The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-30
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which is measured by the gold stende-1 :,
not by the commercial value of the iI 1.iu
| form. 'No SILVER
UP to date all the methods devised for I,,b.
ing railroad cars by electricity have natarioT.
been failures. The storage batteries were ,o-t,
than useless, owing to the fact that it too iSe
most as long to charge storage as il did ~ "a. a.
charge 1t, and the other methods ware i11 us
ucable. 1t is finally announced, howevar , &c.
troi. D. McElroy, for several years suneriHS
tendent OF the state school for the blind al o IN
sing, Mich, has solved the problem of Hab t-au
train by electricity in successful and lug lug
nomlcal manner. A valuable feature is ~ - ~
vice arra,nge1 to retain light in the cars At a
standstlIl. In each car small but pouyert
storage battery is placed. While the train 70 ~
motion these batteries become cbar % "a
When the train stops at station ~ ~
power from the dynamo ceases. bTt one
tomatically the storage batteries 'u' oo Su-
into play, and light the train. car NAV yI 10
cut OH and thrown to side track to a1Tsi. 10
connection. and the lights will be in service "a
six hours. This time can be increased az -Sr
by increasing the storage battery Dower MI
headlight for the locomotive and every li,bt 10
the train will be electric, ana the tax IN ~ ~
power of the locomotive will be very small
The cost of system is less than the ordina.
lights now in use on railroads. The dynamoiS -
arranged that it does not take the power fro ~
the locomotive when 1t is doing its heaviest
work-that is, when it is starting The worT
begins when the engine is moving at ahont
thirteen miles an hour. When the train is mn
the whole apparatus is in a normal conditio6P'
and requires no attention whatever.
FRONTIER HIGHwAYMEN would have had hard
time wrestling with a bit of gold which ar.
rived at San Francisco by the Wells Fsr,o 1.
Co.'S express few days ago. 1t came from
the celebrated Harqua Hala mine for conaga
at the United States mint. When the an,
ployes of the mint took look at it thew wero
astonlshed. The reason was that it was tbs
biggest lump OF gold that they had bad the m.
harN 10 in
it was in one respect like many Others bsioS
not their own 1t was of a somewhat conjca1
shape, and seemed to have been emptied ont ~
gigantic Stag pot. 1t did not belle its looks
for that was the way it had been shaped Ia
was the product of forty five days run Al the
Harqua Hala. and the tremendous bulk weighed
35716 pounds avoirdupois. and was stated 10 ha
Of the value Of Sl20.OOl The thought
full representatives of the owners of the
big nugget telegraphed from point
to point as they progressed with it from tbs
mine. sixty miles southwest of Phoenix, and
announced when it should arrive at the neyt
station. This was in order to foresCall anv
ambitious men with guns; for though aspiring
highwaymen were thus kept exactly posted az
! to when the gold might be expected il also
| posted the people in each town. The nugget
was too big for any party Of bandits 10 carry II
| off intact and secrete, and had they stopped
| the caravan on the way to the railroad thew
would have only had time to chisel off 81 900 or
so till the pack of bloodhounds which the prison
| officials at Phoenix kept would have been on
| their trail. Nobody molested it, therefore, and
| it reached its destination safely. The pom
| derous yellow cone has attracted much atten-
ton.
THE SUPERSTITION that associates the horse
shoe with good luck is very old. 1t is said to
prevail not only among English speaking peo-
pie, but in all the races Of Europe and ia
Southern Asia. AntiQuarians are undecided
whether it's origin has to do with the material
from which the horseshoe is made or with is
| ia Nl.nk
metal, had great secret powers, and they drove
nails into their walls as protection against
pestilence. The Arabs, when overtaken by
severe storms In the desert, cry out, Iron,
iron !" which they think will propitate the evil
spirit who have raised the storm The Scan.
dlnavian races think chat spirits can be driven
away and witches kept at bay by knife stuck
in the house, or nails driven up These races
have held from time immemorial the ioea thst
1t was lucky to find piece Of iron. AS horse
SHOES are the form in which iron Is most
frequently found, 1t is naturally the
form TO which the superstition has
longest clnHS AS re 4SsTs 'ns '0T nm
doubt that among the ancents the cres'
cent form was much favored as having lucky
or preservative powers. Ornaments were shaDed
In this way to drive away evll splrlts. me ni'
pese have their tombs built in semicTcuar
| form, like horseshoe. and the Moors use the
same form in their architecture. 1t may oere-
marked that In the mythology OF Europe horses
| were also regarded as ck-oringers ana super
stition once supposed that horses hoof placed
under The bed would cure certain complains
The horseshoe, therefore, may be said TO unite
within itself three lucky elements: IL Is IN ths
shape of a crescent it is made OF iron, ard ID
has been taken from horse. Some Wflters on
this subject have surmised that the lucky quar-"
ity of the horseshoe was derived from lts TO-
semblance in form to the halo pictured aDoVe
the head of saints, but this connection Is III
probable, since the superstition certainly ante
dates Christianity