The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-11

smoking is VOuched for, ana there
seems no adequate reason why the
weed should not boom contemporary
eously with the new Irish literature.
Quite possibly here and there the
growing may bring wealth to the Gull
tivators and eventually-who knows?
become the envy of American trusts.
Out in the center of the busiest
part of one of the busiest harbors in
the world, in the midst of tidal cur
rent the fastest to be found in any
great seaport, feat is being per-
formed that at one time was considered
practically impossible. For the pur-
I pose of learning the nature of the for
nations underlying the East river,
where the tunnel in Brooklyn is pro-
posed to be built, bearings are being
made under extraordinary conditions.
Following plans throughout in their
minutest detail. a contracting company
has succeeded in sinking diamond
drills four points deep in the rock for
ma ton underlying the river. Work on
a fifth boring is being pushed, and UNI
less some unforeseen accident occurs
the other two borings called for I'M
der the company's contract will have
been finished within the next two
weeks.
"A doctor speaks thus to nervous
women: Learn to keep still when you
rest; when you move move with the
part of the body NEEDED; do not waste
your force in walking with your arms
and face as we'll as with your legs. If
circumstances force an unusual and
fatiguing amount of exertion upon you
break it now and then by periods of
absolute rest. No matter how brief they
are they will be useful if you make
them complete and perfect in the way
described. This is true of mental as
well as bodily exertion. A minute or
two minutes of quiet, with closed eyes
if possible, with your tension relaxed
and the gearing of the machinery
thrown off for the moment, will help
and refresh you greatly. Here. again,
more may be gained if the ability to
relax mentally can be secured in
fashion similar to the withdrawing of
muscular tension. Learn to empty your
mind when not using it.
The earth in rotating on it's axis
passes through $50 degrees in twenty
four hours, or 10 degrees in one hour.
So that for every fifteen degrees of
longitude that we move west we shall
find the local time one hour earlier We
is a relative statement. We have
neither gained nor lost any time, of
course, but our day has been length
ened by an hour, and we shall find our
watch one hour fast for every fifteen
degrees Travelled. Going east the con-
ditions are opposite, and the landlub-
Der on an Atlantic steamer will be puz-
zled to hear the dinner gong sound
from half to three-quarters of an hour
too early, according to his watch. 1t
is a curious fact that the steamship
companies have to give passengers on
an average two more meals on the east
ward voyage than on the westward, so
if you want to get the most for your
money you should go around the world
to the east.
M. Goubet, the inventor of subma-
rines, has been interviewed by French
newspaper on a form of submarine
which should make his inventions no
less renowned in the victories of peace
than in those of war. says the Morning
Post The submarine he proposes is
one that is to subdue the horrors of
the channel passage. Two cables are
to run from coast to coast at dis
tance of some Is meters below the bill
lows and the submarine, supplied by
them with power, is to run along
them. Special arrangements are to be
made in case of a failure of power
for the submarine to release itself
from its cables and rise to the sur
| face. There will be mo vibrati on," the
passage will occupy only 20 minutes
less time usually than it takes to pass
through the Severn tunnel-and the
submarine will hold 200 persons. Thus
! seasickness will be avoided, Paris and
London placed near and rentente cor
dale brought sensibly nearer
In his report on proceedings of the
Paris Congress of 1900 on tests of ma
terials, M. Ricour finds the ether in
closing our universe to be a sphere
whose radius though great, may per-
haps be ultimately found. The dis
lance of our sun from the center of
this sphere of ether he finds to be such
that light would require 100000 years
to traverse it. The density of the ether
he finds to be such that a mass equal
in size to our earth would be equal
to about two pounds. While much of
the work rests upon hypothesis. the
article of Ricour is interesting as show
ing how the engineer as we'll as the
physicist finally comes to the ether IS
the ultimate source of all energy. If
the ether is really a limited sphere
as he supposeS, the surface of that
sphere forms an absolute limit TO our
knowledge; for should other spheres of
ether exist no waves can pass across
the empty spaces that separate them
from sphere which contains our uni
verse.
The London Lancet the other day
reprinted a criticism of a medical lee
ture given in 1923 upon the power of
the digestive organs upon Substances
endued with vitality" a category which
includes the prophet Jonah. "How
the prophet passed his time in the cav
ity of the whales stomach, how far
the confinement affected his organs Of
respiration, are questions of minor i'm
portance," we are told. But the main
argument may be thus stated. When
Jonah entered the whales stomach
either he was alive or was not alive
If he were not alive the stomach would
have had the same power over him
as over any other inanimate substance,
and the prophet would have been di-
gested in the ordinary way" But
since he was not digested he was alive
when swallowed. and, as the argument
points out, must have continued to
live" Consequently. when he was
thrown up on the fourth day he was
deposited on the dry land, probably
without any other Inconvenience than
some trifling arrangement of his ca
non!cals."
in making your inspections consd-
err the electric current as a heat pro-
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