The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

been figured out by F. w Dean, a me-
chanical engineer, as nearly 40 per cent.
Seventeen per cent of this is attributed to
the use of multiple cylinder engines steam
jacketing, higher steam pressure and SUI
perheating the steam. Five per cent is due
to the use of vertical engines. per cent
to improved boilers, per cent 70 economy
realized in heating the feed water, and
| per cent is put down 10 the credit of i'm
| proved construction Of CRATES. Taking the
| best performances of the two periods nam
| ed, the least consumption of steam per
| horsepower per hour in 1870 was 20 pounds,
whereas the best for 1897 was 1919 pounds.
The modern Cinderella's glass slipper
is skate, of which the upper part re-
sembles a slipper, open behind, with a
! split lace-up' heel-cap. The Age of Steel
describes this new skate as a skate of
| glass, hardened by a recent process to the
| consistency of steel. Every part of the
| skate is of glass, from the slipper-like
upper to the gittering blade. 1t is assert
ed that the glass blades are much more
| slippery than steel ones, and that they
Will run almost as well over rough, snow
| covered ice, as on a smooth ice-sheet,
and will also go easily over inequalities,
| twigs and other Instructions. They are
made very sharp, and are so extremely
hard that it is almost impossible to blunt
| them.
The best toothpicks made anywhere in
! the world come from Portugal, says the
Philadelphia Times. They are whitfield by
hand from orange wood sp.ints by peasant
| girls, the only tools used being an ordin-
airy jackknife. These picks are as smooth
| as ivory and will not break into splinters
They are expensive. Only one hotel in
Philadelphia supplies them. The girls who
make the picks receive less than 10 cents
| day. As the duty on the foreign-mad.e
| picks is only So per cent they can be
sold here for less than picks of similar
quality could be manufactured in this
country, despite the improved American
| machinery and skilled labor. The profit
on American picks is almost exclusively
on the cheaper products. Some of the
Portuguese picks are highly ornamented
| with hand carving. They are too expen-
| slVe Tor ordinary commerce. Small quan-
utles nave been imported into this coun-
| try on rare occasions for use at notable
banquets or as unique specimens of handi-
craft.
According to a German trade paper. the
problem of printing simultaneously in diff
ferent colors has been solved. The process
involved deviates entirely from the ordi
nary method. 1t is styled the mosaic chro-
matte heat process. Neither wooden blocks
nor photographic stones or rollers are en-
ployed. The colors required for the MIC
ture are applied in any desired number
on plate about three-fourths of an inch
thick and form coherent, cheesy mass.
When the arrangement of the colors is.
finished, the plate presents the aspect of
a mosaic picture. The plate is placed on
the bed of the machine, an ordinary litho-
graphic press, but adapted to the process.
and the impressions are produced nv
Of atyiss,
in the Interior. The invention is of import
ance, since 1t affords saving Of Is per
cent. of time and wages compared with
the old printing method. II is especially
suited for colored show cards, for the col
ortng of maps and plans, and all sorts of
illustrations.
Not long ago a "likely lad'' appeared
at the Royal Marine recruiting office in
Havelock street. Cardiff, and asked to be
enrolled for service in the British navy.
He said he had worked as an ordinary
seaman on two British ships; gave his
name as David Mckinley, and spoke of
America as his birthplace. Sergt. Guy
asked David jocularly If he were related
to the President of the United States.
David said mo-" but added that he might
some day work his own way up to the
Presidency. The sergeant examined
David's teeth and then told him to slip
off his coat and shirt so that the chest
measurement could be taken. David re-
Piled: 81 don't like to-" and exhibited
shyness. The sergeant urged the boy 10
bare his chest, but David could not be
induced to comply. Subsequently it was
discovered that David was in reality a
16-year-old girl, Amelia Vella by name
and that she had run away from the
home of her father, a Maltese seaman,
living at Newport. Her statement that
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ships had been substanuated. Her friends
; say that her head was turned through
constant reading of books of travel and
adventure.
-"Of all boiler fallacies none is more
rampant or persistent" says an English
authority, than the theory that by pre-
venting smoke We can save quantities OF
fuel. AS a rule, TO which there are very
few exceptions, no saving whatever is eff
, fected by making a boiler consume its own
smoke 1t is quite true that economy Oft
en- results from the use of self-feeding fur
naces, or various appliances, patented OF
unpatented with which most of us are
quite familiar. The Improvement is
brought about by quite different agencies
1t was shown many years ago by c. Wye
Williams who was The apostle Of smoke
, | prevention, that the magnificent rolling
pillows of black smoke poured forth from
the funnel of a Holyhead mail steamer
/, owed their color to few ounces of finely
divided carbon; that, in a word, a steam
! er's smoke-trail closely resembles a COM
cts tail in the insignifcance of the guam
city of tangible material which 1t CON
tains. Sir w. Anderson showed far more
, recently that, so far from smoky flame
being a worse steam generator than a
clear flame, it is far better. But the great
. practical fact is that boilers which are
fitted TO consume or prevent their own
smoke as a rule are not such powerful
steam producers as those which go through
, life smoking heavily and creating an afro
clous nuisance: and the reason is not far
to Seek
An English trade journal discussing
, the growing pressure of American indus
tries upon those of Great Britain SAYS:
Much of this is due to the superior eff
cheney of the American machines and the