The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-06
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/ bership which is limited to men possessing
either literary or artistic qualifications. 1t IS
called the Lodge OF the eluatuor Coronat,
! and Sir Charles Warren was master and Wal
/ ter Besant treasurer from its foundation, in
/ 1884, until recently, when Sir Charles was
compelled by the constitution to retire de
was presented on his retirement with thirty
books, all written by members OF the lodge.
There is a horseshoe-shaped mountain up
| in Manitoba which literally swarms with
snakes twice every year. In the early fall
says the ST. Louis Republic, these slippery
customers gather here from all directions,
mostly from the prairie country to the south
In one side of the mountain there is a circular
| hole. about fifteen feet deep. and as smooth
as II had been fashioned with a we'll auger,
where tens Of thousands of reptiles gather
TO spend the cold winter months. Persons
VINO nave tried TO explore THIS immense
snake den during the summer, when the reg
ular tenants were absent say that dozens OF
subterranean passages lead out under the
mountains in all directions from the bottom OF
the we'll Capt. Silvers, royal engineers esti-
mates that he has seen as many as 100000
snakes of all sizes knotted together and piled
up IN seml-torpid state in this well OF ser
pents' as II is called in the northwest.
The best COW in the world, it Is claimed, is
the champion Jersey COW which was at the
worlds fair, Ida Marigold. No. 81 SIS, the
property OF Charles A Sweet, of Buffalo. Her
| record as butter maker is fifty pounds in
fourteen consecutive days. She is valued at
5000. Entered in the cheese contest at Chi
cago. she took the first premium for Jerseys
and the sweepstakes premium for Jerseys,
Guernseys and Shorthorns. This famous an
lmal has more white in her color than is gen
orally found on Jersey cattle. but the fact
| That she is not quite the standard color has
not prevented her from making the top mark
| as butter producer. She was born June 2
| 1885, hence is years old. She possesses a
| large frame, and has finely shaped udder
with nice teats. She has given birth to five
| calves, four of which are owned with her.
| When five years old she gave 25 pounds 2h
| ounces butter in seven days. Ida Marlgold is
| large COW, as evidenced by the fact that she
| weighed llS0 pounds the day she won the
| sweepstakes premium in the exhibition ring
at the worlds fair. She is also large
mixer, having given the largest yield Of any
COW in the test.
Almost all the molasses which comes from
Cuba to the United States is brought in the
same tanks in steamships that are used to
carry petroleum as return cargo, says the
! New York Herald. The ships tanks are
about Is feet deep and have a neck feet
deep. They are pumped full of oil at Brook
| Ign or PHILADELPHIA, then taken to Havana,
/ and the oil is pumped out into the tanksof
| the refining plants here. Molasses is brought
from the interior of the island in huge hogs
headS, which are empt1ed into the storage
| tanks. suction pump drawing about 10000
gallons an hour fills each ships tanks to
| within about feet of the top that amount of
| space being REQUIRED for the expansion of the
| molaSSes II might be supposed that the pc
| troleum would have a bad effect on the mo
| lasses but it has been shown that the con-
| trarY is the case, and as nearly one half the
| Importation is made into rum and the balance
| renned into sugar, a little oil is not
| OF much account. The tanks are cleaned
| after the molasses has been pumped out by
| turning in powerful steam jet, which washes
| down the SIDES and liquettes whatever molas-
| ses may be left In the bottom of the tank
and the suction pump finishes the work. A
cargo OF molasses which formerly required
| ten or twelve days. can now be unloaded in
forty eight hours while the difference in cost
OF handling to say nothing of the saving Of
time amounts to large sum.Ihe first attempt
at handling molasses in bulk was made by
the brig Novelty in 1877. She was fitted with
lining and her whole hold was used with
out partitions. She made several trips be-
tween Matanzas and Boston but was not
successful as a dividend Garner. Since the
present system of dividing a vessels hold
into tanks was devised apd put in practice on
steamers the profits OF the trade and the
steamship companies have largely increased.
Local ForecasJer Harmon at st. Louis has
a novelty in the typewriter line ac ,ording to
the New York Recorder. His idea is to bring
the typewriter into use in the office of the
weather observers in the making of the daily
map, and Il typewriter company has been
working for some time on the suggestion of
an observer at Minneapolis who first gave il
the idea OF the speciality. Daily maps of the
country, with the stations. are made out. and
each day the forecaster marks opposite the
stations the weather, wind and temperature
by means OF symbols and figures. For this
mimeograph paper, with the signs inscribed
thereon by means of a cyclostyle which
placed on an ink pad conveys the indications
to the printed map. So far this has answered
the purpose but the typewriter figures are
far palmer and preferable, and machine has
been completed which will reyoiu-
tlonlze the making of maps.
The keyboard has undergone a change in
the first row, which contains the figures and
arbitrary signs; for, though the figures are
there, the signs have been changed for the
1NafnlZ n oh
weather. The figures and 81 moods are used
in the regulation typewriter with the upper
and lower case, and the effect is a much
heater and more legible map. The carriage
roller and scale are much larger and longer
than in the ordinary machines, or even in the
largest machines used by legislative bodies
for the engrOssment Of bills. There is how
ever, drawback yet to be overcome. The
mimeograph paper which is now in use is too
fragile to stand the wear and tear of shifting
on the machine, and the type does not make
an impression that will take ink to cOmmuni-
cate to numherless maps. Stronger mime
Ographs will have to be invented and the type
sharpened to the point of the cyclostyle be.
fore the machine is complete success. The
weather men are anxious to have the machine
perfected so they can use it.
From time to time one sees references in
the daily papers, referring to the difficulty ex-
perienced by the ferry companies, car lines
etc, in dlsposing of enormous accumulatiOns
OF ordinary copper cents. The reader is very
apt to remember this particularly If in ex-
change for a dollar bill he is returned ninety-
five one cent pieces by a conductor Asa
matter OF fact says the New York Herald
there is no excuse for the item, much less for
a car conductor or change taker in unloading
his weight of copper upon the always more or
less abused passenger. The United States
sub-treasury, at Wall and Nassau streets
makes, and has made it a practice for wears
OF exchanging minor coin for United States
money OF large denomination, and IL has many
regular customers who are so served. There
are number Of curious things about cents as
they come to the sub-treasury. In the first
place, they are quite extensively counter
feited. This may seem strange as the profit
in a counterfeit cent is necessarily small In
is true, however, nevertheless and is sun
posed to be the work of Italians
who more largely than anv
other nationality, seem to favor the
imitation of our minor and subsidiary coin
The Brooklyn and New Jersey ferry com
panies, the elevated railroads of both New
York and Brooklyn and the various slot ma
chine companies are regular customers for
the exchange OF cents for other money at the
sub-treasury. At times they turn in enor-
nous quantities. the slot companies alone
ranging between 1925 and 800 day AS
might be expected. all sorts Of oddities in the
way of coin come in with the quantity takeu
IN the machines. In addition to the counter I
feits are scores of mot l cents" of war times.
metal discs and foreign copper, Austrian
money predomtnattng. AS the copper cent is
simply token no matter what its condition
is, II is redeemed at par il it can in any wav
be Identified as United States money The
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