TNI DETONATIONS
MADE By BULLETS
A person in the line of fire of a
mouuii gun nea»s distinctly two
successive uctoiiaiioiis. xvccoru
mg to ms uistance tnese may or
may not ce accompanied oy a
continued whistling or roaring
sound, the two noises as is
noted by coionel Agnus of the
Flench army, in tne Kevue
bcientinque, aie familiar to target
kcepeis in line matenes, who
usuauy suppose them to ue caus
eu respectively by the discharge
ot the gun and tne impact ot tne
bunet on the taiget or on tne
giound. this is incorrect, Colonel
Agnus tells us; the first noise is
tne uiscnaige, nut the second is
due to uistui nance ot the air by
the bullet. When the projectile
staits, it is moving taster than
sound. It slows up, and when it
has gone about a mile and a half
the sound-wave begins to gain on
it and finally passes it. i o these
facts are due the phenomena of
Hie bullet’s noise, as is shown by
Col. Agnus in a mathematical
analysis, in tne first piace, the
two noises will be heard only
with mouern high-powuered wea
pons, whose bullets move faster
than sound. If the observer is
neaier than 300 feet, the two
sounds merge into one- Farther
away they are heard farther and
farther apart, and at about a mile
and a half—the point where the
velocity slows down to that of
sound, a continuous whistle or
roar is heard, first between the
two detonations, and farther
away, lasting longer and longer.
Of course if the projectile is a
shall its subsequent explosion
adds other noises. In closing,
Agnus makes some interesting
applications. He writes:
"One thing that has always
struck the attentive reader is to
find in all conscientious narra
tives of the fall of meteors, with
out exception, the mention of the
formidable detonation. In gener
al, it is stated that the bolide ex
ploded—that it burst with a ter
rific noise. And if it is found lat
er in a field, it is discovered
that there was no explosion at all,
and often that it buried itself in
WEATHER RECORD
Tho following tuOlo snowa the ax
orage temperature for each (lay for the
the following yearF:
191S 1916
March I .26 —14
March 2 .18 —x8
March 3.08 —4
March 4.4 —M
March 5.o —15
March 6.4 —J9
March 7.8 —19
March 8.—9 ~~I7
March 9. 4 —17
March 10.14 —J7
March 11 .10 —25
March 12. 9 —44
March 13 .12 —19
March 14.13 —*4
March 15. 5 —*4
March 16. 5 —S
March 17.—8 0
March 18. 0 o
March 19. 9 —2
March 20.10 10
March 21. 13 7
March 22.19 16
March 23.22 5
March 24.13 o
March 25 .17 —17
March 26 . 14 —26
March 27.25 —18
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soft earth, which must have les
sened the noise of impact very
much, the detonation, in my opin
ion, is very naturally explained
by the disturbance of the air, on
the theory explained above.
“In one of his stories—‘From
the Earth to the Moon’—Jules
Verne, whose works properly fas
cinate all young people and are
much liked by many of maturer
age, gives a different account of
nings. At the moment when his
projectile,’ falling on the earth,
plunges into the sea, he tells how
ihere was a whistling heard in
the farthest regions of the air, as
suming rapidly a frightful inten
sity, when there suddenly appear
ed a huge meteor, which grew in
size to the view until it buried
itself in the waves with a deafen
ing roar.
"Thus, according to this author,
we have first a whistling, then
appearance of the projectile, and
finally the noise caused by its
striking the water. Now, to
speak only of the whistling, it is
certain that this could not have
)een heard before the arrival of
the projectile.
"Before writing this passage
the author should have asked
himself if he were representing
the facts accurately; but he did
not have at his disposal the ex
periences of the present war; he
went ahead and told of what had
happened from the romancer’s
standpoint rather than from that
of the physicist.”—Ex.
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EXCEPTIONAL CASE
IN FAIRBANKS COURT
In district court this morning
Judge Charles E. Bunnell will
render his decision in two cases
which, according to his statement
are not thoroughly covered by
law says the Fairbanks Citizen.
Ihey are the cases of Alfred L.
Woods of Rampart, and S. Bal
ias, of Ruby, both of whom have
been ordered committed to the
sanatarium for the insane, but
who were brought into court Sat
urday morning under writs of
habeas corpus in order that testi
mony showing that they are not
insane could be introduced.
When the taking of testimony
in the case against Woods was
started, Assistant District Attor
ney Reed Heilig interposed an
objection on the part of the gov
ernment holding that the court
has no jurisdiction in the matter,
by reason of the fact that the men
have been committed to the san
itarium in accordance with the
law. His objection was over
ruled and an exception allowed
by Judge Bunnell, who here stat*
ed that he hoped the district at
torney’s office would take the
matter to the supreme court on a
writ of error
All of the testimony introduced
tended to show that neither of
the two men are mentally unBaT
anced at present. Several phy
sicians testified to the effect that
neither is insane, and Ed Young,
caretaker at the detention hospi
tal, testified to the fact that he
has never seen an insane move
from either of them.—Fairbanks
Citizen.
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Charlie Chaplin’s daily working
hours are from 9 a. m. to 5:30 p.
in., and every day twelve million
people see him on the screen at
picture palaces throughout the
world, lie is a Londoner, born at
Walworth in 1890, and all his re
lations were in the theatrical pro
fession. All his comedies are pro
duced under his own direction at
Los Angeles, Cal., mostly by
British players. Hundreds of
women have proposed marriage
to him, but he is a bachelor. Very
fond of music, Charlie Chaplin
can play almost any instrument,
and is a clever composer. Off the
stage he is a good-looking young
man with curly hair and perfect
teeth, and his feet are, in reality,
small. When he was eight years
of age he narrowly escaped being
drowned. He fell into the water
and, in an exhausted state, was
saved by a dog belonging to one
of the Thames police. He is the
only person in the world, except
the American president, who has
been granted free admission to all
baseball matches in the United
States.—Ex.
A NOVEL PACKING CASE.
An unusual consignment of
gold from China was received re
cently at the assay office in New
York city, says the New York
Times, consisting of a single bar
of fine gold worth about $600 in a
barboo covering. It came from
lie agency of the Guaranty Trust
Company in Shanghai and was
credited to that institution. The
hollow of a length of bamboo was
utilized as a natural safety carrier
for the 4-inch bar, one end being
sealed by the joint and the other
with wax. The valuable package
came by registered mail. There
have been numerous shipments of
gold from China to this country
this year, but most of them have
been directed to the San Francis
co mint.
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'1 lie highest speed ever attain
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I is one mib in 25:2 seconds, equi
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INVISIBLE STARS.
Los Angeles Times
Just how much of the universe
spread out before 11s is dark—
consisting of stars emitting too
tf!e light to be detected by tele
scope or camera—is not easy to
determine T\ A. Lindemann
■uakes a .ough calculation based
on the id<*a that the new stars
that occasionally appear are due
to collisions, and finds that the
number of the invisible or dark
stars must be 4,000 times as great
as that of the visible ones.
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