The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


row which is pushed between the rows of
cotton, the balls from each row of which
one on either side of the picker-are at
tracted and engaged by the revolving col
lecGng wheels or disks. In these times of
low prices, there is an opening for ma
chine that will pick cotton rapidly and eff
1ectlVely, and the electrical pickers, if
proved to be quite practicable, should ex
actly fill this want.
An American woman In Paris thus de-
scribes how she met ex-Queen Isabella
of Spain at an early morning mass: 1.-The
church was crowded with the feminine
portion of the Spanish colony, and 1 viii
say that they looked lovely even at that
early hour of the morning and in simple
dresses. On our way we met Isabella.
She was Waddling across the Place de
lEtoile with a male and a female at
tendant-an unusually modest suite for
the splendor-loving lady. She wore
black wooden dress and crepe veil. Her
face is ford, and she wears a Titan wig,
which does not add to her beauty or dig
nifty, but during the service she crossed
herself continually and wept, so 1 suppose
the gay and Eighty ex-sovereign feels very
sad about her native land and the peril
of her royal grandson"
A significant item is found in the reports
of an English ordnance factory, where 1900
men are now employed night and day The
manager who is an ex-navy officer has
been authorized to spend $115O00 on new
buildings and 900 on new machinery. 1t
is stated that the whole Of the last sum
viii be expended in the United States, as
the Americans only produce such machines
as are wanted. All this new plant viii be
driven by electricity an Ohio firm having
got the contract for the whole of it. The
machines are mostly vertical lathes, not
obtainable in England. One of the novelties
which the American firm is said to have
disposed of a number to the English gov
eminent recently is a 6-inch gun, which, in
consequence of the employment of base
ring of soft copper of a peculiar shape,
pressing against a ring of asbestos, will
show no signs of wear. At least a gun
from which 800 rounds had been fired had
it's muzzle velocity reduced not more than
100 feet per second.
Every man who has ridden in train
drawn by a steam locomotive has had ex-
perience of the effects of the smoke and
cinders which were blown in through the
windows of the car, and has wondered
why there was no means of suppressing
the nuisance A Maryland inventor has
tried his hand at a remedy which he
thinks he has found in the attachment of
a cyclindrical gooseneck, bifurcated at its
locomotive. The ends of the divided por-
ton terminate in a receiver for cinders
located at the side of the engine To the
gooseneck is attached a pipe which runs
the whole length of the train With this
device it is impossible for smoke or Gin
ders to come in contact with passengers,
even although windows and doors be left
open, for as the refuse of the furnace
passes up the smokestack the smoke en-
ters the pipe and is driven back toward
the end of the cars by the air that is
constantly rushing through it.
Not much of a future was predicted for
fyng-machines in a paper on that topic
read at a recent meeting of the Boston
Scientific Society by A. A. Merrill, him
self an enthusiastic aeronaut, says the
New York Post. The problem, as he pre-
scented it, was in the construction of a
serviceable machine, the parts of which
would not, by their wind-resisting sur
faces, defeat the object sought. The mar
gin of safety is so exceedingly small in
machines of this character that even the
surface of the man who is the passenger,
about five square feet, must be considered.
BY carrying him horizontally, as if swim.
ming, Mr.. Merrill hopes in construction
Of his own to be able to make a new ma
chine more efficient than any heretofore.
AS to the universal use of the fiyng-ma-
chine, as suggested in fanciful sketches of
sanguine authors, Mr.. Merrill has no faith,
and he is certain that they never can
compete with surface methods for the car
rying of great weights, freight and ex-
press, for example. He is somewhat san
guine himself, however, and sketched out
a house top scheme with landing-places
and storage barns in which perhaps they
might be useful for single passengers in
their daily trips between the house and the
office. Bicycle-makers, however. are not
likely to experience any immediate COM
petition.
The visit Of Prince Henry of Prussia to
the Emperor and Dowager Empress of
China in the summer palace is thus de-
scribed by a German newspaper: ''The
Prince and his staff rode out early IN the
morning on horseback accompanied by a
small escort of marines, also on horse
back; another corps of marines followed on
foot. on their arrival at the palace tie
Prince and his staff changed their clothes.
and partook of cold refreshments That
were offered them The Prince then, in
the company of the German ambassador
and the Interpreter paid a visit TO the
Empress Dowager. She seemed quite at
ease and asked numerous questions Then
the Empress received the Prince and his
entire staff in the great audience han.
The Emperor shook hands with the
numerous fine German porcelain vases
sent as a gift by Emperor William At
ter short conversation, the Emperor
moved toward the door, where the marines
had been stationed; he was somewhat
surprised at the roll of the drum with
which he was greeted. The Prince and
his staff then left the Emperor and ira
vereed the lake near the Summer Palace
in electric and steam launches Prince
Ching pointing OUT the objects of inter-
est in the way of fine bronzes and other
works of art The Emperor returned the
Princes call, and gave him number of
fine presents, vases, and a fan painted
by the Dowager Empress herself. Prince
Henry then led the Emperor, accompanied
only by the interpreter into the neighbor-
ing rooms and spent considerable time
with him there in conversation"
A French doctor declares that Incidence
is a weakness of dyspeptics and neuro-
paths which is amenable to scientific treat
ment. He divides indolent people into va
rious classes and proposes to treat each
case according to its special symptoms. He |
looks upon the indifferent indolent as hone |
less, but believes that the remorseful in |
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