The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-02
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ton of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite.
The method employed gave an approx
mate mass which was admittedly too
large. Tisserand, by a different meth
cd, obtained the result that the mass
of the rings was to that of the planet
as 1 to $40. Prof. Asaph Hall in the
Astronomical Journal No. 20 obtains a
much smaller ratio; namely l to 1902.
This gives the ring a mass only two
thirds that of Titan, whose mass is to
that of Saturn as 1 to 4,500.
The working Of dynamos at long
distances apart, when properly con-
nected, was discovered by accident.
Soon after the opening of the Vienna
Exposition in 1873 a careless workman
picked up the ends of a couple of wires
which he found trailing along the
ground. He fastened them in the ter
minals of a dynamo, to which be
thought they belonged, while they
were really attached to another dyna-
mo that was running in another part
of the ground. The dynamo to which
he fastened the wires was not run
ming, but as soon as the wires were
placed in its terminals it revolved as
II steam engine was driving it. Thus
| originated one of the most revolution
airy applications of electricity.
Much has been said of late regard
ing the speed of the German Atlantic
greyhounds; not enough, perhaps, has
been said regarding the cost of this
speed. says the London Telegraph. The
latest creation of the North German
Lloyd, Kaiser Wilhelm II is designed
to do "a knots an hour at an expendi-
ture of 10000 indicated horsepower.
Our White Star Line, Cedric, the larg-
est ship in the world, will go IT knots
with $4,000 horsepower. But, says the
Shipping World, the Kaiser Wilhelm
will burn $50 tons of coal per day,
which is 100 per cent. more than the
Cedric, and she will need 256 more
hands to work her. Curiously enough,
of her crew Of 800, only As will be ordi-
nary sailors, the remainder being me-
chanics of various orders.
1t is announced that candidates for
the Nobel peace prize, which is to be
awarded in December. 1903. must be
proposed to the Nobel Committee of
the Norwegian Parliament before Feb.
l, next The following persons alone
are qualified to recommend candidates:
First. Members of the Nobel Commit
tee of the Norwegian Parliament. Sec
ond. Members of the Legislatures and
governments of different countries.
parlementaire. Fourth. Members of
the Commission du Bureau Information
al Permanent de la Paix. Fifth. Mem
bers and associates of the Instttut de
Droit International. Sixth. Professors
of law and political science, of history
and of philosophy in the universities
Seventh. Persons who have received
the Nobel peace prize. The Nobel peace
prize can be granted to an institution
or an association as we'll as to an in
dividual.
Not many persons are aware of the
fact that the best brown paint used
by artists is made from human bodies,
says London Answers. The bones end
skin, which are ground up by artists
colormen and sold in tiny tubes, are
those of mummies taken out of the
Egyptian mausoleums. When a person
died in Egypt century or two 3. c.
he was preserved in the finest bitumen.
The remains of a body treated thus
in those times on being unwrapped to-
day present an appearance similar to
light-colored leather. The bitumen and
the leather-like remains are ground
down by machinery, and turned into a
beautiful brown liquid paint, which is
the delight of all artists. In the man
ufacture of artists colors, animal, veg
etable and mineral substances are
largely used. Crimson and purple lakes
and carmine are all obtained from the
cochineal insect. Sepia is the dark fluid
discharged by the cuttleflsh to render
the water opaque for it's own conceal
ment when attacked by a larger fish
PrusSian blue is made by fusing the
hoofs of horses with impure potassium
carbonate, and ultramarine is obtain
ed from the precious mineral known
as lapis lazuli. Gamboge is the yell
low sap of a tree which grows in
Siam, and raw sienna is the natural
earth from Sienna; when burnt it be-
comes burnt sienna. Turkey red is
made from the Indian madden plant
There is only one color that we do not
know how to produce, and that is In
dian ink. Only the Chinese can make
1t, and they refuse to divulge the Sc
cret Of its composition.
Those who believe, or affect to be-
lieve, that religion is declining through
out the countries of Christendom will
find no support for their pessimistic
notions in the figures showing the
amounts already collected for the
twentieth century, funds started by
various denominations in this country
and Europe, says Leslie's Weekly.
These funds have already reached a
total of $40,000,000, and the promoters
OF these enterprises are confident that
they VIII have the balance of SO. 00O.-
600 more. Of the amount raised, more
than one-half is credited to American
churches, the Methodists being far in
the lead in liberality. The Canadian
Methodists started in to raise 81. 00O.-
OOO and have already secured that and
$2e0,000 besides. The Presbyterians of
Canada set out for the same million
dollar goal and have already gone
nearly half-million beyond it. 1t is
especially gratifying to note that all
these enormous sums have been COL
lected at an expense of less than 1 per
cent. of the total. and also that in
spite of this generous giving, it has in
no way interfered with the regular
contributions to missionary societies
and to the support of churches. On the
contrary. all religious societies show
an increase in. receipts, and there is
hardly one that is not out of debt. a
condition that has not obtained in
years The funds collected are to be
used first for the payment of church
debts, and, after that. for the endow-
ment of colleges. missionary societies
and other religious institutions.
A recent colonial report on the Ca
ribs of Dominica is interesting. Very
mysterious is the origin of the fierce
savages. now almost extinct, who were
in po.a ession of the smaller West In
dian islands when the first white man
burst into that silent sea" They
showed a distinct Monaghan charac-