The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-29

dinal Vaughan as his successor, is
about to leave England and take up his
residence ia Rome.
One Of the most remarkable rec
ords for numerous descendants Of any
persons in the United States is that
| held by Mrs. Jacob Dearinger, who
/ lives in Taylorsville, III. She is 81
years old and has 27l descendants.
1t is reported that the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship Company and
/ the FREDERICK Krupp Company intend
| to erect shipbuilding yards on the Ems
| Dortmund canal, in the vicinity OF the
/ coal lands which they recently pur-
| chased. These shipyards are only to
/ build canal and river craft.
1t appears to be probable that hyp-
notism can stop the heart and thus
cause death. A. Iounet, a French in
vestigator Of the subject. reports that
he has increased and diminished the
number OF a mans pulse beats at will
and as far as he could go in either
direction with safety. II is proved
therefore. that the circulation is seri-
cusly affected, even if it is not quite
ctltain that the heart can be stopped.
"A piece of information regarding
tramway depreciation has been made
public by the London United Tramway
Company Qdnited). The company was
| assessed by the Brentford rating au-
thorities at Els 52z, and this amount on
appeal was reduced TO f1I,245, which,
on a rate of shillings pence in the
pound, rs saving to the undertaking
OF over f2,700. The company valued the
| life of its track at years, of its IN
oerground feeders at 81, the cars at
Ii ana the overhead wires at 80 years.
Attempts TO plate upon aluminium
have been mostly unsatisfactory. The
difficulty is attributed TO an invisible
film of oxide forming on that metal.
and IN new process {. F. Burgess
and Carl Hambuchen seek 10 dissolve
this nlm by adding TO the bath a lit
tie sodium or ammonium fuoride, or
Tree hydrofuoric acid. As they find
zinc most adhesive to aluminium, they
first deposit a thin zinc coating. On
this other metals, such as copper and
silver, may be deposited by the usual
eleetrolytic methods, but if gold plate
Is required a film of copper must first
be deposited, as the gold sinks into
Fthe zinc and disappears in IA few
weeks
Ivy covered walls are usually very
attractive 10 the eye, but there appears
to be serious danger in allowing the
vine to attach itself to stone. The
Boston Advertiser asserts that the
stones in the main structure of Trinity
Church show the effects of the ivy 10 q
noticeable extent. Where the pfant has
grown over the surface, the rough |
points have become polished and the
stone covered with a fine dust as if
HiEfy7 facry hoI
parasite appears 10 have already eaten
into the rock, and although the results
are not Yet deep enough TO cause any
alarm, the ivy would be stripped away
II ii were not for the sentiment at
tached 10 IT," 1t is said that a stone
church in London has been wrecked
by the disintegration of its walls
wrought by the creeping ivy. The ef-
fects of this vine on wooden build
ings are equally destructive. Evident
ly we shall have to get along with
out 1t.
Hitherto the least available natural |
source Of electricity has been the sea-
Engineers find more difficulties in the
way than occur TO dreamers. Lord KEEL
vim showed twenty three years go how
hard it would be TO get any power eco
nomically out Of the rise and fan of /
the tides on the seashore. Ten. or in |
some cases 100, times as much might be |
done with q tidal river. The rise and |
fall Of the tides between Gravesend and |
London would represent an enormous |
amount of power: but it so happens |
that the Thames is required for other |
purposes. Mr.. Sutherland. in that in |
genious work, Twentieth Century In |
ventions, calculates that the waves |
of the sea would yield in a few seconds |
as much power as a tidal force elevat- |
ing and depressing the water level, say
nine feet, would do in as many hours |
The infant born yesterday will be a |
very old man before he sees London |
lighted and warmed, to say nothing of |
other requirements fulfilled, by the |
power of marine tides or currents or |
waves. Electric storage must be per- |
tsctsd first: until that is done sea and |
storm must go on wasting their meal |
culable force.
in the course Of a determination of |
the difference OF longitude between |
Greenwich and Potsdan. made last |
year by two German geodesists, At was
necessary to transmit signals by tele- |
graph between the two places and TO |
know exactly how long il took each sig |
nal to pass. The usual practice in tele- |
graphing over a long line such as this |
make use of instruments called re- |
peaters or relays. which, placed at the /
ends Of the cable. are worked by the /
current originally sent and autonati- |
cally pass it on to the next section; but |
another method is to make actual con- |
nection between the submarine wires |
and those on land. For reasons con-
nected with the work now spoken Of /
the latter method was not advisa BILE IN
less there were equal quantities Of wire |
on each side of the cable, and The Eng
lish postoff1ce authorities. who were |
aiding the German scientists, accom- |
piished this by arranging that the cur |
rent should not come direct from Rac-
ton, in Norfolk, to Greenwich. but /
should pass around a loop by Leicester. |
Traversing this route of $50 miles OF |
wire overland and 2e4 miles of cable /
the signals arrived at Greenwich four /
teen-hundredths of a second of time |
after leaving Potsdam: whereas if re-
peaters were used. as in the ordinary
course, and the loop omitted. which |
shortened the journey by 200 miles. the /
time occupied was reduced of It's m |
oerground feeders ar 81, the cars 20 /
ht-hundredths
Prof Charles Baskerville discov-
cred carolinium and berzilium four
years ago, but held zhe fact mack in /