The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-19

WRITER in the Providence Telegram under
takes to show how a wagon may be kept com
paratively clean when driving over a muddy
road. According to him this result depends
upon maint aiming just the right speed the
golden mean, as 1t were. II the horse is driven
at a walk, say about three miles an hour, the
mud which adheres to the rim of the wheel will
be carried 10 by it as it revolVes. AS it gets
TO the top its weight will cause it to fall
scattering the spokes and the hub. If the
morse ls going six or seven miles hour,
the rapid revolution of the wheels will send the
mud flying, and all parts of the vehicle will re-
celve \ copious plastering But now, If gait
OF four and half or five miles al hour be
taken, the mud carried up from the ground will
neither drop nor be thrown off, and the conse-
quence will be that with the exception of the
rims or the VIII els the carriage will come to the
end OF the journey comparatively clean. Ev-
erything depends upon striking Just the right
gait and maintainin it.
EVERY ONE has observed how certain kinds
OF trees in forest reach upward and out
ward for the sunl Eht. They cannot exist
without 1t, and amid the crowd of competitors
by which they are surrounded, they have hard
struggle to obtain the LIES giving beams. Some
kinds OF trees, which do not require much SUM-
shine. often envelop and half smother
those which require more. and which
to great hiz fta in in V order 'rI thss
their crown of leaves may be exposed to the
light. Frequently such trees resemble tall
columns when viewed from the aisles of the
trunks until they have attained the top of the
surrounding foliage. But if one would use his
eyes to the best advantage 1t is not en- ugh to
observe merely that some trees reach after the
light more eagerly than others do
The differences in the kinds of trees
that behave thus should be noted
Poplars, walnuts, hickories, willows, bircLes,
pines and locusts thirst for the sunlight, and
cannot thrive unless they have plenty of 1t.
Yews, beecheS and spruces thrive in the shade.
The reader would find a most interesting
ent trees in this respect. Their instinct in fol-
lowing the dictates which nature has given
them sometimes appears almost as surprising
as that exhibited by animals.
MR. EDISON takes pride in having been a
newspaper man, writes Frank G., Carpenter.
He likes to talk of the days when as a boy he
edited and} printed the Grand Trunk HeroId
He tells me he was a newsboy on the
train when he did it, and he believes it is the
only newspaper that has ever been published
on newspaper train. He ran it for more
than year, and by virtue of it he says he is
now member of the New York Press Club
He talked with me as to the newspaper reports
which he sent out while telegrapher, aud told
me that the worst copy he ever handled was
that OF George NJ Bloss of the Cincinnati En-
qttirer SAID he: 81 was a tele ;raph operator
at Cincinnati at the time he was editor Of the
E7tqui err and his copy sometimes came into
the office. remember one piece which none of
us could translate and sent 1t back to the En-
0ui or office and had them copy it for us 1t
was worse WI ltlng than that OF Horace Greeley.
and remember that we tackled a piece of it
upon the wall Of the telegraph office and left a
standing offer below it of $40 to the first man
who could decipher ten lines of it, and the
money was never claimed" "Such a tn ng will
never happen" said [, when newspaper re-
porters turn in their copy. on the photograph"
NO." replied Mr. Edison, lit will not.
The photograph and the telephone are now
con iderably used In newspaper work, and we
may have newspaper Photographs In the future
and newspaper pictures may be sent from one
part of the country to the other by electricity"
win it ever be possible, Mr.. Edison" said I,
to take the page of a newspaper as set up in
New York and telegraph such photograph Of
it to the other great cities of the country as
could be placed at once on an etching-plate and
one setting up in this way do for the whole coun-
try2" Mr.. Edison thought for moment and then
said; Yes, that could be done. though don't
know whether it would be profitable. and the
day may also come when a man sitting at a
typesetting machine in New York may by
tappi g the keys of a typewriter set up the
press dispatches by mear of sim lar machines
in every newspaper Office In the United States.
There is no doubt but thiscould be done now.
and when we have perfect typesetting machines
our press telegraphers can do the setting up of
their own DISPATCHES" HsT