The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-08-01

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Uranium, worth $50 a pound, is used
IN the glass and porcelain Industries
II has been found that uranium car
hide is superior TO nickel or tungsten
In the manufacture of high-grade steel.
A London physician having made q
long and careful scientific investiga-
ton Of girls inability to throw
stone as a boy does, says that II is
due TO the physical conformation OF
her shoulder. A boy throws with q
free movement Of the arm that Is not
possible with a girl, because her collar
bone is larger and sets lower than the
boys. The girl may excel In sports
where this action is not required. but
she can never learn to throw Ike
boy.
A German invention In fire apparatus
has been tried with success, It CON
slsts Of n telescope ladder, capable
of being extended to a length Of eighty
five feet. and worked by means Of com
pressed air. The ladder is attached TO
n heavy truck carrying an air-tank.
The ladder can he directed at a partic-
ular window or other place in burn
ing building that it is desirable to
reach A fireman dashed to the end of
the ladder is shot up with it, and res
cued persons need not Chamber down
as the ladder can be quickly lowered
with them on it.
An invention has just been com
pleted by Professor c. e. Anthony, OF
California. by which the immense kelp
beds of the ocean are to be utilized in
the manufacture Of paper. The inven-
ton consists in taking the seawecd
and forming into a pulp, from which
! paper Of the finest quality can be
manufactured, equal even to the finest
| linen paper, which. though n product
of the chemists laboratory, it greatly
resembles. Not only has Professor An
/ thony succeeded in making a suitable
! paper-pulp from kelp but he declares
tEat the pulp can be pOduced Mt fifty
per cent Of the cost OF other pulp
According to a new theory of hered
ity advocated by Felix lie Daubec, thu
phenomena of descent are identica
with those of growth The child is al
actual fragment or detached bit Of it
parents, and grows into their Likeness
as naturally as any human infan
grows into man instead of dog o
a horse He deprecates the view 0
heredity that regards it as a mysteri
Gus force and rejects Weismann'
theory of germ-plasm because it zen
dows the reproductive elements wit
mysterious power and makes them eS
sentiany different from the other It's
sues of the body" This theory admit
of the inheritance of acquired charaC
teristics and explains the modifcatio
of heredity by education.
In 1900 the output Of coal through
, out the world was about 100000
, tons. Of this amount G16,000,000 weI
furnished by three countries, viz
, United States, 240695,917; Great Bri
ain. 225, 1S1,3 300; Germany, 149, los
, (metric tons). Then follows in ordC
Q Austria Hungary, France, Belgium
/ Russia which produced, taken togetI
\ er, 100000 tons Canada furnishe
O 4,760,197 tons The increase since 49,
!. has been enormous, viz, eighty p
g cent. Great Britain about 1880 flu
! nished about 5600O,O0O tons; abor
d 1870. nearly 1S2,000000 tons, al
g finally, in 1900, about 225,00000O ton
!. The question arises, how long Il
$ worlds supply is 10 last in the face
d such expenditure?