The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-21
ITEMS of INTEREST.

Two sons OF LOUIS koSSutn, me
Hungarian patriot. have been invited
to attend the unwilling of a statue of
their great father at Cleveland, o.,
on Sept. 2S. The pedestal of the statue
will be laid on a bed of soil sent spe-
cially from Hungary for the purpose.
Snakes in captivity. it seems, some
times find difficulty in getting rid of
the skin, which is shed every year. and
an Australian diamond snake in the
Bombay museum appeared like to sue
cumb. 1t was quite blind and refused
all food. A European sympathizer then
pressed native snake keeper into
service to hold the snake, and himself,
with a pair of sharp pointed scissors,
performed the delicate and risky OPP
GRAFTON of clipping away the mem
brane which adhered to the eyes. j.
NJ. Phipson. editor of the Journal of
the Bombay Natural History Society,
performed a far more dangerous oper-
alton "a couple of years ago. His pa
tient was a large hamadryad, or king
cobra, the most vicious and poisonous
of all Indian snakes, and a most pow
erful creature to boot. Mr.. Phipson
gripped the king cobra round the neck,
and a native literally held on for his
life further down, and when the rep
tiles struggles were over a third man,
armed with a surgeons scalpel, re-
moved eight layers of membrane from
each eye.
The Electrical Review speaks feel
ingly upon the question of electrolysis,
declaring that the time is beginning tc
arrive when recokning of a gigantic
character is to be had between cleo.
trio street railway companies and
those who employ buried piping SyS-
TENS for various purposes. After
treating of the general subject. and
going over the methods used by both
companies and showing how the dam
age is done, the Review says that
while the current which destroys the
pipes may be diminished by increasing
the ground return to the power houses
to the limit of the corporation control
ing the situation, ii can never be re-
duced in that way to Zero The REM
edy, it is declared, is to break up the
electric continuity of the piping sys-
tenn by insulating Joints. A single in
sulating joint would stop more current
than many thousands of dollars worth
of copper laid in multiple with it, and
twenty or thirty properly distributed
insulating joints would reduce the
current in a pipe line more than an al
most infinite amount of copper
would do
The electric telepher has beer be
first practical solution of the bag
gage-smashing'' problem, and seems to
be satisfactory. This telepher is in
fact nothing but an open trolley car
suspended from an overheard track
upon which the trunks can be
loaded, and from which they
are taken without difficulty or
tossing. The telepher floor can
be raised to the level of the car
floor, and when one row of trunks
can be lowered to permit another row
or rows to be placed upon it, condi-
tons being reversed when the tele-
piers are to be unloaded. The tele-
piers can deliver the baggage to
chutes at either end or side of the sta
ton platform with a minimum amount
of delay. Any number of baggage cars
may be unloaded or loaded at a time
with number of selephers. The side
of the telepher hinge downward, so
they can be used as a platform upon
which the baggage can be moved be-
tween the cars and the trucks. The
system has proved to be such a sue
cess that it is only a matter of time
when 1t should be used in all of the
great railway stations. and with the
extensive supply of electricity there is
at all stations of any size.
Theatrical men have devised Gu
rious way of controlling the volume of
the human voice, and it has worked
wonderfully well in outdoor perform
ances," said a gentleman who is con-
nected with the West End manage
ment, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. They use an or
binary copper wire for the purpose
We have one here at West End In
length 1t is sufficient to reach across
the front part of the stage, it's ends
touching a point directly above the
two end footlights. We have strung
this wire across the stage about twelve
or fifteen feet above the footlights.
There had been some complaint on
the part of patrons that they could
not hear the performers we'll from the
seats further back from the stage, and
we concluded to try the system used
oy theatrical managers. We stretched
the wire the full length of the front
OF the stage at the distance indicated
from the footlights. After putting it
in we began an interesting test, and
we found that the wire really improved
the ability of the auditors 20 hear
sounds on the stage. The wire seems
TO keep the sounds from scattering So
much, and seems to force the voice of
the singer out to the audience in a
more compact and stronger form. II
| may use the expression. 1t acts as
sort of sounding board in some way
which / do not understand exactly.
This small wire has made an enormous
adherence in the hearing area of the
pavilion, a difference of probably fifty
feet or more. The voice of the singer
mas a clearer sound to the auditor.
the articulation is more distinct, the
volume Is greater, and she situation
In every way is improved SO far as
the back seats are concerned. 1t may
be that the wire tends to holI the
sound closer to the earth by giving
the waves a downward drift Instead
of permitting them to drift upward
and to grow wider and weaker as the
vibration spreads out in the greater
air area This, however, is nera spec
ulIlicn. We know the result Of the
experiment, for since. we put the wire
where it is now we have received h,,t
few complaints from our patrons"
The feature of DIR. G. Stanley
Halls address at the Chicago Univer-
sity which attracted the most atten-
ton was his reference to the use of
slang, says the New York Post. The
address was extremely suggestive in
other particulars, however and some
of these, not so widely reported. NAV
perhaps seem to the layman more con-
Yincing than the discussion of slang.
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