The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ne view 1OIh sun says W Gil-uA CSSCI
beggars are by no means unusual in New
York, and some of the most successful
among them have the faculty Of approach
ing a man about town with the engaging
frank announcement of a spree over night
and a consequently empty pocket book.
The announcement is accompanied by a
knowing leer and the offer of visiting
card as guarantee that whatever is lent
will be returned. Only the hardened sin
ner can resist such an appeal"
A. 3. Woakes has invented an electric
horn says London Inventor, with which
he has recently carried out a series of eX-
perlments, to take the place Of electric
bells or gongs, etc, where an alternating
current Of electricity is available. The
apparatus is based upon the principle of
the telephone receiver and consists, IN
us Simplest form, OF disc OF sheet IRON
placed IN front of one of the poles OF an
electro magnet, the coil of the latter be-
ing arranged to take an alternating cur
rent of 100 volts. The method of working
is as follows: When the current is
switched on the reVersals of magnetism
produced in the iron core by the current
causes corresponding number of vibra-
tions in the disc. Thus, if a current with
200 alterations per second is employed,
the disc gives 200 complete vibrations per
second, and produces a note correspond
ing in pitch with the number of Vibra-
lions. With a current of given number
OF alterations, the pitch of the note is
| constant, no matter what the diameter
| or thickness of the disc, since the latter,
IN all of these, is obliged to yibrate at
| the same rate. The timbre and intensity
! of the sound, however can be made to
/ vary in a number of ways. In order to
! obtain an intense sound with small
| amount of current, the diaphram or disc
/ must strike, whilst vibrating, the iron
| core or some other body.
| Between the fruit one sees on the down
| town itinerant stands and that which is
/ exhibited in the handsomely appointed
! stores of the uptown fruiterers, there is a
! vast difference in quality, appearance
and cost. The latest eXtTaVagant deliCacy
! in the fruit line, says the New York Sun,
! IS an English hot-house grape called the
| eros Coleman. 1t comes in punches half
| as long as your arm, and each great. fat,
! luscious purple berry is as big as plum
j and it only costs So a pound. The same
/ grandiose air is seen about all the fruit
! that is thought good enough for the rich
| mans table. The pressed figs are the
/ very choicest of Smyrna's crop, each fig
! as big as the palm of the hand, and all
! packed as regularly and carefully in for
eign looking boxes as though the spark
! ling crystals of sugar with which. they are
! covered were real diamonds. The skin of
| the apples is as fine in texture as a kid
glove and as highly polished as a mirror.
! The cucumbers are as green as lreland's
! turf and as firm as her cliffs; every atom
! of loose skin and soil has been removed
| from the mushrooms, and their light drab
tops and white stems look as though they
| had been smOothed off with pumice
stone. There is not an atom of difference
! in the weight of the tomatoes spread out
on white damask cloth, and every love
apple seems on the point of bursting, so
| unwrinkled and tense is it's bright pink
skin. The pomegranates have the rich
COHDltAlOu VI Il SlpSy, ana even lnG nuts
have been picked and polished and
/ bleached until they are so clear that fine
! woman can handle a bushel of them with
| out leaving a speck of dust or the shadow
| of d stain on her charming fingers. There
! was not quite so much daintiness of Sc
lection when Adam delved and Eve span,
! but the prices were as high for succulent
seed cases in the long run.
! The most unique oddly in the bell line
/ now owned within the limits of the United
| States is the bell belonging to the African
] Methodist Chnrph HAlaNryi11a
, says the St. Louis Republic. Those who
| have taken pains to trace its history say
| that it was the first bell ever brought to
| the western hemisphere; and, moreover,
| it was once the property of Christopher
| Columbus, The bell was purchased by
! Capt. Elias Newall on one of the Bahama
| Islands, and was by him presented to its
! present owners. According to a wel-au-
| thenticated document in the hands of the
| trustees of the HaleyVille church, it is
| one of the bells which Ferdinand and
| Isabella ordered for the Alhambra in the
very year that Columbus set sail on his
! voyage OF discovery. Prior to leaving
| Spain on his fourth and last voyage to
the New World, Columbus told the Queen
| that the church deVoteeS were building
! chapel at Carthagena, and that he had
| promised to procure a bell She forthwith
| had one Of the Alhambra's bells presented
| to the admiral. II was duly christened
and placed in the belfry Of the Carthage
| ma chapel, where it done service until 1857,
! when the city was beseiged and looted.
| The bell was a part of the booty which
| fell to the French ship La Rochelle, but
the relic was destined never to leave the
| western continent. Two or three days
| later terrible hurricane swept the trOp-
| zeal sea and the Rochelle went ashore on
| the island of St. Andreas. The bell and
few of the crew were saved, and it was
| from the descendants of the survivors
! that Capt NeWall learned the wonderful
| history of the relic. The captain, being
| resident of HaleyVille purchased the bell
! and presented it to the African church of
his home town, as above related. Accord
ing to the opinion of the writer, the proper
place for such a valuable relic to be de-
posted is in the national museum at
Washington.
AS the season is now on when the bald.
thin-blooded and those whose rheumatics
| always are in evidence when the glass
is in the neighborhood of 30 degrees, start
in to look about for draughts about the
| house, l wish to give my experience in
this matter says writer in the Boston
Transcript. Several years ago, in the fall
of the year, was sick for weeks, and
when at last was able to sit up l sat in
my sitting room, which faced the north
west, during the daytime, and, wishing
to see the passing, / had my place near
large window. The room had an open
CRATE, also furnace heat, and the Their
mOmeter easily registered 20 to IS de-
grees, but with all this warmth there
was draught-as thought-on my head
| and neck. Every one said the cold air
came in at the window sash l sent for
the weather-ship man, and, of course,
he discovered - or thought he did - the
cause, and put on his rubber molding so
that the sash when closed was tight
Now" he says, you will have no more
trouble in that direction" The next cold
snap the same old gale Of wind appeared
When my doctor came in I spoke to him
in regard to it, when he Informed me
that it was not the cold air from the
outside that / felt, but the warm air of
the room, which went to the top of the
window, struck the cold glass cooled and
then fell down." as the cold air would
had not the casting been air tight. He
then said, Drop your curtain about one
third and keep 1t there" l did as he d.
rected, and the gale stopped, and | had
no trouble after that He told me that
the same trouble existed in most houses.
even those that were well heated in the
halls and bedrooms the heat going to the
top, cooling and falling back, so that one
coming from a warm room down stairs
and going up would often think that
there must be windows open above. OF
course, double windows would remedy
this cooling-of process in the rooms. bur
with the curtains down a little thew pre-
vent the instant cooling of the warm air
and there is your draught You will no.
tice that these "draughts" are about DIR
ing the day more than at night. and al
ways less in the room where there is a
lamp. Why Simply when you light your
lamps or the gas you draw down tho
{ shades. ana the heat does not etrflya az