The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The word cotillion means petticoat. and
was originally applied to species OF the
modern skirt dance.
a Bible distributor died recently in New
Z Hampshire at the age of 70. who, during his
life, distributed 10000 Bibles.
Mrs. Eunice W. Beecher. the widow Of
Henry Ward Beecher. though 81 years Of age
still continues to write magazine articles.
Early in the approaching fall ground will
be broken for the first Of the buildings Of the
Methodist University, which will be erected
at Washington.
Col. R. G. Ingerson is very fond Of his home
and never visits clubs. 1t is next TO impossl-
bic to get him TO a dinner where speechmak
| ing follows dessert. Not even Neal Dow him
self Is more tempera. e.
Blondh began 70 toddle across rope when
he was4. AT the age of he performed before
the king Of Italy. Since then he has appeared
in all parts OF the world. and has earned as
much as $500 performance.
A crusace is being started against the en-
gagement ring in Boston. One of the reasons
! gwen for its proposed abolition is that many
! girls become engaged for no other purpose
/ than to add another ring to their collection,
/ and break of the contract as soon as 1t be
/ comes convenient
! A fac smile message, obtained through
medium, and purporting to have come from
/ the late Nh. Window. is pu blished in the New
/ NorK Herald. signed Window, Sec'y." The
/ Philadelphia Ledger observes: The news of
| Carlisle appointment doesn seem to have
| reached the other side"
1t is still the busy season with fashionable
candy makers but month hence, when the
summer hotels shall have closed, dullness
| VIII come upon the trade and many working
| toIE VIII be dismissed until business reVlveS,
| about Dec. l, when the factories are again
! driven to the utmost TO supply the demand of
| the Christmas holidays
1t is said that the Germans are now the
best educated people on the continent of
| Europe. This advance in education has been
made within the past century. for previous to
| loOo school teachers were so poorly paid and
| so little appreciated that they were often
/ compelled to sing on the streets in some in
stances IN order to earn few pence to sup
| PIGMENT their meager salaries.
The slab that is to cover the grave Of Rob
ert Browning in Westminster Abbey is almost
| completed and will be sent shortly to Eng
! land from Venice. 1t is Of Oriental porl hyry
| OF which the poet was particularly fond. set
| in frame of Sienna marble and. though
| rich. is Xtremely simple. The inscription
Will consist only Of the name and date with
an English rose at the head and a Florence
| lily below.
The navy department has decided not to
electroplate the bottoms of the steel cruisers
| to prevent their fouling. as has been stated to
| be lCS intention. The patent process spoken
| OF was thoroughly examined by naval con-
| structors some time ago and condemned IN
| an ofclal report to the ecretary of the Navy
| The report declares that instead OF improving
| the c)ndttlon of a vessel so treated the treat
! ment would be positively destructive as the
moment the thin skin Of copper was broken.
as 1t certainly would be by contact with any
| obstruction. galvanlc action letween the
| copper and steel plating would ensue and
the steel would be rapidly destroyed by the
| action Of salt water.
The aDpearance Of Massrs Erodia ona co.
bett as actors" reminds the British Journal
that the present condition of the stage is hut
! a repetition of history, and that the world
does not change much. DR.. Doran in his His
tory Of the English Stage speaks thus OF the
end OF the seventeenth century: The cen
| fury closed Ill for the stage COngreves PLAY
| The Way of the World, failed to give il anv
lustTe. Dancers, tumblers, strong men and
! quadrupedS were called in to attract the
| town; and the elephant at the Great Mogul.
| In Fleet street, drew to such an extent that
he would nave been brought on the stage but
| for the opinion of master carpenter that he
| would pull the house down" And it Is set
| down that the treasures at roth Covent Car
den and Drury Lane were well nigh empty
owing TO the rage OF the town for curioslties
The immense importance which oyster
culture has assumed in the north is shown I V
an enterprise recently undertaken in Mary
land, IN the Inland waters known as the Isle
OF wight AsS2WOman and SinepuXent bays.
Some capitalists have attained a charter au-
| thorlzing them to construct and maintain a
canal across the narrow strip OF land lying be-
! tween the inland bays of the Maryland coast
| and the Atlantic ocean. the obje,t Icing to
! lmpregnate them with salt water in which
| oysters could be propagate1 As q reward
for cutting the canal, which would be of
great value 10 commercial interests,
| the stale is to give the company
control of one-half of the oyster beds in the
| inland bays. Mai. Hutton, engineer of the
| baltimore haroor board. SAYS the project is
feasible, and the company has determined 10
/ feGln OOStrQCtlQg the canal a OOipt
poslte the St Martins river above Ocean
| City. 1t is said that by producing a current
OF salt water from the ocean through the
bays an area of seventy five square miles OF
| oyster-ground Will be made available-49.-
0OJ acres-capable of accommodating an an
nual oyster crop OF 10000 0 0 bushels, worth at
the landings about $50 100000 Chincotea gue
bay alone would give forty miles of oyster
ground
Berah Colburn (born at Cabot, Vt. Sept. l
1904; died in Norwich, Vt. March 2, 1S4O) was
the most wonderful of all mathematical prod
igies, says the St. Louis Republic His re
markable powers ecame manifest as soon as
he was old enough TO talk and by the time he
was years of age ne was the wonder of both
Europe and America In 1872, when he was
only years old, he was taken to London in
| order that the great mathematicians of the
British metropolis might try his powers
This was done to their satisfaction, and with
the following results: he raised any nun
! er consisting OF one figure progressively to
the tenth power, giving the result mot from
memory, but by actual multiplication faster
than the person appointed to keep record could
set down the LgdreS. Next he raised the
figure successfully to the sixteenth power,
naming the last result, which consisted of
10 figures almost instantly. g very figure being
found by proof to be right. On being asked
the square root of l06 926 he answered 327 be.
fore the recorder had time to write down the
number to be squared. He was then required
to ind the cube root of PCS, $50 l21, and with
CELEBRITY that was really startling, replied that
1t was 6l5; whereupOn the astronomer, Young,
who had cen well drilled in mathematics in
problems where 'Uillionsn we're handled as
often as hundreds spent fOrty-five minutes
| in proving the correctness of the answer. He
was then asked how many minutes there were
In torty-elght years, and before the question
could be written down replied that there
were 2j.22SSO, and Immediately after
gave the correct number OF seconds in the
same period Of time. On being requested to
give the factors that would pro luce the num-
Der 247, 1888, he Immediately named 9il and 263
and ii was afterward learned that they are
the only two numbers the multi plieation of
which will give the result. His taskmasters
next proposed that he give the factors of So .
Oo3, but without seeming to reflect a single
moment he replied that il had none which
was really the case that being one OF the
| prime numb ers. lie was next asked to name
| the square Of 999 800 feat which he per-
! formed in nine seconds by twice multiplying
| the square OF 37,O37 by %, the answer being
1899 9O2 O49. Remember that these feats
| in mathematics were all performed by a boy
| three months under 8 years of age.