The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-17


where their lives would have been I'M
safe had they depended alone on the thin
air of these high regions The oxygen is
brea in through a tube held to the
mouth
"A comparative statement concerning
the Importation of pork, bacon and lard
into the Philippines during the calendar
year 1900, as compared with the calendar
year 1889, has been prepared in the d.
vision of insular affairs of the War De-
partment The total importation of
these commodities for 1900 was valued II
$2SS523, as against S144, $50 for 1899, show
ing an increase of 81 per cent.
The manufacture of pens in the Unit
ed States is confined to only four compa-
MES, although one might suppose there
were many more. That does not include
the making of gold pens, which is a sep
arate industry, but pens of steel, brass
and German silver. The steel for these
pens is brought chiefly from Sheffield,
England, as is the best blade steel. Many
experiments have been made with steel
manufactured over here, but it never
has sufficiently stood the test.
In 1855 it required on the average four
hours and thirty-four minutes of the
-
narrowing. cultivating, ETC., that went
to the producing of a bushel of Indian
corn, and the price of that labor was
nearly 36 cents on the average. To-day
machines have changed conditions. Their
use has reduced the necessary time of
the laborer to about thirty-four min
utes and the cost of it to about 101a cents.
The wages are, however, much better now
than in 1855.
Otto Won Bronx has devised an in
genious apparatus for printing at the
receiver a photograph of any illumina ted
object placed in front of lens at the
transmitter making use of the wonderful
susceptibility of steed wires to magnetic
strain utilized by Poulsen in his tele-
graphone. The image or the object is
thrown by Photographic lens on a sur
face made up of mosaic of selenium
cells. Each cell is in circuit with one
of series of electromagnetic arranged so
as to produce transverse magnetic
strains in a ring of steel wire, each
strain being, of course, proportional to
the intensity of light acting on its cor
responding selenium cell.
"A timely note of caution may be given
at this season of the year in regard to
the use of old potatoes, says Leslies
new potatoes partly or wholly turned
green by exposure to the sun while grow
ing are poisonous. 1t seems that this
same poisonous substance has been dis
covered in old potatoes, especially when
they begin to sprout. The substance is
known as alkaloid solanine. In 1892 and
1893 there was almost wholesale poisoning
among the troops of the German army.
The symptoms were frontal headache
To- ~Ia As,,ax
slight stupor, and in some cases dilata-
ton of the pupils. Meyer investigated
the matter and found in old potatoes kept
in damp place and beginning to sprout
twenty-four times as much solanine as
in new potatoes.
1t is not news, of course, that ice is
sold at a lower price in the cities of the
South than in those of the North, says
the New York Post, but it is of inter
est to recall the fact to the attention of
those who have to pay the prices ex-
acted by the Ice Trust in some of the
Northern cities. In only one Southern city,
Montgomery, Ala, does the price charg-
ed approach that exacted in some
Northern cities BY a combina ton
among the Montgomery ice-dealers, the
price to domestic consumers is held at
so cents a hundred pounds Nashville
ice-men are also in combination, but it
is not a grasping one, being satisfied
with thirty-five cents per hundred. In
the other cities the price varies from
twenty cents in New Orleans to twenty
five cents in Savannah and thirty else
where. The contrast appears the most
striking when it is remembered that
| practically all the ice now marketed in
the South is manufactured.
The slowness of the process of tam
ming is largely due to the difficulty with
which the tannin penetrates into the
hide. AS the penetration progresses the
outer part of the hide becomes convert
ed into leather, and is thereby made i'm
pervious, consequently the rate of pene-
| tration decreases. Months of soaking
| in the tanpit are therefore necessary for
| thick hides Many attempts have been
| made to hasten this absorption of tan
min by hide The methods used include
circulating the tan liquor so that fresh
| portions are continually presented to the
| hide, forcing the liquid through the hide
by pressure and using strong aqueous ex-
| tracts of tanning materials. 1t has been
| sought to attain the same object by pass
| ing a current of electricity through the
vat in which the hides are suspended. One
such process (Groth's) has been found
| says the Electrical Review, to shorten
| the time of tanning to a quarter of that
necessary when no current is used, and
the leather is said to be unexceptionable
Some 1900 Rochester people think they
have solved the problem of how to live
comfortably and cheaply during the
summer. They are encamped in what
| they call their White City, on the
| shores of Lake Ontario. Some of them
have been pitching their tents there for
| ten years, and the idea has grown In
| popularity until this year tents crown The
| bluffs for a mile and a half east and
west and half mile north and south. The
| tents are pitched in April and folded in
| November, being constructed so that
they may be comfortably heated in
| spring and autumn. The canvas is
| stretched over a frame, like that of an
Indian bungalow, and the largest of these
| summer dwellings are spacious enough
| to allow three sleeping rooms, a dining
and sitting-room. Cooking and other
| domestic duties are done in smaller
| tents in the rear. This summer city is
! surprisingly like a permanent munich
| pality. 1t is regularly laid out. with
streets named after the Presidents. 1t
has its social sets and its cliques, and
many of the campers do not know the
names of their neighbons in the next
| street any more than they would in New
| York city itself. The men of the colony
go to their business daily in Rochester
covering the eight miles quickly on the