The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


could be laid bare we should have a most singu-
lar spectacle. There would be number of
mountains with truncaued tops scattered over
AZ, and those mountains would have the appear
ance just the very reverse OF that presented by
the mountains see on shore. You know that
the mountains on the shore are covered with
vegetation at their bases while their tops are
barren or covered with snow, but these mount
aims would perfectly bare at their bases and
al around their tops they would be covered
with beautiful vegetation of coral poypi.
The new felt armor. now under trial in Ger
many, is likely to bs popular with the soldiers
in these days of high explosives and bullets that
penetrate ordinary eaTthworks. Armor for men
Is as logical as armor ships. 1t all very
we'll TO 20 exposed when twenty to one nobody
would hit you in cattle or, if he did wouldn't
hurt you But nowadays guns shoot with so
much precision and so far that fellow may
be Tldded with bullets before he knows 1t, IN
less lie carries a spyglasS Either the felt armor,
then, or peace. Perhaps tho era will be
one in whicl everybody will respect and deal
kindly with his neighbor as he does with an ar
senal.
AT the sale Of collection of postage stamps
last month"; some of the principal prices were:
Hawaiian Islands, 1851 cents blue 1885:
New Haven, 1915. envelope, 3 cents, red, very
rare, 1925; Baltimore, 1916, envelope, cents.
blue, great rarity, S225; State. S., black and
green, rare, $50; Confederate States. Baton
Rouge, La, 1861, very rare, ST.; France 1S49,
frauc vermillion, S34 State $40, black on green,
rare, S}G 5O Confederate States, Mobile 1861. )
cents, black. S83; State, $40, black and green.
S3Z; Dominican Republic, 1862, green. $50, Do
mincan Republic, 1882 green, $2S; st. Louis,
le45, 10 cents black $50; st. Louis 1916 S cents
black, very rare, SSl.
THREE ROUTES for cable to the Sandwich Is
lands have been surveyed, and they are all
practicable. One was by the Tuscarora and
Two by the AIoatross. According to Commander
Tanner, who was in command of the latter yes
sci, the deepest sounding on the outward vow
age to Honolulu from Salinas pier was 49, 996
Feet, there being depression at this point 900
feet below the general plateau. In returning
the soundings were followed few miles to the
south OF the outgoing route, and the ocean bed
was found quite suitable for cable laying This
Is the route recommended by Commander Tan
ner, From the Sandwich Islands an extension
TO China and Japan and perhaps Australia
would follow.
OVER 100000 troops were under arms last
weeks standing for hours facing the silent rail
way tracks waiting for the imperial special
train to whirl past them on the way from St
Petersburg to Sebaslopol The whole tremen.
dous length CT this guard line was closed to or.
binary traffic for twelve hours prior to this
passing. ALI rolling stock was side-trscked at
tae termini OF divisions. Abous the middle of
May these precautions will be repeated for the
return or the autocrats, and meantime saws the
London correspondent of the New York jImes
what passes Tor the imperial government of
Russia Will be transacted from the remote
Crimea. 1t is said that the cars son. George
who has now been long time at q sanitarIIIm
on the steppes drinking koumss for his health
has added complications to parental anxiety
about him by falling in love with fair young
Ctrcas ian, whom he vehemently desires to
marry
THE great organ for Festival hall at the
world fair. which is almost completed, will be
q wonderful pi sce of workmanship. 1t win have
4,Ol4 pipes and SO speaking stops, not SO many
as there are in the organ Of the Chicago Audi
T66nArt ha rrlH % fair
organ will be superior being voiced and put on
as high wind pressure as the pipes will per-
init. In the matter of room the builders have
not been Stlnted, which was the case when they
constructed the Auditorium organ. SiRhtseers
will have access to all parts of the Festival
hall instrument. The echo organ will be
placed at the extreme end of the hall, and will
be operated by 800 feet of electric cable Mar.
velous effects will be possible between the main
and echo organs. The performer can be play
ing on the greater instrument and in an instant
carry his listeners to the farther end OF the
building Dininuendos can be made TO die
away effectively with the aid of the echo organ
The pipes are to be elaborately decorated and
supported by female figures. The height of the
case will be thirty eight feet, the depth twenty
five, and width thirty four. The wind pressure
will be supplied by electricity.
For seven years past, says the New York
Sun, Prince Albert of Monaco has sought to de.
termine more definitely the currents of the At
lantic ocean and their rate of speed In the
| years 1885, -'S7 he made series of exreri-
ments upon the currents of the eastern Atlantic
in his sailing yacht HirondeIle In the first wear
he launched 1863 floats at intervals along line
| about ITO miles long near the Azores. These
| floats were wooden casks, copper globes and
| glass bottles all weighted so as to prevent any
| part of their bulk emerging from the water and
catching the wind. This experiment being
| fairly successful his work next year was on q
| larger scale. He launched so floats along a
| line in the Atlantic $40 miles long.
| His most extended operations were in
| 1873, when he launched 93l floats of
| thick glass covered with copper along
/ the line extending from the Azores to the Grand
| Banks of Newfoundland. Eaca float contained
/ a document printed in nine Ian guages, request.
| ing any one who found one of the floats TO de.
liver it to the nearest maritime authorities with
| information as to the place and date of finding
| it. OF these floats, launched far across the
North Atlantic, 277 we're returned TO the prince
Thirty-seven Of them were washed up on the
| shores of the Azores. 8 on Madeira u on the
British sizes, 35 on France, IA on SPAIN on
| Africa, % on the West Indies and on the Ber.
mudes. The general result of this work seems
| to show that q little to the southwest OF the
| Azores is a great vortex in the ocean. When
| floats enter this region they remain there for
months. The prince found that the circulation
| of the currents is more active on the west
| half circle of the vortex than Oh the eastern
| half circle, and this is explained by the com
bined action of the trade winds. equatorial cur
rent and Gulf stream. The velocities which
| were most accurately determined were those
furnished by floats recovered on thickly
populated coasts because they were
quite certain to be soon picked up. The mean
velocity for the region comprised between the
Azores Ireland and Norway was found to be
abous 81 nautical miles in twenty-tour hours
Between the Azores, France, Portugal and the
Canaries. it was 5.lS nautical miles in twenty
four hours. The current from the Canaries to
the West Indies, the Bahamas and Bermuda
attained lo.il nautical miles in twenty-four