The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-04
fTEMs OF INTEREST.

tus has been ordered to be sent from
Pttsburg TO the Cape Nome gold fields.
The shipment includes a large number OF
dynamcs and motors $780, coo pounds of in
sulated wire. 125 tons OF bare copper wire
and other machinery.
The government of New Zealand has
requested proposals for lighting Yelling
ton by electricity from Kartari Falls A
scheme is already under way for using
the water power from these falls for
cordite factory now building in the vicin-
ity. The idea is 10 combine the two
schemes.
THE Jefferson Bible in the Smith
sonian institution" says the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Record, has
never been printed. The manuscript re
mains as 1t left Jefferson's hands, and, al
though several persons have proposed from
time to time to print it, no one has ever
done So AS explained the other day. it
consists only Of the teachings of Christ,
extracts from the gospel arranged in
chronological order from His birth to His
ascension, and nothing else. All contro-
versial passages are left out"
AT Gothenburg a book industry exhi-
bition will be held from July Is 10 Sept.
l. 1900. 1t is expected that the exhibition
will be of great int est not only to print
ers, but also to the public at large. Rare
and unique books, prints, etc, which are
of value especially TO printers will be
shown. The exhibition will be the first of
It's kind ever held in Sweden and contri-
buttons fiom foreign countries are ex-
p cted. There will he a printing office in
operation, and if possible it is intended to
illustrate the progress of art by exhibit
ing a printers shop. of the middle ages
paper.
1t is suggested that it will be profitable
to try the experiment of using gas en-
gines fer driving sh ps, thu gas being
generated on the vessel itself Coal will
be roasted in retorts aboard the ship in
order to drive off the gas for the engines.
The coke thus pr duced, says the Elec-
trical World, would furnish the fuel need
ed to roast the coal. The purpose of the
experiment which is to take place is to
ascertain whether the saving of weight
Of the gas-produc ng plant and gas-con-
Stunning engines over the ordinary plant
OF steam boilers and engines and the saw
Ing of space are sufficient to warrant the
adoption of a new system.
London newspapers are pointing with
pride" to the enormous expense they were
put to in the matter of war kilograms
from South Africa, says the New York
Commercial. For example the Morning
Post paid $1,750 for one of Mr.. Winston
Churchilfs kilograms not long since, and
its friends chuckle accordingly. If the es-
teemed Post regards this as large bill
for one telegram, it would doubtless be
staggered by the amounts paid by Ameri-
can newspapers for dispatches from the
front during the war with Spain. We have
in mind one dispatch that cost the New
York Herald $1,000, and there were several
others received by other journals that
were not much cheaper.
As a result of quarrel over some
chickens which refused to lay eggs two
residents of Coffeyville, KAN have be-
come involved in a remarkable lawsuit
Jason Brophy the pie 'ntiff, AYERS that his
neighbor, Needham Weeks, presented him
with ten hens and two ROSTERS in Febru-
airy last and assured him that the hens
" ould lay upward of sixty eggs a week.
Brophy fed and cared for the chickens
for ten weeks, "devoting most of his time
to them to the detriment of other inter
ests,' but the hens failed to lay any eggs
The plaintiff alleges that he was unlaw-
fully deceived by the defendant, and seeks
to recover 800 damages for his wasted
labor and for his expenditures for chicken
feed.
The lowest temperature yet known
says the Engineering and Mining Journal
seems to have been obtained by Prof.
Dewar who described at recent lecture
before the Royal Institution In London
the processes by which he had succeeded
in liqutfying hydrogen. The temperature
at which this was done is estimated at
258 degrees centigrade. This is a near ap-
proach to the temperature which physic-
lefe ,oII t.lao
lieved to be about 273 degrees. The liquid
hydrogen boiled and volatilized at 24O
degrees centigrade, under ordinary
atmospheric pressure; at 223 de-
grees under a pressure of 225 pounds
and at $50 degrees in a vacuum It's prop
critics as liquid have not yet been intes-
tigated.
According to an English consular re-
port, oil engines are rapidly advancing in
favor in Palestine for the purpose OF
drawing water from the deep wells to ir-
rigate the orange gardens. Hitherto the
water was pumped by animal power There
was large water wheel, and from four
TO eight mules were required to revolye
1t, according to the size of the wheel
Not only was this a slow and laborious
method, but 1t was expensive, costing
about " day II has been found that
with an oil engine Of six horse power il
is possible to pump double the quantity
of water that was previously raised by
eight mules, while the average expense
IS about the same, since the engines con-
sumo about nine gallons of oil day. I'm
der these circums .ances it has bsen found
far mere economical to use an oil engine
upon the large plantations than to employ
animal power.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Record, tells~of hoax of which
the stamp collectors of Europe were the
victims some time ago. A man who had
one of the largest and most valuable col
lections of stamps in the world died with
a paragraph In his win bequea thing it to
the first person who should be found TO
own a genuine example of a certain rare
stamp, and in case no one possessing such
stamp should appear within a term of
ten years. the entire collection was TO 90
70 the British Museum. The announce
ment. which was widely published, created
great sensation among stamp fiends.
but 1t turned out that the deceased was
the owner of the only genuine specimen
OF the stamp he described in the world
Just what his motive was In making such
stipulation in his will has been a ques-