The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

view have just been delivered in Ph1ladel-
phia. The lumber was obtained on the
Wilderness battlefield, and the bills of
lading show that the trees were felled and
the lumber sawed on the famous field
where Lee and Grant fought so fierceiy
and stubbornly for supremacy In some
of the planks the MIME balls can be plainly
seen, particularly where the bullets
have been cut through by the
saw, which seemed to go through
the lead as easily as through the pine. The
parts of the wood touching the spots where
the bullets were found are discolored and
rotten, but not enough to damage the lum-
Der.
A battle with real snowballs took
place in a Philadelphia coal yard a day
or so ago, says the New York Tribune
ParadoXical as this may seem, 1t was
really fact. A driver of one of the wag
ons backed up to a bin and began to load
with coal dust After he had penetrated
two or three feet into the pile, the driver
encountered a bank of pure white snow.
He could hardly credit his senses and
thought he was dreaming until he reached
down and made a SNOWFALL. With this he
pelted one of the yard employees, and in
short time clerks and all hands left their
work and gathered about the snow pile
and INDUCED in a genuine battle. The
explanation is that the bin was empty
y
the coal dust was dumped in on top of
the snow. The dust kept the snow from
melting until it was uncovered by the
driver
In a Missouri court recently a rather
novel case came up for decision. During
the civil war a certain Northern soldier
went into service, leaving young wife
al home. In due time the news reached
him that his bride had died, and when
the war ended he did not return to his Old
home, but settled out West. He married
again, and with his second wife accumu-
lated q large amount of property in Pratt
county. Not long ago he learned that his
first wife had not died, but. suppos.ng
him to have been killed, had married an
other man. This man died, leaving her
a widow. When the Pratt county man
learned these facts he brought suit for
divorce, and the woman in the East heard
of it and came out and fought the case.
asserting a claim to part of the Pratt
county mans property. However, after
the lawyers had made a great fight before
him, the judge granted the divorce and
left the Pratt county man free to marry
the woman who has been living with him
for many years as his wife.
The driving of machine tools by motors
has perhaps received more attention than
all the other applications of small motors
put together, says the Engineering Maya
zine. AS rule engineers arrange their
own shops in a way which they would be
ashamed 10 adopt in filling an order. There
is no doubt that all tools can be best driV
en- by motors, the only question that is
open is, whether each tool should have its
own motor, or whether several small tools
such as lathes, shah have a shaft and one
motor for the lot. The small motor is, how
ever, much less efficient than frequently
supposed There is a common idea that all
dynamos and motors run up to high eff
ciencies, say 50 per cent. or so, but small
motors are much more likely to be of the
order of 50 per cent. The initial expense
OF small motors is their chief attribute,
however, and in addition to this machine
tools are not designed for motors to be-
gin with, but the maker sticks il on where
he can under protest and treats it as an
archltect does a church organ, as an I'M
avoidable evil, which has to he tolerated,
but must not be considered. A great part
of the cost of the small motor is the frame
work and bearings, and if the machine
too, were properly designed, and the motor
made by the TOOL maker, this cost would
be saved, for the motor and frame would
take the place of the bearings and frame
work of other motion or reduction gear
employed in connection with belt driving.
Mosquitoes believe in the good old FASH
ion of large families, says Ainslee's
Monthly. Well they may; they don't have
TO raise them There is no walking the
floor nights with the youngest or sitting
up to mend stockings; no worrying about
the second summer-yOu know if you bring
them through the second summer all right
there is no scheming to put Tom through
Harvard or Dorothy through Vassar. 1t is
very simple. Mamma lays from twenty 10
forty dozen eggs is some queit pool along
a mo inc nd
siders her duty amply done. The inher-
TIED experience of ages has taught her
that it is best to mass them together in
pointed eiGpse slightly concave on the
top, the eggs being little end up. The air
so sticks to the mass that it is impossible
TO wet ii. In sixteen hours the larvae
come out on the under side and begin
most active existence. They are the wig
glers that used 10 infest the rain water
barrel at the corner of the house 'in the
airly days" The wiggler has two stages
of existence, larva and pupa. For seven
days 1t has hard work to get up 10 the sur
face to breathe. but when it changes, it
has hard work to get down to the bottom.
Two days later, its clothes begin TO feel
tight, and when all the back buttons
burst Oft. it crawls out, using its old frock
as kind of boat, while it gets its wings
Strengthened out. This is a very ticklisn
Job, and many young life has been lost
ny uiOWHlHS dI the very beginning or
promising career. The fact that so many
eggs are laid would indicate, if nothing
else did. that many mischances await the
mosquito at all stages of its existence.
agen. for his wife. The court decided 9TH
When man hears for the first time
that it is the female mosquito that does all
the biting it makes him feel right glad.
says Ainslee's Magazine. Further comfort
is afforded by The knowledge that the
male mosquito has probably the keenesJ
musical sensibilites of any of his class of
onimals. tie has quite a brush of hairs
on his antenndc, and with them he hears
Mayer stuck one of his kind on a glass
plate and sounded tuning forks about
When one tone was made certain hairs
would vibrate, while all the others were
sim. Another tone would start another
set to vibrating, and so on. Also, if the
tuning fork were at one side of the mos
quito, the hairs on that antenna trembled