The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

leading railroad of America there are,
counting individual rivets and bolts,
though not nails in the cab and tender,
over 5000 pieces. The modern locomotive
is really a wonderful example of an evo-
luton superintended in its successive
stakes them type to type by keen human
intelligence.
In a Communication to the Academic
des Sciences, Paris. NJ. Lebeau gives new
method of preparing white and beauti-
full metal glucinum with facility II con-
sists in submitting a solution OF the double
nuoride of sodium and glucinum 10 the
passage of an electric current which breaks
up the salt and deposits purs gucinum.
This metal forms beautiful golden yellow
alloys with copper.
The labor-saving inventor has been at
work at the cigar-cutting machine which
stands on the counter of every cigar store
and in many places where drugs and gro
ceries are sold He has invented an adj
dition which will make matches, the al
cohol flame and gas superfuous for cigar
lighting purposes at counters where ci-
gars are sold. This machine is so arrang-
ed that an unlighted cigar placed at one
end comes out at the other with the tip
cut off and lit ready for the smoker.
The following obituary notice recently
appeard in the Dublin Qreland) Independ-
ent: Smit-On the 18th inst, Amy Jane
Mary Smit, eldest daughter of John and
Wilhelmina Smith, aged ] day and 212
hours. The bereaved and heartbroken
parents beg to tender their hearty thanks
to DR.. Jones for his unremi ting attention
during the illness Of the deceased, and for
the moderate brevity of his bill. Also to
Mr. Wilson for running for the doctor, and
to Mr.. Robinson for recommending mus
tard plaster
"A strong and lasting cement for rub
Der, either on metal or wood, is described
as follows by a technical journal: Put
one part of sheilac, broken into small
pieces, into 10 parts of ammonia water
(strongesD, and set aside for three or four
weeks, or until the mass becomes entirely
fluid. In use the liquid is applied to the
India rubber surface, and the latter is APP
piled to the metal or wood and firmly wir-
ed or corded thereto. On the evaporation
of the ammonia a most complete joint is
formed between the two surfaces.
Eighteen hundred years ago or there
abouts, says the New York Tribune, the
Roman Emperor Trajan built a bridge
across the Danube, the piers of which are
found by the Roumanian engineers solid
enough TO sustain new structure, which
will unite the towns of Turnu SEVERN, in
Roumania, and Gadova, in Servia. IL
the middle of the structure the statue of
Trajan will stand four square to all the
winds that blow, as it well deserves to
do, perpetuating the memory of that great
conqueror and bridge-builder for perhaps
another score of centuries.
Fiber from the pineapple leaf will
eventually take prominent place among
the constituents of textile fabric, accord
ing to statements made in the report of
the United States department of agricul-
ture. The report shows that both the wild
and the cultivated plants of this descrip-
ton yield fiber which, when spun, sur
pass in point of strength fneness, and
luster those obtained from flax. Summa-
riZing lis value, mention is made of its
| usefulness as a substitute for silk and as
a material for mixing with wool or cot
| ton-usefuly too for cordage, sewing
silk or twist, laces, etc. Samples clean
ed, without washing, when twisted 60 the
size of binding Irvine. have shown break
age strain of $50 pounds.
The invention is announced of the pho
| nendoscope, an instrument of wonderful
value in studying the condition of the in
| ternal organs of the body. 1t is declared
| by physicians to be a tremendous advance
| on the old stethoscope. The phonendoscope
| conveys to the physician the sounds made
! by the internal organs, thus telling him
| whether they are healthy or not BY its
aid he cannot only ascertain the condition
| of an organ, but trace it's shape 1t has
been discovered with the phonendoscope
| that the stomach assumes a different form
when full of the different kinds of food
| and drink. The rapidity with which va
rious kinds of fool and drink are digested
can also be studied accurately with the
| phonendoscope. The instrument is the in
vention of Drs. Blauchi and Bazzi of
| France.
The electric fIoor-scrubbing machine
which not long ago was only a promising
experiment, is now a recognized part of
the janitorial equipment of many govern
ment, state and large office buildings, ho-
! tells, hospital, department stores, armories
and other places where there are large ex-
| panses of floor space, says the Chicago
| Record. The machine will clean a floor
in about one-quarter of the time ordina-
| rily occupied in the process. In a Cleve-
| land building, where it has been used for
more than twelve months, it is said to
save SIS a month, doing the scrubbing of
| eight floors in two hours and a half as
against ten and one-half hours of hand la
| operated by an electric motor the current
for which may be supplied by lamp cord
attached to any convenient incandescent
lamp socket. The frame carries three
| brushes, which are held against the floor
| by spring pressure, and, geared with the
motor, are revolved at about 400 revolu-
| tons a minute. The frame, rests on rub
ber-tired wheels, and the whole apparatus
| can with ease be pushed along the floor
| like a lawn mower. The machine is very
! tractable, and can be guided without diff
| Guilty in any direction. Water is thrown on
| the floor. the machine follows and the
work is done. Sandpaper pads or blocks
Of stone may be substituted for the scrub
| bling brushes, and thus the machine may
be made available for the dressing down
| of wood floors, the decks Of vessels or mo-
sale tiiing.
1t has long been a matter of great sur.
prise to wheelmen that so delicatelv con
strucied piece of mechanism as the mod
ern bicycle stands so well the rough-apd.
humble treatment it so frequently re-
ceives says the New York Post II ia
ridden by hundreds of thousands who have
no mechanical knowledge, and YET acct
dents are comparatively rare. It seems 10