The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-04
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SCIENTIFIC

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The 10000 tons of beet-root crushed
in Germany in 1910 yielded but SIX uer
cent of raw sugar, while last years
100000 tons gave - per cent.
Considering the worlds timber sur
! ply, DR.. Schick has found that plenty
of hard wood is still available, but that
coniferous wood, which forms eighty
/ five per cent of the total demand, can
be continuously provided only by
Sweden, Russia and Canada. Russia's
supply is precarious, while Sweden may
meet one-sixth of the total demand
A novel type of storage battory car
which in English tests has run ice
miles on single charge. has motors
that when travelling down hill are re-
versed and become generators for re-
storing the battery charge. An inter
esting feature of this change of motors
into generators is a braking effect that
is usually sufficient to check the cars
speed without applying the mechanical
brakes.
Ballooning is now receiving attention
as possible remedy for pulmonary ar
fections. The conditions are not the
same as those of mountaineeriag, the
change of altitude being more rapid
and muscular fatigue being absent In
the trips of the French Society of Phys
iology, DR.. Henocqua proposes to re-
gard the atmosphere as divided into
three zones. Up to about three miles
the surrounding air supplies all the
oxygen needed, but ascents beyond five
miles are held to require a closed car,
as was first suggested in 1871, or an
aerial diving suit.
An explanation of the influence of
electric storms upon sufferers from
nervous disease has been sought by A
Frederick Collins. A section of the \
brain of freshly-killed animal was
placed in circuit with pair Of resonat-
ing plates, dry battery and tele-
phone receiver, and when electric
waves were sent from an emitter ten
feet away, momentary cohesion of the
brain cells resulted, reducing resistance
and giving a click in the telephone The
same effect was then obtained with a
living brain, that of an etherized cat,
the sound of cohesion being clear
though feebler than before
I The world may still have fuel after
the coal is gone, in the opinion of D. f.
Hutchins, Cape Colony scientist The
Eucalyptus trees of South Africa and
Australia have a wood-producing max
:imum five times as great as that of
German spruce, and the heating value
of an equal bulk is three times as
great. The annual fre-wood yield OF
an acre, in South Africa thus appears
to be fifteen times as great in heating
power as that of an acre in the forests
of Central Europe. Experiment has
proven that on tropical mountains the
growth of the Eucalyptus may yield an
nually twenty tons of dry wood fuel
per acre, fully equal in heating value
to the same weight of coal, and it is
reasonable to suppose that by selection
this yield could be doubled. About 5000
million acres out of the total 5000 mil
lion acres of land surface have suffi-
cient rainfall and sun-heat for the
growth of these trees. If one-half OF
this area were In forest, it seems pos
sible to obtain the equivalent of $4,000
million tons of coal yearly, and with a
forest area of only one-fourth, as at
present in Germany, and an average
forest yield of only one-half the present
maximum, the output would still equal
POTTS million tons. The latter amount
is more than thirty times the present
consumption of coal.
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go up to New York tomorrow to be
measured fir tn PRESENTATION soord.
There it is. Hinnissy. Who won? /
don't know / can't tell at this minyit
whether l ought to be undher tn bed
larnin German FIR tn time whin
Prooshyan sojer'll poke me out with his
saber, or down at Finncane's hall calm
a meetin' to thank the defenders iv tn
Preside Nobody knows. It's quare
game, FIR they tell me afther tn battles
has been fought an tn kilt has gone
back to holeystonin' tn deck an tn
smoke firm tn chafin' dish has cleared
away, tn decision is up to good
figurer at Wash'n'ton. It depinds on
him whether we ARE a free people or
whether we wear tn yoke iv sarvichood
an bad, German hats FIR all time. He's
tn officyal SCORER an what Higginson
thinks was a base hit, he calls foul
an what Macarthur calls an accepted
chanst is an error. Afther tn gallant
lads in blue an gold has got through,
a wathry-eyed clerk named Perkins II,
Something sets down an
figures out tn victhry.
"Th' man behind tn fountain pen is
tn boy. It's up to him whether tn
stars an sthripes still fioatst over an
onconquered people or whether five
pfennings is tn price iv dhrink in
New York. He sets on his high stool
an says he:
. Five times eight is twinty-nin
subtract three FIR tn duchess, quar-
Their to one o'clock an eighty miles firm
Narragansett pier is two-an'-a-halfr
plus tn wather-line iv tn saloon
companionway, akel to two-fifths iv tn
differentyal tangent. Huroo! Msther
Secretary, We can go home an tell ye'er
wife tn counthry's safe
He had to be a smart man. A good Z
bookkeeper. as tn pote says, is tn
counthrys on'y safety. He mus be
careful, too, dye mind. TIL honor iv
tn army an tn navy isat stake. Wan
or tn other iv thin has been careless.
Dye think a foreign fleet cud cap
ture this counthry?" asked Mr.. Hen