The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NOR can be cultivated in a girl mlnu
without any abatement of the dignity
and modesty and charm OF ner Wo,
manhood-not the unpleasant anu
constant frivolity evidenced III
''sn1art" speech of quickness of repair
tee hnt the humor that looks at The
world with a twinkle in the eye anu
sees its absurdities, its smallnesses ana
its fun. 1t should be part OF every
woman's mental equipment, Tor Wo-
men are called upon to bear so many
Of lffe's small worries as wen as us
greater ones. The bringing up OF chill
dren. the care of servants and the
many social duties that become a DuI-
denial are made easy ana posslDie
to put up with by the woman WIN
the unfailing sense of the Drlgnt sue
of life. 1t is sense that lasts tnIU J,
life. through its many Ills, It's dlslllus-
IONS it's POPULATIONS, even it's TRACE
dies.
There never was a time, says the
Popular Science Monthly, when pusl-
ness honor was SO high as now; the
whole commercial fabric Is based upon
It Whether the moral sense has peen
uuickened or experience mas taught
that honesty is the best policy matters
not-the fact remains that in business
a
dishonest dealing is fatal Dishonesty
certainly exists as it always has ex-
listed and as it always will exist until
mans nature changes. 1t is no novelty,
for long ago 1t was asserted that every
man has his price. But there IS pro-
portionately less now than ever before.
Ours is an age of commerce, an age OF
devotion to material things, but that
devotion has none of grossness nor IS
it in any sense inconsistent with
just devotion to higher things. Inus
far the argument has been largely neg
alive, an effort to show that this age
is not worse, but possibly better, than
its predecessors. The positive argu-
ment remains to show that, because of
commercialism, this age, on the whole,
is vastly better than its predecessors.
1t has been estimated that the
product of American optical goods
manufacturers exceeds, yearly, $780,
900 pairs of spectacles and eyeglasses,
says the jewelers. Circular. One COM
pany alone manufactures nearly 1900
900 pairs annually, which is probably
ten times as many as were made in
the entire United States during any
one year previous to 1850. The ques-
ton has often arisen as to where they
all go. The United States contains
some 7S,000,000 people, and about one
out of every five should wear glasses;
yet not all of our product is consumed
by the American people. Owing to the
high standard of uniformity, accuracy,
durability, and workmanship in gen
eral the American products are now
being exported, with but few excep-
tons, to every civilized country on the
globe. Other countries possess remark
ably few factories Gas we use the term)
devoted exclusively to the manufac-
ture of spectacles and eyeglasses. In
the place of these they have so-called
shops, where the wires, end pieces,
bridges and bows are furnished, in the
crude state, to people who take them
to their dwellings,, where as many of
the family as are able-man, woman,
boy or girl-work these various parts
into frames. Having done this, they
return them to the shops, where lenses
are fitted and the goods are packed
ready for the market. Thus it can be
readily seen that the standard of ac-
curacy or uniformity cannot be very
high where all classes of people amid
all kinds of surroundings, and under
all kinds of circumstances, do ALI 'or
many kinds of work. The results
show the worthlessness of their system.
Never have they been able to produce
a complete line of interchangeable
spectacles and eyeglasses, which so
facilitate the making and buying of
our goods
"A patent just issued to Peder Oluf
Peterson, of Copenhagen, covers a
method Of using the telegraphone in
such way as to record a number of
messages on a single steel strip and 10
reproduce each message without inter
ference from the others. The telegra-
~ &c he inv nP
electrical engineer Valdemar Poulson,
and is, as the name implies, a combi-
nation of the telegraph, telephone and
the graphophone or photograph. BY
the use of this device a telephone or
telegraph conversation can be recorded
on steel wire or tape and reproduced
at any time and as often as desired
without the record deteriorating. In
this apparatus a steel wire, or steel
band, is moved by any suitable means
with considerable velocity between the
poles of a small electro-magnet, On
speaking into a telephone transmitter
joined on the circuit, the undulatory
currents set up in the transmitter re-
act upon the electromagnetic and cause
continuous variation in the direction
and in the degree of magnetism at the
poles of the electromagnetic These va
riationS are permanently recorded on
the steel wire as it rushes by. and
When the message is complete the steel
Wire retains a definite record of what
has taken place in the shape of a con-
tinuous series of transverse magnetized
lines varying throughout in their no
larity and in their strength. On con-
Meeting telephone received to the
electromagnetic, and again starting the
wire on its course, says the Telegra oh
Age, this magnetized wire genera ties
electric currents in the coils of the su-
perlmposed magnet as it passes be-
tween its poles, and these electric cur
rents, which are the exact counter
part of those generated by the original
voice, caused the telephone to repeat
what was said In an almost absolutely
perfect manner.
The oldest and the most imnortan+
ship canal is that of suez. begun in
1856 and completed in 1869 IT &c Inn
miles In length and cost s93 0OO. Don II
was at first 81 meters wide on ton %
meters at the bottom and s meters daen
but in 1892 $10.0000 900 We're expended r.
increase these dimensions to ~ 94L
ana nearly meters respectively. and
II is now proposed to increase the depth
TO the 10 meters. Ships are allowed to
pass through it at a speed of s 35-100
miles per hour, so that its whole length
can be traversed in 1872 hours, Night
navigation is made possible by electric
lights, which were introduced in 1887
The tolls are So per ton. In 1870. 4SG
2 shlps passed through the canal; in 1880.
zOz6; In 1900, S,441. In the year 1899
z -1d. passengers were transported. In