The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-26
ITENs OF INTEREST.


Gen Booths scheme of social regeneration.
TIE PRINCE OF WALES opened the first electric
railway in England. running from the city Of
London under the Thames to South London.
las: week.
A BULLET has just been patented, the base of
which, as well as the body. is covered by an
alloy non-fusible at any temperature which it is
possible 10 generate in gun barrel. The necs-s-
slty Tor such bullet has been clused by the in
PRODUCTION OF nitrated or smokeless powders
which generate such intense heat that the base
or heel OF the bullet is melted, and consequently
made ragged Accuracy of aim is thus much i'm
pared. The tendency OF late, in the desire TO Sc
cure Increased accuracy. has been TO diminish
the size OF the bore and resort TO compressed
powders and caSed bullets. and the new bullet
comes in most opportunity and enables the
latest improvements 70 be utilized.
ONE of the wittiest things that Hon P. A.
Collins ever said. according to the Boston Globe.
was his famous Joke about the we'll known pas
Tor OF the Columbus Avenue Universalist
church. Boston. whose antipathy to the liquor
interest is a matter OF common knowledge
Gen. Collins said that DR.. A. A. Miner would be
a very good man If ne would only let rum alone
DR.. Miner is ordinarily very genial ma ynetic
preacher. but he doesn't often say anything in
the pulpit in which there is not some more or
less forceful reference TO what he calls sljnujd
damnation. In the pulpit LIE is a picturesque
figure, tall and rather thin with a long gray
beard that sweeps his breast. He possesses a
rlch vein or dry, caustic wit, that makes him
very effective as a speaker.
SOMEWHAT singular outcome of the necessi-
ties of certain conditions of electric traction
has just made its appearance. In frosty weather
the firm contact between the trolley wheel and
the wire of an electric railroad is interfered
with seriously by the formation Of coat of ice
on the wire, and the weight of the wire is thus
SO increased as to initiate against the safety OF
the overhead work. To overcome this difficulty
an apparatus has been designed for greasing
the wire AID thus preventing the adhesion of
any considerable amount or moisture. A frame
Is made to support a pan. Inside the receptacle
is wheel or roller for taking up the grease and
spreading it on the conductor. This grooved
wheel Is made OF wood or hard rubber, and is
covered with thick felt so as to be perfectly
adapted TO carry up and smear upon the wire
the contents OF the pan. Where a semi-liuuId
suosta ce is used for coating the conductor an
endless belt or chain may be passed over the
wheel for the purpose OF carrying the grease.
SAYS gossper in the Cincinnati Times. Star:
Henry Clay has a daughter buried at Lebanon,
o. She died while Henry Clay and his family
were on their way TO Washington by stage
coach many years ago. She was girl 70 years
OF age and her loss was a sad blow to her father,
VINO al IN time was so pressed with business
cares that he was compelled to bury the body
and 20 on to Washington intending some day to
return and remove it to Lexington. Ky. But he
never did so, ana the grave may be seen vet in
the old battle-ground surrounded by wire fence
Inc tombstone is one Of the iat-tablet style and
relic hunters have so marred it, that now it
presents dllapidated appearance. To such an
extent was this spirit of relic-seesing carried on
that the graveyard authorities at last set posts
every two feet apart around the grave and
wrapped them around with wire strands to the
extent or twenty or more, so that 1t is almost
impossible for anybody to climb over and chin
on piece of the gravestone. As the old
battle-ground is being rapidly abandoned il Is
only question of few years until Henry
Gay daughter will be the only occupant"
IN 49,
the Navy that hereafter. until July 4, 1891, the
Union Jack shall contain forty-three stars, the
New York Times says: 1.-THE Union Jack is a
flag peculiar to vessels only. 1t is square blue
piece OF bunting. studied with white stars rep
resentng the different states of the Union ON
board man-of-war it is flown from a iackstaff
mounted close to the cap of the bowsprit.
Where vessel has no bowsprit it is either
mounted in the extreme forward part
of the bow or run up on hoist passing
over a small block secured to the fore.
stay. 1t is not usual for men, of-war TO
display their jacSs, except when lying at
jack is rarely seen other than on Sundays or
during general inspection, and on state COCA
sons. While in foreign ports the JACK is
deemed as essential as the national ensign, and
IS always to be seen. To the man-of-wars man
the jack appeals perhaps more strongly than
the national ensign The blue Jacket recog.
nizes that the defense and honor Of the Union
JACK are connded TO the navy He is conse
quently extremely jealous of his blue piece of
| bunting, which. to the navy. corresponds to
the regmental flags of a battalion
A HUNGARIAN PAPER prints letter from
| Paris telling the following interesting story
which is labeled, Important if True" During
Journey from Cologne the Baroness Roths-
| child was robbed of a caSket containing Jewels
| valued at $4,000 francs. The police captured
| the thief at London with the jewels in his
| possession. He described himself as ia es
Pitt an American physician who was travelling
| through EIlrOD6 engaged nj
| hypnotism- He had large sum OF money and
| letters of credit in his possession which gave
color to his claim that he was wealthy and had
| no reason to steal When asked to explain how
he had got hold of the jewels he said that, being
| the only passenger in the railway coupe besides
| the baroness, he entered into conversation with
| her upon the subject of hypnotiSm. The
| baroness declared that she had no faith in hyp.
notism, and cheerfully offered herself as a sub
| ject of experiment Pitt declares that he read
| lily succeeded in hypnotizing the baroness, and
| while in that condition, being completely under
| his CONTROL among other things he ordered her
| to hand him her jewel casket, which she forth.
| with did. He tanned the jewels just for the
! purpose OF teaching her lesson, intending to
! return the jewels on his arrival In London.
This story, incredible as it seems, verified
| by the baroness, and Pitt was released from
| custody. He is tall and exceedingly hand
| some man."
| A SUGGESTIVE FACT, involving the value and
| effect of colors for specific uses, is reported
| from Belgium. The overhead lines of the tele-
| graph and telephone systems of that country
| foliow,ln great many cases, unfrequented
| roads and byways. where supervision Is, nat
| urally, not very coSe. The de itrucJion of insu
| lators began to be quite serious matter, and,
| as among the various kinds of insulators en-
| ployed, the white porcelain insulators seemed
to have the greatest attraction for the destruct-
| i've beings who used them as targets for the
| exercise of their skill with the bullet or
| the casual stone, experiments were
made with porcelain of various colors.
| A grayish brown was finally decided on, and
several hundred nsulators, colored in this shade
| by means of a silicate mixed with the enamel
| on the surface of the porcelain, were ordered,
lain insulatorS The results of years trial
| showed that out of 102 inSdlators of each kind
| white and colored) line Of twenty-five
| hlometers in length, twenty-five ordinary in
| sulatorS were broken. while only thirteen of the
colored ones had been damaged. 1t was conse-
| ouently decided that wherever a white insulator
| was found to have been willfully destroyed
colored one should be set up in its place. and
should this in turn be broken a metal protected
| one would be substituted.
| SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE says that there is a
| growing feeling, both within the medical pro.
| fession and among practical sanitarians and ad-
illustrators, that general hospitals of large
! size are open to many objections. In the first
place. the crowding together of such a vast
number of diseased persons is as much out of
place in cities as iutr2mural burial of the dead.
| In point OF fact. it is extremely likely that the
| germs derived from such accumulation of
every form of disease are more dangerous to
| the community than those which, after several
years, may emanate from dead bodies.