The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-28
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vertical shaft, and driven by dry or
other battery. The upper end of the
spindle is adapted to receive disks
which are placed over it and fitting
snugiy in a grooved pulley. Over this
is placed black card which has two
sections cut from it. The top having
been connected to the battery Is ready
to spin, and is set in motion by giving
a twist to a knob which is renoVaply
fitted on the end of the spindle, cover
ing the center of the disk and holding
them firmly in place.
"A meeting was recently held in
Philadelphia preliminary to the organ
ization of an electro-chenl society
Prof. j. w. Richards presided. The
fact that papers on the subject OF cleo
trochemistry are now scattered over a
half dozen or more existing national
societies, was thought to be in itself
a very good reason for bringing them
together into one, where they could
then be properly discussed, which is
not now the case. Attention was also
called to the fact that the annual cleo
trochemical products of this country
already amounted to nearly 800 900, 900
which is far greater than all the other
countries combined, Germany, which
comes next, with $14,000,00O, has a -four
ishing electrochemcal society with
about forty members in the United
States. The bringing together of those
engaged in the scientific and in the in
dustrial phases of electrochemistry was
thought to be of great value.
In his volume on the diseases of
the hair, NJ. r. Sabouraud refutes some
popular errors regarding the cause of
T. oil n
cred an infirmity of old age, and when
j. takes place in early life all sorts
of explanations are invoked, one as
baseless as another. AS a matter of
fact, the critical age for badness in
men is from 20 to 30 years. Women are
less open to the attacks of the microbe
of this disease. The earliest badness
occurs in young men of from 10 to IL
years, and the skull is often bare at
o. The most common age for the be-
ginning of the disease is % and the
badness is usually complete at 80.
The latest age for the beginning is
about 40, and in such cases the denud-
alton of hair proceeds with extreme
slowness. The younger the subject the
quicker the disease attains its COM
plete effect. 1t is not a malady of the
aged, but rather of the young.
A London cable says: The newest
band of cranks on the continent are the
Flemings, who are trying to revive
their practically dead language for or
binary use in Belgium, where it is I'M
known except in corrupted forms in the
rural districts. They take their place
with the advocates of the Erse, Czech
and Gaelic reviVals and with others in
Europe who are trying to stay the de-
parture of decaying tongues. DR.. Ma
haffey, in an interesting address before
the Modern Language Association this
week, dwelt upon this folly and also
upon the need of better and more SEN
sible teachings of the three great mod
ern languages, which every one must
know in order to get along well in Eu-
rope-French, German and English. 1t
might be true, he said, that English is
becoming the universal language in one
sense, but it is equally true that neither
of the others ever give way to it, and
the alternative for the three countries
was a tri-lingual ideal.
The factory at Glen Ridge, N. j.,
where the new Edison storage batter
les are to be made, is about completed
and the battery will soon be upon the
market. In discussing the battery re-
Gently Edison said 1T is an assured
success and meets my greatest expec-
tations. / now have something which
will greatly simplify the operation of
the horseless carriage. You can run so
or 10 miles at a rate of 20 miles an
hour in an electric vehicle fitted with
the storage battery 1t will be so sim
pie that women and children can oper-
ate it. There will be no bad smells,
no explosions, no complicated machin-
cry rendering visit to repair shop
d matter of every day or two. Automo-
bileS will be the great vehicle of the
| future. They will eventually be so
| cheap that persons of moderate means
car afford them and find the invest
ment more satisfactory than that of a
horse and carriage. l think the price
of automobiles will be $500 one of these
| days, and that not so very long away.
| Their great weight now is draw
back. My storage batteries will be a
step forward, and will be followed
rapidly by others"
The longest thermometer in Eng
land, possibly in the world, is at Hare
stock, near Winchester, at the observa-
tory of Col. Knight who has a series
of deep-sunk thermometers, the bulb
/ OF the longest being at a depth of 20 it.
| Col. Knight is said to be much inter-
ested in the secular changes of tenn
| perature of the earth, and believes that
| his earth thermometer records will be
valuable legacy to posterity 1t is
! stated in Loomis' Treaties on Meteor
| ology that a thermometer has been kept
| for seventyfive years in the vaults OF
| the Paris observatory at a depth of 81
feet below the surface, whose reading
has not varied half a degree during
that period. An important advance has
recently been made in the investigation
of earth temperatures by the adoption
at the Radcliffe Observatory, oxford
| of five platinum resistance thermometers
in place of the old long-stemmed spirit
machines. The new thermometers are
placed approximately at inches, foot
6 inches, feet 6 inches, feet s inches
and 10 feet below the surface. They are
buried in practically unbroken ground
being inserted in iron pipes driven hor.
izontally in undisturbed gravel a tenn
porary pit being dug for the placing OF
the thermometers and wires. In the
thermometer placed only 6lk inches be.
low the surface the record shows va
ration between the two extremes OF
20 degrees, whereas in the instrument
at feet liz inches a yearly variation
of only 10 degrees occurred.
1t may seem a broad statement Il
one who hears it for the first time
territories or provinces join is thai
point where Colorado. Utah, New Mex.
! leo and Arizona meet, says the ST
Louis Republic. Not only is this the
only -four corners" in the United
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