The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-19

INCAAOS6s saw d AllllC lOi SdAC
bearing these words: The bearer of
this is hereby permitted TO walk the
earth and breathe the air OCCASION
ally. The card is signed with the
name of ]. Pierpont Morgan, costs 2
cents and seems to have a large sale. !"
The newest outlet for woman's
energy is pottery making, says The
Brooklyn Eagle. The famous Rock
wood Works were started by a woman,
and many women are now turning
their attention to the possibilities OF
the wheel, combined with deft fingers
and delicate fancy in the manipula-
ton and designing of clay. All over
the country women are becoming in
terested in pottery making. CLASSES
are being formed and find enthusiastic
students ready to join them.
-Delany's high-speed telegraph sys-
tenn, recently perfected. notes Science
and Industry, is capable of transmit
ting 100 to 5000 words a minute over
a single wire-the speed depending on
the distance and the electrical proper
ties of the line, that is, on the cleo
trostatic capacity resistance and in
ductance of the circuit. Eight thous-
and words a minute can be recorded
over a line of so miles, while 100 words
would be about the limit over No. 8
copper wire between New York and
San Francisco.
The result of tests of a liquid air
plant, made at Cornell university, re-
ported at the Pittsburg meeting of
the American association for the ad-
vancement of science, indicates that
the expenditure of one horsepower
continuously for one hour results in
the production of just enough liquid
air to produce, if utilized in its turn
as source of power, in perfect
machine, one horsepower for one
minute The expermenter adds that
the most efficient method of obtaining
liquid air as yet discovered would in
crease the time to only five minutes.
when a man gets used to drinking
rain water" said Mr.. N. D. Mcdonald
of New Orleans, to The Washington
Post there is no other water in the
world that tastes so good. Most OF
the people in New Orleans have els
terms in their yards which hold an
abundant supply of water caught
from the clouds-the purest and best
in the world, according to my notion.
The Winter rainfall alone is used, the
summer catch not being desirable. 1t
is somewhat curious that in northern
ATTITUDES the cistern water does not
keep wholesome and sweet as it does
in our country"
"A civil engineer of this city, says the
New York Sun, has devised a substi-
tute for the pneumatic tire which he
claims when fitted to a vehicle with
solid rubber tires will carry the pas
senger over rough places with even
greater ease and comfort than will
pneumatic tires, while at the same
time obviating the danger of pune
tured or burst tires. The device is
said to consist of a system of springs
placed in the frame of the vehicle and
combined with a cushion containing
air and liquid which controls the ac-
ton so that the springs take up any
shock at once and at the same time
retard the reaction so that no shock
is felt. 1t is claimed that not only
does the contrivance neutralize slight
shocks, but in addition SO reduces
heavy ones that the rider may main
tain his seat comfortably and safely
on the toughest of roads.
Artificial butterflies are sometimes
manufactured for sale as rare speci-
mems to natural history museums and
private collectors, says The Chicago
Daily News. Their preparation main
ly consists in spreading with a camePs
hair brush very thin gum or paste
over the wings of ordinary butterflies
and then sprinkling over this certain
delicate metallic powders of various
colors. By this deft manipulation very
common butterfly can be transform
ed into one that is extremely rare.
The fraud came to light through an
alleged specimen of a red admiral
the butterfly so widely noted for its
brilliant red and white hues. Some
times the white specks turn blue and
specimen in which this TRANSFORMED
ton has taken place is regarded as
a great rarity. The dealer knew this.
and naturally his red admiral had
many blue specks. Unfortunately for
him the purchaser was suspicious, and
by the use of magnifying glass and
a damp brush quickly discovered the
fraud.
In several of the smaller towns in
Wisconsin where a strong organized
movement has been made to get the
names of women on the registry list,
CONSERVATION has been caused by the
discovery that a married woman is not
legally registered if the Christian
name by which she is designated on
the list is that of her husband, says
the Evening Woscinsin. Thus, MRS.
John Smith," whose given" name is
Mary" cannot vote unless she is reg
istered as Mary" or, if she does vote,
it must be by the troublesome pro-
cess of swearing in" Socially, a mar
ried woman always goes by her hus-
bands full name, prefixed by Mrs"
until he dies. unless the pair are sever
ed by divorce. Legally, however. it
is only his surname which becomes
hers by marriage, and her Christian
name continues to be an essential part
of her formal designation, supplement-
ed, if she chooses, by her patronymic.
If she is q public character writer,
a speaker, a physician-she is gener-
ally known by the name which she
bore previous to her marriage, with
her husbands surname appended. Thus
Ella Wheeler became Ella Wheeler
Wilcox. Thus Elizabeth Cady became
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The whole
nation knew the great woman suffra-
gist by that name, but comparatively
few people knew her by the name of
Mrs. Henry Brewster Stanton, though
Henry Brewster Stanton, her husband.
was in his day a well known man.
Machines to do "cobbl.ng," repair
ing wornout shoes, is the latest. The
process is described as follows by the
Providence Journal: The outworn shoes
come into the shop with nothing of
any value save the tops. The dilapidat-
ed heels and soles are rapidly taken
off by one man, who in turn hands
the work on to another special de-
partment. A thin strip of leather call
ed the welt is seWed around the UNI