The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In 1910 the first patent for a power
Press was issued in England to Frederick
Koenig; in less than year the power
press was al work, issuing 500 impress
sions am hour. says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat II was the marvel of the day.
People fiocked in crowds and impeded the
work of the pressmen in order to see a
press that would print 800 impressions an
hour. Three years later Koenig made
good his promise of constructing a FAR
more rapid press, and then the wonder
was renewed, for. on November Is, 1914,
the London Times was printed on this
new press. making 1880 impressions an
hour on one side of the sheet In 1917
George CIymer invented the Columbian
press, a vast improvement over all its
predecessors, and in 1916 came the Hoe
press. The Bullock perfecting press was
nrst set to work in 1863. so that the cyl
inder presses OF the present day all orig
mated 50 recently that some of the men
who participated in their invention and
early manufacture are still among the
living.
"A Western physician made his first
visit to New York last week, ard at a
semi-public dinner the other evening he
happened. to be seeted with men who had
spent all Of their lives in this city, says
the New York Sun. One of them said
to him: Doctor. l have often wondered
how New York would impress a thinking
man on his first visit. What impresses
you most in the streetsr' The thing
which first attracted my attention. said
the physician, land which still holds it,
is the fact that most of the men whom
one passes in the street are talking to
themselves. Why is it? Don't New York
ers have friends to whom they may talk,
or are they so given to talking that they
must talk to themselves when they are
alone? Do they all talk in their sheep?
Is 1t because men work harder here that
they go along the streets mumbling to
thems elves? l don't know the true ex-
PLANTATION of it, but 1 have been in many
different cities, and in none of them have
l seen so many men talking to themselves
as in New York"
Living in a little room on the third
floor of No 1889 North street" says the
Philadelphia Record, lis Walter F. Car
man, the sole survivor of the party that
accompanied Sir Austen Henry Layard
on his famous expedition to the ruins of
Nineyeh In 1850. Mr.. Carman, who is now
old and nearly blind, was then a young
sailor. He credits himself with having
been useful to the expedition, for when
Layard was making preparations to move
the two gigantic human headed and wing
ed lions from their original positions as
portals ola great hall in the northwest
palace he discovered that the ropes used
on former occasions, although toleraby
well preserved, were too short and some
stranded. This was a serious affair. The
sculptures had to be ready for shipment
on the rivers banks by the time the river
had swollen sufficiently high to receive
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nearer than Bagdad 2+0 miles away, could
splice them, and to send to Constantine
pie for new ropes meant to give up the
idea of Transporting the lions indefinitely
The young sailor, who hitherto was deem
ed too young and incapable, was appeal
ed to; and so well did he execute his task
that the lions were ready in time and the
British Museum benefited
We are glad to see, says the British
| Medical Journal, that some progress is
being made towards the abolition of the
uncleanly and dangerous English practice
of administering the oath by requiring a
| witness to kiss the book The City
| Press is responsible for the statement
that the two Testaments in the City of
London Court are kissed by 10000 persons
annually, while a Police Court usher is
| said to have stated that the covers of his
| New Testament had been worn smoot h
and we'll polished from the pressure "of
uumberless lips, bearded and beardless,
blooming and faded, honest and lying. foul
and sweet as some As, 100 witnesses were
/ sworn in that court annually. There can
be no question whatever about the right
| to be sworn in the Scotch fashion, for
| Section of the Oaths Act, 1888, runs as
| follows: IF any person to whom an oath
| is administered desires to swear with
| uplifted hand, in the form and manner
| in which an oath is usually administered
in Scotland, he shall be permitted so to
| do, and the oath shall be administered to
him in such form and manner without
| further question" We are informed that
the members of the Legion Medical So
ciety have agreed invariably to adopt this
form and the matter is one upon which
the medical profession might very well
continue to preach by example.
A manufacturing firm of Geneva, Swift
zerland, says the jewelers. Circular. have
for many years been making specially OF
complicated timepieces. and a watch
placed on view at the Paris Exposition is
regarded by them as their highest achieve
ment. In it they have overcome problems
which were before considered insolvable
| and have succeeded in retaining the size
| OF the WdtCn Wltnln a convenient 4lIIllI Oh
| pocket timepiece, namely, 20 hinges,
| corresponding to the American IS size.
| But two of these watches have ever been
| constructed. One of these was purchas-
| ed direct from the workshop of the firm.
| to be added Ito the magnificent watch
| collection of A. Ponti, the celebrated
| amateur of Milan, Italy This watch
| which has a perpetual calendar indicat-
| ing the days of the month the days OF
| the week and the phases of the moon, also
| possesses two separate small dials. upon
which are shown automatically for a
| given latitude the time of the rising OF
| the sun and the time of its setting. The
| difficulty overcome here was great, but
| what comprises the merit of the piece is
that, in connection with the minute
hand, which shows the mean time (the
| time we use), it carries another hand
which indicates the SUMS time (the true
| time). This hand, moving from the GEN.
! ter as do the ~hands showing the mean
| time. constantly travels with them and
| places itself each day at midnight in the
| position it should occupy in order to in
| dictate for that day the difference between
| the mean and true time. The variation
| Is very great, being as much as 10 minutes
| in one direction or the other. These dates
! are April 10, June Is. Sept / and Dec. %.
In many states this month marks the
close of the game season, says the Sat
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