The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lamps OF the city.
The Chicago Telephone Company has just
I placed in several Of its public pay stations
instruments whereby you can drop a niekle
IN the slot call up anybody you wish and
/ talk Tor a certain length Of time.
A translucent waterproof pliable material,
called duroline, is being used In some parts
Of Europe and Australia as a substitute for
glass for roofing large buildings. Il is easily
] bent can be cut with strong 5 .issors, and is
said 10 be weather and heat proof.
A physician who sold some OF his steel In
struments and bought others of aluminium,
makes an unfavorable report concerning his
new Instruments. While the aluminium
J probes, sounds and tongue depressors do not
/ oxidize: they are deficient in elasticity after
depression.
Under an old claw in California the state
was made liable for damage to property re-
sulting from mohs and riots. The law has
not been invoked for quarter century until
/ now Jasper Botters. OF Martinez. asks the
/ lnceadiarles who arc now under conviction.
The manufacture of brick from blast furn-
ace Stag has recently been commenced in
Germany. One set of furnaces alone turned
/ out overs, 0OO bricks last year. The ricks
are weak at first and have to be handled care
! fully, but they become sufficiently strong for
J building purposes after the lapse of SIX
months.
Timber can now be successfully preserved
/ by electricity. The apparatus comprises two
! boilers for the preserving liquid which is to
/ he injected into the timber, and circulated
! through the timber by steam boiler and
dynamo. The saline liquid is heated in the
| usual manner before a current OF steam, at
| the same time an electric current is passed
! from an tmpregnating boiler. This process
! requires one hour. The usual process by heat
| requires from ten to forty hours.
! Last summer, says st. Louis Republic
= writer, I happened upon some wood-choppers
! who were burning brush. One Of these put
| the following question: why does the sun
shining on fire deaden its heat. suppress
| the rays, and often put it out entirely|' 1
| had never even heard hint OF the idea Re
! fore and was perfectly staggered / admitted
! my Inability to answer the ques ion offhand.
/ Returning home repaired to the library and
| consulted brewers Guide to Scientific
| knowledge" where the answer Is as follows:
because the air, being rarlhed by sun
| shine, flows more slowly to the fire; and,
! secondly, because the chemical action OF the
sun s rays Is detrimental to combination"
| The Hawaiian language Is composed mainly
| OF vowels, and few consonants put in to
| vary the monotony, says the Washington
| Star. And the beauty of the system is that
! there is no waste. Every vowel is pro
| nounced. For instance when the American
| eye wlnBs at the appear alce of the simple
word "naauao," the glD native rolls out the
J i've syllables with neatness and dispatch.
]
| very frequent, but never diphthong. Three
vowels are not uncommon and as atoye
| four and sometimes more are found unsepa-
| rated by consonants. In tho mouth of the
| uneducated native the language is apt to be
| explosive, but the HIGHER classes speak it
| with nuent grace that surpasses the French
| or the Italian. In sound it somewhat resem.
| bles the general flow OF the continental Euro
| pean languages, for the vowes all have the
French quality and the accents are not dtssi-
mllar.
The degree Of perfection attained in me-
chanical productions is wonderful" said
mechanic TO writer for the Pittsburg Dis
atoh. In tlnost every lins of mechani inven
! tiOns yo'l aee fau. Is ana difficulties overcome
viii h ma Ike it seem nearly impossible TO adj
vance further. Viewed in this light the i'm
PROJECTIONS in the construction OF our railroad
1 ar trucks are stran ely inconsistent. for they
are palpably at var alce with our high attain
ment in mechanical construction. 1lefer to
the custom, which has never been improved
upon since rallroading bee an. Of using wheels
securely fastened to gid axles 1t would
| seem that, on such an ali i'm portant matter as
| this, some improvements would be made, but
| there has been none. The running gear of
| cars as now constructed, is only adapted for
use on straight tracks But. as there must
| be curves on roads the trucks are simply
| forced around them. 1t Is said that IL re
| Qulres one-third more mott power TO carry
| train around an ordinary urve than on a
| straight track. This is que to the strain to
| which the wheels are subjected. In making
| curve the outside ira k is longer than the
| inside one. Now with wheel on each track
| and fastened immovatie to an axle both
| wheels must make the same number of rev
| olutionS. In rounding a curve how is the
| inside wheel which has a much shorter dis.
| lance TO travel to make an equal number of
revolutions with the outs de Wheel 1t is
done in this waT: The inside wheel slips
upon the inner or shorter rail while the olir-
| side one covers the longer distance At the
| same time the inclination of the, track re-
CURED In making curves throws most Of the
load upon the wheel that is slipping. causing
| great strain upon both wheel and axle. 1t
has heen computed that this strain is equal
| to double that of the rolling pressure on a
straight track. To meet this the axle is made
| much thicker between the wheels than at the
| journals. where all the weight of he car and
load is carried. Though it has been long
coming / think the day will finally dawn
| when these defects in car trucks will be over.
| come"
The buffalo of Ceylon carries his
head in peculiar manner the
horns thrown hack and the nose
projecting on a level with his forehead
! thus securing him from fatal front shot
| Ibis renders him dangerous enemy as he
| will receive any numDer of balls from a
small gun in the throaJ and clest without
| showing the least distress. This account of a
DANGEROUS encounter with the animal is given
by the author of Rife and Hound in Cevlon.0
| II had fired without killing the buffalo and
had not ball left. With a stealthy step and
a short ,grunt. the bull advanced upon me,
|
denly bright thought flashed through nv
mind. Without taking my eyes of the ami
nal put double, charge OF powder down
| the right hand barrel, and tearing of a niera
| OF my shirt, took all the money
| from my pouch, three shillinRs in
sixpenny pieces and two anna pieces, Ouick1v
making them into roll with the piece of a
rag. rammed them down the barrel. Ihev
| were hardly well home before the bull sprang
| forward. l had no time even to replace the
| ramrod, and threw it in the water, bringing
my gun on full cock at lie same instant /
| now had a charge in my gun which IL re-
served till he was within a few feet of the
muZzle, would certainly floor him The
| horns were lowered, heir points were on
! either side OF me and the muzze of the gun
! barely touched his forehead when l pulled
/ the trigger and three shillings worth of
small change ratified into its hard head.
] Down he went and rolled over with the sud
denly Checked momentum of his charre
/ Away went B. and as fast as our
| heels would carry US. through
| the water and over the plain.
| knowing that he was not dead, but only
! stunned There was large fallen tree about
! half a mile from us whose whitened branches
rising high above the ground. offered tempt.
/ ing asylum. To this we directed our stems
and after run Of slC0 yards we turned and
| looked behind us. The buffalo had regained
his feet and was following us slowly. We now
experienced the difference OF feeling between
hunting and being hunted. BY degrees the
bull pace sackened and he fell We were
only too glad to be able to reduce our speed
but we HAD no sooner stopped to breathe than
he was up and after MS. At length hOWever