The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-13
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
The government o. New south wales has
bern driven % tho creation Of paper money
as there are nearly 4On0u0 OF current &c
counts which technically cannot be called de-
posits, locked UP By the hank reconstructions.
The business men are. therefore az their wits
end, and hence the government offers 90 issue
| paper Tor The locked-up money 20 the extent
OF &,WD.e1o each customer receiving half his
| current account ~ this plan. II the recon
structions succeed, the government viii get
good interest for five years and then its
money back; but II they do not succeed the
government Is simply the largest deposit
holder, and must share the fate OF the rest
me spectator condemns the principle OF
mixing state credit with the credit of private
nrms, ana proposes. II the Australian colonies
want 70 have the power OF suddenly providing
currency, that they either issue notes on their
own credit or initiate the English plan.
Last night was experiment night at the
rooms of the Electric Club, says the st. Louis
| Globe-DemOcrat, and a large number of the
members, accompanied by ladies', were pres
ent to witness the cooking of a meal with
electricity as the heating power. The ma
! lority Of the utensils used are patterned after
the ordinary kinds, excepting that at the
bottom Is placed a square or Oblong piece of
pOIlShed or plated iron or steel large enough
to cover the bottom, so that it will set even.
II Is 10 this arrangement at the bottom that
the current is attached by means of the
ordinary insulated wire and through which
IL passes and accumulates q heat that does
not require work which is now being done by
coal or other kinds of fuel The ovens used
for baking meats, bread, etc, are similar to
the gasoline or gas stove oven. but
out near the amount of heat In fact,
ixl pot OF flowers was placed on one of
the ovens used last night, in which 15-pound
turkey was baked to perfection, without the
slightest damage The time required for
cooking most articles of food is about the
same length as that by coal or gasoline.
however, the current only needs to be turned
on lot a certain length OF time, and the heat
accumulated will then complete the work. 1t
is by the short time required for the current
10 be turned on that the inventors claim its
cheapneSs. Each and every utensil has a
separate wire and is so arranged to a minor
switchboard that only the necessary heat
needed is in use, and all other parts shut off.
The heat in the ovens and other close-covered
articles Is intense and can be felt for over
Two hours after the current has been turned
on. The exhibition given last night was the
hrst OF the kind ever given in the city, and
meats, bread gr1ddle cakes, potatoes,
conee and other dishes were prepared and
were highly complimented by the ladies.
An American skipper recently expressed
the opinion that oe could always find at Liver
pool tug that could pull the timbers out of
his vessel, or tow him home IN less time than
he could sail there, says Leisure Hours This
is nigh compliment, and one well deserved,
Tor the Liverpool tug fleet is undoubtedly the
finest in the world. British tugboats by no
means limit their labors now to home or even
continental waters. When a steamer breaks
down tug has to be sent to tow her into
port, and the same thing occurs when vessel
is disabled by collision or dismated in
gale. Among recent lows may be mentioned
that Of the Stormcock which took the sailing
ship Ardencaple, of LOO tons. from the Bra
zils to home port. The same tug has also
towed the disabled steamer Sobralense from
Madeira to Liverpool; distance Of l5oO
towed the steamship Reading, 1000 tons, from
Gibraltar to the Isle of Wight in a little over
FIVE days. The Jane Jollife towed
the steamer Mareotis, of 5000 tons,
from st. Vincent to England in the
depth Of winter, her best days run being 1856
miles. The Sarah Joliffe left Minorca with
the steamship st. Donats in tow on Feb IA,
reached Gibraltar four days later and arrived
at Cardif on Feb. 25. The voyage from Eng
land to Minorca and back again with her tow
only occupied twenty dUys. Another Liver
pool tugbOat, the Pathfinder, towed the Sin
dia, OF 900 tons, from London to Liverpool
in seventy-one hours. Some little while back
three tugs left Dundee, each bound for Car
din with VESSEL in tow. The Blazer of Liv-
erpool towed the Balmoral, of 1000 tons. The
Maulesden, 1900 tons, was towed by the Fly
ing Venture of Glasgow, while smaller yes
sci, the Breblock, was in charge Of the Column
bia of London. Each vessel left Dundee at
tee same time and each took the northern way
aound through the stormy Pentland First
vessel to arrive at Cardiff was the Scotch tug,
followed two hours later by the Blazer, while
the Columbia brought up the rear at an inter
val of eighteen hours Allowing for extra
weight the first prize in this interesting race
must go TO the Liverpool tug which towed by
far the larger vessel.
A figure sharp in the Boston Globe says:
Firstly, as to the two ways of naming bill
ion, yes; one is the proper method which calls
1000 100000 a billion, and which being ac-
cepted through ignorance, is considered cor
rect, but mathematically considered it is in
correct. for billion is 10000000O0 coo. and for
! n o. u q NVn in,
school, pointing of places" we begin with
the unit and, proceeding in regular arith-
metical progression, we repeat each preced-
ing enumeration in regular rotation. Thus
we begin with unit tens, hundreds, thousands.
ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions
Thus you see after hundreds, when pointing
the thousands, we take first the 900, which is
the unit then the los thousands, then the
zoos thousands Now, as this applies to
| thousands, so it does to millions, only that as
in the thousands we end with the hundreds
in the millions we end with thousands, viz.
UniS-million: 10 million: 100 M. 10 hundred
or Zoo NJ 10000 M. 100000 NJ. 100000 NJ
equal 1 billiOn-Or escaping the hun
dreds to raise an artthmetical point to
its next higher degree, it. must be
equals 100: 000X1 600 equals 100000; 1000
000xl 900 900 equals 1000 900 coo 600 or billion
The 81 ciphers are another method of ex-
pressing million than in writing, and there
fore, as no one would say that 1000 millions
was anything else than two thOuSann mill
ions we would necessarily call 1000 100000
also two thousand millions and not
2 billions, because, as stated above, the six
riRht-hand clphers only mean millions and
the 80" and three following ciphers are al
ways recognized as thousands Not to bore
you or to take up too much of your time per-
nit me to show by the annexed table what fol-
ly 1t is to call 1000, 600 900 2 billions:
0-unit.
l0-ten.
100-hundred.
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