The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| The technical school at Bradford England, is
| experimenting at painting by electric light,
which is derived from a Pilsen arc lamp and
passed through ground glass globe. 1t is said
| that colors can be selected as well as by day
light.
THE tomb of Maduc App Gryffyddmailor, a
warrior who made things torrid for the enemies
of Wales some seven centuries ago, has been dis
| covered at a ruined abbey in Langollen. No
traces of any more vowels than those given
| were found.
IT Is SAID that wealthy lady Of New York
has discarded the customary knife and fork
! from the table and substituted in the place of
these necessary dining implements fauciful dag
gers and miniature swords enriched with jewels
and fine art work.
| CARLYLE's HOUSE in Chelsea has for its present
| tenant Mrs. Cattelli a spiritualist who was
| Carlyle's next door neighbor for seventeen
| years, and she has with her Mrs. Catherine
| Jencken, one of the Fox sisters of former celeb
| rity as mediums i'll this country.
| ACCORDING to DIR. Erasmus Wilson. the great
| authority on hair, any one who is threatened
with badness if it has not made too much
| Roadway, can check the tendency by rubbing a
| little mixed vaseline and sulphur on the spot
at night and soak it with qulnine every morn
| ing.
| SOME disagreeabe facts appeared in the in
| vestigation Of labor matters by the royal COM
| mission in London. 1t was shown, among other
| things, that the magnificent embroidery of
Queen Vctoria'S carriage cushions had been
| worked by cripple living i'll garnet, and paid
barely sufficient to keep off starvation
| c. A. PAILLARD of Geneva, Switzerland, after
| fourteen years of experiment, has determined
| that the alloy of pal album is non-magnetizable
| as used in watches. and is a satisfactory subst-
tute for the metals commonly used Only the
halrsprlng and compensation balance are made
OF this metal, and the cost of the watch is not
| increased.
DR.. GAMALEA and his colleagues of the Bacte-
biological station at Odessa, Russia, have become
| convinced that the cattle plague arises from the
presence of bacteria, and that the application of
the PaSteur system under slightly altered con-
dltions, would eventually prove ef6cacIous Ex-
| perlmentS that are about to be made are
| pected to give positive results.
| In the Philippine village of Antique the only
white men were priest and Spanish planter
| One day the native inhabitants decided to kill
| the priest, and attacked his bouss. The planter
| took a rifle and fifty cartridges and went to the
priests defense. He use up all his cartridges
| and made every enc kill man. Then the nat
ives, terror-stricken at the slaughter, fed,
| leaving their fifty dead on the grouud.
| AN enormous black snake, whose proportions
are said to rival those of museum anaconda
has been seen again in the swamp west of the
Mianus river. Conn. Farmer Mead lawmakers
| ran away at the approach of the reptile last
summer, and yesterday James r. Mead was
frightened almost out of his boots by the snakes
appearance. The reptile has enjoyed the free
| dom of the swamp for many years, and has at
| tanned the dimensions of lamp post.
| Miss ANNIE CRAWFORD, the pretty young
| daughter of the deputy collector of port of
New Orleans, received recently unique pres
ent, which is the source of envy TO her many
| friends Capt. Wallace, on hs-la voyage to
Mexico, secured it for the young lady. 1t is
nothing less than one of those much-talked-of
live beetles which are worn as ornaments. 1t
| has gold harness, worn over the national col
ors red green and blue. to which are attached
| gold chain and pin, which fasten the bug to
| the wearer S dress, where it roarnS at will. Rot
| ten cork and wood forms its diet.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM authorities have made a
rather startling discovery lately. Some time
ago they purchased magnificent marble bust
| of the Emperor Hadrian at a very reasonable
price. In natural pride they invited number
of distinguished foreigners to view it, and all
conceded that it was priceless treasure of an
| tique art. Among the spectators. however. was
member of the Greek diplomatic service. who
| instantly declared that he had seen the same
bust in the Royal museum at Athens. He noti-
| fled his government, and an investigation has
| followed, which reveals that not only the bust
| In question, but large number of the most
valuable specimens, have been stolen. Some
high Greek officials under Spicion, il being
| evident that the thefts have been carried on
| systematically for considerable time
1T is fashion for the photographers to say
when they wish to express wild western exag-
geration, that you can hear the corn grow in
such and such favored spot, but few of them
know, remarks the New York Commercial Ad-
UertiSer. that what they mean for a typical i'm
possibility is a bit of frozen fact. Corn upon
clean, rich ground just as it comes in tassel.
often grows fifteen inches in night, and all
over the field, no matter how breezeless the air.
you can hear, not russle, but quick, blurred
crackle as of the uprushing OF a million Jets of
spray with murm1rous overtone as of sweep
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through the softscented darkness of a late June
night can fail to recall it as among the most ex-
quisite harmonies of nature or to acknowledge
that there is close and wondrous sympathy
between plant life and that of what we call the
higher oganlsmS."
ACCORDING to an English paper, "the only
| place in which amber in paying quantities has
| been found is the Baltic sea, and the vein OK
tends from Western Russia to Denmark Nor
way and Sweden. Formerly the supply de-
pended on the storms. which tore up the amber
lying a. the bottom of the sea, and threw it on
shore but for twenty-five years past various
appliances have been used for obtaining it
cheaply and quickly. The most profitable strata
have been found in the vicinity of Mcneil, ami
there are twenty large dredging boats con-
stantly at work day ana night for eight months
of the year Further to the west the amber is
obtained by divers. Each diver has a little bag
round his neck and a peculiar hook, with
which he pulls up the sand, and every piece of
amber that he finds is thrown into the bag
sand in which it is found extends about thirty
miles inland"
APRoPos of the newspaper talk about the
smallest watch a resident of Brighton Eng
land, writes the New York Times, saying that
in the show window of one Funnel, a watch
maker of Brighton, there has been exhibited for
many years the smallest watch in the world
1T is a gold lever watch, measures only seven
sixteenths of an inch in diameter and one
eighth in thickness. It has ten holes jeweled
and five other ruby actions. goes twenty-eight
hours with ore winding and keeps time accu-
rately. 1t was first exhibited at the great ex-
hibtion in 1851 in II. p, Class TO- No. 26; also
in the Paris exhibition, class s. and for which
medals were awarded 1t is the exact size of
an English silver two-penny piece, special
coinage 1t took Mr.. Funnel, who de signed it,
five years to complete it. The bow which was
used for turning was made from the hair of his
wifes head. Mr. Funnel has also made second
miniature watch-a lever and ieweed through
out. 1t is exactly the size of an English three.
penny piece"
ABOUT YEAR AGO a young man, who pro-
fessed to be Cuban. became a boarder at the
home of a Brooklyn woman. He was polite
and apparently well-to-do, an excellent mu-
stefan, possessed of a sweet tenor voice. and
soon won the heart of his landlady's niece.
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