The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The east end OF Glasgow has been
greatly agitated about question OF fasn-
lon in female attire. says London truth,
Hitherto II has been invariably regarded
as the correct thing for girls employed
at the mills TO wear shawls over their
heads. but lately the population mas been
startled by the appearance OF a Few OF
the workers in hats. The daring innova-
tion excited the utmost indignation, ana,
one night recently, the wearers OF the
hats had to be rescued by the police from
the polite attentions of a crowd of about
1900 Of their companions
"A. J. Cooley. an inventor Of Hornells-
VILE y. Y, says he has successfully com
pleted an airship which will carry one per-
son. II is about ten feet in length, with
two pairs of wings, each pair having
spread of twelve feet. Placed between
the two pairs of wings is a a large hollow
box, on one end of which the pilot house
for the occupant will be built. The front
pair of wings is stationary Mr. Cooley $
idea is that his machine will sail like
hawk or an albatrOSs that has been thrown
on the air. Having been once stretched II
viii skim along on certain plane, ana
may be either raised, lowered or turned
entirely around by the movement OF the
rear pair of wind beaters. A public demon
stratiOn of the invention will soon be
given, after which it will be placed on ex-
hibitOn TO raise money enough 10 build a
larger machine.
Each day adds some new virtues to the
long Est of those already credited TO the
pneumatic, says the Scientific American.
The latest of these is that the wheels of
bicycle being encircled by a band of India
rubber and dry air-Which is perfect IN
sulator-the rider is completely insulated
from the earth, and. consequently, is i'm
pervious to the attacks of the electric
fluid. Thus, day by day IL becomes more
and more a fact that life without a pneu-
matte tire is neither safe nor worth having.
Any one who suffers from nervousness dur
ing thunder shower has now only to go
into a barn or the cellar and seat himself
upon the saddle of a pneumatic-tired BIZ
cycle TO be perfectly safe from lightning
stroke. As the chances of a man on BIZ
cycle being struck by lightning have been
carefully calculated to be about one In
billion, the Wheel adds, there will, of
course, be some pessimists who will deny
that this newly discovered virtue of the
pneumatic as a lightning insulator
amounts to very much.
Philippe Lebon, born May 90 1868,
French chemist and engineer of roads and
bridges, is said TO have been the inventor
OF gashght, having produced gas for IL
Eliminating purposes derived from wood.
He made his discovery known in 1893, says
Spare Moments, and IL was patented Sept.
q the same year. LebOn began by distill
ing wood to obtain from il gas, oil, pitch
and pyroligneous acid, but his work indi-
Gated the possibility of obtaining gas from
fatty substances. From the taking out of
his patent to 1902 he made many expert
ments. His first therino lamps were es-
tablished at HaVre, but the gas which he
obtained, being a mixture of oxide of
carbon and carburetted hydrogen not
perfectly purified, gave only a poor light
t.
his discovery found little favor, and he
was ruined by his experiments He died
Dec. 2, 1904 The ideas of Lebon were soon
put into practice in England. Albrecht F.
windsor, German inventor. claimed
the credit of having invented the pro-
cess OF lighting by gas about 1903, which
was introduced at the Lyceum theater
Among the curiosities of the United
States consuls, says the Idler. is the fact
that the number of veterans drawing pen
sions on account of service in the federal
! armies during the civil war, instead of
decreasing from year TO year, seems, rath-
er, TO increase. Those familiar with mill
tary statistics will not, however, be sur
prised at this: Take for example, the
Thousand who accompanied Garibaldi to
Marsha. To speak with absolute accu-
racy, this heroic band consisted of 1,051
souls, including two gallant Frenchmen.
| They fought with utter recklessness, and
suffered terribly from lack of food and
shelter. Nevertheless, IL is computed that
the survivors Of the Thousand" in Italy
now number fully 1909 men, and TO those
should be added at least 10000 more who
are at present either in the United States
| or in the Argentine Republic. | do not
know precisely how many survivors of
| the Six Hundred of Balaklava there are
now in Great Britain, but there is not a
| town OF any size in the United States that
| does not boast of at least one Of these
| gallant men, and we may safely assume
| that there are fully 1000 survivors of the
| Six Hundred in the United States alone.
| without counting those in Canada and the
| other colonies.
1t may not be generally known that
| locomotives intended for express trains
require as much training, in their way
| for fast running as do race horses. saws
| the Philadelphia Record. The Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company builds it's own en-
gines, and those built for express trains
are Known as class J. They are very large,
| and built, with slight variations, after the
] pattern of the big English engine imported
| into this country several years ago, and
! which, at that time, was a curiosity in its
n fhCEa rf,.o- L.
| taken out of the shops TO be placed on the
road, instead of putting il to the work it
! is intended for at once, it is run for two or
! three weeks on some one of the local
| branches. in order to train ii, so to speak
! for faster running BY this means ali
| the bearings and journals competed with
the running gear become settled to their
work; for, should anything about the new,
| machine not work harmoniously, there is
| ample time to adjust the defect USUALLY
the new engine proves troublesome on &C
| count of its propensity TO make fast time
| and at almost every station the train is
| found to be a little ahead of schedule time,
| and must wait from ten seconds to a
! minute.
! The glass blowers of ancient Thebes.
| says the Scientific American, are known to
| have been as proficient in that particular
art as the most scientific craftsman of the
/ same trade of the present day, after a
| lapse of forty centuries of so-called pro
! gress.' They were well acquainted with
! the art of staining glass, and are known to
| have produced that commodity in great
| profusion and perfection. Rossellini gives
/ an illustration of a piece of stained glass
known to be 1900 years old, which dis
| played artistic taste of high order, both in
| tint and design. In this case the color is
! struck through the vitrified structure and
! he mentions designs struck entirely in
| pieces from u inch to q inch thick the
| color being perfectly incorporated with
| the structure of the piece, and exactly the
| same on both the diverse and reverse sides
! The priests of Ptah at Memphis were
| adopts in the glassmakers art, and not
only did they have factories for manufac-
| turing the common crystal variety but
| they had learned the vitrifyng of the diff
| ferent colors and the initiating of precious
| stones to perfection. Their limitations OF
| the amethyst and of the various other col
| ored gems were so true to nature that even
| now after they have lain in the desert
| sands from 2000 to 1000 years 1t takes an
! expert to distinguish the genuine articles
/ from the spurious. 1t has been shown that
besides being experts in glass making and
| glass coloring, they used the diamond in
| cutting and engraving glass. In the Brit
| ish museum there is a beautiful piece of
| stained glass, with an engraved emblazon-
ment of the monarch Thothmes III who
lived 3,409 years ago.
| There is one singular practice of do,
I nestle religious life among the Jews which
| claims a brief notice-it is known as the
! Mezuzzah, says an exchange. This word
! signifies door post, and is connected with