The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-26
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BOISE CITY uDAHo) LITTLE GIRL started
across the divide for school the other day, and
shortly after her departure a terrific snow
storm set in. AS she had not reached the
school house by 12 O'Clock, IL was feared that
she was lost, and accordingly q searching party
wandered over the hills. hoping TO find some
trace Of the child. They at last found her in
an old she'd, with q number of sheep among
which she had cuddled down. and thus escaped
being frozen to death.
Docs are sensible TO the effects OF music to a
certain degree, just as serpents are said to be,
says the San Francisco Cal. Il 10 not q fact
that dogs howl and whine when they hear
music, and it Is certain that they cannot distin-
gulsh good music from bad. Tho average dog
will howl at violin, whether played by his
master or stranger, by an expert or an mex
pert. He howls at most instruments that can
be carried In the hand: and that is probably the
secret. dog will be perfectly unconcerned
when parlor organ or melodeon is being
played with all the stops out. 1t is the same
with a piano; he will sleep while the instru-
ment is responding to fortissimo passages. But
violin, cornet or an ACCORDION is more than
he can bear.
AN INSTRUMENT has been invented by which
the degree of impurity which may exist in the
air of any room or place can be determined
easily and accurately. This invention involves
q modification Of Mr.. Athens invention for
counting the dust particles held in suspension
| In the air, both OF them being based on the as
| certained fact that particle Of dust at a GER
| TAIN T. nperature and degree OF moisture in the
atmosphere becomes a free surface. which at
tracts the moisture and thus turns into a cloud
particle BY passing jet of steam through a
tube containing air impregnated with dust,
| colors varying from a delicate green to deep
blue are developed. Each of these tints in
dicates the relative degree in which the air is
impregnated with dust particles.
A MAN who gets his clothes wet in a thunder
storm may take comfort from the following re-
markable tale recently published III New York
paper: Three men took shelter from q thuu-
der storm under pollard willow. flash Of
| lightning struck the tree and took in one man.
1t did not injure him in the least, but threw him
down and violently stripped off his clothes,
| which were hurled a distance of twenty Yards
| the explanation given is that the clothes were
stripped from the man by lightning Just as bark
is stripped from tree. The discharge finds a
moist passage down between the bark and the
trunk, converting the moisture into steam and
thus blowing off the bark. 1t Is supposed that
the mans clothes had become drenched by the
rain, and by similar generation of steam there
had been explosion severe enough to rent his
things from him and throw him to the ground
| Fortunately for him his wet clothes had formed
better conductor than his own body"
| THOSE living in portions Of our country ex-
posed to tornadoes will be glad to know that
scientists tell US there is always warning Of the
approach of tornado to those that are observ-
| ant, says HG' per'S BdEIT. Clouds may be seen
| hurrying together in the southwest and west a
! low dull roar of the wind in those clouds may
q
sultry heat in the air; ali of which signs are suf-
| fcient to bid people look for safety This safety
| they will never find In any easterIy direction.
One who faces the cloud as 1t comes should seek
safety TO the right. The only absolute safety,
! however. is to be found underground, in the
cellar of the house, If it is a wooden house. as
the storm will whrl off the beams and boards
! or the structure; but II 1t is a brick or stone
I house the shattered walls will only tumble in:
| the brick or stone house, moreover, will fall
! sooner than the wooden one, which yields and
! frn In NtnA ~
the more open portions, there should be all un-
dereround place provided for refuge, with its
roof arched and strengthened by masonry and
beams so that 1t cannot be broken in by anV
thing heavy falling upon it.
ASTONISHING as are many buildings that have
gone up, they will certainly be eclipsed in nov
city by the structure which Owen F. Adds and
his associates will erect at the northwest c1rner
| of State and Madison streets, says the Chicago
| Mining and Scientific ReuietC. The special
novel feature about it is that there will he in
the exterior not single piece of wood, Ston or
! brick. 1t is to be an aluminium building The
entire exterior, with the exception of the plate
glass, is to be sheets OF silver-like metal The
construction OF the building itself will be on
much the same plan as the ordinary shell con-
struction of the high buildings here The
structure will be erected to the full hight of
sixteen stories. however. before any of the
material that answers for the walls is
put on. The sheets Of aluminium will
| be three sixteenths of inch thick and
| 20 inches by feet in size. They will be cast
| with an ornate design raised on the face and
will be finished with portion of the plate bur
nished and a portion left with the natural me.
| tallic uster. These sheets will be held In place
| by ornamental aluminium strips bolted on next
| to the window casing. Back of the aluminium
sheets will be freproofng and the strips about
| the windows will be backed with a solid filling
of cement. Twenty tons of aluminium will be
used to cover the surface Of the structure. AS
| the cost OF the metal is rs cents to 80 cents a
pound it will be seen that this feature of the
construction is scarcely an economical one
The plates are not composed of pure aluminium
but of an alloy composed Of 90 per cent of al
minimum and of 10 per cent. copper and other
metals. A feature Of the building which will
be almost as striking, as the material OF its ex-
terror will be the size of the windows There
will be two rows of windows on the State street
front running to the full hight of sixteen stories
| and three rows on the Madison street front, and
these windows will be twenty-five feet scross
Another novel feature Of the construction will
be in the method of laying the floors to prevent
damage by water in case OF fire. The difficulty
in the construction Of tall buildings for nercaD-
tile purposes has been in the danger that was
run from la mage in case of fire, no matter how
completely fire proof the construction might
be, for if the fire was to occur in any goods on
any floor the damage resulting from flood of
water would be as great to the floors below
as if the flames went through the
whole bui ding. 1t is proposed in this
covering completely the whole area SO that
there will be no chance for the water to leak
through from one floor to another. The pillars
extending from one floor TO another will be put
in position on top OF the tile flooring. There
will then be arrangements made for an outlet
for the water through the outside from each
floor, 90 that there might be fire upon any floor
of the building and the stock upon that floor
flooded without damage to any Of the goods on
the floors below. The interior of the building il
TO be finished in mahogany, and altogether IL
promises to stand as the most remarkable piece
OF architecture. The cost Is estimated at $685.
600. The appearance of this structure, com
posed entirely of plate glass aud shining sheets
of aluminium, will certainly be- novel.