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Show ut DISCOVERY IS CURIOUS Professor to Explain Strange Incident of Sound Transmission Paris, March 22. Professor Quer- ' vain of Zur,i li has mads a curious discovery in the realm of sound transmission trans-mission thai may explain a hitherto 1 Incomprehensible incident of history j Dynamite in large quantities has been used in the construction of the' iailroad to the top of the Juugfrau. a mountain nearly 14,00o feet high In the Bernese Alps. The professor! observed that the sound of the dynamite dyn-amite explosions was hef.rd distinctly distinct-ly for a distance of 30 miles Then, between 30 miles and 44 miles, the explosions were absolutely Inaudible, only to he heard anSn beyond the 44 mile zone. The professor is not yet abla to determine tbo cise of this "zona of tllence," but he makes fho interesting suggestion that a r.imilar zone at I IJegnltx. in Pr-'ji.-.L:. where Frederick Frede-rick the jeat defeated the Austrian In 1760 may account for the persist -I once with which the Austrian Genera 1 Count von Daun declared he never j heard lb BOl 1 ' of cnnuooadin. In spite of Uxe facr that tbo roar of the Prussian artillery was heard distinctly distinct-ly by msn further from the battla fcild thaa war, the Austrian commander. comman-der. Kcillng to bear the Prussian guns. Von Dsun dtd not go to the aid of Genera! Lnudoj, whose comni.md might hive been saved by his pres-I pres-I ence. |