The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-26

capital of about 10 cents day. These
persons lived on bread and coffee for
, breakfast. bread and stew for dinner
and bread and tea for supper, without
sugar, butter or vegetables.
Within a few years the accuracy
in the production of both fiat and round
surfaces has been so increased that the
| speed of engines has been multiplied
| by three. With the accurate bearings
of the present the tripled speed gives
| less trouble from heating and cutting
than did the slow speed of former
years.
American ribbon looms are being
! imported by Swiss manufacturers.
These looms are much more expensive
| than those made in Switzerland, even
| leaving freight and duties out of ac-
| count; but the manufacturers find it
| profitable to use them because of their
| great solidity of construction and the
much larger amount of work they DO.
The Reichsanzeiger of Frankfort
publishes the regulation with reference
| to the sale of butter in Germany, which
| will go into effect on July 1, 1902. 1t
| will be unlawful to sell or offer for
sale butter which in 100 parts of weight
| contains less than so parts of fat, or
more than Is parts of water if unsalted,
or more than 16 parts of water If
sailed.
The German Imperial Council of
health has issued tables referring to
! cancer. They show that the number of
| cases has materially increased since
| 1892, the proportion of increase sur
| passing that of the population. The
| age of the subjects average younger
| than in former years. Women are
more frequently affected than men, but
/ do not succumb to the cancer in as
| large proportion.
! Building electric lines in India has
] difficulties not felt in this country. A
| line for transmission of electricity
! from the falls of Convery, sacred
| river, to Koler, in Mysore, has just
been built by American engineers. The
wooden poles were sunk into sockets
| seven feet high to prevent the ants
! from devouring them, and the wires
were strung just beyond reach of the
| largest elephant standing on his hind
| legs and cropping with his trunk.
The push-button telephone consists
| of a complete telephone, including
| transmitter and receiver, which, in
| appearance and actually, is not much
| larger than the ordinary electric push
button Where electric bells are al
| ready installed the push-button can
| be removed and the new instrument
substituted in a few minutes without
disturbing the existing wires, annunci-
ators, bells or batteries. With it con-
| versations have been carried on easily
over 500 miles.
Connecticut has three sobriquets.
1t has been called the Land of Steady
Habits" from the sobriety and gravity
| of it's people; the "Freestone State,
| from it's enormous quarries of that de-
| scription of stone, and the Nutmeg
State" from the tradition prevalent in
| surrounding communities over a hum
| bred years ago that the chief industry
of it's inhabitants was the manufac-
ture of nutmegs of wood, to be passed
| off as genuine on unSuSpecting pur-
| Chasers.
The first practical trial of a new
| system of the single-rail railroad is to
be made at the Crystal Palace, Lon
| don. The line, which is to be one and
half miles in length, will be worked
by electricity The difference between
this system and the prevalent type of
| nonorail is that the line is on the
| ground. and large wheels projecting
| from the middle of the carriage run
| on it, while on each side of the car
| riage there are safety rollers upon
/ guide rails. In the monorail the line
| is elevated, with the carriages over
| hanging on each side. The experiment.
| al railroad will cost $4,000
| Capt. Bernier, a Canadian, is MAX
| ing his arrangements for an expedition
toward the North Pole next year. In
terest in his venture is increased by the
fact that he will endeavor to keep con-
stantly in communication with the in
! habited parts of the earth by means of
wireless biography. He intends using
a telescoping pole attached to the
| mainmast of his vessel, by which. he
can elevate the transmitting apparatus
200 feet above the deck. He allows
four years for the whole journey, much
of the time to be given to drifting, in
the hope of thus attaining a position
| favorable for reaching the pole.
Wonderful as is the human body
in it's mechanism and it's adaptability
| to its surroundings, there are some
| very simply things that it cannot do.
| For example, a man cannot rise from
| a chair without bending forward or
| putting his feet under the chair or on
each side of it. Another impossible
| thing is for a man who is closely
| blindfolded to stand without support
| of any kind for five minutes at
| stretch, without moving his feet If
| he does not move his feet at all he will
| be pretty sure to topple over in a min
ute or two. A. blind man, however.
| can do it, because he is used to doing
without his eyes.
The latest thing in London is cor
onation insurance. 1t is taken by spec
| ulators who erect stands along the
| route of the parade. There is always
| the chance, however remote, that the
| route may be changed, and other con-
| tingencies have likewise to be reckon
ed with. A favorite form of policy
| therefore, is that which provides that,
| in the event of the failure of the eoro-
nation procession to pass a given spot
| on given day, the money which would
| otherwise have been received from the
| letting of seats shall be recoverable
! from the underwriters. Business on
these lines has lately been effected at
Lloyds at rate of from II guineas
| to Is guineas per cent.
| An ingenious device is now sue
cessfully used in France by which the
| speed of a train may be seen at any
| moment by the engineer. 1t consists
| of CENTRIFUGAL pump driven by one of
| the locomotive axles, which sends wa
| ter from the tender into a small CYL
| inder There the water raises a pis-
| ton against the pressure of a spring,
and moves UP or down in proportion
] to the speed of the train An auto