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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, January 1904, No. 157 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 5, 2013 [EBook #44113] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME XXVII, JANUARY 1904, NO. 157 *** - - - - -Produced by Jane Robins, Jonathan Ingram and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44113 ***</div> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -660,7 +623,7 @@ case, Watson."</p> Charlington Hall. Then, again, how about the connection between Carruthers and Woodley, since they appear to be men of such a different type? How came they <em>both</em> to be so keen upon looking up Ralph Smith's -relations? One more point. What sort of a <em>ménage</em> is it which pays +relations? One more point. What sort of a <em>ménage</em> is it which pays double the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> market price for a governess, but does not keep a horse although six miles from the station? Odd, Watson—very odd!"</p> @@ -1493,7 +1456,7 @@ you 'ave a brush to 'old."</p> <p>This is gallantry and this is appreciation of art. Five minutes later, after seeing the champion of Byles's Rents again victorious in the sack -race, we descend to the painting room to find Miss Millie White (ætat +race, we descend to the painting room to find Miss Millie White (ætat eight), the celebrated animal painter, daughter of Larry White; the well-known Shoreditch navvy, surrounded by her admirers. In another part of the same room we come upon quite an animated group of talented @@ -1553,7 +1516,7 @@ the slums of London and teaching the slum waifs how to play. For the London guttersnipe doesn't know how to play. As a rule, he or she can maunder about and fight and scream and exchange badinage and throw stones in the gutter, but of true games the gamin is as ignorant as his -parents are of <i xml:lang="fr">entrées</i> or Euclid. Before the association was started +parents are of <i xml:lang="fr">entrées</i> or Euclid. Before the association was started in 1891 there was no one to teach them the mysteries of battledore and shuttlecock, sack races, kiss-in-the-ring, picture-books, dolls, and doll dressmaking. As their motto expressed it, the association, whose @@ -1763,7 +1726,7 @@ of her nephew's warnings.</p> description, and I don't suppose has ever been on one in her life."</p> <p>"Then it's time she tried it," said Lady Otterburn. "There isn't a horse -in the place that could draw a buggy fourteen miles to the depôt and +in the place that could draw a buggy fourteen miles to the depôt and back and bring her here in time for dinner."</p> <p>"Well, you'll see," said Otterburn. "She'll tell us what she thinks of @@ -2631,7 +2594,7 @@ impressions per hour.</p> </div> <p class="drop-capi2"><span class="smcap">Sadi</span> the fiddler, carrying the little black case under his arm, locked the door of his garret as carefully as though it had contained the -wealth of the Cæsars. It was the night of Monday, the twenty-first day +wealth of the Cæsars. It was the night of Monday, the twenty-first day of September, in the year 1870. Sadi had not tasted food for twenty hours, and, though he well understood that there was very little to eat in the town of Strasburg, he went forth bravely in quest of it. After @@ -2641,7 +2604,7 @@ than a poor, crazy fiddler.</p> <p>"Heaven knows they have music enough here," he said to himself, as he descended the narrow staircase and came out beneath the eaves of the old houses. This was the thirty-second night since the hated Prussians had -come swarming down from Wörth and had invested the city like an army of +come swarming down from Wörth and had invested the city like an army of human locusts. There was scarcely a minute by day or night when the great guns ceased to thunder, or the shots to play havoc with the ancient streets of gallant Strasburg. Even as the fiddler walked away @@ -2963,7 +2926,7 @@ answer.</p> could eat the bones off your dishes."</p> <p>"Then he shall sup with us. A hungry man makes friends with strange -company, and we are that, as you guess, Maître Sadi. Come, sergeant, +company, and we are that, as you guess, Maître Sadi. Come, sergeant, fill our friend a bowl of soup. Let him spy out that to begin with. Eh, Sadi, you will not refuse a bowl of soup even from the Prussians? Then let us see you fall to. We can talk of old friends afterwards."</p> @@ -3327,7 +3290,7 @@ consume the hardest bone in his stomack."</p> speaks for itself.</p> <p>Lizards are always interesting. "There was a lizzard 8 cubits long -brought to Rome from Ætheopia by the command of a Cardinal of Lisbon and +brought to Rome from Ætheopia by the command of a Cardinal of Lisbon and the mouth of it was so wide that a child might be put into it.... Put alive into a new earthen vessel and boyle'd with 3 Sextaryes of Wine and one Cyathus, it is excellent food for one sick of the Pthisick, if he @@ -3412,7 +3375,7 @@ driven into the sea, but how could anyone face a beast with a man's head?" Leigh Hunt goes on to describe how the Mantichora impressed his whole childhood. Doubtless the sensations of the eighteenth-century child were the same felt by the early seventeenth century Prince Henry. -The Mantichora was the <i xml:lang="fr">bête noire</i> of the Royal nursery, we may depend +The Mantichora was the <i xml:lang="fr">bête noire</i> of the Royal nursery, we may depend upon it.</p> <p>Scarcely less dreadful was the Collogruis, whose picture is given on the @@ -3534,7 +3497,7 @@ same virtue if you cut it off."</p> <p>Of the ram we are told that "for six winter months he sleeps on his right side; but after the vernal equinoctiall he rests on his right. -Ælianus hath discovered this, but the butchers deny it."</p> +Ælianus hath discovered this, but the butchers deny it."</p> <p>"The Camel hath a manifold belly, either because he hath a great body: or, because he eats Thorny & Woody substances, God hath provided for the @@ -4477,7 +4440,7 @@ hands, and at the same moment a tall, pale man, slightly bent, walked slowly across the room.</p> <p>On this occasion I simply made an appointment to see M. Curie the next -morning at the École de Physique; but I profited by the opportunity to +morning at the École de Physique; but I profited by the opportunity to ask his assistant, M. Danne, some preliminary questions about radium. Was it true, <em>could</em> it be true, that this strange substance gives forth heat and light ceaselessly and is really an inexhaustible source of @@ -4533,11 +4496,11 @@ and vivid imagination it is doubtful if radium would ever have been dreamed of, and without her determination and patience against detail it is likely the dream would never have been realized.</p> -<p>The next day I found M. Curie in one of the rambling sheds of the École +<p>The next day I found M. Curie in one of the rambling sheds of the École de Physique bending over a small porcelain dish, where a colourless liquid was simmering, perhaps half a teacupful, and he was watching it with concern, always fearful of some accident. He had lost nearly a -decigramme (1·5 grains troy) of radium, he said, only a few weeks before +decigramme (1·5 grains troy) of radium, he said, only a few weeks before in a curious way. He had placed some radium salts in a small tube, and this inside another tube, in which he created a vacuum. Then he began to heat both tubes over an electric furnace, when, suddenly, at about 2,000 @@ -4629,7 +4592,7 @@ could perceive neither.</p> <p>"Of course it is," he replied. "I will take you into a dark room presently and let you see the light for yourself. As for the heat, a -thermometer would show that this tube of radium is 2·7 degrees F. warmer +thermometer would show that this tube of radium is 2·7 degrees F. warmer than the surrounding air."</p> <p>"Is it always that much warmer?"</p> @@ -4682,10 +4645,10 @@ very small quantity of radium, about six centigrammes (nine-tenths of a grain troy).</p> <p>"We estimate," said he, "that a decigramme of radium will illuminate a -square décimètre (fifteen square inches) of surface sufficient for +square décimètre (fifteen square inches) of surface sufficient for reading."</p> -<p>"And a kilogramme (2·2 pounds) of radium?"</p> +<p>"And a kilogramme (2·2 pounds) of radium?"</p> <p>"A kilogramme of radium would illuminate a room thirty feet square with a mild radiance; and the light would be much brighter if screens of @@ -4758,7 +4721,7 @@ two of radium, say a kilogramme (two and one-fifth pounds), would cost.</p> <p>"A kilogramme of radium would cost"—he figured rapidly on a sheet of paper—"with the very cheapest methods that we have of purifying the -crude material it would cost about ten million francs (£400,000). Under +crude material it would cost about ten million francs (£400,000). Under existing conditions radium is worth about three thousand times its weight in pure gold."</p> @@ -4788,7 +4751,7 @@ on it.</p> <p>My informant referred with proper pride to the difficulties that had confronted them when they started these radium works in 1901. It was a new problem in practical chemistry to bring together infinitesimal -traces of a metal lost in tons of <i xml:lang="fr">débris</i>. It was like searching for +traces of a metal lost in tons of <i xml:lang="fr">débris</i>. It was like searching for specks of dust hidden in a sand heap, or for drops of perfume scattered in a river. Still, they went at it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span> with good heart, for the end justified the effort. If it took a ton of uranite dust to yield as much @@ -4827,7 +4790,7 @@ DESCRIBED IN THE ARTICLE.</p> two glass vessels, one containing a thermometer and a tube of radium, the other containing a thermometer and no radium. Both vessels were closed with cotton, and it was presently seen that the thermometer in -the vessel containing the radium registered constantly 5·4 degrees F. +the vessel containing the radium registered constantly 5·4 degrees F. higher than the thermometer which was not so influenced.</p> <p>The most striking experiment presented by M. Curie in his London lecture @@ -4988,18 +4951,18 @@ to thrive under the treatment.</p> <p>But the most startling experiment performed thus far at the Pasteur Institute is one undertaken by M. Danysz, February 3rd, 1903, when he -placed three or four dozen little worms that live in flour, the larvæ +placed three or four dozen little worms that live in flour, the larvæ <em>Ephestia kuehniella</em>, in a glass flask, where they were exposed for a -few hours to the rays of radium. He placed a like number of larvæ in a +few hours to the rays of radium. He placed a like number of larvæ in a control flask where there was no radium, and he left enough flour in -each flask for the larvæ to live upon. After several weeks it was found -that most of the larvæ in the radium flask had been killed, but that a +each flask for the larvæ to live upon. After several weeks it was found +that most of the larvæ in the radium flask had been killed, but that a few of them had escaped the destructive action of the rays by crawling away to distant corners of the flask, where they were still living. But -<em>they were living</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> <em>as larvæ, not as moths</em>, whereas in the natural +<em>they were living</em><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> <em>as larvæ, not as moths</em>, whereas in the natural course they should have become moths long before, as was seen by the -control flask, where the larvæ had all changed into moths, and these had -hatched their eggs into other larvæ, and these had produced other moths. +control flask, where the larvæ had all changed into moths, and these had +hatched their eggs into other larvæ, and these had produced other moths. All of which made it clear that the radium rays had arrested the development of these little worms.</p> @@ -5011,10 +4974,10 @@ development of these little worms.</p> </div> </div> -<p>More weeks passed and still three or four of the larvæ lived, and four +<p>More weeks passed and still three or four of the larvæ lived, and four full months after the original exposure I saw a larva alive and -wriggling while its contemporary larvæ in the other jar had long since -passed away as aged moths, leaving generations of moths' eggs and larvæ +wriggling while its contemporary larvæ in the other jar had long since +passed away as aged moths, leaving generations of moths' eggs and larvæ to witness this miracle, for here was a larva, venerable among his kind, a patriarch <em>Ephestia kuehniella</em>, that had actually lived through <em>three times the span of life accorded to his fellows</em>, and that still @@ -5476,7 +5439,7 @@ expressed a weakness, which surpass ordinary material in this respect. After all, they are not so bad as Gambetta's trousers in the statue opposite the Louvre in Paris, already alluded to and reproduced on page 76. The sculptor's aim was apparently to breech his subject -æsthetically, and he has spared no pains to bring about this result. As +æsthetically, and he has spared no pains to bring about this result. As a matter of truth, M. Alphonse Daudet has borne printed witness to the fact that Gambetta's trousers were invariably too short—not too long—and revealed some inches of white sock. But could a sculptor be @@ -5627,7 +5590,7 @@ Etheridge.</p> <p>"As you will."</p> <p>Clearly they were all waiting for him to continue. He perceived that he -was the centre of observation, of interest—Ivan Féodor Vassilitch, +was the centre of observation, of interest—Ivan Féodor Vassilitch, sometime captain of a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> Cossack regiment that had made a reputation for hardihood and valour unique even amongst those northern soldiers whose nerves have the iron coldness of their ice-plains. He raised his glass, @@ -5913,7 +5876,7 @@ came between——"</p> <p>"What, that fellow in the coat? How strange! I seem to know him, too. Even his back is familiar. Let me think. Where on earth did I meet—ah!—no, it's slipped me again. Yet I'm sure—almost sure—that -I—got it, by thunder! The man's Vassilitch—Ivan Féodor Vassilitch, a +I—got it, by thunder! The man's Vassilitch—Ivan Féodor Vassilitch, a countryman of yours; not a bad sort, but cold and hard—hard as sheet-iron. You have met him, perhaps?"</p> @@ -5988,7 +5951,7 @@ swept into her mistress's face.</p> <p>"I will see him," said Gabrielle.</p> -<p>There entered Ivan Féodor Vassilitch. The lines of his face relaxed at +<p>There entered Ivan Féodor Vassilitch. The lines of his face relaxed at sight of her, and a smile almost of sweetness raised his black moustache. "Why do you not light your English country roads?" he demanded, laughing. "I had only the light of your window to guide me for @@ -6000,7 +5963,7 @@ spirit of banter. "I am not yet naturalized. Where have you been?"</p> <div class="figcenter"> <a href="images/i_086.jpg"><img src="images/i_086sm.jpg" width="500" height="388" alt="" /><br /> <span class="largerimage">Larger Image</span></a><br /> -<div class="caption"><p>"THERE ENTERED IVAN FÉODOR VASSILITCH."</p> +<div class="caption"><p>"THERE ENTERED IVAN FÉODOR VASSILITCH."</p> </div> </div> @@ -7600,7 +7563,7 @@ us and our traps."</p> <p>Aunt Emma, indeed, was staying with some Jevonses—very prim ladies. They were middle-aged and wore very smart blouses, and they were fond of -<i xml:lang="fr">matinées</i> and shopping, and they did not care about children.</p> +<i xml:lang="fr">matinées</i> and shopping, and they did not care about children.</p> <p>"I know mother would be pleased to see us if we went back," said Jane.</p> @@ -8155,7 +8118,7 @@ this case."—Mr. John Alderson, 12, Albert Road, Stroud Green, N.</p> <img src="images/i_116b.jpg" width="418" height="550" alt="" /> </div> -<p>"While staying in Jersey I visited a point called La Corbière, where I +<p>"While staying in Jersey I visited a point called La Corbière, where I noticed a mirror in the form of a ball standing out in the open on a pedestal. Objects reflected in it were so clear that I determined to photograph it, with the result that rather curious shapes were given to @@ -8284,7 +8247,7 @@ as a beer hall within and contains ten round tables, each capable of accommodating five or six persons. There is also a large counter. It is one of the most remarkable of the many advertising devices ever carried out in this enterprising 'Land of the Rising Sun.' The photograph was -taken by Mr. G. M. Arab, of this city."—Mr. W. J. Toms, Kobé, Japan.</p> +taken by Mr. G. M. Arab, of this city."—Mr. W. J. Toms, Kobé, Japan.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p> @@ -8422,386 +8385,6 @@ Fetlar, Shetland.</p> <p>Fixed various punctuation.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, -January 1904, No. 157, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STRAND MAGAZINE, VOLUME XXVII, JANUARY 1904, NO. 157 *** - -***** This file should be named 44113-h.htm or 44113-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/1/1/44113/ - -Produced by Jane Robins, Jonathan Ingram and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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