The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-03
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bearings used on bicycles has been intro
duced in the case of the wheels of omni-
buses in England with the result of di-
minishng the eXertiOn Of the horses in
drawing and more especially in starting
the vehicle. The hubs of these wheels
are made of iron, into which wooden
spokes are fitted while the bearings con-
sist Of steel rollers enclosed in a bronze
cage SO much easier is the starting of
an omnibus rendered by this device that
1t is possible for one man 10 move the We
hicle readily.
1t is announced from Leipsic, says the
New York Times, that twenty-five wagon
loads of human bones arrived in that civ
recently and have been buried in a great
pig in the center of the Municipal square
Ihey were the remains of the Prussian
ana French soldiers who fell Nov. 49, 1913
in the battle near Moeckern. in the as
sault on Ieipsic. II is the intention of
the town TO build a beautiful monument
over these bones. A municipal commits
sion has had the matter in hand for sew
eral years, and by subscriptions and state
appropriations made from time to time
has raised $1,000 marks for the structure
the foundation of which has already been
laid.
-Apropos of Lord Rosebery's approach
ing visit to Beaconsfield, to unveil a me
mortal to Burke a correspondent of the
London News, writes: Sir Edward Law
son has at his house. Hall Barn, at Bea-
consheld, some very interesting relies of
Burke among them the identical dagger
which Burke flung on the floor of the
House of Commons in his speech on the
second reading of the aliens bill on Dec
% 1872, to testify his adherence of the
principles of the French revolution. 1t is
"A TOW d9 do of
sent from France to a manufacturer at
Birmingham with an order for large
number 10 be made like it, and Burke had
only received it the same day from Sir
James Bland Burgess on his way down
to the House. The celebrated dagger
scene was, like many other historic cpl
sodes in the House of Commons, wholly
unprecedented.
AS illustrating the triumphs of modern
science in the construction of Instruments
of precision the Scientific American in
stances chronograph for recording infin-
Itesimal intervals Of time, such as mil
honth of second or less, which is stated
to have been used to record autographicaI-
~ the compression by a blow of a cylin-
orlcal piece of copper. In one case a thir-
ty-three pound weight fell fifteen inches
ana produced a permanent compression of
O.I65S inch in copper cylinder, the time
consumed in producing this compression
being OOO303l7 of a seconl The machue
produces by means of photography q curve
showing the precise progress of this com
preston. The chronOgraph which reaches
such remarkable results consists of a rota-
ting cylinder, with surface velocity of 100
feet a second, on which is photographed a
pencil of light, which is passed through
hole in the end of a rapidly vibrating
tunnel fork. The delicacy of this instru
ment is far greater than that of the ordi-
nary tuning fork chronograph recording on
d surface blackened by smoke.
AS illustrating the triumphs of modern
science in the construction of instruments
of precision. the Scientific American in
stances a chronograph for recording in
finitesimal intervals of time, such as
millionth part of a second or less which is
stated to have been used to record auto
graphically The compression by a blow Of
q cylindrical piece of copper. In one case
33-pound weight fell Is inches and pro
duced permanent compression of 0.l65S
inch In q copper cylinder, the time con-
sumed in producing this compression BE-
ing 000393l7 of q second The machine
produces means of photography a curve
showing the precise progress of this COM
preston. The chronogreph which reaches
such remarkable results consists Of ro-
tating cylinder with a surface velocity
CT 100 feet a second, on which is photo
graphed a pencil of light which is passed
through hole in the end of rapidly Vi
brating tuning fork. The delicacy of this
instrument as far greater than that of the
ordinary tuning fork chronograph record
ing on IA surface blackened by smoke
The last time I visited Charleston, says
a writer in the New York Press, I saw
the Scandinavia, small steamship, lying
at VanderhOrst wharf. She was about to
sail for Liverpool with 1900 bales of cor
ton. In her l recognized the Confederate
cruiser Georgia, which was sold to a Liv-
erpool firm in 1861 captured as a prize by
the United States steamer Niagara and
sold ten years later by this government
to the Anchor Line. She was built as a
commerce destroyer ar Dumbarton- on-the-
Clyde, and was christened Virginia by
Miss North, daughter of Capt North, OF
the Confederate service. Two months af-
ter launching her name was changed to
Japan, and a little later she became the
Georgia, under command of Capt w. L.
Maury, a cousin of The commodore of that
name Maury was succeeded by Capt.
Evans. All the transactions connected
with the lifting out of the Virginia or the
Japan, or the Georgia, whichever YOU
please, We're conducted by Jones & Co. of
Liverpool, and she was registered in the
iietiliS VI IiAOlllttS DOlt relative Oh AlaurX,
The Anchor Line changed her name to
the Scandinavia.
There seems to be no doubt that the
tunnellmg of the Simplon Pass, over the
Alps into Italy, says the New York Sun.
by the Swiss government, will be the next
great engineering project to be accomplish
ed In Europe, says the New York Sun
The new tunnel will be longer by nearly
four miles than the Mont Gems and st.
Gothard, though in the opinion Of engineers
the building of ii win be less costly and
not so difficult. and the work is likely to
consume only six or seven years. Already
a railway has been carried to Brieg, at the
foot of the Simplon Pass, and thence. ac
cording to the plan as laid out, the tunnel
viii follow the windings of the preselt
road, ending near the Italian border, but
still on Swiss territory. There the work
Of construction, 1t is expected, will be most
difficult taxing largely the resources 81 ell
glneering skill now, of course, much great
or and more varied than when the existing
tunnels were butt. In the case of former
tunnels, as is well known, compressed Air
was freely used for driving power and