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Wonderful Scales That Are Not
Made of Anything.
THE LAW OF FALLING BODIES.
By Thi*, Thanks to Newton and Lieb
nitz and the Calculus of Differentials,
the Weight of Suns and Planets May
Be Accurately Determined.
The art of weighing has expanded
Into a comprehensive science and can
no longer be called a mere art. Scales
are made of metal, but the set herein
described is not made of anything.
Scales are in hourly use that can
weigh a pencil marie whose length is
one-fourth of an inch; or a section of
a hair of equal length. The usual
practice in weighing runs from grains,
ounces, pounds up to tons, usually one
ton, and then up to fifty or more tons
in railroad weighing, costing hundreds
and thousaisls of dollars.
But humans would find It quite diffi
cult to make scales that would weigh
millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions,
quintlllious, sextillions. septilllons, oc
tillions and nonilllons of tons, or de
cilllons. An instrument able to weigh
a decillion tons can iww be purchased
for one cent—a pencil. The scales are
not made of metal; instead a set and
fixed specific speed is the next to all
powerful engine used. But it Is far
more easy to run a locomotive or
steamship without knowing a single
law of these complex machines than
to even attempt to use the speed
scales without knowing every minute
detail of every velocity law of mov
ing bodies.
Let a street ear start from rest and
keep moving faster and faster until Its
rate of motion is, say. twenty miles
per hour at tb<‘ end of one minute. If
the speed of the cur increased uniform
ly during the entire minute Its aver
age speed is ten miles per hour, be
cause It started from rest and in-
to twenty miles per hour. If
a body moves during one minute at
twenty miles per hour the distance
traversed will le speed multiplied by
time, or twenty miles multiplied by
one-sixtieth of an hour, or one-third
of a mile; but the average speed In
case of the car Is ten miles per hour,
so that the distance moved over is half
as great or one-sixth mile. This is a
fundamental law of nature and is of
enormous importance.
Law: For uniformly increasing
speed, starting from rest, the velocity
increases with the time, but the dis
tance traversed is that, moved over by
the moving body with its average
speed, or one half.
If measuring the distance fa”cn
through by a body let fall at the ritr
ldly exact beginning of one second of
time to the rigidly exact end thereof is
difficult, what shall be said of finding
how fast 1t is falling at the end of the
second. Go try; work from the ages of
twenty to sixty years daily and you
will fail. The fact is, the time required
to find the mathematically exact spe
cific speed of a falling lK)dy in still air
was almost that required to measure
the distance of the nearest star, about
120 years.
Then Atwood invented his machine,
and this finally came to some near ap
proach to accuracy. But this instru
raent of precision fell far short of the
electrical chronogmphic apparatus.
When all of this very complex mechan
ism is in perfect order it releases the
ball at the exact beginning of a sec
ond and records the absolute time on
the cylinder of a chronograph electric
ally and repents the process at the ab
solute end of the second so far as hu
man hands are able to do rigidly accu
rate work.
The moment that those supermen,
Newton and Liebjiitx. discovered that
mighty power, beside which all else
human pales into Insignificance—the
stupendous calculus or differentials—
every mathematician saw immediately
that one of nature’s most magnificent
laws was found in falling bodies. And
then began the relentless and arduous
self imposed work of more than a hun
dred years to find the set specific speed
acquired by a falling body at the in
stantaneous and absolutely exact end
ol’ the first exactly measured second of
time since man appeared.
The result is one grand, all potent,
all powerful mean or average of a cen
tury of world wide measures, the dia
mond of diamonds, the most valuable
number in possession of man, the as
tronomical balance:
Sixteen and one-tenth feet fallen to
end of the first second: 32.2 feet per
second speed at end of first second.
That Is. a body let fall will, under
the action of the earth’s attraction of
gravitation, fall 1(1.1 feet during the
first absolute second of time, and at
the absolute end of the second will be
in motion with a velocity of 32.2 feet
per second. These numbers constitute
the most accurate and all powerful
scales in existence.—Edgar Lucien Lar
kin in New York American.
Search thy own heart; what paineth
thee in others in thyself may be.—John
G. Whittier.
Th Walter Thought tha Rjla Should
Not Work Both Way*.
“My bill at the cabaret restaurant cu
Broadway was $25, and when I gave
the waiter a tip of a dollar he frown
ed.”
The speaker was a banker from Du
luth. lie continued warmly:
“'Wliat are you frowning alwut?’ I
Usked tbe waiter. ‘lsn’t that a gener
ous tip for a few minutes work on
your part?’
“ ‘ln New York,’ the man answered,
‘the rule is always to give a tip of 10
per cent. Your bill, sir, called for a
$2.50 tip. So. naturally, I feel a little
aggrieved. But It Is easy to see. sir.
that you are not a New Yorker, and so
It can’t l*e ex[>ected that you’d know
the rules.’
“Well. I i>ocketed the waiter’s insult,
and the next time 1 was In that neigh
borhood I dropped in on him again.
This time I was ulone, and, not being
hungry, I only ate a $1.15 meal. When
it was over I handed the waiter a tip
of 11 cents. You ought to have seen
his face. It was worse than before.
“‘lt’s all right,’ I assured him. ‘lt’s
according to the 10 per cent rule that
you taught me. If a man’s bill Is ex
orbitant that makes no difference, ac
cording to the rule. Well, then, when
a man’s bill is small, It should make
no difference, either.’
“Tbe waiter glowered at me. He
shook the 11 cents in his palm sar
castically. I said, as I rose to go:
“ ’And, by jove, It won’t make any
difference either. If you waiters insist
on your 10 per cent for large amounts
then you’ve got to take It for small
amounts, too. At least, by jingo, you’ve
got to take it from me. I’m from Du
luth. but I know my way about.”
The Duluth banker sighed heavily.
“But the fact remains,” he said, "that
ever since that waiter called me down
I give 10 per cent on big amounts like
a fool and like a fool I give 20 to 30
per cent on small amounts.”—Minne
apolis Journal.
FOUND A HIDING PLACE.
Then They Got a Big Surpriee When
Daylight Appeared.
The father of Joseph Altsheler, the
writer of war stories, was a Prussian
who came to this country a few years
before the war between the states
broke out and settled in Barren county,
Kentucky. By reason of his foreign
birth the eider Altsheler was not sub
ject to draft by either army when hos
tilities began, but his southern sym
pathles made him obnoxious to a group
of bushwhackers who, posing as Fed
era Is, infested the vicinity of the Ken
tucky-Tennessee state line.
One starless, moonless night in the
summer of IN>3 a neighbor came with
the word that the bushwackers were
on their way to kill Mr. Altsheler and
another resident of the vicinity who
had been outspoken in his approval of
secession. It was not certain, the mes
senger said, which road of two the
marauders would take to reach the
homes of their proposed victims; but it
was certain that they would be along
soon.
Mr. Altsheler and the other threat
ened man gathered up a blanket apiece
and went into the woods to hide. In
the darkness they speedily lost all
sense of direction. For an hour they
wandered about, seeking a suitable
camping place. Finally they came to
a spot that was free of trees and
where the ground felt smooth under
foot. So they spread their blankets
and went to sleep, secure in the be
lief that no bushwhacker could find
them there.
The rising sun, shining in their faces,
waked them. They sat up and looked
around. They had been asleep all
night at the only place where the
raiders could not have failod to find
them had their plans been carried out —
at the forks of the county road.—Satur
day Evening Post.
Diameter of a Fine Wire.
Should you over find it necessary to
obtain the diameter of a tine wire, it
may be done in this manner: Wind it
carefully around a piece of pencil in
one layer for an inch or so, that each
turn is touching the previous one. Then
measure exactly an inch along the wire
and count the number of turns in the
luck. You then have the .Information.
Thus, If there are eighteen turns the
wire is one-elgliteenth of an inch di
ameter.
Gas In Trees.
An Interesting phenomenon, says a
writer In American Forestry, 1s the es
cape of gas from cavities at the base
of hardwood trees in the Ozarks, when
the trees are cut down. “When the
cavities are cut into the gas escapes
with a whistling sound, and if lighted
it will burn with a faint yellow flame.”
Decomposition of the heart wood of the
tree is supposed to cause the formation
of the gas.
A Mean Man.
“1 never was so embarrassed in my
life. 1 came face to face with my first
husband.”
“What did he say?”
“Nothing much. He just looked up at
me and smiled and then said. ‘Who
gre IQU anC£ing now, Mary?’”—De-
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Winder, Ga.
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Hancock' County Land Sale.
The J. C. Sigman plantation,
seven miles Northwest, of Sparta,
Ga., containin 760 acres of land
will be sold the First Tuesday in
November, next, at Sp.arta, Best
farm in the County and absolute
ly the best crops in the Staje
now" growing on this farm. The
healthiest rural community in
Georgia. Will subdivide iim six
Small farms each fronting public
road, and each about one . mile
from graded School and churches.
Sold by order Court of Ordina
ry, to pay estate’s indebtedness
and prorate surplus! among heirs.
You should see this farm before
buying elsewdiere.
See or write Dr. J. M. Sigman,
Macon, Ga., or G.‘ M. Sigman, Cul
verton, Ga., or J. M. and G. M>
Sigman, Administrators, Estate
of J. C. Sigman, Sparta, Ga,