The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

VI liN OSGlllS. Zlt IOunQ IndI the pa
tents could take as much as one-quar-
ter of grain each day without any
dangerous effects. They suffer very
little discomfort from the withdrawal
of the morphine and the desire for the
drug very soon disappears. He reports
several cases in which he has used the
drug with marked success. One of his
patients-not only slave to morphine,
but also to alcohol-is at present rap
idly progressing toward a permanent
cure. Hyoscine Is a sedative and hyp-
motto. 1t is obtained from henba1e
and occurs as thick colorless syrup.
On June 80, 1887. that barbarous in
stitution, the pillory, was abolished in
England by act of Parliament. II was
direct lineal descendant of the
stretchneck, which existed in England
before the conquest. By statue of
Edward | it was enacted that every
stretchneck or pillory should be made
of convenient strength, so that execu-
ton might be done upon offenders
without peril to their bodies. In the
stretchneck there was no accommoda-
ton for the arms only the head be-
ing secured, while in the pillory the
hands were brought up and secured on
level with the head. All manner of
offenders were punished in this rough
and-ready way. In 1887 Fabian says
that Robert Bassett, Mayor of London,
did sharpe correction upon bakers for
making bread of light weight; he caus-
ed divers of them to be put in the pill
lory, as also one Agnes DANTE, for
selling of mingled butter"
Charles Broadwick of Kenosha,
Wis, has invented a new kind of bal
loon, which has been patented and will
be tried some time this month. 1t is
in the form of ball, is fifty feet in
circumference, and is inflated in the
same way as all other balloons. 1t has
not basket. or safety belt, and the only
way for the operator to ride on it is to
hold on to big rope ladder which Cir
dies the globe. 1t has been tried at
an altitude of 5000 feet, and Broadwick
had a hard struggle in keeping his
place on the rope ladder There is no
chance for the aeronaut to rest during
the ascent and descent, as he must
climb around the balloon until the gas
is exhausted and the globe drops to the
earth. In his one ascent Broadwick
managed to reach the ground in safe
ty but he was so exhausted from con-
tinuously climbing the ladder that 1t
was several days before he was able
to make an ascension with one of the
ordinary type of balloons.
indications seem to point to the
shifting of the locomotive cab from the
rear to the extreme front of the en-
CINE The Comeback" was a step in
this direction, and now an Oil burning
locomotive built after the designs of
Pacific Coast engineer has the cab
in the front OF course, objections are
! made to the plan, which undoubtedly
has some bad features, but it seems
rot oil haf chA r1t fclx no
accepted. The outlook along the track
for both the engineer and fireman is
the best that can be devised the en-
tire width of the track up to few
feet ahead of the engine being in con-
slant view. Charles r. King in Engi-
neering describes a type of engine put
into regular service on the Southern
Railway of Italy in May, last, which
has the cab in front, and, while it has
been criticised ever since it was first
tired two years ago, there seems to be
a general acceptance of its principles.
by French engineers, at least.
The size of heap of coal has an
important influence on the liability to
spontaneous combustion. The expert
ments of Mr.. Fayol showed that under
certain circumstances a coal never took
fire by exposure to the air when the
tISdpS were less imam SIX rect nlgn, no
matter what the lateral dimensions OF
the heap might be. Coal always alb
sorhs oxygen from the air, and always
generates neat in consequence of the
combination of the oxygen with the
carbonaceouS contents of the coal. The
rise of temperature, however which
accompanies this process is dependent
on the rate at which oxygen is absorb
ed on the one hand, and on the rate
at which heat escaped on the other.
Both of these factors may be greatly
influenced by comparatively tri1ing
variations in the conditions. The size
of the ecal, the distribution of coal
dust the initial temperature of the coal,
the temperature CT the Enclosure in
which the coal is placed, the size of
the. heap of coal-all have an effect on
the temperature attained.
"A lumber raft of enormous dimen-
sions reached St. Louis last week
from the Upper Mississippi region. Not
only was it the biggest raft on record
but it made remarkably quick time to
its destination. 1t contained $500, 900
feet of lumber, and was towed by two
steamers. 1t left Saltwater, Mimi.
June 10, and arrived at st. Louis in
little over three weeks. 1t would have
been in earlier, but an accident to the
machinery of one of the towing steam
boats caused a tie-ups at Alton until
repairs could be made. There is no le-
cord of any raft of the size ever reach
ing St. Louis. Frequently big RATS
start from the upper reaches of the
Mississippi, but they break up long
before they get as far south as St.
Louis, the exigencies of navigation on
the river forcing big lows to divide
tar up stream. The captain of the raft
said that he feared it would be his last
big raft, as the days of heavy ship
ments of Northern pine to st. Louis
were over. The yellow pine of the
South had nearly forced the Northern
pine out of the market, and while
there would always be a demand for
the Northern pine in the city, there
would be nothing to justify the ven
ture of bringing down 100000 feet.
Small RATS would undoubtedly come
down in. the future, but big RATS
would not be seen.
DO Scotch whisky and golf go to-
gether?" asks the Dundee Advertiser.
''The question is put because of a re-
mark that is made by the British con-
sui in San Francisco as he contem-
plates the marked increase in the sale
of Scotch whisky within and around
the Golden Gate. Some say he OBJ
serves, 1t came into fashion with golfS
I--S is surely a grievous accusation
to bring against the royal and ancient
game. = 1t has long been a moot point
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