The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


CALIFORNIA wine growers are relieved in mind
with the assurance that their wines are not to
be placed in direct composition at the worlds
fair With wines from France While some feel
they can hold their own against the average
French wine consumed In this country to-day,
they argue that at the fair France will make an
exhibit of such high class product that Cal.
ifornia,s viticuturists cannot hope TO bear away
first prizes.
The kangaroo plague has always been great
nuisance to the Australian squatters, for on an
average these animals consume as much grass
as sheep 1t is stated that, on a sheep run of
5000 to $4,000 acres, 10000 kangsroos were
killed annually for six consecutive years, and
yet their numbers remained very formidable in
the locality. In the colony of South Australia
hundreds OF thousands are slaughtered an
nually for their skins and the bonus offered by
the authorities. The number of these marsupiais
in New South Wales in 1899 was estimated to be
over 100000, and yet about 10000 kangaroos
and 5000 wsllabies were destroyed in the
colony in that year. A bonus Of 6 cents for
hence the colonists are gradually DISCRIMINATING
these native animals. Over 100000 skins are
annually shipped to England. and large num-
Der to North America. TO be converted into
leather.
A PECULIAR case Of ear piercing has been
accomplished at the winter quarters of Walter
Mains circus, says correspondent of the St.
Nellie, has been suffering from what animal
trainers term eye shutters" the optics Of the
beast becoming closed from q scaly substance
appearing Just over the eyelids. As the Iioness
is young and valuable one the circus owner
has employed every means to prevent Nellie g
loss OF sight but without avail. How
ever. as last experiment, the brute was &C.
curely chained and a LEGAL ieweler, after cutting
a one quarter inch hole in each OF the beast s
ears, inserted two geld rings about the size Of
silver dollar, which, it is expected, will ex-
aTWNnNe ebD A-kV
operation the lioness roared loudly and taxed
the strength OF the chains that held her Tho
jeweler, who received Slc0 for his rings and
services. was as nervous as dentists patient.
TIE two most reI arksble epitaphs in the
United States are those Of Daniel Barrow.
formerly Of Sacramento, Cal, and that or Hank
Monk, Horace Greeley's stage driver The
former reads as follows; Here is laid Dan
iel Barrow, who was born in Sorrow and Bor-
rowed little from nature except hts name and
ms love to mankind and his hatred for red.
skins; Who was nevertheless gentleman and
dead shot, who through q long life never
Killed his man except in self-defenSe or by acct
dent, and who, when he ct last went under ce-
Meath the bullets of his coWardly enemies in
JEFF Morris saloon, did so in the sure and
certain hope of a glorious and everlasting NOR
row." Hank Monks epitaph reads thus:
Sacred to the memory OF Hank Monk the
whltest, biggest hearted aud best-known stage
driver of the west, who was kind TO all and
thought i'll OF mono. He lived in strange era
ana was nero anu the wheels OF bic coach are
now ringing on the golden streets. :"
WHAT do you think OF the idea OF hell. tie
future abode of the wicked, being situated in the
nucleus of some gigantic cometi asks the st.
Louis Republic. This opinion odd as ic NAV
seem to those who have given comets and tho
future state OF the dead bit little attention,
has been entertained by many really eminent
scientists and philosophers, among them the
learned DR.. Winston, the friend and sometimes
adviser OF the great Sir Isaac Newton. In
answer to the inquiries of friend, who wrote
to ask the doctor for SO me tangible proof on
the subject, the following unique theories were
advanced: 49, According to my calcu-
lations and deductions, this theory which
you rightly say, must belong to me and me
alone does locate hell, the awful prison
some perhaps yet undiscovered) comet Of IN
thinkable size. In this wide-circlng
chariot of fire they will be whirled IN the
twinkling OF an eye from the intolersble heat
of the surface of the sun back into, space hun
dreds and hundreds Of millions of miles from the
great torch bearer OF our system. Thus in
stantly the wretched tenants will be given two
unbearable extremes one Of cold and the other
of heat; this TO continue through the endless
ages OF eternity. while the Almighty is dspen-
sing the seventies OF justice" Did mortal man
ever harbor more horrible idea than this?
TIE Garre de Nord, Brussels, has recently
been fitted with a mechanical wonder in the
shape Of q clock. which, although constantly
cApOSoN 10 GIL kluuS Oh weather, never GEES out
Of repair. nor does it need 20 be wound by the
hand of man. 1t is q perpetual timekeeper of
the most unique and original design, the run
ming weight being kept in constant motion
either through the influence OF gravitation as
when on the descending trip, or by the winds
action on q fan attachment which causes the
weight TO rise TO level with the ton Of the
framework. Tee winding attachment is not
windmill Of the regulation type, as one might
| suppose by the headline, but is fan placed in
| common chimney, the paddles being acted
AS soon as this fan has raised the running
weight" TO its extreme hight, the cord to which
the weight is attached acts on wheel which
throws brake into gear and the more rounds
OF cord that are added, so much more strongly
does the brake act 20 prevent the weight from
rising any higher, the checking tendency being
transmitted to the fan wheel with every revo-
luton. simple pawl arrangement prevents
the down drsught from exerting any contrary
one might suppose on first thought, any
necessity OF having a IRE in the stove
or fireplace Of the chimney TO which
this odd clock is attached. The natural ten
dency OF air is to ascend through such vents the
draughG thus created being always sufficient
for weight winding purposes. The clock might
be placed at the top of a hollow tree with a bot.
tom opening, or any other cylinder from is to
Is feet in highS With its present attachmepts
this clock runs but twenty-four hours after the
winding fan stops; but, by the addition of an.
other wheel or two, might be made to run a
month or two, even though the up drausht
were not sufficiently strong to turn the winding
wheel in the meantime. The inventor ia :
native Of Belgium. His original models were
on exhibition at the TWO last Paris exposftions
those Of 1878 and 1889.