The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T IS SAID LlaC TWO lU-eenL confederate stamps
recently carried a small package from Granny,
Mass to Boston. The packaze had gone through
the postoffices at CRANKY, Hadley and Boston
unnOticed.
THE long standing controversy as to whether
the holy coat Of Treves or the holy coat Of
Argenteuil is genuine has, it Is stated, been set.
tied by o decision that they are both genuine
The Argenteul relic was worn by the Savior
when he was boy. while the coat OF Treves is
the one he wore on the day OF the cructhXton.
a GOOD BROTHER who recently offered q prayer
at a prayer meeting, says the New York
Tribune, started to make q reference to Noah.
but got little fiustered and forgot the name OF
the patriarch. After hemming and having for
few moments he turned to a nalghbor and
asked in loud whisper, who was it built the
ark?
In IRELAND, near Horn Head, in County Done
ga, there is a remarkable natural hole in the
rocks OF the sescoast, which is known all over
Britain as 'McSwiney's gun" 1t is believed to
be connected with sea cavern. When the sea
runs full" the gun" sends up jets of water TO
highth of more than 100 feet each spOutlng
being followed and preceded by loud explos.
ions. The gun is a perfectly smoth hole about
ten inches in diameter, and its history can BIS
traced back to the first settling of the country.
No one seems to know however, how it got the
name OF 'McSwiney's gun.
The COMMON WATER PUMP Of to-day is but an
improvement on q Grecian invention which first
came into general use during the reign OF the
Ptolemes, Philadelphes and Fnergetes, 263 to
22l b. G. The name, which is very similar in
all languages, is derived from the Greek word
"pempo, to send or throw. The most ancient
description we have of the water pump is by
Hero OF Alexander. There is no authentic
count of its general use outside Of Egypt pre-
vious to introduction into the Grecian prov
inces at about the sixteenth century. Pumps
with plungers and pistons were invented by
horland, an Englishman. in 1874; the double
acting pump by De La Hire, the French acade-
mician, some twenty years later.
A NEW HORSESHOE recently patented has for
its special object the obtaining of better foot
hold and the lessening of conclusion or jarring
effect upon the animals feet. The shoe is made
with apertures extending through it located be-
tween the position usually occupied by the
nails. The openings are of dovetail form and
usual nail holes are provided in the intervening
solid metal portions OF the shce Projecting
through the apertures are elastic rubber studs
which are fixed on strip OF rubber or leather
intervening between the metal shoe and the we'll
OF the hoof and through which the nails are
driven in the operation of shoeinR. By this con-
struction the grip Of the horses foot is i'm
mensely Increased, especially on slippery pave
ments, and the tendency of the morse 70 leg
disease is materially reduced.
THE certificate of the electoral vote of Mon
tana for President and Vice President is sealed
in novel manner. This new me Der OF the
union is not yet the possessor of a "Great Seal
of State" Therefore, when a Few weeks ago
the electoral college Of that state was finishing
it's work by sealing the certificates for President
and Vice Pr, sidert, they were put to test Of
ingenuity. Necessity proved the mother of In
venLioE in this instance. Heated sealing wax
was poured Jpn the flap of the big Envelope and
then, as a substitute for an official great
seal, " one of the electors pressed silver dollar
down its own depth into the wax, to MAKE an
exact impression of the coin. As q seal for the
so-called 'Sver state it was a good emblem,
90 the electors thought; and while they were
conRratuating themselves upon their clever dc.
vice the wax cooled and hardened. Then when
move the dollar piece as had been the inten-
ton, he found that the cart-Wheel coin was
stuck tight and to remove it would probably
spoil the seal on the package. So the dollar
was left there.
Dr.. CAMPBELL. q recent writer on medical
subjects, makes the etymology Of medical
terms a lightly interesting study. "Al
Olympus" he says, seems to have been inter
ssted IN medicine, while demigods, nymphs;
satyrs and naiads stroll through the various
here TO a plant incidentally and there to a dis
ease, symptom or part of the body" Speaking
of the gods-"Saturn," he says, has come
down to us in saturnine poisoning; Mars. the
god of war, has given US the martial prepare
tions; Jupiter Ammon, the horned god, 10 re-
membered In ammonia (hertshorn); some of
our instruments are OF vulcanized rubber; Mer-
curry, as Roman, has presented to us with
mercurial preparations, and as a Greek, with
the name of Hermes, he sees that our tubes are
Theoretically sealed; when we speak of the
tendo Achiliis we recall the classical tale relat-
ing how the son Peleus was held by the heel and
dipped by his Bea-born mother into the River
Styx to make him invulnerable; how this par
ticular tendon and the parts about 1t were not
immersed, and now Paris succeeded in infiictng
q mortal wound in this locality" These and
many other illustrations are given.
THE New York sun published recently map
of the world made by the Ooreans. The map
contains all the grand divisions of the world,
and Euro-Asia and Africa are represented with
some approximation Of truth. America, how
ever, is shown as a narrow strip of land ex-
outside Of the map. completely incircling the
othe other grand divisions. The explanation of
this strange delineation of the western world,
the Sun says, is simple and very curious This
map was produced some twenty years ago
while the CoreRns were still the hermit nation
Their geographers regard the world, not as q
globe, but as fat surface. When they were
told of vessels from any part OF the eastern
hemisphere visiting the eastern shores Of Asia
they heard invariably that these vessels came
from the west. They could readily under
stand, therefore. that all OF Asia, Europe
and Africa lay west Of them. They
heard, however, very strange thing
about America They were told that it was
one continuous land; out, remarkable to relate
they were informed that vessels coming from
America to China sometimes came from the
east; that is, from seaports on our Pacific
border; and sometimes, coming from Atlantic
seaports, they reached China from the west.
Now, believing as they did, that the world was
fat surface, how could vessels reach China
from America coming both from the east aud
from the wests The Coreans drew the only in
ference they could draw from their incorrect
hypothesis as to the form of the earth They
concluded that the continuous land of America
must be in the form of ring completely en-
circling the other great land masses of the
world and the remarkable appearance of the
western hemisphere on the Corean map is
therefore the result of their belief that the
world is fiat surface instead of q globe.