The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-16


trio furnaces at Niagara Falls, N. Y,
Is nearly as hard as diamond, but is
too fragile for use as substitute In
diamond drills. AS an abrasive, car
borundum is superior, but 1t has not
as yet been applied to rock boring
DR.. Wolff. a we'll known authority
on the subject calls attention to the
high mortality from cancer in the beer
drinking districts of Germany. says a
Berlin letter. He instances Bavaria
and Salzburg, both great beer drinking
centers. Both of these districts show
high mortality among cancer patients.
Prof. Ernest Rutherford has start
led the Royal institution by new the
DRY of the earth's heat, says the Lon
don correspondence of the New York
Tribune. Instead of accepting the sci
entific tradition that the earth is a
molten mass. which has been cooling
off for millions of years, he suggested
that radlum was the source of heat, and
was not only in the atmosphere, but in
all matter. He considered that radium
had been found in SUFFICIENT quantities
already to be accounted as the source
of heat, and that it was unnecessary to
allow a hundred million years for the
as eminent biologists and biologists had
eontended.
The term motor" has been appro-
priated by the electrical engineers in
recent years to designate the electric
motor, and it has come to mean
among them, at least-an electric mo-
tor, almost as specifically as the term
dynamo" implies a machine employed
to generate electric current, says the
Electrical Review. But, with the de-
velopment of the small gasoline and
oil engines for propelling automobiles,
the term motor" is being used more
and more in it's more general sense.
Gasoline and oil engines are now fire.
quently referred to as motors, without
any distinguishing adjective, just ds
is the electric motor, so that there is,
at times, chance for confusion. This
is perhaps a little unfortunate from
the standpoint of the electrician be-
cause "motor" is a short, expressive
word, and it Is inconvenient to be
forced always to tack on to it an adjec-
tive longer than itself. But it is too
late now to make a change by substi-
tuting some other word for ''motor"
when referring to the electrical ma
chine, and when the context does not
eliminate all risk of confusion the adj
jective must be used. Possibly the diff
Guilty will be overcome if the electric
motor succeeds in driving all other mo-
tors from the field.
The tonsils are very liable to be-
come enlarged in certain families, says
the Scotsman. 1t is, in fact, a some
what hereditary affection, and there
fore it is exceedingly common in chill
dren and young adults. The starting
point is often an attack of measles,
scarlet fever or diphtheria. Children
with enlarged tonsils are more liable
than others to attack of sore throat,
nasal troubles and certain forms of
deafness. Mouth breathing is common,
and this in it's turn is apt to produce
changes in the chest walls which favor
the production of lung diseases. Such
children are usually dull and stupid;
they are seldom bright and intelligent.
They have difficulty in pronouncing
certain letters and are inclined to speak
with nasal tone of voice. Treatment
is often called for on account of the
excessive frequency of acute infiamma-
tory attacks, and removal of the ton
sis is often necessary for this reason
alone. 1t is well to remember, how
ever, that enlarged tonsils often become
considerably diminished in size between
the ages of IA and 81, and consequently
operations for their removal are not
to be rashly undertaken. Apart from
operative interference, those who have
enlarged tonsils should gargle the
throat morning and evening with salt
and water or baking soda and water.
The throat should also be we'll bathed
every morning with cold water, so as
to brace 1t up and then render the la
bility to cold less possible.
Men have curious fads, says the
Baltimore Sun. Laurence Hutton, the
litterateur. who died at Princeton, N.
j., last Friday, had a passion for COL
lecting the death masks of celebrities.
In the course of a busy life he had
come into possession of about seventy
masks, and few years ago he pre-
scented his collection to Princeton Uni
versity In Rome, in London, in Paris,
in New York, Mr.. Hutton, wherever
he happened to be, always found time
to look around among old curiosity
shops for an addition to his collection.
When he happened upon a mask of
some notable man of the past he was
as delighted as If he had discovered
a pearl of great price In his wander
ings on the continent of Europe he
stumbled, almost by chance it seemed,
Napoleon, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II,
Dante, Luther, Schiller, di Cavour Mu-
rat, Beethoven, Dean Swift and many
other men of whom the world has heard
much Mr.. Hutton used to find pleas
ure in spending hours among these
grim death portraits and holding COM
munion, through them, with the past.
Perhaps IL he had not collected death
masks he would have devoted his spare
time to some other fad. Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain, the most prominent of
contemporaneous British statesmen.
will take a day off any time to hunt
for a new orchid. Some men spend
their lives in collecting old books or
old paintings or old COINS There is
no accounting for the vagaries of the
human mind.
Lightning rods have fallen into
deep disfavor almost everywhere now
adays, says the New York Times. but
they are valued least by the hasty peo-
pie who once valued them most. and
those who really know the most about
them still credit them with a measur-
able, though small, amount of protec-
tive power-if properly constructed
and maintained, as they hardly ever
are. For those who consider even a
slight diminution of the danger from
lightning worth securing at some ex-
pense in money and a good deal of
care, the Weather Bureau offers i1for-
nation and advice prepared for If
by Prof. w. S. Franklin of Lehish
University. The first desideratum is
what the electricians call a "good
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