The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-12
ITEMS oF INTEREST.

sorts Of curious life saving appliances, lnclud-
ing the earliest kinds Of life boats, rockets
and life preservers.
The curtain of q New York theater was de-
layed nearly half an hour the other even ng
on account Of the priIna donna being unable
10 md certain wig and refusing 10 appear
without It.
The Norwegian steamer Craggs has brought
s,COJ barrels Of herring from Norway to Chi
cago and has made 10000 by the trip.
load of grain back viii paw expenses both
ways. and three such trips Will leave the yes
sci free Of cost and nearly as good as new
Senator Morgan. in his speech on the Ha-
waiian treaty spoke Of Senator Sherman as
man who, above all things hated a bargain
especially il he were going to get the worst of
it. There were good many quiet smiles IN
the Senate, and the Ohio Senator joined in,
too.
Immense beds of phosphates exist in the
bad lands" of South Dakota. and tests are
now being made to ascertain their quality. A
new industry Will soon spring up in the
northwest if these deposits compare favor
ably with those of South Carolina and
Florida.
Probably the oldest man in Kentucky,
where folks do not willingly die and leave
bourbon and mint, is Jehu Vaughan, father
of famous living skeleton, and the proud
possessor of a full set or teeth. which he keeps
in his desk and wants buried with him. Jehu
is one-Quarter Cherokee Indian.
Lieut. F. Boyer of the French navy, to avoid
collisions, proposes to introduce at the top
on all fast sailing steamers an electric light,
which will cast a beam ahead to indicate the
direction IN which the vessel is steering. so
long as che approaching ship was not in the
actual pencil Of light it would be unnecessary
to alter her course.
The lobster catch on the coast of Maine is
this year proving smaller than ever before.
At Gorges Island the fishermen have made
voluntary agreement to throw back all lob
sters caught less than l0'9 inches. The catch
will not be more than half what it was two
years ago. Many of the fishermen are pulling
up their pots, for so few Holsters are caught
that the business does not pay. HOLSTERS are
likely to be high this season.
In the past, says Chambers Journal. the
size of pill was often, to use Dominic Samp
sons favorite expression, "prodigious. 1t
was seldom coated, except when a little flour
was sprinkled upon it-a most Elusive method
OF concealiDg its nauseous flavor; and lastly,
It's surface was frequently so adhesive in hot
weather that it would fasten itself TO the or
! gans of taste like limpet 10 a rock. The
! chemist has enabled the pill manufacturer to
/ reduce the size Of many pills by separating
out the active principles of the crude drug in
| the form of alkaOidS the doses of which are
! very small, sometimes not more than a hun
| dredth part Of grain. With the aid of new
/ kinds OF machinery. the modern pill receives
an exquisite polish. A perfectly smooth and
shining surface is produced by the action of
| two revolving plates. After that the pill is
! stuck on pin and dipped into liquid prepa-
ratlons Of gelatine these. on drying. give it
a thin, hard, soluble coating. For children,
! pills are made attractive by coating them
| with sugar and coloring them pink, so that
they look and taste very much like confec-
| tiOnery. Various substances have been used
! for coating pills. One seldom sees now pills
| coated with gold or silver leaf. 1t was found
/ that these coverings did not properly conceal
! the diSagreeaOle odor of some drugs, as vale
rlan and asafetida
Theodore c. Rohrer of Newcastle, Pa who
constructed wonderful automatic clock a
number Of years ago, containing many fig
ures and which attracted great attention all
| over the country when placed on exhibition
has nearly completed another timepiece
| which displays marvellous mechanism This
! clock exhibits scenes in the revolutionary
! war, and Mr. Rohrer considers it even a more
! remarkable piece OF work than his former
/ EFFORT. In addition TO these clocks, Mr.
! ROhrer number of years ago constructed
one OF the most ingenious pieces Of NINA
| ture mechanism to be found in the world.
| Thls consists OF three gold studs. in one of
| which Is dlminutive watch which keeps
most excellent time. The combined weight
| OF the three studs, which are connected to-
] gether by strip OF silver metal which passes
on the inside of the shirt bosom. is only one
ounce ana half. The stud in which is CON
! tanned the watch has base about as large as
Scent piece, and, with its surroundings of
gold, presents much the appearance of a
dlmlnutlVe mariners compass. When the
studs are on the shirt bosom they are bout
two inches apart BY revolving the upper one
! In much the same manner as a stem wind
| ing watch is wound-the little timepiece is
wound up for action, In setting the hands
| the lower stud is reVolved.
At the present time. says the Chicago Her
aid message from Ottawa, in Canada to the
antipodes must cross the Atlantic 10 England
/ thence via numerous land and cable lines to
| Egypt and through the Red sea and Indian
| ocean to Bombay; thence to Singapore to
/ Java, TO the extreme northeastern coast of
Austrana and over the great desert of that
! continent 10 the great commercial center Of
! the colonies, crossing three continents and
covering total distance of nearly 10000
miles, For short dispatch this means cost
! OF aoout 10 per word, and to make matters
worse the line OF communication is controlled
| by monopoly which has wrung millions Of
dollars from the defenceless Aus
tralian colonies during the last if
! teen years and made for itself a vast fortune
| The Eastern Extension Company owns Is 00J
/ miles OF telegraph lines, extending to Egy pit.
| India and China. and from the SUBSIDIES and
/ guarantees which they have drawn
! from the Australian colonies has more
OF the system. Last year the com
pany added upward of 100000 to a re
serve which already amounts TO more
! than S3.500C0D after paying dividend of
seven per cent on heavily wat9red capital
/ Australia wants relief from this Cypress
! ing monopoly, and Canada wants direct tele-
graph communication across the Pacific at
reasonable cost, as the neCe ssary compile
ment OF communi, alton now had by a first
class line of steamers For military reasons.
Britain also requires a cable to the east the
laid portions OF which shall e entirely
under her control. The existing line passes
| through several foreign countries and in the
event OF war could be interrupted at many
points. Thus il is proposed that the Pacific
| cable should be built at cost of 5000 900
on Joint guarantee by Great Britain, Can
ada and the colonies. The scheme has been
| already Endorsed by Mackenzie Bowel as
Canadian commissioner TO Australia and by
! the recent Austria asian postal conference
| IN New Zealand, but it has and will have the
! strenuous opposition OF the powerful mo-
| nopoly controlling the existing lines from
! England to the antipodes.
There are IN London eight district post
Offices - each in charge of a postmaster, says
the North American Review. Within the de-
livery district of each of these offices there
| are from 40 to l73 branch and sub-postof1ces
| the aggregate number of which is 795-mak-
ing total of SU3 Offices. at all of which stamps
| may be purchased, and letters and parcels
! posted. and at ne lry all of which money or
ders are issued and paid. letters may De reg
| istered and life insurance, annuity and saw.
! ings bank business may be transacted At all
| the larger suboffices there is also teIegraphic
| service. The population of London in 1891
was ,23l also that there is in that city "a
| postotiCe to every 5,268 inhabitants.
! The number of postofficers and subordi-
| mates regularly employed in the London
! local postal service is 1896 OF whom ]. Ss6