The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An aSSocidtlon Oh CniC~6J Ld~AeiSAS nus
been formed to establish a home of this
description: Home should mean nice,
neat and comfortably furnished fat or
house which a man can call his own, at
least for the time being, where he can
make a racket " he desires without being
afraid of disturbing anybody else. ana
where he can throw of collars, cuffs ana
shoes, and stick his feet on the parlor
table without shocking a lot OF silly
prudes."
An interesting engineering problem is
being discussed in Pittsburg, Pa, where
1t is proposed to move the Carnegie Lii
brary, a structure weighing about $1,000
tons, a distance of 1000 feet. The ID
brary is a steel and s.oae building, 1872
feet in length by las feet in width, and
three stories high The director of pub
lie works of the city of Pttsburg believes
that it could be raised on jacks and piac-
ed on car trucks which would run on
rails. In the trip to the new site ravine
100 feet in depth and 300 feet in width
must be crossed. and this would either
have to be filled or a timber CROSSWORD
erected. Improvements being made about
the present location, at the entrance OF
Schenley Park, Will take away from the
val to a new location is being considered.
Are women's necks growing longer?"
asks the Philadelphia Record. "A we'll
known Philadelphia artist says they are,
and he doesn't attribute 1t to the custom
vulgarly known as rubbernecking, either.
He says the high collar is responsible for
it. All the life studies and portraits of
women seen at students exhibits demon
strate this. i know a man. he said yes
terdey, who took a tape measure to the
last exhibit at the Academy of Fine Arts
and succeeded in getting data for com
parison CT women's necks painted ten years
ago, five years ago and at the present
time. He claims that the average feminine
neck has become elongated to the extent
of nearly an inch during the last five
years. Remember, this is his claim, not
mine, although it doesn't seem altogether
unreasonable when you come TO think of
It,"
When gold is used for the purpose of
beating, other metals are mixed with 1t
TO give il the desired color. The proper
tions for the shades most frequently used
are as follows: Red, IS grains of copper
to each ounce of gold; pale gold, penny
weights of silver; deep or medium, u
grains of silver and II grains of copper;
the gold is melted with the requisite
amount of alloy in a clay crucible. the
temperature being raised about the fusing
point in order to make the resulting
metal more malleable. The alloy, after
being cast and cooled, is rolled and an
nealed, rolling and annealing taking place
for six successive times. AS result of
the continued rolling the piece of metal
increases in length, and at the conclusion
of this process the original ingot has be-
come about twenty yards in length and as
thick as a sheet of note paper 1t then is
cut into small pieces and goes through
the beating process.
An engineering novelty is an armored
traction train for use IN South Africa.
armored trucks, and two howitzers. The
engine has all its working parts boxed in
with protective plates which are made one
fourth Of an inch thick of special nickel
steel containing a little chromium and
hardened by a secret process. The engi-
neer has a slit through which he looks
out, and the plates are proof to Mauser
bullets. The train is designed to carry
the howitzers and their ammunition into
the interior of the country, and each wag-
on will hold about 1900 pounds of the
latter. In the engine itself all the i'm
proved features discovered in an extensive
experience in South Africa have been in.
corporated. The cars or wagons can carry
the howitzers, and are provided with skids
on which they can be rolled inside, though
the guns will usually be attached to the
rear wagon and dragged tandem.
Some important photographs of the
planet Eros were made in April at the
Arequipa station of the Harvard College
the Bruce telescope. An adjacent star
was followed in an eyepiece, and by
means of a EnieFeHneter- screw the pho
tographic plate was moved with regard
to ID by an amount and in a direction
equal to the motion of Eros, giving a
negative where the planet appeared as
a point and the stars as trails. The APP
proximate positions were then computed,
and the negative sent TO Cambridge for
further study. These are said to be the
first observa lions of Eros since its con-
junction with the sun, and a month or SO
later second series ew eramJurer N (
later second series were made. At
Denver Prof. H. A. Howe, with the 90
inch refractor of the Chamberlain obser-
Vatory, was able to make visual observa-
tons on the evening of May q, and these
are believed to be the first visual obser-
vations of the planet since its conjunction
with the sun. Efforts were made by the
Harvard astronomers at Cambridge
Mass. to observe Eros both usually ana
photographically, but they were not sue
cessful, owing to the twilight.
AT Rio Janeiro. Brazil, remarkable
operations have been performed on Rosa
liza and Maria, two sisters, who were born
joined together The sisters are doing
well. Their case resembles that of the ia
nous Siamese twins. but modern surgery
Will give them separate life. Rosalia and
Maria the two little Brazilian children
who. but for the interpositlon of modern
science, would have had to live Joined TO
each other, were about 10 years old Their
parents last winter determined to seek the
aid of surgeons, and to that end took the
twins TO the Hospital Mlrcoacordia. Rio
Janeiro, where they were put in The care
OF Dr. AlVara Romos. The two were
joined In manner similar 10 the Siam ase
twins, only still more closely Use of the
N-ray developed the fact that the seventh
ribs were united by a solid osseous forma-
ton. and that there was but one liver for
the two. 1t was not difficult to sever the
hesh and bone, but, when il came TO di-
VidinS the liver. DR.. Romos hesitated
Nevertheless, there have been cases
where part of a diseased liver has been
removed, so the physician was encouraged
to make the attempt. The first part of
the operation was completed early in the
winter, when the ribs were cut apart The
shock was so great to the patients that IL