The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ACCORDING TO Dr. Joseph ID. Craig, before the
Albany Medical Society, there was found in the
| stomach Of a young Swedish woman of "a, after
her death in the state hospital for the insane,
81 halrpins, 10 needles or pieces of needles, 3
darning needles, so nails varying in length from
u inch to inches, screws lone of them 216
Inches long) pieces of iron 31S inches long
and "a inch thick, rolls OF hair, 2 pieces of
wood, and pieces of cloth leach about inches
| long and inch widel The metal pieces were
very much corroded and some OF the pins and
hRirpins were bent.
AT AMERICAN FLAG in Southern California
lives an old woman of So, who in her early
youth had high valuation placed upon her by
her church. Her fathers brother Jesus Castro
fell in love with her. and she reciprocated his at
lection. None of the priests wohld perform the
ceremony. Castro offered one priest to give as
much as 5000 to the church il the marriage
knot could be tied This, however, was COZ
sidered too little. Finally it was agreed that if
Castro would give the girls weight in gold they
should be made man aud wife. He did so and
never regretted the price paid for his wife.
AwELLKNowN WRITER for one of the stand
ard publications of the United States in sum-
ming up the Irishmen's legends, tastes, fads,
ETC., has this to say in regard to their prefer
ence for green: The early Cslts worshipped
the dawn and the sunrise. Ii is more than
probable, therefore, that their liking for the
color green, which we see in their flags, sashes,
etc, arose from mistake among those who
had lost a thorough knowledge of the Irish Ian
guage- The sun, in Celtic. is called by a word
pronounced exactly like our word green " and
it is likely that the Irish fondness for that color
arose through the striking similarity of the two
words. In the same way when We talk about
a greenhouse we think they are so called be-
cause plants are kept green in them during the
winter: yet 1t far more more probable that the
word is derived from the old Celtic word for sun
because greenhouses are SO built as to catch the
rays and heat OF the sun and store them for
future use.
~ lfafh a0 s,.akA aa, -
wages paid In Germany to the whole Of the
railway employees on the state railways in that
empire, beginning at the presidents Of direc-
tion Of whom there are eleven, down to brakes
men and the poorer officials. These presidents
do not reap colossal wealth, their pay being a
little over $500 year onlyj and this is by long
way the highest salary paid upon the railway
Telegraph inspectors, of whom their are only
eighteen, get from ECO to 5000; bookkeepers
and secretaries. 800 to eiS); ticket stampers
and office Clerks from ESQ TO e75; porters or
| rather DorierS and ticket guards, { 10 to $50 a
| year; and the artisans and engine drivers get
but very poor pay, indeed, compared to the pay
on English railways. Drivers and the electric
machinists get from 500 10 9l00 year the
highest-that is not over 81 week; stokers
and assistants and this class of helpers from
81 week TO % shillings, and the semi-guard
| porterS. who sit in their great coats in all
weathers on the top of the train, get but from
| G40 to ECO year.
On the island which lies or this city in Puget
sound is one of the largest chicken ranches 10
| the world, saws a Port Townsend special to the
Fort Worth Gazette. This ranch is the prop
erty of George Hills and occupies the entire
island, which is about 1000 acres in extent The
ranch was started ten years ago with the idea
| OF making little % oney by supplying the an
Jacent cities with poultry, but it was soou dis
covered That the place had excellent qualih-
cations for such business, and the proprietor
made preparations to go into it on a grand
scae, with the result that he now not only sup
W1lfa rbsaA -lraks N1zaa
but sends large shipments of poultry to San
Francisco and Sacra mento, ana is even contem-
plating the shipment Of poultry to New York
and other eastern cities. There are now on the
ranch 10000 chickens, 10000 tnrSeya 4oO9
geese. soma being wild ones which have been
raised in captivity, and bring much better
prices for eating than the tame varetess 1e, 900
ducks of all KINDS. and pigeons innumerabIe
DIR Hills has 10 ade the study of raising fine poui
try his lifes object and is going very extensively
| into the breeding OF large species as well as
those which are good layers He has as yet
used no incubators, but is ARRANGING to have a
| number of them at work Iext year and thinks
| he can thus greatly increase his output.
FRANKLIN identified the lightning and q good
many have been Harvesting IL since, but Prof
Elihu Thomson, the eminent Lynn (Mass.) cleo
| trician, has gone further and proposes to make
it. In fact, he has made il down in his labora-
| tory in West Lynn. In q few days scientific
and electrical Journals will publish full details,
4
| Thomsons latest discovery. which might we'll
| be entitled a machine for making lightning
| The invention is at present OF moro scientific
| than practical interest, although there will he
| plenty of practical uses for it eventually. In
i brief, the professor has succeeded, by very sim
pie means IN securing extremely high potential
| discharges. In an arc electric lamp the car
| oons are perhaps three Sths of an inch apart.
| and in a search light little further The
| flame, when they are separated, acts as a con-
| ductor. In Prof. Thomson's new machine,
l however, the distance is eight inches, and of
| course no flame could leap so far The result
/ is that torrents of sparks are thrown Off with
| no interruption, and with report like the
| rattle of a gatling gun or case of common
! crackers The strength of the discharge ap-
| pears to be only limited by the size of the ma
| chine. 1t has been suggested to the professor
| that he form partnership with Prof. Dyren-
| forth, and that the firm furnish thunder storms
| to order. He however is skeptical regarding
the rain machine as practical invention, and
does not want to do so.
WHILE In Paris last summer l witnessed the
execution of two young thugs who kicked a
/ poor old woman to death and robbed her of
few francs" said a gentleman to the New York
| AdUeTrtser, who spends good deal OF his time
| abroad. and was certainly surprised at the
| dizziness and dispatch with which their heads
were chopped of. 1t is not half SO revolving a
| sight as hanging, or what imagine an cleo
| trocution must be. The guillotne, which is a
very small affair, scarcely larger than a corn
|
the big Place de la Roquette. Thousands
| OF spectators crowded around the Gordon
| drawn by the police-a crowd that sang
and laughed and shouted as if the occasion was
that OF grand fete. The executoner who is
| known as Monsieur de Paris, was dressed in
| solemn black of faultless cut He tested his
machine and waited until the prison gates
| opened. There was movement In the throng
as pale, slender youth appeared, supported by
| two of moEsieur's assistants His shirt was cut
away at the neck, laying bare hfs throat. He
was thrust against what was, apparently, an
upright board, but at the same instant
| as quickly as horse is hitched
/ TO fire engine, he was made fast, and
the board. with Its living burden, was
turned on hinge until 1t was horizontal. Then
the heavy triangular knife dropped, and the
| head rolled into a wicker-basket. The body
was dropped into another basket. Not a
minute elapsed before the second murderer APP
peared, and his head was chopped of with the
| same rapidltY. / never saw ANYTHING as rand