The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WoRKMES excavating near the Calcutta Gus
tom house recently came across an old iror
cannon, five feet long. which experts declare TO
have been one of those used on the ships OF the
| English fleet that bombarded the town after
the tragedy Of the Black Hole.
The American Iron and Steel Association has
aseertained that the total quantity Of Bessemar
steel rails made in the United States in 1889 by
works producing their own ingots was 1866, 23i
net tons, or 1861 56 gross tons, a gain of only
! dOS'Oi0 tross tons over the production of 1865
81 gross tons in 1888
The RIGID ENFORCEMENT Of the game laws in
the state of Massachusetts will at no late day
result IN restocking the nearly. devastated woods
which especially in the region from Plymouth
| TO the cape are magnificent. Already deer are
| seen sta king near Sandwich, and in few sea
sons quail and small game will again be plen-
| tiful.
TRIAL in the harbor of Portsmouth, Eng
land. recently showed that a modern torpedo
boat can mount any boom yet devised to pro-
tect roadstead or liarbor. The structure
| CeSted IL was supposed would instantly stop and
mold fast any boat attempting to pass il, but
the boat, driven at full speed went over it with
out difficulty or damage.
| VARIOUS ATTEMPTS have been made to account
for the marvellous influence which Stanley. the
African explorer. exerted over his Zanzibar
| followers, and also over all the natives with
| whom he was brought into contact during his
Trans, . African expeditions, but perhaps the
most feasible is that which attributes it to the pe
| cuilar expression of his eyes. One of his Euro.
| pean companions in his recent expedition has
| said that Stanley first looks at the natives as
| II ne were going to eat them, and then when
| tney give III and do what he wants he looks as
II he had done so, and was grateful TO them for
| the meal"
| The ARcHDUKE FRANCIS SALVADOR of Haps-
burg, Lorraine had made what the late John
| Brown would have defined as "a grand landing
ing In becoming engaged to the Archduchess
Valerie the youngest daughter of the Emperor
| FRANCES Joseph. At present the archduke has an
| allowance OK t5OO year from his father (who is
a half brother of the de jure Grand Duke Tus-
cany) and e. 900 year ''appanage" as a mum-
per OF the imperial family. The archduchess
| Will have dowry of $4,000 from he state and
| an allowance Of 929. 900 year from her father.
The marriage is to take place privately at IschI
| in August next.
The STEAMERS of the Transatlantic fleet of
the Norddoutscher Lloyd of Bremen have
traversed in the year 1889 the following dis
tances % on the line between Bremen and
New YORK, 726,O49 miles; ~ between Bremen
| and Baltimore, 30l, 34j miles; 81 between
| Bremen and South America, ISL 5l3 miles. az
| between Bremen and Eastern Asia, 30i 500
miles; 10 between Bremen and Australia.
34l aOO miles; 60 between Hong Kong and
| Japan, 442J0 miles; C) between Sidney aud
| samoa, 65,lO0 miles; (S) between Brindisi and
Port Said, 4S 800 miles, being a total of $40 067
| English miles, or ITO times the circumference of
| the earth.
THERE are now living in Washington a mar
ried couple Paul and Albina Hellnuth. who
were born at Baden, Germany, Feb. /, 1917.
within four miles of each other Even throu III
their childhood, playing in the streets of the
same town, they were strangers to each other
| In the course of events they came across the
ocean to the land of PROMISE aBd at different
| nafhG Fta6 fNAN oc
| met and loved. and welded Upon COMPARING
| notes to take out their marriage license thew
| discovered, TO their mutual surprise and graft
flcatlon, that they were not only natives of the
| same place, but reioiced in exactly the same
| ages to day.
| OF BIEDLER, the famous Montana scout who
| died recently, the ST. Paul Pioneer Press saws
that he was as intrepid as he was fertile of re-
source in danger One time at Miles City he
came out of the door of a saloon to find himself
within twenty inches of the muzzle of A.
| calber revolver, in the hand of a noted desne-
| RADIO, on whose trail the deputy marshal ha1
| Outlines camped. I'm going to blow the in
| nards out of your skull, you vgiante hound :"
quotn tne pad man. Not with that thing"
| SAID *" (the scouts pseudonynn), in a CONVEX
| Satlonal, but semi-querulouS tone. 1T ain {
| cooked. The bad man threw up the pistol to
| see IT Biedler was right and made the mistake
| of life, which ended right there.
B. H. WoRRALL, proprietor of Queens Park.
| Morley, has invented an automatic rabbit. -
which, it is said, meets almost all the require
| Inents of the sport OF coursing. 1t fits in a
socket attached to an endless wire running in
| cutters below ground, only a narrow slot show
ing on the surface. The continuance is worked
| by machinery erected in a small tower The
| motive power is heavy stone Weighing about
half ton, working like clock weight, the
| speed at which the rabbit" travels being con
| trolled by man at a crank handle. The gut
| lers are laid diamond shape, and the length of
| the course Is about 200 yards, the rabbit
| doubling twelve times on the Journey the
angles being very acute. In case the dogs ere
| unable to catch the ''rabbitN before the whole
| ground has been traversed the quarry runs into
| a box, an inclined plane in which lifts it out of
the socket, the dogs losing 1t.
| a COMMISSION OF EXPERTS of the HIGHEST
standing employed by the Nizam of Hyderabad
| to investigate the use of chloroform as an an
| aesthetic has just made a report, in which it
| declares that the danger from the chloroform
Is not to the heart, as is generally supposed but
| TO the lungs. 1t says: However concentrated
| the chloroform may be- it never causes sudden
death from stoppage of the heart. r y
bChloroform has no power of increasing the
| tendency to either shock or syncope during
/ operations. The truth about the fatty
| heart seems to be that choroform 7ler SO in no
way endangers such a heart, but, on the con-
| trary, by lowering the blood pressure lessons
| the work that the heart has to perform which
| is a positive advantage The practical conclu-
| slonS or the commission are tnat the safe adj
| ministration of chloroform depends on careful
| attention to the respiration. Care must be
| taken that it is not interfered with and if by
any accident it stops artificial respiration must
| be instantly begun. Rules this subject are
| given, by constant attention to which the com
| mission asserts that chloroform can be given
| with perfect ease and absolute safety
| THE Old Black Jack is one of the Oldest
| licensed houses in London, and for three GEN.
! turtles has looked out through its dull bar win
| dows upon the fortunes of the Market as thew
have gone up and down. IL was fashionable
| quarter once 1t was a thieves quarter after
| that. Ia the low-ceiled tap-room care antoine
| tables of enduring oak, on which Dick TurpIn
| and his gallant band of melodramatic actors cut
/ their imperishabe names. 1t was from this
| house that he started on his famous ride to
| York. 1t was in front of this house that Rack
| BeSs dropped the horseshoe that for nearly 900
| years has been taken lily from its nail in the
| door frame TO excite the awe of the adm rars Of
| the gallant Dick. Jack Sheppard came here in
| the last century He lived oyer in Wych street
! i'll a house which has been torn down. and wa :
| apprenticed to Mr.. Woods the carpenter in one
of the old houses of Henry Wills time which
| still stands. In the torn-down house he used Tn
plot with his companions and used to WOO Edpe-
| worth Bess. And ne plotted and wooed no less
| we'll than Turpin rode for to-day. in this com
paratively respect able and morally cons arvetive
| epoch, he and Dick enjoy household re-
| nlembrance throughout the Market which If II
| be not Fame is SO near like it that the Differ
| ence is hard TO describe.
/ ONyr Of ba most ;Dtar,,,i,ohIo