The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-29

AS.
Russell Sage has become, rather late
in life, billiard enthusiast and spends
several evenings week In that form of
relaxation, in which he has become quite
expert.
The omnigraph, as a new instrument
designed to teach the art of telegraphy is
called, consists of a Dashboard on which
are secured an ordinary key and sounder,
between which disk is mounted formed
on its periphery with teeth. A spring con-
tact adjacent to the wheel engages the
peripheral teeth of the disk Although
irregular, the arrangement of the teeth
Is arbitrary. For If the disk be rotated by
means of a small crank shaft geared with
the disk shaft, the spring contact is forced
outwardly by the teeth, but drops back by
its own elasticity and thus makes and
breaks the circuit. The EXPERIENCED tele-
graph operator detecting these makes and
breaks at the sounder recognizes them as
the dots and dashes of the Morse alpha
bet.
When digging in the gravel beds Of
. South Kensingtou for the foundation of
the Victoria and Albert museum in Lon
don great quantities of the bones of ex-
tiuct animals were found, creatures which
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that the rivers drift and brick earth were
being deposited. These we're bones of the
great stays then common, of the elephant,
and of the primeval horse creatures
which lived there before the channel was
cut between England and France, though
not, perhaps, before man had appeared
in what is now the Thames valley A
scientist to whom some of the remains
were taken said that they reminded him
of
in the brick earth at Ilford in Essex
England, thirty-seven years ago, when he
personally saw dug from the brickhelds
of that parish the head and tusks of one
of the largest mammoth elephants in the
world.
The fact that the throes of the imag-
ination under great nervous excitement
often produce corresponding physical
frenzy was illustrated recently in the
case of "a man who had gone to sleep
with his artificial teeth in his mouth,
says the Scotsman. Waking suddenly
with choking sensation he found his
teeth had disappeared. He concluded they
must be far down his throat. Choking
and struggling he hammered on the door
of friend sleeping in the house, who,
seeing his critical condition, vainly tried
to draw the teeth out of the sufferers
not the strength to extract them. He
ran for a blacksmith who lived a few
doors away, but the blacksmith's hand
was too big to put into the mans mouth.
A doctor had been sent for, but he was
so Ions in coming that the victim of the
accident seemed likely to die of suffo-
cation before the physician arrived. A
little girl of 10 years was brought, under
the impression that her small hand might
he oI1cfa n1o nd will hut
she got frightened and began to cry. The
sufferer became black in the face, his
throat swelled out and his friends ex-
pected every moment to be his last, when
finally the doctor arrived. He heard the
history of the case, and cast his eyes
seriously upon the floor. There he saw
the whole set of teeth. He adjusted them
in the jaws of the patient, told him to
breathe freely and every symptom of suf-
location disappeared.
-Science~fas recently explored with
startling results the possibilities of peat
as fuel and mechanical ingenuity has
devised plant which promises to convert
the Irish bog into a more valuable prop
erty than the Russian petroleum fields,
says the London Express. By these new
methods, of which certain details have
been recently communicated promise is
given of an extraordinary revolution in
the fuel problem. Machinery has been
devised by means of which the moisture
of the raw peat is absorbed and COM
plete disintegration effected at one simple
and rapid operation without the aid of
either kiln or grinder. 1t is no longer
clumsy and imperfect operation of
months, but almost one of minutes only.
Plant for the working daily of 1000 cubic
yards of bog can be readily installed. and
these 1000 yards will yield 800 tons of
peat fuel at cost of IS. Cd. to S. per
ton A step further converts these 800
tons into peat charcoal a product equal
to the best ordinary charcoal, at an av-
erage cost of 15s to It's. per ton. The
new peat fuel is practically smokeless and
odorless, being almost free from carbon
or hydrocarbon, excepting as primarily
contained in the peat. It's specific grav-
ity, calorifc properties and cleanliness are
also very powerful recommendations. 1t
burns with a bralliant flame, yields i'm
mense heat and is remarkably lasting.
For steam and naval purposes the peat
is subjected to special treatment, the ma
ture of which is at present a secret. 1t
may be said, however, that no tar. pitch,
petroleum or similar adhesives are used,
the special object being to avoid smoke,
SCOT, gases and dirt. When Ireland, with
her 6,000O00 acres of peat bog, and the
rest of the kingdom, with two and a half
millions, are taken into account, there is
certainly a call for the new process.
To steer without a rudder, to stop
dead and remain stationary in any sea
without an anchor, to obtain greater
speed than the fastest liner" to slow
down to a snails pace and still have
steerage way; or in other words, to be
independent of tides and currents; to Sc
cure less racing of propellers; to be en-
titled to decrease insurance-comblne all
these attributes, and the result sounds
like a fairy tale. Capt. Mark Golnsky
of the United States Mercantile Marine,
however, claims all these advantages and
many more for an invention in screw
propelled vessels for the exploitation of
which he is now in London. says the Bos-
ton Transcript Just as the main motive
power of the bird is in its wings, and of
the fish in it's pectoral and ventral fins,
the power in both cases being located
about one-third from the objective end,
and Immediately behind the widest
breadth, so in Capt. Golinsky's ship, in
addition to the usual propelling media
aft, there are two screw-propellers for
ward, one on each side, about one-third
of the distance from bow to stern. The
form of these steamships is one which
nature itself suggests. 1T is a combina-
ton" says the inventor, 'of the Goldfish
head and the mackere tall" which lent