The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A NOVELTY in the Matching of eggs has sp
peared In the shape of an electric incubator
says the Western Electrician. The special
feature of this machine is that the heat of The
egg drawer is automatically regulated to the
tittieth part of degree. II consists of a CanR
incubator, heated by radiation from the bottom
of a water tank, which is constructed on tie
multitubular system. When the egg drawer
reaches the temperature of 104 degrees an
electric thermOstat connects dry battery with
electromagnetic which actuates damper,
allowing the heat to escape through the oIen
air instead Of passing through the fiues of the
water tank,
CHEMISTRY, like thrifty housewife, econo-
mics every scrap, says a writer in the North
American ReU eur, The horseshoe nails dropped
in the streets are carefully collected and reap
pear as swords and guns. The main ingredient
of the ink with which now write was probably
once the broken hoop OF an old beer barrel. The
clippings of the travelling tinker are mixed
with the parings of horses hoofS and the worst
kind of wooden rags, and these are worked up
into an exquisite blue dye. which graces the
dress of courtly danes The dregs of port wine,
carefully decanted by the topper, are taken in
the morning as a sedlitz powder to remove the
effects of the debauch. The offal of the street
and the wastings of coal gas reappear carefully
preserved Ia the lady's smelling bottle, or are
used by her to flavor blanc mango for her
friends. All this thrift of materials is an imita-
ton of the economy of nature, which allows no
waste. Everything has Its destined place in the
process of the universe, in which there is not a
blade of grass or even a microbe too much, il
we possessed the knowledge to apply them to
their fitting purposes.
The special train bearing the ten big legs
destined for the flag poles for the Washington
WORLDS fair building at Chicago will be run in
three sections OF fourteen cars each, says e
the Spokane wash ReUet1. Each or the logs
equals the length of seven fiat cars, though they
are loaded in such manner that the weight is
carried by two of the cars With the exception
of ha fFaFaI on Flaa AHA
Gether on the cars, buV it was impossible to load
the two largest in that manner, owing to their
enormous weight. The two end cars of the
sections will support the load on a raised block
working GIL a pivot. The other cars will De
empty, and tie logs will extend over them
above the cap floors. This arrangement is
necessary, owing to the curves in the road.
When the train Is on a curve, the first
and last cars of the section will Of course not be
in the same straight line, and II the logs were
supported by all the cars, Il would be impossi-
BILE to round the curves without breaking either
the logs or the cars. To overcome this difficulty
the movable blocks on the two end cars are
brought into play, and while the empty cars
curve around a bend in the track the pivots are
also turned permitting the logs to always re-
tain the same relative position with respect to
each other. On sharp curves the middle of the
will be entirely clear of the at the center of
the section. and will lie parallel to a tangent
drawn at the outer edge Of the curve. When
the curve is passed the pivots again throw the
logs back to their original position.
WHAT is announced as being a trial OF the
relative merits as horse tanners of Leon of
Australia and Sample OF America was COM
menced in the theater adjoining the Westmin-
ster Aquarium the other evening, says the Lon
don Telegraph. committee OF between forty
and fifty gentlemen, including military men,
veterinary surgeons and others, has been formed
to supervise the affair, and il Ia intended to
award the winner a prize of RI00. A number
OF lntrRctable and vicious horses, or horses Suf-
fering from other defects Of temper. VIII
be submitted to the rival tanners, and
the committee will decide as 10 which,
in the words of Prof. Atkinson, most
nearly conforms to the requirements of
simplicity, humanity and pTacttcability. Owing
to various causes. last nights demonstration
was OF a rather restricted character. Each
man handled" as the term is two horses and
with, from his own point of view, success. Le-
on's system OF tanning" as Is perhaps gener-
ally known, consists in the subsection of the
animal to be operated on by an Ingenious and
most effective arrangement of bits gags and
cords, while Sample. after securely boxing up
his patient, brings him into close proximity with
steam engine, and. having familIarized him
with its noises while under restraint, Afterward
drives him right up to IL. Both men gave dem
onstrations OF their respective methods with a
fair amount of success, and it is understood the
committee will award points nightly, and give
their decision at the end of the fortnight
IT SEEMS surprising TO learn the fact that
twenty years ago 100000 pounds Of snuff per
annum we're consumed in this country, SAYS the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Much more
astonishing is this circumstance, that during
the fiscal year ended July I, 1892 1O, OOO. 600
pounds Of snuff we're used in the United States
Yet how rarely is it that one secs a pinch OF
snuff taken! The mystery was explained re-
Gently by the New York agent for a great snuff
manufacturing concern. He said: Nearly all
the Italian and German music teachers use
snuf. Likewise the Roman Catholic clergy
The true snuff .taker does not sneeze. Old
fashioned Germans, who came to this country
a long time ago, almost invariably take snuff
In beer saloons where people of their race con.
gregate you will commonly see on the counter
box of snuff for general use. 1t is OF black
snuff that / have spoken thus far-highly
scented with rose berRamot and
pungent odors. But the snuff that is chiefly
used and manufactured In this country Is Of
the yellow or brown kind. Some OF it is salted
and some plain, but very little of it is scented.
1t is used to an immense extent in the south
by negroes and poor whites for dipping The
snuff dipper moistens a little stick in water or
alcohol, dips it in the snuff makes little ball
and puts it between the lips aud teeth The
habit is an unpleasant one, but is practiced in
the south by women as commonly as by men.
In fact the .consumptions Of SNUFF in this coun-
try is chiefly by dipping, and the bulk OF the
tobacco manufactured in this shape is con-
sumed below Mason and Dixou's line. Yellow
snuff is used largely by the Canadian French
girls, who compose a majority OF the employees
in the cotton mills all over the United States
particularly in New England"