The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
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| have no real right to wear that garment.
I Prepare for a shock, dear brothers OF the
Occldent.' she says. The fact is that trouS-
ers were a purely feminine invention. created
! for women by her own special wearing. and
man was actually rep-oached by MS eontem-
! poraries for copying feminine fashions when
| he first began to adopt trousers for his at
tire"
1t was formerly a custom among Teu-
tonic nations to drink a liquor made from
age Ia month"; after the wedding feast
Hence the name honeymoon. The leu
tons knew very little ABOUT treacle, as
we learn that the name Teutonl was gwen,
go b. c., to race OF people who had long
been settled in the country and in the prov
inces which are now known respectively as
/ Denmark and Schleswig- HolsteIn, but which
were then known collectively as the ChersO-
nesus Cim6rtca. The TeutOns may even
have brought the custom to England with
then when they came over the Zimmerman
Bosphorous about $50 B. c.
Il have seen a good many novel methods
employed by mothers in order to put their
babies TO sleep" said George L. Wann Of
Trenton. n. J., to the St. Louis Globe emo
crat, but think the strangeSt way Of all is
one which is prevalent in India, where the
native mothers put their babies heads under
a spout OF water to send them to sleep and
keep them quiet. spent several months in
that country not long ago. and Witnessed this
curious mode OF treatment dozens Of times
every day. i he water OF the hill spring was
so adjusted as to furnish a series of tiny
spouts. Under each spout was a kind of
earthen pillow and little trough. constructed
TO carry of the water. The restless child
was placed on this pillow in such a. way that
one OF the spouts played directly on the top
OF its head, the water then passing away in
the trough. l can testify that the process
was most successful and was seemingly
highly enjoyed by the babies, who renamed
perfectly quiet under the spouts."
The Washington Post says: Assistant Super
intendent P. A. Welker OF the United States
coast and geodetic survey, now stationed on
the summit of Mount ElLert in letter to his
superior describing the electric storms on
the mountain, says in all his expe cience he
has never seen anything to compare with the
| terrlnc lightning. Every day since we have
| been on the summit" he says we have had
| heayy hail or snow storm, accompanied by
| WIND and the most terrific lightning and
| thunder storms that can be imagined. All of
! the lightning of the heavens seems to concen-
| trate about Mount Ebert. At times the noun
! tain is charged with electricity, numerous
! suspended electric lights can be seen and
almost everybody receives electric shocks
| considerable damage has been done by the
| lightning. The observatory and new theodo-
| lite have twice been struck by lightning, the
! vertical circle has been struck, and also the
! aZlmuth mark. Lightning struck the peak
! Tour times. The SunShade at the end of the
| telescope was pierced twice and the molten
metal spatterCd over The objective. the Us
! ana piVots were badly burnt also the foot
! screws, and about one.Quarter OF the oolect
| glass was shattered. The theodolite pier was
| so shattered by the lightning that it was
! necessary to rebuild 1t. The vertical circle
| pier was also shattered, but the instrument
| was not much damaged. Our camp is within
| 200 yards Of the observatory and in rather an
uncomfortable position during the storms"
We seem to have by no means reached the
| limit Of speed at which it is possible 10 drive
a small craft through the sea, as each of the
| new torpedo gnnLoats so far completed has
eXcelled in speed all its predecessors, says
! Public Opinion. or instance. the Ferret,
| Dullt by MeSsrS. Laird, beat MeSsrS. Var
| row Havock, but was itself beaten by the
! hornet OF the same firm, which now, how
| ever has to strike It's nag to the Daring,
! which little boat recently accomplished
| wonders when run over the measured mile on
the MaplinS. The Daring is Titted with the
| tubulOus or water-tube boilers, designed by
| MeSsrs. ThornYcrOft of ChlSwick her build
ers, which boilers gave wonderfully salsfac-
! tory results, steam icing rapidly generated
and maintaineI at high pressure with
very economical expenditure of
! coal. SteamluZ against the tide not how
ever. running very strongly, a speed of al
| most % knots, or over 35 miles, was made,
/ and the manner in which the steam was blow
! ing on during the run suggested that an even
| greater speed could have been reached. If re-
qulred. So the Daring is now che fastest
craft on the water and the hornet is ousted
| from her pride OF place. We wonder how
| long IL will be before even the terrific pace Of
| the Daring viii be surpassed Messrs
Thornycrott have also been very successful
with their last torpedo boat, No. 81 which
when tried recently on the Maplins. made
/ 24.o2 Knots OF the measured mile in u nasty
tumble, OF sea; and averaged 24,l2 knots III
| three hours continuous Steaming.
Whenever flag hutters aboard a United
States warship, from Christiana to Cane
/ Town, from east 10 west, be it our own en-
sign or that of foreign power it has In
| ninety nine cases out of a hundred ueen
fashioned IN the flag room Of the equipment
| pudding at the Brookly navy yard, SAYS the
| Philadelphia Press. very few flags are
made for our vessels in Chinese waters at the
! Mare Island navy yard near : an Francisco.
! Inc nag lockers OF modern cruiser contain
more than 200 ensigns and signals, and as
they have to Withstand the brunt of the ele-
| mentS great care Is exercised in choosing
! the materials and making them up. The fiags
| OF many nations are of most elaborate de.
| sign, and composed of every color known 10
| the iagmakers art; others are severely plain,
| but all have to be mathematically correct as
! to size, color and proper ion. 1t is fair to
assume that foreign nations have no better
/ deIneators than the tiagmakers in the navy
yard across the east river Our own Dag is a dif-
| cult one TO make correctly with the forty four
stars in its blue field, and have them ac, u
| rately arranged Each star must occupv its
correct position, and not deviate quarter of
an men, That the symmetry OF the union be
| preserved. 4 he flag room at the navy ward
| is In the charge of Commander Edwin White
/ equipment oIhcer, with Master Flagmaker
/ James Crlmmlns as capable deputy. Mr.
| CrlmmlnS has been in supervision OF the
| hGgs for our navy for more than nineteen
| years. ana his work amply aLtests the care
he gives it, he nag department consists of
main room In which the measuring, cutting
and testing IS done; another room, where six
! women are employed In making tne most in
! trlcate portions of flags, and third room
| where flag makers bind the HOSTS OF the flags
! with stout canvas and attach the lines and
! wooden toggleS by which they are to be made
! fast to the flag halyards. This Is known as
! heading The hoist of a flag IS the portion
| lying next to the mast or stan upon which it
! is boosted. The length OF the flag is called
] the fly.
A single rail under each side Of the car. in
stead OF succession Of short sections OF steel
for track. with an increase of comfort
which even approved rolling stock wilt not
| give is promised the patrons OF the Cleve-
land Electric Railway Company within the
! year, says Cleveland, O., dispatch What
this means cannot be realized until il is act.
| ually experien ued, and the succession of iolts
and shakings which every street car paSsen-
| ger is familiar with has been done away
| with. The experiment Of welding together
the ends OF the rails which Compose the
| street railway tracks OF the big Consoli.
dated" company Is to be tried, ami the eouip.
| ment for dong the work by means OF ele ctric.
ity Is already in the city and in operation.
| For the last two days passengers on the
| Prospect street line OF the company have
been switched around strange looking piece.
| Of apparatus. This is the machine with
! which the work is TO be done. Ihe machine
resembles somewhat the huge CONSTRUCTORS
| which ma lie i.rS Il -