The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-Dulwich. now a populous district of
London, still has a tollgate across one of
its main streets at which tolls are col
lected regularly
-lceland's geysers never shoot their wa
ter higher than 100 feet, while some of
our Yellowstone geysers go more than
three times as high.
A pair of gloves passes through about
200 pairs of hands from the time the
skin leaves the dressers till the gloves
reach the hands of the wearer.
-Fhe German Reichstag is said to be
the cheapest of all the parliaments of Eu-
rope. Its total expenses for the current
year have been only about $4,000.
Wooden shoes in France are produced
to the extent of about 100000 pairs year
ly. They are made in Alsace and Barriers
by machinery, and in Lozere by hand.
"A sarcastic French journalist is accus-.
ing the Academic Franchise of "vandal-
ISM because it has recently received
among its members NJ. Albert Vandal
OF the leading business houses in the
city, according to evidence collected by
the London Chamber of Commerce, 50 per
cent. employ foreign clerks, who are al
most always Germans.
Chicago women who are admirers of
fine cats have organized a cat club. The
objects are to bring together the owners
of thoroughbred cats, and to hold a cat
show once a. year. Only two other cat
clubs are said to be in existence in the
country and at the show held in New
York couple of years ago Brian G.
Hughes made the judges ridiculous by Sc
curing a prize for a one-eyed Tom in
a class reserved for "tabbies."
The Boston subway work is nearly
completed According to present pros
poets the total cost of Improvement will
fall considerably within the engineers es-
Inmates. The total cost of the subway to
date is $4,04S, 313.17 the original estimate
being $5,000000. A tunnenl under the har-
Dor to East Boston is again being dis
cussed at an estimated cost of 81, 4O6, 600
Frank Swain, of Bridgeport Mass
employed as an electrician a the power
house of the street railway company
while repairing some machinery received
severe shock from an electric current
From that time until midnight he suffered
intense pain, but when the power was
shut off at the power house the pain dis
appeared. At O'Clock the next morning
when the power was again started at the
power house, the pain returned.
A party of American engineers has
just gone to Panama to report on what
the new canal company is doing, and it
finds that it is really making considera BILE
progress, says the New York Tribune The
hill at Culebra, the highest point on the
line of survey, originally 10S metres above
sea level, cut down by the old company to
7S metres, and by the present one to So, has
only to be reduced to Al meters to be ready
to receive the system of locks which the
revised plan of the canal contemplates
The visiting engineers were surprised to
find the work proceeding with so much
activity, and so much progress actually
made, and not merely talked about as was
the wont in this rip-staving days of old
when the management was occupied with
the problem of making way in d plausible
manner with 100000 which the peasant
try of France poured out of their WOODEN
stockings into that deluding, abominable
and bottomless ditch. Notwithstanding
the favorable showing of the new compa-
ny, nobody outside of 1t really expects it
TO succeed. 1t is merely flinging good
money after bad, the wonder being who
can be found to supply it for that purpose
The use of machinery for stocking fuel
under boilers is quite old, dating back
over 100 years, writes W. r. Roney in
Casters Magazine. The most extended
use has been reached in Great Britain
where over Is, 900 mechanical stokers are
in service, built in many forms, but .prin-
cipally designed for stocking internally
fired boilers, where the gates are usually
fiat. long and narrow. Most forms of
British stokers embody the features of
throwing or pushing the coal into the
CRATE by revolving fans and beaters, SHOW
els or plungers, located in the bottom of
a hopper attached to the boiler front.
Travelling chain CRATES or rocking or re-
ciprocating parallel bars carry the coal
from the feeding mechanism at the front
end of the furnace and discharge the ash
eS and clinkers into a space provided in
the rear. few notifications of these
have been brought to the United States,
but being designed especially for internal
ly fired boilers, their success has been but
| limited when applied TO American exter-
nerally fired boilers. The earliest form
of mechanical stoker of which there is
| any record was the one patented in 1855
| by James Watt, the inventor of the steam
engine 1t consisted of two sets of hori-
zontal CRATE bars, one behind the other,
which were worked internationally by
means of levers operated by hand. The
coal was fed in at the door and pushed
| back as it became cooked, the gases from
| the fresh fuel passing over and through
| the fuel in more advanced combustion
| at the bridge end of the CRATE. 1t was de-
| signed primarily to prevent smoke from
bituminous COAL and was quite success
! full.
The government artesian we'll at Low
er Brule agency is certainly a freak of
| its kind. says a letter in the Omaha Bee
! Originally the pressure threw solid six
| inch stream of water to a hight of TWEEN
| ty-one feet above the top of the well-cas-
ing. Subsequently the pipe became tenn
| porariy choked up and at such times the
water would not flow at all for periods
of two or three days. Then without APP
| parent cause the pipe would suddenly be-
| come clear and the water would again
spout to the hight of twenty-ohe feet
| After continuing for few days, during
| which time it almost constantly spouted
| large quantities of sand it would once
| more become choked and cease to flow
| This became so frequent and regular tina t
| in time the agency employees became ac-
customed to it and paid no particular at
| tention to the freakiness of the well,
which is constantly under their observa =
ton. But now the matter has taken an
other and more peculiar turn. Arrivals
from the agency report that commencing
about three weeks ago the well has been
al intervals forcing out apparently end
less quantities of blue CLAW This in itseIf