Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-16
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ing car for ar ships, which shall be st once
light and strong enough to carry the requi-
site machinery. Indeed. the m achnery itself
may yet be made of some of these alloys.
AT Summer Hill. lightweight miles from
Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania railroad. an
iron bridge weighing 100 tons was moved
thirty-two feet In forty eight minutes to per-
NIT the erection OF stone arch bridge. A
similar substitution will he made In the case
OF all the iron bridges on this road. in order
that heavier engines can be used with safety.
WHEN the Sarah Craig, with party of
Philadelphians on board, was wrecked in
squall off Sandy Hook. on July 80 last, Capt.
John Gully. Of the tug Haviland, d!ved into
the schooner's cabin time and again, al
though in the greatest peril every time nc
went down, and brought out the bodies of the
drowned. On Sunday three of the survivors
-Messrs. Haskins. Potter and Jardlne-
called on him at his home in Brooklyn and
presented him with pair Of marine glasses
OF the very best quality, suitably inscribed.
CAPT. w. l.. LURroN, of the Burton Lum
Der Company. arrived at Baton Rouge Sun
day with raft OF 100000 feet of cypress logs
from Psquemine, La, in tow of the tug Maud
Wtlmot having made the run in eight hours,
thus demonstrating clearly beyond doubt the
pracucabthty OF obtaining lumber by this
way for the mills, the cost of towing being
less than 30c. per 600 feet. This is the first
attempt ever made to tow timber up the Mis-
W
Thus timber was transferred from Bayou
Plaquemine to the river by the PlaquemIne
Logging Company, of which Capt. Burton is
President.
The Queen OF Portugal wears the Paris
life savers medal. In 1874 she was bathing
with her two sons, Charles and Alphonse,
aged II and years, at the watering place of
Cascaes. A big wave carried of the two
children, and the Queen boldly SWAN out to
their relief. The sea was running high. and
the lady and her boys were nearly lost in the
surf, when the lighthouse keeper. seeing their
danger, dashed into the water and succeeded
In bringing all three TO shore in safety. Her
Majesty wears her medal proudly as the re-
ward OF her bravery, but there is no record
OF any medal or any other reward having
been given to the lighthouse man.
AN order was issued from sanitary head
quarters at New York Tuesday afternoon in
reference to the prevalence OF CHAMBERS in the
city stables. The proprietors had their at
tention called to the law, which prescribes
that no person shall keep or retain. or allow
or employ at any place within or adjacent to
the built-up portion of the city any horse. ass
or colt having that complaint, but shall at
once report the same to the Board of Health,
which, urder the direction of the Sanitary
superintendent, shall then remove animals
designated by him: also. that all animals
having the CHAMBERS or farcy shall be at once
destroyed upon the premises. and the Health
Board notified of such action. Severe penal
report all such cases.
STOCKHOLM has about $4,000 inhabitants,
is governed by council of 100.
elected by the people. who in
turn appoint a committee of sixteen, 10
whom are conflded all municipal functions.
Its streets are paved chiefly with what we call
Belgian blocks, we'll and carefully laid. In
some streets you will find "cobble stones"
but where used they are carefully selected, of
a small. uniform size. and well rammed on a
good bed, the expense of which ID borne by the
city. The problem OF clean streets is intelli-
gently solved in this fact, to wit: That every
owner I'm the word "owner" is included the
crown and the city, of house or ground is
obliged to provide for cleaning his, her or Its
part OF the public place or street 1t may be
done in person, by private servants or pri-
vate associations, but that 1t must be and is
done the well cleaned streets of Stockholm
and other cities similarly governed bear testi-
mony.
THE English Board OF Inland Revenue OBJ
serve that ''the increase under the head of
Patent Medicine Stamps is considerable as
usual, and shows how these medicines con-
tlnue to gain in public favor" "This may be
a subject for Contamination by the Inland
Revenue" says the British Medical Journal.
shut it may we'll be doubted how far the
growing habit of the population to resort to
these quack remedies is beneficial to the
ton at large. Twenty years ago there were
only 1880 patent medicine vendors in the
kingdom, and only 100000 of labels issued,
yielding 100000 to the revenue. In ten years
more-vi2.. in lS76-the vendors had increased
to l6,022 and nearly 100000 OF labels were
Issued. yielding fl23,00o. Now there are
1920 vendors. and 900 of labels were
issued during last year, yielding an income
to the government of f179,000, Obviously the
efforts made to induce the government to
place the preparation and sale of patent
medicines under better regulations are terri
bly, handicapped bv the supposed danger of
losing this very profitable and growing source
of revenue"
PARIS is trying an experiment which has
long ago been found to answer in Italy. On
one Of the boulevards a new establishment
has been opened for the personal comfort OF
the Parsians. You can wash your hands,
have your clothes brushed. your boots cleaned.
You can write your letters. Paper, pens, ink,
ETC., are at your disposal. In one room are
all the newspapers, no. merely of Paris and
the provinces. but of all the great CONT
mental capitals. A third room ie devoted to
works OF reference, encvolopBdias, dictlon-
aries and directories. There Is q telephone
and post office, and all this is open 10 any
nssser-by who pays half franc admission.
The Italian idea did not go quite so far, but
in some respects it was more useful. 1t was
not private speculation, but a government
concern. In fact. II was part OF the working
of the postal aystem of the country. You paid
a penny entrance fee. and found all the
means of writing and all the informatio Won
might need TO hand. You buy paper at cost
grntuitously. The French institution ia a
speculation. and IL the building inst opened
on the Boulevard Montmartre succeeds. no
doubt we shall see others established all over
the capital.
NEAR Basket Station. in New York, on the
Erie railroad, Wilmot Il Simonson have
opened a new quarry, which exhibits some
very extraordinary phenomena. On remov-
ing the everything mass of earth and bou d. RS,
a few days ago. the quarry developed hori-
zontal bed of bluestope about IL by 40 feet
scanned with layers or Gifts" a. they are
technically termed, as usual. No sOoper was
the verifying mass of earth removed than the
upper layers Of bluestOne bulged up p foot or
more, rs though upheavcd by some Titantic
force from below, and the upper seams
cracked and opened under the strain. The
amazed quarrymen knew not how to account
for this phenomenon. but found their work
facilitated by the opening OF the seams. and
proceeded to remove the upper lifts. As
each LAYER was removed the ne WHY exposed
stone continued TO crack and omen. So the
work goes on from day to day, except that
the force OF the upheaval seems to increase
"a the quarTymen make their way down into
the depths OF the quarry. Curiosity drawa
persons to the scene from far and near, but
no one has ever seen the like before, or can
offer any satisfactory solution OF the mvs-
terry. Wilmot & Simonson have employed
a photographer to take views OF the quarry
works from time to timc. showing the
recurring stages OF the phenomenon.
Coll ELIAS RECTOR, of Arkansas, used to