The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

10 Nedlu Win Nue YANKEE pigs. Down
with the Mckinley administra ton, who
! thim's itself to be the elect of good and
| history, and is responsible for the misfor-
tunes Of bedding Cuba Yes we shall de-
mand from Pres. Mckinley and justly to
that he shall free from so idous a ma
ton and shoulded he refuse we will srise
III our might, and bow brave Orientales,
armed and seuppi.leed as they should be
viii triumph over the cowardly u. S. gov
eminent, ere is by might alone the power
over our country
Hundreds of Detroiters who visited the
old town of Amhertsburg and Bots Blanc
Island Park last summer. SAYS the De-
troit Tribune, brought home with them
glass Jars, tin cups,rf pals, in fact in
numerGble receDtacles, which contained
one or more goldfish. Their home ana
breeding place was in the old Anderson
stone quarry. For years they have been
there, and as the quarry has been only
partial worked for some time past they
We're practically unmolested But to-day
immense steam pumps are hard at work
and the water is being forced from the
quarry into the Detroit river and Lake
ERIE. These goldfish are prolific breeders
ana If they thrive in these waters il would
require only few years for them TO spread
from Lake Superior to the very ocean.
A Moscow correspondent writes: At
the performance of the bal Masaue" at
the new theater the other night a Young
| singer, Nine Gsinzyna, had a nervous
Crisis ana had to be taken off the stage
She was playing the part of IJlrica. ana
in the second act she smiled so idioticaiv
ana sang 50 much out of tune that the
auolehce began to hiss. Amidst jeers and
laughter she sang on more ana more oar
| OF tune, aud finally ended with a scream
| 9he was led off the boards, and a doctor
was sent for, who said she was suffering
from acute hysteria. She has been re-
moved TO an asylum where it is hoped she
WI recover IN few months. This makes
| me second incident of this kind which
mas occurred in Russia recently. Last NO
Vember NJ. Tchernof had sudden access
| Vi mama while playing at st. PETERSBURG
and he is now incurable.
-Commutator brushes Of allows have
been suggested in Germany for use with
uyhatnos' with the object of combining
cohductlVity with as little friction as nos
| sible. One of the most recent of tbesa
| Is an alloy composed of copper. with 20
| per cent of bismuth, 80 per cent cad
| num- and 10 per cent. of antimonv
| Ihese proportions may be changed de-
| pending on the use for which the brush
| IS intended and the material of which tbe
commutator is composed; it being posi-
| bic, If il is made of steel to use three
times as much of these ingredients in the
| aloy In the process of making. the
| metals going to make up these brushes
| may either be melted together or mixed
| as hne powder, and then compressed to-
! gether with the aid of heat The chief
advantage claimed for the brushes made
from the alloy is that they generate less
heat by friction than the copper brushes.
A simple piece of apparatus to measure
the intensity of illumination was recently
| described before the French Academy of
| sciences. IL does not need a standard
| lamp, but it gives relative values of diff
| ferent scources of illumination 1t con-
| sists of box which is perforated with a
| number of holes. The first is covered with
| single film of collodion with a slight
| tint, the second has two such films, and so
on. Beneath the holes is placed strip
| OF sensitized paper, and an exposure of a
| certain definite length of time is made
and the highest number that can be read
| on the paper gives a means for estimating
| the intensity OF the light The opparatu
is first standardized with some source of
| illumination whose intensity IS known
| and the results are then computed for the
| various openings. The objection to this
| method is its dependence on the color of
| The light, as light from some sources has
| rays with properties quite different from
| those of the sun, for example, which af-
ford illumination, yet do not possess as
great actinic power.
Amateur photographers and other ex-
| perimenters often desire to make their
| own mirrors, and a process that is quite
! simple was recently described in the Neu-
este Ertndungen und Erfahrungen. The
method consists of placing the piece of
glass to be silvered in a box of glass OF
| porcelain, the opposite edges of the plate
| resting on crossbars of the same material
| The side to be silvered IS turned down
ward, and the silver solution, which con-
sists of nitrate of silver and an alkaline
| reducing agent, poured in it until it
| reaches the lower surface of the plate
| which has previously been cleaned with
| a dilute potash solution and has been
| rinsed with distilled water. The thickness
of the coat of silver which is deposited de-
| ponds on the time of contact. After the
piece of silvered glass is removed from
The bath, it is washed in distilled water
| and then given a coat of varnish If il Is
| desired to deposit gold, three solutions are
| employed, the gold being used in a solu-
ton of metallic gold in aqua regia. Other
| wise the process is the same as for silver
| ing.
| Conditions in Northern and Southern
mills are infinitely compared in a long ar
| ticle contributed to the Charleston Is. c.
News and Courier by a writer familiar
| from boyhood with the cotton industry as
| conducted in South Carolina, who has just
| made sociological study Of many of the
| New England manufacturing centers. in.
Guiding Providence, Fan River Lynn
| Lowell. Nashua, Brattleboro and Bidde-
| ford. The visitor reports that the ma
| chinery in a surprising number of the
! Northern mills is of types so antiquated
that competition with the new mills of the
South is already difficult and will soon
| become impossible, and the tendency seems
| to be- he says, to abandon cotton manu-
| facture altogether rather than to put in
| up-to-date machines. AS to the relative
condition of the mil hands, North and
South, he found all the advantages on the
| side of the Southern operative II don't
think" he writes, that ] would exagger-
ate if were to say that saw more filth
| more evidences of poverty and destitution
| in FAN River and Biddeford that | have
| ever seen In the Whole state of Soi,tb Ca~