The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The General Theological Seminary of the
Protestant Episcopal church has come into
possession Of one of the largest collection of
Latin Bibles in the world, consisting Of 543
editions in 1874 volumes.
The work Of trying out" the bIubber Of the
whale recently captured of Amagansett. L.
l., resulted in forty barrels Of oil. About 100
pounds of whalebones. averaging seven feet
In length, we're taken from the head Of the
monster. The total value Of the whale was
s., 600.
Although the population of the Hawaiian
Islands is less than 10000 and the total reve-
nues of the government only about a. 060, OJ0.
the chlet justice IS paid a salary larger by
$3.50 than is the chief justice of the United
states. Each of the cabinet officers receive
Sl.OOU year more than do our cabinet ONT ers:
and the other officers are so liberaily paid
That the salary list eats up about one-half the
entire revenue -..-
Russian industries are developing with
great rapidity. In the construction OF the
new railway train for the car rand his sjiite.
Russian materials were used. with the excep-
tion OF axles and wheels. which were fur
nished by the Krupp works, at Essen, Tn
train consisted of eleven carriages. made
alter American models, Unusually
strong brakes we're attached. enabling the
| train to be brought to a standstlll very sud
denly.
The karat the entrance of the River Mer-
sey, and which has been such a source of
| trouble to the city of Liverpool, mas now been
so far lowered that there is a mipimum depth
OF nineteen feet over a channel .000feet wide,
and minimum of twenty feet foverya width
of 500 feet, and the river authorities say that
az no distant date the channel to Liverpool
will be open to all vessels at all states OF the
! tide. 1t Is also stated that vessels drawing
81 feet inches can now successfully navigate
the Manchester ship canal.
Walter w. Barker and Miss Nellie T, Perry
were married in Brooklyn twenty-one years
| ago. In 1886 Mrs. Barker obtained an a So
Lutte divorce, and Mr.. Barker was FORBIDDEN
TO marry again during her lifetime The su-
| preme court has just res, inded this restric-
! ton, and granted Mr.. Barker leave to marry
| again. AfidaV!ts were presented showing
/ that Mrs. Barker remarked soon after she
| co. her divorce, and that Mr.. Barker had
| been living moral lie ever since
| the separation. Mr.. Barker is the agent OF
| the Equitable Life Ins1rance Company IN
| Paris.
During the last maneuvers in Russia expe-
riments were made with the Norwegian
| cooking stove the OBJ ect being to provide the
! troops on the march. within the least possible
| space OF time, with warm food The apparatus
! used was the ordinary camp kettle fitted into
| a thick felt covering. The soup or stew be-
| ing placed IN the kettle is raised to the boil
| ing point. and then removed from the fire,
| the lid clamped down the kettle inserted in
the sheath, and the whole slung in the usual
| manner below the wagon. I he pro ,eS.,
| OF stew NJ continues automatically, thanks to
| the heat retained. and even after several
| hours marching the temperature does not
| fall below 100 degrees Fab.
If it were possil l. to rise above the atmos-
| phere which surrounds the earth. says the st.
| Louis Republic the sun would appear as
| sharply defined tall Of fire, while everything
| else would be wrapped in total darkness. , he
| explanation of this seeming odd is this
| There would not nor could not / e any sensa-
! tion of light conveyed to the brain through
| the medium of the eyes without an atm0s-
| phere or something similar to the suns RAYS
| to act upon But. on the contrary if the at
| mosphere Of ur earth extended TO hight of
| 700 miles, the sun heat and rays could ne yer
| penetrate 1t, and nothing in the shape OF an
| organized being would ever have existed upon
| this planet. Again. if something should
| happen that would suddenly expand our at
| mosphere to a height of 6OJ or 700 miles we
! would all freeze to death while wrapped in
| darkness blacker than the blacklist midnight.
Uranus, now visible in the southern sky is
really gigantic world more than sixty times
| as large as ours says the New
| York sun. Its vast distance, now about
| l, 100 OO9OOJ miles from the earth. is whas
| causes it to look so small. Uralus has four
moons VIII CHI revolve backward in their or
4 bits; that is to say they revolve from east to
| west around Uranus, while Uranus goes, Ike
| all the other planets from west to east
| around the sun. 1t is believed that Uranus
| rotates backward on its axis also. Moreover
| the axis of that great, strange globe lies in
| SuCu Il uIItCJlOu IDdb III lDG course OF ltS year,
| which Is equal TO eighty-four OF our years. the
| sun shines almost perpendicularly ii st upon
| one pole and then upon the other. Measured
| by our time standard, there are forty years of
| constant daylight. followed by forty years of
| unbroken night, around the poles of Uranus
| And the sun rises in the west and sets IN the
| east there But the sun looks very small
| when viewed from UranuS-Only one-four-
| hundredth as large as it appears to US.
In France, says the Railway Gazette, the
management of some of the railroad compa-
| MES think of replacing the telegraph by the
| telephone, even for the transmission OF i'm
| portant orders. There are some railroads
| with light traffic where the telephone Is
| already thus used but the entire substitution
| of the telephone would be dittlcult. The single
| iron conductors used for the telegraph would
| not be suitable and it would be necessary to
| establish special telephone lines with double
| wire On the NincenneS railroad, in the sta
| tonS between Paris BaStille and La Nareune
| which are at distances of aIout one mile at "a
| signal by telegraph the telegraph wires are
! connected with the telephone instruments and
| are thus made available for an extended
| telephone intercourse The arrangement
| gives excellent results. The Northern rail
| road of France has established on trial tele
| phone stations on the open road along some
| OF its main lines, through which assistance
| can be summoned from the stations in case of
accident. The stations are equipped with
telephone receivers. Portable telephone in
| Struments are IN use on some small Fren h
| roads. he largo Austrian railroads use field
| tenn, which in a few minutes can be connected
| with the telegraph wires at any point. their
| use nor interruptlng the telegraphic commu.
| nication Under favorable conditions con
! versation is possible at distances up 10 thirty
| one miles In England telephone connection
| between block signal stations is common. On
| the seven large French railroads there we're
| in use in January. 1893, about l.2l0telephones
| against 5000 telegraph stations.
The Healthy and Artistic Dress Union has
recently been holding a meeting for the
propagation of the views of its members on
| reforming the present style of costume worn
| by both men and women, but especially the
! latter says the London Truth, Their obie. u
/ If not worthy of the highest announcement
| does not, on the other hand, challenge any
| very great amount Of opposition. In this
| country within very ca Sy limits. any one can
wear pretty well whatever he or she likes
| and If the union can succeed in getting the
! est Of the giant custom they may even
| establish knee breeches. evening Jacket
white shirt and red tie 1.-THE attire of a lady
attending the meetngl as the orthodox wear
J of the other sex. BY the way [
! cannot help being struck by the
/ persistent attempts to annex our
! "trews, which characterize the efforts of all
! the indefatiga5le ladies who pose as the cham
! pions of dress reform. This garment of ours
! would appear to lie very 'Hugomontp to
| the attacking party, and around it the tiercest
! struggle always seems to lake place. / re.
| member the arrival from America some thir-
| ty-tive years ago of the "bloomer'' costume,
| and the heroic efforts of the few pioneers who
| adopted 1t to look unconscious and happy: il