The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-07

given SOOQ zeal Oh circuit LOI Invent
ing an expressive phrase. Someone has
Just dug up the fact that Senator
Edmunds used precisely the same words
ten or a dozen years ago in descl1b-
ing a Vermont applicant for office.
Paris has devised new mode of
dueling for young women whose feel
ings have been ruffled. Two such re-
Gently decided that their honor de-
manded a duel Having no weapons
conveniently at hand, ingenuity came
to the rescue Eeach took off a stock
ing and filled it with sand. At last &C
counts the vanquished was reported IN
a hospital, probably dying.
Samuel Little, millionaire, street
railway magnate and director of many
of Boston's prominent financial insti-
tutions will this fall, for the 'trst time
in over thirty years, be unable to cast
ballot at either the state or city
elections. This is due to the laXity of
the police in collecting names for the
police list Through some error Mr.
Little was overlooked.
When the work of draining the
Zuyder Zee is completed it will be pos
sible Tor one to stand on a dyke with
the water of the North sea on one side
only ter feet below him and on the
other side will be the farmers at work
tilIing the soil from twenty to thirty
feet beneath. The chfmneys of the
farm houses will in some cases be be-
low the level of the water on the other
side of the dyke.
Witt the methods now in use, sew
en-tenths of the force in coal is wasted.
A few years ago the waste was nIne-
tenths. Mr.. Edison declares that a
bucketful of coal should drive an ex-
press train from New York to Phisa-
Gelpha. and a few tons be sufficient
for the largest ocean steamship, whose
bunhers must now hold thousands. The
Oceanic consumes ton of coal every
three minutes. or about 500 tons a day.
Herr Macco, before the convention
Of the Nerein Deutcsher Eisenhutten-
leute. said that during the last eleven
years the average productive capacity
of American mines a man day has
increased more than rs per cent, while
III Germany it has, if anything, dimil-
iShed. This fact is attributed to the
increased use of coal-cutting machin-
cry. OF the bituminous output for 1901,
25.7 per cent. was machine mined. Not
WIrhstanding the fact that higher
wages are paid in America, coal is
much cheaper than in Germany, some
years it being less than half the price
of German coal.
Even many native New Workers. do
not know how the Bowery came by
its name, according to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, which thus proceeds to their
enlightenment: No less a person than
the famous old one-leggedt Governor,
Peter StuyVesant, was responsible for
1t. When the city of New Amsterdam
sprang into existence many farmers
from Holland came over to seek their
fortunes in New York, among them
old Peter They settled outside the
town and proceeded to develop the
land by clearing away the woods and
planting it with grain, fruit trees and
ornamental shrubs they had brought
with them. Peter Stuyvesant called
his residence and grounds THE Bou-
werie." and the lane connecting it
with New Amsterdam became known
as "Bouwerie lane" the settlement it.
self taking the name of "Bouwerie
Village" Stuyvesant's farm extended
from the junction of what is now
Third and Fourth avenues to Seven
tenth street and eastward to Second
avenue, where, at the corner of Tenth
street, his home was located.
the launch of vessel is primarily
a matter of mathematics. In a ship of
immense size it calls for a vast amount
of calculation before the first step Is
taken in the actual work. In the first
place the specific gravity must be fig
ured out so as to allow for the various
strains to which the hull is subjected
on it's slanting journey into the water
with its sudden plunge, as the bow
drops from the ways. An enormous
amount of data must be collected to Ak
this center of gravity. The weight of
all the material that has gone into the
vessel up to the time of the launching,
the distribution of this weight, the
weight of chains and anchors, and other
material placed on board preparatory
to the launch, must all be considered.
When the center of gravity is fixed the
successful shipbuilder knows just how
to build his launching ways and just
where to strengthen them. He knows
then, by little calculation, how long
each part of the vessel will be subject
ed to certain strains and how to best
prepare for them. He can figure al
most to the second how long the ship
will be In sliding into the water.
Have you heard of uralite? Prob
ably not, for it is a new invention, but
superior to anything of the kind that
has yet been produced, says London
Aswers. 1t is the invention of a Rus
sian artillery officer and chemist nam
ed Imschenetzky, and its claim to dis
tinction lies in the fact that 1t is alb
solutely fireproof. Uralite is composed
of asbestos fiber, with a proper pro-
portion of silicate, bicarbonate of soda
and chalk, and 1t is supplied in va
rious finishes and colors, according to
the purpose for whic it is intended.
In a soft form a sheet of uralite is
like an asbestos board; when hard it
resembles finely sawed stone, and has
metallic ring. Besides being a nom
coductor of heat and electricity, 1t Is
practically waterproof, and may be
made entirely so by paint. Moreover,
1t can be cut by the usual carpenters
or woodworkers' tools; it can be We
neered to form paneling for walls or
partitions; it can be painted, grained,
polished and glued together like wood;
1t does not split when a nail is driven
through 1t; 1t is not affected when ex-
posed to moisture or great changes of
temperature, and 1t can be given any
desired color, either during the pro-
cess OF manufacture or afterwards.
Rings in trees indicate something
more than mere growth, for it has
been discovered that they are excel
lent records of the weather during
each year of the trees life. says an
exchange. Some one has declared that
trees feel and think, and poets have
said that they speak; but this has to
DO merely with the dumb records
shown by any patriarch of the forest.
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