The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

taken to Kansas City and entered in a
race against time. Julius has A record of
4.041z, and his owner, Hiram Dadds, eX-
poets to lower this couple of minutes, if
the calf can be kept from bTawling, which
invariably interferes with the beauty Of
its performance.
Bral1im Jagson, an eccentric stock raiser
IN RlDVille, Ind, had an immense feather
bed made and placed in the stall of a IA
VOrtte 2-year-Old mare. The strange sub
sututiOn for straw frightened the animal
and she kicked the bed tick full of holes
and the feathers few all over her. When
the hOstler opened the stable door in the
morning he was frightened out of his
seven senses by seeing what he supposed
was a monster four-legged bird in the
stan where he had left the mare the night
before.
The French ministry has determined to
make an EFFORT to reach form of swind-
ing which IS known to be extremely com
mon, and which hitherto has managed to
escape the penalties of the law, the forg-
ing of pictures. 1t is said to be a very
common thing in Paris, and that more
than one well known painter has ad-
mitted openly that he has allowed his
name to be signed to pictures that either
ne has not touched at all or has finished
in few unimpOrtant details. They say
that they cannot live by their own pic
lures wholly and they exc out their in
come by altering pictures of others, or
substituting we'll known name for an
OBSCURE one. Other painters follow the
practice of copying well known master
pieces ana passing them OH through
shady middlemen as copies made by the
master himself. limitations of the works
OF modern painters now dead are so COM
mon as to have ceased to excite wonder
The proposed law puts the forgery of ar
lists names alongside of other forgeries
and Furnishes 1t equally. 1t is said that
Paris is very much interested in the out
come, and that if the law is successful, it
will deal a terrible blow to one of the
most prosperous home industries of the
French capital.
The very latest development in associa-
tions is an anti-corset league, which num-
bers among it's presidents Nine. Antoinette
Sterling, and is to be represented at the
coming health exhibition at Liverpool,
says Public Opinion (England) From
an advance copy of the appeal which this
organization is about to isue to ladies it
appears that its motto will be fashion
without folly; elegance without eXtrava-
gance;' while it's mission is to advocate
'anti-eccentricity," ''anu-ugliness,' and
"anti-faddism, which it hopes to realize
by invoking the aid of women in cru
SADIE for the purpose of intoxicating true
principles of sensible clothing, which at
the same time neither offend the eye nor
mock the sense of beauty, but which shall
mold the fashion of the day to the true
principles of health for the benefit OF
the sex and of mankind generally" In
the realization of this programme the
league intends 'to discourage the use OF
the ordinary form of corset, and while
exposing the fatal consequences of tight
laCing and injury caused by it to health
and figure, admits the absolute necessity
for an easy and natural support to take
the place of the abolished, fictitious, and
offending garment" Errors and abuses
in the form and mode of wearing our
present attire are to be unflinChingly ex-
posed, and suggestions and designs for
more ideal garments are cordially invited.
Lastly, membership is to be open to gentle
men, not because of any marked tendency
on the part of the sterner sex to adopt ir-
rational raiment, but because women are
not likely to assume new styles which do
not meet with masculine approval
There is a popular impression that cable
grams are sent by hand, as are kilograms,
and that they are received in a dark room
by signals that flash upon a screen. Such
used to be the method of their transmits
sion, but that has now been superseded
by a better one. 1t was found impractic-
able to transmit printed characters. The
four vertical or nearly vertical lines that
make our M could not be sent, but two
horizontal lines, thus, -, could be;
after all, the marks that are set down for
this and that sound of the lips and vocal
organs are wholly arbitrary. Two hOri-
Zontal lines are just as appropriate for
the sound represented by the thirteenth
letter of the alphabet as four nearly per
pendiCular ones, and they answer the pur-
pose just as well when all know what is
intended. In devising practicable signs
for the letters two systems were made.
One of these systems is in use throughout
all America and Canada, and the other
system throughout the remainder of the
world. The United States and Canadian
lines, therefore. stand apart from all other
lines in the world in the matter of a
telegraph alphabet The difference be-
tween these alphabets is solely in the en-
ployment of the space between parts of
one and the same letter. For example, the
letter Y is .. There are four points or
dots, but they are separated by a space
That is the American Y. 1t was rejected
by the Europeans on the ground that il
would be liable to confusion with parts of
preceding or following letters, and -
put in its place. As matter of practice,
however, no more mistakes occur with
one system than with the other, while the
American has the vast advantage of be-
ing about 20 per cent. shorter, and there
fore to that extent faster. Other letters in
which the system differs are F, j. L, O,
2, Q, r, Y and u. All remaining letters
are alike in both.
Calico in his "Sidereal Messenger"
made a map of eighty new stars which he
had discovered in the consultations OF
Orion's Belt and the Sword and since
then astronomer after astronomer, as is
well known, has added various groups and
galaXies to the 1000 or 5000 conspicuous
stars of the first magnitude, which car
be always seen with the naked eye, writes
Sir Edwin Arnold in the North American
Review 1t is curious and not compliment
tary to the good sense of mankind that
those stars should have been looked upon
as merely intended to spangle the sky and
give light at night. AS lamps they were
always a failure. Sixty times the total
starlight on the CleareSt night would not
equal the illumination given by the moon;
and SO, 900 900 their radiance would be re-
CURED 10 equal SunnEht Yet the stars
which are seen even by a powerful tele-
scope are now known to be only an insig-
nifcant proportion of those actually ex-
listing inside visible space" Telescope
photography, as practiced to-day in all
the observat tories, reveals in almost every
APPARENTLY blank region of the celestial
sphere, countless new and distant worlds
lying far beyond all methods of mortal
computation and measurement. The only
foot rule with which we can at all esti-
mate the scale of distances in the visible
universe" is light. This travels along the
ether at the rate of 6,0G0 miles in a
second, so that the ray which we receive
from the sun left his surface eight min
utes before 1t has reached our eyes BY
ingenious processes based on complex
arithmetic, astronomers have determined
the distance Of about eighty stars, and
the nearest of all Of them to our system
is Alpha Centnuri. The radiance Of this
star takes, however, about four years to
reach human vision while that which we
perceive from Alpha Tauri or Aldebaran
was projected from its glittering source
twenty-seven years ago; and most of those
seen deeper i'm the night Sky are so far off
that their present liCht left them 300 or
400 years back. Many are to-day visible
whose beams have Travelled to our gaze
only after n lapse of thousands of years
and there must be radiant streams i1w on
their way from heavenly boclcs in the
empyrean which will only reach the ewes