The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-25
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generals. thirty major generals. and more
than hundred brigadier generals are expect
ed % tc present or to send representatives IN
their stead.
They do not have a long summer vacation
at the university Of the south. in Sewanee,
Tenn. for the reason that Il is cool and plea
SAINT up there on the mountains at this season.
But in midwinter IL is cold and dreary on the
heights and professors and students gladly
HE them away for the long vacation into low
er and warmer places.
1t is curious " said father to a New York
sun writer. how deficient young people seem
to be in some of their senses and acute in 9th
ers. For instance: The other day my boy and
1 went grabbing When 1t got along toward
noon we both got very hungry and my son set
me ashore to buy lunch. while he went out
upon the river again and went on crabplng. L
went mp into a nearby village and bought some
pies and cakes and sarsaparilla. l carried
these down to the wharf, and stood there ana
shouted till was hOarse. but my son never
heard me- Then an idea struck me- was to
windward of him and took a pie out OF the
bundle and held it up in one hand and held
up a bottle of sarsaparlIla in the other. He
turned his head toward me instantly and
then | saw him make a grab for the anchor;
the next minute he was coming for me as hard
as he could pull"
THE Droguisten Zeitung" is responsible
for the statement that in Germany a patent
has been refused, and the manufacture and
sale have been prohibited, of paper so pre-
pared that any ink-writing upon its surface
| could be erased by the simple application OF a
moist sponge. The paper was made OF the
ordinary ingredients, with the addition OF
| asbestos and parchment glue. The paper
| pulp, after rolling was immersed for short
| time from to 81 seconds according to the
! thickness of the paper to be prepared from it,
| in concentrated sulphuric acid at 20 degrees.
! diluted with 10 to IS per cent. OF water. 1t
was then pressed between glass rollers,
! passed successfully through water, ammonia
! solution and a second time through water,
| strongly pressed between rollers and dried on
| felt rollers, and finally on polished and heated
metal rollers. The finished article is said TO
! be precisely like ordinary paper Its sale has
| been prohibited on account of the misuse TO
which it can be put
Some of the Paris candidates for seats in
the French parliament adopted peculiar
electtoneering methods to win over the vacil-
lating voters. One, for instance addressed
| crowd of people as they 1oated down the
| Seine on q steamboat at his expense. Per
| haps the most humorous episode of the can
vass In Paris was the trick played by prtn-
| ter on an illiterate candidate named Robinet
This aspiring politician resolved to inform
| the public of his merits by parading the
| streets as a sandwich man" bearing elabo-
| rate placards setting forth his virtues. AS
M. Robinet could neither read nor write the
| printer to whom he gave the order for the
| placards substituted for the intended lauda-
tory circular statement containing much
| scurrlous language and several insults to
| well-knOwn electors The result was that
| the unlucky candidate, proudly parading in
all innocence OF the offensive notices on his
| back and breast, was stoned by the populace
and narrowly escaped lynching.
An English mechanical genius has devised
a method OF indicating and stopping leak
by the use of compressed air, says the Boston
Journal. He divides a ship into air-tght com
| partments fitted with doors provided with
packing material and connected by tubes with
room on deck called the switch room" In
| this room is junction chest supplied with
| compressed air from fixed or portable com
| pressorS, and so arranged that the air can be
delivered to any Of the compartments. Other
| tubes lead from the compartments from which
water can be forced out when required, and
! electric indicators are also connected with the
| switch room to indicate the accumulation of
water in any of the compartments. Should the
vessel spring a Leak the indicator will
/ show which compartment is affected, so that
| the compressed air may be fored in to drive
| the water out. The invention also includes
| the means for indicating the position OF
sunken ship this being accomplished by
means of buoy connected to a coil of rope.
| To refloat the vessel diver can descend and
connect the junction chest with the various
compartments, so that by supplying com
| pressed air the water will be elected and the
| vessel fioated Other objects of the invention
| are the prevention OF fire and means for ex-
| tinguishing the same, and also for ventilating
| the cargo.
Some years ago, says the Boston Globe,
| Professor Langley gave expression to the
| idea that the sun is not white, but blue, its
| apparent whiteness being due principally to
| the absOrptive action of its own atmosphere
| but in quite an appreciate degree to that OF
! our air. After several years Of further re-
| search, tie professor was able to show that
| the sun, although we regard it as white is
| blue. or at least blush. He reasoned in this
| way: Ii appears to us when Setting-that is
when we look at it through long range Of
| our atmoSphere-to be red, or orange, or vel
| low, according to the state of the air. When
| the sun is high above the horizon, the action
! of the air is similar, but less intense, thus
! making the suns disc yellOwer than it actu-
| ally is. Moreover, the extreme edge of the
| disk is less bright than the center,
although 1t is a fact that just as
the former portion asa from the latte: tnls
| can only re due to the absorptlve action of
| the solar atmosphere upon the light. A fur
! Their proof is given in photographs of the sun.
| 1t Will be observed in these that the darken-
! ing toward the edge is distinctly noticeable
! This shows that the rays which produce the
| Photographic image principally blue indigo
| by the suns atmosphere than those which
| form the ordinary visual image of the sun.
thus after series of detatled experiments,
| Prof. Langley demonstrated the accuracy of
| his theory that the sun is really blue. its APP
| parent color being the result of the absorption
! eXerted by Its vapory atmosphere upon the
/ rays OF light as they passed through.
| There is a lobster farm-or pound, as it is
| SOuInDOrb,
| Me. The Boston Globe describes this pound.
| the most successful on the coast whence
! 100000 Holsters are shipped each year The
| pound is formed by building a solid dam
| across Underwater cove. This dam does not
: quite rise to high water mark. but across the
| top is placed fence of iron rods permitting
| daily change of water, and preventing the
| Holsters from escaping. In the spring and
| fall business is most brisk. When the fisher
! men bring the Holsters to the pound the
| fish as they are called, are hosted to the
| dam measured and those which are more
| than l0iz inches long, the legal limit are
| thrown in. If a lobster is clever his life in
| the pound may be long and full of Joy If he
| is stupid he will be flshed out with drag
seine and packed in a barrel with a piece Of
| ice for pillow, and sent to Boston The
| seine is made of stout Irvine and is weighted
| at the bottom with heavy chain. Along the
| top is a row of cOrks which sustain the weight
| of the seine while the chain drags on the bot
| tom of the pound. A single cast of this seine
| will bring up Holsters enough to fill eleven
| barrels. The chain as it sweeps along the
! bottom sttrs up the Holsters, which imme-
| diately shoot backward into the slack Irvine
! In taking them out the men wear heavy nit
! tens, though even then they are often nipped
| In The pound the Holsters are fed on salt her
! ring, men rowing about in skiffs and pitching
| the herring overheard. This is called feed
1 ing the chickens, and it takes about six bar
! relS to make light luncheon for the flock
| There are said to be number of old hard
| shells in the Southport farm which for wears
| have evaded the casts OF the drag. Two of