The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cotton wool has been adapted to the
prevention of the distribution of dust
in factories. The apparatus consists
essentially of a box with an inlet and
outlet. Tt contains rough moistened
flannel, so arranged as to catch the
dust carried by the air which passes
through. In this way dust is readily
prevented from entering a room and
dust in factories from passing into the
exterior air.
With the conservatism that char
acterizes human kind, and particularly
the Anglo-Saxon race, when new de-
velopments were undertaken-such as
the application of steam engines to
-pfopelling vehicles running upon
rails and forming the progenitors of
the modern railway, or to boats driven
either by wheels with many paddles
set about their circumference or by
screws requiring a steady and uniform
rotary mOtion-the reciprocating en-
CINE was the only type even imagined.
In consequence the machine which had
developed from the mine pump was
put on wheels and connected to them
to form a locomotive or set in a hull
and connected through levers and
cranks to paddle wheels to make the
first steamboat. 1t has required the
pressure of an absolute necessity to
force engine designers out of the mar
row groove in which they We're thus
placed.
The electric light is new, and yet
it is so old that perhaps we do not
appreciate it's marvellous achievement,
says the Indianapolis News. If we will
but recall the conditions before it came
We shall see what a wonderful advance
hnnn n hn ial Bf q inH
science. Its use in theaters, in stores,
in show windows, in street illumina-
tons, in private as well as public, its
application for lighting in all sorts of
out-of- the-Way corners, its divisibility
into various degrees of power, its abso-
lutte safety so long as the wires are
properly guarded, its perfect sanitary
qualities, the practical absence Of heat
and the entire absence of odor are
things that make one feel that in the
way of lighting we have come perhaps
to the last discovery. Yet this light
was shown in this country for the first
time at the Centennial Exhibition
twenty-five years ago. And it is need
less to say that those who saw it were
skeptical of its practical use. Arc light
ing was produced on a commercial ba-
sis in 1871, but the real beginning of
electric lighting in it's modern aspects
was with the opening of the Pearl
street station of New York by Edison
in September, 1882, where the Edison
incandescent lamp was used. In the
nineteen years since then, according to
a careful tabulation made by the Elec-
trio Review, The investment in electric
lighting plants in this country alone
has reached the sum OF $700 000, 900.
This wonderful industry has been es-
tablished in this short time, and, we
must now remember, in the face of
the organized and long estabEshed
competition of gas illumination, pow
erful and rich interest which until the
whole field for the best kind of light
ing.
1t is said that the Smithsonian In
stitution offers $1,000 for the skin Of
white deer. says the New York Press.
If such be the case hunters would like
to know if the institution will give
$1,000 apiece for five or ten or more
skins, because there is a likelihood Gall
assertions to the contrary notwith-
standing) that in the general scramble
for a single $1,000 a good many white
deer may be wantonly slaughtered. AS
a rule hunters are not Superstitious.
They are too close to nature. They in
vestigate. Sailors would not dream of
killing Mother Carey's chicken; hun
ters will shoot them down in flocks. In
New York at this moment is an anna
teur hunter who killed a white doe,
and the skin lies on a lounge in his
den. If he knew where to find an
other white deer he would start for
1t to-day and get the Smithsonian
prize. But he will not accept 81, 600 for
the skin now in his possession. 1t is
possible that the Smithsonian Institu-
ton is joking with our hunters.
white" is seldom white. The white
man is far from white. There never
was a snow-white deer Probably the
whitest of all animals is the polar beer,
for obvious reasons Wherever the
black bird thrives we hear of the mys-
FERROUS white blackbird." In every
flock of crows there is said to be a
white crow" The white deer" is a
phantom, but there is not a guide in
the Adirondaeks, the Catskills the
Blue Ridge or the tangled forests of
Maine but will swear he has seen one
or ten and had every chance to shoot
but couldn't" Our native deer has a
good deal of white hair on its escutch-
con, on its underbody, on the under
side of its flag and on the inside of its
hlnd legs which would give the entire
animal whitish appearance as 1t dis
appears through the woods, CARRYING
the flag at full mast. The disappearing
view is the one hunters usually take,
Those who obtain a broadside view
nave not so much to say about white
DEER
The Vocal Psychologist says: more
money is thrown away on the educa-
ton of the human voice than on the
support of government. OF every 10000
voices one may be listened to without
pain; of every 100, 600 voices one NAV be
listened to with patience; of every !
0OO,OOO voices one may be listened IN
with satisfaction; of every 10 000 0oo
voices one may be listened to with
sensations OF joy. In all the millions
OF male singers there is but one Jean
lie Reszke. OF all the millions of
female singers there has appeared none
10 equal or approach Patti. Yet. won
dertul to tell, nearly every young man
ana woman on earth believes he or she
has fine latent voice which needs
only cultivation to set the universe a.
qulVer with It's quality. To agree with
such a person, to maintain that the
voice rs there in embryo and must be
trained and developed, IT is crafty its
possessor, to engender false hopes, to
throw money In the way Of the vocal
teacher. and to disappoint a career.
The Vocal Psychologist continues.
THESE young people think that all they
require to become great artists Is n
stout set Of lungs. They are not taught
that the actual quality of the voice
is given nv the head ara ste ,.n...... -.