The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

commemoration of the eight hour sys-
TEN, which was begun in Australia
forty eight years ago. The monument
is a tall marble pillar, surmounted by
an oblong block holding a globe and
torch. The word Prosperity is
written on the globe and three large
figure Fights are engraved on the
block.
From the crater of Mount Pelee
a tower, 30o,35O feet thick where its
base is implanted, and with a hight
twice that of the Washington Monu-
ment in Washington, is still being
pushed up bodily and at rate that is
all but incredible. During four days
the rise was twenty-one feet. and the
rate of ascent was previously far
greater. On the side where the great
Obelisk has pressed hardest on the
encasing rock the surface is smooth
ed, almost polished, and shows par
allel lines of growing.
Two somewhat conflicting matters
of information come over the wires
from the West. Upon one great rail-
road system beyond the Alleghanies an
order has been issued forbidding en-
gineers on passenger trains to run
their engines at speed in excess of the
way of the highest class, in the Missis-
sippi Valley region, a popular express
train, crowded with passengers, was
saved from destruction by the tremen
dous velocity at which it was moving.
1t was rushing on so rapidly that it
passed safely over an open switch and
a train wrecking scheme was baft1ed.
The fact that certain odd-time ex-
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steam turbine can be utilized as an
air compressor when it's shaft is at
tached to another turbine and turn
ed in the reverse direction has caused
some speculation as to the efficiency
of such a method of compression. the
original steam turbine or other high
speed machine being coupled direct to
the air turbine. The turbine is very
similar to the steam turbine. which
usually consists of alternate rows of
moving blades and guide blades and is
driven at a high speed. Each row
of blades increases the pressure and
gives a perfectly steady blast.
in Berlin liquid air is now being
delivered to customers at the rate of
half gallon for about Is. cd. Accord
ing to the Energie, published in that
city, the receptacles are made of glass
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space between the walls being filled
with nom conductive material and the
external surface silvered to prevent
radiation. One of the most fortunate
circumstances which the researches of
Dewar and others have brought out is
that glass will endure such remarkable
differences of temperature between
the liquid air within and the common
air without, amounting to several
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little from brittleness. Several minor
industries are carried on in which liq-
uid air at Is. to Is. gallon would be
an economic commodity.
The cowboy is gone from Indian
Territory. Allotment has practically
broken up the cattle business in the
Indian Territory, and this year there
will be almost a total absence of the
big herds which have for years grazed
the rich grasses of Indian Territory
The Indian agent states that there
seems to be no move whatever on the
part of cattlemen to take grazing
leases this year, and there will be
none. Leases of this kind cannot be
made for a period longer than one
year, and as most of the allotments
are being fenced the COW man cannot
longer handle his cattle under the old
have taken the place of the Texas
ranger, and the herds have been
broken up into small punches, owned
and cared for by the farmers.
According to an old Breton custom
all the marriages of the year take
place on one day. and recently at
Plougastel no fewer than twenty-three
couples were, at one time, joined in
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last few weeks the region has been in
a wonderful state of effervescence.
After the legal wedding has been per-
formed the couples take their stand in
a row behind the high altar of the
church, and behind them sit their IA
theirs and mothers, and so do their
cousins and their uncles and their
aunts, all arrayed in their brightest
colored raiment and the whitest and
stiffest of coiffes. The scene in the
church is picturesque beyond descrip-
ton. They go through the ceremony
in unison. The moral support it must
give to the timidest bridegroom!
The researches of Prof. Kohirausch
seem to prove that radium rays have
certain effect in increasing the electri-
cal conductiVity of water, says the
Electrical Review. The experiments
were carried out with rays which were
emitted by a bromide of radium and
barium which after passing through an
aluminium screen of OF millimeter,
were sent through a layer of water IS
thick. The water must be
kept under action of the rays for some
time in order to observe an appreciable
effect, but after a certain time it is
found that the electrical conductiVity
of the water is increased. To account
for this phenomenon two different
hypothesis have been advanced; first.
that of a direct formation of ions in the
liquid. and, second. the action of the
rays on the glass of the containing YES
sci.
To properly dress a wound is not
an easy thing, and the process is com
plicated and may be costly when the
dressing has to be renewed every day.
There are none of those objections,
says Public Opinion translation from
a French paper, however, in the meth
cd of DR.. Reboul. for whether the
dressing is to be applied to recent
cut or to an liberated tumor, sheet
of silver or silVer-leaf is all that is
necessary. The silver is simply placed
on the wound or ulcer, and as it sticks
closely to the surface a little cotton
soaked in collodion is sufficient to keep
1T in place. The effects of this sheet
OF silver are very remarkable. Where
the wound is a recent one and not
with microbes, the |
wound quickly heals under the infiu-
ence of the silver, without infiamma-
ton or suppuration and without pre-
senting the slightest bad symptom. !
conditions are just as favorable in |