The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ithaca, n. Y. there is a solid stratum of rock
salt of an excellent quality nearly 300 feet
thick.
The tensile strength of wrought iron rods
varies as the square Of the diameter. Inch
rod will support Z 600 pounds. and a 2inch rod
$500 pounds.
There is 10 present practiced method known
TO man to accurately measure land in a circle
casks containing liquids, steam boilers, or
even grlndstone.
The pin machines of England. Holland and
Germany turn out an average of 81 900. coo pins
for every work dav of the year: At Birming-
ham one factory makes 80 0O00 900 per day.
American Sharrshooter Gus Zimmerman.
who has won the title of the "Schuetzen
King" and seventy-tive trophies ia Europe
Is bound home and WILDE welcomed with
grand jubilee,
The scientists have decided that the aver
age workingman requires daily In his food
not less than four ounces of proteids. two
ounces OF fat and eighteen ounces of the
carbohydrates.
Helen kellar, the remarkable deaf, dumb
and blind girl, has added to her accomplish
ments the ability to distinguish colors. She
| mas drawer full of hair ribbons of various
by touch.
! Mrs. Debs says of her husband. the ex-
strike agitator, that he doesn't go 20 any
church at all. He's an infdel We are a
FAMILY OF inhdels, every one of US. Col. + %
| ert lngersoll. whom we all know and admire
Is our only pope
| Sir Walter Raleigh was the first white man
to use mahogany lumber. In the year 1895.
! while at Trinidad, he repaired one of his
| SHIPS with mahogany plank. ma incident
| caused its Introduction into England and into
! the commerce of the world
| 8Miss Mary Lithegon of Manistec Mich
| who recently came into a fortune of $500 900
| by the death of an uncle in Glasgow, cot,
| - none the less ambitious to succeed IN ner
| CHOSEN profession of medicine. She will
graduate at Ann Arbor and finish abroad.
The words ''starboard" and 'lar5oard, as
used in the nautical vocabulary. are from the
Italian words questa torda, meaning this
| SIDE, and Quella GOrda, that side" Abbre-
waited these two phrases appear as sta borda
aud la borda, and by the corruption of ian
! guages were soon rendered 'starooard" and
"larboard" by English sailors. Years ago an
order o. the admiralty discontinued the use
! OF 'lafboard and substituted port"
OF late the naturalists have hecn losing
sleep and filling a great deal of valuable mag
anne space in discussing the causes that pro
| duce the light emitted by hreuleS says the
ST. Louis Republic AS is generally the case
where much study and investigation is in
! VOWED there Is o wide difference of opinion.
| One school of scientists trace the phenome.
non 10 the nervous system of the insect; an
other to his resptI alton while third school
have prepared an article of 6C0J words to
prove that the light is entirely dependent
upon the poor bugs circulat on. he burden
| OF evidence seems to e in favor of those who
claim that the luminous tissue is m lds4. IN Of
fat globules, which are internationally al,ed
Upon by the oxygen of the air and the phos-
phorus of the creature body
The Russian peasant has such an Unborn
dread Of water and water spirits that he will
not battle without cross fastened to his neck
| by "a cord soaked in holy fluid OF the same
| sort, nor Will he ford a stream without nrst
| making the sign Of the cross in the water with
his knife, sword or some other piece Of metal
In all parts of the czar vast empire this
senSelesS superstition prevails being most
common in localities where one would main
rally expect most enlignte amsnt 1t is even
d common saying IN the cities that ''yod -
or countryman, doesn't know enough to
sign cross on water" The priests OF the
Greek church say that the Russian dread OF
water IS. on account Of a belief among them
that Pharaohs drowned hosts have been
transfol med into water spirits. and that they
are ever lying in wait to drag u believer in
Christianity to watery death.
On the tanks of White Bear lake. fifteen
miles from St. Paul Mimi lies Deuwood.
one of the numerous summer resorts of the
Minnesota lakes. Between the railway sta
tlon and one OF the Leautiful summer homes.
a distance OF about 800 feet is what * no
doubt the smallest electric railway known
capable OF actually transporting passengers
and freight, says an exchange 4 he entire
road was built and equipped BY A. M p
Cowley, a St Faul banker, for fine amuse-
ment ana instruction of his son, Archie. a
bright la OF years, who acts as motorman
conductor and brakeman with all the dignity
and capablllty of veteran in the service not
only giving his sisters and playmates fire.
quent excursions. ~ but also doing an extern
slVe passenger, freight and express business
between the two termini. The length of the
ROAD Is tribe over one-tenth of a mile and
the equipment consists of a motor car and
Two tralIers, each car being > feet long by ,
feet vide. The gauge of the road is II inches
the rail being regular steel 7 rail weighing
q pounds per ward The rails are laid on PA
lnch pine ties and bonded with No. Il o oper
wire Instead Of the overhead trolley the
third rail system is used, the third rail-
consisting OF fiat iron strip lsx1 inch nailed
on wooden strip between the two rails.
The publishers OF The Century have had
Corsica thoroughly searched for material re-
lating to Napoleon, to be used in connection
with the new life of the great Commander,
The result OF this activity is that much b is
been dis Covered that has never heretofore
been published. one interesting tnd is a
picture OF Napoleons mother. which al
though it has always hung IN the house in
which the emperor was born, at Aiaccio will
now for the FIRST time be engraved. There
has also been secured a portrait of Mile Car
oltne du Colombier generally reputed to be
Napoleon'S first love. During his early wears
Napoleon was remarkably diffident and
in the presence of women. AM
while residing at Valence he enjoyed
much of the society OF Mile dl Colombier.
despite the care with which French girls were
then, as now guarded. One day Napoleon
made an engagement to meet the young ladv
at an early hour the next morning in the
garden He was expected to declare his pas-
sion, but his dlttidence still held SWAY and
the young people contented themselves with
eating cherries But if NapOleon's bovisb
love came to nothing, he never forgot Mile.
du Colon bier. On the way to the coronation
at Milan, she was the hrst woman pre- sen ted
TO him at Lyons, and she then obtained from
Napoleon post Tor her husband. tiarempel
de BressieuX, and a lieutenancy for her
brother In 1905 she was made companion
TO NapOleons mother. and her husband was
created baron of the empire.
Previous to July 15 1883 says the St. louis
Republic, Mount Bandal a tine cleft peak
1850 feet in hight, was the most conspicuous
object in the mountain range lying from 100
to $50 miles north OF okio the chief CITY of
Japan. On the day mentioned it was literally
rent in twain and blown of the face OF the
earth" by the expansive power of steam
which had generated within 1t. Frog, the
earliest times OF which there is any record
streams OF cold water had been plunging
under the peak on one side and escaping in
the shape of steam and boiling hot water on
the other. That the "eScapexvalye" was not
sufficient TO let of all the steam generated in
the passage Of the water through the red.hot
interior Of the peak is evident because OF