The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and Antwerp a distance of twenty-eight
miles
Railway authorities of the Mexican
government have been ordered to use GER
tain safety appliances. All the passenger
cars must be so equipped before the end
of 1904
In Manchuria the harbor of Port Ar
thur is to be excavated and a new harbor
is to be built. The present channel will
also be made deeper. Dredging will be
done by hydraulic dredges,
-Forty-one gas engines using blast-fur-
mace gas are working in Germany. the to-
tai horse power aggregatIng 1850. The
horse power of such engines in Belgium is
$500, France $3.50 and England 1850.
Cables have been laid from Cape Town
to st. Helena. and from St. Helena to
the Ascension islands, and from there 10
st. Vincent, consequently there is a COM
plete cable route to South Africa by way
of Maoeila and st. Vincent
The sea serpent is appearing on the
New England coast. This fascinating rep
tile always does appear upon the advent
of the summer excursionist. Scientists
have sized him down to nothing more or
less than common giant eel, which is
out of his bailiwick in this part of the
world.
"A company formed by English AMI
American capitalists is about TO build the
largest wood-pulp plant in the world at
Grand Falls, New Brunswick. The works
are to cost 100000 and they will be ca
pabe of turning out $500 tons of white
newspaper. 225 tons of ground wood pulp,
and IT'S tons of sulphite pulp daily.
in Florence the ninth volume of LIE
Opere di Calico CALLER was recently
published, and shows that he had an ex-
celient appreciation for italian literature.
The six volumes include an address which
he made on the topography and configura-
ton of Inferno" This was delivered
before the Florentine Academy of Sci
ences.
Alloys used in Japanese bronzes con-
tain a large percentage of lead. which i'm
proves the patina. The following are
the constituent elements of three kinds
of modern Japanese bronze: /. Copper,
81. per cent; tin. 4.61 per cent lead, 1921
per cent. Copper, 1850; tin. 4.2S zinc, 6.53;
lead, 11.SS. 8. Copper, $685.; tin. 2.42; zinc,
800 and lead, 472 per cent. Sometimes
little anthony is added just before cast
ing.
Mexico is considering the advisability
Of adopting a standard system of reckon
ing time. At present Mexico has an off,
cial time, computed at the capital and
telegra Pied to various parts of the repub-
lie. That time differs from Greenwich
six and one-half hours. 1t is the time
adopted by the railroads and telegraph
lines, but in many parts of Mexico, es-
pecially in places not in Geographic COM
munication with the rest of the world
local time prevails.
The Nome Gold Digger of May 81
which Is printed in red ink, announces the
arrival of the whaling bark Alexander,
the first ship TO reach Nome City in eight
months. 1t also contains a number of
breezy items, which do not reveal any
signs of commercial stagnation in the
new gold country. For instance: "Tacks
have advanced to IS pound; eggs to 81
a dozen, though efforts have been made
to raise the price to $3.50. There are plen-
ty of them. Ham was long since out"
The Cold Digger sells for 25 cents a copy
"A corporation has applied to Congress
for permission to lay underground pipes
in the streets of Washington, D. c., for
the purpose of distributing cool air
through the business buildings and resi-
dences of the city. The scheme provides
for the erection of a refrigerating plant
al some central point, from which cold air
will be pumped for distribution through
the system of pipes The flow of cold air
will be regulated in a manenr somewhat
similar to the measurement Of gas, and
can be turned on the same as hot air is
turned OH from furnace.
Andrew Sundheimer, a butcher of Wa
bash, Ind, is deploring the loss of a ten
dollar BILL which he unwittingly devoyred.
Mr. Sundheimer is an inveterate TOBACCO
chewer, using plug exclusively. He car
Pied his supply in the right hip pocket
of his trousers, and last week, having TAX
en- in a ten-dollar bank note, he thrust it
down alongside the plug of tobacco The
weather was warm Sundheimer perspired
freely, and the tobacco becoming soft the
bill adhered closely to the plug. Every
time Sundheimer took chew he bit off
and mastcated part of the note. The color
of the bill resembling that of the tobacco
and adhering as closely as though it were
part of the leaf Sundhemer oihewed UP
half his plug before he remembered the
money
For several years Prof Omori has
studied the subject of earthquake meas
urement in a brick building, says Nature
One of Prof. Ewing's horizontal pendu-
llm seismographs was fixed near the top
of an external wall of the Engineering
College a Toxic, while another was erect
ed on the ground below. During the
years 1S94-'9S ten moderate earthquakes
were recorded, and it was found that If
the earthquakes consisted of compare
lively slow vibrations (say above half
second in duration) the motion was prac-
tically the same in both places; but If Of
quick-period vibrations the motion of the
top of the wall was about twice as great
as that of the ground. Prof. Omori no.
tees that, with destructive earthquakes,
the damage of tWo-storied buildings is
generally confined TO the upper story.
Prof. Herman V. HiIprecht. the Baby
lonian explorer, who in the spring of this
year went to the East TO superintend the
excavations of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, describes in a letter just received
the important results of his journey. He
says: THE results of our researches ex-
coed everything that has so far been
known about Babylon. We found the great
temple library and priest school of Njp-
pur, which had been destroyed by the
Elamites 22S B. c. The library consists
of 5000 volumes written on stones and
covering the entire theological astronom
ical, linguistic and mathematical knowI-
edge of those days. We also unearthed
a collection of letters and biographies de-
ciphered the inscriptions of many newlv-
discovered tombstones and monuments and