The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in London 10 which no one under six feet
in hight will be admitted.
Another proof of prosperity is fur
nished by the bulletin of the silk Asso-
citation of America for July. The total
valuation of silks and silk fabrics for
the month was S1,74447S. OF this amount
the largest item, S1S0,000 with laces and
embroideries a close second, the figures
for the latter being $170,GGo. d is also no.
ticeable that the impor,> ,lou of foreign
silk fabrics in their cheaper forms is de-
creasing.
Seven printers. formerly employed by
The 81. James Gazette, We're summoned
at the Mansion House recently, on behalf
of Nh Edward steinkopf the proprietor
who claimed from each Of them a sum
equal to a week ) wages on account of
their quitting their en- loyment without
giving notice, says the London Mail. Ala
the men were employed in the machine
and slereotyping departments of the paper,
and they left without notice on IuV 1.
The result was, it was stated, that the
first edition OF the paper could NOT re
brought out at all, and il was only by an
extraordinary effort the manager himself
turning 10 the machine, that the second
edition appeared. Much annoyance, inccn-
venience and delay resulted. Afterward
the union pcketed the offices of the paper
ard ii was very difficUlt TO get fl esh hands.
The Alderman fined each defendant a
weeks wages and the cost Of the sum
mons.
"A technical commission appointed some
time ago in France has lately made ia
vorable report upon a scheme for the con-
struction of a mountain railway to the
top of Mont Blanc and ii is not i'm
probable that the remarkable project viii
be carried out according to the plan pro-
posed, as the various rack lines up the
Swiss peaks have been successful from
almost every point of view. The most
difficult point. the Mechanical Engineer
remarks would be the three and a quar-
ter miles from Aiguille de Glaze to the
summit, but here the line would be car
ried on a special gallery, which, though
involving laborious detail, is deemed the
most practical of the different methods
considered. The difficulties resulting from
such an altitude, in the matter of air, cold,
etc, will. it is believed be overcome aft
er some time of residence there. The in
tention is TO have the line start from
ChamouniX and extend almost to the apex
of the great mountain, the length being
six and a quarter miles.
One of the most familiar substances
now named in industrial connections is
graphite and its differentiated uses ana
applications are really phenomenal. NOT
a single iron casting, says a writer in
Bradstreet is taken from it's sand mould
without the sand being first faced by
graphite; not a gun projectile is cast but
the steel is melted in a graphite cruel
BILE; not tool, not a saw is made but
from graphite crucible steel; every pound
of nickel, of copper, of composition met
al, of brass is cast in some way the
metal being reduced in a graphite cruel
BILE Every printing house, for the per-
lection of its elecrOtypes, is absolutely
dependent on graphite; every electrician
and every department Of electrical work
comes under the same tribute. Graphite
lubricates friction ways, and it is notably
the most enduring paint pigment: the
electric light, TOO, would shine much less
easily but for graphite, and the produc-
ton of steel rails has an equally intI-
mate relation to this mineral. Among it's
peculiar characteristics are it's immunity
from any effect of heat and cold, the
highest and lowest extremes of either fail
ing to influence ii.
A method has at last been discovered
in Germany, as announced in the Journal
der Go.dschmiedkunst, for producing gold
like alloy from copper and anthony, one
which, even if exposed for some time to
the action of ammonical and acid vapors
says that SO admirable is the product in
question that il can be rolled and worked
like gold without cOnta ming the slightest
admiXture OF the same, besides being far
less costly than other precious and seSHi-
precious me tails, as we'll as the compounds
and alloys used as substitutes for these.
Briefly, this alloy consists of copper and
andmony in the approximate ratio OF 100
10 6, and Is realized by adding TO mo ten
copper-as soon as il mas reached a certain
degree OF hedt-the said percentage of anti
mony, and when the latter has likewise
melted, and entered into intimate union
with the copper, some charcoal ashes
magnesium and lime-spar are added to the
mass when the latter is still in the cruc,-
bic. The inventors name in this case does
not appear, and although the action of
such material admixture of f1ux is not
entirely apparent, he alloy is said to lose
thereby certain poiosity otherwise pres
ent and an exceedingly great density Of
the cast metal is obtained.
The scientific difficulties encountered in
all attempts to create life" are forcibly
presented in contribution TO the North
American Review by Prince Kranotkn.
His opinion is that the main interest in
this line now lies, not so much in adding
a new product 10 the already long fst OF
chemically prepared organic substances, as
in catching the secrets of the tiny living
Laboratories in the vegetable and animal
cells. Investigation reveals the fact that,
at he present time, about one hundred ana
eighty different acids, aromatic oils, fats,
cOforng matters, and so on-whch are
only found in nature as products of vital
actiVity-have already been prepared in
various Laboratories out of inorganic mat
ter so that in fact, some of them are al
ready fabricated in this way for trade
and every year brings some new achieve
ment in the same direction. 1t need hard
ly be said that this is no new field of re-
search. Indeed, as far back as 1923, the
news that Wohler had obtained, ont of in
organic stuffs. a certain substance urea,
which occurs in nature as a distinct prod
uct of vital activity in animal life, upset
current ideas. After this, Berthe,ot
proved that the synthesis Of organic bodies
must be pursued and may be achieved in
a quite systematic way going step by
step over the whole series Of organic COM
rounds.
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