The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CAREFUL EXAMINATION or the catalogues OF
English dealers in games shows that the popu-
lar games in England are in every way Identical
with those in the United States, and not single
game could be found In any of them that is not
well known and current here,
SOME interesting Byron relics are 60 be sold in
London next month. They include q small
silver travelling inkstand, engraved with the
initial "B" and coronet; three or four snuff
boxes, the poets patch box, the silver pipe that
was once Napoleon's, and Robert Burns to-
bacco box,
AMOS CHAPMAN, a. Boston whaling captain,
proposes to exhibit q live sperm whale at the
worlds fair. II he finds his game say one
about fifty or sixty feet the largest not pre-
ferred, he will put 1t in tank and tow it to
Chicago. He is now picking his crew and hunt
ing vessel for his whaling cruise.
If twelve persons were to agree to dine to-
gether every day, but never to sit exactly in the
same order round the table, it would take them
49, 000,0 900 years at the rate OF one dinner day,
and they would have to eat more than 470. 900 900
dinners before they could get through all the
possible arrangements in which they could
place themselves.
THE annual ceremony Of the trial Of the pyx
has just been observed at the British mint. The
pyx is strictly box, and the term is technically
applied to the chest at the mint In which speci.
mems Of the coinage are preserved. The trial
by weight and assay of the gold and silver coin
by jury of goldsmiths nominated for the pur-
pose by the lord chancellor. On this occasion
the test included 4,279 sample sovereigns and
f42e in silver, representing total coinage of
&5,C00,00C.
THE Mexican theaters have custom De.
culiarly their own" said o. c. Brennan to st.
Louis Glooe- Democrat writer. THE acts of the
play are charged for separately. You pay for
the first act on taking your seat. When the
curtain is rung down the collections are sent
around for the neXt installmanf IF ia
the play and want to see the heroine happily
married and the heavy villain appropriately
punished you make another payment, If not.
you vacete. think II that custom was adopted
in the United States many OF the dramas now
on the road would find their thrilling climaxes
Witnessed only by empty chairs"
The recent capsizing of vessel tied up to a
pier in Brooklyn is sufficiently unusual in that
port to excite comment, but it is common
enough in ports along the Bay or Fundy and its
tributary streams; The usual rise and fall of
the tide along that bay is from 20 to so feet,
and high tides sometimes exceed so feet With
the fall of the tide all craft are left high, but
by no means dry. wife an area OF chocolate
cOlored mud all about them. This mud Is too
shifting TO hold a vessel in safety, so each pier
is provided with one or more strong wood
frames, called shoes, fixed a. the bottom of the
stream or bay. Upon these shoes all vessels
rest at low tide IL frequently happens. how
eve, that a vessel does not get her shoes
sHugly on, so TO spsak, and II q strong wind
comes when she Is thus ill-balancAd over she
goes into the mud, to be buried 40 feet un Ter
the next rising tide.
ONE of the most imortauu UNDERTAKINGS re-
Gently sanctioned by the municipal council of
Paris is the construction of an underground
electric tramway from the Bots de Boulogne to
the Bots de Vincennes. The project is likely to
be put in hand soon. The tubular tramway
will be composed entirely of metal. The per
foratlon Will be made by means OF hydraulic
/ boring appliances, and as these machines ad.
vance cast iron plates will be bolted together
| forming a solid and durable wall. To check
oxidation on the outside of ths metal tube
each plate is provided with a hole in fhe center
| through which mortar will be forced by
| hydraulic pressure so as to fill W every crook
| and crevice. This will likewise prevent any
moisture from finding its way inside, and the
| tube being thus perfectly dry, the question
Of ventilation will be much sirnpihed, All
that will be necessary for this purpose will be to
| provide some vent holes along the tube and TO
| draw out the vttiated air by means of electric
| fans There will be no other communication
with the thoroughfare above except the stations,
| be composed Of four carriages, sffordiuR seats
| for 200 passengers Tho motive power will be
generated at a central station. and motor
| will be placed under each car Electricity will
also be usedt to light up the tunnel the whole of
| its length The cars will travel at q speed OF
twenty-five to thirty klomeIers an hour, 80 that
taking into account the frequent stoppages, the
distance Of eleven kilometers will be traversed
in about half an hour.
AMONG the collection Of historical relics to be
exhibited at the worlds fair are the following
contributed by the city Of Philadelphia: The
| chair occupied by Thomas jefferson while writ
! ing the declaration of Independence; the table
on which it was signed; the silver inkstand used
on shat occasion; Thomas Jeffersons sword
chair of memorial woods, including parts of
Columbus house in Spain; bell rung at Valley
Forge whenWashington occupied that place with
his army; sofa belonging to George Washington
and used by him when he lived in PHILADELPHIA:
bench made from the pew in old Christ church
occupied by Washington and Lafayette; punch
bowl used by Gen. Washington and other off
GERS Of the revolutionary army and the baby
clothes made by Mrs John Adams
for her son, John Quincy Adams There
will also be an ale mug that be
longed to John Paul Jones; Peal's portrait of
Washington. the first ever printed; first light.
ming rod invented by Ben Franklin; electrical
machine invented by Franklin; original model
of John Fitch's steamboat. which ran between
Philadelphia and Burlington, j., from 1887 to
1890; unsigned copy of the declaration of inde-
pendence fans used by Franklin at the court of
France when he minister there; cast of
WashinRton's face taken during life from the
original mold used for Houdon's statue; clocks
of Benjamin Franklin. William Penn AMI Oliver
Cromwell, running and keeping good time;
Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Washington;
Thomas Jefferson's thermometer; lock of
Jefferson's hair; Pocahontas' necklace; survey
ing instrument used by W liam Penn In LAYING
out the city Of Philadelphia and the famous
Liberty bell.