The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-24
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has been invented by Count Rudolph
Won Westphalen Of Vienna, who claim.
that 1t will not only do away with vi,
bration, but will consume considerably
less coal, says the London Mail. This
wheel has been tried on the Nortf
German Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, and
in spite of rough weather during the
voyage from Blemen to Baltimore tht
Count stated tnat in the revolutions Of
the twin screws his type of wheel made
sixty-eight revolutions to the minute
to the regulation type of wheels sew
enty revolutions to the minute, botf
producing the same speed, thus indi.
eating a less consumption of coal anC
steam power by the new type of pro-
pelier. The new design is radically
different from the one in general use
The four blades that usually run ou
from the boss at the end of the shat
are changed in straight and fiattenet
supports for blades that are attached
to their ends. The propelling blades
have their outer ends at the same an.
gle. usually found i'll screws, while the
inner ends, instead of coming togethei
at the centre of the boss, meet at the
outer extremity of the boss, where theS
are Eeld by a circular band. The
wheel practically has eight propeller
blades. The outer blades are only hall
the width of the ordinary blade and g
half foot shorter than the regulation
wheel on the port shaft.
The working of a new ordinance
which has just been promulgated at
Pretoria by the British authorities
will be watched with interest by all
who take a practical interest in the
control of the liquor traffic. The or
dinance provides for the application
of local option by the decision of a
majority or the exclusive control of
the sale of liquor by trusts for public
purposes. The government seems to
have been urged to take over the en-
tire supervision of the traffic, but this
il has declined to do, although it has
awaited itself of the opportunity for
testing the principles of public-house
trusts as advocated in other countries.
In this respect the ordinance may be
said to be merely an experiment, and,
If successful, the method will no
doubt be extended to other sections.
There are sections. however, which
are eminently practical, such as those
prohibiting the employment of fe-
males, children under is and natives
behind the bars, and the creation of
liquor-traffic inspection. The ordi-
nance is very stringent in it's prohi-
bition of the sale of liquor to natives,
but allows employers of more than
fifty natives to brew the native Kafz
fir beer for their use. Side and back
doors and screens are also prohibited.
The question of Sir Walter Ra-
leigh's burial place has lately been
revived in England. Three churches
claim both the head and body of the
gallant courtier. Immediately after
the execution. which took place in
Tothill street, Westminster. on Oct.
20, 1913, his wife placed the head in a
red bag and rode off with it in a
kept for twenty-five years. The body
was buried in ST. Margaret's Church,
but shortly after the execution Lady
Raleigh wrote to her brother, Sir
Nicholas Carew, asking permission to
bury her husband in his church at
Beddington, where she desired also to
be buried. History is silent from that
time on. 1t is known, however, that
her son treasured the head as his
mother had, and, according to the
London Daily Chronicle, tradition says
that 1t was finally buried with him
at West Horsley, Surrey. DR.. Brush
field, who has made a thorough study
of Raleigh history, is of the belief
that when investigation is made the
three bodies-father, mother and SON
will be found buried together. He has
suggested to the British Archaeology
cal Society to inscribe the stone I'M
der which his body is supposed to be
buried in St. Margaret's, London,
with his name and coat-of- arms No
English memorial to this universal
genius exists. The west window in
st. Margaret's, dedicated to his mem
DRY through the enterprise of Dr.
Farrar, was the gift of this country
"A novel project has been put forth
in Wisconsin for the sale in the form
of ice mineral water, and a COM
pany has been formed to exploit it. 1t
is proposed to dispose of the water in
this form so as to save the consumer
the cost of the ice ordinarily bought
to cool the various mineral waters as
sold now in bottles and cans. Ordi-
narily the ice to cool mineral waters,
as kept in tanks, business offices,
clubs, hotel and homes, costs more
than the water itself, and 1t is pro-
posed to cut in half the cost of water,
ice and freight and distributing
charges. The idea is not a new one,
having been proposed several years
ago when company was almost on
the point of formation to carry it out
In the first place, ice will be made of
the spring water, retaining all the
original mineral properties, the water
melting in the consumers tank and
returning to it's natural form as pure
as when taken from the spring. The
ice can be furnished, it is declared, at
less cost than the water, as the cost
of shipping ice from the Wisconsin
lakes to Milwaukee and Chicago is az
cents hundred pounds, while the cost
of shipping water is cents for the
same weight. The ice, it is claimed,
will be as valuable as a refrigerator
as any ice, and in the home it will do
service in the ordinary family refrig-
orator. the melting ice furnishing pure
water for drinking purposes, il the Ice
chamber is kept clean, and for the
same price as ice manufa ctured from
distilled water.
"A writer in the Royal Magazine
for October has been subjecting him
self to number of curious expert
ments with view to testing certain
theories that he holds on the subject
of dreams. He maintains that when a
man Is asleep he is continually dream
ing, and that the only dreams or por-
lions of dreams you can remember are
those which occur just before you
awake" In order to secure evidence
for this theory, he got his wife to
awaken him whenever she heard him
talking in his sleep. Up to the time of
writing that had occurred twice. and
in both cases he was reused in the
middle of a violent dream scene"
Next, he induced his wife to awaken
him when he appeared to be sleeping