The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! w" OlA SUM- Inc novelty Is intended 10
! take the place Of buggies and carriages and
| is designed to be OF service az all seasons Of
| the year and in every kind of going. The
/ tlres are fully four inches in diameter and
vibration IS reduced to a minimum. The mot
/ I've power is produced by coal oil and as soon
! as the rider takes his seat securely the ma
ch1ne does the rest. a gallon OF oil will
/ drive the single seat motor 800 miles while
| twice the quantity win send the new four
\ wheeled continuance similar distance with
| three passengers aboard. The four-wheeler
seems destined to a long lease Of
Two ladies' bicycles connected by a
! carriage seat in which three passen-
gers can seat themselves comfortably The
| speed can be controlled at the operator S
| will, but just how fast a ''scorcher" may send
/ 1t along will not be known with any degree of
accuracy until the practical speed trial is
neld on some date in the near future. The
designer has been long before the public with
| MS airShip theories. and now that he has got
down to terra trma the chances are that his
should tithe of the inventors hopes be
| realized, the public must be prepared to see
| citizens gliding along with far less waste of
energy than Is required TO climb an elevator
stairs or sprint from the sidewalk TO catch
surface car. With meteor cycle, gallon of
coal oil, and box of matches. the veriest
| cripple will be able to hold his own with the
most muscular prodigy eestriding wheel.
With the enormous increase OF railway
travelling the necessity arose for inventing
some method Of counting time which should
avoid he complications arising from the use
of local mean time. which varies with every
mile of east or west travel What is know n
! as the new standard time" was adopted by
agreement by all the prln i3al railroads OF
lhe United States at Il clock noon on Nov.
i, 1888. lhe system SAYS the Detroit Free
Press. divides the continent into five long
ltudinal eeltS and likes meridian of time for
each belt These merldiaps are fifteen de.
RreeS or Longitude, corresponding to one hour
OF time. apart. Eastern Maine, New Bruins
wick AID Nova Scot. a-use the Goth meridian;
| the Cana las. New England, The middle
states, Virginia and the Caroinas use the
10Th meridian, which is that Of Philadelphia
the states OF the Mississippi valley,
Alabama Georgia and Florida, and west
ward, including Iexas, Kansas and
the larger part Of Nebraska and Dakota. use
the Goth meridian, which is that of New Or
leans. The territories to the western border
OF Arizona and Montana go by the time OF
| the l05th meridian. which is that of Denver,
| and The Pacific states employ the l20,h me
| rldian. The time divisions are known as the
| lntercolonial time. eastern time, central time,
mountain time and Pacific time.s.A traveller
| passing from one time belt to another, will
| lind his watch an hour fast or too slow. ae-
Cordlng to the direct. on in which he is going.
| All points in any lime division using the
time of the meridian must Set their time
| pieces faster or slower than the time indics-
| ted by the sun, according as their position is
east or west Of the line This cIlange Of sYs-
TEN reduced the time StanaardSused By the
| railroads from nifty three to five, great con-
ven;ence to the railroads and the travelling
| public. ....
The fastest trip ever made across the At
lantic by yacht. says the Washington Post,
was in 1869. when the American schooner
yacht Sappho sailed from Staten island to
| Queenstown light in y days hours and "a
minutes. In the great race in 1865 for S9OC61
| between the American schooner Yachts Hen
| rietta, Fleetwing and Vesta, the Henrietta
made the VOYAGE from Sandy HOOK u the
Needles, Isle of Wight, in 13 DAYS u hours
and 30 minutes, an average Of go knots fer
| 3,lO6 miles. The Fleetwlng and Vesta were
| only few hoars behind. The
schooner Coronet. in her race with
| the Dauntless made the trip from Bay
Ridge to Queenstown in fourteen DAYS
| twenty-Ihree hours and thirty minutes
Among sailing vessels her majesty S
ship, Newcastle. made the trip from New
| York to Falmouth in eleven days. The Amer
lean clipper ship Dreadnaught sailed
from New York TO Liverpool in
thirteen days and eight hours, while,
the ship Independence made the same
| journey in thirteen DAYS and fifteen hours
| OF the single stlckerS, the : cotch cutter
| Thistle, after being defeated for the Americas
| cup In 1887, made the return journey to Scot
land in little over seventeen days 1t took
| the Genesta twenty. one days for her best trip
| either way, while the Galltea was
the same journey. The Nayahoee --''I was
| nineteen days in going across. Last
| fall Lord Dunraven's cutter Valkyrie
/ came mere In tWenty-nlne days and eighteen
| hours. and on her return trip to Scoll md over
| twenty eight days were needed. So 1t will be
| seen that the Vigilant has made the trim in
| Just aoout half the time required by the Wat
/ son cutter The Vfgilant S quick passage will
| give her ample time to prepare for the Clyde
| regatta on July 4. when the Goulds expect her
| TO make her debut in British waters. From
| the time the Vigilant passed the bar 1T SANDY
| Hook until sighted OF Tory island Ireland.
| she vas fourteen days, thirteen hours and
| nifty minutes in crossing Deduc:ing the diff
| ference u time, her voyage occupied ?o,rtaet
| days aight hours and fifty minutes
| Viningen is one Of the oeutsrs for the Black
| Forest clock industry, The making of clocks
| in the SchVarzwGld dates from a very old
time, and the industry has mere attained some
forms which are to he found nowhere else,
| says the Philadelphia Telegraph 1t is. per.
| haps the most distin tive of all the skilled
| trades OF these clever people The inhabl-
tants of the hills, from the earliest time, in
distinction from the residents of the valleys.
who preferred to farm, have shown a love for
woodwork, and centuries ago trained their
hands to cut out various clever utensils
L heir skill in this line took the form of
clock making about 1880 or go There
were very rudimentary ideas afloat concern
ing what constituted clock IN those DAYS
At first weight was used hung from
string. Later the rend lllm was introduced
Thea lme the striking day clio ks Again
little Inter. the Sday cioces BY their
own discoveries, and by the adoption OF the
| thus steadily kept themselves in the front
rank an " the clock manufatt lners of the
world. his section particularly e. csls in
making automatic clocks. and clocks com
blned with musi ;al boxes and other novelties
The print pal thing IN this line however. is
the cuckoo clock lin German kukukl The
first cuckoo clock was put together about $50
years ago Gy an inventive old SchWarzwal-
| der, aud the popularity Of his clever mechan-
/ al device continues without Abatement
AS this is a subject which has lately
been the cause Of some discussion in the
United States it may be well to saw that
this is'the home of the clock in question
| There are several factories inVlllingen which
manufacture nothing else. The cuckoo is
| put up in every kind of clock case. and with
every kind OF good, tad and Indifferent time
keeping machinery He may be had works
and all, for 81, and so on no, according to the
| quality of his song and other charaoteristics
His special popularity, of course is his regu.
larity, and this is what got, him into trouble
In the United States. He has a small cage nm
at the top of the clock, and whenever the
time comes for him to go through his exhi-
bition his door flies open, he steps ont in
front, bows ana flaps his wings and sings
his little song. He has been Criticised for
his limited repertory, Nature did this
peculiar sound is made, by the use of a sort
Of double elbows, through which the wind
Is forced at the proper intervals. II il is a
gcol clock the mlmtcry is perfect. 1t is an
invention which could have been made only
here in the land of the cuckoo. At this
time OF the year the bird can be heard see
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