The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-30


The new light-ship for Diamond
Shoal of Hatteras is furnished with
electrical apparatus designed t" send
"a perpendicular pillar of light high into
the sky directly over the vessel. 1t is
hoped that this light may be visible
from the decks OF ship thirty OF forty
miles away at sea. whereas the mast
head lights can be seen only thirteen
miles away. Ii this form, OF beacon
proves successful. it will be adopted for
other signal stations.
The bee lives by it's tongue with
which organ 1t is able TO extract tie
honey from flowers. Now. bees
tongue is naturally about twenty
fifth of an inch long. Clever bee-keep
ers. by keeping only those bees with
naturally long tongues, have succeeded
in lengthening the tongues of number
of bee colonies to the extent of another
hundredth of an inch. Ii does not
sound much. hui il enables those in
sccts TO do a quarter as much work
again in the same time.
The German Society for the Study of
Electric Railways has lately expert
mented upon speed. and in some of it's
trials 400 to lO' miles per hour was
attained. The air resistance was fOunG
to be equivalent TO the force OF wind
with a velocity of twelve feet per SEC
ond. This is Il velocity which has
only once been reached by German
storms. namely in the hurricane of
Fahrfturv 1904 TIL. fnf
are confident that speeds much exceed
ing 100 miles per hour can be nain-
tanned on electric railways.
The keepers Of the big cobras in the
Central Park Menagerie and the New
York Geological Garden do not find it
easy TO supply their veneIn6us charges
with the kind of food that they special
ly prefer. In their native land cohraS
live chiefly on smaller and less danger
Gus and Objectionable snakes. bnt AL
though every effort is made TO collect
harmless snakes to satisfy the appetite
of the imprisoned cobraS. at some sea
sons they have TO he content with
rats and mice, which they do not par
ticularly like. Other varieties Of cap
lice and rabbits. English sparrows
are also purchased for them.
Professor Hugo Seeliger. of Munich.
remarks thar the observed fact that
new stars are nearly all situated in.
or very close TO. the Milky Way. agrees
with all thai we know OF the construc-
ton OF the heavens. We may admit IL
priorf that the frequency of the occur
renee Of new stars is directly proper
tionai TO the stellar density of the
different regions especially if this fire.
quency results from collisions between
cosmic masses as there is good reason
TO believe. His calculations founded
upon such hypothesis show that three
fourths of the new stars ought to ap-
pear in the neigh borhood of the Milky
Way and the observed situations Of the
fifteen new stars which have appeared
during the past three centuries agree
with the calculation
One interesting feature of the modern
electric hydraulic power plant at the
Government Arsenal at Rock Island is
the electrical heating system in the
power house. Despite its commercial
life of more than decade. electric
heating in large plants is still enough
OF n novelty 10 attract attention. AT
the Rock Island Arsenal there are
twenty-five radiators distributed
throughout the building Each radla-
tor is composed of three asbestos Gov
cred frames. wound with coiled iron
wire, The current consumption of each
radiator is equivalent to four horse
power. Proper switches enable the
heaters 10 be put in and out as desired.
and the amount of heat given out by
each radiator to he controlled Elk
perienCe has shown that with this
equipment 4 very comfortable temper
attire cat be maintained even in cold
weather and the frequent opening of
doors