Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ELECTRICITY is now used to record the
weights indicated upon scales or steelyards,
he application bel especially designed for
the weighing OF freight cars while In motion.
A2-YEAR-oLD Waterbury miss, who this
year saw cherry blossoms for the first time
since she could express thought in language
and begin 10 drop her ''gossamer links with
/ some ther world, eXclaime : "Oh, mamma,
sec the popcorns for the brides"
A SAILING SHIP, with 80, 90 pounds OF
powder for the ordinance for the new war
ships, arrived at New York Monday. The
! powder was made in Germany, but the naval
| officers say tina they have got something bet
! ter yet which they will soon be ready 10
! make,
AT Mexican bull fight just across the Rio
Grande from Brownsville one of the bulls
| broke through the enclosure and began climb
ng ny the benches. Women screamed and
tainted, men scrambled to get out of the way.
and general fuslade began. every man near
enough popping away at the bull, who sue
cumbed with thirty bullets IN his body.
THE International Literary and Artistic
Association will not hold its next congress at
Stockholm this year, as had been arranged,
but at Geneva. on Sept. II. The subjects 10
be discussed will comprise the right o. prop
erty in ''iettres missives"; the agreements as
To publication. and the relations between au-
thors an publishers; the right of property in
the titles of literary and scientific produc-
lions; and the assimilation of the right OF
translation with that OF production.
THE American Architect says: 1.-THE South
ern pine seems to be the natural habitation in
this country of the ci'ae1 lectuIdrius, or bed
bug, which is found in immense numbers un-
der the bark of old trees of that species. If
the wood contains natural clefts, the insects
ana their eggs remain IN these after saving,
and are Often carried in that way in the seams
Z Tflh ia To hgiil I'M / il
noticing that living trees of yellow pine some
times keeps houses near them infested with
the yermln, which stray in all directions from
their home"
WRITER in Mr.. Labouchere's Truth tLon-
dom pronounces Mrs. r. Ogden Dcremus, of
New York, ''the most astoundingly fne-look-
ing and attractive woman" she ever met, aud
wakes most enthusiastic over her hair, which
NJ. Auguste, the leading Paris hairdresser,
wa badly fooled by. He was cal ed in to
d. ess it,. II shall take the liberty" said he,
''of remarkiDg that Madame has charming
little face, but the load of hair she wears
doesn't SUIT it.. It's ridiculous TO crowd on
false bralds to that extent" And then as he
let down coil after col and found that every
har grew straight out from the scalp he
fairly gasped with wonder.
OHA MORNING train from Chicago, the
other day, was the family of Sala-
thiel Burke, Canadian farmer, consisting
is tall. handsome man, aged 80 years, and
MS wife Is pleasant, robust woman OF IS
years. They have Jour pairs of twins and
ons single baby as . result of thirteen years
OF married life. The oldest pair are boys,
aged IL, next girls aged 9. then boys of [. AMI
the last PAIR girls of 1. The baby is a girl and
doubtless feels lonesome. Mr.. Burke spent
all HIS money reaching Chicago, but friends
an curious passengers assisted him and pro-
vided for the temporal wants of his family,
and they arrived at Neoga, I'll, safely. Mrs.
Burke's father Is farmer, residing near
Neoga. and they Will be given place on his
farm.
THE Brooklyn churches are in the usual
hot wafer on the question whether the Uni
tartan and Universalist Sunday schools shall
be permitted to participate in the annual pro-
cession and festival of tho Sunday School
Union, which comes OFF this week. The ortEo-
dox element has always strenuOusy resisted
afiii1tlOn with these bodies, but in all the
churches here is at the same time a sentiment
among the more liberal in favor of relaxing
the prohibition, which seems to grow stronger
and stron. er every year, and which may ulti-
mately win the day. Perhaps the most zeal
Gus and outspoken exponent OF this
sentiment is the pastor of Plymouth
church, who declares: 1.-The whole thing
is most cOntem ptible from human
standpoint, and Internally disgraceful from
the standpoint of Christianity, and the
Christian churches, which are nearer to-day
than ever before. 1t is a foul blot on the
escutcheon of the Brooklyn churches. Under
the pretence of orthodoxy, 1t is the essence of
damnation and the devil" The High Church
Episcopalians keep alOof from the celebration
almost as rlgidly as the Roman Catholics, but
none of the orthodox brethren appear 10 con-
sder it a hardship that they are thu dis
eliminated against "as if for conscience sake"
A SAW WITHOUT TEETH, that will cut steel
rail in two minutes. is in operation at the
Central Hudson shops in Greenbush, n. Y,
The saw is run by go horse power engine,
more power than is required to run ali the
other machinery IN the shops, and Is IS inches
in diameter, and three -eighths of an inch
thick at the edge. The disc is made of Be.se
mer steel, and runs at a very high rate of
sp ed. While in operation a band of fire en-
circles the saw. and the many sparks fying
from the revolving disc resemb displa az of
pyrotechnics. To keep the saw cool and pre-
vent It from cracking, a tank of water is
placed above the machine, from which a small
stream runs down and drops on the saw while
in motion. By this plan one saw will cut
nearly 3.001 rails before it is worn out
steel rail, after about six years constant use,
becomes altered at the ends, and by cutting
them off the rails can be used in branch and
swift h tracks. Rails ore cut by this machine
for the whole line of the Central Hudson rail-
road. The saw, while cutting. bears down
hard on the rail, the end of which IS left a
smooth "a the bottom of a flatlron. One re-
markab thing about the mach ne is that the
chips cut from the rail fly back under the saw
with such force as {, form a solid piece Of
steel nearly as firm as the rail itself.
The Bright family seems to be all split I'D
on the home rule question. The great demo-
cratic orator is himself opposed to Mr.. Glad
stones bill, so is his brother-in-law. Mr.
Leatham, but bis son, Leatham Bright. and
his sOn-in law, Mr.. McLaren, who are b IN
in Parliament. propose to follow Mr. Glad
stone and to speak in favor OF home rule. Mr..
Bright's brother Jacob. who represented Man
chester in the last Parliament, and who vas
defeated for reelection by he Irish vote. also
supports Mr.. & ad5tOne. magndnimouslv for
giving he irish for their ingratitude. He
presided at one OF the Gladstone home rule
meetings recently, ana maze an eloquent
speech in favor Of nome rule. The Irish mem
bers of Parliament attribute Mr.. Bright's hos-
tlity to home rule now to his personal dislike
to some of the Parnelites. They have been
rather ungraciOus TO him. r. T.. O'Connor
has writ en- severe things about him in his
two recently published books, Justin McCar-
thy has repu mated his friendship and Mr.
Sexton has referred to him as an ''extinct
Volcano" Mr.. Bright is growing very old.
and these taunls and gbes have irritated him
very much lie was friend of the irish
when few Engiishmen dared TO he their
friends. He might have been forgiven for
some votes in favor Of what he deemed 10 he
necessary repressive measures after me
Phoenix Park murders. MIR Claus one intro
duced these measures. He now shares with
Mr.. Parne the enthusiastic admiration 81
the Irish Celts.
WEEK or two ago a singular occurrence
transpred at the wood camp on Wolf Creek,