The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-27
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sperInace -i comes from the head ana one
whale often yields twelve barrels OF this
valuable substance.
A discussion is going the rounds over
whether or not horses weep. It is said
there is an authenticated account Of
horse weeping during the CriInean war
During an advance on a battery COM
pany OF men and horses was almost en-
rirely destroyed. humans and beasts gong
down IN one awful mass. A single morse
which had escaped unhurt was found,
standing close to an object on the ground,
which was found 10 be the body OF MS
master, dead When a trooper was sent
10 bring the animal in il was found with
the tears streaming from its eyes and only
by main force could IL be dragged away
from its masters body
1t has long been known that sugar is
a valuable agent in the development Of
muscular force, but the question in what
form the sugar is most serviceable has
been the cause of much experiment No
one has yet made out whether sugar IN
the form Of cane or honey, or In fruit,
such s the date. is the most useful sort
for assimilation. There seems 10 be no
doubt from the remarks OF eXpertmenters
that sugar largely increases the power OF
work and lessons the fatigue of muscular
strain. When the muscle is In a state OF
activity nearly all the sugar disappears
from the blood in proportions four times
greater than that which issues from the
blood when the muscles are at rest.
The increased use of ball bearings in ma
ch.nery has introduced a new set of prob
lens for the designer and machinist with
regard to the best construction for given
purpose, the cOefficient Of friction, the
number and size of balls to use, etc. Accu-
rate information on these points. accord
ing to the American Machinist, is hard TO
obtain. Some interesting experiments made
at the suggestion of this paper, however,
60 Fna lon ~ "a
bearings increases little. if any, with the
increase Of pressure. and, further, that
the friction increased considerably less
than in the proportion of the square root
Of the speed. The results of these expert
ments Indicate a conformity to the laws of
fluid friction, and, N fact, agree with late
experiments with ordinary working loads
and with flooded fabrication. In comparing
the BAH bearings with babbitt bearings II
was found that under 200 pounds pressure
per square inch and 500 revolutions per
minute babbitt bearings two and one-half
inches in diameter, fabricated with TWEEN
~ drops Of oil per minute and having a
half inch lateral play. heated badly. I'm
der the same pressure ball bearings were
run al 1900 revolutions, or more than three
times as fast without signs of warning.
An independent telephone and telegraph
company operating in San Francisco, be-
leving that outside of the regular resi-
dence subscribers already connected with
the system there are several thousand
more hOuSehOlders who need telephones,
and do not know it, have decided for
advertising and educational purposes
TO issue 1000 Kitchen" telephone sets at
the rate of 50 cents per month for the
installation of the kitchen telephone and
unlimited switching from the house to Of
fee, or from house to physician, or any
other one subscriber In the San Fran
cisco exchange. For the additional sum OF
cents for each call the subscriber can
be connected TO any other subscriber: or,
by the payment of $l.75 per month, to give
unlimited switching with all the 1000 sub
scrlbers Of the company. This telephone
the company requires to be placed in the
kitchen only, where il can be readily used
to the butcher, grocer, coal dealer, phySi-
clan, or druggist, etc. These telephones,
however. are for outward service only,
to which limitation is due the fact that
they can be indefinitely rented SO cheap
~, no arrangement being made at the CEN
trail station for being called up. 1t is
themselves of this service find IL as neces-
sary TO their household as gas. >t
1t is generally believed that the olive
tree originated in Asia Minor and slowly
found it's way to western Europe. all
though the tree was not unknown to the
ancient Egyptians, says the Chicago News
Ihere are number of varieties of the
olive tree, some of which grow to the
hight of forty feet. Although some care
cry year, in general the trees yield fruit
only once in two or three years One hun
bred trees carefully attended will yield
az pounds of oil According to locality
the olive tree blooms in the months of
March, April or May. After the blossoming
1t requires five or six months for the olives
to form and the danger of losing them in
| this lengthy time is very great 1t is very
different to settle on the right time for
picking the olive and this is important as
on it depends the quantity and quality of
the oil. When just ripe the pulp has a
violet tinge, but if unripe is greenish-
white We who are used to the picked
olive has no idea of the ripe one 1t is a
bluish-black and has not the agreea BILE
flavor of the olive picked green. The Juice
Is oily and the meat black. In large plan
tations the olives are gathered by hand
men and women climbing ladders to reach
the fruit In Olden times it was believed
| that the olive tree became unproduetive if
any woman under 40 years was allowed to
pick the fruit.
Solid drawn steel tubes have been made
for years for boilers and general use, but
the great demand arose when the safety
type of bicycle came into vogue the ,dia-
mond frame requiring the use of a greater
| length of tubing and necessitating that
| this should be as light as possible. There
are variations in the methods for Droduc-
ing cold drawn steel tube but the prin-
ciple of all is practically the same. ONLY
a very high class of steel is suitable for
the purpose, and that hitherto employed
has been chiefly Swedish charcoal steel
containing certain proportion of carbon
The steel is taken in the form of a billet
two feet long and about six inches in diam
eter. A hole is bored through the center
and 1t is heated, annealed and rolled into
the form of a tube about IA inches in diam
eter, with walls of about 10 gauge. This is
then drawn through a die and over a. man
drel by means of a draw-bench, until about
800 feet long, beautifully smooth and
bright both within and without This is
not drawn at once, but in a number of on
erations, and between each of them the
metal has to be repickled and re-annealed
to prevent the crystalization to which the
drawing process tends to give rise. The
| first drawings of the tube leave il about
| three-eighths of an inch thick but This
| gradually decreases until a tube is produce
| ed which is of the thickness of stout writ
| ing paper. This IS the class of tube en-
| ployed in bicycles and that imparts a
strength and rigidity out of all proportion
! to its lightness.
In the West Indies lemon bath is al
most a daily luxury. Three OF four lines
or lemons are sliced into the water and
| allowed to lie for half an hour in ordar