The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-16

on the 18th, it showed for about three
quarters of an hour between . and
O'Clock in the morning, and 100 sheep
died in Windsor Forest. At Edmon-
ton, on the same date, 2.20 inches of
rain fell within the twentyfour hours.
A cable to the North American
from Paris says: Your correspondent
called upon the academician, M. de
Nelly, to inquire about his late sensa-
tional lecture before the Bellies Let
tres Society. De Nelly showed your
correspondent Illustrations of pictorial
and sculptured portraits of Christ, dat
ing from the time of his death A. d.
1926, all of which show Christ without
beard. The beard was added only in
pictures, and statues of a later date.
De Nelly further showed your CORE
Spondent the description of some early
frescoes recently discovered in Banit,
Upper Egypt, in which Christ is rep
resented, as beardless. This indorseS
the belief" said the academician, that
Christ was probably crucified at an
earlier age than generally accepted.
believe the Council of Tours was right
in the surmisal mot a dogma) that
Christ was no more than 81 years old
at the time of His death. This would
explain away His alleged ten years
absence from Palestine that has puz-
6lDllCdl SCnOIdES
One Of the latest wrongs of Ire
land" is the attempt of a scientific per-
son to transform her peat bogs into
gutta percha. He says that he can
make an artificial gutta percha from
peat which will make as good an insu-
lator as the real thing. If he can
there is money in the boys of Ireland.
SO far gutta percha is the only sub
stance which has been found to furnish
a perfect protection for wires from the
action of salt water. The supply of
gutta percha is not only limited, but
is practically controlled by a few man
ufacturers who own the forests in the
East Indies, where the material is OBJ
tanned. The price of gutta peFcha has
been increasing gradually for years,
owing to the growing demand for it,
and the supply is diminishing; so if the
scientist is successful in his attempt
to produce 1t from peat he will add
greatly to the worlds economy. In
Ireland there are over 100000 acres of
bog land, and in Scotland there are
100000 acres, so he will have enough
material upon which to begin work.
"A writer in the Lancet, says the
Chicago Record Herald, generously
sets himself the task of giving out
of food one should eat. He proceeds to
make the matter plain to the masses
by saying: IF you desire to know
how much you ought to eat per diem
you must first determine whether you
are temperamentally anabolic or kat
obolc. Then, taking into account
your age, sex, size, the amount of ex-
ercise you get and the temperature of
the atmosphere you should calculate
Of nr,I D.
tain weight of the body consistent
with the best health of which you are
capable" Hereafter there should be
no excuse whatever for overeating or
undertaking. The anabolic should be
able to jump up and crack his heels
together at least four times, and the
katobolic ought to find it easy to turn
f1ipfaps without the use of the hands
In view of the simplicity of the thing
1T is surprising that this whole matter
was not disposed of long, long ago to
the best interests of all concerned.
In the Revue Generate des Sciences
M. Nordmann proposes a theory of
the propagation of electric force from
the sum into space which is based on
the assumption that Hertzian waves
are emitted from the surface of our
lunlnary, and that the emission of
those electric waves must be particu-
larry intense at epochs of maximum
solar activity. M. Nordmann admits
that hitherto attempts to discover
Hertzisn waves in the solar radiation
have led to a negative result; but, in
his opinion, this may be explained bys
the copious absorption of the electric.
undulations in the higher layers of
our atmosphere. On this hypothetical
basis the theory attempts an explana-
ton OF cometary phenomena, of ter
restriak magnetism, and of the lumi-
Mostly of matter in the nebulae and in
the vicinity of temporary stars. M
Nordmann's paper thus covers the
same ground as the previous re-
searches of Prof. Arrhenius. But the
distinguished Swedish physicist advo-
Gates the theory of corpuscular cleo
trio emission, and M Nordmann en-
deavors to show that some grave OBJ
Jections may be urged against this
point of view, and that, on the whole,
the cosmical phenomena here consid-
cred are better explained by the I'M
dulatory electric theory of Maxwell
and Hertz.
The latest development in the pro-
duction of producer gas for gas-engiue
work is the Mond gas, from which
much is confidently expected in the
near future, says the electrical Re-
view Mond's producer is adapted for
the use of cheap fuel and the recov-
cry of ammonia. Common bitumin-
GUS slack is fed into the hoppers and
then descends in charges of eight to
ten hundredWeight into the producing
bell. The first heating of the slack
distills off the hydrocarbons, which
then pass down through a hot zone
where the tar is broken up. In the
body of the producer there is the usual
air blast which has been saturated
with steam and superheated, and
fundamental difference between this
and other heaters being the fact that
very large quantity of steam is used
about two and one-half tons per ton
of slack. The large amount of steam
used keeps down the temperature and
prevents the destruction of the am
monia. Half a ton. of this steam is
deeompoSed per ton of slack, giving
nearly 20 per cent. of free hydrogen
in the final producer gas. One pro-
Queer of the ordinary size can deal
with about twenty tons of slack in
twenty-four hours, and from 40 to $50
cubic feet of gas is produced per ton.
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