The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ large pumpkin pies inside of an hour and
! became so i'll that a physIc - was sent
Z for. The patient then confessed that he
had stolen and eaten 1000 pies in period
of six months. His diet win be changed
to bread and water for three months. in
accordance with the decision of a police
justice.
An American dentist who recently made
as careful an inspection of the tooth of
I Buddha as the attendants would allow
says that the big piece of bone is the
tooth of a crocodile, and could never
| have grown in the mouth of a human
being, because of its size. He narrowly
| escaped with his life in Ceylon, where he
was injudicious enough to make this
| statement publicly.
An English specialist on nervous dis
eases has devised an ingenious method of
| drumming, or, rather, waking up trade
| He employs a B fiat cornetist OF great
lung power to go ahead of him as sort
/ of advance agent. This man engages
| apartments and practices morning, noon
| and night until all the tenants are dis
! tracted and their nerves unstrung. Then
/ the specialist comes along, puts out his
| sign and gathers in the guIneas.
There has been a revival of the Jack the
/ Ripper sensation on the continent. This
/ time 1t comes from the Tyrol, and, like
/ previous cases of the kind no clue to the
! identity of the perpetrator has been dis
covered. The body of young woman, p
/ years of age, hotel waitress at Amras,
! near Innsbruck, was found between the
! villages of Lands and Aldrans. 1t is be-
! Heved she was murdered as she was going
/ home from a religious procession a Amras,
| where she was last seen. A razor edged
| knife was found near the place where the
/ crime took place. Shortly afterward an
| other woman was found near the same
| place, horribly mutiIated like the former
one. A third girl is missing, and, although
there is no reason to believe she has been
murdered, the fate Of the others has
caused her friends the greatest uneasi-
ness, and vigorous search is being made
for her.
A launch some forty eight feet long and
drawing about two feet of water, de-
/ CT 81 for rNfre fr.a4 E,,r-
been put upon the Thames at Moseley
1t is claimed by the owners that this boat
is the fastest of the kind in the world 1t
has a speed with the current of some
| Twenty-Five miles an hour. and can do
tWenty-SiX miles against the current
When going at full speed it is almost en-
urely buried in an enormous wave which,
from the shores, hides all parts of the
boat from view except the boy and smoke
submerges lawns and lifts house boats
and skiffs secured along the bank to the
towing path: The people along the shore
decidedly object to having their craft
lifted out of the water and left high and
dry. There have been so many com
plants that the launch will probably be
either suppressed by the authorities or
! compelled to steam II non-wave making
/ rate of speed.
! Prof. Hite, who has just returned from
! the exploration of Labrador says: There
! is no population in Labrador outside of
! the few fishermen scattered along the sea-
! coast, but before leaving Cape Charles
| event in the whole of Labrador last sum-
| mer. 1t was dance given in a fish house.
| There were three girls and two Esquimaux
! bellies to be distributed as partners among
! more than fifty men. An Esqulmaux with
| an old fiddle made the music and played
| the 'Arkansaw Traveller in very effective
| style Regarding our collections, a splen-
| did assortment of insect life was secured
| l found eight new butterflies which have
! not been described in the entomology of
| Labrador. The animal life is sub-Arctic
| as we'll as the flora, and is therefore rather
| sCanty. In addition to the larger animals
| which came under the head of game some
| rare water shrews were discovered, and a
| remarkably varied collection of toads pc
! culiar to Labrador. Two new land birds
| were secured, and a large collection of
| water fowl"
| Harper's Weekly, to add to the names of
! their ships of war the word Kan, a term
| which is of Chinese origin and means war
! vessel and their war ships are always
| spoken of in this way, as-Naniwa Kan
! HaShidate Kan, etc. In a similar manner
| the word Maru is added to the names of
| merchant vessels, as-Omi Maru, Yama-
| shire Maru. The word is of obscure orr
! gin. 1t is believed to be a corruption of
| Marc, IAN archaic term of endearment"
| The meanings and origin of names given
| to Japanese war vessels are of interest.
Matsushima is one of the Sankei, or
! three views of Japan" and has been
! famous from earliest times. 1t is a beau
| tiful archipelago on the coast which can
| be described in the meaning of the words
| Hashidate are islands famous for their
| beauty. Naniwa is the ancient name for
| the province in which the old capital
| Kyoto, is situated. Takachiho is a south
! ern mountain, on the summit of which
| the first mikado, Jimmu Tenno, is sup
| posed to have alighted when he descended
| from heaven. Yoshino is a wild noun
! famous tract of country, in which is stu
| ated town of the same name, celebrated
! for its sakura (the Towering cherry trees,
| said to number 900. Akagi and Hiyei are
| names of mountains.
Engineers have estimated that the total
| water power of Niagara Falls is 100000
! horse power, says Harpers Weekly. This
| estimate, to be sure, is in the main only
| guess, but when the area drained into the
| lakes above Lake Ontario, and passing
! through the Niagara river be considered,
| the guess or estimate does not seem to be
! too large. The water surface of the great
lakes above Ontario is $4,000 square miles,
and the water shed of these lakes is 240-
| 900 square miles-more than twice the
area of Great Britain and Ireland. The
! total length of shore line is 5000 miles,
while the volume of water is 5000 cubic
| feet per second, of which Lake Superior
| contains almost one-half. The rate of out
! flow at Buffalo is from 275,000 cubic
| feet per second, while the fall of the cat
aract is 165 feet The volume of water in
! the lakes Is such that it has been esti-
| mated that even if no rain fell the flow
| of the river would be continued at it's
present rate for 100 years-that is if the
lakes could be. gradually drained. These
! are very large hgures, but in the main they
| are the results of exact measurements
| The small water powers in the world are
uneven, and are affected by floods and
! droughts, but this great power a Niagara
| is as constant as anything in this world
can be, not even the ice IN the severest
and longest winter ever known appreci-
| ably changing it. The present plant is
| intended only to utilize 125, 900 horse power
and the turbines now in place are only
! for a small part of this. Other turbine
| wheels will be put in place as the demand
| for power grows The general plan of the
| company contemplates the ultimate use
! of $4,000 horse power on the American
! side and a like amount in Canada. Such
! a power would turn all the wheels within
| a radius of 500 miles of the falls. At the
! present time considerable part of the
! power developed is to be taken to Buffalo
| by electric transmission, and it is the con-
! fldent expectation of the electricians now
| at work on the problem that the power
| can be taken as far east as Albany. 300
| miles away, and delivered there cheaper
! than power can be generated by burning
! coal. If this be so, then all the country
! between Albany and the falls will be adj
/ mirably adapted for manufacturing while
| the Erie canal will afford cheap and toll
! erably quick transportation, for there
! seems to be little difficulty in the wav of
! hauling these boats nv electrical r,ouyev