The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-04
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going to mount its band on bicycles. All
the musicians play more or less by ear,
il is said-and Ii is easy enough to believe
Difficulty is being had wifi the carrying
of the big bass drum, which is generally
the chief instrument In Salvation Army
music. If 10 has TO be left out of the BIZ
cycle band all bearers of the music will
undoubtedly approve the new departure.
Two years ago." says the Boston
Transcript, "a Maine numbering party, not
being able to find the conventional green
ash for planking their shad, had recourse
to a green rock maple slab The heat
started the sap in the wood, which bub-
bed and Kissed about the fish, imparting
its delicate flavor TO the dish when ready
to be served and 10! il was discovered that
a new table dehcacy had been added to
the worlds cuisine. Now there Is no more
green-ash planked shad for the Maine PEG
pie, but sugar maple every time.'
in a letter to a Kansas paper one of
the members of Gen. MacArthur's brig
AIDE writes from Manila might before
last 1 was on picket duty all night, and
yesterday morning found that the Niger
picket was within 100 yards of me. After
little talk We both laid down our guns
and met between the lines, and had Ut
tie visit He said the people in their
army did not want to fight us, but they
had TO or their officers would xiii them
He also said that he had not had bite
to eat for three days. l gave him what
bareback I had with me, and it did me
more good to see him eat it than if l had
eaten il myself When we parted we
shook hands, ana he cried like baby
One day mother, who had been to
country house, near Marseilles, was re-
turning at twilight 10 the city with her
son, a child of years, who mad been put
in a peach basket borne by donkey, and
the mother, fearing the child might catch
cold Gt was in November, had covered
him with a thick shawl Tired with
running around the country all day, cosy
and warm under the thick shawl the child
was soon asleep and hidden by the sides
of the basket. There is a local custom
house al the gates of Marseilles, and when
the inspector surmises. that any package
contains contraband articles he thrusts
SHARP steel pick through it, He was pre-
pairing to do this with the basket, when
the mother, some distance behind, saw
his intention and shrieked out that her son
was in the basket. 1t was Adolphe
Theirs.
The 42O-ton destroyer lately ordered By
the United States government are an
Improvement on the usual type, but we
must go a good deal further in the same
direction to obtain a vessel meeting all
the conditions that such vessels must
meet in sea service, says writer in the
Engineering Magazine. Recent acquire
ments of territory by the United States
makes il necessary that such vessels for
Hi haYr oh for rn-
dius of acton, and shall be treated differ
emily. In fact, if a speed of thirty knots
or more is aimed at, a sufficiently stanch
sea-going vessel cannot be produced in
the present state of the art To obtain
thirty knots with the boats now credited
with that speed, a supreme effort under
expert management is required, which Is
seldom repeated In the life of the boat.
II the thirty-knot torpedo boat destroy
er's machinery were more substantial, SO
that fun power could be exerted at any
time without risk, and if the hull were
sufficiently strong to stand a moderate
sea without danger, its speed would be
about twenty-seven knots Yet l venture
to say that such a boat If ordered TO
reach a point ct sea, say 100 miles dis
tant. would under ordinary conditions.
reach that point in less time than would
be required by the regula ton thirty-knot
boat, which is said to get a horse power
with less than fifty pounds of machinery.
A fascinating speculation for the cleo
tricaI engineer. says Prof. Elihu Thompson,
in the Engineer Magazine, is the POSSIBLE
tty of SO cooling the conductors of electric
Ines or apparatus as to improve the con
ductivity many times and so diminish the
losses in any given length of conductor.
and at the same time greatly improve the
insulation. Professors Dewar and Flem-
ing have shown, however, that it is a con-
dtion of this enormous Improvement in
conductivty that the metals be pure a
very small percentage of impurity greatly
lessening the result. AS regards the insu-
lauon, they have shown that dielectrics
and even electrolytes become insulators of
excellent character when cooled to the tenn
perature of liquid air. What effect such a
towering OF temperature would have upon
the dieiectrlc strength or striking distance
between conductors at great differences Of
potential is not as yet determined. so far
as the writer is aware The result 10 he
| expected from a consideration of the effect
OF heatlhg upon dielectric strength or strik-
ing distance is that very low fenperatu rA
VIII make il far more difficult to brealr
down insulation by sparkling through II
mat the electrical engineer covets inst
such agencies as will thus extend the
" -'OS9'DIilt4SS III MS art needs no
PROOF. He would be apt to choose a nine
me conveying liquid air as'the very best
locatlon Tor his conductors, assumed to he
made of as pure metal as possible. ne bigb
insulation probably attainable being the
chief object Whether his conductors u,aro
placed outside such a pipe line or with
the same .he could no doubt adapt himsaIf
10 me CONDITIONS, provided he could get the
oehent OF the low temperature insulation
ana possibly, to a certain extent a geir,
in conduction. gam
line stormy petrels nest Just above -
Atlantic surge on the islets near Tora -,
the Hebrides. says the Strand Masa.ir.
Ihere above the rock on certain island =.
p'@GA' outtery soil, in which thew hnr-
row ike little winged mice, and on a Dast
Oh sea pink they lay one white eye A.
TINS desertion of the regions of Hebt as
ar is something out of the natural oo,' an.
OF their lives, it leads 10 various ,dS use sc
unexpected social complications and az dn
lilest@ problems. Among the latter is a
serious one, the difficulty of keenino "a
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