The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-15

every year more evident. al q Is the opln-
ion of the commission that il would be
wise municipal economy to expend 81,
900 within he next four years in secur-
ing additional Fairgrounds of from one
to six acres each.
-Russia's Academy of Sciences has a
prize Of 10000 rubles to bestow. In 1888
Gen. Arakszeijew bequeathed to it so 00l
rubles, which were to accumulate till 1925
when three-fourths Of the sum should be
given to the best history in Russ an OF
Alexander Is reign. The other quarter
was to be spent in printing the work. in
having it translated into French and Ger
man, and for a prize to the second best
work The Accommodations will amount to
nearly 100000 rubles.
A protest is entered by the st. Louis
GlobeDemocrat, against the use of the
word lobster as an epithet implying
lack of activity or courage. A naturalist
asserts that he has seen Holsters in Nova
Scotia draw up in lines and fight furious
pitched battles at the end of which the
shore was covered with claws and other
! evidences of dismemberment The blows
are aimed exclusively a. heads and claws,
so that the thoroughbred rules are OBJ
served much more carefully than by the
bpeds who Islander brave tribe by call
| ing each other lobs ters.
M Letorey. a French architect. has
applied the captive balloon to the cleaning
or decorating of cupolas, high roofs, tow
ers and monuments. The balloon can be
raised or lowered from wagon by a
windlass, and il can be steadied by stays
from the side of the envelope Ii has two
platforms. or "nacelles." one on the top,
the other underneath, and these communi-
cate by ladder up a central tube. The
balloon scaffold,' IL is called, might
be useful and safe in many operations
such as now require steeple jacks; for ex
ample, the wreathing of Nelson's column
and also in wireless telegraphy as an
aerial station.
A dispatch from Greencastle. Ind,
says One of the attractions at the Paris
Exposition will be an immense wine cask,
which will be of special interest to the In
dianians from the fact that slaves of
which it is built are furnished by Alfred
Hirt of this city. The white oak timbers
used in it were procured in Mississippi and
dressed especially for this cask. One hun
dred and siXty-eight slaves are required,
each being thirty feet long. ten inches
thick and weighing from 1900 to 1890
pounds. The total weight of the structure.
not including the heads and the hoops, is
1890 pounds. The cask is twenty-five feet
! in diameter at each end and thirty feet
high. 1t holds 1000 barrels of wine.
A Buffalo woman is suing her husband
for a judgment of separation on the
ground of desertion, and she has applied
for alimony and counsel fees. In oppos-
ing the motion for aIimony the defendant.
whose name is Markle, submits the fol-
lowing letter, which, he says. he received
through the mail from his wife: This
is to certify that l. Louise Markle the
legally welded wife of John G. Markie,
do hereby permit my husband to go where
| he pleases. drink what he pleases AMI
when he Dleases; and l furthermore per-
nit him to keep and enjoy the company of
any lady or ladies he sees fit. as l know
he is a good judge. | want him 40 enjoy
life, as he will be a long time dead"
"A machine has been provided. notes
the Scientific American, for automa icalIv
cleaning shoes. The foot is inserted into
a properly arranged opening and the rail-
ing of the machine is firmly grasped A
small motor actuates rotary brushes that
remove the mud. The foot is next placed
in the backing arrangement proper, whi
acts as the dauber, and the third set Of
brushes is devoted 10 polishing. One snoe
having been sufficiently polished, the 9th
er foot is then inserted in the first 1per-
ture, etc. A needle on a machine indicates
the various stages in the operation The
only precaution to be observed is to turn
up the bottoms of the trousers sufficient
so that they will not be caught in the TO-
tating brushes.
The model of the future ocean mail
steamer, in the opinion of contributor 10
Casters Magazine, will probably be that
OF very much enlarged destroyer OF
great breadth and length and small draft
of water forward. Further lighter and
stronger material will compose the struc-
ture, which may BE- moved by multiple
propellers, possibly working in a tunnel
a x1rha h.
worked by separate shafts, actuated bv
rotary motors, as the sizes of screw shafts
and eng mes even now under construction
are perilouSly large, or the motive power
may be produced by compressed air or
gas-then. the form of least resistance
probably being discovered, the hull. broad
and light in comparison with the aug
mented dimensions will rise on TOP of
the waves, rather than through them The
rolling and pitching may be more severe
than at present, but with improved cab
ms and a shortened voyage the difference
may not be noticed
No satisfactory determination has been
made of the reason we wink, saws Annie
toms Popular Science Monthly. Some sun
pose that the descent and return of the
lid over The eye serves to sweep or wash
~ on; others that covering of the owe
gives II rest from the labor of vision. IL
only for an inappreciable instant This
view borrows some force from the fact
that the record of winking is considerably
used by experimental Psychologists to htln
measure the fatigue which the aye sl1f-
fers. In another line of Investigation Herr
>. Garten has attempted TO measure the
length of time occupied by the different
phases of a wink. He used specially ar
ranged Photographic apparatus. and az
fixed piece of white paper to the edge
OF the eyelid for a mark. He found that
the lid descends quickly. and rests lit
tie AT the bottom of it's movement. ofter
which 1t rises but more slowly than n
fell. The mean duration OF the downward
movement was from seventy-five to nine
ty-one thousandths of a second; the rest
with the eye shut lasted variously. the
shortest durations being fifteen hun
dredths of second with one subject
ana seventeen hundredths with another.
and the third phase of the wink. .he ris-
ing OF the lid took seventeen hundredths
OF second more. making the entire dura-
ton of the wink about forty hundredths.
or four-tenths Of second. The interrup-
ton is not long enough to interfere with
distinct vision. NJ. " Henri saws. in
lame Psychologique. that different rer-
sons wink dinerently-sone often. others
rarely; some in groups Of ten or 50 at a
time, when they rest a while; and others
regularly. once only at a time. The move
ment Is modified by the degree OF atten-
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