The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-25
rrEws OF INTEREST.

I hsrv "a serrcthirr rerarkanle fr SIS variety az
/ least. A BaEar correspondent had occasion
recently % discipline his son. Who had featilel
nat interesting aEe. ln the presence q some
| q the boy little friends. Whether ne was
more astounted than amused at the uproar
| ious comment % the little culprit Is an open
| question Al all events be vas interested %
| hear the small youth shout. in tones betoken-
| ing derisiFe spirit DO you know what my
papa f.; Hes nothin' but a one-year-old kid
that's what '-Harper's Bazaar.
Helen Louise johnson. the editor Of Table
Talk has been astonishing the natives az the
worlds fair recently with her wonderful ex-
hibitions Of cooking By electricity. and In the
} une number Of the magazine she tells al
about how Il Is done. She says that IN the
Minnesota Clubhouse. a. 81. Paul. all the
| cooking is done by electricity, and the fastid-
fOus members declare that they never before
knew the Joys Of perfectly broilsd steak and
chops The electrical ovens are marTels OF
neaLness and convenience and yet most sim
pie They are made Of Russia iron lined with
wood and asbestos. which allows OF absolutely
no radiation OF heat into the room One would
think that such cOntTfvanCes would be q god
send 70 the cooks Of the southern latitude
IN the geological gardens al Breslau recent
II South American boa constructor contend
ed for a rabbit with a large python from west
Africa. Il did not succeed. however. the py-
tnon being the stronger Of the two and u
Withdrew About two hours later the keeper
found the same snakes fighting for another
RABBIT. As the keeper supposed that the boa.
which was the weaker OF the TWO. would again
give up its prey. he left them to themselves
and went home. The next morning he was
hOrrOr-stricken 70 find that the unfortunate
boa had not let 20 its hold and had been swal-
lowed by the python as pendant TO the rab-
bit. The boa was nearly seven feet long and
correspondence thick The python had al
ready swallowed one rabbit before the one
which proved fatal 70 the boa Its efrcumfer-
ence throughout its length was from twenty
three TO tWenty-eighE inches and its skin was
expanded TO double its usual size. The sup
position that the snake might, perhaps, not
be able to digest the boa proved false Diges-
ton only proceeded somewhat more slowly
than usual
Telegraphing from train in motion has for
some years been practiced in this country.
but in this. as IN many other electrical appli-
cations, American is ahead Of European
practice All Europe stood hOrror-stricken
not long ago at the awfulness OF a railway &C
cident on the Riviera The station-master
dispatched train on the wrong line to its
doom OF rushing into another train and
crashing over the precipice. Bells were rung,
and people shouted. but there was no means
OF stopping the train wrongly started, and
the station-master shot himself as he heard
the crash. This and other accidents, more or
less similar. have appealed so strongly to
railway directors for the necessity of estab-
fishing means Of communication from trains
In motion that European engineers are
whereby this can be effected. Some
recent trials at Algeria are said TO
have been most successful The tests
including G) the exchange of kilograms be-
tween train in motion and the station ~
between two trains in motion; (3) tho tele-
graphic stOppage Of a train; started and out
OF sight, IL was ordered TO stop, start again
and return to the station az two trains
started on the same track and approaching
each other at an express speed of nearly one
and One-quarter miles minute avoided col
ltslon by mutually and automatically warning
each other by an indicating Of their direction
and the position according to bilometer posts
which they had attained. The signalling ar
rangements are carried out by NJ Etienne,
the well known inventor. The fact was es-
tab1shed that every train can be kept within
actual call Of the station at any point in its
route and thus one Of the most fertile causes
OF frightful accidents on railroads may
now be removed.
During storm at Morbihan, June 81, 1916,
the hailstones in some instances actually at
tanned the size of a turkeys egg, and one
measured 50 inches in circumference Nav
4, 1897. hailstone was found in Staffordshire
England. which was Tx inches in circumfer-
ence. Nolney tells Of a storm at Ponchar-
train In which hailstones fell which we're as
large as mans fist, and one which he found
himself weighed five ounces. Volta records
ha1lstone found in the nelghborhood OF Como
which weighed nearly nine ounces, and there
is good authority for the statement that hail
stones weighing as much as a pound fell at
Constantinople October g. 1881. But there have
been still more remarkable instances. says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, il we accept the
statements coming apparently from reli-
able sources, During hailstorm at CaZorta.
in Spain, June Is, 1879 some of tho blocks Of
ice weighed four and a half pounds. 1t is the
general opinion among scientists that for
hailstones to attain such proportions several
must have been fastened together. either
when they reached the ground or while in de
scent, Under no other circumstances can the
possibility Of the above and the still more
wonderful phenomena to follow be admitted.
Even So there is good reason to doubt Flam-
marion's statement that during the latter
part Of October, 1874 an awful hurricane de-
vastated southern France, in which hail
stones weighing eleven pounds fell or that
of DIR. Foissac, who cites an instance
in which hailstones measuring three
feet in length and width. with thickness Of
two and one-quarter feet, fell to earth. When
DR. Foissac was accused Of exaggeration he
emphatically insisted on the truth Of his
statements and to better maintain them
added: m. Hue, a Catholic missionary in
Tartary. relates that hailstOnes of a remar-
kable size often fel in Mongolia, and that
some Of them have. been found to weigh
twelve pounds During a heavy storm in
1913 noise as Of a terrible wind was heard in
the air. and soon after there fell in a field not
far from our house piece of ice larger than
milestone. 1t was broken up with a Ratchet.
and though the weather was very warm it
took tn zee days to melt it completely"
A new and ingenious Continuance has been
put on the market at Berlin and London. For
some time DR.. Streeker, chief inspector Of the
German government telephone department
mas duNOCdbSu iut IiitdSuTllg OF Inc BblGDlOQlC
conversation carried on ny each individual
subscriber. thus enabling the telephone com
pauieS to check the misuse by inconsistencies
on the one hand and to divide the burden of
payment on the part of the subscriber com
rnensurately to the number and length of con
versations INDUCED in. 1t is obvious that
such a system, which asks a subscriber to pay
only for services actually rendered by the
telephone comp Y is far more reasonable than
that which charges indiscrirninately a yearly
rental no matter whether the subscriber
be a busy stockbroker, merchant or fashion
able tradesman, who is constantly ringing IN
the exchange, or a retired farmer who only
occasionally unhooks his receiver Dr.
Streeker suggested the construction of an in
strument which would register the
time of each conversation from the
time of ringing up the exchange to
the ringing off signal. He showed
that 1.-The principle of charging for tele-
phonic conversation according to the time.
which has been successfully introduced and
practiced on long-distance lines, could and
would be made universal if q simple re-
liable and accurate meter could be devised
The German government telephone depart
ment thereupon issued a programme in
viting the construction Of telephone meter
that would enable the yearly rental to be
abolished and the substitution of fixed rate
according to the duration of the conyersa-
ton. This invitation has been taken up by a
leading firm of telephone engineers, who have
patented an approved form of telephone
meter. The object Of the instrument Is an
nOunced as being to control the duration Of
telephone conversations and to total nm the
same. 1t is intended to connect II to the tele