The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A KANSAS FARMER recently snid his farm fof
the unique price of 100, 900 cigars.
THE first white child born in the new
world, Virginia Dare, was born in North Caro-
lima.
To KEEP a race horse In even a moderate con-
dItion with proper attendance, it is said costs
81, SOS year.
THE new German army tent is divisible into
two portions each Of which can be converted
into an overcoat in case of rain.
THE Pansy Society Of America, with head
quarters at Nashua, Ia, advocates putting the
pansy in the flag as an outline setting for the
stars.
In SPITE Of its ice and severe cold, Labrador
possesses 900 species Of Towering plants. fifty
nine ferns and over $50 species of MOSES and
lichens.
RAIN has only fallen twice in twenty-nine
years in Alden, Arabia Previous to the last
rain, which occurred in 1888, none had fallen in
twenty six years.
PRIVATE SOLDIERS in the United States army
don't get big pay, and few Of them. therefore.
can put away much money. A soldier stationed
AZ Salt Lake City, however, managed to save
small SUN, with which he bought piece of
land. on which he erected a number Of cheap
frame houses. He rented those houses to his
comrades, and now he is worth Sa5, 600.
ONE of the worlds fair interesting sexhibits
will be its Columbisns. There will be shown
seventy.nine portraits Of Columbus, the most
being original Nine places claim to have been
hissblrJhplace. These and the alleged houses
viii be represented In the photographs. Pict-
ures of everybody associated with Columbus
will also be shown, as well as every relic that
can be got.
AT FARMINGroN, Me-, the other day, q cat
captured one of flock of martins which had
in al h. .
own-r of the feline, and was making OF with
the dainty morsel Attracted by the piteous
cries Of the bird, its mates came to tho rescue,
! alighted upon pussy's back aud peoked.
| was soon glad to drop her prey and escape In
1 doors Then the purple martins held a great
reJo cling. noisily chattering ever the salvation
| Of their mate,
TIE members of the British cabinet receive.
as a rule what may be termed pretty fair sal
aries, though they ars rot uniform, says the
| Boston TrnUe Ter. For example, the kord chan
| celior. who presides over the House Of Lords
and dispe lses the legal patronage, gets $50, 900
! year and a pension of $4,000 when out Of
office after his first appointment. The first lord
OF the treasury receives $4,000, the lord lieu
| tenant Of ireland 500, 600, the chancellor OF
Ireland $40 900 and retiring pension OF SO, 900,
the attorney general for England $4,000, the
solicitor general $4,000 the Irish attorney gen
eral SIG, 1896. the Irish solicitor general $s,To,
the lord advocate OF Scotland $11, $40. and the
| Scotch solicitor general $4,775. Tho secretaries
| of state for the home, foreign, Indian.
colonial and war departments and the
| chancellor OF the excheQuer are paid
$4,000 each. The first lord OF the ed-
miralty receives $22, 500, the chief secretary
for Ireland $22 225, the secretary for Scotland
| $4,000 the postmaster general Sl2 500 the
! presidents Of the board Of trade and of the
local government board. the commissioner Of
works, the judge advocate gen raj the secre-
tary OF the admiralty, tbs political secretary Of
the treasury and the financial secretary of the
treasury get $4,000 each, and the minister of
| agriculture, an office recently created In Eng
| land as we'll as 10 the United States, SIS 0OO
| Then the eight under secretaries who have
| seats ia parliament receive $500 each. Be-
| sides this the premier has an Immense amount
of patronage at his disposal, and nearly all the
| offices within his gift have salaries attached
which would make the average American tax
| payer groan But then osF English cousins are
q long suffering set.
ACCORDING to a morning conte mporarv, says
| The London Daily Telegraph. the nihists in
London who are more highly educated in the
| application of chemistry to the manufacture Of
explosives than auy other body Of a similar
kind have recently perfected new Informal
machine" which promises to revolutioniZe ex-
| sting methods Of committing dynamite out
| RACES" The leading peculiarly of the i'm
provement" is that it has neither olockwork nor
] fuse, and has merely TO be turned upside down
| in order to go off at fixed number of minutes
after it has been placed in position. Externally
tue bomb ia only of tho dimensions of an ordi-
nary yellow back novel. It is filled with an ex-
posive power of immense strength, but con
tains no dynamite The dstonator, which ia
placed in the middle of the shell, is a marvel Of
| misplaced ingenuity. 1t consists of a small
glass receptacle half filed with q liquid
| chemical Passing upward from this
| which are stuck at intervals pads OF
| blotting paper, aud on the last of these rests
| small lump Of a decorating substance. which is
| In contact with quantity OF the new explosive
The moment one drop Of the liquid comes in
contact with the substance in question an ex-
| posion occurs. In order to produce the desired
| effect the machine is turned upside down, and
! the liquid passing into the tube slowly filters
| through the several pieces OF blotting paper
| and finally reacses the detonator. The mech
anism Of the bomb" is so simple that it is al
most impossible for it Co get out of order. To
! regulate the time at which the apparatus Is to
| explode the "dyBamiter" has only TO increase
or diminish the number Of pads of blottng
| paper and thus accelerate or retard the passage
| of the liquid through the tube. Should the
owner alter his mind after placing the machine
in position he has merely to turn IL again, thus
bringing the glass receptacle from the top to
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