The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1900, Page 2

THE SUNDAY CALL [dlby Do the [dowder Thorks Continue to Blow Uip? : ) ; ng Point Peculiar Incidents /7i Interesting HPoints ! Connecied axp/amea’ With Some of in Reference lo the \ a %anu/acture the Recent 4 Gaplosiv Oerritle Disasters. 2 of .m_y 74 cakes it will abserb 33 per t s water, ant " P Is th i X ; : \ DWELLINGS o fABORERS DLs74/7 TWe &fochs FRoM7 Grar7 PowpER. WORKS P R s until the the charcoal er sion ot I Gunec Py which oce . . > atoms, that the dan xpl 0w » 1 in the ez deep « The m of suestanc in v this mixing a danger " y . guncotton. It b s stances expl i 5 ot niy f higher explosives 3 v it kKing are made are Nron x which is of such rec n g black 2 nd the % g L at prior to 1860 not was know . . e niter ¢ IEEGInE, bR thoa S hou i whole series into ex- B the 1 f from these moistened 1860 and 183, of two the ve otton a mixt Iphuric acid with one en en from the upon which " ) : e end of stre itric acid is ma ) . and makers wert taught s i { strong. i 2 1 is mad ‘ 1th nt cottor ic ordinarily explosions t of catastrophe to let their and (he wheels work over the circular ton, which rdir xpl v with a briliiant, month or more after burn- i<y e Bsart il . Waste ciit into inch bits, is dipped ir those of n s up with a sort : sk, running with the is allowed to remain salutic ith equal v the o 5 is mixed in thoroushly. this powder i + often taken plac to a rise in temper provided with tar above them lift of an ex arranged that the flood sha ke salt thrown nty-four hot when it re mixed In a barrel, EXPERIMENTS i ity it is just as elear and active after long hours of work at the very Profe Thorndyke, : University psychol Smith’s collection chimes the hotrs, A COLLECTOR i guws coction shmes the sour. jeweler was about to_take off and -throw ) W MOTHAT MOVEMENTS. away. Among all the watchmakers of (( RhCTehY the explosion SU¢ - New York re are only three or four /) Ve sk S J 4 sl Fods Ll 4 B cther stoves in the buildi perts in old movements who could re- | : i the Hioa ry atiom, is t k " atr @ g ¢ charge is taken from the mor- ornamentation, is the key to the period bpair a London or Nuremberg watch of » Bl A AT 1 subjected > which the watch belonged hundred vears ago. R e o . mary” to engrave a head, Most of the old movements wi e Milng 45 pon - upper but more often at 0 silver. Only duke There have 0 gold g Y . iridigs ;h "I |l~ ld ”r‘ pich this charge is ¢ vas a female h ueer olc ‘ ines e 1t A o e head e e {/ ined blew out at the ; Sy ger of the i v 5 '-I & ‘] s By and ‘m ‘nul r\'v!l‘ll-l ;m“ YI-;} e 1 with the m! d it all, (our common expressions ‘mental he da n to be handed o € the oxiddtion of the charge ) ‘mentally exhausted My expe to poster on the bridges of the temperature. But if the (/have led me to the e fons, first strueto fall into Teacher ge, 1 dro " {}ducted a series of int stz curacy of of hard r fental fatigue,” .says the professor, ‘may mean cither the fact of incompe- tency to do certain mental work, or a feel- ing of incompetency which parallels the 1. ana t ts early had rea cased ( and princes aspired owadays buy these the and two la v The work ¢ cation exam e bridg 1 was a set of multipli- g multip rces: the ia = '8 pot. Occasionally a. ¢ tortoise shell, or covered with n- ) roof ¥ fact or the feeling or feelings der ed by with himself and wit ers by working out mental p when the mind had bee after protracted labor, ar h other given tim bles to be 1 from memory after a ches. in Mr. Smith’s collection we or made of an alloy called () of this box it is spre the fact of incompet is not wh the mind acts equally we them. and twa sets of f such distinguished peo- ves a fine oid timekeeper e kbWen s been sup 2 second. that conditions. But the most interesting de- t-of simple . ndre. ge 111, Toussaint fro; ion. »' fng. milk ¢ > is no pure fecling of incompete ductions are those which the professor *), to be N Ouverture, George 1V, Lord Chatham, The oldest watch of the collectior whieh hoaol ze § which pa and is its series of experiments MEMOry in the same way “has drawn from Adm made at various times 1 and Lord North. made abc when the tullp craze in- died in 1T The professer found that ence there was between th on several hune The object of these ‘wder are separated. Foliow- (/consequently. the. mental states o movements made B - s 3 Qing this the powder of one mesh is put )designated by the phrases mentioned are dred scheol children. werk-waw s favey LR ¥ last century for the Ct i from Hoiland, the conven- his remains were entombed in st 5 1 and turned rapidly in a pro-( no ites made up of such a feeling of was to ertain whether the work of a this the natu nlrrl--‘:hlx?;.u{rlx “th recognizable at once by the pec app: in the bridges and Ster Abb Tomplon is called the )incompetenc are very complex af- school sessien fatigues the students men- mental work of the s 2 e Rk ke calicd glazing. A little powdered () watches of l'lh da)‘.) 2 ;Pquf;jff E \il‘z{‘xst'x“_\‘: al(r:'h!mhgk}‘:;;nu;:m;‘;:fi:!e(-;,»I\Ambag‘u iz added and the grains rub- /\fnlrs: and third, that these mental states tally and makes them reall. e g an axiom of the collector that the Jles “George Graham. anothor Iilusiriou g PiNE Upon cach other soon produce upon (Jare in no sense parallels or measures of do mental work than thes watchmaker. This old timepiece has but () themselves a polish which renders the jthe decrease in ability to do mental work. commencement. . hool day does gor less able to produce any marked decrease in the alb‘v( were at its' ItV t0 do further work. Taking A the work of all children tes tern of the bridge orname: naman who could afford to a watch at all carried two. . fesso orndy s ck on esch other. This bridge, upon of the mechanism and value of an old one hand, the dial being spaced only ingmass brighter looking and preserves the My experiments show in certaln individ- The method was to give to puplls a cer- fag e Bt Sate - o ieino the watchmaker exbausicd himsel? watch. One of the finest movements fn hours and-quarter hours. ®5rains from talling to dust in transporta-@uals no decrease in amount, #peed or ac- tain test which would measure their abll- average than those who had it early N