The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW LONDON, Conn, FAMILY owns parrot
| said to be 80 years old.
A SLIP of ivy, taken from French castle at
Eau. has been secured by the Yale College
students of 'e5 for planting on their class day
KAISER FREDERICK said, in accepting honor
airy membership in the academy of legal
| sciences at Madrid, The first task Of the legs-
iator is to procure equal rights for all
REV. GEORGE SCHWARTZ, Of Jeffersonville,
Ind, is the oldest Methodist preacher in that
state. He was licensed to preach sixty-six
years ago, when young man OF y, ana was
married the same year. Ills wife is still living,
and both are vigorous.
BIG SPIDER was placed on a rock in the
center of an aquarium in a recent experiment,
and larva of a water beetle put near. The
beetle promptly seized the spi Ter and pulled it
into the water, but after sharp struggle the
spider broke away and escaped. The beetle
soon afterward renewed the attack and faS-
tened itself on the spider by its pincers. The
spider also got a good hold, and the duel re-
suited in the death of both. It is said that if
two of the larvae are placed III the same aqua
rum they will fight until one or the other is
dead, and the victor will decaptate the dead
one
If any one wants to believe this story there is
no objection, though it is very improbable
one but as you never can tell what a Boston
retiring at night, found a rat in her room. She
! closed the door and started in wild pursuit Of
| the creature about the room. She was just
about to deal it a crushing blow with the French
heel of her shoe when the rat took refuge in the
| spring of her bed, quite out of her reach.
We'll, said she, II guess after this experience
he will stay where he has found he is safe. y
| And then she went TRANQUILITY to bed and slept
| all night. and in the morning she got O terrier
| at neighbours, and the dog ferreted out the rat
| and killed it.
The bridges over the Tay and the Forth in
| Scotland have attracted much attention as
| engineering works, the first named viaduct being
notable as the largest bridge in the world; it is
only one Ink in the line of northern travel. The
| second, or Forth bridge, from north to south
| Queenstown and which is scarcely less i'm
portant, will have the distinction of being made
| of steel throughout its entire length of more
than 5000 feet, and, when completed according
| to the last and admirable design of its project
| orS, will be one of the greatest marvels OF
| engineering construction which Europe can
| show. The island Of lnchgarve, in the middle
| of the arm of the sea which it crosses, enables
the bridge to be in four spans, only two of which
are over water; these two principal spans are
| each of about LOO feet, and the height above
| the sea of each of them is 200 feet, all of the
| most massive masonry.
| The Popular Science Monthly describes g
! curious and ingenious device called THE Echo
! Maker to be used on ships at sea. A fiarng
| tunnel Is screwed 10 the muZzeof q rifle Nnen
a supposed obstacle is near the vessel, the rifle
Is fired in its direction, and if the obstacle is
| there the beam of sound projected through the
| funnel strikes the obstacle and rebounds, and as
the echo is more or less perfect in proportion as
| the obstacle ia more or less parallel to the ship
| from which the gun is fired, and as it is near or
| remote, the position of the obstacle may be- in
| ferred. The inventor claims that a sharp sound
| projected ut or nearly at an object, and only
when so directed, will in every case return some
| OF the sound sent, SO that, theoretically, there
will always be an echo, and the difference in the
| time between the sound sent and the echo will
| indicate the renoteness of the object. The
naval board tried the echo maker and found that
a return sound could be heard from the side of a
| fort half a mile away; from passing steamers a
| quarter of a mile off if broadside to; from
bluffs and sails of vessels at about the same dis
| lance, and from spar buoys 200 yards away.