whose study of ocean currents
| opened by up a new realm of scientific
| investigation and made him the most dis
tinguished member of Virginian family
few members of which have failed to at
tain some degree of distinction, says the
! New York Times. Most of Gen. Maury s
| life since the war has been passed very
| quietly at Richmond, where his daughter
and other children reside, and his time
has been devoted chiefly 10 researches into