The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- IulL4lOudlEbsOl lbuld. PROVISION III DIS
will for the constant illumination of the vault
wherein he now lies. An electric light is 10
be kept burning for year. ana even the cof-
fin is to be lighted in the interior by cleo
tricity.
A manufacturing concern In Birmingham
drives something Of a trade in crowns. They
are real ones Of solid gold, with cap of Grim
son velvet. incrustations of garnet. topaz and
other kind of cheap but SNOWY stones, and
are supplied to tie kings of Africa, of whom
there are several hundred, at highly salts
factory return of ivory and other merchan-
/ disc.
In France sealing wax has by no means
been displaced by the introdl ctiOn of gummed
envelopes. There is even a sort of code or
language OF sealing wax among fashionable
people. White sealing wax IS chosen for com
muntcattonS relating to weddings, black for
obituaries violet for expressions of sympa-
tiny. chocolate for invitations to dinner, red
for business. ruby for engaged lovers letters,
green for letters from lovers who live in
hopes. and brown for refusals Of offers Of
marriage while blue denotes cOustancy, vel
low jealousy, pale green reproaches, and
pink IS USED by young girls and gray between
friends
While the expression. 1T was Hobson's
choice, is very frequently used, compare
lively few have any idea of its origin. The
hrst man in England to let out high class of
road or hackney horses. or to keep what
would be nearest to what in this country
would be termed tirst-class livery stable,
was Tobias Hobson. He had. however, one
peculiar custom, and rule from which he
would never deViate under any consideration,
similar to the custom that was common with
the street car horses which were used to help
UP the nlliS before they were so generally re-
placed by electricity and the cables Hobson
had no particular stalls for any of his horses,
ana whoever came was Obliged to take the
one nearest the door no matter how many
there we're in the stable, or go without, which
soon gave rise to the phrase, ho bson's choice"
Russian scientist has been making
number of careful experiments to determine
the precise physiological effects of music on
the human system. The results Of his inVesti-
cations he summarizes as follows An infiu-
ence on the circulation of blood is noticed.
the pressure sometimes rising and sometimes
falling, though the action of musical tones and
pipes, both on animals and men, expresses
Itself, for the most part by increased fire.
quency Of the beats Of the heart the varia-
tlonS in the circulation consequent upon
musical sounds coincide with changes in the
breathing though they may be observed quite
independently of it; the variations in the
blood pressure are dependent on the pitch and
loudneSs OF the sound and on tone color; in
these variations of the blood pressure also,
the peculiarities of the individuals, whether
men or lower animals. are plainly apparent
and even nationality, in the case of man, Is
claimed TO exhibit some effect"
negro, who was brought up before the
New York police courts the other day
charged with drunk enness. set up the defense
that he was not drank when arres ted, but
was suffering with 1T. to which, he alleged,
he was very subject he admitted that some
one had given drink of whiskey Just before,
ana thought that the smell of this upon his
breath had influenced the officer to suppose
that he was drunk. The Judge thought that
hts and DRINKS were not enough alike to be
mistaken for each other but the prisoner as
serted that when he was in fit he acted very
much as tho Ugh he was drunk and volunteer
ed to snow the Judge how 1t was. According
ly he tossed his hat into the air, hOwed
groaned, clutched at his threat, rolled his
eyes horribly, and fell to the floor foamiug at
the mouth, TO the great horror Of the women
present. Suddenly he jumped up and SAID:
Dat how &C when l has a 1T, Judge"
Three dollars replied the Judge.
Apropos of her majesty's ship Resolution s
narrow escape from laundering, Mr. G. r.
Low, Kensington. writes to an English Jour-
nal: No fewer than four Resolutions have
come to an untimely end by battle. hre or
wreck The first bore the flag of Blake in his
great victory on the North Foreland. over
Van Tromp, Sept %, 1852, and in Monk 5
equally great success of the same headland,
July %, 1856 she was burnt by a flagship, the
only one lost, as against twenty sail taken OF
| sunk. Forty years later the Resolution en-
| gagged squadron of six ships of he Spanish
| coast and was run ashore and burnt by Capt
| Mordaunt, son OF the famous Earl of Peter
| borough, to save her from falling into the
| hands Of the enemy. Only four years after
| ward Q1lO) near the same spot: of Barcelona.
| u IulIu sup Oh the NAME was driven ashore
| by storm, and became a total wreck Fl
| nally, in Hawkes. great victory of Ouiberon
| when the French lost four ships in the line
| destroyed and two taken, the Resolution and
| Essex ran upon sand bank and we're lost to-
| gether with portion Of their crews.
Paper betting for the purpose of transmit
| ting power is the next thing which is going to
| astonish the manufacturing fraternity, says
| the Tradesman. The inventor was five years
| assistant to the superintendent OF power to
| one OF the great factories in Lowell. Mass. / {
| was while in this position. in which he had
| much to do in lacing and tightening belts,
| that he conceived the idea that betting made
! OF paper could be made to do better work
| than either rubber, leather or cotton. lie
| argued that as a thick piece OF rasteboa I'd
| can be made to take on firm, smooth and
! durable surface by holding the same against
! another moving surface for several minutes,
| larger piece OF paper made in the form OF
| belt and permitted to run upon the surface of
| pulley day after cay would soon create upon
| It's surface firm hard, shining coating that
| would last a long time. AS soon as belt is
| put into working order. a hard shining coat
| Ing appears upon the surface next the pulleys
| and this becomes harder and harder as the
months slip by. 1t comes so hard finally
| that only the cold chisel can cut into it. Such
surface works well on the pulleys.
In the church tower OF the little town Of
| Grosslaswitz, in the north of Germany, hangs
bell, an on it is engraved its history, sur
! mounted by a bas-relef representing a six
! cared Stalk OF corn, ana the date Oct. 10, 1923
This, says the London Globe. is the story of
the bell: At the beginning of the last century
the only church tell at GROSS aswitz was so
small that its tones were not sufficient to pen
citrate to the ends of the vii age. second
| bell was badly wanted. but the village was
poor, and where was the money to come from
Every one offered to give what he could, but
the united offerings did not amount to nearly
enough for the purpose. One Sunday when
| IN Schoolmaster, Gottfried Hayn, was going
| to church he noticed growing out of the
churchyard wall a fiourishing green stalk
! of corn, the seed of which must
have been dropped there by a pass
ing bird. The idea suddenly struck him that
! perhaps this one stalk of corn could he made
the means OF producing the second bell they
wanted so much. He waited till the corn was
I ripe and then be plucRei the six ears on IL
and sowed them in his own garden. The
next year he gathered the little crop thus
! produced and sowed it again, till at last he
had not enough room in his garden for The
crop, and so he divided them among certa n
number of farmers, who went on sowing the
ears until, in the eighth year the CROP was so
large that when IL was put together and sold
they found that they had enough money to
buy beautiful bell, with it's story and its
birthday engraved upon It, and a cast of the
cornstalk to which it owed its existence
II am homeward bound from a two years
surveying trip made IN the middle and west
ern regions of Brazil" said Henry P. East
lake, Of Duluth, Minnn., at Chamberlin's to
Washington Post man. THE Brazilian gov
ftrs-F tar4 TO-