The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-01
ITEMS oF INTEREST.

eAASAS
Count Herbert Bismarck is about to reap
pear in public life. He has become a candi-
date for seat in the Prussian Diet.
The largest sapphire in the world is said to
belong to Mrs. John w Mackay. She bought
ii from Russian prince for $4,000.
Hans Richter, who is to take Nikisch's place
with the Boston orchestra. is one of the most
distinguished conductors in the world.
Jules Verne, who is about to bring out his
| seventy fourth novel is said to be a native of
Warsaw His real name is said to be Olche-
witZ.
Lord Shannon, who before his succession to
the title served on a ranch in Manitoba is
now known among his friends as the cowboy
peer"
A western man now in Egypt doesn't think
much of that country. THE pyramids" he
says, ARE simply big stone piles. see moth
ing remarkable about them, except that they
must have been built by remarkable fools.
The Sphinx is little better. The old girl has
lost her nose. but is quite pert yet. The finest
institutions here are the American girls who
come over to see the land. -
The botanical department of the University
of Pennsylvania is making a special study of
the effect of climate upon plants. For this
purpose collections have to be obtained from
the mountainous and lowland districts of
various regions. In this the university is be-
ing assisted by many individuals who are in
terested in the subject Collections are being
made in Alaska, Turkey, Ecuador, Florida
and California.
They are experimenting with an electric
cab in Berlin by having 1t run races with the
ordinary horse cabs. The reports to date
seem to show the superiority of the vehicle
propelled by electricity. A distance Of six
English miles was covered in twenty min
uteS, or at the rate of about three minutes a
mile, by it "a rate with which no horse can
compete" This, of course, refers to cab
horse.
Fish nets are made from some very strange
materials. The Esquimaux manufacture them
from strips of seal hide and from thin slices
OF whalebone. By the Filians they are con-
structed of human hair Savages in various
parts of the world plat the inner fiber of tree
bark for fishing lies, and the Indians on the
Pacific coast of North America use for the
same purpose sea weed---a sort of kelp which
is strong enough to hold a tinny captive of $50
pounds weight.
1t is only with the Restoration" drama
that the annals Of actresses on the English
stage begin. Queen Henrietta Maria wife of
Charles l., had early made vain attempt to
introduce the French fashion of female
players into her adopted country by the estab-
hShment of a French company, composed
only of women, in London; but the expert
ment was premature and the foreigners were
Missed and pelted off the stage at their first
performance. Until 1860 the female Larts had
always been taken by boys.
Londoners are trying to show that Benia-
min Franklin was not the first experimenter
in atmospheric electricity or the inventor of
the lightning rod. II is said that a Catholic
priest named PrOcOpiuS DiWiSch as early as
June Is, 1854, noticed that lightning was an
electric spark and worked out a complete the
DRY OF atmospheric electricity. At this time
he was living in small Bohemian village
and ne constructed rod having 324 needle
points, connecting the bottom of it to the
earth. Why he didn' tadvertise the fact at the
time is not mentioned.
An American acrobat in Vienna won a queer
wager on Wednesday of last week. He bet
considerable sum with Vienna strong man
that he could not endure to have a litre of
water fall drop by drop from a hight of three
feet upon his hand When 800 drops had
fallen the athlete face became red and he
looked as If in pain. At the 43oth drop he
gave up. saying 1t was impossible to bear the
pain any longer. The palm of his hand was
swollen and intlamCd and in one place the
skin had broken open. Only small portion
OF the Itre Of water had gone to make up the
420 drops.
A remarkable exhibition of instinct was
exhibited by a horse at Oil City, Pa, one day
last week. Sunday night the horse was
brought into the stable lame, and the stable
men thought ii was from a sprain. i hey we're
rubbing the leg with IMMINENT Monday morn
ing, when the horse broke away from them
and ran into blacksmith shop in the neigh
borhood. Here he wheeled up to the horse
sheer and lifted up his lame leg. The man
examined the leg and foot and found that an
improper driven nail had penetrated into the
quick of the foot. The shoe was reset and
the horse returned to the barn.
A locomotive working under a pressure of
40 to 165 pounds to the square inch of boiler
surface can move a train with a velocity as
high as sixty miles per hour and under excep-
tionally good circumstant es and conditions
even seventy five miles in the same length of
time. While we are apt to set this down S a
wonderful rate of speed, says the Philadelphia
Press, it is slow very slow, when compared
with projectile fired from modern great
gun of the 100-ton variety. Such missiles
pushed forward through the air at the IN
thinkable rate of 1866 miles per hour, the i'm
polling force exerting a pressure of As 600
pounds to each square inch.
Alfred G. Mathews, superintendent of the
gas works at Manayunk was admitted to
Jefferson hospital suffering from an agera-
waited attack OF gangrene, which will necessi- /
tate the amputation of his right leg probably
at the knee joint, says the PHILADELPHIA
Record. Mr. Mathews has been suffering
from a corn on the great toe. From time to
time he has been pairing this corn with an or
binary penknife. About a week ago the toe
became so sore that he could no longer wear
shoe. His family physician saw that gan
creme had set in and ordered his patient N he
taken to a hospital DR.. Dahoney who has
charge of the case, says he has never before
seen a case of dtabetic gangrene in the hos
plldl ne SdlQ ldSI 0lBlb LndJ Sucn a disease
was of unusual occurrence. 1T always oc-
ours he said, from careless cut in pairing
the nails of the tigers or toes. which being
turthest from the heart. are more apt to gen
crate gangrene, A cut may be made into
what is commonly known as the quick and
the inflammation which follows occasionally
develops into gangrene.'
A Louisville lady gives the Boston Globe
this interesting account of her search for the
nursery godmothers grave: Mother Goose
was Miss Elizabeth Tester before she mar
ried Mr.. Goose. AS far as can learn she was a
widow when she came to Boston. She made
her home with a nephew by the name of
Fleet who kept little printing shop in Pud-
ding lane. They lived back of the Shop and
old Mrs. Goose used to sit on the sidewalk
under the window and make up doggerels for
the little Fleet children. She had some music
in her voice, and the tunes and rhymes at
tracted all the children in the lane and con
siderable custom to the shop At the request
of his patrons Fleet printed the RHYMES and
gave them away, and in that way the poet got
TO be known as Mother Goose. She is buried
in Granary cemetery, not far from the crave
Paul Revere. All the graves of the Fleet
family are marked in some way, but the
stones are very much crumbled, and I am not
certain whether the printers name was Fleet
or Flint the middle letters being almost OBJ |
liberated. The old sexton was only sure of
the location of Mother Goose's grave Years
ago he tranSplanted wild viOletg and farms