The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1896, Page 25

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, A¥XRiL 1Z, 396, 25 A =7 A / NOVELIIES 143 TRE =5 CE, LITE] = AND — TOOK in one of the kinetoscope-| rooms on Broadway this afternoon, having for a companion a gen- tleman who has just returned from Eurove, says the New York correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. After he had taken a few peeps at the latest things with which the interesting | toys have been loaded he said: ‘“‘These | are all very well in their way, but they're | notin it with the cinematographe.” The | word made a big mouthful, and he| paused awhile before resuming in this | wise: *Just beforeI left London I was | one of a select company present at a pri vate view of the cinematographe. What Why, lia says in ‘As You Like *Oh, wonderful, wonderful, and most | It is the latest de- | antaneous photograpby, | ate development is pro- | wres of real, living, movi scenes. To obtain an idea of the pression produced, you have only to im- | ine a photograph come to life, with y movem faithfully reproduced. It photography taken ‘in tke action’ and ied, not to single li f s only, | to whole scenes. A puff of sm from a steam engine, the spray of the sea, | the gestures and movements of every indi- | vidual member of a crowd—all this is| shown on the screen upon which the | pictures are projected. The figures are al- most life-size, and the remarkable effects produced are almost indescribable and | positively uncanny in their realism. ‘““Wonderful as was each one of the| series which I had the pleasure of ing, | I will only bore you with a couple, which | 1 consider the most wonderful of all ‘Arrival of the Train’ and ‘bathing.’ In | the first, you see the rush of the locomo- | tive, the gradual slackening, the stoppage at the station; the crowd on the platform | steps back, the carri doors open, the | passengers alight and others take their places.” All is bustle and confusion. In ‘bathing’ 8 number of lads dive from a | pier into the sea. As they mest the water the spray rises from the waves that are rolling with a verisimilitude that is start. ling. But the interest of the thing is in- | exhaustible, for once the flush of novelty | is passed, the attraction may be revived | revived again by new pictures, Where | all this is going to end one cannot tell. | For the present, however, in this French development of Edison’s toy, London has the biggest attraction of the sort that it has had for years. Of course the cinemato- graphe will astonish New York ere long. When you see it you'll not set me down 4 romancer, e. We'll wait and see. s ( 1t," wonderful, wonderful.” velopment of in by which ar duced in_pic e A Tidal Bell Buoy. A patent for a current-actuated bell buoy with many novel features has been re- cently granted to A. L. Woodworth, says / Showing the Bell and Channel. the Philadelphia Record. The action from | the force of current is wholly automatic, | the float upon which the superstructure and bell is mounted cuts and shifts from side to side, causing the float to list. The d inside the tube, having free re, strikes the bell with great force. will ring equally as well by the he sea. The feature that is most t it is most eflicient when the er is the smoothest. Just so long as | there is motion in the water, whether tidal or current, 1t is suflicient to ring the bell Tkhis feature will be most appreciated by mastera and pilots for the reason that, asa Tidal Bell Buoy. rule, when thick fog hangs over the waters a death-like stiliness everywhere prevail. it is then the anxious captain feels his w: slowly along, listening for some familiar m:mdy to safely guide him. He has no hope of hearing a bell that 1s alone acto- ated by the sea. He knows the tide is moving, either ebb or flood, and that the tidal bell buoy is at work, giving forth in clear tones its notes of warning. Decreases the Duck Supply. One of the most remarkable accusations brought against the new photography is that of an American Field writer, who says: “I think photography has donea great deal to decrease the supply of ducks, which,” he very properly adds, *will be news, no doubt,” to many of his readers. Bportsmen have been saying that nothing but the general adoption of cameras in- stead of firearms will save the game, and now to run up against such a statement as that is to say the least astonishing. It appears that “‘for the purpose of per- fecting the picture albumen must be used, and this can be procured only from eggs. Chicken eggs are too valuable as food, therefore the Hebrides Islands of Scotland, Lofoden of Norway, Labrador, Green- land, South Amecrica, and, in fact, every conceivable breeding ground of wild birds, are robbed of eggs by natives or men from extensive sailing expegditions. This is especially hard on the ducks of various kinds, particularly in Labrador, where the |. | hour, from forty to fifty grams of alcchol, | solid substance it is an almost miraculous they breed in thousands of nests to the | square mile, while the scavenger birdsof the sca, the various gulls ani terns, suffer | from these depreaations. The birds not stand this drain long, and the tion arises what will happen when all the | eggs are gone?” An Alcohol Incandescent Lamp. In France an apparatus has lately been invented for producing an incandescent light rivaling that of electricity, from a | lamp fed sotely by alcohol. It is called | the callophane burner, and can be adapted | 1. Lamp. 2. Interior. 3. Vapor generator. 4. Globe-holder. to the receiver of any ordinary portable lamp. The mode of operation is described as follows: First, the smail heating ar- rangement—resembling a night lamp with a regulator—shown centrally in figure 3 of our illustration, is set going. The alcohol is carried from the reservoir by wicks pass- ing through four columns (Fig. 3 A) into | the dome B, and is vaporized. | The vapors ascend through C, Fig. 2, into D, where they may be lighted. The hanging cylinder, G (whose material is not ioned) quickly becomes incandescent, ing a pure white light of dazzling ncy. The inventor estimates that one of th lamps, having an illuminating | power of fifty candles, will consume, per yield b costing, in France, 1 franc per liter of 800 grams. It would seem, therefore, to be | nearly or quite as cheap as kerosene, while stated to be much less dangerous.—FPopu- lar Science New Thoughts Read by Machine. | Tf the accounts given of a new machine just completed by Julius Emner of this city, says the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, are not too | hopeful it is the most wonderful of dis- | coveries, for 1t lifts man out of the plane of the material and reads his most secret thoughts, laying bare hie mind as if be- neath a microscope, and recording eachi idea as it is given birth in the brain. Ifit was a great feat to photograph through a performance to take mental photographs, whick can be secured unknown to the person, nhotographs which will tell every intangible dream which floats through the soul. The machine, which is now in the hands of a patent lawver, is a cylinder about six or eight inches long #nd aninch and a half in diameter. It is coated with an ex- ceedingly sensitive chemical, which is easily decomposed by the electric current. In front is a fine needle of aiuminum, coated at its point with chemicals, and resting on the cvlinder, while the base is set in a diaphragm of aluminum, a very thin plate of the Jatter being used. In front is a large, open, somewhat horn-like arrangement. which is intended to convey the vibrations direct to the recorder. The machine is put in action by means of a nail motor, which revoives the cylinder, the thought forces causing the needle to make upon the surface of the cylinder im- ressions which correspond with the vi- rations. There is, of course, an electric induction coil connected with the apparatus. The person whose thoughts are to be read is seated about three feet in front of the ma chine and lets his mind pursue any train of thought he desires. ¥L\e motor is set oing and within a few moments the cyl- inder has done its work and a finer and more delicate needle is put in place of the recording one, for the mind is to be rerd from the impressions. Connection is made with the secondary induction coil and wires leading from the electrodes are placed at the base of the brain of the | marked upon the machine. | the ideas in theirveryt the first person into the machine are now transmitted into the mind of the second person with absolute fidelity and perfect accuracy, the thoughts being received in an unconscious manner—that is, not by any sound or any written word, but the | conception frames itself in the mind of the second person just as it was given being in that of the first. It is just reproduced. That the machine wili do all that is claimed for it has, it is said, been proven not only by the inventor but by several other persons. An experiment was tried | with two friends to whom he had been ex- vlaining his invention. Mr. Emner had thoughts recorded and then let his friends read them by placing the wires from the | Hon of force to ibe lover in 4 SR electrodes at the base of their brains. As soon as they had finished expressing thei hment one of them was placed near the record it ran, ‘‘Am I in an insane asylum or am I hypnotized?"’ showing that the man’s mind was full of wonder at the things he was experiencing. When he went away he told that he had been hypnotized, not being able to comprehend that such a wonderful power existed as thought recording. As thoughts vary in intensity, Mr. £m- ner showed that the degrees would be He procured a_dog, and by teasing it threw it into a violent rage when near the cylinder. nder, and when Mr. Emner read | but its mass is so enormous that it has considerable tide-producing influence. The force which the sun exerts is the same on both sides cf the earth at the same time, the tide-producing force of the great orb being -about four-tenths that of the moon. At the time of both new and full moons the ‘‘wane spheroids’” produced by both the sun and the moon have their *'axes coincident,” that is to say, the two great orbs unite their energies on the fluids of our planet, and as a result the tides are higher than the average for the remaining portions of the mon These are the *spring tides.” The ‘“neap tides” come in the time of the moon’s first and third quarter and are not as great as the average, because the moon and the sun are each working in opposition to the other. Hold-Fast Wrench. Here is a new form of wrench, the inven- tion of two English mechanics. It isde- signed to provide a tool which will give the requisite gripping power without slip- ping and will not bulge or damage the work. The wrench com prises a bifurcated hand lever in the double eve or jaws of which is mounted upon a square spindle non-rotatable sprock tor studwheel of s: able diameler with which gears a linked or other suitably constructed pitch chain of convenient length. Oneend of the chain isattached to the free end connec- tion of a pair of swinging links mounted preferably on the same center as the sprocket wheel. When operating on a pipe Hold-Fast Wrench. or the like the chain is fitted around same, and its free end passed between the links and carried over the fixed sprocket wheel gearing therewith. Then on the applica- tion of force to the lever in the proper chain and cause it to grip the article irmly and with equal force all round. In the illustration the pipe is shown in posi- | tion of being wrenched. When the lever is depressed the teeth of the wheel tighten the chain until the grip and leverage are together sufficient to turn or wrench the pive as required.—Philadelpbia Record. Bicycles on Railroads, Bicycle riders are constantly transport- ing their wheels on the railroads during | the summer months, and the delicate con- The | record showed that the dog’s mina was | voweriully agitated, for the vibrations were intense, hence it is to be seen that by Emner's invention not only human feel- ings, but those of the animal creation are open to our mind’s eye. The uses to wnich this invention can be put are numberless. To be able to pre- serve the record of our own thoughts, which we can read off at will; to be able to take down the thoughts of another when they may be unconscious of the operation; to fathom the brain of the poet; to examine the minds of the insane; to discern the secret thoughts of our Iriends, and to trace the workings of crime in the brain of the criminal are all fields of unlimited boundaries, operations of which science has as yet scarcely dreamed. The business man can sit at” his desk, think out replies to his letters without opening his lips, and his clerk write them out from the cylinder while the man is miles away. The author need no more dictate to a stenographer, for this machine will take h,and hold them for posterity. The maid whose lover is ishiul can detect his tender thoughts. here can be no deceit practiced on one vhose office is fitted ont with such a con- ience-piercing iriend, for the aims and ives of those about us will be, if they ¢ echoed in their thoughts, as clear to us the day. The murderer will be con- fronted with a proof of his crime, and the punishment of offenders will be an easy m The Fluoroscope. There has already appeared in these | columns a description of the #Fluoro- Fluorescent Screen. scope,” invented by Thomas A. Edison, to enable surgeons and others to observe directly the bones of the limbs without the intervention of photography. To-day there is reproduced a picture of the device. The upper end is made to fit the head around | the eyes much the sameasa stereoscope, and when the light is turned on the device is held over the part to be examined with the light beyond. The appearance of the bone at once appears on the inside of the screen, which forms the bottom of the box. The Sun, the Moon and the Tides. Most people suppose that the moon alone is responsible for the phenomenon of tides, but the attraction of the sun is also an important factor. Of course the distance of the sun from the earth isun- reader. The ideas which had passed from thinkably greater than that of the moon, THE MACHINE THAT REGISTERS THE THOUGHTS. s foee struction of the bicycle makes it difficult | to handle. Of late years the traffic has be- come so large that plans are now being de- sed by which the bicycles can be carried fely and without hindrance to boxed and crated merchandise. Last week a Western railroad issued (nstructions that its bag- gage-cars be supplied with bicycle racks Transporting the Blcycle. for the use of wheels. Similar steps will likely also be taken on all the roads throughout the country. InFrance, where the bicycle tses the railroads a great deal, simple contrivance has been | adopted, asis shown in the illustration. Itis a small hook, which is attached to the bicycle and caught on strips in the ceilng and sides of the cars. This plan removes the wheels from the floor space of the car, so that they do not interfere with any other class of baggage. A Hint From Afar., morning papers recently told me a story whose nightly calls during business bours had come to be a nuisance. The intruder was alzo an operator, but was temporarily out of a job. One evening he came in as usual and planted himself in a chair. Re- steady click of the instrument. Suddenly a look of disgust crossed his face. He arose, glared at the operator, who kept on writing, turned on his heel and walked out. 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The greal lady lpositively de- lights in the earlier novels of William Black. “The Princess of Thule” was at one time her favorite book, and she is de- voted to the works of George Eliot. Al- though the Queen, in her literary as well as musical tastes, is inclined to be some- what conservative, it need not be said that she neglects the work of newer writers. She much likes William Watson’s poems, and has read and reread his *‘Lachrymee Musarum.”—Woman at Home. Charing Oross. In reading English history you will hap- ‘pen across numerous references to Charing Cross, but the chances are you will won- der if the allusion is to a real cross erected as a memorial or simply a cross roads. Charing Cross was formerly one of the noted landmarks of Britain, and its his- tory is as follows: In November of the year 1291 “‘Good Queen Eleanor,” as she was called by her loyal subjacts, was ¢alled to join her husband, who was then making an expedition into Scotland. When Eleanor had reached as far on her way as Grantham she sickened and died. The remains must, of course, be buried at Westminster, and the funeral cortege started in that direction. Dur- ing the time this royal funeral proces- sion was slowly winding its weary way toward the capital thousands of people flocked to the wayside to get a glimpse of it. It was a great event in the history of the rural districts and they did everything possible to make the solemn occasion a memorable one. Wherever the procession halted for the nifim or for other cause the people afterward set up a memorial. One of the longest stops was made at Charing, and subsequently a richly carved memo- rial cross was erected on the site of the camp. This was the Charing Cross of history. It stood until 1647, when the last vestige of it was destroyed during the civil wars of Charles I, the vandals who destroyed the relic claiming it to be a monument of Popish superstition.” Char- ing Cross as seen to-day was erected by the Southern Railway Company 1n the vear 1865.—5t. Louis Republic. A Remarkable Shooting Feat. At Wich; Kans., the other day Tom Clark Smith sighted a gun over his shoul- der and fired. The bullet struck the trig- er of & gun thirty feet behind him. The .§ho: fmg: that struck the trigger of an- other gun thirty feet in front of him, while the shot from that struck the trigger of stiil another gun thirty feet bebind him. Finally the shot from the fourth gun went through an apple on the top of his head, all the guns having been arranged by the shooter with that end in view.—St. Louis Republic. i e Alligators Attack a Team. J. A. Dalton of Barton returuned lately from nis tomato farm, near White Haven, and tells a thrilling story of a battle with alligators. Dalton’s partner, J. B. Lover- ing, drove a wagon, to which two horses were attached, into Lake Winterset, to fill some barrels with water. While Lovering was at work the horses began to scream in mortal agony, and he realized that they were being attacked by alligators. The horses plunged violently, but soon fell down, their legs having been broken. ‘When the horses fell the ’gators rose and began to tear the bodies of the animals. Lovering had a Winchester, and began firing at the ’gators, hoping to drive them away. The shots, however, increased the anger of the saurians, and they made a rush for the wagon and over- turned it. Lovering, holding to the rifle, fell into the water near a big ’gator, which immediately made for hi As the ’gator came Lovering thrust the rifle into its mouth and fired, the pullet inflicting a \ GREAT SHOOTING FEAT. mortal wound. In his death agony the saurian swung its tail and knocked Lover- ing out of the water and onto the beach, twenty feet away. At this juncture Dal- ton arrived and dragged Lovering away, as the ’gators were again rushing for him. Assistance was procured and the horses and wagon pulled out. The horses were dead, having been horribly maneled by the 'gators. Itisthought vering drove his team into a den of ’gators, judging | from the number that was seen.—Florida Times-Union. An Old-Time Doctor. Dr. Hiram Corson of Philadelphis, who has just aied, in his ninety-second year, was one of the best-known old-time doctors in the country. *for more than sixty years,” says the Philadelphia Times, “he was the presiding genius of the whole Piymouth region, the guide, philosopher and friend of everybody, and there prob- ably never was a man who had helped more people into the world, though doubtless some have helped more out of it. His general family practice was as successful as it was extensive, and it is one of the remark- able things about him that while he never turned his back on the accumulated wis- dom of the elders, he was always a pro- gressive doctor. He was one of the most earnest of the old-time abolitionists, and one of the most level-headed, so that he actually accomplished more for humlnn{ than many that were more heard of. It was a fine type, that of the old general practitioner, who joined the rugged man- hood of the country with the learning of the town, and the university should honor the memory of Hiram Corson among its great alumni.” At the Czar's Coronation. The United States army will be repre- sented at the coronation of the Czar of Russia by Major-General A. MeD. Me- Cook, retired, and Captain George P, Scriven, Signal Corps, military attache of the United States embassy at Rome. Or- ders to that effect have been issued by the Secretary of War. It sohappens that there is no military attache at the St. Petersburg legation at present. General McCook, be- ing a retired officer, under ordinary cir- cumstances could attend the ceremonies only as a private citizen. His special designation as a representative of the United States army. however, will give him an official standing and insure hi much greater consideration by the Rus- sian officials than ke could otherwise ex- ect. When designated he was in Rome, ut it is understood he is now in Paris.— ‘Washington Post.