Unexplained Miracles.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 101, 12 September 1901, Page 3

Unexplained Miracles.

This is not an ago for taking things upon trust (says an exchange). The modern man displays a Toddy-like desire to " ste wheels go round" which science is always anxious to gratify. But even science is helpless in the face of some of our modern miracles. The Rontgen rays have been discovered for six years now, bat their action is still unexplained. The X-rays are an even greater miracle. By their aid their discoverer, Alex. Orloff, has Bteered torpadoes at a distance of two and - a half miles, and that without wires or any connecting medium save air and water. At two miles distance the X-rays beam is two hundred yarda, and the torpedo can be controlled anywhere in this area. Still a greater mystery\in the field of light are the Becquerel raya, emanated by, the comparatively newiy.discqvered substance radium, which acts as a sort of mineral glow-worm. It will store up sunlight, and even if kept in pitch darkness for years will be found to gleam with tho same Bolt radiance. Becquerel rays pierce not only flesh, but bone. Another mystery of light which is again an effoot without a known oause is obtained by simply spinning a lump of loaf sugar on a lathe and tapping it rapidly with a small hammer. A constant play of light is thus produced- Teala horrified an assemblage of scientists by transmitting through his hand and body a current of electricity a hundred times greater than is used to kill a criminal. He explained that it was perfectly safe to handle such a current if it was alternately electricity but as to why-'- a distinction should exist he was unable to say. The spectroscope is , another unexplained mystery in its action, as is also the familiar mariner's oompaas. Thera { are places in'the world where the compass will riot ao& at all. At Kotohetowka, in Bussia, Professor Eayafc, of Moscow, foSndthat the,sOTPg£ iv ij."" *-, .* * , t ' t f ..." ~* ', ?>'<*/& V t.

needle pointed downwards. Elec- ! trioity supplies many miracles. Planfca can be grown at twice the usual rate by passing ft mild current through the soil. Horrible easeg of cancer and lupus are also cured by its use, but how no doctor can explain, any more than he can say why it ia that keeping a patient suffering from Smallpox or measles in a room hung with red will allay the eruption.