The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-10
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
! IT is the opinion of Mr.. Chatto the London
publisher, that Of amateur novel writer's only
about three in every 100 find their way into
| print During the last year his firm accepted
! iortyfour manuscripts out of 563 sent in
On March 81, forty-flve years ago, the Mag
ara river. above the falls, ran dry and people
walked over from the Canadian to the Ameri-
! can SIDE, close TO the precipico. In the river
! below i'm mense Jagged rocks stood up In the
channel where the maid If the dist makes her
| daily trips. It was tho only time In the history
ol the laIIS that this extraordinary freak CT ma
| ture was ever known to have taken place.
| The relative cost Of gas and electricity is dis
oussel by G. J. Russell Humphreys in the En-
| Gineeri1l0 Magazine and the conclusion IA
reached that with COS at 81 so per l. goo feet the
| same amount OF candle power from electricity
| VIII cost 81 61H, or one-fourth more This
| theoretical discussion agrees closely with the
actual fact In Massachusetts that electric light
| costs per unit of light about % per cent more
than gas This increased cost is due both to
| larger capital needed and the greater cost of
| producing electric light. The latter has really
won Its way through its superior convenience.
AFTER having been deaf and dumb for sixty
| five years, DR.. Livingstone OF Bennettsville
Conn, has resaned his power Of speech aud
hearing. About two weeks ago he awoke in
the night with very severe pain 10 his head
lie called out to his wife. who was sleeping be-
| side him. AT the sound of his voice she awoke
astonlshed TO hear him pronounce her name.
Her words were the first ne had heard since he
was an infant, and the revelation OF bis changed
condition astounded him. The pain in the
meantime grew less acute, and he and his
vile talked until morning Of his wonderful re-
| coVery.
EVEN Siam has awakened to the Importance
Of having navy. A twin-screw protected
cruiser, called the Maha ChakIkri, built at Leith
| for the King Of Siam, has recently completed
| her steam trials and made 1434 knots The YES
| sci is 80 fitted as to embo y the qualities of
| cruising war vessel and a yacht, with quarters
/ for the king and other members of the royal
family In the United States she would be
| called junketing vessel. She is aimed with
| twelve Armstrong rapid firing guus-2U-pouni-
ers and 6-pounders- and has displacement Of
! 1900 tons and will have Siamese crew aad
| Danish officers.
THE ancient Egyptians practced shaving
from prehistoric times. Homer has an aIlusIon
| to the operation of shaving Tn. Romans c m
menced shaving about 0 years before Christ.
| The ance1t Romans regarded the first day Of
! shaving as the entrance upon manhood and the
event was made the subject Of festivities. Alex
/ ander the Great made his warriors shave be-
| cause he held that the bearl gave q handle to
| the enemy. The Normans not only shaved
themselves, but forced the conquered to do 80.
| Many who would not submit to 8 lch reKula-
tion left their country. IN the early part of the
| eighteenth century Peter the Great ordered all
his subjects to shave and those who refused
were forced to pay heavy tax and submit to
! being shaved with duh razor or having the
beard plucked out by the roots.
THE origin of There's many a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip" is explained by Ainsworth
as follows "A King OF Thrace had planted a
! vineyard, WREN one Of his slaves, whom he had
much oppressed in that very work, prODaeSied
that he, the king, would never taste the wine
! produced from it,. The king diSregarded this
prophecy, and when AT an entertainment he had
! before him cup full of the wine from his vine
yard he sent for his slave aud asked him insult
inglY what he thought OF his prophecy The
slaves only response was There's many a slip
tWixt the cup and the lip Scarcely had be
| spoken when some one rushed into the room
and announced that wild boar had got into the
vineyard and was laying It waste. The king
arose in a fury. attacked the boar and was
killed without ever tasting the wine"
In the mercury mines Of AImaden. Spain. the
quality of the mercury improves and the uuan.
tity increases the farther the distance ira
versed. In the deepest gallery the mercury
seems to run from the rocks resin from the
trees On being taken from the pits the ore is
smelted in vast furnaces. DistillRton is
effected through long and complete series of
tubes, formed OF thick jars with long, narrow
NECK, fitting into each other. In the lower por-
ten of these jars there exists kind of small
reservoir, where the drops Of mercury pro
duced by the evaporation of the metal in a
state Of fusion are condensed. These drops are
then collected and, with the aid of small pipes,
stored In large iron barrels. strong and pene-
rrating odor, which irTitstes the eyes and nos
trils, escapesfrom the jars and barrels.
CHRISTIAN HEINECKER was born at Lubbock
Feb. {. 1921. When only 10 months old, says
the st. Louis RepltbIic. he could repeat every
word spoken to bin; at IL months OF age he had
mAmorized all the principal events mentioned
in the Pentateuch. Before he had finisaed his
| second year of existence he had learned all tha
| historical parts of both the Old aud New Tesla
ment. At the age Of he could reply correctly
| to ell questions put 20 him regarding universe!
history and geography, and in the same year
he learned to speak both Latin and French
! In fOUFth hiC tir,,o
in studying religions, especially the his
( tory of the Christian church. He was not only
able to gbly repeat all that he had read. but
was also able TO reason with considerable juds:.
ment and to give his own opinion OF things IL
! general. The King of Denmark wished TO gee
| this wonderful child. be was taken to 1pcA.
hagen, After his return to Lubbock he Learned
| to write and was beginning the study OF
music and mathematics, but, his constitution
being very weak, he took down and died June
/ %, 1855, aged years months and n days
What q wonderful record for such short life!
FEW days ago in Rome Pope Leo Kill, at
the earnest request of Stephen Morarity, spoke
| into a phouograph at the vatical His hoi.
! ness sent message to the people Of the United
! States through President Cleveland. After
| speaking into the phonograph, the pope said
| to Mr. MOriarty: Il hand you this message;
guard It carefully. for it is tue exprsssion of my
! love for all the people or the United States 1
| wish you TO deliver it with your own hands to
/ the President" Mr.. Morlarlty assured the su-
preme poatiR that he would guard the
/ communication until 1t was transmitted
! to President Cleveland, as the most sacred
message ever intrusted to him. His holiness
I subsequently expressed the great interest which
/ he felt in the Chicago exhibition. The message
! TO the chief magistrate of the United States is
! in Latin and, by the pope s special desire will
not be made public before it has been repro
| duced in America Prior to the Conclusion Of
| the audience the vatican, however, his
! holiness words were. at his own
! quest made audible to himself and the
| personages in attendance, On hearing the
! sounds he explained. 1T is my voice! This
! is indeed wonderful" And he proceeded to ex-
| plain to the members of his court that his voice
| could be heard long after his
| death. The photograph will be on ex-
hibition at the worlds fair so that
| those of the faithful who visit Chicago hear
! the voice OF the revered head Of the Cath Jlic
| CHURCH The possibilities Of the phonograph
| are the pope has sagaclously observed,