The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE French minister of public instruction has
decided TO preserve the home OF Joan OF Arc in
Domremi as q museum In which to illustrate
her history 1t will contain models Of the va
rious statues raised 20 her memory, copies of
the paintings showing various scenes in her life,
and the pictures Of her which are in the PAN
theon.
HUMBOLDT, an authority on atmospheric phe-
nomena who has never been disputed tells of a
heavy bail storm which passed over Tuscany on
March IL, 1913, every ice globule OF the entire
fall being OF beautiful orange color. Five
years prior to this extraordinary event Carniola.
Germany, was treated to a fall of five feet of
blood-red snow, followed by a slight fall of blue
hail, which is said to have given the whole face
OF the earth an exceedingly curious aspect"
Red hailstones fell at Amsterdam In 1928, at
London In 1868 during the time of the great
plague, and at divers places in ireland and
france IN the early part of the present century.
A GERMAN INVENTOR is said to have devised q
means of producing light superior in strength
to either oil or electricity. II is by means Of
air driven through q pumice- stone, the latter
having been impregnated with benZine. The
benzine gas thus obtained is then carried
through fine magnesium powder, and pro-
ceeds upward through ripe to be consumed in
a small flame OF a claimed 400 600 candle power
The apparatus or producing this light consists
of blast-engine for driving the air through the
pumice and a number Of other accessories, all
OF which take up but small space, and which
inCiO5 "a IN q glass case IOF projection from
the elements, as the light is especially designed
for coast illumination.
A PRECIOUS LOT of wine such as cannot bo
found anywhere else on this globe, is stocked
away in the palace cellar at Biebrich, on the
Rhine. collected by the Grand Duke Of Luxem-
burg, the former Duke of Nassau, and his an
cestors from the choicest products OF the
Rheingau. Some of these vintages date back
as far as the year 1905. By the side Of the
Hochheimer of 1@06 there is SteinberRer OF 1911
aud 1873, Marcobrunner of 1922 and 1898. aud
RuedeSaelmer of 1861, 1865 and 1855 The first
rank of all these precious vintnges-each in
comparable in itself, belongs, according to ex-
perts, to the Ruedesheimer, 1861, the Hoch-
heimer. 1852 and the Steinberger, 1862. Tho
total value of all is estimated at 3,0oO, 600
marks.
A CURIOSITY in the shape Of an old continent
tai bank note has been received at the Mer-
chants National Bank from E h Carr teller
of the Bank of Montreal, Hamilton, Canada
says the Baltimore Sun. Mr.. Carr wished to
know II the note was genuine and II still cur
ink on white paper. On each end Of the OBJ
verse side is printed, Continental Currency
Thirty Dollars" These words, with United
Colonies, at the top and bottom, form bor-
der on the note. To the left Of the middle ia a
circle inclosing the words ''Si-Recte-Facias -
The central design Of the circle is an altar
erected among mountains. A wreath rests
upon the altar. To the right Of the circle is the
following inscription: Thirty dollars. This
bill entities the bearer to receive thirty Spanish
milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or
silver, according TO a resolution of Congress-
passed at Baltimore, Feb. &c. 17?7. j. Bsrney. -
the reverse side has border aud two circular
designs, representing scenes on the ocean
Thirty dollars" and Printed by Hall & Sell
lers" are the words stamped above and below
the designs.
ONE Of the most unique mechanical devices
resorted to of late, says the New York Sun. is
at for inclined and horizontal log hauling at
the Hudson River paper pulp mills The ar
rangement consists OF an endless detached
chain running in recess at the bottom or the
trough, having special links with log teeth
every five feet, and passing over sprocket
wheels Whose centerS are 200 feet apart. The
head wheel is twenty five feet above the foot
wheel, and the head end of the chain swings and
can be raised or lowered by means of a small
winch to suit the depth OF the water The logs
are hoated to the haulingup, and, as they come
around the foot wheel are caught on the teeth
of the chain and carried up the incline at the
rate OF l25 feet a minute; on arriving at the top
they are discharged into q horizontal log haul
having head and foot wheels nearly 600 feet
apart, the whole being similarly constructed to
the inclined haul-the return chain supported
by toothed iders-and DETECTING piece ia
placed across the horizontal conveyer, by which
the logs, elevated by the chain, are thrown out
of the trough and rolled over the side upon long
skids Great saving Of time and cost ia thus
effected, 25-horse power being employed though
some Of the logs are Of immense size
WHILE we usually think of earthquakes as
taking place on land, they do. indeed. occur
with equal devastation in the ocean SAYS a
writer in ST. Nicho1s. That point in the earth
at which the explosion or breaking takes place
is called the earthquake focus; and from il
what are known as earthquake waves pass to
the surface. What do these earthquake waves
resemble? Take a basin full of water and din A
glass tube in it. Blow through the tube and YOU
will see bubbles rising to the surface, and cir
cular waves passing out The disturbance at
the bottom OF the basin corresponds with the
explosion or swapping OF the crust at the earth
quake focus, with this difference that instead
OF water waves, the latter produces earth
waves, passing through the ground. When
the city. OF Lisbon, Portugal, was de-
stroyed, the earthquake took place In the bot
tom of the sea fifty miles west of the city, Yet
1t so agitated the water that a wavo sixty feet
high dashed over Lisbon, destroying it and its
inhabitants in the space OF six minutes An.
other earthquake, occurring just off the coast
OF Peru, made such gigantic wave that large
vessel was thrown several miles inland These
are called earthquake waves. They are the
largest known waves and are caused by the
heaving and rocking Of the bed Of the sea In
deep water such waves are not very high. but
their motion extends far down into the ocean
When they reach shallower water, however
they heap up like gigantic wall, and, with a
force more terrible than fire or sword, they
sweep on. bearing destruction with them
Huge ships are tossed like straws far inland
or mingle their ruin with that OF harbor
town