Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-05-27

the universe, including the wonderful organs bird
with the information of every less different Ger
tainly if would be simple thing to gather grapes
from thorns or figs from histes.
The only explanation of such conception is that general
in Shakespeare:
What fools mortals be-"
Evidently the explanation of the sound at tcle
phone is not this The only alternative that all sounds
which heard telephone anywhere else are made bv
the instruments made make them every particularly
fitted to utter particular sound and this all into
nations of voice whether of bird
Again is evident under all the circumstances that the
sounds heard telephone have been brought by the
electric current from the sending wherever that
may be- either with or without wire.
That this is SO is very readily proven there anything
remarkable about than that any should be
carried by streams.
few experiments prove that however remarkable it
may first that the any other sounds should
be able go through the we there really difficulty at
all in their doing They will go through the wire as easv
as duck will swim This may be shown by the old and
wire string telephone where with very little arrangement
they did do it. This telephone has for hundreds
ofyea the only practical difference between modern
is that an electric has been added which the
message be much faster and therefore, its life brief
much further.
Surprising the sound in the WIRE impossible to see how
could avoid being carried by the the is
carried by the wind Experiments show that different
sounds less (our experiments tried with hree
will up the point of the finest needle the head if such
fastened end of
which held by the teeth and the point touches
sounding board upon which the that number of
sounding forks These sounds do mix each is
heard distinct where touches the board
but if it does not touch not sound will be heard This
experiment proves that the particles OF sound wonder
fully small and also that they exist for
if they did they could the needle 1t makes no
difference upon what part OF the sounding board the needle
placed the sounds completely as a stream of
would
Perhaps cannot better illustrate the possible smancss OF
such particles than quote the address of
Sir Joseph Thompson, professor of Physics of Cambridge
University England and President Of the British Association
OF Science in Canada made in address lately before
Society at Winnipeg 1t will be that he is satisfied
electricity is copucua which hitherto has been considered
by scientists to be unduatory Mr. Thomson says
already considerable progress in the task of dis
covering what the electricity We
time that OF kind of ecityhe negveand interest
ing is We know that negative electricity made up
which the kind exceedingly small
compared with the smallest for the the unit only
O the O its only
IBIS cntme and that these "copuscles they
called be obtained from all substances The corpus
Giles on an altogether different scale IRON that OF atoms the volume
of copuscle bears that of the about the
that of speck dust to the volume of this Under suitable
conditions they speeds which approach
instances the velocity of light
In the above Prof Thomson admits that electricity cor
puscula for so-caed negative electricity corpuscular
positive electricity be- and the be true of
Magnetism, Heat and Light
Thus, too, Mr.. William J. Hammer the first intro
duce radum into this country and of the leading
of the world says,-"we quote from the NV York Times
JAM p, I9Io'
"Iod Kelvin meeting Becquere shortly the discovery
said him that the discovery the Becque
the first question mark the principle of energy
which had been placed against that principle first
aed What may make knowledge
atomic energy yet be family surmised."
lecture delivered before the American Institute Electrical
Engineers and the American Eecuochemca Society," MI Hammer
said:
"When considers the remarkable effects produced by raum
would that tearing itself into tiny pieces
projecting these nfntesmay small particles through all
speed half full speed light rendering
about radioactive and still without appreciate
original substance and without dspaagemen accepted
theory Of light naturally hks back Newon corpucuar