The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Quoting guide, radiate in all directions
through space. and a small percentage
OF them arrives at the receiving station,
and by no means of suitable apparatus
are made appreciable by the senses or
recorded.
The report of the CONNECTICUT FIX
pertinent Station, just issued, contains
startling arraignment of the baking
powders with which the country is
flooded. OF the fifteen brands analysed.
about every imaginable adulteration
was discovered. varying from sulphuric
acid (22 per cent? to ground rock. The
latter form of adulteration is charac-
terized by the report as "a particularly
reprehensible adulteration, because
very likely to prove injurious to
health" which may well be believed
considering that it was found in one
sample TO so large an extent as over %
per cent This rock is insoluble in
strong acids, and consists chiefly of
silicates of magnesia.
Herr Moller, the Prussian minister
of commerce, maintains that in spite
of the comparative poverty of the soil
in the Fatherland the advance in meth
DDS of cultivation during the last de-
cade has been so marked that the yield
of corn per acre in Germany now
closely approaches that of Great Bri-
tain. This seems to concede the weight
of grain raised by the British farmer
upon given area still slightly the
highest in the world. The Kaiser's min
listers have explained before the Reich
stag that the breeding of stock is the
one thing in which even Germany, with
the utmost of her skill and effort can
never hope to rival England. The Brit
lsh say that the moisture. which makes
the richness of their island meadows,
nourishes the unrivaled types of live
stock for which equally favorable con-
ditions exist nowhere else in the
world.
The application of mond gas to in
dustrial purposes on large scale has
now arrived at a practical stage in
england. A company has been formed
the South Staffordshire Mond Gas
Power and Heating Company--and the
shares are now offered to the public
The object is to distribute the gas in
pipe lines through the South Stafford
shire coal and iron district, and five
central stations are to be erected at
various collieries. The gas is made
from the coal dust and slack which
are at present of little commercial
value. The directors of the new COM
pany are men of eminenee in the local
trade, so that the project will have
every opportunity for success, The
problem OF distributing power from the
coal fields by a more convenient
method than transporting the coal has
long engaged the attention of econo-
mlsts, but this is the first occasion on
which it has been put into practice.
The late Grand Vizier, Khalil Rifat
Pasha, was striking example of the
incident, phlegmatic, fatalistic Turk.
says an exchange. He seems to have
cared for nothing but his title and his
salary, and TO have allowed the Sultan
and his creatures at the palace to ex-
erclse the functions of the vizerate in
any way that might seem best to them.
Not intrequently he only heard of what
was done through the newspapers. as
ne candidly admitted to an interviewer
Just before the Greek war. When he
was appointed in November 1895. some
thing better was expected from him
on account of his emery in stamping
out brigandage when he was governor
general of the vilayet of Kossobo. But
as soon as he was created Grand vi
zier he simply allowed things to drift
ana permitted Others to usurp his au-
thorlty without resistance of protest
His one aim, apparently. was to lead
quiet life, unvexed by state problems.
Nothing, of coruse, could have pleased
the palace favorites better. They had
their own way almost in everything
and Khaiii enjoyed himself, perfectly
Indifferent to the maladministration
which has been bringing the country
nearer and nearer to ruin.
in order to follow intelligently the
advance of wireless biography from
the beginning some rough idea must
be had of the modern physicists views
regarding the nature of electrical phe-
nomena, says the Great Round World
To this end all space must be regarded
as permeated by something termed
the luminiferouS ether. Not only does
this ether permeat the spaces between
the heavenly bodies and our atmos-
phere (Which conception offers little
difficulty to. the lay mind, but it also
permeates all solids. Further, its ma
ture is such that the movement even
of solids is not in the least restrained
BY such permeation, the closest anal
ogy being that of a sieve. representing
the solid, being moved about in water
representing the other. The ether is the
seat not only of all electrical phenom-
ena, but also of all the phenomena of
light and heat All of these, apparently
so distinct, are but the result of vi
brations or waves on the ether, the
apr aren't differences being due only to
differences in the length of the waves
and the rapidity with which they &C.
cur. just as one musical note differs
from another in the same particulars
only that the sound waves are air
waves and not ether waves Now with
the usual Geographic methods the cur
rent, as it is termed, is sent or directed
through space by means of metallic
conductor. Actually nothing passes
through the wire. as is implied by the
use of the word current" What act
ually takes place is the transmission of
energy along the path of the wire by
means of vibrations in the neighborng
ether. That is, the metal of the wire
acts merely as a guide for the ether
waves to the destination desired.
A stranger entering for the first
time a plate glass works at night; the
furnaces are closed, and the dull
sounds of the captive fire alone are
heard, says the Architect and Builder.
From time to time workman opens
the working hole to look into the fur
naces at the condition of the glass.
Suddenly the hour strikes; the signal
is then beaten on the iron Stats which
surround the furnace. The manoeu-
vers begin with the activity and nre
cision of an artillery movement. The
furnaces are opened, the pots seized
drawn out, raised in the air and moved
directly oyer cast iron table. The
signal given, the pot is inclined and
the brilliant liquid falls and spreads
over tho "a hle Hike WAY Ae.o. $500.