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

AN ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER Las been en-.
hibited in the Crystal palace, London, by
which 6o-horse power can be transmitted for
reasonable distance through wire no thicker
than hair. and across the Atlantic, with loss
Of 2-horse power.
WHAT'S in a name? a very great deal, if you
happen to be born in Maine. One Maine man
has afflicted his offspring with such names as
Taught. Orlando. Theopevander. Serpeta Sa
Ionic and Serena, whikc a Maine girl has for
full name Carrie Annie Mary Louise Nellie
Pooler.
WHILE the effect on tactics of magazine guns
and smokeless powder is to increase the dis
lance between opposing lines in battle The
Russian general KouropatKins has been lectur-
ing 70 the of1cers at st. Petersburg on the i'm
portance OF the bayonet and the value of night
attacks In coming wars.
AN uptown wholesale liquor dealers license
number is the same as the number of his new
in church, says the Philadelphia Record. He is
delighted at the coincidence, which he consid.
ers great good fortune. He is the envy of all
ms fellow liquor dealers and no ordinary sum
Oh money could purchase tnat pew from him.
THE King of Siam has built a glass house IN
the midst of suiceway. The walls floors and
ceiling are formed OF different sorts and thick
neSses of glass. single door closes hermet-
lcally, and when he goes in he opens a reser-
VolE ana suomerges his house, with the effect
OF producing a particularly cool and pleasant
atmosphere.
IHE FOOT WARMERS for cabs in Paris are
chiefly of two kinds; one is the water pan, the
other is the ''chaufferette a charbon -" The
former soon cools; the latter gives off some
asphy Xlating fumes. Hence it is that NJ Morel
mas combined both systems in employing the
cnaufteiette outside the cab to keep the water
pan inside the vehicle always hot.
FROM the pipes Of Pan the organ was evolved
and the invention is credited to several persons;
some say it was first made by Ctesibius, a bar
Der or Alexandra, about $50 B. c. The organ
came 10 Europe from Greece, and was used in
Snurch worship In seventh century. The Haar-
lem organ is one OF the largest and best known
having sixty stops and 5000 pipes.
AT Grenoble. France. 1900 900 dozen pairs of
gloves are manufactured annually. This repre-
sents value Of $1,000 900, and gives employ
ment to q, 900 workpeople of both sexes There
are 4,OOO men and 2l,OO0 women residing in a
rayon or thirty eight miles around Grenoble
who live by this work Glove-making is one OF
the rev calllngs open to female labor in which
women can earn respectable wages without
abandoning husbands, homes and little ones
The Oldest man on earth is believed to be Don
Jesus Campech, who came from Spain to the
Cit of Mexico in 1885, and has managed to live
there ever since 1t would be instructive to be
aole TO draw the usual longevity moral from
Don Campech's prolonged mundane usefulness
put the facts forbid. He has been a consistent
friend OF mescal for about 1874 years, and eariy
IN this century organized the First Mexican
society for the Putting Down and KEEPING
Down of Ardent Spirits.
THE Philadelphia postal authorities received
large box day or so ago in which was con-
fined fined i've dog. The box was directed to Mr..
B Btank FL Lock BOX :" Philadelphia postofice.
postoh1ce said that the gentleman who had
Dought It had given no other address than his
postoface box; The only living thing which the
postoft1ce will accept for transit through the
mails is the bee, and quite a large number of
these are sent all over the country by this
means
AN ELECTRICAL FINGER for surgical uses has
recently been invented. A bulb, attached to a
long probe. is attached to finger STALL The
oulo ls double and the outer skin is flexible.
Inc Two layers are connected with opposite
poles of the battery, and wires connect the
inner layer with the finger tip. Pressure at any
point closes the circuit, and the electrical cur
rent is transmitted to a CORRESPONDING point ON
the finger. The surgeon has thus q means of
feeling and measuring things which he can
neither see nor reach by ordinary means.
L"oUR afternoon papers, says San Francisco
newspaper man, "are one day ahead of the rest
of the world in giving the news. For when they
are ready TO go to press New York is ready to
go to bed, and the London Tunes has gone to
press for the next day In the case Of our
morning papers they have the advantage of
securing the exclusive news our New York or
any other large eastern paper may have, for
the representative of the San Francisco papers
wait until the New York papers come out at
O'Clock a. m. and then wire the sensations
west, where they arrive long before midnight"
PAINT BRUSHES are now made of spun glass,
and are imported in considerable quantities
from Germany, where they were invented and
where they are manufactured for use all over
the world. The "bristles' are white in color
and of extraordinary fineness, the brushes be-
ing almost as soft and pliable as the finest
camels- hair pencils. The discovery has afforded
valuable aid to several of the manufacturing
arts, as 1t enables one to paint with acids
which would instantly destroy the bristlss or
hairs OF the ordinary brush or pencil The spun
glass brushes are also being largely introduced
into educational and working laboratories as
by their use experiments with small quantities
of acids can be made with the greatest ease
How OFTEN we say, 20, yes; tell her every
thing. have not a thought that she does not
share" And how untrue that is. There are
corners in our minds and hearts that we do not
uncover for the dearest and most confidential
friend we have. We simply could not; it would
be against nature TO do so. And time goes on
and the secret places of our nature grow more
and more numerous and deeper and more nm
fathomable. And then all of a sudden there
comes into our lives new element-some one
who does not have to be told who knows with
out word, and then gradually everything that
we have kept apart for ourselves becomes the
property of that one person, and In some mys-
ferrous way are the more ours from that fact
There are some divisions that multiply,
ELISE RECLUs, the French geographer, re-
Gently had narrow escape from death, ac-
cording to the Pail Mall Gazette. Having
spent several weeks in SPAIN collecting ma
terials for history of Spanish colonization, he
took ship at Carthagenla in order to visit one of
his daughters who is settled at Oran. One of
those squalls for which the Mediterranean ia
famous just at this season caught the vessel.
and twas only by very close shave that she
escaped from laundering. NJ. Recus, who has
been for nearly half a century at work upon his
monumental book, is now on his way back to
Paris. Later in the year he will make a final
visit to South America after which it is his in
tention to rest from his active labors and devote
what may be left to him of life to the placid en-
joyment Of literary leisure.
A DISPATCH to the New York Sun from
Livonia, N. Y, announces that N. ]. Griswold.
farmer of that place. found in a hons nest. a
few days ago, an egg that is q great curiosity.
The egg is OF the ordinary size and shape but