The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ductor, a glass ticket-holder is fastened
to the back of the car seat which holds
the ticket always in sight.
"A machine has just been invented for
the production of duplicate statuary, the
mechanism consisting of a system of re-
volving cutters attached to frames op-
Grated by tracer running over the pat
tern.
The latest novelty in the bicycle line
consists in gearing the steering bar to the
seat-post, which is turned from side to
side by the motion of the body, both the
hands and feet being used to propel The
wheel.
For checking or unchecking a horse
a recently patented device has a strap
attached to the rein, running through
ring in the check-hook to pull the check
back and fasten it or release it when
fastened.
The latest device for the extraction of
dust from cushions, car seats, etc, con-
sists of a metal bell to slide over the
cushions, a pipe being attached to the up
per end and connected win an air pump
to draw the dust out.
The difficulties of diagnosis Of medical
cases are not appreciated by the public
at large, who think that a doctor has only
to look at a patients tongue TO tell the
ailment and the cause, says the Philadel-
phia Record. An instance of the difficulty
encountered in this line of a Doctors work
was cited recently by local physician of
prominence. A man came to the Pennsyl-
vania hospital suffering, he said from a Sc
we're pain in his stomach, which had been
almost continuous for six months. There
was clearly no gastric disturbance, and the
doctor was puzzled. The patient said he
was employed to sew buttons on trousers,
but that appeared to furnish no clue At
last the doctor examined the patients
gums, and there he found faint blue
line, which is conclusive evidence of blood
poisoning. Close questioning, based on
this information, brought out the fact that
while sewing on buttons the patients hab-
it was to wet his fingers and run them
along the thread. The dye was thus trans
ferred to the stomach and the lead in it
caused blood poisoning.
An instrument which has been invent
ed for measuring sunshine electrically is
so sensitive that not the fantest sun-ray
that may break through the cloudy arch
of gloomy day is lost, even if it be but
of a moments duration, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. Not only does it catch
these rays of sunlight, but by an ingen-
ious contrivance 1t records their degree
and the period of the day at which they oc-
cur. The cylindrical glass tubes, con-
nected by a stem, are inclosed in a pro-
tecting glass sheath. Mercury is used to
separate the air in the bulbs, which are
filled with pure, dry air and Theoretically
sealed. The space between the bulbs and
the protecting sheath is then exhausted
of air and sealed. One of the bulbs is
coated with lampbiack and when the sun
shines its attraction for the blackened bulb
drives the mercury up through the stem
leading to the clear glass bulb. In its
passage it forms a circuit with fine wires
fused into the glass and the record is in
stantly carried to a register in the observ-
er's office. This register is operated by
clockwork, and upon it's brass cylinder a
sheet of paper bearing lines Indicating the
minutes and hours of the day is traversed
by an automatic pen, which, actuated by
the electric wires attached to the glass
bulbs, makes an absolutely accurate rec
ord of the intensity and duration of the
sunshine each day.
The Lewiston Journal, a paper which
has reputation for knowing joke even
when it is not accompanied with a CLOS
sary and a map, says that a mechanical
genius whose "Studio-shop" stands not far
from that papers office has invented a ro-
tary engine beside which the one Grant
Brambel didn't sell for S6,700, 900 is no more
impressive than a coffee grinder, says the
New York Times. The new contrivance.
it seems, is ''as simple as the grasp of
the human hand'-an unfortunate figure,
since nothing could be much more complex
than that-and at the same time is "as
mighty as the whirlwind." The model ex-
hibted under solemn oaths Of secrecy to
the Journals rotary engine editor is so
small that he could, but didn't, put it in
the outside pocket of his jacket 1t would
make 5000 revolutions a minute if the in
ventor should connect it with a boiler
showing 100 pounds of steam pressure, and
the amount of power developed would
equal that of thirteen horses. Thirteen is
an unlucky number, else the editor would
not have gone on to describe the piston of
his rotary engine, for rotary engines are
expected to eschew pistons altogether. 1t
is not revealed how many expansions
there are to each story of this kind, but
we read that four go with each revolution
Of the machine, making 1900 per minute,
thus disproving the Old theory that times
5000 is 1900. The valves of the engine are
entirely new, but, unfortunately, they can
not be described at present, as to do so
before patents are taken out in every
country would be an injustice to the in
ventor and to mankind in general, since in
the present condition of the morality of the
race it would be placing a great temptation
before some people" After the machine
gets connected with that 100-pound boiler
possibly before-offers of over $4,000. 600
will be considered.
The competition of Japanese matches
is already being severely felt in European
markets, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. At
ter supplying the home market, the JAPAN
ese send 1900 900 boxes to the rest of the
world, mostly, however, to Asia. This
has destroyed the European match trade
IN India, China and Hong Kong. but so
far 1t has not affected the trade in Amer
lea to any extent. That ii will shortly do
so, however, is, in the opinion of Robert
+. Porter, certain. MIR Porter says that
during his stay in Japan on an official
investigation the output of at least one
large match concern at Osaka was secured
by an American syndicate. Osaka produc-
ed last year 100 100000 dozen boxes of
matches, employing 1929 men and ON
women, to say nothing of the innumer-
able children who earn a few sen per
day in the work. One of the largest fac
tories employs $500 hands. The sticks
are cut by machinery. They are sifted
into little boxes by women and collected
and put in frames by tiny waits of chill
dren, some Of whom are under 10. The
sulphur and paratfine are put up by hand