The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-18
ITEMS of INTEREST.


patent on what he calls the sun fur
mace" which he claims is adaptable to
smelling ores and generating heat far in
tenser than the electric furnace. Metal
lurgists say that it is well adapted 10
glass making and manufacturing of car
bide. The applica ton made by Prof.
Thomson is wide one, and after carefully
studying 1t at the patent Office, he has
been granted complete novelty. The
invention is likely to interest mining men
and large smeters of ore.
"A new use for refrigerating machin-
cry, says Casters magazine, has been
found in the contemplated cooling of mag
aznes of war ships so as to prevent eX-
plOsion danger from overheating Ex-
periments with that end in view nave
been made for some time but 1t is only
recently, with plans proposed by Rear
Admiral O'Neil of the United States navy,
that any fair measure of success is said to
have been attained. 1t does not seem
unlikely, therefore. that in war vessels
yet to be built magazine refrigeratng ap
pantus will be one additional adjunct to
the already long list of marine auxiliary
machinery.
An Illinois man, says the Chicago Adj
vance, has invented a self-regulatins
clock which is an approach at least to
III d
GO inches in circumference, and on the rim
of this wheel there are 100 cups, 40 of
which contain steel balls three-eighths of
an inch in diameter. Every minute and
a half the lowest ball in the circumfer
ence of the wheel slides out of its cup
by gravity, runs down an inclined plane
unites broken circuit of electricity, and
is carried by little electric car to the
top of the wheel, deposits il in a cup, and
then runs back to catch the next ball. In
this way all the balls are on one side of
the circumference of the wheel and thus
furnish the motive power. The electricity
is genera ted by an ordinary storage bat
terry, and requires no attention for a year
or more. The clock has been running
without Misunderstanding itself-since Au-
gust, 1895
A story is told in the Ladies' Home
Journal of a neighbor who, having lost
heavily in Wall street, went to Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher and voluntarily bound him
self not to speculate for year. At the
end of six months, however. he asked to
be released from his promise. Il can
make more money in one week than am
now making in year" he said Mr..
Beecher refused to release him. DO your
specializing on paper" he said, land at
the end of the year tell me how you would
have come out had 1 let you go" Al the
reported: IF l had made the deals l con-
templated, 1 would have failed thr5 e times
in the six months" The Beecher plan is
the safest one for most men. 1t is eepe-
cially commended to farmers who propose
to plant largely for a crop of Scent cot
ton this year. Keep within reason bic
limits, and plant the extra acreage on pa
per, and see how it works
There is now on exhibition in London
an employees checking clock which, in
addition, takes a picture of the employees.
says the Railway and Engineering Re
view. The apparatus resembles a some
what bulky camera with a large lens APP
erture in f ont and button to be pressed
just below the opening. Inside the box
is a clock and a sensitized ribbon. The
idea is that the instrument should be
placed in a suitable position near the en-
ployesi entrance and that on his arrival
and departure each man should stand in
front of it and press the button. The re-
suit is that tiny photograph of the clock
is taken on the ribbon of celluloid of the
employee who is registered. 1t is claimed
that 40 attendances per minute are easily
recorded The records can be taken out
once a week and can be made ready for
checking attendances by an office boy in
a short time. This seems. however, a very
clumsy method of keeping time.
Every locomotive that is built in the
West nowadays, says a Cincinnati paper
has the new anti-bandit attachment. On
all the new engines of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway are iron pipes extending
along the roof of the cab and connecting
with the boiler. Through these pipes. with
out making a perceptible motion, either
the engineer or fireman can send, under
200 pounds pressure, a Jet of steam and
boiling water that would effectually cook
anything living that happened to be on the
tender or the front end of the baggage
car. The diameter of the pipe is 112 inches
and a single second wou drop any man
who tried to sand before it in action.
The steam leaves the pipe at a tempera-
ture of about 80 degrees, hot enough to
have the toughest of outlaws cooked by
the time the train could be brought to a
standstill. 1t will quell the ardor of these
gentlemen who make a speciality of hold
ing up engineers from the tender. Tramps
are fighting shy of this railroad
Discussing the subject of modern ma
chine-shop methods, writer in Casters
magaz ne says: One Of the principal diff
ferences between the methods of the old
er and the modern machine-shops is that
operations in the latter have been expe-
dited by considering them less in relation
to machines than to ultimate results. Side
by side, with the old machines there are
now ranged many new ones. The func-
tions Of the lathe the planer, the shaper
the slotter, and other so-called standard
tools which dominated the shops until re-
Gently have been deeply invaded. AS in
holding and forging, so in machinery
there Is nearly always now wide choice
of methods, with which the mechanical
results will be similar, but the economical
and commercial results very diverse
These changing relations of the older and
the recently developed types of machine
tools, cons dered from the point of view
of the work done upon them, should be
clearly understood and accepted by the
management under present competitive
conditions.
II have never in my life seen so many
queer vehicles as I saw in Paris last sum-
mer," said Theodore Frawley a we'll
known lawyer of Pittsburg, according to
the New York Tribune. Mr.. Frawiey has
just returned from Europe, and is partic-
ularly interested in automobiles There
are all sorts of horseless carriages in use