The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


firm. They have an aluminium alloy. In
which they cast the cycle frames in tuDu-
lar shape. complete without joint, and
tests TO show that the metal Is equal TO
the best wrought iron, while only one
third Of the weight. The metal is said TO
consist OF g per cent. aluminium and
4 per cent alloy.
The Jewish Chronicle OF London. de-
scribes a new Jewish "Kooiier'' product
to be used as a substitute for butter
which it calls nucOline. 1t is simply the
fat or butter OF sweet cOcOanuts. Cocoa
nut butter, ike that from cows milk
rapidly becomes rancid, and this has pre-
vented its introduction into Europe as
an edible fat. This difficulty is overcome
BY patented process OF refining which
removes the characteristic Odor and taste
Of cocoanut oil and transforms il into
palatable fat or butter Of such remarka-
! bic stability that it remains odorless and
sweet for many months.
"A London editor says: Il don't think
people have any conception Of the demands
made on an editor have before me let
ter from a man in Kansas, which would
fill a whole volume of this journal, offer
ing manuscript entitled You; or, the
Mystery of Life-The Way the World Goes
Round He puts a series Of queries to
me as to what l think Of It, Every word
in the book" he modestly tells me- lis a
good sentence, every sentence is good
page and every page is a good book, ana
the whole book is a wonderful volume OF
knowledge and he winds up by assuring
me that II I don't think much of his
manuscript (Which he has not senD am
showing lack of bushes sinterest.
A Rochester horseman says: Far
mers are again beginning to raise horses
in this country, and more are bought and
sold now than there were two years ago.
| The cause is that we are finding an Eng
| lish market. The English are much slow
ar har ha F=ffanrl to a.
| transit system, and they still make great
use Of the old tramcars drawn by horses.
1t has been the custom of the railway
/ companies to buy their horses In Scot
| land and on the continent. They have late
| ~ discovered that they can get better and
| cheaper horses on this side of the water
| At the same time the American farmers
are finding the same thing out IN many
| localities, and they are raising horses to
meet the demand Horsemen say that
| this demand is increasing each year in
| stead of diminishing"
M. Charles Margot Of Geneva has re-
Gently prepared some interesting alumni
mum alloys. Thus he finds that p parts
| of platinum and Is of aluminium give an
/ alloy having a golden yellow color, while
| other tints can be obtained by varying
| the proportions of the two constituents.
| The latter, however, are unstable, break
| ing up spontaneously. The yellow alloy,
on the other hand, is stable, out Is Drlt-
| tie. An aluminium alloy containing 70 per
cent. to 80 per cent. of cobalt has color
/ ranging from straw to brown. 1t Is ex-
| tremely hard, and will scratch glass, but
\ Is very brittle, being easily powdered
| Seventy-twO per cent OF palladium gives
/ with 28 per cent. of aluminium, an alloy
| having a copper red color. 1t Is hard and
/ brittle but stable. With 50 parts of nick
| Ell to IS of aluminium a straw color alloy
| is produced, which Is as hard as tenn
| pered STEELE, and can resist a hammer blow
/ very well. Aluminium says it takes a
] fine polish, and has fracture resembling
| that of bell-metal.
| French inventions frequently call into
use natural products which had previous
! ly possessed no practical value. This is
| illustrated by the rare metal, thorium,
| discovered by the great chemist, Ber-
/ zelius, early in the present century.
| When burned the metal emits a light
| more brilliant than that 'of burning mag
| nesium, but until the recent invention
! of incandescent gas-burners, in which the
| flame is encaSed in a metallic mantle,
| no use was discovered for 1t Upon
| experimenting with various substances
| 1t was found that the oxide Of thorium
| called thoria, makes the best mantle for
| such burners, and a demand being thus
| created for it the value of thoria sud
| denly sprang from almost. nothing up to
| $3.50 per pound. Then search began
| for new sources from which thoria
| could be obtained, and this search Is
not yet finished. Originally the new
| erals in Norway. Recently it has been
| discovered that the mineral "monazite''
| contains liberal quantity of thoria and
monazite is found in North Carolina,
| is now much lower than it was at first,
| although 1t still commands SIS or $40, or
| even more, per pound, the price fiuctuat-
| ing with the supply
Born criminals, no doubt, there are in
plenty, says the Contemporary Review,
just as there are born green grocers; that
| is to say, men and women whose circum-
| stances and associations from birth have
| been such as to impel them toward a ca
reer of dishonesty, just as other mems OPP
! portunities and limitations lead them to
| livelihood by a green grocery. 1t may
| be admitted that there the men born into
the world to whom fate scarcely offers
| any career but one of crime, but this no
| more establishes the existence of a
| criminal type" than the existence of q
| lished by the accumulation of instances
| In which men have scarcely had a choice
| OF living, except by the adoption of the
| one particular trade that circumstances
! have combined to offer them. The man
| who commences as a green grocer because
| he Is obliged to earn his living, and the
| SHOP his father has left him affords the
| only or the most convenient means Of
| doing so, acts on precisely the same mo-
| tive as the thief, who, finding that among
! his relatives and intima.tes thieving Is
| PraC tlcaIly the sole means of substance
| IN vogue, takes to it naturally as the most
| obvious means of gaining his own liven-
! hood. Born criminals again in another
sense there are; that is to say, men born
! with stronger passions or weaker wills
| than the majority of their fellows, but
| these again can scarcely be said to con
| stttute criminal type, for whether their
| natural characteristics will lead them in
| 10 crime or not is, after ell, if you ex-
| slnine the matter closely almost entirely
! q QUeS ton of circumstances Placed in
| certain circumstances, the man whose
| temper is rather worse than the average
| whose fear of the law is rather weaker
| VIII fail into crime; in other circum-
stances, If he is free from the tempta-
| lions caused by poverty, or is restrained
! by the influence of his friends or his FAM
| i.y, he will remain a respectable member
| of society. In a word, we shall be in
| clined to believe, till evidence to the con-
| trary is produced, that the difference be-
| tween those of US who are confined with.
| IN Jail walls and those who retain their
| freed ON takes it origin more often from
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