The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pond, with the intention of drowning it.
His masters dog went with him, and
when the kitten was thrown into the
water the dog sprang in and brought
l. back to land. A second time the man
threw it in, and again the dog rescued
it; and when for the third time the ser
want tried TO drown it, the dog, as res
Quite to save the little helpless life as the
man was to destroy it, SWAN with it to
the other side of the peol, ran all the
way home with it, and deposited it be-
fore the kitchen fire. From that time
the dog kept constant watch over the kit
ten. The two were inseparable, even
sharing the same bed.
The inventor of the Belleville water
tube boiler has not accepted the condem-
nation of his generator by the committee
OF the British Admiralty with graceful
acquiescence. On the contrary he has is
sued a statement traversing the report
and asserting that the failure, if "fail-
ure' Is to be the term used, was due
TO improper handling. He maintains that
ms boiler has given good results in the
French Navy, and supports this state
ment with congratulatdry letter from
the japanese Admiralty upon the per-
lormance OF the Belleville boiler Adzuma
Oh her voyage from England to Japan. If
one accepts the inventors defence of his
steam generator 1t must be concluded
that the criticism was unjust as well as
severe, and yet his argument proves that
the boiler requires extraordinary care and
skill in fitting and handling, which would
be difficult to obtain under service con-
htlons, especially in time of war
The Slot machine seemed grooming with
wealth of nickels when the collector
came to the cigar store to open it, says
the Philadelphia Record. As he turned
OUT tfle COINS by-stander remarked:
oee All the money! mot on your life!'
replied the collector. 1.-THE game isn't
what it used to be- Nearly half of these
are no good. Sect" And he deftIy sep
arated the coins into three piles. One.
ana not much the larger, represented the
quota OF bona fde nickels. Another was
composed OF coins recently issued by a
department store as a souvenir Of an an
hiVersary The third pile was simply a
~ oI ieau DISCS, cut exactly in the size
OF nye cent piece. That's the work
OF the printers" explained the collector.
Ihey have facilities for making these
'thlngs out of waste metal from the type
setting machines, and they beat every
sIot game in town. So, you see. our bus
mess isn't what it is cracked up to be-"
The process of producing enormons
temperatures by firing a mixture If nom
uered aluminium and oxide of iron or
other oxides, gives science and Industry
new resource. Other metals besides
aluminium may be used thus as fuel In
leCture on metals as fuel at the Roya1
Institution, London, Sir W. Roberts-Aus
ten observed that metals might be burn
III tne sake of the light and heat
10y produced. The use of magnesium
tend ter iish' Is familiar and may gred tly ex-
81. "A sheiI OF magnesium might be
Ired, and the light from the burning
metal be utilized in illumination for war
purposes, for the placing of guns. etc The
use Oh metals as fuel assumed magnificent
proportions in the hands of Sir Henry
oessemer. The Bessemer process of max
ing SUeel was alone rendered possible by
the burning of metals as fuel In the
ease ol aluminium burning in oxygen.
comDuston could be started bv a minnie
fragment of charcoal. BY experiments he
demonstrated how beautifully the welding
OIL metals could be effected by the oNi-
udeIoh or aluminium, remarkfne- that II
was impossible to foretell what in the f,1-
lule AhIsht not be accomplished by this
process IN the way of industrial art. The
"eidlng OF steel rails for tramways had
oeeh successfully done by this process.
| 1t may seem strange TO the fortunate
sighted people that the blind should Ia
anle not only to write shorthand. but to
manipulate a typewriter, with perfect
ease ana considerable speed" saws tba
LoIaoh Daily Mail. yet this is the
case ana there are already several blind
typeWnters offices, where authors mar
uscrlpts' letters, circulars and general COPY
lug are attended to by sightless operators
Inc shorthand Is taken down on a special
machine, which embosses in the 'RrailIA,
system of dots There are only six tvna
Keys ana spacing key. The matter is
recorded on roll of tape-like DaDer-
Whlch travels along automatically into
basket somewhat after the manner of
the ordinary tape machine. With tho
alu Oh the machine verbatim reports can
ne taken down at as high speed as 40
words minute, and thus a very renn,1n-
erative and pleasant means of emnlo,,-
ment is afforded for the blind Tho
trenscrlbing is done with any typewriter
the user having once mastered the nosi
tlon OF the keys. There is however an
attachment for those who are deaf as
well as blind to indicate when the end of
line is near. Instead of the usual tin
kle' a wire Is so fixed that it falls on
the ringers, no matter in what part of
uhe KEYBOARD the hands may be-"
Those who passed Center Cenetrv
Conneaut, Ohio recently, were surprised
to see brilliant light burning brightly
a few feet over grave which had been
occupied out four days. Startled citizens
called the attention of others to the phe-
nomena and an investigation was made.
The beacon light proved TO be a 32-candle
power electric light 1t was suspended
over the grave of the mother of DIR
George II. Cole. 1t will be kept burning
so long as the electric light plant lasts.
When the woman died, her final request
was that light be kept burning over
her grave DR.. Cole at once gave orders
to the municipal lighting plant 10 run
wire to the cemetery and establish the
llght. The work was started Friday.
when the trustees of the city learned of
the work and ordered it stopped, claiming
that the light concern had no right to
run wires outside the city limits Before
the order reached the workmen the task
was finished and II will be allowed to re-
main. The woman frequently expressed
herself as being opposed to the solemn
stiffness and darkness of cemeteries at
night, and she asked for a light to guide
her through eternity Her son said that
no power on earth would prevent him
from complying with the request, even If
he had been obliged to erect a private
lighting plant.
Helene Nacaresdo, the Roumanian