The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-06
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snlng roar often heard IN a mill or factory.
The material is more like horn than
leather retaining a certain toug1ness
winch allows the CO.'S TO bend slightly.
Lu1r-casion is said 70 be entirely unneces-
sary- Sueh gearing has been tried on
stand the test.
The sharp "choo-ehoo" of a passing To-
connective is not much Of nuisance: but in
large cities, where there is d great deal of
SNllclins done In railroad yards. This
Holss becomes q serious matter. William
kSucAatian, the Famous designer of the
new YORK Centrals fast locomotives. has
nov gotten up nolseiess switching en-
s-ne- II belongs 70 the compound class.
and special provision IS made for leading
the feeble exhaust into a nuffling cham
Der The plan has proved a great sue
cess.
An imitation OF hard rubber made out
OF sawdust is a German invention. Saw
dust is mixed with chromatized glue.
forming the object out of this mass by
pressure between wooden or metal forms,
then placing il in heated OIL varnish OF
TAR until AL the moisture is driven out.
re artlcle IS then placed in a drying oven,
where II is heated TO between 400 and COO
degrees Fahrenheit, where il soon takes
on the appearance and properties of hard
rubber Sawdust of resinOus woods is
claimed TO be particularly adapted for get
ting the best results with this imitation.
A man named FRANZ March recently
broke into doctors house in Gambler
nell, England. says the New York World
Inc DOCTOR happened 10 be IN, and ne a
once hurled a bottle containing pepper
mint at the intruder. March, who was
seeking money got nothing but a scent.
~ clung 70 him when he was taken before
the Lambeth magistrate. The CdOr of the
| peppermint had been the clue that led TO
MS arrest. The circums tantial evidence
against him is, literally. strong as the
Cambermell doctor never dilutes his pep
permint The housebreaker viii set up the
seeIeIise that peppermint is pleasing per
IuIne' ana that ne cannot therefore be
considered in bad odOr.
An easily fusible metal composition.
says Popular Science News, is being put
upon the market in Switzerland under the
name OF patent metal cement" This
melts like lead at about 80 degrees CEN
Upgrade, and can be cast into the most
delicate molds. It sticks like glue TO any
such substance as stone, masonry, metal
ana wood. It is almost entirely water
! proof, ana as such would appear well suit
| ed for repairing leaks in oil tanks and
conduits. It also possesses great adhesive
power, owing to the fact that il expands
| while cooling OF; its small specific gravity,
pells only L0, should be a point in its
favor. When about TO be used il is broken
iu1p me smaH pieces and molten in an iron
| becomes thinly liquid. Plaster of paris
molds. clay or sand may be used for cast
| ing small objects.
People unacquainted with natural his
tory, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, have
no idea of what a student of even
I branch Of 1t must know. A man who
makes a specially of bats runs up against
a marvellous array of animals; likewise
lne student OF the squirrels and mice
birds FISH and any of the rest. Fried
lander q Sons, German publishers. are
about 10 get out work enumerating the
! the described species of the animal king
dom. About 100 volumes Of say 100 pages
each, Will be required. This will allow five
animals to the page. There are about
55ga6.OOQ animals known, Any one who would
Ike to know what this means should sit
Gown ana with a pencil write down the
different kinds of animals he or she can
think of-mammals, birds, reptiles, fish,
beetles, butterflies and mOllusks. Sub
stract the result from the $4,000 and the
calculator Will be astoniShed at what a
lot he doesn't know.
An inventor is having built a machine,
says the Scientific American, by which he
| proposes to revOlutionize the present meth
ods OF tunneling, the capacity of the de-
| vice for saving out a tunnel" as claimed
! being at the rate of twenty-three feet a
! day. The apparatus Subscribed as being
| twelve feet long, four feet wide and six
feet nigh, and, with the fourteen-horse
power engine which runs it, weighs some
| $3.50 pounds The principle is that of a
circular saw Sixty drill points attached
| to each of two wheels, four feet in diane
| ter and eight inches wide, make 800 revolu-
| TONS per minute. The points are One-half
an men apart every revolution feeding
| one-eighth of an inch, and the enthusiast
! tic inventor declares that it will cut TWEEN
! ~ feet of a six by egth tunnel in a day in
/ the hardest rock. The latter, being
| crushed as fine as wheat grains, is carried
! TO the rear and dumped in a car. The
] drill points weigh One-fOurth of a pound
| each, last four DAYS and are kept cool by
] means of a steady stream of water Three
men are required to run the machine.
kerosene oil would hardly be deemed a
| desirable beverage by an epicure, says
| the New York World. but it is used in
| large quantities as a stimulant by Russian
fff re rfrs
! one that they acquire in the native land.
and, strange as ii may seem, they adhere
| TO this form of intoXicatiOn even when
| other liquors are within the reach of their
purses. An oil drunk produces intense
| drowsiness, and the tippler of this odd
| drink goes to sleep as soon as he has be-
! come saturated with the liquid. Baron
| schroeder, who owns mine in California
! has found among his employees men who
| drink pure alcohol vinegar, Worcester
| SHIRE sauce and coal oil. The coal oil
| drunkard prefers his beverage 20 any 9TH
! er. Wnen working a mine in Southern
| Germany, the baron's men would even
! steal the liquid out of the lamps E L.
! Menier of Newark, n. j., SAYS that a Bel
| sian recently loaded a pocket piston
! with Kerosene, and al drinking party re-
| Saleq hlInseI with the stuff with evident
| relish. The people addicted to this Gu
| nous haolt are loatn to confess it. and
| only the srocers from whom they buy the
! hquld know now Widespread the practice
|
has contrived machine for turning out
! tin cans with great celebrity and cheap
| ness. The device is said to be so simple
| that child of 10 can manage it. Tin
| plates are fed in a one end, and come
out at the other in the form of finished
| cans, at the rate of 64 per minute. $500
in a day of ten hours, or 1.O0O00 per
month. The plates are cut to the right
| shape, edges are turned up, the can is
| bent to cylindrical form. the edges are
| locked the seam is flattened, then it is
! sOldered Of the can is TO contain Euuid)
and the bottom IS secured in the same
manner Meantime tops are cut, creased
| and passed along with the cans and if
the latter are filled at that time the tops
! can be soldered on Immediately. Mr.
! Hume hopes TO be able in time to iii
his cans with FISH, fruit or vegetables au-
| tomatically. The cans can be made Of
any size and the noise produced by a
/ solitary tinker while flattening a seam
! in the old way is said to be greater than
! that made by ten of the Hume machines
| Committees from various fruit growing
! and canning corporations have inspected
| the invention and are reported as being
| amazed at its performance.