The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Independent quotes from a letter
written by Hartford young woman who
was entertained the other day by Capt.
Goodrich on the St. Louis. and who there
met Admiral Cervera. He reminds me-"
she said, "of an old Yankee farmer, and
that's the best compliment l can pay him.
He does not look like a Spaniard. his gray
hair and beard, his blue eyes and rudy
cheeks distinguishing him from his Off
GERS and men, who are dark-haired and
salloW-complexion with piercing black
eyes. He looks honest and straigthfor-
ward; but I wouldn't trust the rest out of
my sight, The admiral had on an old
black derby the only piece of his own
old seamans jumper and a pair of light
gray trousers; both many sizes too large
for him.
1t seems that the greater part Of Sicil-
ian sulphur is still extracted from the
gangue in kilns, the necessary heat being
supplied by the sulphur, says the New
York Sun. In some cases coal or wood is
used as fuel or the sulphur melted by
superheated steam or a solution of calcium
chloride, of which the boiling point is
slightly higher than the melting point
of sulphur. The proposition to extract
the sulphur by means of carbon disulphide
full. The consumption of sulphur as fuel
in kilns is one-third or more of that con-
tanned in the rock. The rock when con-
tanning less than so per cent. sulphur is
not treated. The average of the Sicilian
mines is said to be about 20 per cent, the
cost of treatment is about 10 cents, and
the value of sulphur of the best quality
delivered on shipboard in Sicilian ports
is not far from $16. The regenerative fur
mace for treating the rock is largely in
use.
"A comparatively new and very rapid
method of transferring bulk wheat from
a ship into barges is described in Cham
ber's Journal as having recently attracted
much notice at the Albert dock London.
The vessel, which belongs to the London
Grain Elevator Company is fitted with
pneumatic machinery, invented by a Mr..
Duckham of Miflwall, and, from the grain
ships lower hold, the grain was delivered
into the barges at the rate of 1876 tons per
hour The chief feature of the apparatus
is cylindrical tank partly exhausted of
air, from which number of flexible sue
ton tubes can be carried 10 any place in
the grain ship; on its way from ship to
barge, the wheat passes through auto
matte weighing machines, not being touch
ed by hand at any stage of the process. A
system similar TO this has for some time
<. OIGILiD,
erick, and a few other places, and il is
considered to be the most perfect method
of unloading wheat which has yet been
devised.
In a recent number of Power, a sing
ular calculation is presented by j. A
Renie. It would require, according to Mr.
Renie's figures, the power of a ten-thou-
sand-horse-power engine about 20 900 100000
years to lift the earth one foot in hight
and to do this work, allowing thirteen
pounds Of water per horse power per
hour, would require some 10000 600 900 Geo. .
100000 gallons of water, or more than
would be discharged at the mouth of the
Mississippi in 5000 years This would be
enough, the writer estimates, to cover the
entire surface of the earth to a depth of
about 300 feet, TO convert which into
steam, using good boilers, would require
some 1900, Goo 900 100000 tons of coal If
the latter quantity of the mineral was
loaded on cars of twenty tons each it
would demand 100000, 900, 900 900 such cars
If the latter We're thirty feet long and all
coupled together In one train. it would
reach around the earth 45,0O0000 times
and, If running twenty-five miles per hour
would consume $1,000 900 years in running
the length of itself. So much for fig
ures."
"A novel method of ascertainlng the
point of escaping gas is practiced in
Client says the New York Sun. The out
fit consists of a large hand drill or auger,
several hollow tubes or pipes of the re-
CURED length, a few corks fitted with
quilts through the center a bottle of Or
Palladium, and few bits of white paper
Several paving blocks are removed over
the gas main, holes are bored in the soil
and in each is planted a piece of the hol-
low piping; on the upper exposed end one
of the corks is placed, with the quill in
the center running up and down palallel
with the pipe. A small piece of the white
paper in dipped in the Or-Palladium and
pushed into the open quill-twenty or thir-
" such detectors being put in position at
one time-and, if a leak exists within say
two yards of them, the effect of the es-
Gaping gas will be evident upon the paper,
rendered sensitive by the reagent, and it
will at once turn black. The effect of the
action of the gas upon the detector first
placed in position becomes evident before
the last one of row of twenty is set up
The gas company of Client causes regular
tests TO be made in turn in all the streets
of the city, and the loss by leakage is said
not to exceed per cent.
The Buddhists remarks Lawrence r.
well in Lippincott's Magazine took the
same pessirnistic view of life as the Brah-
Minis; life was a misfortune and the faith
ful were always ready to abandon it. The
Buddhist, however, stood to gain more by
death even than the Brahmin, and, as his
estimate of the value of life was no higher
suicide was still more common among the
followers of Buddha than it had been
prior to the PRONUNCIATION of the new relig-
ion. BY the Buddhists suicide is looked up
on even to-day, as justihable under almos t
any circumstances. In China, IL is true,
some Suicidqg-esDapi91lV tbOsa cancad nv
gambling-are regarded as dshonorable,
but everywhere that Buddhism has pene-
trated human life is held as of little or no
value, and suicide is committed on the
slightest provocation imaginable or with
out any provocation at ALL With Budd-
hists life is a penance and death is the
doorway to eternal joy 1t is, therefore,
not surprising that they are always ready
to commit suicide on the very slightest
nretaXt Among the C,hinesa q tri1..al in