The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ ing announcements in his own paper of his
( own marriage: For the first time we
were married Wednesday. We have con-
! tempiated this step for long time but
/ lack of funds has always prevented. an
l Ill we finally decided to get married and
/ trust to Providence for the rest. The
subscription rates to the Record will re-
main at the same price. Only the imme-
date relatives were present at the eere-
| mony. Our views on the money question
| will remain the same. only we need more
/ of it, VIII so to housekeeping in the Ais
quith home. ON Second street"
"A Canadian landing site at Kelp bay
100 miles from Victoria, has been sur
| veyed for cable to connect the Austral-
| ian Confederat ton with the Dominion of
| Canada. Work has begun on the manu-
| facture of the cable, which Is to be s.
I SS45 miles in length. 1t is to be laid in
/ four sections-namely. from Victoria to
I Tanning Island. distance of 1887 miles;
! thence to the Fiji Islands, thence to Nor
folk Island, and thence to Queensland,
| Australia. According to the contract the
work is to be finished and the cable in
working order by January, 1903 the cost
to be about $10,O0o,o0O
Carlsbad has been humorously de-
scribed as being built on the lid of boil
ing kettle. which is almost literally true,
as it stands on crust of comparative
thinness through which rise several min
eral springs, says the London Sphere. The
most abundant and most used of these
springs is the Sprudel which discharges
10000 gallons a day of various tempera-
lures. The water of the hot springs has
been famous for more than a century as
cure" for various complaints, and the
town can nearly always boast of it's royal
visitors during the season, which lasts
from May to September 30. Early in the
spring runaway "sprudel' or spring
broke through in the bed of the River
Tepl, which passes the Sprudel Arcade
buildings about five yards from the Spru-
del This new spring was promptly taken
in hand and is now to be seen working.
The temperature of the water is 1853 de-
grees Fahrenheit.
1t is truism that the longer we live
the smaller are our chances of life OF
! 1000 persons at the age of Is in England
| rather more than die yearly; out of 1000
t at 50 over 125 pass away. In the British
l Army, counting only the troops stationed
r in the United Kingdom, the difference in
S favor of youth is even more marked than
4 in the general civil population. For those
! under 20-one-third the whole force-last
S year the mortality was 2.19 per 1000 from
20 to 25 1858, and so, taking periods of 5
|
e 1913, 1856 A young fellow of 90 sick or
3 invaded, has apparently seven times the
e chance of recovery possessed by COM
S rade OF twice his age. What is perhaps
e more striking is that the ratios hold good
with little difference in regard to the
: troops on foreign stations. Youth counts
!, for more than those who enjoy it some
$ times wot of, and there is something in
y vitality after all, though the biologists
| will not hear of the term
Referring to report from the Con-
tinent that a certain. Professor Metz has
d Eat last produced solid air." the London
c Telegraph gives the record as follows:
T Sixteen years ago Prof Dewar exhib-
n tied liquid air at the Royal Institution.
That was the first step. and was followed
t in 1892 by liquid oxygen; and in March,
T 1893, by solid air. Solid air was produced
d and shown publicly at the Friday meeting
a of the Royal Institution held on Jan. 10.
Il 1894, and at the same place on May 10,
n 1898; the professor liquefed a wineglass-
full of hydrogen, doubled the quantity two
t days later, and shortly afterward by
T means of liquid hydrogen, liquefied hell
7 um Finally, on Aprile, 1906 he publicly
2 exhibited solid hydrogen. To achieve that
9 GROWING result great pressure had to BE-
$ brought to bear upon the gas, at a tenn
t perature of 24O degrees c. below zero
e What is left to Prof. Dewar's Confidential
+ rivals to do is to reach the absolute zero
> some 80 degrees lower. To manufacture
t. solid air is now no novelty; we have firms
in London ready to execute an order for
o 10000 WORTH
According to Automobile Topics
[. horsepower has ceased to measure eff.
cheney. In autouobileism it has ceased
to measure anything. After the uornina
or even the brake horse-power Of an au.
: tomobile has been ascertained it still re.
mains to be found out by experience
= what this power will accomplish in the
way of propelling the vehicle in which il
:. is placed under thousand and one vari
ations, not only of the load, the atpnos
. pheric resistance, the road surface and
grade, but also unavoidable variation.
= of the available power itself, which it i.
beyond the operator to control so Ions
/, as the mechanical control between en-
CINE and vehicle running gear is of pos
- tive nature. The electric vehicle in thi
respect possesses great advantages. blu
- they are neutralized to some extent b,
its relatively great weight. In the steam
"a vehicle the horsepower dwindles at SLOW
speed. and it would be impossible for tn,
most experienced engineer to tell in ad
! vance whether the dimensions of his en-
~ CINE will prove sufficient to take the We
- hicle and its load over a certain stretcl
or road. He must measure his chance
by his experience, not by his horsepower
In the gasoline vehicle the case stand
II much worse. Power is very largely
matter of mechanical gear speeds an,
a size of valve openings also of gas mix
ture. It's efficiency for propulsion is fur
,s thermore a question of vehicle weight
gear friction and vehicle speed. Never
=, theless the nominal horsepower is deter
mined from piston and cylinder dimen
- sions and motor speed, and brake horse
power from laboratory tests at the mos
"a efficient motor speed. A practical gaso
line vehicle was never built in whicl
II these factors were figured out In advanc
in relation to the work expected of III
vehicle The basis of construction Is al
"A most pureley experimental.
Long Island has the smallest vilIag
l. in the world. 1t is called First Place
:. According to the last census, the villsg
= has a population of 10. There are tw
:. houses and two families. the Parsons an
- the Millers. Every male resident of Firs
=. Place holds office. and there are politica
fights just the same as there are in New
. York. For almost century the pop
J" ulation OF First Place has been about tn
same for during all that time Their
70 have been no other residents than tn
Parsons and Miller families. Three gen
ic 1 of