The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


quence of it's great altitude above the sea,
water boils there at 2O2 degrees Fahren-
heit, in stead of at the normal 2l2 de-
grees. This means that all the cooking
calculations depending upon the heat of
the water have to be revised. Every
thing from a breakfast egg to a silver
side of beef takes longer to cook than IL
does lower down in the atmosphere. An
other thing which initiates against the
calculations of the ordinary cook of the
same town is that the air is so dry that
vegetables are deprived of half their nat
ural moisture, and must be left a long
time in water to recover themselves be-
fore being cooked. In connection with
this matter of the boiling point we might
observe that IL our cooks at home could
only realize the fact that 1t is impossible
to heat the water in an open vessel above
boiling point, they would save much of
the gas used in SO many houses for fuel
Some curiosities concerning the new
century have been collated by the Rev.
Prebendary W. A. Whitworth, the we'll
known vicar of All SAINTS, Margaret
street, London, says the London Globe.
1t will have, for instance, $685. days
which is one day more than the depart
ing century could show, difference due
to the fact that 1900 is not a leap year
to leap year it will be remembered that
every year of only 800 days is too short
by nearly six hours, but by having leap
year with its extra days every four years
we should make every four years more
than eleven minutes too long Some
years, therefore, have to, be left out,
and the present calendar provides for
only ninety-seven leap years to occur
in four centuries, which reduces the aver
rs or
hours and forty-nine minutes twelve sec
onds. which, being only twenty-five and
one-half seconds too long, may be. con-
sidered for all ordinary purposes, as cor
rect. This explains why in the seven
years lS97-19O3 there is no leap year. AS
to the error of about twenty-five and one
half seconds in the average year Mr.
Whtworth remarks that it would take
100000 years to bring midsummer to De-
cember.
"A correspondent having asked the
American Machinist the meaning of unit
of heat" and unit of work." he receiv-
ed this reply in print: 1.-The unit of
neat, or as it is commonly called the
British thermal unit, is that quantity of
heat which is required to raise the tenn
perature of one pound of pure water one
degree Fahrenheit at or near 80 degrees,
The precise temperature is not of great
Importance, except where minute ac-
curacy is required, but the weight of the
water is most important particular.
Any definition of the unit of heat which
does not specify the weight of the water
heated, of course, defines nothing as to
the quantity of heat employed The
quantity of heat represented by the
British thermal unit, as defined above
&c Loaf
required to raise one pound 772 feet. A
unit of work is the foot-pound or the
raising of one pound one foot 1t is to be
noted that in this definition no time is
specified. When the time limit is in
cluded we have then a unit of power,
or q measure of the rate at which work
may be done, or of the ability to do work.
The common unit of power is the horse
power, which is defined as the ability to
raise $4,000 pounds one foot high in a
minute.
Discussing the intricacies of filing
technical journal says; In filing steel and
wrought iron. the character of the mate
rial reduces the disposition of the cuttings
to pack between the teeth but, under
most conditions, a more serious trouble,
that of ''pinning," occurs. Cuttings pin
when they lodge so finely that they can
particles of cast iron, which crowd down
below the cutting edges of the teeth. nd
do not injure the work, but simply reta d
the cutting of the tool. the pin usually
stands well above the teeth and scorc
the work surface at every stroke. The
pin can usually be removed by drawing
the wire file brush firmly across the sur
face; those that resist this treatment BE-
ing removed by the scorer. The scorer is
cir r,In 81
at the point and carried broadside rath r
than edgewise. across the file surface.
After a few strokes it becomes separated
and constitutes short tooth comb. which
picks out the pins quite easily Pinnng
may be somewhat reduced by chalking
the surface of the file, which has also the
effect of reducing it's bite A little oil on
the file will frequently reduce the ten
dency to pin. 1t should be used, how
ever, only on the fibrous metals, as il
glazes the surface of the non-fibrous met
ais, making them harder to cut.
The people dwelling In the eastern part
of Asia Minor are of especial interest to
the archaeologist and the anthropologist.
as among them may be found representa-
tives of the earliest known inha btants of
the region, whose religious rites contain
elements dating back beyond the rise of
"A
per was recently read before the Anthro-
biological Institute of Great Britain de-
scribing the Bektashis of Capoadoria
These people are one of a number of ne
culiar sects of Asia Minor and Persia
which are either purely pagan in their re-
ligion. or else profess heretical forms of
Mohammedanism; in either case being
subject to the prosecutions of the ortho.
dox followers of the latter religion. By
means of measurements and photo graphs
1t was proved that these people were Of
very old origin, though traces of East
ern elements were found which were prob
ably the result of the Monaghan invasion
Nominally these people worship ALI but
there are strange and distinctive fea-
lures introduced into their religion chief
of which is the worship of heroes"
from whom they claim to be desce1 lie l. A
sulphur spring In one village was the seat
of prophecies, who would inhala the
fumes until she was thrown into IN e..
static condition, during which she would
answer questions or give cures. These viii
lagos are in the eastern half of Asia Mi
nor. close to the site of the anciet city
of Hays.
Freezing weather is hard on the
steamdriven automobiles, says a writerA
in the Boston Transcript Few of those
around Boston have been out for any,
thing more than brief trips around town
and number of those who did brave
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