The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A CONVICT made his escape at Brennan, Tex
a few days ago in a curious manner. With a
number of others he was working on railroad
embankment. When none of the guards were
looking, the convict laid down In a hollow made
! by the spades. The gang near him threw dirt
| over him until he completely covered.
! When camp was reached and the roll called the
escape was discovered.
THE Jour reports that the engineers in the
Creusot establishment have invented new gun
far more destructive than anything ever yet
! seen. A military commission recently we're
perfectly astounded at the results obtained
| One of the officers CT the commission said at
| the close of the experiments: ARMED with
| such an engine of war, our army could beat not
| only Germany but all the armies OF the Triple
| alliance"
THAT knowledge OF mythology (as taught to
young ladies and others) should be COM
mon in the Greece of to-day is only natural.
lou shall find tine urchins in the village school
at Delphi recitng the lives of heroes and saints,
of Samson and Herakles, of the virgin huntress
and her who greatest among women in a
breath. All are equally real to them, as they
might have been to their forebears eigh-
teen centuries ago.
In Aroostook county, Maine is aman who
has been in jail for nsarly four years because
he refused to pay debt WHICH ne might have
settled easily He declared that he wouldn't
pay, and that If sent to jail he could stand It
long as his creditors could, the latter being
obliged to pay the prisoners board. The
debtor may be liberated soon, he having prom
ised to pay his bills more promptly in the fu-
ture, but the bill for which he was incarcerated
will never be paid The prisoner was a soldier,
and known as a ''stuffy' man.
AN immense wooden box, bound In iron, was
recently found at Helsinfors in Finland, by
workmen engaged in excavatng in the cellar OF
an old house. Upon opening the box the men
found that it contained a large parchment and
a quantity OF pieces OF iron of odd shapes. Be-
ing unable to make out the contents Of the
parchment, they carried it to NJ Rizeff the near
est magistrate, who found that it written
by Father Suger, one time minister to Louis
| VII. Of France. 1t was deliberately written
treatise upon the use of steam as a motive
power, ard further examination revealed that
the bits OF iron were numbered parts of a rudi-
mental but complete steam engine Il is pro-
posed to fit the parts together and to exhibit
this pioneer steam engine at the Chicago worlds
fair
IT IS PROPOSED to run from New York to
Chicago at the time of the dedication OF the
exposition buildings ten special trains ten
minutes apart, each train to have elaborate
decorations aud music. 10 is believed that
fully 5000 people will want to make the trip.
IL IS the intention to have in New York, both
preceding and uccesding this triumphal pro-
cession. imposing ceremonies Of a commemo-
rative character. These include civic and in
dustrial pageant representing modern pro-
gress, a street pageant representing the land
ing of Columbus and historic scenes from his
life unwilling of a Columbus statue in Central
park, grand banquet and choral festival.
Prominent citizens OF New York, including
members Of Spanish and Italian societies, are
perfectiug the pauS.
FnoM the time that Charles Dickens touched
upon the subject, great deal Of misappre-
henson appears to have gathered about the
Queens Pipe" Instead of being ravenous
NAV that is eternaily smoking the primest OF
| smuggled cigars and provenders for pipes and
| cigarettes, it is the decent crematOry Of merely
| the worthless portions of cargoes and the
n hn0dncy hOnGeaS
| After seizure contraband tobacco is overhauled
| and the good portions separated from the
| worthless. Such portions as are retained are
then passed on to cutter. He slices up the
| cakes, twists and plugs. and the different brands
| are then mixed and an agreeable blend OBJ
/ tanned. The mixture thus obtained is supplied
| to the convict prisons and is one OF the con-
| solutions of criminal lunatics This is ab8o-
! lutely the only direction in which conhscAt tod
tobacco is sent out again foruso
| A DIAMOND EXPERT in London thus discusses
| on the product and distribution OF diamond s.
| THE Americans are the finest Judges Of dia-
| monds in thu world and insist upon having che
| finest stones and the most perfect cutting. 1t
| is estimated that they will take $4,000 900 worth
this year, India furnishes market for large
| numbers of white Stones as we'll as Tor yellow
| or coloTed dia nonds, or stones with Jaws or
| specks in them. The natives invest their saw
| ings in them and In other precious gems as we
do in stocks and shares. RuStia's fancy 10 for
1 large yellow diamonds. China Is becoming a
buyer. for very recently the empress has bro zen
i through the old custom which pFOhlb tied wo men
| from wearing diamonds IN her country She
| could not resist the beauty of a supurb dia =
| mond nacklet presented to her, She were it at
| court and set the fashion Japan is also
| rapidly becoming a considerable customer
| With the opening of the world by railway and
| steamship communication, the demand for dia-
| monds has increased maryelously. The world
| now purchases about G5,0oQ.0U0 per annum
| Twenty years ago it was about half a million
| sterling"
WHAT is known as the polar original of the
| that the first race of men originated in the re-
| glon Of the North Pole This idea of course is
! founded on the belief that the human race came
! into exsteuca when the entire globe was very
| much hotter than it is now. Prof DalkinS in
| his book early Man in Britain. says that three
phases Of life can De traced throughout the geo.
| logical formations of the earth. In the first
| race the fishes and amphibians dominate, and
few reptiles are found in the upper rocky form a
| tions The vegetation at this time Is shown
| to be in the coal era. In the second phase
| the reptiles were very numerous, some walk
| ing, some flying and some swimming.
| Geology shows that birds were at that time
| evolved from the reptile GLASS, and the reptiles
were formed from the fishes and amphibians
| Dense forests also prevailed in that period In
| the third period mammals took their place as
the dominant class The theory Is that this
order of things was first established at the
| North Pole, for, as the earth was at first hot
| and molten mass, the cooling process would go
on most rapidly at the poles, since the radiation
| of heat there was compensated in the most i'm
| perfect degree by the heat from the sun On
| this hypothesis the fact that there have been
| found buried In the ice of the far north speci-
| mems of animals that are now found only in the
not accepted by all scientists, by any means.
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