The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-13

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The largest smokeetacl7s which have
ever been manufactured In the United
States are now being built In st Louis,
! They will be seventy feet in circumference
{ at the base and gradually taper 10 forty
| feet in circumference at the top. They
| Will be 800 feet high and will cost about
| $4,000 apiece.
| There Is to be cort1ite factory built
in India. Electricity VIII be used for
motive and lighting purposes. The bulk
of the corthte used in India has been
heretofore imported, and the government
factory at WaHham Abbey in England
cannot supply it in sufficient quantities,
so that orders have to be placed with
| private firms.
! -Shawinigan Falls will be utilized for
| the purpose of generating electricity
| which will be transmitted to Montreal for
! use. The works consist of a canal
| fumes. etc, which will develop 10000
! horsepower. and this amount can be in
| creased if necessary. The current will be
delivered to manufacturing establishments
| at Shawinigan Falls during the coming
| summer. The power will not be transEit-
ted to Montreal until the spring OF 1901
| The transmission line will be a little less
| than eighty miles in length and will run
| along the Great Northern Railway, which
| is now being completed. At first 5000
! horsepower VIII De QellVerO IN montreal
| and this amount will be increased to meet
| the demand.
| "A system of electric train lighting in
France has a dynamo provided on eacn
carriage arranged with its axis parallel
to the rails. A friction-wheel on a pro-
longation of this axis is pressed against
one side of a running wheel, and in this
way the motion of the wheel is transmit
! ted to the dynamo. Between the dynamo
| and the axle which drives it a friction
| clutch Is provided, consisting of carbon
! blocks pressing on bronze Disc the pres
sure being such that slipping begins only
| when a current of twenty-eight ampers,
| at about sixteen volts, is being generated
| by the dynamo, which corresponds to a
| speeds of about thirty miles an hour.
| At any higher speed the slipping occurs,
the idea being that the speed of the dy
! namo shall not increase. The dynamo Is
used to charge battery of accumulators,
| which supply light TO the train when it
| is stationary or going at slow rate of
! speed.
-London's County Council has passed
some bylaws which are interesting. One
of them forbids the use of flash or search
lights for advertising purposes. By fash
| light is meant light used for the purpose
of illuminating or exhibiting words signs,
ETC., which alter suddenly in intensity,
| coSor and direction, and by searchlight is
| meant every light exceeding 600 CANDLE
power, whether in one lamp or lantern or
a series of lamps or lanterns used together
| and projected as one concentrated light
! altering either in intensity, color or dirsc-
! ton. The fine for every such offense is
J not to exceed 20 sterling (25) Recommen-
! datlonS have also been passed requiring a
| SUFFICIENT support for every person stand
| ing on window stills for the purpose of
| cleaning windows at all nights above six
at fFOR fb.o
| street shouting. and in a short time Lon
don will probably be the best-regulated
city In the world as regards street nuis-
| ances.
1t is reported that Prof Gates of Chevy
Chase, near Washington has discovered
that electricity is indirectly the cause of
rain. He also asserts that means have
been devised for causing artificial rain ION
a small scale at presently by proper manip-
ulation OF the electric current. Prof
Gates theory is that If ons locality or one
cloud becomes positively charged, some
adjacent cloud or locality must acquire a
negative charge. Midway between these
two oppositely charged regions of clouds
there must be one or more secondary re-
gious where their respective particles COM
mingle, and, one set being positive and the
other negative, they attract and form rain
drops. One region, according to the pro-
fessor, may be a cloud and the other an
other cloud or the earth. When disturb
ances of the so-called electric equilibrium
of the atmosphere occur, differences in
density, pressure temperature and moist
ure result This explanation of the cause
of rain is likely to surprise many who
have looked upon 1T as due simply to a
condensation Of moisture in the air It's
application in the laboratory is declared
to be satisfactory but whether it has any
economic value remains TO be proven. 1t
sounds a god deal IKE the "DcmD" method
used in certain parts of the West to pro-
duce rain, which has not yet brought
about the desired results.
Some time ago, says the Washington
letter of the Chicago Tribune, a curious
object of hideous shape was sent to the
National Museum, and. not presenting a
visiting card 1t was dubbed THE Devil 8
Baby." 1t hailed from some remote re-
gion of the mound builders In some way
It got noised around among the negroes
that THE DEVILS Baby" was paying a
visit to the museum, and being possessed
of considerable curiosity on the subject
hundreds of them went to view the mon
stroSity They came early and late and
in such numbers that the room in which
the object was kept resembled an emancl-
patton day parade. Not only dad the COL
ored people in and around the capitol GO
to see this curious object, but as the news
spread hundreds of them came from Vir-
sary to do something to abate the null
sance, so one day recently, when dele
cation of about thirty negroes arrived
from Prince Edwards county, Virginia,
the Waterman was seized with an inspi-
ration, and, when they asked to be
shown THE Devils Baby" produced a
small mirror and told them TO look in
They did so, and the famous Old hail re-
sounded with their hilarious mirth. They
believed the whole story to be fake
and left good naturally. This broke the
spell, for from that time to this there has
been no call to see the curious object.
The superintendent of British tele-
graphs, in speaking of the application of
electricity to military purposes, says: at
is our mems ambition TO do as good work
as the Americans DID for their country in
Cuba and Porto Rico. They have given us
our IDEAL and we will try and work up
10 it," In the extensive field of operations
IA he In To,