The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The historic Long Bridge. over which the
federal troops fed into Washington alter the
disaster at Bull Run. is undergoing some
changes. 1t will be rebuilt to accommodate an
ele- trio railroad TO connect Washington with
Mount NernCn n. the tom Of the father OF MS
country. The old bridge has seen many
changes since il was first erected in 1898 It
was built by private stock company on a
charter from congress, and the company as
70 enjoy the tolls for sixty years, afuer v men
II was to become the property OF the United
states After enjoying about thirty years OF
lois the company one day found itself de-
p.lved OF the property by hood Then con-
gress came to the rescue. paid the company
$4,000, and built a free bridge to cross the
POTOMAC a. cost of 10000. This was about
$50. and the bridge was in use when the war
broke out In $50 another flood took the
structure away. and then congress gave a
charter to the PennSy lvania Railroad Com
pany. which was TO maintain bridge for all
purposes OF travel, to have tie free rlght-ot-
way Itself and be compelled under the law to
grant TO any other railroad the use of the
bridge under rental TO Re determined by the
supreme court OF the District Of Columbia.
One of the most difficult operations in the
repairing or rebuilding of locomotives is the
removing Of old bolts from the frames Of en-
glnes These bolts are originally machine
hlted, which alone would make their removal
dlmcult- but as they are always badly ruSted
Inc process Is douCly tedious. ~4he me thod
always IN use is 20 force them out by upward
blows from heavy hammers but frequently
the drill had to be used. a workman IN the
Erie railway shops at Hornellsville, N Y.
conceived the idea that these bolts could he
quickly and effectively removed by a pro-
1ectlle hred from a cannon. The master
mechanic resolved TO test the idea, and q
steel mortar-Shaped pie e of ordnance was
made Tor the purpose with a two-lnch bore,
seven inches deep This is fitted with a steel
proJectlle the same length as the bore. The
nrst test of this novel tool was made on
Saturday. The mortar was loaded and the
DOT 10 a1a tAfN In
engine frame. At the first discharge the bolt,
a particularly obstinate one, was driven from
us hold. Ihe entire frame was dis possessed
OF its numerous bolts by the pro ectile in a
much shorter time than a single bolt was ever
taken out befOre. The success of the ord
nance tool Will mark an important revolution
In the work OF LOGON olive repairing.
The wholesale clothing trade. says the
New York Mail aad Express, has some pee u
liarities that are quite unknown to the pub
lie at large which wears the ready made
clothes that are produced by the great firms
IN this and other big manufacturing cities.
VI course, all wholesale lines of business
nave pecularitites unknown to retail pur-
chaSers, but that particular one Of the whole
sale clothlerS IS OF a nature that might be
supposed to gain wide publicity but which
does not. 1t lies in the giving of fancy titles
to the garments they make, but which ap-
parently are not passed along by the retail
erS who handle them. Some of these names
are slngularly amusing in their inapprOprl-
ateness, as, for instance, in the use of the
ID lchess trousers and the apollo pants
1t IS doubtful If there is a duchess in all
the nobility of Europe who wears trousers. and
It IS certainty that no record of Apollo
career makes any alluSiOn TO his wearing
pants. In fact, he would have been unques-
tlonably badly handicapped by pants as his
lie IS were so delightfully."- symmetrical and ar
tlstic that no Olympian coStUmer would have
made the bad break of permitting o distin-
gulShed customer to make guy of himself
The Duchess Of MontroSe, a fine old British
matron who goes IN for horse racing aad
VINO married young man who has no title,
ana is very much her junior, is said to wear
the FAMILY trousers, but that Is only in the
slang meaning OF the expression. In actual
lie she wears frocks and gowns as any other
duchess does.
1t seems TO me, indeed that the word diner
dn one or other FORM is more used in the
south of France than9n other parts. SAYS a
writer in the Academy I have often Teen
surprised to find how little it is used among
the peasants, though now, no doubt, since
communication is so easy, the word is every
where understood. Where / have made in
qu1rleS (Which was not in the SOUTH, 1 have
generally found that dinner was called either
la Soupe or else gouter, and that the word
diner was not uSeQ. AS long as the French
soldiers had bouilli and the broth resulting
from its preparation twice a day, the two
ct la soupe du Soir, the former be-
ing their dinner. And even now, when
they have soup one only, neither of
the meal is called diner, but repaS du matin
aud repas du Solr are the terms used. as I
have cen informed by a / rench Officer ]
am, consequently, inclined to believe that the
word diner originated in Italy, especially
as there deSlnar (dlSlnarl is more especially
used OF the dinner of the poorer classes
while pranZo and pransar are rather
used of the more delicate nner Of
tho e who are in a higher social station.
In Tuscany, indeed (as a Tuscan lady tells
me-, among the laborers the su stantive used
IS commonly deslna; and as there is no such
corresponding substantive in French, and it
is at least as likely IF not more likely that
desinar preceded the VerO as that it is de-
rived from it, this is certainly some slight
argument in favor of the Italian oriGin of the
word. This desina (or disinai takes place at
midday. The word is accented on the Il; -
and IL seems to me extremely unlikely that
the French disner should nave give rise to a
form dtsinar (deslnarJ, with a vowel inserted
between the and the n, and that the cor
responding substantive should have the
accent on the inserted vowel
A colt foaled at Elmwood, N. c., in 1886 was
as woody as a sheep, without name, and a tan
as smooth as that Of a rat, says the Philadel-
phia Press. At the age OF 80 months il was
Sheared the wool weighing 2b pounds In
1887 two monstrosities in the shape OF six
toote cots were 10 We seen on the farm of
Frank L. Foreman, near Macon, Ill. He was
a two year-old, the o her a Weanling Both
were strong and healthy. A colt toaled on
1881 was perfect with the exception that it
was without forelegs. in July or that year
the little oddity was very frisky and making
efforts to walk like other bipeds Charles Ii
Beech Warne, Neb., is the owner OF a mare
which, in 1851, gave birth to a
yOungster provided with thee perfect
eyes, two of which are normally
situated, the third being nearly midway
OF the forehead. Each Of the three ewes
is perfect optic, endowed with vision about
the only difference in them being that the one
in the fo.eheal is much the largest. In 1881
what was advertised as the Eighth wohder
of the world'-a colt with eight perfect
hoofs-was foaled at the barn OF James Nc.
Cloud, near Pierre, ). d. In the Ease of the
McClold colt (which is now a full-groWn
horse, and is being EXHIBITED all over the
country the extra legs, or feet, rather, be-
gin at the pastern joints aud branch out so as
TO make two perfectly formed hoOfs on each
of the four legs. in he spring o 1890 Marion
BuCklen, who lives eleven mi es southwest Of
Knoxville, Ia, found himself the Iossessor
OF an odd malformation in the shape
of colt with three legs and wing" or a
tlpper. The two hind legs we're perfectly set
and natural, but the third, though nature
had tried to make amends for only SUPP ing
one, was set in the center OF the fore part OF
the bodY-between where the two fore legs
are generally are. This curious creature had
the eyes normally situated. but one was twice
as large as the other. In May Of the present
year an interesting little wonder made It's ap-
pearance in the livery farm Of o. G. Vess at
Lafayette. Ind. 1t is a bay mare colt sun
piled with an extra leg This superhuous leg,
- -. 81. l.