The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-24


what Is the rnntter with the calves OF the
| country. asks the New York Tribune. Dur.
/ ms The last few days there have been reports
| 81 q winged calf in North Dakota. a calf with
| eight feet in California. cali with two tails
| growing out Of its head ia Georgia. ana q cali
| with two bodies and one head Ia Nebraska
The Italians derived "starboard" from
/ questa borda, this side" and "larboard"
| from quella borda. which means that side"
| Abbreviated, these two phrases appear as
| sta borda ana Ia Eorda. Their close resem-
| blance caused so many mistakes that the Ad-
| miralty ordered the "larhoard' 10 he discon-
| tnued and port substituted. Port for
| "larboard' IS said to be first used in Arthur
| Pitts Voyage in 1880,
Among the strange things that strike the
| eye in Vancouver city is a boat colony 1t oc-
| cupies a strip OF beach back OF the town on
| the salt.water arm" or ford and consists
| OF twenty or thirty little floats. few OF them
| over forty feet long that are built over and
| supplied with beds and cooking utensils,
| Some of them are occupied by laborerS, but
| the disappearing ones that are put together
| with a good deal of art and are really hand
| some pieces OF wood working, are the homes
| OF Japanese artisans. The scOws float at
| high tide. but are moored to the shore The
| strangeness Of the scene is heightened by the
| tents Of dirty Indians on "a bluff just above
| the water.
| Business methods in New York are much
| modified by the enormous rental value Of
| land, says the Sun. MANY manufacturing con
| Germs in crowded parts Of the city make their
| own packing boxes not because IL is cheaper
| to make them than to buy them ready made,
! but because the lumber occupies less space
| before ii has been made up into boxes than
| after. 1t is kept stored in properly assorted
| sizes, and boy earning 50 or "a week soon
| learns 10 assemble the material and make IN
| quick time packing box of any desired size.
| When ii is possible to buy boxes of various
| sizes packed in nests it is done, as they, of
F1ly
| stored individually. Nobody in New York
| can afford to store mere wind.
| Many of the apparatus used for maintain
| ing telephone communication between divers
| at the bottom of the sea or river and the boat
overhead have been found unreliable and un
| satisfactory. An improved system comprises
| Hunnings transmitter combined with a re-
| ceiver wound with low resistance coil suita-
| BILE for battery current. The circuit leads
| to receiver and tranSmftter contained within
the hood worn by the diver. The operator
| above the water can control the conversation
4 by means Of the break-key. When the diver
| wishes to speak he pulls on the life line and
notifies the operator overheard who then
| presses the key and puts the circuit in condi-
| tion for communication. The whole outfit is
| compact and handy
| The production OF soap from cottonseed oil
has now become a definite and important in
dustry, and the following method or formula
| is said to yield 535 pounds of clear waxy soap
/ lTOu lou POUNDS OF IaG. OQ6 nunQreu ana
| sixty-four pounds of refined cottonsecd oil, IS
OF tallOw 70 Of resin *, ~ ~ silicate of soda
| N, Of palm oil, 1853 of caustic I've of So B.,
| 32 OF starch, of sal soda, 40 Of slick, ~ of
| water and | OF perfume. In working this
| formula the materials are framed thus avoid
| ing framing the soap, the cottonseed Oil palm
olland tallow warmed to temperature of
| ll5' F., are first placed in the frame,
then the resin warmed and cut,
with small amount of weak I've to keep il
fluid, Is added The frame is now rolled un-
| der the mixing machine, which has movable
| shafts and blades these mixer shafts being
| lowered into the mixture and set in motion.
| The caustic I've and soda silfOate are now
| added the mixture stirred from seven to ten
minutes, when the starch and sal soda and
| slick are added, and the whole stirred for an
other four or five minutes. The mixture
should now have glossy and smooth appear
ance, indicating that the Incorporation is
| complete The perfume Is impaired the mix
ing blades removed and the frame set aside
to cool the soap hardening in a reasonable
length of time.
In the impor tant matter of ventilation the
| method resorted to In the tunnel beneath the
Mersey at Liverpool. is claimed to present
one of the most striking achievements. Ex-
tending, as does this tunnel, deep below the
bed OF the Mersey to the solid red sandstone,
and approached at either end by elevators of
seventy and ninety feet lift it was foreseen
that ventilation was a necessity of the grav-
! est character. The tunnel is large enough to
/ avoid the piston action, its cross section be-
ing several times that of the trains and,
at and near the middle of the tunnel, are
openings to a smaller side drift or tunnel
running alongside of the main tunnel to the
shore end, where is fixed a large fan, the
result being that air constantly enters at the
stations, which are thus swept clear OF all foul
air. A train starting in pure air at the station
| follows the air travelling in the tunnel up to
the center, and any change of air between the
train and tunnel is thus less than it would be
| II the air in the tunnel were not moving. Past
the tunnel center tho train begins to travel
against the moving air, by which time the air
in the train will be more or less fOuled by the
passengers and the ventilation due to train
motion, then begins to increase. The first
air entering from the tunnel to the train is
perhaps as good at that time as the air in the
train, and, as the train proceeds, it meets
purer air at every foot forward and when il
reaches the station is in air of surface quality
again
1t will surpri Sc most people, said Super
! intendent A. f. Brown of the PHILADELPHIA
geological garden to Record man, to learn
| that the polar bear stands the hot weather of
! the dog days in this locality better than the
! African lion. On hot days the lion will get
! off his feed the polar bear will not The
| tropical animals in the garden" continued
! the superintendent, are the ones mostly af-
| fected by the extreme heat of midsummer
| strange as II may appear. l suppose the rea-
! son Of il is that the heat here is more moist
than that Of the tropics and. as il were of n
| different character. Whatever mortality oc-
! ours among our animals during a heated term
| is mostly among the tropical animals
| especially the African. In hot weather
have watched the polar bear 20 into
! his tank, and then, instead of Iyine'
in the shade, extend himself in the direct
| rays Of the sun, where the water on his skin
| would evapOrate. He found out for himself
l suppose. that evaporation causes a lower
| temperature. Again, 1t is somewhat aston
| ishtng, at first, that our polar bear should
suffer sometimes, as he does, from the severe
cold of winter. have seen him shivering on
one OF those bitterly cold days when the sky
was overladen and the air full of moisture.
| The moisture was evidently what affected
him. In the arctic regions it is so cold that
the moisture is frozen out of the air Birds
do not like the heat 1t makes them perch
! with dropped wings. Heat affects not only
the animals in the garden. but the finances Of
the garden itself. A difference of 10 degrees
IN the thermometer, say, if it is 95 instead
of s. means a loss of several humid
day." VIZ