The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


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An enterprising Western firm is MAX
ing arrangements to set up a modern
American sawmm in China, where lumber
is still sawed by the primitive methods of
a century ago
Before the end of the month a statue
of Oliver P. Morton, who was Indiana's
war Governor, and for several years prom
inent as a United States senator viii be
placed in Statuary hall, Washington. This
statue was ordered about three years ago
by the Indiana Legislature, which appro-
priated $500 to pay for it,
Although the apple crop this year is
expected to be the largest that has been
produced, the demand has increased so
greatly during recent years that il is not
thought the prices will fall. The larg-
est yield of apples in the United States
was 100000 900 bushels, about three bushels
for every man, woman and child. About
one-third of the product is made into cider.
The price of apples has been rising each
year, and demand for them has arisen
IN Europe, 20 which many are exported.
The exports of dried apes for the last
fiscal year were 193O5,749 pounds. valued
at $1,245 1873; while of ripe apples there
were exported 3S0,222 barrels, valued at
S1,210,459.
The profession of rat-catching seems
to be more profitable at the present time
than It was in the time of the Pied Piper
OF Hamlin, says the Chicago Daily News.
1t was some time ago that a gayly paint
ed, one-horse wagon, with plate glass sides,
appeared on the down town streets. Signs
about the wagon read: "Rat-catchers."
we clear your house of rats" etc. The
wagon STODS near pTrh and its mes
ence there is a signal for curious crowds to
collect and swarm around the wagon in
edgerness to catch glimpse of a number
of sleepy ferrets inside; as well as a num-
Der of captive rats inside, separated from
the ferrets by heavy screens. A man in
the front seat of the wagon hands out
cards that warn the public against imita-
tors.
The craze for fast time on railways is
taking a new feature" observed a promi-
nent railroad official to a Washington Star
writer recently 1T is the shortening of
lines and reconstruction of surveys in or
der to make a given line as straight as pos
slble between two points 1t is, in fact. a
scheme to make time by saving distance A
railway without a curve or a cutting Is,
of course, a splendid thing from an en-
glneerins standpoint, but it is a very te-
dious affair TO the passenger To thor
oughly realize how extremely monotonous
a long journey on q railway without A
curve or a cutting is, one must travel on
the road from Bueno5 Ayres to the Andes
That railway beats all known records for
having over two hundred miles of tracks
almost on line. such as mathemattciaus
describe as the shortest distance between
any two points. No one who has not seen
this remarkable stretch of road, straight
in front and - ind as far as the eve can
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can grasp what it means or what an
amount of wearisome monotony 1t involves
and entails"
Making bricks without straw seems
child's play compared to printing with
out ink, says the London Standard How
ever. some one has found out how to
produce an entire British Museum Library
without a drop of that fluid All you've
got to do is to have a paper susceptible
to the magnetic-electric influence of light.
and TO run an electric current through
your machine Any machine-platen, fiat
bed cylinder or fast rotary news-can be
adapted for electric inkless printing at
a very moderate cost AS for the amount
of current-well, put the cost down at
from Id to I'D per hour The paper de-
rives its special virtue from the addition
of certain chemicals" while it is in
the pulp stage. At the moment of con-
tact the current passes through the pa
per and clear, legible, permanent char
acterS are produced. Impressions come
dry from the machine; there is no need
to wait for the ink TO dry" The pre-
pared paper and the current being to-
gether much cheaper than ink, a consid-
cradle economy is involved in the new
process. There is also saving in human
labor, turps, oil and I've, to say nothing
of diminished risk from fire Then listen
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paper makes no appreciate addition TO
its price Moreover, the paper does not
deteriorate by keeping it can be made up
in the customary reams and reels and il
can be used for ink printing as well as
for inkless printing. When associated
with the new process machines can. il is
claimed, be run at a higher speed than
when ink has to be manipulated. New
machines built specially for the process
will We are tod, be so considerably short
ened that three of the new electrical ink
less machines will occupy little more than
the floor space necessary for two of the
present maShines."
The Scientific American, In a timely
and pointed article, calls attention In the
weakness of the plans for the six new
cruisers recently authorized. The naval
board of construction has produced plans
which are, as the Scientific American
points out, distinct step backward. These
new cruisers are to be of 400 tons dis
placement, 292 feet load water line length
43 feet beam and 700 tons bunker capacity
There is to be on each of these ships a
battery consisting of ten 5-in h rapid-hrc
suns, eight 6-pOunderS, two 1-pourders
and two machine guns. They are to have
also a partially protected deck for one
tkrG of their 81 gtn. rhe Sc Cnti:i, Amer
I'sn compares them with tha MONTGOMERY
in his manne': THE Montgo merry teinr
a cruiser of the Unprotected class-.that ie
having no protective deck but merely a
thin 'watertight' decks the ship vnicn
naturally suggests itself first for connayi-
son. Her full load displacement is 229
tons, or, adding $50 tons for sheathing. saw
1850 tons, which is 1,12O tons less than thai
OF the new ships. Yet, in spite of this dis
parity, the smaller and Older boat has the
same battery and two and one-half knots
higher speed; whereas on an increase of
over ], 100 tons in displacement, the new de-