Otago Witness Illustrations

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 43

Otago Witness Illustrations

THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE. ♦ The sea-serpent being rather coy at the moment, up comes the " philosopher's Btone " story to take its place. It is stated

INFLUENCE OF THE GULF STREAM. + Professor Gregory, m the November Leisure Hour, once more points out how persistent is the error as to the influence of the Gulf Stream upon the climate of

— apparently " undor reserve'" — by the Florence* correspondent of the Tribuna that the secret of the transmutation of metals ! has at last bc<?n discovered. The telcgiam states that one Titus Fabiani has received a message from his eon. now in Paris,

declaring rhaT li «» Jm- t ompuuiuk'd a woik'imful mi tal pc>--ei-iim not onl\ the colour of gold, but ,ill its piopcrtH's. and Ills '•old it to a syndicate in winch tii<« Rt hschilds are taking equal .shires with a Belgian companj T' - '''-tmc . add- t!ii> eoirt-

F.he British Isles and North-western Europe anywhere oast of Newfoundland, so that it generally. Scientific geographers ha\e disappears long before it reaches our shores, shown over and over again that the belief The stream is, in fact, only an incidental has no foundation in fact. "The Gulf part of a great system of circulation of the Stream," we are told, " cannot be dis- I surface waters of the North Atlantic, and tinguished from the rest of the Atlantic the drift of water from North Ameiica to

spuiidout, am !•« mamih.ctim d a* comparatiM ly small cost. It also has tie piopertie? Accoiding to doci,nH'iits which tin- Floicnce correspondent ha- hid the o-ip )i-tunity of roaming. £BC.OOO of the pur-cln-e i rice, ot £240 00 i- pi\ablc at once.

£40.000 m -li.uo- <>t the n- w company. Tin* lcmaindcr is io bo ]>aid at the rate of £20,000 a year. The- appiopiuite remark seems to be the utterance of a word commonly associated with the Pied Piper of Bi i w ninsj'fi poem.

Europe is caused entirely by prevailing from warmer regions." If the Gulf Stream winds. These moist south-westerly winds were diverted at the Straits of Florida possibly derive some heat from the great England should not experience the slightest mass of Atlantic water which they keep change of climate, for the warm w&t southin circulation, but in the main the. warmth west winds would still ameliorate the temis due to the fact that the wind itself comes peratur© of our islands.