The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Boston Transcript says that 1.-THE
coroliary Of our almost phenomenal apple
crop is the possibility of an unprecedented
abundance of the Juice of the fruit in va
rious conditions. to suit a variety of tastes
and prejudices." Which, being interpret
ed, means: There's going to be lots of ci-
der this winter"
If anybody is still interested In the
bullion value of the silver dollar he can
figure it out for himself at any time by
simply dividing the quoted market price
per ounce by $1.2929, which is the mint
coming value. Thus, when silver is quoted
at IS cents an ounce, dividing that figure
~ 81 1929 shows that the value of the dol
lar is 80 66-1OO cents.
Nov 2, 1.-THE Day of the Dead" is
made a great festival in Mexico. One of
the greatest oddities of the celebration is
the issue on that date of a paper called
The Carnival of the Dead. 1t is claimed
to have agencies in the tombs, in purga-
tory, in paradise, etc. 1t offers to re-
ceive subscriptions for a century in ad-
vance from the living and to supply the
paper, it is said, gratis to the dead.
"A scientist some time ago discovered
that the street-car strap was a serious dis
Oh disease, as the ledlneE COu6CI-
ed and held all kinds of disease germs. A
sanitary strap is being tried on a New
York car, the invention of a man named
Clark They consist of hemp cord dyed
red with aniline, at the bottom of which is
a wooden handle, also dyed red. This dye is
supposed to make the pernicious and ac-
tive germs sick, and while thus rendered
unfit for duty they will fall from the cord
and be trampled to death on the car floor.
The handle a the hnftOn of the por6 nf-
fers a better hold for the hand than does
the old straps, and it is claimed that a
man can hang to one from the Battery to
Harlem without experiencing more than
forty per cent. of the fatigue that results
from being suspended from the strap,
which does not accommodate itself to the
shape of the hand. But the principal adj
vantage comes in the effect the new hang
ers have on microbes.
"A writer in popular journal, in the
course of an article showing the great
amount of force developed by the steam
generated in a boiler, says What a ire
mendous force is struggling to tear a
boiler to atomsi Take, for example, hor-
izontal tubular boiler of ordinary proper
lions, so inches in diameter by IS feet
long, containing SO 1-inch tubes. Such a
boiler has a surface area of OTIS square
inches Suppose this boiler is operated
with working pressure of 100 pounds per
square inch, which is not at all uncom-
mon. The boiler, therefore, sustains a
total pressure of 4,071,6O pounds, or more
than 2O35 tons. Do we realize what this
means? The boiler has resting upon it
the equivalent of column of granite 10
feet high square and 2545 feet high Or
to put it another way, the boiler is hold
ing up the equivalent weight of 2262O per-
sons, each weighing $50 pounds. The best
authorities agree that the ordinary
draught horse, working eight hours day
exerts an average force during that time
OF l2O pounds. Now, this force acting to
disrupt the boiler longitudinally is 226. aO
pounds, so that to produce an equivalent
stress 1t would be necessary to hitch IN
to each end of the boiler a team of KS
horses. 0
AT sixty miles an hour, says the Troy
Budget, the resistance of a train Is four
times as great as it is at thirty miles
that is, the fuel must be four times as
great in the one case as in the other. But
at sixty miles an hour this fuel must be
eAerteu Tor a given distance in half the
time that it is at thirty miles, so that the
amount of power exerted and steam gen
Grated in given period of time must be
eight times as great at the faster speed
This means that the capacity of the boil
er, cylinders and the other parts must
be greater with a corresponding addition
to the weight of the machine. Obviously
therefore, II the weight per wheel, on ac-
count of the limit of weight that the rails
will carry, is limited. we soon reach a
point when the driving wheels and other
parts cannot be further enlarged and
lneh we reach the maximum speed. The
nice adjustment necessary of the various
parts of these immense engines NAV be
lhdlcated by some figures as to the work
performed in these parts when the loco
motive is working at high speed. Take a
passenger engine on any of the big rail-
ROADS. AT sixty miles an hour a driving
Wneel nve and one-half feet in diameter
revolves five times every second. Now
the reciprocating parts of each cylinder
including one piston, piston rod. cross
head and connecting rod, weighing about
6oO pounds, must move back and forth a
Instance equal to the stroke, usually two
ieet' every Tune the wheel revolves, or
IN a NTH OF second. 1t starts from a
state of rest at the end of each stroke of
the piston, and must acquire a velocity of
thlrty-tWo feet per second, in one-twen-
ueth OF a second, and must be brought IN
a state OF rest in the same period of time
piston eighteen inches in diameter has
an area of 25415 square inches. Steam of
lSO pounds pressure per square inch
would, therefore, exert a force on tho ME
L /
applied alternately on each side of fine
piston ten times in second.
The taste for 'dainties'' among animals
takes rather unexpected forms at times
says the Chicago Record. Many fesh'
eating creatures, for instance. love fruit
as a delicacy. The Syrian foxes are not
the only animals that are fond of cranes
Jackals and martens also seek grape-vines
Dogs also eat fruit, though rarely. and
usually prefer, of all things, gooseberries
The persimmon is in immense request as
an article of animal food. The rabbit
loves 1t. On the report of the English
geological Society onions always figure
They are bought for the Africa ante.
lopes and CRATES. All of the former
"dote" on onions and regard them as the
greatest possible delicacy. Trainers saw
that If horse becomes fond of sugar il
can be taught any trick for the circus. An
telopes can be trained the same wav nv
a reward Of onions. One drawback 70
feeding the animals this dainty is that after
a feast Of onions the animal house smells
so of the vegetable that visitors leave in
haste. The taste for onions among Oil
raffes is acquired, but they are none the
less fond Of them. Deer do not care for