The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the wheel. A marked difference in ease
Of running is found between a 1l9-inch
and a Pinch tire. A single tube tire runs
easier than a double tube tire.
The results of an elaborate investiga-
ton on the protection of iron and steel
work from rust have led Herr Julian
Treumann to the conclusion that certain
japanese lacquers form by far the most
satisfactory coverings. They are strongly
adherent, and resist sea water. steam,
and acids, even at high temperatures.
The coal of the Philippines, so far as
known, is carbonized Ignite rather than
coal, and belongs to the tirtiary age of
geology Coal exists in Luzon, and mining
concessions have been granted. Natural
gas and petroleum are found in Cebu. Gold
is frequently found in the archipelago.
There is a lead mine in Cebu and iron in
Luzon and other islands.
The Grenadier Guards is the only Tegl-
ment in which the Prince of Wales really
served a soldier. 1t was in the first bat
talon of that most distinguished regiment
that he served as a subaltern and learn
ed his drill He was stationed with them
at the Curragh Camp, Kildare, in the year
1858, and made himself highly popular with
all ranks of every corps stationed in that
salubrious camp.
The Oldest clocks of American manu-
facture were made by Gideon Roberts of
Bristol Conn. According to the best au-
thorities no clocks were manufactured in
what are now the United States prior to
1900, at which time Mr. Roberts first plac-
ed his time pieces on the market His
clocks were made with the greatest care,
and much time was spent in perfecting
them. They were all of the style common
ly known as hall" clocks.
The useful beetle known as Novius
cardinals, and employed in California TO
eat up the white or huted scale" in sects
of the orange groves has been exported
TO Portugal for the same purpose. The
beetles We're packed in moss with guam
tity of scale insects TO eat, and sent by
mail to Lisbon. Only few reached their
destination alive but they are prolific,
and in a few months thousands were
available for work on the scale insects
which infest the orange groves of the Ia
gus.
M. Dussaud has made an improvement
in the loudness of the telephone, which
he described at a recent meeting of the
Academic des Sciences, in Paris. The re-
ceiver has four magnetic poles each vi
brating its own iron plate, and the vi
brations of the air on both sides of each
plate are conducted by tubes to a small
resonating chamber as big as the human
mouth. The speech is loudest when all
four plates are vibrated, and the vibrations
from both sides are collected in the res
onator.
Mr.. Hildebrandsson, Director of the
Upsala Observatory, has just published
his observations of the height of clouds
during the past seven years. Those COM
prised 5000 measurements of height and
motion, of which ,635 were taken by pho
Biography. 1t appears that the mean height
of the clouds varies greatly during the
year. The maximum is reached
in June and July when the mean
meters Give miles,, and that of cumu-
lus $50 meters Ga little over a mile)
"A London correspondent writes: 1t is
surprising how many peerages the wealth
and trade in London gained in olden times
The earldom of CORVALLIS was founded
by Thomas CORVALLIS, a Cheapside rner-
chant that of Essex by William Capel. a
draper, and that of Craven by william
Craven, a merchant tailor. The founders
of families of Dartmouth, Radnor, Dncie
and Pomfret were respectively skinner,
a silk manufacturer, a merchant tailor
and Calais merchant while the founders
of the peerages of Tankerville, Dormer
and Coventry We're MERGERS. Edward Os-
borne, founder of the dukedom of Leeds
was an apprentice. ard William Hewet a
rich old ciothworker of London Bridge
Among others of the old peerages founded
by the trade are those of Eitzwliam
Leigh Petre, Cowper Darnley, Hill and
Darlington.
An alligator is not an attractive crea-
ture, says Appletons Popular Science
Monthly He has not a single virtue that
can be named He is cowardly, treacher-
Gus, hideous. He is neither graceful nor
even respectable in appearance. He is not
even amusing or grotesque in his ungain-
illness, for as a brute-a brute unqualified
he is always so intensely real that one
shrinks from him with loathing; and a
laugh at his expense while in his presence
would seem curiously out of place. His
personality too, is strong. Once catch the
steadfast gaze of a free, adult alligator S
wicked eyes, with their odd vertical pu-
pils fixed fun upon your own, and the sig
nificance of the expression EVIL eye" and
the mysteries of snake charming. hypnot-
ism and hoo1ooism will be readily under
stood, for his british, merciless, unfiinch-
ing stare is simply blood-chilling. 70
ologically the alligator belongs to the ge-
nus crocodilus, and he has all the hide
BUSINESS of that family, lacking somewhat
its bloodthirstness, although the American
alligator is carnivorous by nature, and
occasionally cannibalistic. Strictly speak
ing, however, the true alligator is much
less dangerous than his relatives of the
old world, and he is correspondingly less
courageous.
DIR. Frederick Strange Kolle contrib
utes to the current number of the Electri-
cal Engineer a description of a new pro-
cess of printing by X-rays. Prof EIihu
| Thomson in 1896 suggested printing by X
rays. DR.. Kolle points out that the pro-
cess described by him overcomes the cost
and labor of composition, reduces the time
necessary to reproduce the copies, and is
of such nature that the opera tor may be
kept in complete ignorance of the contents
of the document This might make the
process valuable in the diplomatic and Sc
cret services of the government. Ii is not
necessary that the matter to be reproduced
or typoradiographed" as DR.. Kolle calls
the process, should be in type characters
An, dt1fd inlr &c fo.