The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

managers have placed contracts for 4500 arc
lights OF 1000 nominal candle power and for
$1,000 incandescent lamps. In addition there
VIII oe lO,OOO lamps as special exhibits. The
generators will be Of 1900 horse power, con-
tracted, and 600 horse power, donated. For
electrical fountains alone there will be in
stallation OF 500 horse power capacity. The az
gregaie OF the electric installation amounts to
1880 horse power, with an aggregate boiler
the capacity of 900 horse power. With this
It Is expected an effective total OF $4,000 horse
power will be realized.
THE latest theory of those who believe that
the Naronic is still aoat is that she is drifting
around 10 the giant eddy of the North Atlantic
system Of currents called the Sargasso sea.
Derelict sailing vessels, usually partly dis
inasted hulks drifting In this see. are reported
sometimes at intervals Of three months. II is
said that as the Naronc has not enough sail to
give her steeraSe way, she may be slowly
swinging around the circle like a derelict. She
might 60 this long tlms without much iucon-
veniencs to her crew, as she has many eatable
and drirkable things in her cargo Among the
former are several crates OF prize fowl that were
intended for the poultry show. If the White
star line really believes that the Naronic is in
the Sargasso sea, it might not be Improbable to
SEND vessel out to find her.
ONE of the oppossums at the Central men,
agerie was found dead In his cage the other
morning, says the New York Tele0ram His
tail made circle around his neck and was
caught between the wire meshes OF the cage.
hanging like little fur ball, It was a clear case
OF suicide. The opOssums were in the cage
near that Of the Wildcats and one Of these
animals was found lying dead UPON the floor OF
its den. The cat had died during the night in
an unaccountable manner. It was thought
that he bad choked to death while attempting
to swallow bone. Director Smith is quite
certain that the opossum committed suicide
for its tail had first been coiled about its neck
and then thrust between the wire meshes and
caught by the weight Of the body. The bodies
Will be stuffed aud placed on exhibition in the
Museum of Natural History.
LEON ABBETr's golden number seems to be 8,
and this mineral or its multiple appears in all
the principal events of his life, says the New
York Times. He has had three degrees, q fact
not generally known. He was made a bachelor
OF arts and master of arts by the Philadelphia
hlgh school, from which he was graduated and
a doctor of laws by Princeton College He was
born in Philadelphia in 1885 was graduated
from the high school in 1858 and In 1853 he be-
gan his public life as corporation counsel Of the
city OF Hoboken and thirty years after that
time, almost to a month, he makes probably the
last important move in his life ana taxes his
seat as supreme court justice in the year 1893.
He ran for governor in 1883 and was elected by
q majority OF $500 He was three times a mem
Der OF the House of Assembly and served three
years in the state Senate. He was three times
defeated for United States senator When IL
comes now to the multiple we find that he is SO
years old. began his legislative career in 1866 in
1876 was delegate to the national convention
anu IN IcoH ueteated Gen. e. Burd Grub by
majority Of II, 253.
IT would seem that public demonstration so
far as the Inauguration of a President is con-
cerned could go no further than 1t has in recent
years. The Inauguration bali especially an.
pears to have reached it's zenith of glory. Hugh
Coyle OF circus fame has q scheme however
thal ecllpses In scope anything in this line ever
drsamt OF by the most enthusiastic camp fol
lower. Mr.. Coyle like true circus man and
disciple OF the only Barnum, proposes a 'at1-
pendous aggregation" of inaugural balls to be-
held At the sans time. The balls will be held in
every big city In the unon-and, IN fact every
little city also that has spunk and patriotism
enough to come into the arrangement-on the
night OF March 4 and will start OF sim
utaneously ON the same programme Of DANCES
10 maze TINS possible it Is proposed to connect
all OF the ball rooms with the great inAugura-
ton ball room in Washington by wire, lust as
electric clocks are now run on observatory
time. The managers Of the Washington ball
] would give the signal which would start 500 OJO
feet stepping to the same music, and half as
| many swaying figures moving in the may. IL
might be little early for San Francisco to get
into dress suit, but no matter. We would All
have to make some sacrifices. Another SIGNAL
could be given every time the incoming admin
istration took drnk-so 100000 people could
idea are immense.
THE deepest wells, says Spare Moment,
are artesan ones so named from Artois. one of
the old provinces Of France where they long
were used, though 1t is said that similar ones
existed from remote antiquity in China and
Egypt, and had been introduced into italy he
fore they were known in France The soil ia
bored till place is reached wnere water has ac.
cumulated, when it is forced up by that which
stands at higher level than itself and il rises
to the surface, or even above it, as a fountain
The deepest boring in the world is at Speeran
berg. twenty miles south OF Berlin this we'll
being sunk for the purpose Of obtaining a ann
ply OF rock salt. A bore hole of 16 feet in diam
eter was carried down to the depth of 200 feet
where the salt bed began. After a further
descent Of $50 feet, the bore was reduced
to 10 inches diameter, and then continued
till the extraordinary depth Of 4,I9I
feet was reached. without having
pierced through the salt deposit, which
has thus the enormous thickness OF at least
3 1907 feet The next in depth is that at the in
sane asylum in the town OF St. Louis Mo a.
s4316 feet, which was stopped at that point. q
it produced only lime; then Watson's, known as
the deep well" at Titusvile, Pa, $50 feet
which, however, is dry, and produced nothing
Then there is that at Louisville In Kentucky
which produces plentiful supply 2,0S6 feet in
depth; that at Passy. near Paris i 923 feet:
that at KisSengen, in Bavaria. l,S7S16 feet and
the one at Gren lie, near Paris, celebrated for
its disasters and delays, which caused il to oc
cupy eight years in boring, 1888 to iS41; but IL
gives 100000 gallons daily, the water rising
thrty-two feet above the surface, with tenn
perature Of S1Ho Fahrenheit. Petroleum or
natural gas wells have been sunk to a depth ~
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