The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| 1t - Sdiu llcl the SOFt1IInG put
chases about 10000 typewriters year,
and the administration is about to make
| a systematic attempt to secure a consider
| able reduction i'm fhe price of the machines
| by clubbing the orders together.
The Slater-Armstrong memorial build
i ing at Tuskecee. Ala, which was dedicat-
ed the other day is chiefly a product of
| student labor. The bricks and lumber
used in it's construction were all made by
students under Prof. Booker T. Wash
| ington.
The New Jersey bureau of labor statis-
tics has gathered some facts relative to
| the existence of company stores in the
| STATE. Fifteen such institutions were
| found and the statistician estimates that
| on an average the person obliged to deal
! at company store pays 13 cents on the
| dollar more than if he could purchase
| where he pleased.
German explorers have been engaged
for some time in excavations on the site
| of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar There
was discovered last fan a column which
| bore a representation of the Hittite god.
| The figure corresponds with one found in
! Sandskirli, which is now in the Berlin Mu-
| scum. 1t is supposed that both works
were taken as part of the booty in some
dIINitilt CAAtNLitlbils
When one of the Edison electric plants
| in New York caught fire the other even
| ing the firemen were compelled to let it
burn until Inc current supplied TO it from
| another source could be cut off. If they
| had squirted mater on it current of
| electricity GOO volts strong would have
| Travelled along the stream. burning up the
hose and killing every human being it
came in contact with.
1t is said that the engines of the new
British battleship Montague are TO be the
most powerful ever placed in a man-of-
war They are to develop IS 900 indicated
| horse power and the speed IS to be one
| knot or over for every 100 horse power.
| There will he two sets of triple expansion
| engines and thirty Belleville boilers,
which will cost f150,O00 The total cost
! of the vessel will be over fl, 100000
-Storekeepers in several Western cities
notably Denver and Kansas Clty-have
been greatly annoyed of late by the activ-
| ity of a clever feminine shOplifter, Nno
phys her vocation with the aid of a false
arm. She wears long cape, the front
| of which. hanging open, discloses TO the
| unsuspecting sales person two hands,
clasped; but the left hands is of wax. I'm
der cover of the folds of the garment the
| real left hand seizes upon small articles
| displayed on the store counters.
Running from Philipsburg TO Newark,
| N. j., there is a remarkable canal 1t is
sixty miles long, and was operated before
| any railroads We're built in the state. At
times it runs side by side with the Lack
| awanna Railroad. Locks are not used,
| the boats being drawn up and down ele-
| vations on great cars On truck eighteen
| feet wide. This IS likely to be the last
| year of its operation, as an effort will be
made at the next session of the New Jer-
| sew Legislature to secure it as means of
| furnishing Jersey City with an additional
water supply.
The Boer war is having an unexpected
effect in Overwhelmingly, in the restric-
ton of business So many able-bodied men
| drawn into the army and sent from the
| country makes scarcity in the great
| army of workers THAI is already felt, md
| 1t is evident it will be increasingly felt as
| the war goes on and fresh levies Shall be
| necessary Labor conditions in England
| are based on the pressure of large force
| of men. When this is depicted to any con-
| siderable extent the amount of work is so
| great that those available are not equal 20
| it, and there must be a rearrangement of
| conditions such as a readjustmenj of
| plants and many details that involve time
| and EXPENSE.
People who booked passage last year
on one or the other of the various steam
ship lines for the Paris Exposition We're
| told at the time that they could have
| land valet printed after their names on
the passenger list. Now they have all
| been notified that land valet" does not
| CO. unless there really is a valet. The pas
| senger list of a steamship which recently
| arrived from the other side showed 1S6
| saloon travellers and 43 Wallets. Some of
| the mean and petty souls among the 143
| passengers who had no land valet" at
| tachment started investigation which
| resulted in the discovery that there was
not a valet aboard the ship. The agitation
| thus began resulted in rule being made
by all the transatlantic companies that
henceforth all Wallets must be in evidence.
The principle of using an incandescent
mantle with burners fed by liquid fuel has
| been made use of in a number of lamps in
| Germany. Such fuels as methyated spirit
| and petroleum have been employed but,
| owing to such difficulties as securing a
| proper admXture of air to produce the re
| quired high Temperature, few of these de-
vices have passed beyond the experimental
| siege. NJ Denayrouze has, however, re-
| Gently exhibited before the Socete des In
| genieurs Civils de France a lamp in which
| the alcohol is charged with hydrocarbons
| in solution to such an extent that the car
bon, which is in the flame and deposited
| on the mantle, also becomes incandescent
| without increasing the consumption of the
| alcohol. The carburetted alcohol will also
give a very brilliant light without the
| mantle; but in the specially designed lamps
| the success of the new invention seems
| quite apparent The nature of the treat
| ment undergone by the alcohol is KEEP,
| secret; but the fact that so many diff
| culties have been surmounted should lead
| TO further research in this direction.
| in a recent lecture before the Royal
| College of Physicians a London, Prof w.
| r. Smith, who was discussing diphtheria,
| described the difference between the terms
| infection and "contagion" as they were
| used at present in medicine. Formerly in
| fectious diseases were considered TO be
| those caused by certain poisons either en-
| tering the body from without or manufac-
| tured from within. To the latter the term
| "conagion" was applied, to the former
| "miasma" was ascribed, the one arising
| within, the other outside the diseased or
| Eanism. In the present day only such