The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-26
ITEMS or INTEREST.


engines we now have running yet IN
the United states the hy-Wheel casualties
nave become matter OF weekly report.
III england We have many thousands OF
nlsA-spe-d cdst-iron hy-Wheels, and very
large Wl-eLs up 20 90 tons weight. run
mig WIN very hiEl periphery speed. and
they all run safely. and yet IN the States
they say The sudden advent of cleo
trlcal apparatus and its hign speed found
people making ny-Wheeis OF cast-ir0n.
with narrow factor Of safety. or. in
deed, 10 factor OF safety at all. II We
consider the lmposSlDiliry of detecting in
nerent stra.ns ana imperfectiOns in this
material. No one can know the value
OF material moulded INFO form al q tenn
perature Of 200 degrees and then cooled
down 10 a 10rLetn or this temperature,
nor can they judge internal structure by
surface indications The fact is that cast
IRON Is not suitable material FOR fy-Wheels
that are 10 be driven at high speed. nor
IS II necessary 10 make them Of this ma
terial. There is not even the claim Of
cledpness in their favor il the methods
OF making such wheels Of wrought iron
ana steel We're once worked out. Twenty
years ago a Scotch firm. who had to
make large dy-wheel for a spinning mill.
rlFetcu up a box rim, made from rolled
plates, and filled it with cemented mason
~ or grout, and did very sensible
thing"
The tidal wave which caused such ter
rible loss on the island Of Yesso, Japan.
parts, but there have been, at least, two
of these great submarine commissions with
IN the last twenty years, says the Phlla-
delphia Inquirer. The bed of the ocean
between Peru and Chile is a region ia
vorable TO these disturbances, and in 1876
tidal wave, which was found to have
had its origin there, swept the Pacific
ocean from Peru nOrthward, southwark
and westward. In 1888, in the same region,
there was a wave fifty feet high, which
destroyed all the shipping within its reach
and caused great loss of life. 1t reached
the shores of Japan, Australia and New
Zealand, so that a submarine CONFUSION
near Peru has sufficient energy to send
an oceanic wave across the Pacific, the
lines extending just as wave spots do
around the place where stone has been
thrown into a smooth lake. 1t still re-
mains to be seen If the tidal wave was
due TO the same cause or not, but what
ever may have been its origin, it is likely
that Its effects We're felt far from Japan,
and that we Will have a story of destruc-
ton elsewhere Science has invented deli
cate instruments which tell of seismic
disturbances, and in one or two instances
/ the coming of earthq has been fore
told by men who noticed the drying up
of some springs aUa changes in the
character of the mineral waters of 9th
ers. Some day, when meteorologists have
become able TO predict the approach of
cyclone or a tornado, they may also
| have learned sufficient to warn islanders
and mariners of danger from the ocean.
1t has always been believed that there
could be no dust in the air of midocean,
or upon mountain peaks thousands of feet
above the sea level, where the SHOWS are
eternal But science has recently demon
strated Unat Such is not the case. 1t mas
| even gone further than finding dust in
these places; it has counted with the ut
most accuracy the number of particles in
a cubic centimeter, says a writer in the
New York Journal Dust measurements
were made from air over the open ocean
and in mountain regions at attitudes from
! COCO feet to more than 1900 feet. on the
! BieshOrn, in Switzerland, which forms
| a part of the Alpine chain, containing the
| ROthhorn and WeisshOrn, rising about o.
| O0J feet above the Zermatt valley on its
| east and some 5000 feet from that of Ii
nal on the west, the observations show
| ed that at an elevation of 500 feet there
| We're $50 dust particles ins cubic cent?
| meter, which measures a little over one
| third of an incn. At $500 feet elevation
! only 5l3 dust particles were found and at
! 1900 feet above the sea the number di-
| minished to 157 cube centimeter. Over
the Indian ocean the average number of
| dust particles cubic centimeter was less
| than 800 for seven out of nine days, and
| on five days was less than 400. During a
! thick fog in the Atlantic the air was
| found to contain 3,120 dust particles per
cubic centimeter, while in the clear region
| just beyond the fog, there were only $50
| dust particles in the same space. Proba-
! bly, efen few men of science would be
| aDle TO tell now THESE particles could be
| counted, but a wonderful little instru-
/ ment has been devised which makes the
! task an easy one. The dust counter which
/ Mr.. Fridlander employs contains a cham
| Der, into which air can be introduced
saturated with water vapor Then it is
| slightly and quickly cooled. Owing to the
! fall of temperature condensation Of Vapor
! takes place on the dust nuclei, which then
| fall on to micrometer plate at the
| bottom Of the chamber, where they are
! rendered easily visible for counting by
! the water layer which coats them.
From the beginning of time. says the
| Chicago News. there has been
| always some variety of fruit
fish, vegetable or meat which GER
tain portions of mankind refused to eat
| Among the edibles at some time or other
] under the ban We're the apple, pear, straw
perry, ounce, bean, onion, leck, aspara-
| gus, Woodpecker, pigeon, goose. deer, bear
! turtle and eel. The Jews have an antiD-
! athy to pork. On the other hand this
! meat was highly esteemed by the ancient
! Greeks and Romans, as frequent reference
| TO 1t in accounts of banquets is made
/ At the great feast held annually in honor
! OF Demeter roast pig was always the piece
| de resistance. Those who took part in
| another Grecian festival abstained how
| ever, from beans. Mice are esteemed in
! China and some parts of India while
! on the other hands, the Egyptians Greeks
and Jews abhOrred mouse meat In old
!
| and in Greece the mouse was sacred to
! Apollo. People have abstained from eat
! ing flesh which we think is pretty good
| stuff For example, the Thebans would
/ not touch muttOn-and what can be said
| against a juicy mutton-chop? The Ro-
mans sneered at the Egyptians because
the latter would not eat onions and garlic.
| while, on the other hands, the Romans
! refused to touch woodpecl1er stew 1t is
! claimed by students that antipathy to
any Kind of meat has its origin in the
/ peculiar custom and belief called totem
! ism There is q time in the history of
every, people when they claim kinshIp
! and descent from wild beasts and birds
! This particular animal is the family TO-
/ TEN, and they relgiously refrain from
eating it, No member ST the bear family.
! for instance. would eat bear meat If
! starving. The survival of antipathy TO GER
! tain foods was found among people so
! highly civilized as the Egyptians. Greeks
| and Romans. The goat could not be eaten
| in Mendes nor the cat in Rubastis nor
| the crocodile at Ombos nor the rat. which
! was sacred to the sun god In Greece
| families were named after plants as well
! as animals.
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