The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ARRANGEMENTS have been made In London to
transport to Chicago, for use at the worlds fair,
seven English COACHES and sixty horses, to-
gether with professional drivers and guards
These coaches will carry passengers from the
hotels TO the exposition grounds and return, at
prices commensurate with such fad, wnicn 1t
is believed will be exceedingly fashionable with
wealthy people.
The oldest postmaster in the service, accord
ing to Marshal Gushing, In his book, "The Story
OF Our Postoffce." is Roswell Beardsley at
North Lansing, this state, says the New York
Press. Mr.. Beardsiey was appointed during tue
administration OF President John Quincy
Adams in 1898 He is now 80 years old and has
held office consecutivey for sixty five years.
IL Is hardly necessary to add that he is demo
crat. During all these years." says Mr.. Cush-
ing, "Mr Beardsley Shas conducted his office to
the entire satisfaction Of the public, aud he has
never been reprimanded for failure to perform
his duties. He has never been in Washington.
The Office now pays him $40 year. The first
year OF his service his pay was $40 49,"
DISCUSSING the best color for a newspaper,
that is, the color Of the paper upon which the
printing is done, the London Spectator says:
The Westminster Gazette. the new evening lib
eral paper, which seems to us as good as even
ing papers are, invites comments on its color,
shade OF green. which Carlyle would probably
have considered a compliment to Robespierre'S
complexion. The managers, however. consider
it restfu to the eyes, and therefore easy to read
We do not Green is restful updoubt eddy, but
if the managers will look at coal dust on
meadow they will see that black upon green is
not Readers want to see the letters easily, not
the paper. Pink pauer blurS the types much
less. but the color which of all others throws
ink into best relief is sa iron yellow II is abom
iuably ugly, but il the editor of the Westnin-
ster Gdzette will look at any # the Sanscrit
manuscripts on srsenicated paper in the British
museum he will see that intense yellow throws
up even fine black lines This Is another shade,
a kind Of putty color, used by Mr.. Quaritch in
his wonderfully cheap Arabic edition OF the
Koran, which makes type quite strangely clear
II may, however, require a special ink.
IF lunar conditions are favorable to human
existence, says the St. Louis Republic, and it is
not certain that they are not, and you could be
transported to the top of Pico or some other
tall peak or rock on the surface of our "silvery
sister world, how do you suppose things would
look from such vantage ground? You would
probably first turn your eyes in the direction of
our earth, the world you had just Quilted, but
to you it would be a stranger In place of
the somber globe you would naturally expect to
behold your eye would be greeted with a most
wonderful sight. The earth would appear to
you to be sixty four times larger than the sun
appears to the residents Of this mundane
sphere; this because the earth has eight times
the diameter of the moon, therefore she must
necessarily show the moonites forty-four
times as much surface as the moon
shows us. The sun, the other hand
would appear no larger TO you from your OBJ
servatory on the moon than it does from our
III
has been decided that the earth must appear as
a blue ball to all outside onlookers. What
glorious sight 1t must be to our lunarian neigh
bors to look upon bright blue. swift-revolving
ball siXty-four times larger than the sun!
ANIMALS may hear sounds that are inaudibIe
to US, says Chambers Journal Certainly the
sounds that give the keenest pleasure to some
animals, cats, for example, are seldom capable
of giving pleasure to US. We know. of course
that sounds may be too low or too high; that Isl
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be audible to the human ear; but it does not
follow that they are equally inaudlble to differ
emily tuned ears. The limits of audible
sound are Sur.n not invar ,nnn, even
usually hear higher sounds than men, and the
two ears are not. as q rule, equally keen A
sound may be quite inaudiole 10 one person and
plainly heard by another Prof. Lloyd Morgan
mentions as an instance OF this a case In which
the piping of some frogs in Africa was so loud
to him as almost to drown his friends voice,
but OF which his friend absolutely heard moth
ingl The same thing may be observed by any
one possessing the little instrument known as
Cations whistle Tue sound made by this whistls
can be made more and more shrill, until it
at last ceases to be heard at ell by most per-
sons. Some can still hear It; but by raising the
sound still higher even they cease to hear. The
sound is still being made, that is the whistle is
causing the air still TO vibrate, but SO rapidly
that our ears no longer recognize it, though the
existence of these inaudible vibrations is de-
tected by sensitive flame, as was first shown
by Prof. Barrett in 1877.
THE little town Of Camden. Me-. ought to
have it's name changed to Hope" said a dealer
10 ship supplies and stores to New York Sun
writer, "for It turns out more of the emblems
of hope than all the other places In this coun-
try combined All OF the stately ships that
come out Of the Maine shipyards look ito that
little village on the Penohs cot for their
anchors. Scores OF sturdy smiths swing their
hammers day after day all the year ong in the
black. smoky, long. low Camden shops where
only anchors are forged. Sometimes the trip
hammers are going all night about the FORCES
and the blazing OF the fires and the
ring of the hammers are seen and heard
for miles away. Thousands OF tons of old
iron are purchased by these queer estab.
lishments every year, for anchors are
forged largely from cast-of iron. The mate
rial is cut into small pieces by great shears
that clip through the iron as easily as a cheese
knife slices a cheese. The pieces are bound
into bundles by strong wires, and are then
fused INTO the FORCES. Then they are pounded
and welded into the various parts OF the anchor
shaping the fiukes, others hammering out the
palms and others forging the shanks Then the
'completers' take the different parts and fuse
and weld them into the finished anchor Anch-
ors of all sizes and weights are turned out from
the noisy shops of Camden. the graceful little
pleasure boat anchor, weighing but a few
pounds, as well as the great $4,000 and 10000
pound anchors of the biggest ships. There are
many interesting relics at Camden in the line of
rusty and broken anchors that did duty in their
day on famous merchant vessels, historic war
shirs and sturdy whalers What is LETT Of the
anchor of the United States frIgate Cumber-