The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


In LeavenwOrth county. Kansas, yielded
1854 bushels OF apples this year, and the
net profit realized was about $1,000 This
as from 400 acres.
The society woman's calling card is
just an inch and half by to inches, OF
very thin. flexible board, and bears both
name and address in small. simply printed
characters. says New York letter These
are for single women and married ones
who do not carry the name Of sister
or mother on their carte de Vislte. FOR
those who do the hieroglyphic 81 has
been placed between the names. Fashion
IS worked by the statiOner just the same
as by the milliner.
Two OF the greatest banes of steam rail-
way travelling are smoke and dust and any
attempt 10 enable traveller to reach his
destination with even a moderate sense OF
cleanliness will meet its own sure reward,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. A venti-
lating window has been tried for some
time in the cars of a progressive rail-
way company, with view TO remedy the
inadequacy of the ordinary methods Of car
ventilation. The window has a single sash
hinged at both ends and sides by slip
hinges, so that either side can be opened,
or the sash can be pushed outward, par
allel with the side of the car. Under or
binary conditions the window is swung
open from the front hinges, so that the
opening is protected by the sash. There
Is such supply of fresh air that practi-
cally no inconvenience is experienced
from the smoke of the locomotive. The
rush OF air past the window creates an eX-
haust and draws out the air from the car,
windows in summer. while in winter the
leakage of air around the deck windows
and front door is sufficient for ventilation
50 that a continuous exhaust goes on
through the windows at all times. The
nuisance of dust and the entrance of rain
Is prevented by water table over the
window, and there is also a brass shield
on the bottom of the sash to hinder the
dust entering from beneath. This shield
slides in a groove in the sill. The sash
closes against rubber strips, making an
air tight fit when closed. To prevent the
sashes being opened the wrong way, a
locking rod extends the length of the car.
which is fitted with a handle over each
platform. This rod is under the control
OF the brakeman, who lockes the hinges
OF the leading side of the window in the
same way as on suburban cars; the al
ternate deck lights are opened or closed
according to the direction in which the
car is running. In test of this new ven
ulator, the windows were purposely OPEN
ed in the tunnels. and the small quantity
OF smoke that leaked in around the drop
window, in the doorway and at the for
ward deCk-lights was exhausted by the
window air currents.
The fact that a cat, when 1t falls from
any considerable hight, always lands on
bial says the Mex York Post What is
perhaps less known is, that this seemingly
simple performance has been. for a weeks
time, an ineXplicable puzzle to DE learned
very lively debate sprang up over the
question in the Academic de Sciences at its ]
session Of Oct. p, and it is possible that
OF what they fondly DENIED to be the law
OF mechanics and against the cat If NJ
Marcy had not brought in documentary
evidence, consisting of sixty instantaneous
photographs that he had taken, represent !
ing every stage of the animals descent
The first showed the cat with its feet
up then as if making desperate gestures
OF appeal with its paws; then turning
progressively on itself; and, at last, land
ing on all tours, NJ. Marcy was of opin-
ion that a complete turn was made within /
the first metre of the descent. NJ. Guyon /
thought that the rotation was due to the /
displacemnt of the members during the /
iall, which overcame the inertia. NJ /
Marcel Deprez was of the opinion that |
no body could turn itself thus without |
an assisting force. NM. LoeWy, Maurice /
Levy Milne Edwards Bertrand and Ber- /
thelot thought that the cat found a point /
dappui in the hand that dropped it, or I
the object that provoked its fall from |
which it gained a movement of rotation. /
But NJ. Marcy replied that no indication |
OF TINS was to be seen In the photographs. |
NJ marcel Deprez then suggested that the 4
displacement of the intestines might play |
some part in the matter though whatever 4
II might be, It would be contrary to all I
known laws. M. Marcy proposed that he I
would continue his researches, and would I
suspend his cat hereafter by a string
winch he would cut at the proper moment, !
and then, as before, would photograph the 4
successive phases of the animals fall I
AT the next meeting NJ. Maurice Levy rose |
9nd SAID that, in his opinion, the whole /
dlnlculty in the case had sprung from an /
ineXact Interpretation of some flndament- /
al principles of mechanics He then passed |
to the blackboard, which he RAPIDLY COW
cred with hgures that proved clearly to /
the severest understandings that the cat /
broke no mathematical laws by its fall /
rreace settled down on the academy: /
Causa finita est.
The people of Holland have undertaken I
a gigantic work by means of which they |
expect 10 recover the larger part of the |
territory now covered by the Zuyder Zee /
the inland sea of the country and turn
~ aSaln INTO fertile farming region, saws I
me milwaukee, Journal. 1t is now lust [
HYe centuries since the inundation Of that /
part OF the Netherlands now covered nv /
the Zuyder Zee was completed the en- /
croachments of the sea having been going 1
on Tor 70 years, previous to which time /
the territory was covered with forests /
By the most stupendous eXertions about |
559o square miles of country has already |
been recovered by an elaborate dixie svs-
TEN which has gradually reclaimed sec
ton after section that was lost but the
new scheme trandsends the previous work
in extent and Importance The towns ~
the region which had become of consider /
able Importance as seapOrts through the
bringing OF the waters of the ocean
to their doors have lost considerable of
that importance through the difficulties
Of naVigation and and the transfer of the
trade TO the North Holland Canal and the
Ship canal, which connects the metro
polls with the ocean. On this account the
remnants of commerce are not worth as
much to the towns as the country would
be after it is reclaimed, and therefore
there is general acquiescence in the Man
" vi I've the OtedH out. On account of !
the great cost it will be distributed over
a period of thirty-three years. so as to
make it less oppressive and to make the
benefits gradually bear their share Of
the expense: A colossal sea wall is first
to be built from North Holland to Fries
land, shutting out the tides of the ocean.
This wall will be PIG feet wide at the base
and the top will be seventeen feet above
the sea level, while along the inner side
and at some distance below the top will
be track wide enough for a wagon ROAD
and a railway. After the sea Is haired
out the inclosed space to be reclaimed
will inclose within separate embankments
TOUR areas containing in the aggregate
100 square miles. One of these areas will
be first drained by pumping the water over
the embankment, the water finding lis
way TO the sea through the main channel
and as the shallower portions become ex,,
posed they will be successfully brought
under cultivation; It is calculated that
within ten years %, 600 acres can he rn ,1i9e
annually available, and in the end the in-
land sea will be reduced to a channel
about fifteen miles wide called the YSgai
meer, communicating with the sea bv
locks at Wleringen, with Amsterdam Nv
a branch three miles wide nj -. Dy |