The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Miss Elizabeth Holman, postmistress !
Of Williamsburg, n. Y, IS. in addition, a /
real estate operator, a notary public ana /
Political boss of the town. She IL said 10 |
have done a great deal for the improve |
ment Of the place, where she Is known as
Queen Elizabeth"
Another American trans-continental
railway is approaching completion. II
viii connect the two South American sea-
perts, Buenos Ayres, in Argentina and |
Valparaiso, on the coast of Chile. Only
thirty miles Of the rosd remain TO be built,
but the successful laying Of this short
piece Of roadway involves a tremendous
peaks Of the Cerdilleras stands in the way.
and the Upsalata tunnel by which me
range will be pierced viii run distance
of twelve miles under the gigantic noun
tains. These triumphs of modern railway
engineering, the Mont Gents tunnel and
the tunnel under St. Gothard in the Alps,
viii be completely eclpsed by this colOs-
sal work Upsalata in the Andes.
Almost every one has noticed on some
clear night the shooting of a luminous
body across some part of the heavens,
the path being generally indicated by a
light streak, says the New York Ie!e-
gram. There is probably never a night
when there is neither moonlight nor
clouds that such a phenomenon may not
be seen, but there are many persons that
have no idea what these shooting stars
| really are. The real stars are off in space
at distances so inconCeivably vast that
no mind can grasp the billions of miles
| that separate the nearest ones from our
earth. They have no such trains of light
and however swift may be their hight,
from where they are they could not cover
/ the degrees of space on the CELESTIAL con-
| cave that are covered by these momen-
I tary torches that the general mind con-
siders as flying stars. From the very best
/ information possessed, this phenomenon
must be attributed to bodies entering the
+ atmosphere. While there is within the
/ controlling energy Of the sun a system of
! spheres known as the planets, and while
/ these planets have also in some cases at
I tending satellites. all of which exhibit Il
/ recognized periodiCity of movement, there
1 are evidently fields made up of myriads
| of small bodies that do not come within
| any kind of ,elescopic sight and which cir
| culate in zones or orbits around the sun.
/ some of these zones lntersect the elliptic
/ path of the earth's orbit and thus coming
| within the terrestrial influence. hurl them
! selves into the earth's atmosphere. 1t
/ is these. generally very small bodies that
! make what We generally see are stragglers
/ disconnected from the main body or in it's
/ remote outskirts. 1t is the friction that
I these bodies encounter when they impact
/ themselves INTO the atmospheric envelope,
/ which thus serves as a bCmb-proof and
! that generates the heat that consumes
/ them. There are two periods in every
/ year when the chances are much in
! creased to observe these so-caled stars.
! IS.
There is said to be gold enough in the
/ Snake river canyon, Idaho, to pay the
/ national debt but it is very difficult to
! reach, says the Chicago Record The
! StLtdEl DIOWS through the richest 2OlQ
! belt Of Montana and Idaho, and wherever
! the miners have been able to reach the
! sand or gravel they have secured rich re
/ suits. Thirty years ago the amphitheater
around Shoshon falls was a lively mining
| camp, and more than 100000 Of gold dust
| was washed out there. There is a little
! beach just above the falls covered with
/ several feet of fine sand It is about 200
/ feet long and sixty broad. There in 1853,
/ Tom Cavanaugh and Pat Clarity washed
out more than $4,000 in a few weeks, and
/ several years later :, lie Cinnamon went
/ over the same sand again and found
han as much more All the way up and
down the canyon, in every nook and cor
ner, wherever the sand has lodged among
| the bottoms of the wall-like cliffs, the
miners worked on fiat-boats, and some
ficn deposits were discovered. In one
place, where the current strikes with
iuH force, a pocket containing several
| single day. This demonstrates, as the
miners claim. that the silent river is
loaded with gold but its perils are
great, for the current is so swift and
treacherOus that a boat is easily carried
over the falls. So far as known, there has
| been but one disaster of this kind. Tom
Bell, miner who lived in a cave with two
Cinnamon, was coming down the stream
In a boat some years ago when one of
his oars broke and although he strug-
gled desperately the other was not sufti-
cient to carry IT ashore The Cinnamon
leaped into the water. hoping, it is sup
above the falls. but Bell, when he saw
| that destruction was certain. stood up
right in his little boat. folded his arms
| and looked death squarely in the face.
His body was recovered a few days later
several miles below, and after a month or
more the corpse of Mon Su, one of the
Cinnamon, was found in some driftwood
that had lodged only few hundred yards
under the falls. He had 81 600 in gold dust
on his person, and his bones were sent
! across the ocean to be buried with those
| of his fathers. A man was paid $175 to
carry the coffin in a cart to the nearest
station on the Union Pacific railway. inc
I hOdV 81 the other Chin1TQ9r
| found.
About fifty years ago there was exhib-
tied in one of the most Fashionable jewel
er's shops in Paris very curious and in
| Times. Every one who passed the shop
was attracted by it as it hung in the win
dow, and the converse ton in many salons
was based upon the brilliancy and perfec-
ton of the gems which surrounded it, The
most remarkable part of this piece of jew
/ elry was that it was chiefly COMPOSED of
four rusty, bent and broken pins These
were set in framework of gold the orr
gin OF this old ornament it Is necessary to
go back many years before it was ex-
| htbited. One day NJ MaZeres was walk
ing the streets of Paris when he came sud
denly upon some men who were at work
| rnending the pavement In some way OF
other monsieur tripped, and III falling was
hurt Without thinking of the .couse-
quences, he exclaimed against the super
| lntendent or the streets, saying he should
instruct his Workmen to he more care
full. This remark was overheard, and he
was Immediately arrested and placed in a
dungeon for complaining against the pub
lie works, where he was kept for many
weary weeks without companions or oc-
cupation. He felt his body commence to
weaken and knew that under such a strain
his mind would soon give way But he
was a plucky man and determines II
awaken his spirits from the lethargy which
he knew would soon make him insane
When cast into prison NJ. Ma.
zeres was searched by the Of.
hcers, but in some manner they
I had neglected n take from >, -
These pins were all he had TO amusa him
self with, so he set mis- wits to work tc
devise some game to keep his mind occu.
pied. During six years the Door prisoner
occupied himself in throwing the fouI
pieces OF wire at random about the eel
and then in searching for them that he
might recommence his game. This was al
the pleasure he had for those six long
years. and simple though it seems, it was
this alone that served to keep his body and
! brain active. \ revolution set him ri
liberty one day, and his devoted wife met
him at the prison door to take him home
He then exhibited his four rusty and bent
arNT TO-