The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A syndicate has been formed in New York
city with a capital of s. 100000 for the con-
struction and equipment of a line betewen
Niagara Falls and Albany for the transmits
sion of electric power generated by the Nj
agara Falls Power Company with the waters
of Niagara river passing through wheel pits
into tunnel which has just been completed.
The tunnel is s 900 feet in length and twenty
four feet in diameter. The Niagara Falls
Power Company has expended nearly 5000,
700 in It's development at the fails and con
sumed nearly three years in the work. 1t now
seeks market for the electric energy thus
generated through the medium of transmit
ting IL to the cities and villages along its pro-
posed line supplying them with electricity
for light, heat and power,
The Baltimore Herald tells a remarkable
story Of horse that was five days in trance.
a few days ago Farmer Hubbard who lives
near Baltimore, went to his stable in the
morning to feed his horse, and found the ami
NAL apparently in great suffering. Thinking
the air would benefit her he led her out of the
stable, when she fell over on the ground and
after time, to all appearances, breathed her
last He hauled her body away to a remote
part of the farm, and piling some brush over
it, left IL to the disposal of nature. Five days
after he was surprised to see horse grazing
in his pasture. He went to see how the strange
animal got into his field and was almost par
alyZed to see that it was his faithful old Bess
that he had cast out for the crows. She was
ra Their worse for her experience, but lacked
a good deal of being dead. He approached
her, and she evidently recognized him and
submitted quietly to be led by the forelock to
the barn. The farmer called his wife to iden-
tify the horse, which she did, and then hur-
ried OFF to the place where he had deposited
the supposed corpse, to make sure he was not
deceived. He found the brush, with which he
had covered her, scattered about but the
body was not there. Old Bess had evidently
risen from the dead, or had never been dead
at all.
A %1,ok -,
was the inventor of the lightning rod; and, in
this one particular, nearly everybody is mis-
taken, says the st. Louis Republic The first
lightning conductor was not invented by the
genius who is said to have caught the light
ming wild and played with the bolts of thun-
der" but by poor Bohemian monk who lived
at Seuttenberg, who erected his lightning
catcher on the palace of the burator of Pre-
ditZ, Moravia on June 49, 1754. The name of
this inventive monk was Prohop DilwiSch.
His apparatus was composed of pole sur
mounted by an iron rod supporting twelve
curved branches and terminating in as many
metallic boxes filled with iron ore and inclosed
with a wooden boX-like cover. This was
traversed by twenty-seven iron-pointed rods.
the bases of which were connected with the
ore boxes. This entire system of wires was
united with the earth by large chain. The
enemies Of Dilwisch, jealous of his success.
excited the peasants of the neighborhood
against him, claiming that his invention was
the cause of the dry weather that was running
them and refused to remove il they put him
in prison and destroyed his work. NJ Nelson
used triple-pointed rod years before Benja-
min Franklin ever thought of a lightning rod.
The practice has become quite prevalent at
English seaports to use salt water for street
sprinkling, and the method and result accord
ing TO the Boston Transcript, are pronounced
very satisfactory. At Yarmouth, which has
population OF about $4,000, the salt water is
pumped by a gas engine, driving a pump of
$1,000 gallons daily capacity into tank at a
considerable elevation, whence ii IS delivered
through a special system of distributing pipes
8 miles long and 3 to inches diameter; these
pipes are Of cast iron, coated inside with a
special preventative compound. Tho total
consumption annually has been $4,000 gal
Ions for street watering, at a cost of cents
per 900 gallons being a considerable saving
over the expense of the same work when fresh
water was used the statement also is made
that during the summer months the dust is
kent under by the adhesive qualities OF the
salt in the water, and if the surface coating
formed by the salt is removed by sweepers at
the appearance OF the first, no disadvantage
Gus ede It's can be traced to the use of salt
water kt Birkenhead it is found that one
spread of salt water on the surface of a street
or road proves equal to about three spreads
of fresh water as the latter evdporates under
the heat of the sun, whereas the crust on the
surface left by the salt water keeps down the
dust for a considerable length of time. In an
other locality the report of the engineer
claims that one load of salt water goes as far
as three of fresh in that place and in various
other towns where this system has once been
put to the test it has been adopted as one pos
sessing special advantages.
The longest dance on record is probably
that of William Kemp an actor of some
celebrity in the reign Of Queen Elizabeth.
He was comedian and danced all the way
from London to Norwich. He was attended
by a laborer, servant and an overseer. and
the Boston Globe thinks. it was doubtless n
good thing for him that there were no omni-
buses or police then-for they would prOb-
ably have imposed more impediments in the
way of his progress than did the country peo-
pie. He started with several presents of
greats and crooked sfxpences for luck and
laden with these, danced to Stanford without
rest There many invited him to drink but
the notes of the tabor cut short his joculari-
ties, and he pranced of to IlfOrd where he
had to reject another carouse that was offered
to him. From llford he danced in the moon
light TO point near Romford and that ended
his first days exploit. Subsequently he went
in for early risings to avoid market people
and though suffering from a sprain OF the
hiR which he received, he danced it
we'll again to the delight of the crowd that &C
companied him, some 200 in number When
he reached Chelmsford he was so exhausted
that he could not dance at all for a time. and
his fourth days dance was hard one-thick
woods on each side and lanes full of deem
holes, so that sometimes, he says he .'slxipt
up TO the waist" which must have placed him
In a woeful plight. He rested at Baintree
and danced three miles off his next DAVIS
journey His next stop was at Sudberrv,
where butcher tried to dance with him bnt
in half mile he was tired and had to give in,
He danced the ten miles from Bury to Tibet
ford in three hours. His next stage was IN
Rockland, from which point his host at.
tempted to accompany him but Law down
from fatigue at the end of two fields When
he reached Norwich he had to dance in and
out OF the city twice, for his overseer missed
him in the crowd and made him do tho dc