The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

If a load of coal is left out of doors, |
exposed to the weather, say, for a
month, ii loses one-third of it's heating
quantities. If ton of coal is placed on
the ground and left there and another
ton is placed under a shed the latter
loses about rs per cent. of&dts heating
force, the former about AZ per cent.
Hence 1t is great saving of coal to
have it in dry place, covered over
on all sides. The softer the coal the
more heating power it losess because.
the volatile and valuable constituents
undergo slow combustion.
Fish fighting is the national sport
of Siam. One of Uncle Sans navy Of
ficers, who spent week with our con-
sular agent in Penang, Otto Schulz,
brought home in glass jars two fight
ing fishes that were presented to Mr..
Schulz by one of the Kings household.
The King derives handsome revenue
from the farming of licenses to exhib-
it fish fights. The natives are as much
infatuated with the combats as we are
with horse racing. baseball and pugi-
lism Our navy officer says: When
the fish is in a state of repose it's COL
ors are dull, but when it gets fighting
mad it bristles up like a hog and the
whole body shines with metallic colors
of dazzling beauty. Its gill-membrane,
waving like a black frill around it's
throat, adds something of the gro
tesque to its appearance. 1t fights by
making repeated darts at it's antagon-
list, which is as expert at lodging and
running away as a prize-fighter. Z
have seen Siamese so excited over a.
contest that they would bet every
thing they possessed on earth, even to
| their wives their children and them
selves, on the issue. The fishes are
caught in the small streams at the foot
of the hills of Penang
History does not state how many
guns the frontiersman David Crockett
owned, says the Baltimore Sun. Mr..
c. W. Callaghan, proprietor of the Ho-
tel Maryland. has been presented by
Mr.. Robert Blair. of Wytheville, Va.
! with a gun which the donor says was
made for Davy and was his favorite
! weapon. Mr.. Blair was lately nominal
| ed for the lieutenant governorship of
his state, but could not accept, be-
| cause he is not yet 80 years old. He is
| son of the late Frank S. Blair, a for
| mer attorney general of Virginia. Mr..
| Blair says the gun was given his ia
Their by members of David Crockett's
| family. 1t is a flintlock of about 40
| calibre. 1t is 5l2 feet long, and the bar
rel is nearly a half inch thick. The
workmanship, all by hand, is excellent.
| The stock is light, the wood part ex-
tending clear to the muzzle on the un-
| der side. There is brass slide over the
patch-box in the stock. In loading
these rifles the ball was wrapped in
cloth patch which was CREASED. Then
it was driven home with a ramrod
Running down the side of the barrel
Is brass telescope about as heavy as
modern rife barrel. The stock and
woodwork under the barrel are decor
ated with brass trimmings. On one side
of the stock is brass eagle. The max
ers name does not appear.
What qualification of a ministerial
| character is required by youth who
desires to secure ministerial educa-
ton? writes a pastor in the Chicago
Interior He may be notorious in his
own home district for Incidence and for
dishonest trickery, yet he may find an
open door by which to secure aid"
through college and through seminary
l have known several cases of this
character. One thing is the key-and
that merely the desire to be educated
for the ministry. He can readily find
friends who will commend him. Our
UNCONVENTIONAL colleges, eagerly COM
| peting with other colleges for Students
erty appears to be barrier to col
lege education, that the ministry not
| only invites but aids financially any
young men of good character who de-
| sire to become ministers, and the quail
| ification of "a good character" means
| practically that they shall only be free
| from criminal notoriety. The apparent
| ly inexhaustible supply of young min
| listers has operated to create a general
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| churches, so that there is not another
business, not another profession. not
| another enterprise of an honorable
character in which a competent and
| faithful man holds his position with
so much uncertainty as does pastor.
HIS ability is neither the assurance of
! his being invited or being called Or
| being retained by any church. If a
| pastor receiving a salary of $500 or
Sl,OOO is dismissed to-day, a hundred
| men are ready tomorrow to take his
| place. We should he willing candidly
| to acknowledge that we have trained
| larger number of ministers than can
| be respectfully supported, and we
| should cut off the aid now so indis-
| crlmlnately offered to young men, ex-
ceptlng those who may be willing to go
to the foreign field.
An account of the interesting pro-
cess of electrolytic printing devised by
Mr.. Friese-Greene was given in a lee
ture by r. c.. Darling to the Royal
Artillery Institution last year, and is
published in the proceedings of that
society, says Engineering. The object
or the inventor is the supersession of
printing ink. The same presses and
type can be used as heretofore. but in.
stead of mixing the type, the latter is
| connected to the negative line of some
| source of electricity. The paper used
is impregnated with suitable chemicals.
while the pressure rollers are connccr-
ed to the positive line. A current ac-
cordlngly traverses the paper as il
passes through the press, and the
chemicals being decomposed thereby, a
sharp impression of the type appears
on the surface of the paper. The
amount of chemicals needed to give a
good impression is small Thus, in one
experiment with silver nitrate paper
the current used was measured. and
on deducting therefrom the amount of
silver liberated, it appears that an
| elght-page newspaper could be printed
with the liberation of 0.134 grain of
| silver. or course, silver nitrate, though
| convenient for experimental work. is
unsuitable for practical use, since a
paper impregnated with this salt turns
black on exposure to light. The chem
icals originally suggested for use in
the the industrial development of this
scheme were mixture of manganese