The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-19
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town Exposition Company. He is a
native of Richmond, and the Newport
News Times-Herald says that he has
been the apostle of industrial revival
in the South, and with a broad, COM
prehensive view of the conditions,
aided by indomitable energy that al
most battles human conception, he has
accomplished within the past few
years more than any one man living
within the Mason and Dixon line"
Mr.. WI Ting Fang acquired his
pungent English in London. He was
a student in the Middle Temple in
1876, and was known by his proper and
unpronounceable name of Ng Choy.
subsequently, states the London
Chronicle, after he had entered the
public services of his country at Tien
Tsin and had been promoted to be
mandarin, he followed the custom of
adopting an official name. Ting Fang
is said TO mean hall fragrance" and
is intended to indicate that the one
SO designated is so just and eminent
a law-giyen that the sweet SAVIOR of
his reputation fills the court
Says the New York Sun: The al
dermen of Houston, Tex, read recently
of the experimental glass pavement
which has been successfully tried in
Paris, and they have decided to try
it in their own city. The French in
ventor of a glass pavement has dis
covered a method of toughening the
glass SO that it cannot easily be bro
ken and the pavement is smooth, clean,
iinperVious to water and not slippery.
The aldermen of Houston argue that
their city is peculiarly adapted to his
process. Great quantities of fine glass
sand are to be found at the mouth OF
the San Jacinto river, and can be de-
liyered In Houston for about so cents
cubic yard, so glass for pavements
can be obtained there at a minimum
expense. The result of the Paris ex-
pertinent is being investigated, and If
the pavement proves equal to its fame
Houston will follow Paris in adopting
it.
An egg in the process of Matching"
says an expert, lis remarkably SEN
sitive to vibration. Half the failures
that amateurs encounter in Matching
out chicks by the incubator method
are due to lack of precaution in pro-
viding against the effect of vibration
on the eggs. The rumble of a train
or the passage of a wagon along the
street will spoil a whole incubator full
of eggs, If the faintest vibratory wave
reaches the apparatus. Even such a
little thing as the banging of a door
in some other part of the house Will
destroy the chances of Matching out a
brood, where care has not been taken
to place the incubator beyond the
reach of such disturbances. A thun
derstorm always gives breeders a
scare, as thousands of eggs may be
spoiled by a sudden heavy thunder
clap. To sneeze or cough in the vicin-
ity of the incubators will sometimes
work a disastrous result"
New ideas in hospital construction
have been carried out in the building
for the clinic of st. Bartholomew
Church, New York. The window and
exterior door frames are covered with
copper, the sash and interior doors are
covered with kalsomined iron, the in
terror door frames are of cast iron
and the shelving, table tops. etc, are
of stone or steel held in iron supports,
so that no woodwork appears. The
building above the basement is mark
ed by the entire absence of any an
gels or projections All intersections
of all surfaces meet with a uniform
curve; this has been carried out not
only in the walls, ceilings and floors,
but also on the staids, shelf, and ia
bic standards, window recesSes, etc,
throughout The sashes and doors are
so constructed that there are no mold
ings or broken surfaces between the
frames and glass or panels. The sur
face of the frame meets the glass with
a feather edge and the corners of the
sash and door panels are also rounded,
sc there may be no lodging place for
the collection of dirt or foreign matter.
The angles or corners above wainscot
line are run in plaster. All furniture
used in the building is of steel of exact
workmanship after special designs and
finished in white enamel.
The human race is divided into two
classes-those who ride in automobiles
and those who do not. says the New
York Post. A certain highly respected
medical journal evidently strives to
please both classes, for in a single is
sue it eontrainS two erudite discussions
one proving that automobiling leads
to deafness, bronchial troubles and ca
tarrh, and the other showing that au-
tomobiling, especially at top speed is
a splendid renovator-for the man in
the automobile. Both articles bring
reason and learning to prove their
theses. The arguments for deafness,
bronchial troubles, and catarrh are
sufficiently obvious. Anybody who
cannot afford to have an automobile
can think them up readily. On the
other hand, the arguments for physi-
cal renovation are plentiful, If less ap-
parent To ride in an automobile at top
speed 1t seems, sends PUSHES of pure
air through the nostrils into the lungs,
while the beating of this same pure air
against the face has the effect of har-
dening the muscles and of quickening
the circulation. 1t is admitted that the
result is tense look on the face, but
this only shows how splendid the ex-
perience is. When it is all over the face
turns out to have been freshened up
and made younger. This, of course, in
case 1t has not been battered by the
ragged edge of a tin can or a stray
boiler cover, hurled by some irate pc
destrian or avenging small boy
Whether or not such occurrences also
might be considered beneficial, the
able writer does not say.
If anyone were to look for anything
remarkable in European locomotives
with regard only to mere size and pow
er, as in America, he would certainly
be disappointed, says the Engineering
Magazine Continental exactions in the
direction of luxury in travel follow but
slowly-though none the less surely
in the wake of American progress.
Moreover. the limit of the loading
gauge presents, or will present very
soon, an impeachment to most European
railways always excepting those of
Russia); in England, indeed, We're it
not for the great calorifc value of the
native coal, railway engineers would
have long since been banied to have
kept their locomotives small enough to