The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

G~AAO III AN 1 nhhO1s
ONE Of the members Of the Glasgow (scot-
land fire department. has conceived the idea Of
employing the telephone in communicating
with headquarters concerning the progress Of a
fire, and consequently each hose cart is supplied
with portable telephone. The instrument
comprises complete receiver, transmitter and
call bell reqiring no battery, the communica-
ton with the headquarters being made by con-
meeting the wires with any Of the street fire
alarms. The advantages Of such a system is
that the headquarters can at all times be ap-
prised Of the progress Of the fire, and should
nre break out in another section OF the city IL Is
possible to communicate with the engines at
the first fire without the uncertainty and loss of
time OF employing a messenger.
AT COLLAR, FRANCE, in the churchyard. there
Is curious monument erected by the citizens
of the place TO the memory OF two Frenchmen
who were shot by the Germans when the, after
captured the town. Viewed from a distance il
looks like an ordinary slab, but examining
1t more closely t is observed that one side is
slightly raised and from the grave comes a
hand, which Rrssps the edge of the stone while
at another part whole arm is stretched out
and Is endeavoring to grasp q real French bay
onet, which lies near The whole has the ap-
pearance OF person who has been buried alive
trying to escape from the tomb. The hand and
arm are OF bronze and life-slze. A lady who re-
Gently visited the churchyard and came upon
this realistic structure unawares tainted from
terror.
IRE most astonishing new version Of the last
words" of great man comes from Lord Rose
berry and has to do with Pitts death-bed
George Rose went on record long ago as a wit
ness TO Pitts having breathed his last with
these accents: Save my country, 0 God"
The WING version, related by Sydney smith.
was: Nurse, give me some barley waterp'
But Lord Rosebery says shat the Earl of Bea-
consfield told him that an old member of par
lament who was in the death-chamber averred
that Mr.. Pitts last words were; II think I
could eat one Of Bellamy's meat pies"-refer-
ring TO delicacy highly priced at that time in
LOndOn. There seems, In short, to be no SUBJ
ject on which there Is such wide variance Of
testimony and such general interest as lust
what were the last words" of great man
IT IS TO BE HOPED that the gigantic dams
which are being cree ted in the west for irrigat-
ing purposes are being constructed soiidly
enough to insure the safety Of the poo pie living
in the valleys below them Persons who heva
never seen an irrsating dam have but a slight
conception of their immensely. The following
are the dimensions of four OF the largest that
have been completed within the last year: l. The
Walnut Grove dam, near Prescott, Ari., ITO feet
high, inclosing $50 acreR, with capacity of 4.
900 900 100 gallons. q The MERGED dam, Central
California. mile long, 60 feet high, $50 acres,
capacity 5000, 100000 gallons. s. SwestUater
River dam, near San Diego Cal, 90 feet high.
rs acres, capacity 5000, 900, 900 gallons 4 The
bear Valley dam, IN San Bernardino county
California, Is 70 feet high, inclosing 2250 acres
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AwR1TER In a recent monthly magazine. who.
it would appear, might have found some better
employment Of his time. has been com plline
some statistics as to the relative use of words
by women ana men, says the New York Times
he experimental by asking a class IN pHVcho-
loEy, composed OF twenty-five of each sex 20
write out rapidly certain number of worda
aud to record the time. By looking over the
lists submitted he deduees that women reDeat
one anothers words much more than do the
men According to the professor, the female
students use only 1913 different words while
their male classmates use 1873. Again. the
former wrote but $40 unique words while the
latter have written 746. With regard TO classes,
the women show different preferences from the
men, The repetitlons in names of articles of
apparel and OF interior furnishings preponderato
with the women, but they have q much larger
number of such words altogether: similarly the
men have more repatitions in ske names of
animals and mention more such names"
NJ. BURIEsKIY. the expert chirogra pAer Of the
circuit court of St. Petersburg, with the assist
ance Of q physician and by the aid of chrono-
photography, has made interesting studies on
the handwriting of several persons. Chrome.
photography is process by which inscautAn-
eous pictures are produced Of objects in rand
motion. While person writes one letter three
or more pictures can be taken of his hand and
pen. In this wise every motion of the hand of
the writer is resolved, so to speak into its ale
mentary muscular impulses AS the latter are
, subject TO the nervous conditions Of the writer
the writing, for its appearance and exnressive
ness OF character, depends more on the ten
permanent or the writer than on anything else
The results of NJ. Burinsky's studies show thattbe
opinion OF photographic experts on the identity
OF hand writings are, in many instances erro-
neou8; that under certain nervous conditions
various persons may produce writings that are
perfectly similar in character while one person
may at one time write In quite different man.
ner than at another.
GERMANY proposes to send novel and at
tractiye exhibit to he worlds fair at Chicago
in the shape of an astronomical worlds clock.
This masterpiece Of ingenuity is the work O
five years Of painful labor of August Noll of
Bierlingen. The clock at present la exhibited
a. Munich. The entire work is 81 inches high.
feet wide and feet deep. The clock in
dicates the time from second to the last stroke
Of the year 9999 hammer is lifted everv
second and an angel strikes the minutes on the
bell, while another strikes the quarter hours a
skeleton representing death strikes the hours.
| With each quarter of an hour another genera
ton from childhood to old age appears After
the stroke OF each hour the twelve apostIes an
pear, bow before Christ, who ia giving his
blessing to all except Judas. At O'Clock
praying monks are going into church. while
the bell solemnly sounds. Before midnight and
up to O'Clock the night Waterman gives sig
nails with the stroke of each hour. AT o'cIock
he is released at the first Growing of a rooster
During the Christmas time the child Jesus with
the shepherds make their appearance. Christ
mas hymns are singing. and at New Year a
trumpeter blows his trumpet The four sea
sons of the year are indicated by svmholic fi1
ures. Tn cuckoo greets the spring, and other
devices show the change Of tine months and OF
the daytime, the sun. moon and consultations
while others again give tho correct change Of
the date, month"; year and signs OF the zodiac
up to the year 10000. By means Of an inpeni
Gus piece OF mechanism it is enabled TO show
the function Of this wonderful work in twenty
minutes time.