TUESDAY. JUNE 2. 1908.
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No One Has Yet Succeeded In
Extracting It Accurately.
SOME IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS
Th Effort to Cultivate a Blu Rom,
th 8roh For Absolut Zero, the
Porpttual Motion Phantom and th
Squiring of th Cirola.
TImto tlU'd 111 tlio year 'M In 8t
Felix, a miiull village In the depart
went of II1111I0 Gaiouiio, In Franco, a
wealthy octotfoiuirlan hortlcullurlHt,
who Kjiont the laHt forty-flve years of
hi life and a mini variously twtlmatod
at from 12,000 to 15,000 in attempt
ing to produce by artificial cultivation
a bluo roue.
Ho failed, and for the bent of rciiHon
the liiHk I oiio ImpoHHlbla of bccohi
pilnbuient. A Ie Cundollo, a great au
thority 011 thin Huhject, has pointed out
yellow and bluo are tho fundamental
type of color In flower, and Wwm col
or are oiiIiikohImIIc, mutually exclud
ing each other. Yellow by culture may
be changed Into red or white, but nev
er Into blue. On the other hand, blue
will phhh Into red, but never Into yel
low. We huvo a yellow roue; benee
there In no blue,
The pursuit of the absolute zero pouu
Is to chemlntH what the dl?ovcrj of
the north pole U to geographer. Ever
since Fahrenheit in 1721 broached the
problem Hclcntlrit Innumerable have
striven to reuch the goal in vain, al
though each, In turn, linn succeeded In
outdistancing the other.
Thus Fahrenheit boaHted thut no one
could ever attain artificially to a
greater degree of cold than ho produced
with salt nud ice-seven degrees below
tro although, of course, ho did not
suppose thut cold ended there. Yet,
within a few yeurg of bis death, over
100 degrees below had been obtained,
and Professor Jauiea Dewar, whose re
searches In tho field of low tempera
tures have brought out so many new
and stnrtllni? fuels, succeeded by cool
log down tho rare gas helium by the
aid of !liiienVd hydrogen In registering
the uliuost Inconceivable temperature
of 422 degrees below ro F. But this
is not absolute zero, and tho problem
remains unsolved.
Here and there. In odd corners of the
earth, gray, bent men still pore over
crucibles seeklug the philosopher's
atone-that mysterious and wonderful
substance which will, tbey believe,
when found change the baser metals
Into gold, it never will be found, of
course, for such a substance, In the
no turn nf Uitnca run Iiovb tin mncrpfn
existence. Nevertheless for hundreds
J of years the best brains and keenest
Intellects lu Christendom sought It
enrly and late.
Nor were their labors wholly wasted,
for It was while searching for this
mythical treasure that Bottcher stum
bled on the secret of the manufacture
of porcelain: Uoger Bacon on that of
the composition of gunpowder; Geber
on the properties of acids; Van Hel
mont on tho nature of gas, and Dr.
Glauber on the "salts" which bear his
name. After a similar fashion, too,
the three century long hunt for the
elixir of life bequeathed to us a whole
host of valuablo remedial drugs and
was tho means Indirectly of saving or,
at all events, prolonging literally mil
lions of lives.
So also, as the result of the vain
search after perpetual motion, there
was evolved the greatest of all the gen
eralizations of modern physical sci
ence, tho principle of tho conservation
of energy, and even now more or less
Important discoveries aro being con
tantly stumbled on by seekers after
the sauio perennial will-o'-the-wisp.
For let It be by no means Imagined
that tho perpetual motion cranks are
all dead and gone. On the contrary,
they are probably fully as numerous
and nB sanguine today as they were In
the time of Leibnitz or Newton.
Of course the thing Is impossible and
has been proved so over and over
again, but that does not deter them.
Only the other day a man turned up
at the office of a well known patent
agent with a model of a perpetual mo
tion machluo which depended for its
proper working upon tho interception
of gravitatlonul attraction.
The principle of the invention, the-1
Inventor was good enough to explain,
wus simplicity itself. The only thing
that remulned to be done, he ingenu
ously remarked, was to find the proper
material for an interceptor. Is It pos
Bible to conceive of human folly going
further than this?
Among mathematicians the two most
famous unsolvable problems are the
trisectlon of the angle and the dupli
cation of the cube. Men have tolled
at one or the other, sometimes at both,
of these for fifteen, twenty, thirty
years, only to retire at last battled and
beaten. Their calculations and meth
ods of work, have in many instances
been published to the world, but tho
subject Is too abstruse to attempt to
do more than merely touch upon it in
a popular article of this kind.
It is somewhat startling, however,
to find that even figures, just plain,
ordinary arithmetical figures such as
are easily understandable by any mod
ern board school boy, have given rise
to problems quite as Incapable of solu
tion as any of those springing out of
the higher mathematics. ,
No one, for instance, has yet succeed
ed In extracting the square root of 2,
although Dr. W. II. Colvlll, a civil Bur
geon of Hagund, succeeded fn work
ing it out to 110 fewer than 110 places
of decimal, and, moreover, hi titanic
sum hns been proved to be absolutely
correct, bo far as It goes. Here 1 the
result, In case some reader should be
seized with an Irresistible desire to
carry It a tage or two farther;
1.41421 nAWmMmim'MTimimw.mfrxMeM
M2BM23.
Undoubtedly, however, of all the now
admittedly unsolvablo figure problems
which have from time to time occupied
the attention of mnthematlcluiiH tb
most famous Is that generally known
as squaring the circle. The tlmo and
energy thrown away upon It In days
gone by are fiinply amazing. A Dutch
professor, Jacob Morcells by name,
worked at It for forty-three years and
enmo t bint to the conclusion that the
circumference contained tho diameter
exactly
times. Ho w as wrong. Another nota
ble computer, one Ludolph van Ceulen,
continued his calculations as long an he
lived and at his death bad the result
Inscribed 011 his tombstone at St Pe
ter' church, Leydcu.
Yet n third enthusiast worked out the
calculation to more than 700 places of
decimal and even then did not get so
near a Peter Melius, who guessed at
his answer. This latter lucky gentle
man asserted that the diameter Is to
the circumference as 113 is to 355. This
Is so nearly right that the error would
be less than a foot in a circle with n
2,000 mile radius.
For a long time this approximation
was as near as any one got, but In 1803
a lady mathematician went one better.
Here 1 her formula: "From three di
ameters deduct eight thousandths and
seven rnlllionths of a diameter, and to
the result add 5 per cent" We have
then not quite enough, but the shortage
Is only at the rate of about an Inch
and a sixteenth of an inch in 14,000
miles. Finally, an Englishman named
Shanks succeeded In reducing by more
than one-half even this well nigh in
finitesimal error, and there for the
present the matter rests.
It may be of interest to note, how
ever, that some little while back a man
made a great hubbub In London be
cause he had not obtained the reward
which he alleged had been offered for
the discovery of the correct solution,
although he claimed to have arrived at
it. He suld ho did It by actual meas
urement, and It was found on Investi
gation that he had constructed a box
wood disk of twelve Inches In diameter
which he rolled along a straight rail.
The man was a Joiner by trade and evi
dently knew well what be was about
when he measured, for hts answer,
3.140C25, is wrong by less than one In
3,000. Pea rsou's Weekly.
INDIA'S WHITE ANTS.
Only On'a Kind of Wood, 8andal, Can
Withstand Their Attack.
Insects of various kinds are a peren
nial plague to Indian dwellers, tea
growers and others.
The tea bushes In the Assam garden
have no less than four destructive ene
mies, from which no means of escape
has vet been devised by man. These
are the bark eating borer, the sand
wich caterpillar, the mosquito ana tne
white ant, all of which attack tne tusn
and do immense damage.
Bv far the worst of these plagues is
the white ant. the mosquito merely at
tacking the leaves and causing a blight
The ants, however, begin at the roots
and eat upward, reducing the wood to
nowder and leavlnc only the bark to
support the top, which soon topples
over by reason of Its own weignt.
There is no Indian wood which would
resist the ant3 Insidious attack except
sandal. It delights !n reducing pine
and white wood to a powder. It can
not work in tho Heht but must get at
the wood from some dark recess and
work within a shell.
In some mvsterlous way the white
ant gets Indoors and has a particular
nenchant for penetrating into a veneer
ed or lacnuered picture frame, and In a
short time nothing will remain but the
veneer or lacquer, nothing else being
left but a small portion of the powder,
the rest being consumed or removed.
The method of attack Is by emitting
a kind of acid, which destroys the
wood. And this ant has been known
to bore holes through the sheet Iron
bottoms of trunks. Several long, sup
porting joists in a consular building In
Calcutta were eaten out so completely
that they had to bo replaced with
steel ones.
While these destructive white anta
do not eeem to possess much literary
taste, they sometimes attack books
and destroy them by boring holes
through leaves and cover from side to
side.
An English resident In an Indian city
had a fine set of upholstered furniture,
which he protected by some covering
as well as he could before leaving his
home for an absence of some months
on busiuess, and when he returned he
sat down in a chair, which collapsed
under him like a framework of card
board. Westminster Gazette,
A man who is in perfect health, so
he can do an honest day's work when
necessary, has much for which he
should be thankful. Mr. L. C. Rodg
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was not only unable to work, but he
couldn't stoop over to tie his own
shoes. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney
Cure made a new man of him. He
says,, "Success to Foley's Kidney
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