The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-23


has cold. on account of which he is in
bed. is nevertheless in good health with
in the meaning of the clause in life in
surance policy, which requires the pre-
MUM to be paid while he is in good
health, although pneumonia sets in in
day or two after the premium is paid and
proves fatal.
An English inventor has devised very
ingenious artificial leg and foot intended
for use in cases of amputation below the
knee joint. 1t is mainly composed of a
hollow rubber chamber which IS inflated
in exactly the same way as is a bicycle
tire The skeleton of the foot is of wood
and contains within it a rubber-faced joint
which permits of movements like those
which take pace at the ankle. A pair or
rubber pneumatic pads surround the end
of the amputated limb, 50 that no undue
pressure is exerted on the tissue
1t was announced the other day that
piano firm had sent Admiral Dewey pi-
ano As a matter of fact, as the story is
now told. five piano firms sent the DeWeys
five pianos. and much to the dismay OF
the recipients the instruments be ng
form of white elephant not easily nor con-
veniently disposed of. AT first, indeed,
they were at a loss what to do about 1t,
but Mrs. Dewey finally settled the matter
by deciding that it should be a case CT
first come first served. The first piano TO
arrive was therefore accepted; the others,
with thanks, were returned as ''unaValla-
bic"
The ordinary belfry bell, in order that
its full power may be felt, is necessarily
an imposing mass OF metal, but an Eng
lishman. notes the Scientific American, has
succeeded in producing bells which are ao-
solutely cylindrical and which do away
with many of the disadvantages OF the Or
binary bells. Whatever be the note that IS
to be furnished, the tube that gives 1t ls
of constant diameter and thickness for the
various tones, and differ only in length.
The result is a great saving in metal,
and the possibility of obtaining notes with
mathematical precision. Such an advan-
tage is not a slight one, since the harmon
izing of ordinary bells necessitates a spe-
cial corps of tuners.
The Monthly Weather Review, pub
lished by the weather bureau, recently
had an account of the Tugrin fog dispeller,
| which consists of an outlook pipe eight
feet long, the internal diameter being three
inches. There is a wide fiange at the
mouth placed so as to be convenient to
the navigating officer. A tube enters the
pipe from below, and a blower SENDS
powerful stream of warm air through the
tube ana the pipe SlTdiSuN diteiuf DAo"AHt
a hole through the fog, as it were, which
| Is rolled back in every direction. The
moisture is said to condense and flow in
rain drops. The navigating officer IS en-
abled to see through the densest fog for
| several hundred feet.
The new earthquake-resisting steel
framed palace for the Crown Prince Of
japan is now being designed, says the Sci
| nd are
being laid, with the view of obtaining the
| structural steel in February. The palace
itself will be built of granite and marble
around the steel skeleton. 1t will be 20
! by 400 feet and the hight will be 60 feet,
and will be built in the French Renals-
| sance style. A Chicago engineer has been
| called upon to design an elaborate heat
ing and ventilating plant. An American
| ice manufacturing and electric light sys~
| tenn will also be added. 1t is thought that
| steel construction will revolutionize the
| building industry in Japan. The new pal
| ace will rest on 400 deeply anchored steel
columns embedded in concrete piers. The
Carnegie company will furnish the steel
| Attention is called by the American
Manufacturer to the fact that up to date
the requirements Of rice producing coun-
| tries in so far as a cheap, practical,
| durable and simple huller is concerned
| have not been supplied. Hitherto hulling
| has been conducted either by means of
| highly elaborate machinery in the mills of
| the great shipping centers, or else by
means of most primitive appliances owned
| by the native agrlculturists. 1t is to this
latter class that American manufacturers
should look for new customers. The great
| requirement is a huller to be worked by
| bullock power and capable of hulling COM
fortably about six bushels day Needless
to say the utmost simplicity and strength
and cheapness are the special features
which must be made the objects of partic-
ular attention. An immense market awaits
the man who can solve the problem.
Among agricultural implements needed
in cultivating the sugar beet no machine IS
more valuable than good beet digger
In fact, some device of this kind Is abso-
| lutely Indispensable. Quite a number of
such machines have already been put on
| the market, but in order to determine
which is the best the Deutsche Landwirth-
schaft Gesellschaft has offered a prize
| competition. The premium amounts to
| $780, The examination of the CONNECTING
machines will be held in the fall of 1900
An additional prize will be given to a
machine which will raise and top the
beets at the same time. This prize NAV.
| at first sight, seem rather small for an i'm
portant piece of agricultural machinery.
| but 1t Is to be supplemented by prizes Of
fered by the association of the German
sugar industry, which has offered prizes
amounting to S1,9O4 and 81.
The idea of using vitrihed clay pipe in
stead of iron was proposed to Irwin But
terworth by Henry L. Doherty. president
Of the Madison (Wis.) Gas and Electric
| Company The former read paper upon
II at the Western Gas Association meet
| ing at Milwaukee. The suitability of vitri-
/ fed claypipe for gas mains is due to their
| cheapness, durability strength, non-sus-
| cepubility to electrolytical action, slight
susceptibility to changes of temperature.
non-porosity, adaptability to the making
| of service connections by the use of special
or small auxiliary distributing pines of
wrought iron. Vitrified claypipe should.
of course. be selected and laid with the
same care which is given to the LAYING of
cast-iron mains. The possibilities for the
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