The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BEES will not swarm unless they are 'tangde'
by the creation of sounds. and hence the beat
| ing of tin kettles and trays NAV often be heard
| IN villages while bees are swarming. In many
| places 1t is customary to sing psalm in front
| or hive OF bees not doing well, with belief
that they will thereby be induced to do better
and store up more honey.
The HARP, which was suggested by the Lutte,
is ascribed to Judal, 1875 B. c., and was King
| David's favorite instrument. The harp was
| used by the Welsh aud Saxons, and also by the
| ancient people OF Ireland. One of the Oldest
| harps In existence is in the Dublin College
| Museum, and originally belonged to Brian
Borothme, King of Ireland.
| s-HoNEY statistics Indicate the number of what
| the early English photographer, Nicholas
| Bailey, calls mansions for bees. s" The hives
are estimated: Greece, 80, 200; Denmark, go 600;
Russia, 10000; Belgium l9o0, 900; Netherlands,
| 100000; France, 0,O00; Germany, 1,450, 900;
Austria, 1855 600. In the United Stalls 800 900
hives produce 61,0 900, COO pounds of honey.
In South America the onative children will
drag huge centipedes out Of their holes and
crunch them up. The negroes of the West
| Indies eat baked snakes aud the palm worm
| fried in fat, but they cannot be induced to eat
stewed rabbit. Arabs are fond of croco-
| dies and some portions Of the creature is
said to be white and tender when properly
| stewed.
GEN. ]. A. HALDERMAN has given to the
Young Mems Christian Association of Leaven-
worth. Kan. his large and highly priced col
lection of bric-a -brac, books, curios, mementoes
relics and hundreds of other things, collected
from various parts of the world, civilized and
| savage, and which have been accommodating for
quarter of century. Among other things is
q collection /, OF rare and valuable coins, for
which Gen. Halderman has refused $500. There
are also some valuable paintings, bottle of
water from the river Jordan, some from the
Dead sea, powders from the north, flowers
frpn ba 90 Of A f-,oa
statuettes exhumed from Pompei the buried
city and mementoes from the Holy Land and
ancient Rome.
AN EXPERT has been assuring Boston audi
ence that 4hours' trip between that city
and New York is by no means an impossibility
1t would require an average speed of sixty
miles an hour, with occasional spurtS of seventy
miles; the track must be Strengthened, full
speed maintained in passing stations, and the
weight of the train greatly reduced. This
pert estimates that a train carrying 200 passen-
gers need not weight over rs tons, which would
be reduction of $50 tons from the weight of
trains now in use; this he regards one of the
chief factors in the problem of a 4-hours' trip.
In connection with this. il is interesting and
| reassHring to recall the recently expressed
| opinion of another railroad expert. that no
accident has yet been caused simply by the
high speed of a train. The experience of our
fastest trains seem to bear out this sweeping
| assertion From New York to Boston in four
hours would imply q trip from New York TO
Chicago in twelve.
MUCH ATTENTION is paid by the superintend-
ents of English military schools and colleges to
instruction in photography, which is likely to
take very prominent part in the reconnaissance
of the future The pos ton and appearance of
forts can often be aiInlra6 shown by means
| of PHOTOGRAPHS, and enlargemeuts will fire.
quenty bring ont surprising amount of de-
tail. The use of balloons in war affords another
| opportunity for using photography in recon
| Nuisance. Several attempts have been made
fiT1nat n 70 hall
| ply and special cameras have been devised for
| the purpose. 1t has been proposed that balloon
| photography should be used in seges by the be-
siegers. One plan is to start a small balloon
| loaded with a camera to wndward of the
| fortress, the plates being exposed by means OF
| a clockwork arrangement a slow match.
These, of course, ad tusted to the time which
| would elapse before the balloon will reach the
point or points where the exposures are to be
| made. AS the gas escapes the balloon descends
| on the farther side of the fortress, within the
| besiegers lines.
A TERRIFIC STORM, driving before it a huge
sea like tidal wave, struck the British steam
ship Dewsland on March 10 in lat 4ls I5,,
! long 80 20 while bound from Bilbao to
| Philadelphia, deep laden0with Spanish iron ORE
| The wind blew with great fury from the north
| west. and heavy cross sea soon sprung up and
broke over the vessel from all points of the com
| pass. An effort was MAIDS TO run the vessel be.
| fore the wild, but without success, She
would not pay off, owing to the heavy wind and
sea, and a lulu in the storm made it possible TO
| put the vessels OF head again to
the sea- Still she labored heavily. But
| suddenly the waters subsidized AL
most as quick as they had risen, when what ap-
peared to be black rock was seen some dis
| lance away. AS the vessel approached closer
| it proved to be dead whale OF immense size
The carcass was at least six feet above the sur
| face OF the water and covered with countless
birds of all sizes and descriptions. A stream of
sperm oil was oozing out upon the sea in all
| directions from the fatty derelict, which all
| hands believe had the effect of ouelline the
heavy sea. The efficacy of oil was first dscov-
cred by whalers watching tne effect upon the
| sea near dead whales.
CHARLES Booth. in his "Pauperism, a Pict.
ure, )" which has just been published in London,
| makes an important modification in his original
! scheme Of pensions for the aged His first
| titled to pension Of shillings a week as soon
| as he had reached the age of 65 years He now
| proposes that old age pensions should be granted
| only to such persons as have received no parish
| relief between the ages of IS and 65. This as
will be seen at glance, is a reservation Of a
most radical kind. He suggests that, in the case
| of persons thus relieved. the poor law guardians
| should have power to curtail, condition, or re-
| fuse the pension at discretion. Mr.. Booth
| does not attempt to select all the taxes bv
which the pension fund ought to be raised but
mentions increased duties on tea and sugar and
| admits frankly that the pension scheme and his
| dream of free breakfast table are fncompati.
| ble Whether the laboring man would be
| pleased at the notion of having to pay more for
his tea and sugar all the days of his active life
on the chance of living to be more than IS years
and then getting pension, If he had not for
| feited it in the meantime is exceedingly doubt
| full. The provision about the parish relief is
| taken from the Danish pension scheme, which
recognizes two classes Of poor-the deserving
who will be entitled to pensions. and the unde-
| serving. who will have to depend on the regular
moor law relief system. lerotOfOrA