The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Philip Bruce of Richmond, secretary Of
the Virginia Historical Society, is in receipt
of letter from ex-President Harrison ex-
pressing the desire that his name shall be
proposed as member of that Organization.
This will be done at the next meeting of the
committee on membership.
romantic story comes from the Turkish
army. The discovery was made recently in
Prtstina that young girl named Hanl1o had
been serving for 80 years under her brothers.
name IN the Fifteenth regiment and had dis
tinguished herself by specially good conduct.
The sultan was informed, and when he learned
that the young girl had taken the daring step
in order to free her brother, who was the only
support of their mother, he bestowed a sches-
akat order of the third class on her, and
life pension of five Turkish pounds a month.
She was sent home, and her brother remains
free from serving.
when the President is interested and is
really giving caller or callers his earnest at
tention," says an observant Virginian in the
Charleston News and Courier, will rest
each one of his hands carelessly above the
hip, will smile, answer questions, and ask all
about the subject matter If the visitors
| hang on too long the President will begin to
| slide his hands down, and swing his arms to
| the rear just a little bit, That means he is
| getting tired. If he puts his hands entirely
| behind his big body so you can't see them,
! then il is time for the congressman and Office
| seekers to cut the conversation short. If they
do not the President then squarely locks his
hands behind him, closes his lips and frownS
gently, which to the observant caller means
that the time has arrived for disappearing. :"
A dispatch from Chicago says that Thomas
Edison has finally announced the nature OF
| his individual exhibit. 1t is the lxinetograph,
the last of a series of wonderful inventions
displayed in connection with the most YER
satile group Of monographs ever brought to-
gether 1t is to the eye what the monograph
is to the cara mechanical retina which
stores away living picture to be reproduced
IN all us actlon, every movement faithfully
shown at any time and at any place. With
the photograph 1t is possible to show, in
Chicago, Chauncey Depew delivering a speech
aboard the flagship Chicago in New York
harbor-not photograph of arrested action,
but the living man, his every gesture, the play
of expression on his face, the movements of
his lips. 1t will transmit and reproduce
motion OF any kind for any distance"
Another oriental discovery is Just an
nounced. Prof. Baeyer of the Munich uni
versity, in recent researches among the
mummy graves of Achmin, has discovered
notably upon the embalmed person of one
Princess Aft, an Egyptian royal highness en-
tOmbed some 3,4OO years ago, certain cos
metiCs formerly used by ladies of fashion in
the land of the Pharaohs. BY subjecting these
compositions to chemical analysis, he has
| been enabled to determine their ingredients
and exact proportions One of these cos
met1cS; 1t would appear had been an eye
| brightener, which no professional beauty of
expected TO
| dispense with, and which must have been an
expensive luxury, inaSmuch as its materials
! were imported from Hindostan. 1t had the
| property of lmparting verdant sheen to the
| iris of the human eye. Prof. Baeyer promises
| to make these cosmetics available to the con
| temporary female beautiier
A new style of pump has been set up at the
| Bridgeport pumping station of Chicago, which
takes the water from the Chicago river. called
| an ''undulating pump, which deserves the
! attention of drainage engineers. The princi-
| pie on which it works is that by which snake
| makes progress on the surface of the water
! but reversed. the water moving instead of the
! snake. The pumps are built on an incline and
! are to raise the water eight feet The face of
| the incline is covered with projecting points
! which are made to initiate as nearly as posi-
| bic the motion Of the water snake "One
! pump Is now ready for operation said As
| sistant City Engineer Feind. On the tests il
| has worked admirably There are to be eight
! of the pumps, and it is expected they viii lift
! 100000 cubic feet of water a minute. The pres
ent capacity of the pumping station is 10000
/ cubic feet per minute If the new pumps do
| work equal to our expectations there will be
no difficulty i'll keeping a current moving away
| from the river and there will be no cause for
| alarm regarding contaminated water at the
| cribs.
There is a difference of opinion between
| Howard Potter of New York and the White
Star Steamship Company as to precisely
! what the perils of the sea- are, and United
] lla
| Potter and his family came from Europe bv
| this line, and the Misses Potter had seven
! trunks full of good clothes direct from Paris
| When the trunks were opened in New York
| they were found to be soaked with salt water
| and the clothes were not preSentahle
| Gems" from Worth dripping with brine
| were OF no further use. except, perhaps as
| terrible examples of the perils of the sea
| The White star Line has a clause printed on
| its tickets which eXempts the company from
| liability greater than $50 for damage caused
J Of Of 1nH ~
| queen enemies. The company assert that
! on the way over the ship passed through some
! f1oa ting wreCkage, and drifting plank struck
| the port OF the vessel, staving it in, and ad-
| hitting a deluPe of water into the Compart-
| ment where the trunks were stored This
! they maintain as peril of the sea and thew
! decline to pay the s. ,s28 So which Mr. Potter
| says the ruined wardrobes were worth.
! Abram T. Hall, Jr., a negro, has written
| letter to the press warning the negroes of the
| country against company in the west that is
trying to interest them in a Brazilian coloni-
! zatiQn scheme The promoters of the com
pany are negroes, and they argue that there
are no invidious race distinctions in Brazil
| and that emlgrantS from the United States
will enjoy greater advantages, not to say
| social equality, there. This is a delusion Mr.
Hall says, and he points out: Brazil was
| but recently monarchy with slave holding as
| its chief cornerstone. and has class condi-
| tons growing out of its former federal rolirv
! similar in kind and degree to those which are
complained OF here 1t is a Catholic country
in point Of religion. and in that way is WHOLLY
| at variance with the moral bias of most of
| the negroes of North America. Placed in
| Brazil in any considerable numbers, with the
| brand of former serfdom in the country
| from which they came still on them and the
prejudice of being interlopers' held against
| them; in an unfamiliar climate amid
| strange people whose language, customs and
| aVocations we're foreign to ANYTHING thew
knew, their prospects would soon be blighted
IL Il al.