The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BY the Liverpool city council He is to be-
gin with ST. Johns market. which he Is TO
clear OF rats for $50, and after such clear
ance to keep the market clear OF rats for
the sum Of 500 per annum.
In contrast to the very large generators
Of Observation-Disclosures and dynamo cleo
trical machinery-in such common use
to-day, IL may be interesting 10 note what
is perhaps the smallest electric battery
ever constructed. and no doubt also the
smallest generator Of electrical or me
I chanical energy. This battery. according
TO Cassel's Magazine. was constructed
some years ago by one Of the electricians
Of the Boston Telephone Company. and
consisted Of an ordinary glass mead,
through which two wires. one OF copper
and the other OF iron, were loOped and
twisted so as TO prevent their coming IN
contact. The wires acted as the cleo
trOdes, and all that was necessary 10
cause a current TO flow was TO place a
drop Of ac.dulated water in the head.
Certainly such a minute battery furnished
but an inhnitesimal current, but could be
easily used in delicate telephones IN
fact, II IS said to have actually been used
in signaling to a distance Of nearly 200
miles.
Romer, Preschel and Irinyi are vari-
ously named as inventors Of phosphorus
matches. says Invention. From the testl-
mOny Of a still living college friend il
appears that the real inventor is the Hun
garian, Janos Irlnyi. 1t was in 1885, when
the latter. then 10 years old and student
at the Polytechnic School in Vienna, at
tended Prof. Meissner's lectures on
chemistry. He became greatly impressed
by demonstration of the reaction pro-
duced on rubbing together peroxide of
lead and sulphur 1t struck him a once
that the reaction may be greatly intens-
ned when substituting phosphorus for sui
phur lrinyi was not TO be seen at the col
lege for the next few days. His friend,
wishing to see him, called at his rooms.
but found the door locked. on joining his
friends, Irinyi had his pockets full of
matches, which he struck on the walls,
/ all of them taking fire. He prepared them
in a ar1fr a tod
| solution of glue, and shaking until the
| mass became cold and all the phosphorus
| assumed finely divided state. This emul-
/ sion was mixed with brown proXide of
| lead, and sticks previously dipped in
molten sulphur were immersed in tht
mixture. He sold his invention 10 a mer-
/ chant named Romer for about 200.
/ How to calculate the speed of a trolley
/ car is an interesting problem to any one
} in the business who happens to be riding
/ faster or slower than he is accustomed.
/ 1t also has a fascination to the passenger
with an inquiring mind. Various ways have
/ been suggested, the Boston Herald states,
I but the simplest is to note the number
/ OF feet the car goes minute and divide
I by IS, which will give you the number of
miles an hour, or rate of speed. A car
moving at the rate of one mile an hour
/ will pass over lightweight feet
| a minute. \ speed of 176 feet a minute
is at the rate of two miles an hour; S52
/ feet' four miles; 52S feet, six miles; l0i
| feet. eight miles; $50 feet, ten miles, ] 1920
! feet, fifteen miles: 100 feet twenty miles;
/ 200 feet. twenty-five miles; 2,6l0 feet,
thirty miles: $500 feet, forty miles; ADO
feet, fifty miles; $3.50 feet sixty miles. If
/ poles are set regularly at equal distances,
! il is easy to calculate the distance the
| car goes in a given time. A rather COM
| plieated method Is based upon the purring
/ sound caused by the meshing of the gear
and p!niOn teeth. In order to calculate
/ by this plan il is necessary to carry along
I tuning fork or a seVen-octave piano.
/ If the tone is the same pitch as middle
/ G, which makes 264 vibrations second,
/ the teeth are meshing at the rate of 264
/ a second. IL the number OF teeth on the
/ gear is known, together with the diameter
of the car wheel, the rate of speed can be
ascertained. The number of thirty-foot
rail lengths passed over in twenty sec
onds will give the speed in miles per
hour approximately.
There has been recently some adverse
English comment on the American taste
in bull dogs, says the New York AdVertis-
er. 1t is minated that it is a feature of
Anglomania and not to be compared with
the genuine English love for the ugliest of
It's kind. The American loves bulldogs as
he loves dollhouse flowers. He buys only
champions. Yet without his usual acute
ness he buys the champion when he is go
ing down hill. The one instance given Of
when he really knew a good thing is that
of the Bedgebury Lion. For this dog there
is an English authority that its owner was
OHered Loo by New Yorker at months
old. The offer was refused. The dog after
ward came to this country for FOO Brito-
martis also came to this country, the price
being 500. His Lordship, a descendant Of
Dom Pedro, the most aristocratic of all
bulldogs, is also in the United States Dom
Pedro Is 10 years old. and it seems that the
average age of a bulldog is only 10 years.
The bulldog in England is, after all, an ex-
otto. He is an arrangement of man and
providence" This is admitted The cos
ter's delight and the lockers darling was
a very different beast twenty years ago
The bulldogs nose has been gradually re-
tired, until it is scarcely more than an
amusing suggestion. His under Jaw has
been brought up and has assumed the
prominence that really belongs to the nose
Philanthropic people have commented
from time to time on the propriety of in
terposing on the part of the nose 1t is
said, and not without reason, that the nose
is sort of purchase point in Selling hold,
and, moreover. that the upper Jaw being
forcibly retired in the effacement of the
nose the lower jaw is not properly sup
ported in its business of holding on. The
bulldog was once intended by nature for
useful life. He is now a creature of lux
ury, ladys pet.
Il cannot say whether 1 shall make any
detailed and professional use of my OBJ
serVations," said neurologist to the New
! York Sun, but [ do not mind telling you
in general way that New Workers are
fast becoming a race of unconscious mo-
nologiSts-that is, of takers TO themselves
| business quarter of the city and Just
watch the people there. l have not got my
! percentages together yet but it is safe to
say, roundly, that you viii see nearly
half the people exhibiting some OF zoe
forms of the disease-for of course 1T is
disease. They are either moving their
( lips wagging their heads, puckering their
eyebrows. making gestures with their
hands, or doing something, while in a
great number of cases they are busy car
rying on imaginary converse lions between
themselves and somebody else. laying
down the laws with much emphasis, read
ing the riot act to some one, or else meet
I ing imaginary issues with circumstantfal
replies. You will see men doing the same
thing in hotel Hobbies, in the street cars,
and on the uptown thoroughfares Women
are falling into the habit also. but not
so much as men. The other day while |
| was waiting for my coupe / sat at the
office window, and / declare that out Of
/ the seventy-tive people who passed eight
were showing some signs of monologania
or course the primal cause of the disease
is that we never allow our minds any peri
cd of repose. We are so eternally full of
plans and schemes that anything like
quiescent mood is unknown and that
condition of morbid mental activity super
venes, which in turn is followed by dis
tinct weakening of the censory cells of
which condition Self-cOmmunication is al
ways one of the symptoms. At the same
time, 1t must not be overlooked that nm
doubleday much of the habit is due to the
fact that this city is so laundering full Of
noise that one cannot hear ones self
think. and peODla have IN thin u a1o,,,1 .