The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-08
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Liberal thinkers ga the churrhce are hevinc
@ much plrasanter time now than I'm the time
~ Bishop Coleuso. thirty years ago says the
lshed his book showing that certain state
menfs and nTurcs In the hCutatcuch were
untrue, he found himself almost uni
versally ostracized. Men and women whom
ne had known Intimately from childhood re
fused 20 speak 10 him. And 30 general was
the deiestation Of him thnt his laundress In
London refused any longer 90 wash his
clothes, because she lost customers 10y his
coming into such close contact with him.
The Bank Of England was projected In 1924
70 meet the diniculty experienced by william
III in raising funds for the French war says
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. William Pat
erson and Michael Godfrey induced forty
merchants to subscribe to q loan Of Ct 10000
10 the government at Z per cent. the subscrib-
ers being Incorporated as a bank. The scheme
was opposed in parliament. but the bill passed
ana the charter was granted July p, 1923, Sir
john Houbion being Tho first governor and
Michael Godfrey the first deputy governor
The bank began active operations Jan. /, 1895
Issuing notes and discounting bills. The notes
were for &2O and upward and the usual rate
OF discount was per cent.
There are over s, 900 species Of snails and
they are found in all parts of the world, says
Public Opinion, Some are even smaller than
pin head. while others in France and Italy,
for instance. are cultivated for food and are
large enough to make good mouthful. Snails
are vegetarians, and have Jaws and tongues
OF saw-like edge, the number of points on
each running into the thousands. On the ap-
proach OF cold weather the snail throws a
film over the mouth of its shell, which tight
ems Ike drumhead. AS il becomes colder,
other films are added on the plan of storm
windows. Extensive drOuth will cause the
snail to close its doors in the same way to
prevent the evaporation of its bodily moisture
and dry up. These little animals are pos
sessed of astonishing vitality regaining activ-
tty after having been frozen in solid blocks of
ice, and enduring degree of heat for weeks
which daily crisps vegetation.
Prof. Frossard of New York, who the Illus
trated News of the World says is a great au-
thority on numismatics, recently sold col
lection of coins by public auction which
realized about 81 800. A 1895 quarter-dollar
brought 1877 50 a S 2 80 piece of 1926 $50: a
halfpenny of George l. G71D fetched S14; a
Chile Proclamation dollar of Charles "
Q7S9), IS TO- Among the best ancient coins in
the sale may be noted a double slater of
Carthage, in electrum, s23 10; half-stater of
Syracuse, S24; a gold 60-sesterce piece of
Rome, PIT Is. c. 1927 so; an aureus of Julius
Caesar, Sl4; one of 1iberiuS and one of Nero
Sl3 EACH very rare original gold mohur of
Dachabar-gir Shah Q6l0), S26; another Q6l9),
S25 60; another S26; another Q613), $24 Each
of these zodtacal coins has different sign. A
quadruple ducat of Ferdinand and Isabella
fetched $50, and double ducat, struck by
Phillip II. in the Netherlands so 25 A fine
B. c., brought s27 80.
In the west end of Machinery hall saws the
Chicago Herald, is Grier's ingram lumber
machine that was patented last October
Eastwood board, worth $50 thousand feet
passed in at one side comes out square sawed
oak, worth $50 feet on the other side. That
is, it looks like quarter sawed oak. The es-
sential feature OF the machine is O drum
thirty-six inches in diameter and thirty
inches face. The design is first painted on
f1a Of thn fa
ed black on the pattern. The grain is let I'M
painted. The drum is then hung up on end
and set with steel knives or type. These type
are " inches deep by 1-32 of an inch thick
in widths from & inch to inch. The opera
tiOn of placing them on the cylinder is some
thing similar to typesetting. the knives being
held into position by clamp. When the drum
is filled with type cement is poured into the
interstices. This holds the knife firmly in
place. The machine is capable OF taking in
lumber from one-eighth inch to six inches
thick. II is drawn through by means OF
feed roller ten inches In diameter. After
passing over the drum the lumber ne t passes
over filler pan containing q specially pre-
made by the knives by two smooth, steel
geared rollers. The board is held down
against the lller rollers by another feed
roller placed directly above them three
inches in diameter. Any surplus of filler Is
removed by a Soraper, a steel blade thirty
inches in width. The adjustment for various
thicknesseS of lumber is made by four screws
operated by beYel cog gear. The drum makes
three revolutions minute. 1t has q maxi
mum capacity of 10000 feet day of ten hours
Fifteen varieties of wood can he initiated on
this machine, snch as oak, ash. bird SIEVE
maple, mahogany, cherry and Hungarian ash
In India, says the Manchester England
Times domesticated elephants are usually
given drink from large wooden troughs flied
with well water by means of pump and il is
commonly an elephant that fills this trough
Every morning he goes regularly to his task
While visiting friend al his fine residence
in India a correspondent of a paper saw a
large elephant engaged in pumping such a
trough full of water. He continues: In pass
ing noticed that one of the two tree trunks
which supported the trough at either end had
rolled from its place, so that the trough still
elevated at one extremity, would begin to
empty itself as soon as the water reached
the level of the top at the other end which
lay on the ground. l stopped to see if the
elephant would discover anything wrong
Soon the water began to run OF at the end
which had lost its support. The animal
showed signs OF perplextty when he saw this,
but as the end nearest him lacked much of
being full. he continued to pump Finally see
ing that the water continued to pass of. he left
the pump handle and began to consider the
phenomenon. He seemed to tind ii difficult to
explain: Three times he returned to his
pumping, and three times he examined the
trough. was an absorbed looker-on. i'm
patient to sec what would be done. Soon d
lively Tapping Of the ears indicated the dawn
ing of light. He went and smelled OF the
tree trunk, which had rolled from under the
trough. l thought for a moment that he was
going to put ii in its place again. But it was
not, as | soon understood. the end which ran
over that disturbed his mind. but the end
which he found it impossible to fill Raising
the trough, which he then allowed to rest for
an instant on one of his huge feet he rolled
away the second supporting log with his trunk.
and then set the trough down, so that il rested
at both ends on the ground He then returned
to the pump and completed his task