The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-30


Their effect on iodin pentoxid and on
| nitric acid resembles that of ordinary
| light, but various chemical actions
| that are produced by light are not
brought about by the rays at all.
They produce ozone and have strong
coloring action on glass, porcelain, pa
| per, and rock-salt, while their destruc-
tive effect on the skin is very notice.
able. Seeds exposed to the new radia-
ton will not germinate, so injurious is
| its effect on organic life.
khaki has been finally discarded
by the British war Office for service
| dress. and in it's place has been sub
| stituted a rainproof, drab- -mixtured
| cloth for coats, which is supposed to
| be equally suited to summer and win
| ter wear. Trousers are to be made
| of a similar cloth, which, however, IN
| stead of being solid color, are to be
| of drab tartan, and the puttee and boot
| for privates and non-commissioned Of
| ficers have been discarded in favor of
| leather leggings in the mounted SER
vice and canvass in the infantry. 1t
| is noticeable also that the slouch cam
| paign hat, heretofore peculiar to our
| own service, has been, with a few
notifications, generally adopted in the
English service, and that the cork he'll
! met has suffered the same fate as the
khaki.
In recent issue of the Journal of
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
c. M. Allen describes how the steam
engine indicator may be made to re-
cord the work done by an oarsman in
a boat. "The boat to which the appa-
ratus was applied was fitted with a
| row-lock held in a position by sys-
! tenn of levers, the end of which had a
bearing upon the piston of a Crosby
| indicator. The drum of the indicator
was driven by the reduced horizontal
motion of the oar. With such an ar
| rangement on each side of the boat
the coach is enabled to indicate the
exact amount of pull that is put into
the oar at each point of the stroke;
to measure with great accuracy the
| exact length of the stroke, and from
an examination of the curve to deter
mine the proper location of the foot
rests and the rowlocks relatively to
| the seat so that the maximum effect
may be produced by the man in ac-
cordance with his reach"
THE close attention which the EN-
peror of Germany gives to scientific
and technical subjects, and the per-
sonal interest he takes in the work Of
men who study them, have been shown
on many occasion" says Nature. THE
latest instance occurred when, attended
| by a. large naval staff, he was present
| at the annual general meeting of the
Society of Naval Architects. .
| The Times correspondent at Berlin
states that the chief item in the pro-
| gramme was a lecture by Geheimrath
Brinkmann on the changes which have
been adopted in the disposition of guns
in battleships and the results of these
| changes upon naval architecture. :"
To the surprise of the audience the
Emperor ascended the platform and,
| after, beckoning all who were present
to remain seated, spoke upon the sub
| ject of the influences of military re-
| quirements upon the development of
| naval construction and the disposition
| of artillery on ships The presence of
| the Emperor at scientific and technical
meetings is itself mark of sympathy
with their aims; and when, in addition,
he shows himself keenly interested in
| the subjects discussed, the influence
upon the public mind must be very
| great. To this influence must partly
| be ascribed the regard in which scien-
tific investigation is held in Germany"
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
says: The large number of claims
upon counties for scalps of wolves and
coyotes has led to the discovery that
the farmers in the western part Of the
| state have gone into the business of
| breeding these animals for the bounty
| market. The farmers find that there
is more money in wolves and coyotes
than there is in hogs. In one instance
a farmer was found to have raised
more than 100 wolves last summer
| from several wolves he had trapped
and penned for breeding purposes.
| Other cases have been found, in which
| from Is to so of these animals have
| been raised. In October or November
| they were killed and their scalps pre-
sented for payment of bounty. The
| state law authorizes the county clerk
| to pay SO from the county funds for
| each coyote or wolf scalp presented. .
He certifies the fact to the auditor,
who pays 81 additional from the state
| funds. The law was passed a few
years ago, when the coyote and the
| wolf were the great foes of the sheep
raiser. Since that time $4,000 has
| been paid IN bounties by the state
alone. There are now on file with
the auditor claims aggregating s25,-
| 900, and it is expected that this will
be more than doubled by the end of
the year. Thus it appears that, In
stead of being killed off, the animals
are increasing.
Paris is much agitated over it's
milk supply, for recent disclosures
have shown that the Paris mlkman is
as great an adept in the art of increas-
| ing the supply of milk as any of our
| own much-abused farmers are said
| to be, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. The authorities were un-
able TO run the matter down until
early one morning a milkman was dis
covered in the Place de la Concorde
filing up his cans with stale water
that was in the basins of the foun-
tains. He was nabbed. and his dis
closures have been anything but COM
forting to Parisians. Eight hundred
milkmen work for the company which
employed the detected man and earn
seven francs night. Each one Of
these men systematically thins his
milk, so that he increases his earnings
10 100 francs. or s32 a week. Out OF
this he contributes twenty francs
week to a general fund for the defense
of cases OF fraud when they are dis
covered and for the pay OF men who
are TO watch the officials OF the munich
pal laboratory and "tip on the milk
men when an examination Is to be
made. These watchers are employed
In the prefecture OF police, and when
instructions are issued for an examina-
ton they ride out on bicycles and
warn the men who are 10 be visited.
According 20 NJ. Girard, the chief OF
the municipal laboratory, the milk
men, alarmed at the present agitation,
have aFFanprH "a haua fka mill