The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-12
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10 represent the state"
BETWEEN 1900 and 10000 children are now
lost in London every year. but nearly 9s per
cent of them are restored to their parents
| through the aid Of the police.
a NEGRO testified in st. Louis police court
the other day that while he had good clothes to
| wear he preached the gospel, but as soon es his
clothes wore out and his money ran low he went
| to work as day laborer.
MRS ToDD LATTE of Bronson, Mich, who has
been totally blind for fifteen years, suddenly re-
gained her eyesight few days ago. The first
| person she saw was her daughter, and she ex-
cialmed Ny, how you have grown"
IN CONSEQUENCE of the decline IN the supply
of gum arabic the postof1ce department has
been obliged to abandon its use as a sealer of
| letter envelopes. In lieu of gum arabic a foul
tasting compound has been substituted.
The EVIL EFFECTS of an atmosphere sur
charged with dust, in factories. have been at
tracing so much attention in England that the
factory acts are about to be amended, aud a
OH IS TO be brought before the House of Com
mons COMPRISING effectual means of pre-
venting injury from the inhalation.of dust
THERE are more miles of railway in the Ans.
tralian colonies in proportion to the population
| than in any other country in the world. with
the single exception of the United States The
total cost Of construction of the Australian
railways Is estimated at eS5. SOB 21o the average
cost per mile for several years being about
60 102. sra SoT =
BELLNus PIANO, on which he composed his
earliest operas. has just been found in the pos
session of widow lady Of ,Catapia, whose hus-
band bought it for 8lA1TS TThe Tananians
nave petitioned the owner ore seatthe piano
to the town, Bellini's birtnpiats, 1fiat the relic
ol tnelr townsnan may be preserved as a SOU
venlr, and not pass into careless hands.
TIE TELEPHONE BELL rang suddenly in the
Elysee the otter day just as President Carnot
and the cabinet ministers were assembling in
council. Anoffical put his ear to the tube aud
| neard an unknown person ask if he were in
communication with the Elysee, as if he had an
important y: declaration to make. On being an
| sWered In the affirmative, the unknown applied
nus mouth to the telephone and delivered the
| following message verbatim: ''Viye Boulangerl
You are all pack of robbers!"
AT Jackson, Mich, a butcher in the Central
market, in hanging out a quarter of beef, was
unable to let go for a time and then fell to the
walk. Several others who handled the meat
| were knocked down, and only one man who
had on rubbers, failed to be shocked Another
man touched one piece of the beef and laid his
nand on another, when he, too, fell to the walk
Inc cause was finally found in an electric wire
| communicating cnrrent to the iron market
| front, charging the meat with electricity
Two Akron young men, says paper of that
| city, one of whom is a thoroughly educated
matchmaker, have completed an electric clock
| which promises to revolutionize the clockmak-
| ing industry in this country. So far as can be
| learned this clock is the most simoly devised
| thing ever Invented and must not be confound-
| ed with the so-called electric clocks now made
| which are only self-winding and have a barrel
ana handspring. The Akron clock has neith-
or. and IN tact is so simple that little child
| can see into 1t. There are a few details vet re-
CURED, but in a short time complete and
elaborate description of it will be given.
| BOMB described as one of the real Chicago
| anarchistic" patters, was found among pine
| fittings in hardware store in Plymouth, Mass.
| the other day. 1t was made Of a piece of one
| inch iron gas pipe, and on each end were
| screwed pipe connections, which were in turn
plugged with iron screws. On opening it a.
small vial OF nitro-glycerine was found. No fuse
was used, as nitro-gycerIne explodeS from a
nard shock, and it was only piece Of good for
tune that the bomb had not exploded in the
rough handling it must have received while
with the pipe fittings. Nothing is known as to
how 1t got where it was found, but it is thought
| that it must have bee mixed with other IRON
ware before it was shipped from Boston.
kasIR WILLIAM THOMSON recently delivered a
| series of lectures on physics at Johns HOPKINS
university and the fashionable people of Balti
more set out to make them an event in social
intellectual circles. They understood that some
| mathematical training was necessary, but Sir
| William sailed right into the questions inyoly-
\ ing differential and integral calculus After he
| had filled blackboard with equations he turned
| and asked: DO YOU follow me?" A few min
utes later, in particularly difficult problem he
| mildly asked his audience if they saw anv mis-
| take to call his attention to it. He wondered
! why everybody smiled. Half dozen very stu
| dlous looSing men made up the audience at a
| second lecture
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Erenino
Post. in writing about the Paris exposition, saws:
| while was wandering among the machinery
| saw great crowd before Edisons exhibition
approached and saw the famous phonograph-
a little box, not bigger than a small musical
| box polite gentleman offered the ends of
two India rubber tubes to place in my ears
did SO, and immediately the noise of the engines
of the great hall ceased to be perceptible and
heard instead march played by brass band
| as clearly as if it had been behind my back.
| This march, said the gentleman to me- was
played four months ago in New York. The
| monograph is one of the greatest successes of
| the exhibition. Everybody is amazed by it
those who do not understand it, and may add
| also those who do understand it. 1t is simply
miraculous"
| DR.. HANSEN gives this further information
| about his journey across the Greenland ice:
| ION Sept. a severe snow storm nearly over
turned our tent, and on the next day we were
| overtaken by an awful drift. The tent was
| completely buried, and we had to dig it out. On
| Sept. 10 there was again favorable wind and
4 we dashed the sledgeS together, and as we used
the sails. it was unnecessary to pull We held
I
| we ratified down the slope at a splendid rate II
| was the p.eaSantest skating | ever had in INV
! life. The same afternoon we sighted the first
| hilltop the western coast It was already
| dusk when we noticed a dark object ahead and
rushing on we discovered fearful creyice
| which brought to a sudden stop II was
| high time; we were already on the very edge
and in two seconds more we should have hee1
| swallowed up III the bottomleSs abyss Wecame
across several more, and in spite of the greatest
; care, we had other hairbreadth escapes once
| we were within an ace of destrution through a
! snow bridge falling
| FROM New England comes the idea of applv
| ing the drop-a-nickel principle to the telephone
| The person who wants to send local messages
occasionally, but does not care to become a
regular subscriber, wil be privileged to stop at
any of several kioskS or sentry boxes distributed
| slot and open a door admitting him to the
| mouthpiece of-e telephone through which he
! can communicate with@shis friends at will or
| send order to'hfs grocer, or engage a seat at
| the theaterfcr Intervening performance. But
| is it not odd that with all the public conyen
| fences fostered by the nckel-and-slot device
| nobody seems yet to have thought of a scheme
| for furnishing the customer with change of the
4 right size? 1t is not everybod who has nickel
| in his pocket whenever he wants to use one of
| these slot-boxes. Why should not each box.
| therefore, have one supplementary to it, which
| on receiving q dollar or a half-dollar or a
| quarter will shoot out an envelope CONTAINING
| the equivalent in small change? Here is a
| chance for some inventive genius