The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-19

too; all very happy and contented to-
gether.
In Japan the good wife is always
| dressed before her husband in the
morning. Then, immaculate in attire
and smiling in countenance, she must,
| if there are not the necessary serV-
ants, perform the part of valet. First
| she brings a tray with pipe, tobacco
and matches; then later. still smiling,
a cup of tea and the morning paper
to solace her lord till time for him 20
| dress for breakfast. At his toilet she
also assists, and when breakfast is over
| she speeds him, with more smiles, on
his way to office or shop.
A physicist of Frankfort has found
that alloys of nickel and steel may be
made which have a negative tempera-
| ture coefficient of expansion. By OBJ
| tanning suitable proportions of the two
metals the coefficient may be reduced
| to zero, and it is thought that this ma
| terial will be of considerable impor
| lance in the construction Of scientlf1c
| Instruments, particularly measuring
| instruments for hot climates. 1t may
also be found useful in chronometers,
a pendulum made of this material re-
| quiring no equalizing attachments.
"A rail is adjusted to the track of
the car parallel with the axle so that
| it is in a position across, and about
| an inch above, the rails says tech
| meal journal in an article on derailing.
| Should a derailment of the wheels
| take place, these cross rails will lie
upon the rails of the track without
| letting the wheels touch the ground.
| The car will then drag along upon
| IL he
whole train. In order to break the
force of the settling of the car as
much as possible, the cross rails are
| so adjusted that they are as near as
| possible to the rails of the track, and
are, in addition, supplied with projec-
| lions underneath for the purpose of
| preventing the car from leaving the
| track.
| Steam hosting engines, owing to
| their intermittent action, consume an
undue amount of coal for the work
actually performed. And to this fuel
| loss, arising from the necessity Of
| keeping up steam pressure, though the
| engine may be working only one-tenth
| of time, must be added the further
| loss of heat by constant radiation from
the boiler and engine. With an engine
| operated by kerosene or gasoline, how
| ever, fuel is only consumed when the
engine is in operation, thus saving in
| fuel, and there is no delay in firing
| up as in the usual type of boiler and
steam engine. For these reasons there
| seems to be a promising field of use
| fulness for the kerosene and gasoline
| engine for contract work, and scores
| Of concrete mixers are now driven by
oil engines, the earlier types being now
| so improved that they are excellently
| adapted for intermittent work
speaking of the many curious
things connected with the number thir-
teen reminds me of a clock which has
been in my family now for some time"
said an observant man, according to
| the New Orleans Times Dernocra
and the thing 1 have in mind has
| gone far toward making me believe
| that there is something in the claim
that thirteen is an unlucky number.
| The clock in question is of the cuckoo
variety. If the thing had not hap
pened in such regular order l would
have paid no attention to it. But
it has been happening once every
month regularly from the very time
we introduced the aforesaid clock into
| the family circle. And it always hap
pens on the 18th of the month. My
clock lays off. if l may say it, once
every month. I refuses to work on
that day which is associated with un-
| lucky things. Somehow it seems to
know that thirteen is an unlucky num-
ber."
Some idea of the state of Texas
may be formed with the aid of few
statistics, says the Courier Journal.
| It's extreme length is 620 and its
breadth 765 miles, comprising an area
| of 265,780 square miles. It has 243 coun-
| ties, 19,500,000 acres of improved farm
ing land, and farm property of the
| value of 1852, 000 The number of
It's farms is S52,10O. Its population as
| shown by the last census was 3,O4S TO
being in point of numbers the sixth
state in the union. Those which ex-
| coed it are New York, Pennsylvania.
| Ohio Missouri and Illinois, whose ag-
gregate population is 1856, 1859. yet
their total area is only 262, 010 square
miles. This is less by $40 square miles
than Texas, which would not he
equalized were Connecticut and Rhode
Island thrown in. If the population Of
| Texas were as great to the SQUARE mile
| as New York's it would be AZ. 59S. 39O
or nearly twice that of the five states
mentioned.
Apart from track and traffic con-
siderations, says the Railway Age. the
principal thing which is interfering
with the increase in speed of nassau
| ger trains in the United States is tha
| excessive weight of both locomotives
and cars and the marked tendency,
! to make them heavier. Recent Anoeri-
can passenger locomotives with fo,,r
| drivers weigh 95 tons and the Ioadsd
! tender rs tons, making a total of 17o
| tons. The total resistance of the en-
| CINE and tender alone on level az en-
miles an hour is equal to a drawba r
pull of S,100 pounds, requiring an ex-
penditure of 800 horsepower to over
come it, and at this speed there re-
mains at the drawbar a tractive mower
OF only $500 pounds for useful work
| in hauling the train. At 10 miles ar
! hour the calculated power at the drauv-
bar is 5000 pounds. The heaviest nas-
senger work at high speed on British
| or French roads is represented nv a
dynamometer drawbar pull of 5000
pounds at 70 miles an hour, but this
work is performed by an engine weigh-
ing % tons ana total weight with ten =
der OF 10 tons, or 80 per cent. less than
the weight OF the American engine a.
above stated. The American train Al
made up OF cars 70 feet long. weigh
| ing 50 70 80 tons, an average exnres.
train weighing $50 tons. The Fns,ssl,
coaches with f0ur-wheel trucks vseieb
only 30 tons, and the heaviest sin,s,.
ana sleeping cars weigh as tons vvbo,,
we attempt 10 run passenger fratns ~
anything like the fast Scheduled h, 49,.
IN England and France II win h. ne
essary 70 reduce the weight ~ al,
/ trains ana "a nae s,arre -e4f-fz-- -