The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-16


Patrick Henry of Vicksburg comes in
as the representative of the Third Missis-
sippi district in the next.
Albert Woods of the Department ofaAg-
riculture has carried out a research on
the mosaic disease of tobacco, to be print
ed as a bulletin of the Department. The
authors observations show that this dis
/ ease may be artificially produced by cut
ting back the plants during any stage of
their active growth, thus removing most
of the reserve foods, and stimulating the
growth of lateral buds; the plant seldom
| RECEIVERS under such circumstances. The
| same disease may be induced in like man.
ner in tomato, potato, petunia, violet,
and other plants. The disease may also
be produced by reporting or transplantng
plant in active growth. thus stimulatng
rapid acknowledgement. New leaves
forming at this time often become dis
| eased Finally. the disease may be pro-
duced by injecting the sterile juice Of
| diseased plants into the growing bud, or
| by pouring it over the root of the healthy
plant, thus proving the infectious nature
of the disease. The author concludes that
| in growing cells there exists al state OF
balance between the oxidizing power Of
the engines and the reserve food mate
rial of the plant and that If either of
ervenes.
The description of the naval arch
which the committee, headed by Park
Benjamin. plan shall take the place of
the abandoned Dewey arch project ap-
pears very attractive. The description has
| been prepared by Ernest Flagg. This
| arch will not be a land, but a marine,
| monument. 1t will stand not in Madi-
he ht,s
! on the Battery sea wall, with steps lead
Ing down to the water. 1t Will be erect
ed not to the great admiral now living,
but TO the American navy. The name of
no living man will appear on 1t, but
spaces will be left for the sculptured
| faces of any one now living whom fu-
ture generation shall Judge worthy of the
honor. While the arch will be built on
the Battery sea wall, it will be so placed
| as to terminate the vista of Broadway
looking south, just as Grace Church ter
| inmates it looking north. The arch, or
water gate, as it might more properly be
! called, Is to be built of white marble, on
! a base of granite. The proposed dimen-
| sions are 125 feet In width and hight
These may be increased to $50 feet EACH
| If sufficient funds are provided, which
would make she structure as large as the
Arc de L'Etoile, in Paris.
| "A discovery consequent upon the
X-rays, and intimately allied with them,
is that of the Bequerel rays emitted by
uranium and its salts. A mechanism de-
vised by Bequerel for measuring their in
! tenslty has proved in the hands of NJ.
and Nine. Curie an instrument for the
| discovery of two new elements radium,
| allied to barium, and polonium, allied
| to bismuth. The final proof of the ee-
mental nature of polonium has just been
| submitted by G. Berndt, who has discov-
cred and measured no less than fifteen
| lines of the polonium spectrum. It's ex-
! istence is, therefore, no longer question
| able. His method of working was based
| on that of Runge in fusing the salt into
| spiral platinum coil and using it thus
| as the anode for sperk-gap. The salt
used was bismuth nitrate rich In Bequerei
| rays. He has also by the same method
succeeded in greatly extending the
known spectrum of radium, using active
barium chloride and bromide The spark
| was furnished by two Leyden Jars charg-
! ed by large induction-con, and the plat
! mum spiral containing the salt was kept
| in state of incandescence. Under these
| circumstances the space between the cleo
trodes was filled by the vapor of the salt,
and the platinum and air lines were faint.
Every one Will recall the Aesopic story
of the lion and the mouse; how the life
of the mighty monarch was saved by the
small creature whom he once had spared
| says George s. Hillman in the March At
| lanttc. To. our recognition in this story
| of truth universal in its human aprlica-
! ton is due, almost entirely, our interest
! in the mouse and the lion. In our eyes
| they are not mouse and lion, bit two
men teaching the lessons that the mighty
| no L.
| significant to be of some service, and that
it is good to cast bread upon the waters
| We do not stop to consider whether a
| lion understands the mouse language, or
| whether mouse is given to gratitude
| They are merely convenient forms, essen
! TALLY human, and they show animal char
| actertstics only very secondariiy, when at
| all. In the Indian tales where animals
figure as chief characters, the method is
| the same though there is often the added
purpose of doctrinal instruction, feasible
| because of the Buddhistic belief in the
| transmigration of mems souls into the
| bodies of beasts. The Bible shows a sim
| liar USE and perhaps in all literature
| there is not a nobler instance Of the in
PRODUCTION of animals to teach ethical
truth than is to be found in the parable of
the lost sheep
The commercial production of cal
cium carbide, the parent substance of
acetylene, has attracted so much atten-
ton that the existence of other carbides
has been almost overlooked. Prof. Mois-
san has just presented to the Academic
| des Sciences a report dealing with the
| production of some of the carbides Of the
rare earth elements, neodymium praseo-
dymium, and samaritan. The preparation
OF samaritan carbide may be taken as tyr-
! ical of the class. Samaritan oxide and
burnt-sugar carbon are reduced to fine
| powder and agglomerated by pressure
The mixture so obtained is then placed
dn an electric furnace, and, after four
minutes heating with a current Of go
amperes and force of IS volts. a melted
| mass of samaritan carbide is obtained
Small fragments of the carbide show a
| yellow color and are transparent. II Is
about six times as heavy as water. and
is irreducible by hydrogen at I 900 de-
grees. 1t burns in oxygen at 400 degrees
and becomes incandescent with chlorine
at a low temperature. In its action on
water camarium carbide differs from cal
cium carbide in yielding in addition to
aSetylene. hydrogen and other HYDRO
carbons; while in the energy of its ac-
! tion 1t is equally violent Hydrocblorlc
acid acts on the substance, causing briI-
! liant incandescence and yielding a black
! product, which occupies q space mnch
greater than the original carbide.
An average American husband does