The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SoME MEx who had lost an anchor near Line
kin. in the town OF Boorhbay, Ne, grappied for
il the other day and thought they had it,
Twenty men dragsed e ashore, and up on the
besch when their prize proved to be- not the
anchor, but the upper jaw OF whale. L was
IS feet long from the bow in front TO
either end joint, and y feet across from end
70 end.
GEORGE MOORE. the English Disciple Of Zola,
once had play at the Odeon, in Paris. and at
the same tins an adaptation of '-Othello-' was
beng re9earsed at the theater. He called one
morning and asked to see the ua~ager. ''Wha
name email ! give. monsieur:" demanded the
concierge Tell NJ POrell that the English
see him" The concierge went toward the man
aser room There is gentleman in toe hall
VINO tells me be is the English author whose
pay has just been accepted" he said to the
official Quite right answered the latter;
send him in. Monsieur Shakespeare. no
doubt"
BRADFORD NCGREGGoR, the Kentucky in
ventor. thinks he has arrangements almost made
BY which he will pass over the OHIO river and
thence TO Chicago without paying bridge toll or
rallroad fare. His scheme is to start from ths
roof OF his house and use his flying machine. He
mas been working on this machine for fifteen
years, and doubt RS may say. what they please,
but Mr. McGreggor, who isn't a crank, but a
combination of cogs, ratchvts, wings and things
70 make the machine work. Aluminium Is an
important factor in the construction OF the Nc
Oreggor airShip.
KANSAS DESERVES praise for more than the
farmers alliance. A Dickson county girl, aged
IS, drove a self binder over :. 200 acres and took
care Of the four horses that drew the machiue;
a Brown county girl looked after her fathers
grape crop a whole season, and did not ex-
pect or receive a cent OF toe 81 500 profit; a
Lincoln county girl got her father to give her
q farm OF eighty acres, which she taSeS care of
alone, and last year cleared 81 900, besides buy
Ing herself some stunning clothes; woman 90
years old has farmed near Eotawanka for many
years with continuous success, giving Literally
10 the Door, and never leaving the farm except
10 attend woman suffrage meeting There
are hundreds of bright girls in th.. western part
OF the state who have taken UP claims and lived
on them until they have received 4 ed for the
land. With this sort of spirit of independence
prevailing it is no wonder the state went back
on Ingalls,
GENERALLY SPEAKING, we say that the curva-
ture of the earth amounts to about seven
inches to the statute mile; more exactly, it is
o99 inches to the mile, or 1859 inches for
geographical mile. Any amount of artificial
assistance with optical in truments does not
make It possible FOR the eye to perceive the least
iota Of curvature even though the gaze is
directed from the highest eminence. This is
because the vision is not capable of comparing
Nights and distances The effect of the known
curvature of the globe may be illustrated in
the following manner: Take doSn your
GLOBE place book. pane of glass or even
a rule against it-sither of the two
ooJects hrst named being best adapted to such
an experiment; you will observe Instantly that
the book or pane only touches in one point, the
globes surface failing away in all directions
from the point Of contact. Now suppose the
ocean 8 surface to be calm and frozen and
sheet or glass many miles square laid upon it..
AT one mile from the place of contact tue glass
would stand out nearly eight inches this meas
ureInent being upon the ocean. the mile is a
nautical one), in fact. viii lack but .03S of an
inch of being eight inches from the pane at
three miles it will be six feet, at nine miles
htty-rour feet, and so on. The
number of feet Of depression is equal to two
thirds OF the square of the number of miles for
any observable distance. The atmosphere
plays an important part in estimating the visi-
oilty OF objects, on this account part of this
depression must be Cancelled to make good the
phenomenon of refracbion, which causes OBJ
lects or all kinds to appear higher than they
would II there were no atmosphere. Careful
measurem 'nts have shown that the error from
refraction averages more than one eventh of
monty USED for correction of curva-
ture and refraction is: Square the
numoer of miles and take four sevenhts of il
for the correction in feet. Thus If an object is
visible at distance of five miles we may know
that Its hight is at least 1414 feet. Or if the
height of visible object Is known-say 100
feet-take one-fourth OF this multiply by seven
and take the square root of the product (which
gives the distance of the object, in this ca
fraction of over thirteen miles. man swim
ming IN the ocean can perceive tower 200
Ieet high and nineteen miles away as a mere
speck of the horizon; bat il the man were -ele-
vated 100 feet above the surface of the water he
could plainly perceive tower 100 feet high at a
distance of twenty-siX miles,