The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Electric Cab Company of London
will. within few weeks, put go horse
less cabs on the streets for hire.
Coral found below forty fathoms indi-
Gates either that the bottom has gone
down or it has fallen from the forty
fathom depth.
The women of Marion, Kan, adopted
novel way of paying their church debt.
When appealed to by their minister to
devise means and ways of raising the
mortgage they did not resort to the high
way robbery of the church fair. Instead
they rented forty acres of Kansas fertile
land, just outside the corporation limits.
This they broke up, and then they planted
it in corn and through the season cult
waited it until it ripened and became ready
for the corn knife. Next they cut it
and shucked it, and them after several
husking bees. at one of which one lady
husked eighty bushels in one day, they
hauled their corn to town and cribbed il.
Their harvest amounted to over 1,200 bush
els. They also sold the stalk field to
cattleman at IS and contracted seven
loads of cobs at 81 per load. When the
corn is shipped which will be shortly, the
mortgage on the Christian church of Mar
ion will be burned.
The statistical crank has turned his at
tention to the bicycle, and says there
are 1900 900 wheels in actual use in the
world. Four of these wheelmen and vo-
men abreast, two pair to the city block
in line, this vast cycle battalion would
reach clean around the earth. Two
abreast and only block apart this same
brigade would reach from the earth to
the moon. Now for the wheel If all
these wheels were one huge wheel-the
front fork, say, in New York-the rear
wheel would touch the earth somewhere
on the other side of Chicago. If you can
conceive of a man who would be big
enough to ride such a wheel, he would
be just 600 times the hight of Trinity
church sreeple in New York, and would
weigh 100000 tons. If this pedaling gen.
tleman undertook a little spin all by HIM
self on a fine day he could scorch to
the sun, 95, 100000 miles away, in the morn
ing and home again in the afternoon Of
single day.
DO you notice how much the practice
of carrying the hands in the pocket has
been given up by all classes of men within
the last few years?" asked the literary
man of the New York Times. ut was
never good form, but still you would often
see it. l think the neWsboys are response
BILE for the change. Put your hand in
your pocket as you stand for an instant
d
street some day and see if you don't agree
with me. If you are anywhere in the
lower or central portion of the city there
will be from one to a dozen or more news
boys in sight. Every one of them will
notice the motion of your hand to your
pocket, and if one is looking in another
direction he is attracted by the rush of his
fellows, and you are surrounded by a
struggling mass of boys, and as many
papers as there are urchins are thrust
into your face. 1t is a dangerous thing
to put your hand to your pocket unless
you are willing to have your progress de-
layed for minute or two"
in discussing the question of the chem
stry of steam raising, the Mining Press
states that it has been found that an
incrustation in boiler of one-sixth of an
inch thickness causes the use of about
Is per cent. more fuel than would be nee
essary with clean plates, while one which
is one-quarter of an inch thick involves
| a waste of as much as so per cent, and
| one of one-half an inch involves a waste
| of $50 per cent; the damage to the boiler
| itself is due to two causes, namely, the
deterioration of the plates by overhead
| ing, and the mechanical damage attending
| the removal of the incrustation. Further,
| a coated boiler plate is necessarily hotter
| than when clean, as the water is kept
| from free contact with it; thus, whereas
| a clean iron vessel containing water boil
| ing under atmospheric pressure has a
| temperature not more than ten degrees
| c. above the boiling point of water, one
with an incrustation as thin as one-sfxth
| of a ninch may have a temperature more
| than 100 degrees C. higher. The mechan-
| ical properties, too, of the metal compos-
| ing boiler plates are considerably modified
even by the temperatures proper to mod
rn cfi ronr af or
| when there is extra heating on account of
| the presence of an incrustation.
DIR. C. F. Rand of this city treasures a
piece of bareback which was issued to him
on the morning of the battle of Bull Run,
| thirty-fve years ago, says the Washing
ton Post. AS that battle was impending
when DR.. (then private) Rand received
| his ration, it occurred to him to mail a
| piece of bareback to his mother at home as
a sample of the food the army was ex-
| pected to go into battle on. He gave the
package to a correspondent of the New
| York Times, whose name he has forgotten,
| to be mailed. DIR. Rand heard nothing
! from the piece of bareback and the Incl
| dent passed entirely from his memory In
| $780, nineteen years after Bull Run, DR..
| Rand's mother died. Among her effects
| was found the piece of bareback, wrapped
in a paper, on which she had written the
/ story of the contents. She had preserved
| it as carefully as if her boy had died in
| battle just after sending it. Thus the
morsel of army bread, three inches square
and about as thick as two ordinary crack
| ers, reverted back to the son. A few
years ago, while in Chicago, DIR. Rand
| showed his highly-prized memento of Bull
Run to a New York friend and at the lat
! ter's request broke off piece and gave it
to him. With this exception, the hard
tack looks just as it did when issued to
| the soldier boy who was thinking of his
mother. 1t shows no signs of decay or
! deterioration and doubtless will Withstand
| the effects of time for many years to come
Dr. Rand claims to be possesor of the old
est piece of sound bread in existence.
Its odd what queer reasons men deal
ing in stocks will give for their buying
and selling" remarked a prominent and
well-known member of the Change to a
writer for the New Orleans Times-D Demo-
crat. ITO give you an illustration: A friend
! of mine, who operates very heavily al
times in stocks, some time ago sustained a
| loss of a very considerable amount OF