The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-06
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| figures and said. Didn't have anything
to do and thought I'd figure a little. You
know that If 1 were cast on desert island
with bundle of lead pencils and plenty
| of paper l wouldn't care a cent whether
a sail hove in sight or not l saw that you
needed shave, and that set me TO think
| ing Why do you shave, anyhow? I never
| do. Look here. Wen suppose that you
began shaving at IS years of age and that
you keep it up until you are 20. That
makes fifty-two years. You have heavy
beard. Well suppose that you shave twice
a week. That costs fifteen cents a shave,
and you get rid of one-eighth of an inch
of air. That will be a Quarter of an inch
week, or one inch a month. To get rid
Of that inch you pay $40. An inch a
month is twelve inches a year costing you
$144O Now" and the statistician drew a
long breath. '"FweIve.inches a year. for If
ty-two years is 6A inches, or fifty-two
feet. 1t will cost you $74S.SO to get that
amount of whiskers out OF your system"
The smallest implement upon a big
wheat farm is a pillow, says Scribner's
Magazine. And from the pillow to the ee-
vator-from the first operation in wheat
farming to the last-one Is forced to real
iZe how the spirit of the age has made
itself felt here, and has reduced the
amount of human labor to the minimum.
The man who plows uses his muscle only
incidentally in guiding the machine. The
man who operates the harrow has half
a dozen levers to tighten his labor. The
'sower who goeth forth to SOW walks
leisurely behind a drill and works brakes
The reaper needs a quick brain and a
quick hand-but not necessarily strong
arm, nor a powerful back. He works sit
ting down. The threshers are merely as
sistants to the machine, and the men who
heave the wheat into the bins only press
H. Ill e., l,,.,
is not the fellow who can pound the maui
ing machine" most Justify at the county
fair. He is the man with the cunning
brain who can get. the most work out of
a machine without breaking it. The farm
laborer in the west to-day, where ma
chinery is employed, finds himself ad-
vanced to the ranks of skilled labor, and
enjoys position not widely different from
that of the mill hand in the east. Each
is a tender of a machine.
John Vandevelde of Cleveland is the
inventor of two articles which will have a
tendency to decrease the price of several
commodities, says the Toledo Commercial.
His inventions are paper barrels and
paper bottles for beer or other beVer-
ages For a long time the price of many
liquid commodities sold in bulk have been
gagged by the price of the barrels in which
they are transported. The barrels are con-
structed for the greater part of paper
cardboard which is imperviouS to water.
They are slightly shorter in hight than the
ordinary barrel, but will hold as much, as
they are without the usual bilge of the
wooden barrel. The paper in the walls Of
the barrel is three-fourths of an inch in
thickness, of many piles, between which
are thick coatings of a specially prepared
glue. About the middle of the barrel is
single hoop of steel three inches wide
and three-eighths of an inch thick This,
therefore, extends from the barrel to
such a distance as to permit of the bar
rel being readily swung about on its CEN
ter. Pressed over the ends of the walls of
the barrel are rims of pressed steel three
fourths of an inch thick and extending
downward three inches. 1t is on an in
dented surface in the inner portion of this
rim that the head of the barrel rests. The
heads are also made of paper slightly
| thicker than that in the walls of the bar
rel They are held in place by three bolts
passing through the barrel from end to
end. Nuts on each end hold them in place
and permit of the heads being easily re-
moved or placed in short order.
"A correspondent of Nature writes: THE
| following instance shows how easily and
well a four-legged animal can adapt itself
to run on two legs only. Last July a shep-
| herds beautiful black and white dog, on
| the Downs farm, near here, was caught
| among the knives of a reaping machine
Both the legs of the dogs right side were
| dreadfully mangled, and the animal al
most bled to death. The right hind leg
was so torn that one leg piece and several
small pieces of bone dropped from the
wound. The dog lay for some time sense
less and practically bloodless and lifeless
The kind-hearted shepherd, however. to
whom the dog belonged, would not allow
1t TO be at once destroyed; he bound up its
terrible wounds, put 1t carefully in Il
wheelbarrow, wheeled it home, and nursed
1t. After two or three weeks the animal
had so far recovered as to be able TO
crawl and move about on its two left legs
with little assistance from its crushed
right fore leg. This dog now lives with
the shepherd at Dunstable, and runs
backward and forward to Downs farm-a
mile off-every day. The greater part of
the journey is performed on the two legs
of Its left side, as the dog can do nothing
whatever with its right hind leg and the
right fore leg is so damaged as to be only
useful as a slight occasional prop. In
starting to run, the dog quickly gets up
jerks his ruined right fore leg over the
left leg, balances itself on its two left
legs only, and very rapidly hops off in the
style of large agile bird, both right legs
hanging useless. With this strange mode
aIIe00S
sheep exactly in the way of an ordinary
uninjurcd dog. 1t is a most affectionatA
animal, and is now apparently fun of life
and health. When 1 went to see it this
morning it sprang up and happily bound
ed to me balanced on it's two left legs"
In the matter of the lord mayors state
coach, which is to be refurnished at a cost
of 1885, 1t may be opportune to state, saws
the ST. James Gazette that it's original
cost 140 years ago was 81, 065 IS. Towards
this each junior alderman made a personal
subscription of f60; and on being sworn
each subsequent alderman contributed a
like sum for purposes of repair; while
each lord mayor added 200 to the fund
After few years the annual bill for re-
pairs exceeded $500, and the surplus over
and above fixed mayoral tax of f1OO was
refunded to the lord mayor for the time
being. Twenty years after it's construc-
ton repairs in the amount of 1885 were
again necessary; while early in the pres
ent century the average expense during
seven years was Fills. As was the case
with her majesty's stage coach, the paint
ings were done by Cipriani.
Snyder, the calculating barber was In