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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
GROWTH OF GREAT GUNS.
of malaria. That the disssse soon brings loss. of vigour and moral sense has been woll proven. The effects in Rome are more uncertain. but malaria appears to have reached the country by 500 BC, and to have over-apread it before the end of the Ropabilo, grostly affecting the life of the people, though it may not hava been oan of the causes of the fall of the Empiro.
AN ISLAND'S VARIED POBEST. An overlooked wealth of fas timber has been sealed in Fapos, or New Gainos, which je practically on the equator and has an area of 300,000 square miles. The lato investigation has showa 79 useful woods in considerable quanti tie-including 15 varieties of cabinet woods, 15 su table for joinery, 16 adapted for beams, girders, etc.. 10 that may serve for carriage work, 5 that give promise as boat building mate. rial, 4 that are good for piles, and 14 that may be applied to many miscellaneous purposes.
In the last half-contury the development of the machinery of war, as everybody knows, Las kept paos with that of the appliances used in the aria of peace, Bir A. Trevor Dawson notes that progress has been aided by the metallurgist, who has developed improved stool-making; tho chemist, who has produced more powerful pro pollauts and high explosives; and the mochanical engineer, who has devised new methods of niz ing power and adding to accuracy and efficiency, In 1864 the most powerful 12-inch gun was a muzzle-loader, 12 calibres in length, weighing about 23,5 tons. Its charge of powder weighed 85 pounds, the runzzle velocity of the 614-pound projectile was 1,300 feet per second, audit could perforato 16 inches of wrought-iron armour at the muzzle, or 8 inches at the maximum range of 5,000 yards. The 12-inch gun of the present is a breech-leader, 50 calibres long, weighing Tubes lacquered in the old way raccivo 3. noor y 70 tons. Its projectile weighs 550 pound, to 6 coats, und are dried in an oven after each. the muzzle velocity is 3,000 feet per second, its In a new German method, adopted for brass perforative poiver is 52 inches of wrought-iron bedsteads, the tabs are electrically heated to It the muzile, 37 inches at 6,000 yards, and 17.5 300 degrees F. or loss while being rotated in a inches at 24,000 yards.".
lathe, and several layers of lacquer can be quickly applied, as each coat dries at once,
ELECTRIC LACQUERING.-
SEA SUPERSTITIONS.
GAB-XAKING IMPROVEMENT. The long considered plan of making coal gas in vertical instead of horizontal retorta is being tested on a large scale at St. Helens, England, and the results with the now plant are being compared with those of a very sailor was among the most saporstitious of It is a well-known fact that in the past the complote equipment including 336 horizon-mortais, and even in these enlightened days, tal retoris 10 feet long. With the cheap coal there are a goodly number of old salts who used costing about $2.00 per ton, the old method oling tenacionaly to their belief in certain sigas yielded 10,000 cubic feet of gas per ton and the
And portents Some, doabt, of these new process gave 11,550 subic feet. The now limto of forgotten things, but then will always
superstitions have
vanished altogether into the process yields more tar and ammonia, coke of tea credulosa few, who will shake their higher selling price, and gas free fretrnok in the mast, or au albatress or a stormy
Bolemnly and
and prophesy diamally if a knife is
and brought on board. The
naphthalene, while it offers great economy in potrudima nf those superstitions connot ba! land and buildings, in labour and in wear and rigor, Binny of them have boon handed down
foar.
A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.
The recording buoy of P. H. W. Crosley, of Melbourne is designed to be released automatically from the bridge deck if a vessel sinks, and a wire kolde it on the water's aura
For the wreck. The buoy is intended to show the location and depth of the truck, date of disaster, and the course and the port sought-at the time of disaster.
of
from father to sou for a great number of yours, turning a comparatively ordinary story into a with touch probably added hore and there,
seaman's isolation from outside infuences, an
and mysterious legend. Very
Hikely
the the weeks and months spent afloat with only superstitious notions in the days of his mates for company, served to foster
unreason-
works but slowly in these occult concerning whick Jack is peculiarly matters. ing. The Finn is the most superstitions of all sailors. There are many of this race who still believe in the eminus portent of the phantom ship, in folly of starting a voyage on ing men), the low-burning blue lights which Friday (a notion by no means confined to seafor are ghost spirita hovering near to give warning of approaching disaster and many other things;
AUSTRIA'S MINE AND NEW WATER CURE. The greatestradium mine, that near Joachim atal, 12 miles north-west of Carlsbad, has distinguished itself by a product of half an ounce of radium bromide, and by showing water that promises to develop a great radium cure. The mine once supplied silver, bat for half a fall of which century has teen worked by the Austrian Government for pitchhlende, a mineral yielding a large porcentage of uraniam, one exide of which is used to tint glas a delicate greenish yellow, while the black oxido serres pigment in porcelain painting. Consul W. L Lawrie reports than 100
inen ar mining
3
annually 20 tons of pitchblonde, equivalent to 6 tons of uranium ore and after the uranium is extracted the residue of such 10 tons of pitchblonde yields one gram of radium bromide. Metallic radium is never seen, only the bromide and chloride being known. For extracting the gram of bromide, 11,000 pounds of chemicals and 110,000 pounds of water are employed, and a thousand crystallizations and reductions may be made, each requiring from a for hours to several days. The 13 grams
Fill the salior's mind with murmurings, And apeak to him of wrecks,
surface of the
A story is told of a brigantine which num- bored several extremely superstitions men among her crew. One night when there was no moon, and a slight ground swell was running, the watch, who happened to be the most superstitions of them all, heard an nearthly walling coming apparently from the heling met also tested it, but the male and the former lacked imagination, and although he was certainly when he ventured to suggest mermaids The interested, he nearly blow the watch's head off helmusman did not feel quite happy, but he had to stick to the wheel. The watch was pale with terror, but he kept silence owing to courage and abilities. Slowly the sound be. the mate's complimentary reference to his gan to move along the ship's more and more agonised as it approached. This hip's side, becoming ing annoyed the mate, and going to the side of the vessel he waited until he kad located the sound, t of water over the rail.
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SALE OF OLD WARSHIPS.
KING GEORGE'S FIRST COMMAND FETCHES
£9,000.
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warships were sold by publie anction. They
At Portsmouth Dookyard recently fire old R LOTS 31 and 36, st PRAYA EABT. and the craiser Melampus, which was King George's first independent command. included the battleships Barfeur and Centurion,
Thoro was a fairly large attendance, and the bidding. was brisk.
The first ship put up was the battleship Seymour's flagship on the China station during Centurion, Bho was Admiral Sir Edward the Boxer rebellion, when the British Com- wander-in-Chief distinguished himself by his forced
march for the Peking Legations. The Centurion, which was built at Portsmouth in
1890, is a verset of 10,500 tons. The bidding started at £15,000, and advanced by thousand at which price the shipped bide to £26,200, Sheffield.
ship was sold to Mr. Ward, of
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Chatham at about the same period, the bidding For her sister ship, the Barfleur, built at also commenced at £15,000. In this case, how- ever, a better price was realized, the bidding to £26,550, at which figure the Burfeur was going by thousands, five hundreds, and hundreds
were sold subject to the condition that they are sold to Mr. C. Ewen, of Glasgow. Both ships Ho
"ONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS to be broken up at an English port within two
The old armoured cruiser Nelson bailt in
of radium bromide lately sent to Vionne and then emptied and then dead silence, and 1876, of 7,630 tons. She realized £34,500, and more than half & There was a gasard that night,. When the was“ purchased by Mr. Frank Pystyk, of
have been valmed, at million dollars. In t new investigation. Director Joseph Step, of the radiom factory, has found that the radioactivity of the mies waters is quite extraordinary, and scores of times greater than that of most of the Carlsbad, Marienbad und Franzensbad springs. The water-believed to have important curative powers- contains radioactive gas, which soon evaporates on exposure.
Dordrecht, Holland. In this case, there was the country, bat she has to be broken ng no restriction as to not taking the slip out of
nothing more us detailed and lurid account of the incident to watch went off duty he, of conise, gare a his chipmnutes, who listened, as he thought, in awed silence, and then called on one of the nadlenos for his version of the mutter. This 1890, is a veszel of 3,400 tons, one of about The second class cruiser Melampas, built in and had no respect at all for hoary supersti- Defence Act. She was King George's first BB B yuu-sider, who dearly loved a joke, twenty such cruisers built under the Naval tions, and bad conspired with his fellows to independent command. The bidding started at play a trick on the watch. On then gut in £5,000, and the ship was sold to Mr. Cohen, on question he had crept over the bows without
of the London Shipbreaking Behalf Zk sound, carrying with him the ships out, secured for 29,000, she, too, was sold conditionally on let the romes and internal combustion meters--proper round the animal's neck so that it could not of 1,811 tons displacement, and bait at Ply.
the cat's head out of the bag, which he tied ailing is of great importance, and has been given escape. He then applied his teeth to the unfor month in 1834. She is principally of English much attention. Lubrication under pressura has fearsome sounds an angry out is capable of sheathed. She has been lying in the Tamar, topate animal's tail: Everybody knows the oak, with African oak healeouk, and is metal
OILING UNDER PRESSURE,
up,
For high speed machines-like turbines, dr. in a bag. Crouching under the stays, the joker big brip to be offered was the halk Pique,
The la
| given excellent results, a resin-free, non-hand fond these to which a cut whose tail, and was for some years used by the Plymouth
Not
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Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., in presenting the prizes at Mill Hill School, London, recently, made as amusing speech on the respective shares of parents and schoolmasters in a boy's education.
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popular English Manufacturers. In
saponifiable oil being used. In the British Navya bitten gives vent are among the most Port Sanitary Authority for hospital purposes, three steam oil-pumps are allowed for each great hair-raiting. The wound was taore or less She realized £2,500 and was sold to Mr. Coz, of marine engine, and a gallon of oil a day offices regulated by sneezing the luckloss beast's body. Falmouth. for each 100 torse power, some of this being as unexpected, and caused the Tyne-sider to beat The mate's bucket of water was as unwelcome economically saved and used again. For n a hurried retreat. dynamo or small motor, the apparatur is a single ot only is the origin of many 89% amperati oil-pump, worked by an eccentric...
ticos "wrapt in mystery, but also any logical explanation of cause and effect. It would TEREDO-PROOF, BARK,
puzzle anyone to say why it should be anlucky Sprace piles in a dock of the Alaska Central for the ship's boy to whistle on the weather bow, Railway have been destroyed by the foredo in 18 except that it is generally unpleasant from a months. Cottonwood pilas lasted longer, and music lover's point of view for a boy to whitis
on aur bow at all. Nor would it with the bark left on the terede reemed to be plain waya sheeze to storheasy to or successfully resisted, and did not reach the wood. tor, and why should the squeaking of a pig at
a boy was born. Parents were responsible for prosages disas
the much larger feaction, and it was really onlyJUST Received a Selection of FOSTAGE DISEASE THAT CHANGES HISTORY,
STAMP CATALOGUE FOR 1910, a small part that was under the control of the Picture and Painting Books, Novelas, Postage night be considered an evil omen ? At the
mister. (Laughter.) He would like to plead Stamp Albume with Moveable Loaf, Fuzzle Post A very important influence, upon history moro sight of an overturned hatch
man will declare that another ship
A 50%- Biany has just gons
a little more for parents
boys without being Cigars, Cigarettes, &c., &0. disease. The black death of the Middle Agca the salt-box or the " "cracker-barge". (anglice, of headmasters. (Laughter.) He thought
exposed to all kinds of opprobrium at the hands is supposed to have had much to do with the
biscuit-box) be upset. making of modern England, the early failurea conscience caused a practical joke to have fatal no such thing as so intelligent parent. On one occasion superstition and a guilty was known to some headmasters that there was on the Panama Canal were largely due to m¿- dousaqtiences. The incident arose througli one
(Laughter.) He really believed that if larm! fevere, and the testas-fly, disease of horses of the sailors, Norwegian, boring the ears of the were such a thing as an intelligent parent the has greatly hindered the colonization of parts of ship's boy for the aforementioned erime of masters would be guided in the best way of B Africa. That malaria was a leading factor in the boy was annoyed, and determined to pay the would be the best means of directing boys'
whistling on the weather bow. Not unnaturally with their parents, because in his opinion
treating their • boys to some kind of intercourse the decline and fall of Greece and Home is a Norwegian ont. Aidod by two other sailors, a education. He believed boys learned conclusion ancoanced a year or two ago by white shirt, and some string, a very presentable W. B. S. Jones, The theory has been co. Bemed "ghost"
in was arranged
the focale
more frota their habits than from their the night the Norseman was on watch. and developed by a further study of ancient be slowed only a glimpse of the spirit" parents and headniasters could accomplish the school work, and in this important matter writers, and it is thought to be pretty certain on entering the foo'sle, and it was then to best resits by voting together, that there was little malaris in Greece before vanish from view, being jerked by 500 B. C., but that it bean to be common in mess of a string underneath the bank Attica from the end of the ith century B. C. the three conspirators lay in their banks await of one of the jokers. Everything was ready, and The decline of scientific medicine after 405 ing their vintim. Unfortunately they all fell
asloop, to be
He stood by a loud stitious practices are looked upon as possible reanita of spreading malacia. Just before the
"ghost." the dim light shed by the lamp fall- fast triumph of Home the character of the call out to him when he spoke,
his ghostly fix. The tires were about to "No, no," he cried. Groeks changed greatly, and they lost "I did not mean to kill you, Morgan. Oh, merey, courage and ambition, cared only for pleasure, mercy and he rushed madly from the focale. and became arsel, brutal and vicious this they reached the deck they saw the Norwegian Terrided, his shipmates followed bim, but as change being largely traceable to the ravages throw himself into the eos.
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