The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-10
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actual executive head of the road so fer
as the working is concerned. He under
stands railroading as well as any man on
the line He is a man of delicate ply
sique, and has to make a constant night
to keep himself keyed up 10 the duties Of
his responsible position.
in some parts OF Columbus, O.. a system
of street lighting has been adopted which
is ornamental as well as efficient Nine
teen arches made of steel angle iron, con-
nected by lattice work, and forming tri-
angular truss, have been put up. a gal
Yanized iron reflector is attached to this,
with lamps beneath, and extending below
the rim of the reflector. The latter is
painted white, the reflector black. The
average cost on each thirty feet frontage
of real estate is $50 per month.
If you have a white blackbird or crow,
or even white rat, take 1t to Japan, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch. Anything of the
Albno kind is held in high honor in that
country. All the animals of this kind are
regarded by the japanese as a superlative
creation. An Albino pheasant born ia
Japan, once gave the contemporary mi
kado name. White snakes and foxes are
mentioned in their fables. This supersti-
ton Is not altogether peculiar to The Jap
anese. Both the ancient Greeks and
Scythians dedicated white horses TO the
gods, while the milk and butter contrib
uted by white cows were considered some
thing entirely superior to that given by
the same animal, but of different color.
What has become of the "Ice Cure" for
yellow fever? asks an exchange. 1t was
claimed some years ago that by its use the
great plague could easily be beaten out of
any lodging place. Even the North Amer
lean Review was a party to the prediction
that all climatic fevers would be cured
by Ice-cooled hospitals The prediction
was based upon the fact that in 1891, when
the yellow fever was raging in Cuba, a
Spanish physician was curing every case
that came into his care by placing the pa
tients in chilled rooms. 1t was his rule to
keep the inValids in a chamber the tenn
perature of which was 40 degrees lower
than the outdoor atmosphere. Either the
cure was eventually failure or has been
forgotten in the interval.
There is a planet in the sky called
Ceres. 1t is only 100 miles in diameter
says an exchange. Now, most people
would find lots of room on such a sphere
to exercise in, but if you or l could get
there things would appear rather strange
to US The change in gravity would be
the most noteworthy popularity. If you
weighed $50 pounds on the earth you would
only show three pounds on the scales of
Ceres. You could easily jump over the
talleSt houses; that is, if they have the
same kind on Ceres that we have here
and boy would find il an easy task to
throw a stone from the Smithfield street
bridge to the second dam. And what
funny athletic pastimes one could enjoy.
A good jumper could easily leap up into
the clouds, while a Splinter like Wefers
could run 1000 or 5000 miles in an hour
oh, yes! We could have lots of fun on
Ceres. But how are we to get there?
"A novel idea in transportation has Just
| been materialized by the New England rail-
road says the Railroad Car Journal, in
the form of a combined passenger car and
| locomotive An old dining car has been
equipped with a steam motor for the pur-
| pose of using the car in local service on
branch and suburban lines where the traf-
| fic is not sufficient to warrant the running
| of fully equipped trains. The fuel used is
| coke, which is carried in bin in the en-
| CINE room. Water for the boiler is car
! ried in two long tanks beneath the floor
! frame of the car, which have capacity
of 1900 gallons. The fuel and water ca
| pacity is sufficient to run sixty miles with
out replenishing. As the train crew con-
| sists of but two men, while an ordinary
train crew numbers five, it is anticipated
that this composite car will prove an eco
| nomical means of handling the light and
intermittent traffic for which it was in
tended.
IA novelty has appeared in the shape of
a motor horse which moves not upon legs.
but on a single wheel about two feet in
diameter, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean
The wheel is attached to shafts. The
frame of a horse is constructed on an OBJ
long support over the mechanism. Lines
are attached to the mouth of the horse
By pulling these, the driver causes the an
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maximum speed of this strange steed is
six miles an hour The device has been
operated successfully attached by thills to
a two-wheeled road cart. A gasoline mo-
tor is mounted on the wheel, which has a
tire four inches wide. Two sprocket chains
run horizontally, while a third operates
perpendicularly, running over a thirteen
| inch sprocket, attached to the front wheel
and four-inch sprocket fastened to a
smart directly over it. The machine weighs
5o0 pounds, but the inventor expects to re-
duce the weight to about $50 pounds.
There was a time when the moon was
only 10000 miles away, instead of 100000
! What a change would take place in the
| United States if the moon ever came
back to its old place of business, says the
Plttsburg Dispatch. We might have
better idea of the topography
| of the moon, but at what a cost.
tHo tiueS Vi the world would average 64S
feet in hight, instead of three feet Such
a tide would wash over almost the Whole
| Mississippi valley. Missouri would be
covered, and only the highest steeples
OF Chicago would be seen. Such a tide
would extend up the Ohio almost TO the
Pennsylvania state line. Pittsburg would
be only forty-six feet above high tide. on
the other side of the Allegheny. twice A
| day, the site of Philadelphia would be bu
ried over 600 feet deep, while the tremend-
Gus tidal wave would sweep inland as far
as Huntington. Indeed, a voyager suffi-
GENTLY Venturesome might travel west
ward on one of these waves at the rate of
nearly sixty miles an hour.
A japanese observer has been bold
enough to find and describe at length what
he considers a most lamentable result of
the rapid civilization of which his fellow
countrymen are 50 proud says the New
York Times The adoption of new indus
trial methods, he says, has not improved
the condition of japanese workingmen.
on the contrary, it has reduced great
numbers of them to a condition in which
'Wretchedness, misery, squalor, poverty
and hunger, premature decay, sunken
eyes, and early death" are the rewards of
their toll. This iS a