The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

he Vulcan is floating workshop of $3.50
tons; just launcsed IN England. This nam
| ihoth IS 10 accompany British feet.
The price OF e1neralds and rubies is increas
ing from year to year. Diamonds and white
| pearls are not getting dearer Black pearls
Ldve oeen increasing steadily IN price for the
last Tour or five years-n fact, il Is almost i'm
possible 70 supply the demand for them.
| JOSEPH STRONG, man OF 30, confessed on his
| dying bed in New York hospital the other day
that he had been married sixteen different times
IN the last seven ye RS and that he believed all
/ ms wives to bs living He wanted to live TO
make them all happy. ne said, but death claimed
| him for its OWE ---..---.
The number OF locomotives in the United
states, says railway authority, is now over
/ 1900 20 which Canada and Mexico can add
| ABOUT $500, making the total numoer on the
NoIth American continent not far from
! 5Z'5OO The average number of locomotives
/ per nile or road Ii the United States is about
WHALES are reported unusually numerous
along the Maine shore. A Boston steamer cap
tam says that on a late trip it looked as if the
boat were running into bed of rocks over
winch the sea was breaking. The rocks were
whales, and the monsters were resting on the
water apparently unconscious of the nearness
OF the boat.
CURIOUS EXHIBITION Of portraits. more than
|
Ihere are paintings which once ornamented
Egyptian burial places and which have been
admirably preserved by the dry sand. They
GATE from the Greek epoch in Egypt There
are more than 100 Of these portraits, which give
an accurate idea of all the types, the costumes,
mar dressing, etc. of the time
QUITE a number of large buildings have been
built IN eastern cities with hollow bricks. They
are SAID TO stand the same pressure. up to 3d.
NY pounds, that the best solid brick will land.
Ihey cost onethird less than the solid
IorIn' and make the walls proof against fire.
mos ure and frost. being warm in winter and
cool IN summer The bricks are set on end
thus making wall hollow from top to bottom.
Two YOUNG CoUNTEssEs, Marie and Theresa
Frangipania started early in June on a walk
ing tour from Udme to Vieana The distance
Is nearly 400 miles, and the arstocratic lady pc
destrlans accomplished the journey in about len
days and arrived at Vienna in excellent health
Ihey thus averaged nearly forty miles per day
and on three of the ten days their walking had
10 be done in stormy weather amid constant
downpour of rain.
Who invented spectacless To this question
an answer has been given by the Italians in
favor of one of themselves. In Florence. in a
H'tle street, memorable tablet has been in
serted IN the facade Of one of the houses and
oedIs the following incrption: ITO honor the
memory OF SalvlnO degli Armati, inventor of
SPectacles IN the thirteenth century, the Guild
OF ARTISANS, on the spot once occupied by the
houses OF the Armati placed this tablet
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT occurred at Birmingham
England, lately during an International cycling
| tournament in the presence of about 10 900
spectators. In the last lap of a fiye-mie bicycle
| scratch race, one competitor in irving to get
| 10 the front, caught the wheel of another rider
and overthrow him. Four other bicyclists were
also flung headlong on the track. One of them
sustained adlslocation OF the collarbone, and the
Others met with severe bruises and decorations,
temporarily disabling them.
MAN named Robert Brown is credited with
having recently killed a bear in a peculiar way
when about five miles from Fdgewood Y Y
The animal was feeding on some berries when
brown first saw it. Taking off his coat the
hunter crept Stealthily up to within "thrOWino,'
distance when he covered the brute's head and
race with garment. Before Bruin could free
itself from the unwelcome covering Brown had
got close enough to get his fingers around its
throat. He squeezed hard, and the bear slowly
but surely succumbed to the killing pressure
and fell dead at the hunters feet. SO goes the
story.
AT the Empire Theater, London. the other
evening, curtain on the stage caught fire. A
ring Of flame was seen to spread RAPIDLY. and
some of the audience at the back of the nit
took alarm, and amid cries of Fire - made
for the exits. hose was at once brought into
service, however, and the flames were almost
lnstantaneously extinguished. The panic was
only momentary and the shouts of the more
self possessed of the "pittites'' brought the few
who mad rushed to the doors back again After
brief interval the performance was resumed,
amid the applause of the audience which had
quite regained its confidence.
AMONG the many congresses to be held dur
ing the Paris exposition there will be one on
athletic education, and its promoters have ad-
dressed circular to the heads of English
schools and seminarieS. NJ. Jules Simon and
those who signed with him, recognizing the de-
hclency OF athletic exercise among the French
{ M Itch C1,l1.O IL
the congress or to answer certain questions For
example. the head master is as ed to enumer
ate the games played at the school and give the
chief rules. How many hours do the bows NAV
day or a week? What percentage attend
gymnastics, fencing, military drill, rowing
bicycling? Are the boys allowed to form spo. F.
ing associations? The French nation seems to
De IN earnest about making its young men 70 to
the cricket grounds for their exercise instead of
to the boulevards.
The Arabs of City Hall park, New York, have
new game They set their hats up slantingly
against the edge of walk and the one who is
1t, standing off ten feet, tries 60 roll ball
into one of the hats. If he doesn't succeed ne
tries again, Whom the ball rolls into a hat and
stays there the owner of the hat has to grab the
Dali and throw 1t at some other one of the NAV
erS, all OF whom started to run away as soon as
they saw the ball 90 into the hat If the ball
hltS player he must be it" If it doesn't hit
player then the one who threw it must stand
up. facing tree, and let each of the others
throw the ball at him once, as hard as they
please If the unfortunate PLAYER is ponuIor
this penalty is merely formal, each one takinp
the ball, saying, "Oh, don't want to hit him 3
and passing it to the next If the gamin is nm
popular the other fellows don't spare him nj
all, and the ball being a hard one. his fate iS
not easy. There is also a score kept bv tossing
a leaf into some particular hat at some particn
lar event In the game, but no one EXCEPT the
boys has yet been able to fathom tie mysterv
OF this part of the entertainment,
IT may be news to some Americans. even
though they know that peaches are COMMONLY
cultivated under glass in England, to be told
that cherries are also grown in this mann or
A correspondent recently described the cherry
house at Gunnersbury park, where many differ
ent varieties afford fruit at different times dur
ing the season. When the tire IS are started
into growth, he says, "a temperature of 45o nv
day and 400 by night IS maintained When they
are in Hover plenty of air is given, and the baes
are encouraged TO work among the blossoms as
much as possible. Scarcely any fire heat is
employed; indeed, 1t has been EMPLOYED only
once or twice 10 order to keep out frost At
the time OF towering plenty OF ventilation is
given top and bottom As soon as the fruit has
set the house is closed up somewhat and the
temperature kept quite cool until the stoning
process Is over, then it is kept little closer as
when the fruit has stoned it ripenS quickly IT.
Is little difficult to thin out the fruit previous
TO the Stonlug stage, as it is uncertain which
fruit VIII mature and which fail A good water
Ing is given TO the trees before they get into
flower, and then water. is applied with modera-