The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


leading industries in Missouri. the an
nual income being estimated at over
S1O,000.O00.
Considerable interest has been
aroused in this country by the publ
cation of the French method of pro-
ducing alcohol from calcium carbide.
The idea is by no means new. There
are two simple processes by means of
which this can be done. One OF these
is that practiced by Col. j. Cotton
Lynes, who first used it nine years
ago. According to calculations made
by Col. Lynes pure alcohol can be pro-
duced by this process at a cost of 10
cents gallon.
DIR. Woods Hutchinson, in a recent
article in the Contemporary Review,
said that if he had to choose between
a play ground without a school and
school without a playground, he would
choose the playground without the
school. Play-and this is a physiologi-
cal as well as a pedagogical fact-de-
velops the brain as we'll as the body,
the judgment as we'll as the muscles,
morals as well as physique. The I'LL
nois Legislature of 1901 authorized the
Board of Education to condemn land
for Fairgrounds in connection with
schools.
AS the result of Investigations
made in England, Prof. Karl Pearson
claims that, as a rule, ability, probity,
geniality and other psychical charac-
teristics are inherited from parents,
just as truly as physical characteristics
are. He concludes, therefore, that in
telligence may be trained and aided by
education, but that schooling cannot
create it. 1t is a product of breeding,
and no nation that finds itself fall
ing behind in the intellectual race can
save itself through educational ma
chinery. It must go back of the
schools and look out for the quality of
its human stock.
One of the greatest spheres of use
fulness of the electric-lifting magnet,
now in use in steel works in Cleveland
and Chicago, according to the Elec-
trical Review, is its application to
moving and handling bulky material
of such size and shape as to render
difficult its transportation by any other
method. Thus in rolling mills a COM
bination of magnets will easily han
die steel plate forty-two feet long,
eight feet wide by half an inch thick,
and will do it at time when the
plate is so hot that it could be ham
died only with difficulty and danger
were it necessary for workmen to ad-
just chains with which to lift it.
Mr.. James Swinburne, in his ad-
dress before the members of the Lon
don Institute of Electrical Engineers,
refers to the electrolytic methods of
obtaining metallic sodium. He pre-
diets that in a few years this metal
would be sold for few pounds per
ton and that such a reduction in the
price would revolutionize many chem
ical processes. The chemical value of
sodium lies in it's great chemical affin-
ity for oxygen and the halogens. There
are few metals which can retain these
elements in presence of sodium, and
therefore cheap metallic sodium would
place a remarkable effective reducing
agent in the hands of the metallur-
gist.
Two capital errors in the training
of children frequently come to notice;
errors that prepare the little unfortu-
nate for nervousness or fairly drive
him into it. They are, first, leading
the child into pleasures and duties be-
yond his years; second, magnifying his
Importance in the family and society
1t is quite as dangerous to give to
children the pleasures of adults as to
require of them the labors of the
mature. In the beginning the fault
generally lies in mixture of vanity
and ignorance on the part of parents
They wish their children to excel in
attainment and they like to see them
INDUCING in all the pleasures and ex-
elements of our complex social exist
ence.
America is not alone in having a.
contest between native and exotic
names. The veteran Australian novel
lst' Rolf Boldrewood, who is now in
his 18th year, discusses in a recent ar
tlcle the best site for d, capital. and
declares for Tumut, a hill resort. which
ne calls the prettiest town in Australia
But he thinks that it's name, which,
by the way, is pronounced Toomat, is
impossible, and suggests for a substi-
tute wentworth. as a compliment to
the late William Charles Wentworth.
the earliest, the greatest, the most
brilliant of native-born Australian pa
triots." But has Australia any patri-
OTIS? asks the Springfield Republican.
The common theory is that patriotism
can only be demonstrated in war.
An absolutely noiseless car wheel
has been invented by Romeo B. Tom
massak, who was for ten years chief
engineer OF the Third Avenue Railway
system, and Isidore H. Samplers, both
of New York. They assert that their
invention entirely does away with the
noises from the surface and elevated
cars; that it will keep the wheels from
slipping on the rails. In connection
with new brake, also invented by
these gentlemen, it Will be made pos
sible to stop cars much easier than
with the present wheels. They will
also be less expensive than the wheels
now in use. These new wheels are
now undergoing an investigation by
President Maher, of the Union Railway
Company, of New York city, and will
be adopted if they prove to be all that
are claimed for them.
No Chinese representative of the
healing art has ever dissected any por
ton of the human frame, says Amer
lean Medicine. Accordingly their ideas
of anatomy and physiology are mat
tiers of faith-confirmed by images
which have been reproduced during nm
told centuries. Their osteology teaches
that the skull is formed of one hone.
so is the pelvis; the number of ribs
varies with the individual. and at the
junction of the arm with the forearm
Is placed a cubital patella. According
to Chinese splanchology, the small in
testine communicates with the cavity
OF the heart, while the colon, after de-
scr1blng sixteen circumvolutious. fer
inmates by opening into the lung. The
heart governs the vital processes-in CO.
operation with the cavity of the stom-
ach it supplies all ideas and all pleas