The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

weeks ago fruit man gave Frank Eldredge a
small egg found in bunch of bananas from
the Sand " lch Islands. Frank put the egg in a
showcase curiosity, and nothing more was
thought of it until Friday. when Charley Miller
opened the case to get something. Imagine
his surprise when he found the egg had Matched
and beautiful little blue lizard was enjoying
himself among the soap boxes and perfumery
bottles His Hardship is quite an acquisition
TO EldreGge's amphibia, menagerie, museum of
natural curiosltIes. et1.c 7g
soxE very interesting as well as extraordinary
accounts have recently been given concerning
experiments in the production OF minute
threads frem gold. glass. platinum and other
substances. The most remarkable of these min
ute daments. according TO g. ". Boys, the ex-
perimentsr, are those of quartz. He says: LAS
torsion threads. these hbers of quartz would
seem to be more perfect in their elasticity than
any known They are as strong as steel, and
can be made of any reasonable length, per-
fectly uniform in diameter, and so fine as to
be beyond the power OF any microscope yet
made. The tail ends of these threads must be
at least 10 000. 900 times smaller than ordinary
spun glass. OF course, it is impossible to ma
nipulate these minute filaments, although there
Is no difficulty In measuring thresds less than
the one-thousandth part Of an inch in diam
eter." .@
TEXAS steps to the front this cold snap with
hail stones 6 to S inches in diameter and weigh
ing four pounds, says the New York sun. Pink
ish clouds. roaring sounds, and various inter
esting phenomena preceded the distribution of
free ice. The hail stones, says a Gay Hill cor
respondent OF Galveston paper, started in
small sizes, increasing gradually to
the size of small hen eggs" and so on until
the hail fell in large Jumps ranging from 8 to
inches in diameter, which weighed four
pounds" Some were spherical, some fiat but
all were covered oval knobs They fell from two
feet to twenty feet apart in some cases pene-
trating the soft earth for three inches. The
careful CORES pendent was told by seN eral peo-
pie that hail stones eight inches in diameter
had fallen. He gathered a bushel Of the largest
hail stones, packed them WITH hay in a box,
and carted them to Brennan to show at the
postotfice as vouchers for his story. Many of
the hail stones had particles OF dirt in the CEN
ter. One hypothesis advanced Is that a norther
gathered up the chunks of ice from the big
lakes and carried them in the breeze to Texas.
THERE is senatorial courtesy and there is sena-
torial discourtesy. saw fragrant instance Of
the latter in the Senate last Friday, says the
! Washington correspondent of the New York
C0nlnierctdt Advert Sc, Senator GO don
had arisen bs and addressing Ing the Sen
whose bill was the calendar Senator His
cock of New York sat at his desk holding in his
hands a bundle of bills. Suddenly he arose
Mr.. President" interrupted Mr.. Hiscock.
| Nobody paid any attention to him, and Sena
tor Gordon continued with his address.
| tor, IN tone that attracted the attention of
| the Seuate Senator Gordon paused and the
Vice President loo~ei around. IF the sena-
|
Senator Hiscock. without so much as an apology
| for his interruption, II would like to introduce
| these bills for reference and he held out a
bunch of bills to the presiding officer Then he
handed the documents to a page sat down
| again and continued his c. nversation wi the
senator who was in the adjoining seat The
bills could have been introduced at a " time
Senator Gordon then resumed his interrupted
| speech.
| PEOPLE are apt to indulge apprehensions
| about the movement of waves OF the ocean which
| are erratc, born perhaps of illusionary infiu-
| ences. Every one has noticed the action of the
| wind on field of corn and seen the undulations
caused by its crossing the field in a few Sec
onds; but no one supposes that o single stalk
has left its place. AS with the corn wave says
the Brooklyn Eagle, so with the water wave,
the substance remains rising and falling in the
| same place, while it is only the form that moves
The speed of this movement depends on the
speed OF the wind When gentle breeze is
| blowing the friction between the atmosphere
and the water is small, and only a slight ripple
is produced ;abnt should the. velocity of the wind
| increase theTipples become waves or even bill
lows. mountains of water, moving at a tre-
mendous speed. The ripple of slow undulation
may move at q velocity varying from 8 or to
or miles an hour. and, Increasing in size to q
wave Of greater or less proportions, may have
speed Of from to Is or 20 miles
per hour, In g gale the rate increases
to 25 or 20. and during the storms has been
estimated at 80, IS and even 40 m les per hour
This latter speed is exceptionally great and far
exceeds the average. Waves which have re-
LTaveTS
the ocean at speed which is almost incredible
for instance. the great earthquake which &c
Cured at Samoda, in Japan, caused a wave
which travelled across the Pacific from that
country to San francisco, distance of nearly
| 5000 miles in not much more than twelve hours
that is to say, it raced across the ocean at a
rae OF aeout o1e miles per minute. TIE self
acting tide gauges at an Francisco which re-
corded the arrival of this great wave rendere 1
itquite cert ain that this was the actual rate of
progress Then again, the tidal wave which
4 vi dali 10 L.
! places at an enormous speed. 1t has been esti-
| mated that If the seas of the world consisted of
one uniform sheet of water the tidal wave
! would traverse them at the rate Of LOCO miles
per hour. As a matter of fact. it does proceed
! at something like half this pace across the Pa.
ciflc and Atlantic oceans The Intervention of
continent. islands and shadows. however re-
duces the speed in places TO not more than 40 or
| so miles per hour.
| COMPARATIVELY few people have heard of Mr.
| Fogg, c. P. Huntingtons confidential man of
affairs. Mr.. Fogg has been with Mr. Hunting.
| ton for twenty-five years in some respects Mr.
| Fogg suggests a character from Dickens He
Is along in the 70s, is quite tall and slender and
1 is possessed Of many eccentrcites He lives
! at the Plaza hotel and his rooms are flied with
costly bric-a- brac and valuable curioslties He
is also the owner of many suits Of clothes, and
one Of his fads IS said to be to keep gold coins
in the pockets Of each suit. While Mr.. Fogg
has his peculiarities he is regarded as a splen-
did financier. He has made fortune for him
self while looking after the interests of Mr.
| Huntington. when l was about to leave
| home, said Mr. Fogg to me, my father banded
me check for $1,000. refused to take it. 4
| intend to make my own way, SAID If | do
not succeed, your S1,50C viii not help me and il
l do succeed will not need it. No young man
starting cut in life requires any other capital
besides brains pluck and perseverance to make
a success l have been successful, but
Of course / have lost money That
is the experience OF nearly every man, / pre-
sumo, think have paid out over 81. 200, 100 70
frauds and swindlers at various times man
| must Keep his eyes open to avoid dubious IN
vestments. Mr.. Huntington" Mr.. Fogg added.
els not ambitious 10 merely accumulate dol
lars, In my opinion. So far as the making OF
money is concerned. he does not appear TO care
anything for it, l think his ambition 10 to have
his railroad properties when no dies, on as sub.
stantial a basis the Pennsylvania system.
And he will certainly accomplish IL II he lives"
II attribute my success in hfe.' said Mr.. Hunt
ington 10 me recently, ITO tho fact that never
! formed the habit OF watching clocks. As boy
| on a farm | can remember that the men we're
| always on the lookout TO see n IL was not time
10 quit. TIE mAu who works with his eye
| the cock 10 make sure that he will not work
| overtime will never attain success. ! have
never paid ntny attention 10 clocks IL / had
| anything % DO dad IL. show me the nlsn that
watches clocks and / will show you a failure;
| snow me the man who ignores them and will
/ bet that he has 'en successful, hase some.
| times thought that Il would be good thing 70
] abolish clocks altogether"