The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-16


Possible End Of the World--serum Cure
Of o Strange Disease-Burke Says Radi-
obes Are smaller Travelling Mountains
How 10 Feels TO Fall-A Gas That Cold
Cannot LiQuefy.
If the Garth 10 to be destroyed BY FIRE, az pre-
dicted in the Second Epistle of st. Peter, what
ID to cause the nre DR.. ]. e. Gore. the British
astronomer. finds that no outburst Of the sun
from internal activity is likely to be SUFFICIENT,
and 1t is to heat from collision that we must
look. 10 collide with the nearest fixed star the
sun must travel at its present rate for 5000
years. The sun is speeding II miles per second
toward Vega alpha Lyra) and It is possible
that one Of the dark bodies Of space may ap-
proach from that direction. or even now be on
the way. DR.. Gore calculates that such Q body
having the suns mass and earth's density would
shine by the suns light as q ninth magnitude
star on reaching distance Of Is million miles.
Moving at the suns velocity. with gradual ac-
CELEBRATION, It would approach to 5000 million
miles in ten years. when 1t would fash into
naked eye view as new STAR of fifth magni-
tude. In four years more It would be as near as
Uranus; in another year as near as Jupiter, and
far outshining both Jupiter and Venus. Then
the earth's distance would be reached in 81 days
and the sun in days more. the speed having in
creased to 400 miles per second. The collision
would be q colossal st. Pierre. Both sun and
coIliding body would be vaporized within an
hour, and the stupendous heat would destroy
most of the planets. II direct course were
kept the strange body would not strike any
planet. But the body might be smaller. and If
Of the earths size could come nearer than Ura-
nus before detection, giving only few months.
warning of disaster.
Certain persons, known as "bleeders," have
dangerous bleeding from trifiing wounds be-
cause there is no coagulation. A French physi-
clan has cured the disease by injection Of nor
NAL human or bovine serum. In one case,
twenty-five days after the last injection, the
pulling Of a tooth brought only normal loss Of
blood.
In reproducing ''radiobes." the alleged living
organisms of J. B. Burke. radium salts of vary
ing degrees of activity have been found by w.
A. Douglas Ridge, an English biologist, to be
equally effective in causing the growths In gela-
tine. This suggested that the barium of the ra-
dunn preparations might be active, and he has
tried pure barium salts. easily producing radi
obes with the soluble oxide, dioxide, chloride,
bromide, iodide nitrate, acetate, tartrate or sui
phovinate, but getting no results from the in
soluble phosphate. carbonate. sulphate and
borate. Uranium and thorium salts acted upon
the gelatine. though yielding no growths. Ex-
pertinent may be made very easily BY pouring
little clear gelatine upon glass slip, then drop
ping tiny speck Of the barium salt upon the
gelatine and covering with thin glass. Under
a microscope, with half-inch lens. the growth
is seen at once to shoot out. at first appearing
like small bubbles, which dissolve within half
an hour into a nebulous patch many times the
size of the speck.
In spectacular geology the Vavan volcano in
Samoa seems to have q place by ITSELF The
crater is seven miles inland and It forms lava
mountains that are slowly carried great dis
tances by the molten sea beneath, as many as
I'VE or six Of these shifting mountain chains
seeming to be now in existence. The mountains
may have q length Of four or five miles, with
width of q quarter of a mile In places and q
height of 200 feet
Noting the rapid change in motive power. Sir
Alfred Hickman states that in his own works "a
valuable steam engines have been replaced
within few years by electric motors driven by
gas engines. This is estimated to have brought
saving in fuel alone Of $375OO year. If the
future motors are to be driven by explosion, he
suggests the use of powder or dynamite, and
predicts fame and fortune TO the man harness
ing dynamite for power.
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mass of rock salt under the province of Ga
licia, Hungary. is known to be $50 miles long by
20 broad and 20 feet thick.
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The wheat of the island of Corsica is the chest
nut, which, however, is rapidly passing, through
the reckless destruction of the forests. The
nuts are slowly dried over a wood6re and stored
until required for grinding when, the shells
having been removed, they are crushed in q
primitive manner by milestone turned against
a fixed stone by wooden water-wheel. The
cheaper grades of -four are made dirty-looking
by fragments of shells. and contain ten to
twelve per cent. of moisture. M. Comte, a
French chemist, has lately found that chestnut
-four and wheat -four are not very different in
food value. The former contains about the
same starch as the latter, more fat and celluoee,
but only seven to nine per cent. of heterogeneous
substances in place of twelve to sixteen In wheat
flour. Chestnut flour has the disadvantages of
attracting moisture and quickly moulding and
of being very refractory to the action of yeast.
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The sensation of falling down a precipice is
one that few persons have had an opportunity of
recording. Prof. Albert Helm, well known
geologist, has been able to describe the expert
ence to the Swiss Alpine Club, and relates that
he was not troubled in breathing and felt noEe
Of the paralyzing terror that so often over
whelms victims of sudden catastrophe. Hefelt
perfect tranquility, though remarkably quick
ened mental activity. Old memories we're re-
vived pleasantly, much of life was lived over
and then his ears were filed with soft, musical
sounds, and consciousness was lost as the
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sation of shock.
Helium proves to be the one permanent gas.
Prof. Olszewski has suddenly released it from
pressure of $50 atmospheres at the temperature
where hydrogen is about to solidify. but there
was no sign Of liQuefying. although the temper
allure developed was estimated at 2710 below
zero Cent. This temperature is within two de-
grees Of absolute zero.