The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-20


a beautiful inkstand to the constitute
ton of a skyscraper. A company has
been organized and will engage in the
manufacture of the material in Vari-
Gus shapes to take the place of stone.
1t is called '"rerraola."
In Germany, on an experimental
electric railway, a speed at the rate of
more than one hundred and twenty
five miles an hour has been attained.
1t is said that the passengers on that
radium ray sort of trip had taken out
special life insurance policies before
they took their seats in the train. Ger
mans in these days seem to be in
clined to dare greater risks and to
encounter more serious hazards in
such experiments than even the most
adventurous of Americans.
-Apropos of the rapid growth of
Enid, Okla, the local paper relates
that on a recent Sunday the pastor
of one of Ends churches began his
sermon thus: often the most trivial
incident in ones daily life leads to
thoughts that are beneficial and en-
nobling. A day or so ago l was COM
ing down Main street, and 1 saw a
sign: Four Room House For Rent
- But the sermon proceeded no
further. Most of the congregation was
made up of persons who had been in
the city but a few weeks or months,
and they left the church to partici-
pate in a mad race up Main street.
DIR. Underwood has discovered in
the Maine woods a large mosquito
that does not bite. If it had that
power it would be a terror to human
ity, for it is much larger than the
member of the family with which we
are only too familiar. Another point
in it's favor is the fact that
it's larvae feed eagerly on the larvae
of other species of mosquitoes. Elk
periments are making to see whether
this Maine specimen may not be ac-
elimated to Southern New England,
with view to having it prey on
the smaller kinds that infest that re-
gion, and if the experiments be sue
cessful it will be coaXed still farther
South.
Commissioner Mcfarland and
Health officer Woodward of Washing
ton, D. c., have denied the petition of
several inventors of smokeless furnaces
who were DESTROYS of securing an Off
cial test of some of the apparatus
which have been under inVestiga ton
by the various boards, governmental
and municipal, which have been in
veStigating the matter in that city.
The object of the application was to
secure an Endorsement of some of the
schemes which have been submitted
but the commissioner says that the
task of making such a test that would
be absolutely fair and just to all the
competitors would be a very difficult
one because of the many things that
M-Ol11d have 70 he "a int
ton. 1t would require the establish
ment of certain standards and it would
be almost impossible to arrange a test
which would be satisfactory to all the
persons interested in the different
makes of furnaces.
The extra knot of speed, or frac-
ton of knot which each newest
Atlantic liner must achieve above her
predecessor of a few months before
is a terribly costly honor. Just how
costly it is is explained in the 1904
edition of Rhodes steamship guide.
Say that 1000 horsepower gives a speed
of is to II knots, and 1000 horsepower
gives q knots. From this point the
effort required to produce each addi-
tional knot is enormous. Thus, 5000
horsepower only gives 23A knots and
1000 horsepower gives 26 knots, and
lllC tGAl SIX hIOlS WOULD mean al
most doubling of the power. "It
might be possible" says the writer,
by minimizing the luggage and using
metal of high tensile strength to re-
duce the weight of a 22-knot merchant
steamer to $4,000 tons, but, unfortu-
nately, passengers must have their
luggage with them, the best and am
pie provisions must be supplied, mails
must be carried and a little precious
he iC01
increased at least 5000 tons or so, with
the result that the power required for
a speed of p knots amounts up to
such an extent that the consumption
of coal equals ton per mile traVersed,
and the extra load of 5000 tons costs
in coal alone for the Atlantic trip some
5000"
An important movement appears to
be on foot in Sweden for the CONVEX
sion of skinned or separated milk
into dry powder by the means of
a machine called an "exsiccator," in
vented by DR.. Martin Ekenburg, says
the London Standard. The price of
one OF these machines to evaporate
52S gallons of milk in ten hours is
stated somewhat vaguely to be from
ego to $3.50. 1t was recently re-
ported that ten sets of apparatus were
being erected in Swedish dairy fac
tories and that inquiries about the
machine from buttermakers in Sweden
and foreign countries were numerous.
The powder, when dissolved in
proper quantity of water of the right
temperature resumes the appearance
and other characteristics of milk. AS
the annual output of separated and
SKINNED milk in Sweden is estinnat
ed at over 15S,000,O0O gallons, the sup
ply of the powder from that country
alone, If 1T proves a commercial sue
cess, will be very large, and in all
other countries where butter is ex-
tensively produced the difficulty of
finding profitable use for this prod
uct is felt, as the returns for it when
II is used as food for calves or pigs
Is small. Although separated milk is
almost devoid of fat, it's alimentary
value is considerable, and. in the
form of powder, a large quantity of
it can be transported in a small COM
pass. 1t is stated that the powder
VIII Keep good for an indefinitely long
period.