The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-04
NATURAL FRUIT FLENoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A GRITTY FELLOW in Williamsport, Pa
mashed his toe, but instead of calling in ply
stefan, be diagnosed the case himself and came
to the conclusion that amputatiOn was neces
sary. He accordingly whipped out his pocket
knife and proceeded with his surgical work
and then cody bandaged the injured foot.
AN ENGLISH BF4DEGRooM has been fined fol
disorderly conduct during the marriage cere
mony. He was very shy and nervous and in
order to screw his courage up To the sticking
point he quietly took out a flask while the cler-
gyman was reading the exhortation and in
dulged in nip. The church was pretty dark
and he thought no one saw him, but in this he
was mistaken. for the clergyman knew the ser,
vice by heart, and instead of looking at the
book was looking at him. and of course saw the
unrubrical act. The result was fine of S. and
costs.
THE visitor to Ocean Grove who does not go
sailing in the yacht Emma B. for fun or for
fishes, and thereby fails to make acquaintance
with the jovial captain of that redoubtabe
smack, misses one of the peasanteSt sensations
OF the camp-meeting season. Captain! O,
captain. cried a sea sick lady, who had start d
out to enjoy a sail and found herself unexpect-
edly on her knees at the side of the yacht and
nwardly moved beyond measure; do you
think we shall go to the bottom and drown?''
Don't worry. madam was the shippers
kindly reply If thought you were going to
die I'd collect yonr fare in advance"
TIE IMPRESSION made by BIsmarck's per-
sonality has certainly been disturbed by his
course since his removal Apparently he has
somewhat mistaken his hold upon Germany It
was not that OF popular leader, but of ruler
or great resources and despotic will. Conse-
quently when he fell from power, and il was
seen that there was no interruption of the usual
course of events, that the situation was in fact
unaffected. there was no strong personal feeling
and loyalty uDon which he could rely in oppo-
stlon TO the government. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that Bismarck will greatly influence
a1aIrs when he reappears to the German par
Lament In the conviction of Germany, I'm
doubleday, his day is past.
IN THE japanese capital there is gigantic
image of a woman, made of wood and plaster,
and dedicated to Hachiman, the god of war
IN height it measures fifty four feet; the head
alone, which is reached by a winding stairway
in the interior of the figure, large enough to
comfortably hold twenty persons. The figure
holds a large wooden sword in one hand
feet long, and a ball twelve feet in diameter
in tho other Internally the model is fitted
up with extraordinary anatomical arrangement
winch IS supposed to represent the different
portions OF the brain. a fine view of the coun-
try is to be obtained by looking through one of
the eyes Of the figure. The admission to all
parts OF the structure is cents. Japanese ira
dltlon says that during the time of the Te-
Shomeng rebellion, in 1892, hundreds of cords Of
wood were piled around 1t and fired, but that
the sacred object itself failed to burn or to
S'oA@ ~ SSCANAcu " sAAo tltliilCS
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS for an old tin roof
would be pretty steep price. but the man who
gets the battered roof from the old PhiIadel-
phla Tabernacle church ut Broad street and
South Penn square, which is now being torn
away, for that sum will be in great luck Some
years SgO the paint was scraped off the old roof
and yielded $1,000 in fine gold Il is almost
certain to yield as much this time The gold
comes from the mint. When gold is being
coined considerable quantity of it volatilizes
with the smoke through the chimney, and as
soon as 1t strikes the air it falls. Much of IL
falls on the roof of the mint, so much of it that
the officials save even the water that falls upon
IL during shower. All the drains from the
root are connected with large watts in the cellar
OF the mint. Before the water finally gets to
the sewer it is strained through many blankets
and sleeves which retain The gold. Notwith-
standing all these precautions. the gold that is
annually washed into the Delaware from the
miut s worth thousands OF dollars Every
particle OF dirt swept up about the mint is care
fully stored away with the washings from the
roof, and once every year it is sold to the high
est bidder, as it canuoU be used at the mint
THE postmaster general of England has given
permission for an experiment to determine
whether postage stamps can, be supplied to the
public by means OF an automatic machine at
tached to the ordinary pillar boxes. A London
syndicate has brought out an instrument con-
Structed partly on the principle of the auto
matte machines with slots for pennies. 1t can
be fastened to pillar box without difficulty. A
person desiring to purchase penny postage
stamp drops penny into the SHOT at the front
of the machine, a drawer at the bottom comes
out and the purchaser pushes it In again.
At once a small white envelope comes
out at the back, containing a memorandum
book with a penny postage stamp in a small
slit in the cover. Should the experiment be
successful machines will be attached to all the
pillar boxes, and so it will become possible to
buy stamp at the pillar boxes at all hours of
the day and night, Sunday included. The Post
master General comedies the use OF pillar
boxes free for the benefit of the public and in
respect to the more ready distribution of
stamps, while the syndicate hopes TO recoup
Itself out of the advertisements to be
inJerlarded in the pocket memorandum book
bearing the stamp.
The taking of Dr. HeHry J. Helmbold to
madhouse recalls to mind one of the most sue
ceSsful of the great advertisers methods of
attracting attention TO himself It was the
evening before the second Inauguration of
Ten Grant as President that DR.. Helmbold
arrived in Washington from New York,
bringing with him his team Of six blooded
Day horses, which, in gold amounted har-
ness were driven to the most expensive
victoria of that day. He announced at once
the purpose of his visit, and, driving to the
white house, rendered the use of the eouipase
TO the President in his trip TO the capitol
the next day. The offer was Of course politely
declined, as DR.. Helmbold had expected it
would be, but the fact that the offer had been
MADE was teegraped far and wide and that was
90 tiio uoCCor ueslrec. IL was the greatest dd-
Vertlsement of his life and had been secured at
acomparatlvely small cost. The next day he
ADDED TO the record already made. He appeared
Gltnsei IN the procession TO the capitol Hastily
dressed, and driving the now famous team, OF
whlch everybody in town had heard, and was,
prooaoiy, next after the President, the most OBJ
served individual on the avenue He was de-
nghted with the success of his scheme, and left
washington, as he put it. thousands OF dollars
ahead He never worked" this town again.
SOME Of the experiments recently shown by
Nikola Tesla would indicate that we may look
for some early developments and Improvements
IN the art of incaudescent lighting. By using
alternating currents of alb out q. 900 alterations
per second run about a condenser, he lights up
lamps enthusiastically, or, In other words,
without any direct connection with the source
of current. At present incandescent lamps are
made with the horseshoe filament now so fa-
miliar, but Mr. Tesla lights up lamps with only
a single straight filament. which we may de-
scribe as BALI a hairpin, or else he
takes a bulb containing Just a little
block of one of the less known metals, such
binary are the effects he obtains that he can
light up lamp simply by laying it near an
induction coil. The same idea followed out
would enable one to go into a dark room with a
lamp ana have it light up of its own accord as
he entered In a few years we may reasonably
expect to have our finest halls lighted I'D from
one two central columns, movable at will the
brilliant lamps on them being excited to their
fullest illumination by the elsctrostatic effects
Of the gliding the walls This sounds like A
fairy tale but it is no more than Mr. Tesla has
the hand between large sheets of metal, or what
was a mare condenser IN IarCa scala