The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-01
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the present time there are at least two
places of worship in New York city that
have crosses that are electrically illumi
mated at night.
"A fish dealer is thus quoted in the
Philadelphia Record: II had my first taste
of a Yezo oyster yesterday. 1t was thirteen
inches long, and three of US sat down to
it. The carver asked me what part l pre-
ferred as though it had been a beefsteak.
We left when we were through, enough
TO make a hash, l guess. SINE Western
man is importing these oysters to breed on
the Pacific Coast, where they call an oys-
ter as big as your thumbnail a Saddle
Rock, they have such small ones there.
The Iezo are from Japan, and it is hoped
that they'll increase the size of the dwarf
Pacific ones A YeZo has a good taste, al
excellent taste, but-eXcuse mel This oys-
ter is as thick through rs roast of beef
Do you like that idea? When you cut into
it with your knife a pint or so of juice
runs out. 1t is so big that you can see its
veins and arteries and if you are eating
il raw you may see it culver perhaps with
pain, when you put your fork into it. Some
say they have heard it moan. / don't
think il wiz ever become popular in Phila-
delphia"
The rise in the price of copper has led
to renewed interest in the metal alumni
mum as a substitute for copper, and it is
being employed on a large scale. At Mag
ara Falls great conductors of aluminium
are used to transmit electrical currl ats
from the power house 10 the works. These
conductors are aluminium bars, twenty-five
feet long, six inches broad and one-fourth
inch thick; four of these are riveted to-
gether at tire ends, and each group of bars
is connected to aluminium cables; the core
of each cable is about one and one-quarter
;,7ob in of lTrY1.
mum in the conductors is %, coo pounds.
The same work in copper would require
$4,000 pounds The conductivity of alumni
nus compared with copper is SO per cent,
but for the same weight it is nearly dou-
BILE Aluminium cables require more in
sulation, but enable longer spaces to be
use, thus reducing the number of poles
and insulators. No practical method,
however, has been discovered of soldering
together bars or wires of this metal, and
this fact is a serious obstacle to its riv-
airy with copper.
"A new use has been found for electric
ity in the preservation of meat 1t has
been known for ages that meat could be
preserved almost indefinitely by complete
| ly drying it, and meat so preserved has
been in use in many countries. In Amer
lea this product is known as pemmican,
| in the Argentine and most of South Amer
| lea as tasajo in Chill as charki, in Africa
| as biltong and by the Arabs as kilia. A
| chemist, says daily paper, has discovered
| that electricity can replace the sun, be-
| sides being more effective. He exposed
| meat to the action of an electric current,
| and at the same time 10 current of hot
air The meat was by this process well
| desiccat ted. Not only this but the cleo
| trically prepared pemmican is easily pow
7 dered, and is much more brittle than that
| prepared by any other method, making
| halt n
| TRANSPORTATION. The electrical pemmican
also has none of the disagreeable flavor
which is a standing objection to most$h
| of the other forms of its preparation.
| There is no reason why it should not form
| an agreeable substitute for canned beef
| for army rauons.
| Electricity is put to various uses in
| churches; in no other buildings in fact is
| it more commonly employed Besides its
| use for lighting purposes, electricity is
now commonly employed for running
| motor 20 operate the organ bellows This
motor can be set in motion or stopped by
| the organist as he sits in his place at the
| keyboard, simply by the turning of
| switch. In the newer churches-and such
| appliances nave also been put into older
| churches-the organ itself is provided with
| electrical appliances by means of which
the valves of the organ pipes are opened
| Formerly this was done by means of me-
| chanical appliances that were operated by
| the pressing down of the key. Now, each
| key is connected by wire with the valve
| of the pipe to which it belongs, and when
| a key is pressed down its wire is brought
| into contact with a supply wire running
| along under the keyboard, the circuit is
| closed. and by means of the power thus
| transmitted along the wire from the key
| the valve is opened. Chimes are now
played by electricity from keyboard like
| that of a piano or organ, at which the
| player sits with the music before him.
Systems of electrically lighting railroad
cars, particularly dining cars, sleepers
and parlor cars, in which the current is
| generated by dynamo geared to the car
| axle are in use on a number of railroad
| lines in this country A resident Of
ST. Louis has obtained patent on a mod
ihcation of this system, whereby it is made
| applicable to ordinary vehicles On a
| standard, supported on one of the axles
is carried a casing inclosing a dynamo of
| special design, which is actuated by a
| shaft made to revoke by means of a fri,-
ton roller pressed against the rim of the
| vehicle wheel. This roller is maintained
in contact by means OF the heavy strings
upon which the casing - mounted. The
| incandescent lamp is carried on top of the
| casing, and is provided with a forward
| lens and colored rear and side lights Spe-
cial stress is laid on the character of the
| dynamo, the pole pieces of which are of
a novel design, asserted to give an i'll
| creased amount of electrical energy The
! small diameter friction roller will natural
| ly be given a comparatively high speed
| of rotation by contact with the larger
| wheel. Light can be furnish when the
vehicle is not in motion, either by ordin-
airy dry cells or from storage batteries.
United States Consul Nelson at Bergen,
Norway, says that the projected tele-
graphic communication with Iceland il
Interesting all of Northern Europe The
main question of issue is in laying the
cable, which will be 403.S 50 miles long. ex-
tending between Iceland and the Shetland
Islands. The Northern Telegraph Com
pany of Copenhagen, Denmark. mas offer
ed to lay the cable under a peculiar con-