The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-18

near the baited hook. The assumption
is that fish, when it sees itself in a
glass, will conclude that some other
fish is trying to carry OFF the bait, and
will make haste to secure the tempting
morsel itself, the result being that it
will speedily be caught on the relent-
less hook From experiments which
have been made there seems to be some
foundation for this assumption. At
any rate, some anglers say that they
catch more fish when they use the lit
tie mirror than they ever caught be-
fore.
"A highly colored sample of red
tape is sent over from England in the
news of the failure of Second Lieuten-
ant Burke of the Fourth East Surrey
Regiment of Militia to pass the medi-
cal examination for appointment to the
regular British army. Mr.. Burke
served in South Africa, and stood high
on the list of successful candidates at
a recent examination. In Africa ne
distinguished himself and proved the
power of his eyes by discovering that
an approaching body of men was COM
posed of Beers and nd of British. Yet
when the learned doctors came to ex-
anime his eyes they reported them as
bad because he could not read by cleo
trio light, in London fog, the regula-
ton three lines of letters" and so
his earned commission is not to be
given to him.
The remarkable pendulum expert
ment in the Pantheon at Paris to prove
the rotation of the earth strikingly
illustrates the majestic uses of the ia
mlliar clockmaker's device, SAYS the
LONDON Chronicle. 1t seems almost
impossible of belief, in an age of we'll
regulated watches, that the clocks of
Galiieo's time could not be kept going
at a uniform speed. Clocks went by
means of dragging weight, but the
pendulum had not been thought of as
regulator. 1t occurred to Calico to
make clock with the pendulum only,
out, OF course, the work of turning the
wheels stopped it. 1t was left to Huy-
gems, in 1866. fourteen years after the
great astronomers death, to combine
the pendulum with the dragging weight
and thus solve the problem of reckon
ing astronomical time with exactitude.
There are two systems of numera-
ton in use at the present day, COM
monty called the English and the
French systems, says the Detroit Free
Press. In the former the billion is a
million OF millions; a trillion a million
of billions. and each denominat ton is
a million times the one preceding In
the latter (Which is the system used
in the United States), the billion is a
thousand millions, and each denomina-
ton is thousand times the preced-
ing. Therefore, according to the Eng
lish notation. a trillion is the product
of a million involved to the third pow
er, or the number represented by a
unit with eighteen ciphers. annexed:
according to the French notation, the
number expressed by a unit with
twelve ciphers attached. A billion ac-
cording to the French method is the
number represented by unit with
nine ciphers. and according to the
English method with twelve ciphers
annexed.
One of the strangest funerals on
record took place the other day at
Beirut, the capital of Syria. The Greek
Catholic Patriarch had passed away.
People of all creeds considered him a
saint Even the Mohammedans did not
disguise their reverence for Mgr. Ge-
raigiry. LIE Terre Sainte a French
church paper, says: For three days
after his death he was exposed to the
veneration of the faithful, seated on
his throne and vested with the insignia
of his dignity. Never were such copi-
Gus tears shed over one mortal man.
Priests the faithful, schismatics, Mo
hammedans, Druses and Jews, all came
to mourn and weep at his feet. The
funeral was that of a. king. Seated
on his throne he was carried to the
Cathedral. The Syrian Patriarch, six
teen archbishops and bishops took part
in the procession. More than $4,000
persons formed the cortege The Turk
1sh envoy and the commanding general
of Syria marched at the head the
Governor and the consuls came behind.
Beirut, the city of Mohammedan "a
naticism. assisted at the grandiose and
most solemn funeral demonstration
which at the same time was absolutely
spontaneous. His body, seated on his
patriarchal throne, reposes now under
the high altar of the Greek Catholic
Cathedral
Boston is growing warmer with
each successive year, SAYS the Boston
transcript Meteorological observations
prove this, if they prove anything, and
these observations are made with most
aehcate ana accurate Instruments
Heat is generated somewhere faster
than 1t can be expended or counter
acted by mercury's descent into the
depths of the lower end of the Their
mometer, so that at the end of each
tWelve-month there is an accumulation
or uneXpended thermal units in the air
over ana above the ordinary of normal
supply, and with this unmistaka bile
rise In the general temperature comes
gradual decrease in precipitation
Just as certain and just as regular
This noteworthy atmospheric evolution
to name 1t unscientif1cally by what the
general public will most naturally iden-
TRY 1t, has been going on for ten
years, but there has been nothing to
call it to mind as wildly as the ex-
ceptional weather conditions of the
present month. The turn into the
present unbroken chain of heat-storing
years took place in 1893, which was q
conspicuous year for other reasons
and obtained. no special fame for its
peculiar November weather. Attention
mas been called this year repeatedly to
the denclency in rainfall which. at the
present day, amounts to about twelve
inches.
There is no armor against fate.
says the Brooklyn Times. Foster Nor
rison says the declaration is no Joke.
Morrison is young, big, and, until he
got mixed up with the number tS. was
light hearted and enjoyed ME. He
lves on Pacific street. and on the Nov
H. faced City Magistrate Hig-
glnbotham on a charge of passinp
worthless check for something less
than $25. On Dec. 13 he will have
chance to square himself with the law.
In the summer months Morrison Is a
Ill