The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc total NUMBER OF perlOdlcalS pup
lished in the language of Holland is s7S,
of which forty-nine are printed in for
eign" countries.
In Vienna the servant girl is not per-
mitted to climb out on the windowsill to
clean windows without a safety belt and
rope attached to it.
Edinburgh drunkards find a mixture
of methylated spirits and naphtha or par
affine cheap and effective intoxicant.
They cal it dynamite.
Italy gives the world outside her Dor.
ders 250O, 100000 oranges; Spain. 14O0O o0O.-
coo; Portugal, $1,000, coo; Paraguay, 6OoOO,-
900; Florida nearly as many as Paraguay.
The largest carpet in the world is in
Windsor castle. 1t is forty feet in breadth
and contains IS, $4,000 stitches. The weav-
Ing Of 1t occupied twenty-eight men four
teen months.
Fortune telling and astrology have be-
come such nuisances in Milwaukee of late
that the police have been compelled to
take energetic measures to abate the non
sense.
"A Tennessee man accidentally shot a
dog, and in trying to explain to me owner
how it occurred, accidentally shot him,
says the New York Tribune. In a fur
Their effort of Illustration he accidentally
shot the coroner. and is now out on bail
trying to find somebody to whom he may
explain the latter occurrence.
The bark True Love, built in Philadel-
phia in 1884 has been found upon search
to be yet afoat, in the capacity of a coal
hulk, on the river Thames, at London, en-
gagged in active trade at the age of is
years. This discovery was made through
casualty recorded in the Maritime Tx
change.
Aluminium came and soon sprang into
public favor Now another white metal of
beautiful appearance and great strength
has been discovered, says the Philadelphia
Record. 1t is called ''Vestadium." 1t is
said to be stronger and of more practical
use than any other metal of the same spe-
cific gravity now known. 1t is claimed to
be an alloy of aluminium, with specific
gravity equal to one-third the weight of
the same volume and of about the same
weight as pure aluminium; that it is nom
corrosive, resisting even sulphuric acid ;
that it is susceptible of a fine polish. never
furnishes. and requires no cleaning after
being once polished. 1t is patented.
Herr Puluj, the Austrian physicist, cal
culates that the oscilla tons from a Ley
den jar are from 100000 to 100000 per sec
ond, depending on it's size, but in order
that the electric rays produced thereby
should become visible as red light the
number of oscillations would have to be
increased to 400, co., 100000. According to
Prof. Ebert, the German physicist, a single
horsepower would be sufficient to run 49,
100000 Puluj lamps of sixteen candle pow
er. That is phosphorescent lamp con-
structed several years ago, and consists
merely of a piece of mica painted with
sulphide of calcium, and subjected to the
action of cathode rays in vacuum. I'm
fortunately, calculations do not always re-
suit in the production of the thing that
ought to be.
Years ago the manufacturers of coIored
leather made only a few shades. If a
buyer wanted a complete variety he would
buy from several tanners, obtaining a few
colorS from each. In those days coored
feathers were mainly confined to the sheep
skins used for top Innings, and colored goat
for cutting into children's fancy turns
Bark-tanned skins were also produced in
several colors for book binders. The appli-
cation of anilne colors to the leather trade
has made it possible for tanners to pro-
duce an infinite variety of shades. La
dies shoes are now made to match any
costume. Not only sheepskins and moroc-
co, but glazed kid, smooth colors, suede
skid, ooze calf, Russia calf and many spe-
cial tannages and finishes of side leather
are produced in all the prevailing tints
and tones.
In a contribution to "Wiedemann's An
nalen," Herr o. Schutt of jena describes
a new electric discharge phenomenon,
which he terms electro-capillary light
When the discharge of an induction coil
is sent through a narrow capillary tube
of about 0.55mm. in diameter, provided
with aluminium or copper electrodes and
filled with air under ordinary pressures
an intense luminosity of the thread of air
IS obtained-a luminosity which is intrin-
sically far superior TO that of the arc
and would form an exceedingly powerful
source of light if it could be made con-
tinuous. The narrow capillaries deterio-
rated rapidly, roughening inside, and were
blown into a series of spherical enlarge
ments. Wider tubes gave less light, but
were much more permanent. At the
same time the bright lines in the contin-
uous spectrum in the original light became
more prominent. At pressures above one
atmosphere the phenomena were nearly
the same, but the sparks passed with
greater difficulty. At low pressures the
hght became less intense, the continuous
spectrum faded and the bright lines. shone
out more distinctly. The kind of glass
is immaterial. 1t is stated that the tubes
may be made twenty centimeters long and
make splendid line sources.
In one of his lectures on '.Electricitv
and Electrical Vibrations" given at the
Royal Institution, London, Lord RayIelgh
gave one or two illustrations of the use
Of the telephone and sensitive flame in
induction problems, and performed an ex.
pertinent which was remarkable for the
paradoXical character Of the conclusion to
be drawn from it, says the New York
Commercial Advertiser. A circuit carrc-
ing an induced current was made 10
branch into two parts one of which pass
ed through one wire of a coil carrying
three windings, while the other passed
through the other two wires Of the same
coll Owing to mutual induction and SELF.
induction the telephone showed that the
current in one of the branches was
greater than that in the main before N
separated into two parts. So far Lord
Rayleigh in these telephone experiments
had been dealing with vibrations wbose
frequency was mainly determined by the
ear, and was In the neighborhood OF / 90
second. He now turned TO the currents