The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


''oleo OIL" This oil, tallow. lard, olive
and cottonseed oil are used, combined
with dairy butter, in making the vari-
Gus butterines. Cocoanut butter is
largely used in Northern Europe.
The dynamo is located either on or
under the pilot and is direct-connected
to the fan by special device. 4 stor-
age battery is located on the tender or
underneath each car: and so equipped
automatically with cut-outs as to prop
erIy govern the flow of current from
dynamo to battery. 1t is evident that
the cost of illumination will be only
the expense of installing and maintain
ing the apparatus.
The attempt of some of London's
best dressed men to introduce the coat
with square ended tails for evening
dress is announced as having failed,
and things are about as they were be
fore. The dress coat of the season has
either a cloth collar with silk lapels
or collar and lapels, both of silk (the
latter style induces a neater COLLAR,
and in both cases the silk of the lapeIs
is brought to the edge. The skirts, or
tails, are little longer than usual,
reaching about a couple of inches be-
low the knee level; the sleeves are put
in high at the shoulders, and set with
slight tucking; the cuffs are, in many
cases, turned up, and in all cases closely
cut, and the waist of the coat is de-
cidedly more shapely than was the
| case last season. The cloth vest is
double breasted; the white vest coat is
the long-fronted kind, single breasted
and with white enamel or mother-of
pearl buttons. The trousers, which
taper noticeably from the hips, and
| are close over the boot, have two very
narrow lines of silk braiding down
| them, placed about half an inch apart.
The so-called sea lettuce (ulva lat
issima) grows luxuriously in the shall
| low parts of Belfast harbor where the
water is almost constantly polluted by
| sewage, and often drifts ashore in
| thick layers, where it rots during the
summer and autumn and becomes a
| serious nuisance. The decomposition is
| so like animal putrefaction that inves-
| LEGATIONS were begun cy Prof. Let's.
1t was found that the dry weed con-
tains as much as 6.2 per cent. of nj
trogen, corresponding to SO per cent.
| of afbuminoidS, which is very high for
| a plant Bringing the lettuce, before
and after it's fronds had developed, in
| contact with polluted sea water, it was
| observed that the heterogeneous matter
| ammonia and nitrateS contained in
| sewage-was absorbed from the sea
water to which it was added in five
| hours. The sea lettuce would thus ap-
| pear to be capable of acting as a scav-
| enger. There are other seaweeds and
| freshwater plants, including an alga
| capable Of absorbing ammonia, and it
| was hence suggested that these weeds
| might be utilized as purifying agents,
| either alone or for final treatment
of the effluent from some ordinary
sewage process before that eff1uent is
allowed to pass into Their ivers or es-
| tuaries.
"A novel idea in lighting trains by
| electricity is the "Gullott" system
! which has been experimental with sue
cessfully on a small scale on an impor-
tant road and is now to be applied to
! an express train, says the Engineering
Review. AS in the case of the axle
| light" the motion of the train is used
to generate the electricity. Instead,
however, of taking this power from the
car axle, 1t Is furnished by rotary fan
attached to the front end of the loco
motive. The fan is located close to the
boiler head and presents a moving and
cutting surface to the air pressure,
causing the air to travel to the outer
end of the fans blades until discharged.
No air pressure is massed on the fat
surface of the boiler head. but the
curved surfaces of the fan utilize the
travelling air and thereby generate pow
er. The fan cutting through the air
revolves swiftly and does not add to
the resistance of the air nor retard the
speed of train. No gale of wind is re-
quired to cause the fan to operate; the
ordinary pressure of the train moves
it sufficiently to generate the electrical
energy required to light any train and
leave a large surplus for ventilating
fans and other purposes. The appara-
tuS so located does not obstruct the
view of the engineer nor offer any OBJ
jectionable complications.
One of the distillers, of fine Ken
lucky whisky recently in Washington
talked in an interesting way about the
| preparation of whisky for consumption
as beverage, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. He declared that those who
drink whisky. even those who may be
called steady drinkers, know very lit
tie of its composition. Men from pat
! ronizing a certain brand become accus-
| toned to 1t, and their particular brand
is set up as a standard of quality. Some
people are prejudiced against blended
whisky, but if the blend has been sci
entifcally and honestly produced the
product should be satisfactory. A
whisky two years old, blended with an
other six years old, cannot be objec-
tionable. The worst evil in the blend
ing of WHISTLES is the practice of some
| dealers of impoverishing the liquor by
! the addition of water SO as to reduce
its strength. That is something which
| should be left to the man who is to
| drink the whisky. He can water to
| suit his taste. The fancy of whisky
drinkers is a curious thing. West of
the Ohio river the people do not want
to drink rye liquor" east of that river
the call for Bourbon is not frequent,
and for the most is confined to men
who are accustomed to drinking Bour-
bon at their Western homes. The fash
ion for ordering Scotch and Irish whis-
kies, that was so much in vogue few
| years ago, is on the wane. If consum-
ers had known that most of the
Scotch they drank never saw Scot
! land the fad for the consumption of
that liquor would not have attained the
proportions it did.
In his article on 1.-THE Coinage of
Words" in Harper's, Prof. Kittredge
tells of the real origin of some of the
suffixes by which the language is con-
stantly increased THE ending of ly."
says Prof. Kittredge, lis an abraded
! form of the Anglo Saxon lie. our like
| Compare manly with menlike, godlv
| with godlike). So dom Gin Kingdom
martyrdom, etc.) is the Anglo Saxor
| dom, our doom; here the complete word