The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and good treatment. We are generally sem
fenced for three months, but after about
four weeks the sheriff picks out three or
four of us, and says: Now, boys, them
iron bars on that winder is loose and it's
going TO be a dark night Hev some am
bitiOn about you An old tramp knows
what that means, and he is ten miles
away before daylight. A tenderfoot fig
gers to stay on, and next morning the
sheriff comes in and finds him there, and
says: What, hain't you got no ambi-
ton? Then, III give you some. and he
boots him out into the yard and sets him
to promenadin' around with a log fastened
to his leg
Great use is being made at present in
foundries and other metallurgical estab-
lishments of steel scrap. 1t is the we'll
known material left after making various
articles of steel, such as punchings or
shavings from the lathe, also Worn-out
articles such old files, horseshoes, etc.
1t is treated by means of a process which
converts the scrap into Steel not only of
its original value per pound but also in
any desired shape thus saving cost of
machinery or drop-forging. The scrap is
melted in crucibes, a process that des-
troys most of the valuable steel proper
ties. but at a fixed point in the melting
certain ingredients are dropped into the
molten mass that restore the valuable
properties. The resulting product has
every quality of the best steel being hon.
ogeneous, welding perfectly, can be made
hard or soft to order and has a tensile
strength of eS,000 pounds.
The question of liquid air power is sue
cincty presented by a writer in the Fo-
rum. who argues that it is virtually an
initial compression of air to 10000 pounds
a square inch. which gives a great adj
vantage as regards storage and trans
port; and then, as by expansion and heat
ing it can be brought to precisely the
same pressure and temperature, as in
the case of ordinary compressed air, it
follows that if there is an advantage in
using She latter, it is obviously more ad-
vantageous to employ liquid air. Further
this writer asserts that, as the great in
crease of efficiency of steam engines dur
ing recent years has been owing to the
employment of higher initial pressures
it is but the part of reason to admit that
the discovery, by means of liquid air, of
a way to attain vast initial air pressures
opens the door to higher efficiencies and
greatly extended utilities in the use of air
power
-Semi-automatic machine tools, to with
in the last decade, demanded. says a writ
er in the Engineering Magazine. a we'll
equipped tool room, and an adequate force
of good tool makers for successful per-
partmeutal expense, not likely to be re-
couped by the employment of a few tur-
ret machines on a limited range of work
Now the case is quite different Compe-
tent tool makers are present in almost eV-
cry respectable shop tools of precision are
seen everywhere, the milling machine and
the grinding machine are in common use
and, more than all else, two or three reso-
lutte ana courageous inventors have ap-
piled themselves boldly and pertinaciousy
TO adapting the turret TO general ma
chine-shop use with such success that, in
some instances, one single piece can be
made so much more quickly with the fix
cd cutters than by the repeat ted cuts ana
measurements needed with the engine
lathe that the total time consumed in pro-
ducng the piece or the semi-automatic
tool, tool-setting included. is less than
that of a good turner, using a good en-
CINE lathe.
A Methodist minister is thus quoted in
the Philadelphia Record; The most
charitable class of people I know are
those who deal in liquor. OF course, ]
never ask them for money. Dear me!
They come and offer it. | wish my dea-
cons and shepherds of the fold were like
that. The yearly conference once met at
my church, and brewer supplied the
de egates with cigars-it was no small
job, I tell you, for some ministers will hit
| quent taps A total abstinence advocate
| found out the source of all our smoking
| and made a terrible speech in open meet
| ing about money stolen from the drunk
| ards starving babes and so forth Well,
| after that l stunned the brewer as if l
| owed him money. One day he cornered
! me. though, and l waited for his re-
| proaches He said: 1--WE been looking for
| you for some time. Here's check / want
| you to take and do whatever good with it
| you can. Then he got very red, and said
! in an embarrassed voice: You needn't be
| afraid about where the money came
| from It's interest on electric light stock,
| and I bought the stock when l was in the
grocery business
The Chicago Tribune says: During
the anti Mormon agitation growing out of
the Roberts case no attention seems to
have been called to old Bishop Heber
| Kicks, who enjoys the distinction of be-
| ing at the head of the largest family in
| Mormondom, if not in the world. He has
| twelve wives. siXty-siX children and 2lS
| grandchildren. AT The age of II he is liv
| ing in the midst of his descendants in the
| Snake valley, on the boundary of Wyo-
| ming. Old Heber Kicks is a giant in stat
| ure with a long, grizzled beard, and a
| figure little bent by the weight of his
! years He is a high priest in the church,
| and, to MormOns he speaks with the
voice of divine inspiration on both religion
| and business. Though he refuses to talk
| about his early life. il is known that he
| was born in some foreign land and came
| to st. Louis in 1912, soon after joining the
| Mormons at Independence, Mo. Some of
| his sons are prominent at Alberta, Can
! ada, where the Mormous are setting up
a new kingdom, and al Chihuahua, Mex
| leo, where for years there has been q
| hourishing Mormon colony. In fact, the
name of Kicks is prominent wherever
| Mormonism is known"
An interesting feature of the familiar
almanacs which nave already made their
! appearance for 1900 is the mysterious signs
of the zodiac, which had their origin, as
! have all things astronomical, along the
| banks of the Nile says an exchange. The
earliest people to make a serious study of
! the stars seem to have been the shepherds,
| who, by reason of their long wanderings
| from TIE haunts of man were most