The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The statue of Pere Marquette. which
the state Of Wisconsin is 10 place in the
National Hall of Sculpture in Washing
ton, Is being made by GaetanO Irenta-
move, FlOrentine sculptor
A new carpet for the Waterloo cham
Der al Windsor castle, said 10 be the larg-
est ever manufactured, has been woven
in the jail of Agra. India, by prisoners
undergoing penal servitude They hope
to obtain a remission of sentence for their
diligence IN completing the task. which
has taken them fourteen months. Twenty
eight convicts We're engaged on the work,
the carpet measuring ~ feet by 40 and
containing 5s.Sf0,000 stitches
Mrs W. J. Baird. the famous chess prob
lem woman of London. recommends the
game for women on the ground that it is
d useful corrective 10 the tendency to
jump to conclusions which most of the
sex have. Besides" she says, 1t Is a
home accomplishment; no woman is conf
PEELED TO leave her own hreside for the
sake OF chess, and, lastly, IL produces no
flirting lind general TriVohty-' 2 .All>S-
Baird is now able to turn out a chess
problem in half an hour. Her nrsI one,
composed six years ago, took 100 hours
TO accomplish. Her work appears IN the
ablest London newspapers, and in the
chess magazines.
A remarkable trial has Just ended in
bucharest Two boys, one years ana
the other IA were charged upon their
own confession with attempting to drown
q child 2 years old. Their defense was
that the long draught had to- b ternt-
were on trial was the .onlv successful
method to accomplish that end An ex-
PLANTATION of this curious defense is that
the children of the village II times or
great drought are made TO throw the
clay figure of a child into the water. The
boys threw in the child merely because
they had no clay figure The elder was
sentenced TO two years Imprisonment
and the younger returned TO his mother
for chastisement.
The mausoleum erected by c. p. Hunt
ington on Chapel Hill. Westchester
county. New York, is q wonder in its
way. j has been 1--WE years in the build
ing. Nothing it is said, in the new woria
approaches it in durability Each ter
of the steps in the fifty feet of solid
rock from the roadway TO the door of
the mausOleum is hcWn from a single
piece of granite. The main platform is
single forty-ton stone. Its foundation is
sixteen feet under ground. The mauso-
leum is AZ feet long. % feet wide, and q
feet nigh. The gates are of bronze ana
the interior is of Italian marble. 1t con-
tains sixteen catacombs The architec-
ture is that of Roman temple of Doric
order. II cost a quarter of a million dol
lars, and there isn't a stone in it that
weighs less than eighteen tons. over the
top Of the door is the single word in plain
letters, Huntington"
B. L. Farieon. the novelist. attributes
all the good fortune which has been his
to the luck-giving New Zealand green
stone, which he has carried for years on
his watch chain. He is of Jewish eXtrac-
ton, with dark complexion, piercing ana
intelligent eyes. Many years agO he wa,
a journalist in New Zealand, where he
finally became proprietor and editor Of
a paper. A letter of hopeful encourage
ment from Charles Dickens decided hir-
TO return to England, and from that dag
to this he has written over twenty novela
Although from his earliest days he h3I
been bibliomaniac, Mr.. FarjeOn pre-
ferS to write at one end of his diningl
room table. avoiding the seclusiOn of
library. He is an inveterate smoker and
regards a good cigar as a source of inspis
ton a a.frr .sN
ton. He swears by the typewriter and
is much addicted to ice water.
The unit of measurement of mechanical
power was introduced by James Watt anG
called Il horse power" How this name
originated is well told in the Madgebur-
ger Zeitung. one of the first steam en-
gines built by Watt was to furnish tn;
power for the pumps in the brewery a
Witbread, England, which up to that time
was supplied by horses. The contract
called for as much power as furnished by
a strong horse and in order TO get as pow
erful an engine as possible the brewer as
certained the amount of labor performed
by horse by working an exceptionally
strong horse for full eight hours without
stop, urging the animal with a whip
until ii was exhausted. and thereby sue
ceeded in raising 2,000O 600 gallons of water.
Considering the hight of the reservoir
this labor represents the present unit Of
horsepower" that is, the lifting of
16S& pounds to hight of about three feet
per second. This result, however, was OBJ
tanned by exceptional methods, and
should not be considered the basis of
measurement of mechanical power. Act
ually the power of the average horse is
barely sufficient to lift 65 to 20 pounds
three feet high per second.
Ignorance of the Bible among collegians
was made glaringly apparent according
to the New York Observer, by a recent
examination of a class of thrty-four
young men. Twenty-Five poetical allu-
sions to passages of holy scripture from
the works of Tennyson were given to
these young students with a demand for
an explanation of the reference in each
case: The intention was to test the young
mems knowledge of biblical history, char
acter and literature. The result was a
painful disclosure. Thirty-two of the
thirtyfour had not heard of King HeZe-
kiah's prayer for longer life. Twenty
four knew nothing of Jeptha's vow Fig
urative illusions to Pharoah's darkness,
to Jonah's gourd to Lots wife, to Wrest-
ling Jacob and to the mark of Cain were
meaningless to most of these young men,
Only 1928 answers out of 748 were correct.
1t is easy to belive, concludes the OBJ
server, that such ignorance of the litera-
ture of the Bible is likely to be accompa-