The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Chicago postmaster is sending out 5000
letters to private citizens in ali parts of the
city, requesting immediate replies for the
! purpose OF ascertaining just how good and
now bad the present mail facilities are. There
/ are IN the city fifty seven postoffiees without
| free delivery and thirteen delivery stations
| A week ago 800 letters were sent out for one
I test. One was sent through each of the post
] Offices without free delivery and nine were
/ sent through each delivery station. Ninety
hye per cent: of the replies have been re-
celYed, ana the showing was bad for the pres
! ent system Of sending all Chicago mail
through the main ONCE.
A remarkable marriage was solemnized at
the Bristol, England, registry office recently
when the bride, a buxom woman of 43.
wheeled to the office in large-slzed. old
/ fashioned perambulator the bridegroom, a
comedy looking man of IS, but Of such diminu-
| tive statue. owing TO his being crippled in
! both legs, that when support Ell on his feet he
| wa only thirty six inches high he woman
in answer to questions. admitted that the
man had not done any work from his birth
| ana she was going to support him by her
| worF. She assured the officials that she
| knew well vi 4 she was about She won
| dered what the crowd found to laugh at, as il
| was only wedding At his request he was
| married as he sat in the perambulator and
| as the happy couple went away the bride
! pushing the peram uulator. the crowd cheered
and covered them with showers OF rice. The
| Iollce had to clear way through the crowd
Tor the strange happy couple.
an oOSOAlL 10 given VI L6db
! accomplished fct the sBonsecours Spinning
Works at Nancy. namely, increasing the
hight of chimney about 100 feet high by
| some thirty feet additional, without Stopping
the works FOR a single day, says the New
Iork sun. Owing to the power being aug
mented, the existing chimney did not give
! sufficient draught for the greater number OF
| boilers. and one or two terations were in
| Volved-elthec to build a new chimney along
! side the old one or to raise the latter still
| higher Ap expert by he name of Bartling
| ouered to increase the hight of the standing
| chimney without any interference with the
| work of the mills, and aided by another man
| equal TO the occasion, the contractor pro-
ceeded to fix a series of light steel ladder to
! the chimney by means of iron hooks driven
| IN between the courses of the bricks-erected
a alley at the top Of the chimney and a
| flight Of scafolding all around, and then hay
| ing lowered the cornce surrounding the
! chimney, successfully built on TO the top at
the rate of about four to five feet per dav
1t is pointed out by Mississippi paper that
the marriage law of the state was left in a
very unsatisfactory condition by the code of
1892. Previous to its adoption a minister of
the gospel, or other legally constituted agent
of the law could unite couple in marriage a
license not being required. The new code re-
quires the parties to the contract to take out
license but, strange to say. IL dose not i'm
pose on them the duty of having the
ceremony of marriage performed So
| that If man and woman procure a
| license and live together. they are
sippi code. On the other hand if ignorant of
the new law, they find minister equally un.
conscious of it, and stand up before him, the
ceremony is meaningless, and they assume
no legal obligations toward each other. The
courts, If called upon to interpret the mar
rlage provisions of the code, would probably
hold that the omission referred to must e
supplied by implication; in other words, that
the taking out of a license was the first step
in an act to be completed by a ceremy per-
formed as under the old law
The feat Of counting 1000 silver dollars per
minute. says the Philadelphia Record. is now
being performed at the mint by a little ma
chine invented ny Sebastian Heines. the
chief carpenter of the institution and by its
aid the work of counting the coin and weigh
ing the silver bars can. it is thought be com
pleted by the middle of next month. The
SLOW progress made In counting by hand led
Mr.. Heines to experiment. with the re-
suit, after the expenditure of much thought
and time, OF turning out very successful
machine. Mr.. Morgan, of Mint Director
Preston ONCE, was greatly interested in
the experiments, and, UPON witnessing the
final successful tesG of the invention. he
granted permission for it's use in counting the
| great mass of silver dollars. The machine
was put into regular operation
| yesterday, and when worked to its limit was
| easily able to dispose of two bags of coins.
containing $1,000, In a minute. The machlae
consists of hopper, into which the coins are
dropped. A cog -wheel, the teeth OF which
resemble those of q circular saw carries the
coins o tubes and from there theyare forced
out upon little table, containing twenty
grooves, each of which holds just fifty coins
A turn OF crank counts 1'C00 coins, which
! are immediately put into bag, and
second thousand follows before the expiration
of the minute.
M. Turpin, the alleged inventor of the So
called French war chariot" continues to
talk freely about the machine with the news.
paper reporters of Paris. Il have" said he
recently, applied to the cannon the princi-
pie OF the mitrailleuse, with absolutely auto
matte loading apparatus The gunner is done
away with, and the liquefed gas or other ex-
ploSlve IS at once my motor and my ammuni-
ton. 1t is only question of machinery but
the trouble is with the supplies 10 take my
weapon into action want an immense GUAM
tlty OF ammunition, and that is why need q
steamer or a train to carry all at once
| The railway would thus become a sort
OF line OF defense, and a hostile
force might be inclosed in the cars as in
| polygon OF iron. An army on the march
would only have to put In lis front one of nv
weapons, armore1 of course, to be able to ad-
vance whittier it liked with impunity II is
fan OF fire covering, if need be, circle
twelve k1lometers in diameter and sweeping
away everything before it, By methodlCally
! turning the gun every inch of circle twelve
kllometerS in the diameter can be covered.
and as eachN shell contains an explosive it
would, on touching the ground burst ami
scatter destruction around it. Such weapon
placed on the Opera House plaza could de-
stroy Paris IN an hour."
The curfew tolls the knell of parting dav
sometimes at and sometimes at 8 O'Clock in
several Of the towns in this province saws
the Toronto Mail. 1t no longer means lights
out, but simply a summons to little boysand
girls to take themselves off the street to the
shelter of the dc nestle roof where their
sphere OF danger of pad company and of mis-.
chief will lie narrowed, viii. O. ful er scope will
be given to their capa ;ity for rest The cur
few bell might be locked upon as a piece of
sociallst1c presumption on the part of the
| municipality. as an encroachment on the in
alienabIe private right Of the head OF the fam
lily to order the affairs OF his own household
Dat the morllsenSe of the town will wink at
lnis ell OWING ASIDE Of the PARENT by the mu-
nto1pallty. The parent who Is Jealous of his
Irerogative as ruler Of his children fails TO
exercise that prerogative and delegates it to
the town when he allows them to be a public
nuisance and such worry to the public The
police should not be called upon 10 render
service as nurse TO tr ant children lhey
should be left free to keep adults out of mis-.
chief There is no more vexatious tantaliz-
ing duty than that of keeping track of a com
pany OF mischievous boys They are likely 10
ABSORB the attention OF any policeman who
has them on his beat Consequently older and
worse offenders are given a freer hand, Nor
is there anything that demoralizes a police
man more than that kiud of service lie is
apt TO lose his interest in a larger game and
sink into spy on the cond act OF urchins
who Will then make 1t a point to ill up his
time with larks and escapades. The cur,ew
tends 10 take this strain off the police.