The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-21
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I -"Gelsoline" IS a new texture produced
+ in Italy from the fibre Of mulberry tree
I bark, says the Textile Reporter. The fibre
{ Is obtained by chemical rotting OF the
T bark OF young twigs, and IS purined ~
I treatment with soap and soda II Is said
i TO have ten times the strength OF American
! cotton. costs about one-tenth as much as
4 derical shape. Yields very close fabrics. re-
curing no filling. Ii absOrbs liquids with
facility, ana is. therefore. easily dyed
I The new fabric is the invention OF Gui-
| seppe and DR.. GiustO Pasquiias. and mas
/ already gained some Importance, as the
} works at NittOrio turn out annually Some
I 5000 yards OF upholstery fabric, danask'
gObelns. piques. etc. T. r. Spending, Zu-
rich, has obtained an English patent loT
the production OF s,tocklnigs ana rG u net51s
clothing from 'nettle-Wool Inc hettle
7 fibre. first sOftened by treatment with olive
I oil, yields fabrics of great warmth, Whlch
/ readily absorb perspiration-
! The reporter Of the time of Rameses
/ TX. does not take note of the walking
I delegate, though strikes were numerous
then among the Thebian wOrkmen, says
I the New York Times. As laborers We're
/ paid in food. the contractors were OFTEN
I behind hand with their supplies Erwin
writes that il is one of the acknoWi-
edged characteristics of modern Egypt
I that payments can never be made WltN-
/ out delays, so also in Egypt the same
I routine seems to have been followed out
| with respect 10 payments in kind To
/ build or keep the tombs and monuments
! of the dead in good order must have re
quired a vast number of Workmen II
/ they were not paid and were starving.
/ familiarity with the mortal remains OF
/ the great, and the property stored away
| in mummy cases, had made these work
men Indifferent to the idea or there DelnS
{ any peculiar sacrilege in committing rob
berry. That accounts, so think many au-
thorities, why so many tombS have been
rined. Probably for that reason were
1 built those vast masses of stone, with
/ narrow passages, so as TO guard an en-
/ trance from thieves. But precautions ex-
tending over thousands of years are i'm
( possible. If the thief of one generation
/ was foiled, his descendants were more
/ enterprising or expert or, maybe, curious.
Bearing this in mind. the more remarka-
I BILE are the recent finds made by NJ. de
/ Morgan at Dachouar.
DIR. G. Schott. studying the form and
/ hight of the waves of the deep sea, found
i that under a moderate breeze their velocity
/ was 24.6 feet per second, or 1873 miles an
/ hour. says the Popular Science Monthly.
As the wind rises the size and speed OF
/ the waves increase. In strong breeze
] speed reaches $50 or 1854 feet per second.
I Waves, the period of which is nine seconds.
I the length 400 or 425 feet, and the speed
/ 28 nautical miles per hour, are produced
/ only in storms. During a southeast storm
/ in the Southern Atlantic Or. SChott meas
ured waves $50 feet long: and this was
not a maximum; for in latitude % degrees
/ south and longitude 80 degrees east, he OBJ
/ served waves Of ) seconds period which
] were Isl0l rect long. Win a NGlOtllN Ol
! 1871 feet per second, or As is nautical miles
/ an hour. DR.. SchOtt does not think that
! the maximum hight of the waves is very
/ great. Some observers have estimated II
| at 30 or 40 feet in wind of the force
! represented by eleven on the Beaufort
/ scale (the highest number on which is u;
/ and DR.. SchOtts maximum is just thirty
| two feet He believes that in great tenn
pests waves of more than sixty feet are
/ rare, and that even those of fifty feet are
I exceptional In the ordinary trade winds
] the hight is five r six feet The ratio I'd
] night to length is about 1.33 in a moder
/ ate wind, lis in a strong wind and LII in
| a storm: from which it follows that the in
4 chnation Of the waves is respectively
4 about degrees, 10 degrees and II de-
| grees. The ratio of the hight of the waves
to the force of the wind varies greatly.
How to measure the velocity of pro-
jectile in it's flight from a gun seems to
| the uninitiated a difficult problem, says
] Casters Magazine, and vet IL amounts
10 little more than just the division of
certain space passed over by the time
| which It has taken to do this both space
/ and time being determined by measure
| ment and apparatus of the simplest char
I actef. somewhere IN the path OF the pro-
| 1ectile are placed two wire screens, each
/ formed of a simple frame across which
I wire runs back and forth, forming part
Of an electric battery circuit in which an
/ accurate time piece is also interposed.
| As the projectile on first being fired from
the gun, passes through the first screen,
the circuit of which 1t is a part is broken
and the clockwork is started, the indaK
/ originally pointing to zero. On passing
/ through the second screen, the prOjectile
/ interrupts the second circuit, with the
| erect OF instantly bringing the clock me-
chanism to a stop. Knowing then the ex-
act distance between the two screens usu-
ally several hundred feet, it follows that
/ by dividing it by the number of seconds
or the fractions of a second marked on the
CLOCK dlal representing the time which has
elapsed during the passage of the protec-
tile from screen to screen we obtain the
number of feet per second which the pro
/ 1ectlle IS travelling. NOfbipn much MI ~
/ could well be devised, the whole secret of
satisfactory measurement lying in the
/ accuracy of the time determination. in
which even so small a thing as a small
! fraction of second becomes a factor of
the utmost importance.
-Ridicule has killed a custom that fif-
| teen or twenty years ago constituted
| one of the characteristic features of the
fashionable quarters of London-the use
! of the so-called Indictments saws the
New York Tribune. These Indictments
consisted of large black frames inclosing
a black ground, upon which were painted
the arms and crest, and were hung
lozenge-fas hion, on the facade of the
house in which the death either of the
master, the mistress of the eldest son
fixed to the wall, midway between the
hrst and second story as nearly as pos
siole IN the center of the building, and
sometimes the background with drops of
silver to represent tears, and adorned
/ with skulls and croSsbones at the cor
ners. Up to the beginning of the Vic
usage or by etiquette to a funeral es-
cutcheon on the front of his house un-
less his or her ancestors on each side
possessed armorial bearings for four gen
| erations back But there are now few
families in London who could pass so
rigid a requirement, and so many influ-
entail parvenus who now occupy a con-
| sp1cuouS place in the London world
adopted this gloomy symbol of bereaye-
ment, displaying the most preposterous
coats of arms, that the whole custom de-
generated into vulgarity and ridicule. In
one way, however, the disuse of hatch
ments has had an unfortunate effect
! upon London society. There is now a
growing and deplorable tendency on the
part of its members to abbreviate as far
as possible all periods of mourning,
! tendency which has been observed in
| New York, by the way. One finds people
| like the Duchess of Devonshire giving
shooting parties within four weeks after
the death of her son, while the case re-
! lated in "Dodo" of a young matron of
| Mayfair who attended a dance three
weeks after the death of her baby is by
/ no means overdrawn or exceptional In
! olden times all this was out of the cues
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