The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

George Vanderbilt has caught the cycling
fever He purchased a wheel N Boston the
other day on has way TO Bar Harbor.
The Hon. A. J. Balfour is making name
for himself IN Scotland as an enterprlsing
farmer. His speciality is sheep
Boston boasts Of an artist who executes pic
lures while the auctioneer Is selling them.
Says a reporter: THE lightning colorist has
his paints spread out before him IN heaps on
sort OF mOrtar-board and ranged behind
him in pals, while on one side OF him are the
canvass frames that he turns OF before
breakfast. Follow him while he produces D
moonlight scene. First he gets out his white
wash brush without long handle and, dipping
II in he slate colored ink. primes the sky Of
evening. But he is careful to leave small
circle unscathed in the center; that is to
stand for the moon. Then across the notion
of the canvas the brush is flashed, lea ing
behind it heavier trail, while Two big
patches OF black paint at each side form the
sbadowy hills Then with narrow brush Of
black the trees and their bare branches
are located, as II the artist were stripping the
wheels OF an express wagon. Another dash
Of black answers for boat and two irregular
touches are the men propelling il. By this
time the auctioneer crying, How much for
this elegant moonlight scene in the North
wood: start me,-sl.6 IS do hear: Sold"
The Fordon bridge, over the Vistula river
in Germany, probably ranks sixth among the
European bridges says the Philadelphia
Record, so far us length Is concerned, the
Y, O3SIOOJ OrlQge owes the Danube at CZerna-
voda coming first. followed by the 10, 499foot
bridge over the Tay, the 7S55-foot Fourth
bridge. the Waal bridge in Holland with
length OF 4,823 feet. the 4.7lS-foot bridge over
the VOL a at Syrsan. Russia, and the forGol
bridge, which is 347 feet long. The last has
nve river spans of 32S feet and 10 OF 2O3 feet
inches each. The river piers are founded on
concrete. inclosed in piling and protected in
rILrap; the foreshore piers and one aputment
are founded on masonry wells 2J1E feet out
side diameter sunk to from 80 to 80 feet below
the surface of the ground. The main glrders
over the river openings have parabolic upper
and horizontal lower chords The width be-
tween the main Orders IN a clear is 30 feet
inches of which p feet inches is given Up to
a roadway, and - feet inches to a railway,
the remaining inches neing occupied by a
dividing lattice feet inches high On each
side of the main Orders there is a foOtway
| feet II inches wide. On one side of the river,
| both ABOVE and below the bridge, there are
! sheers for removing and replacing the maStS
| OF passing vessels, and there is also towing
| apparatus for boats passing under the struc-
| ture.
Once more a woman has covered herself
| with glory, says the Boston Journal Of Com
| mere. When one thinks of the millions of
! hours that are wasted by women trying to fill
| up the holes that small boys and grown-up
men bring out OF the heels ana toes of hosiery
| and then look at the invention, il makes one
wonder why nobody has been inspired before
| this to invent a darnlng machine This one,
| which a New \ Ork woman suggested and her
| husband carried out is a regular little loom.
1t Will darn any hole up to pa inches one way
and five the other. There is a fiat WOODEN
piece that is inserted II the stocking under
| the space needing daTnlng. Then the loom
| shuts on over it. The holes should be first
| surrounded as in darniny by hand. needle
| threaded with the darning co ton or warn
starts at one corner OF the space to be attend
| ed to and the warp is put on to the
! little loom with this. There are two sets of
| teeth, Just as in a silk or cotton loom which
! are worked by a simple little thumb lever,
! and the needle tlrQStS The width of the darn
under one set of the threads of the warp.
! The lever is then pushed down and the al
ternate set OF threads Is lifted for the needle to
| be passed under again. 1t is done in no time.
! Anybody can handle it, and, really, it is more
! fun than knitting, while ii is so smooth that
| the men folks can't OBJECT to il with ary-seDse
or say darns hurt their feet The woman who
! devised 1t ought to receive the conbin ed
| thanks OF the nation of mothers who are wear
ing out their lives trying to keep up with
! lively youngsters and WORKOUT trousers.
Connecticut has woman mail-carrier in
! the person Of Charlotte Waldo. who drives
! her wagon every day over the worst route in
! the state, lying between Ashford and Bolton
| She covers thlrty-six miles in all. going on
duty as eacly as O'Clock in the morning and
stabllng her horse at about the same hour in
| the evening. In the course of her travels she
! passes through Ashford, West Ashford,
Mansfield -Four Corners, North Coventry.
| Quarryvtlle and Bolton. The route" says
the Hartford Times is controlled under
| government by Dwight Shurtliff of Illicit
dlstlllery fame, who receives 5000 year for
| 1t Charlotte Waldo gets for her services
$3.50 year, Shurthh furnishing the team.
| In early spring the roads of the
| Ashford-Bo route are almost impossible,
and after snowStorm they are seldom
! broken out for day or two. Last winter
the woman, although obliged to shovel a road
through heavy drifts at times never missed
! a mail train. Her perSon appearance is
thus described by one who accoml anied her
| over the route recently she was OF medium
night and although not f1eshy, her entire
| build suggested great strength and endur-
ance Her lace and hands were as red as a
boiled looster, from the exposure to all kinds
| of weather. Her hair cut short and parted in
the middle huge black eye goggles a black
! sailor hat with a white rib on and huge bow
much the worse for wear, a pair OF large
men shoes upon her feet, and the resolute,
determined look on her face all gave her a
decidedly mas cullne appearance as she stood
there with one hand on the carriage ready to
get in and the other holding the mail bag"
The ether occupies highly anomalous po-
sition in the world of science It may be de-
scribed as half discovered entity, said Lord
| Salisbury in q recent address. l dare not use
| any less pedantic word than entity to desig-
nate 1t, for it would be a great eXaggeration
| OF our knowledge If l were to speak of it as
| body, or even as a substance When, nearly
a century ago. Young and trssnel discovered
that the motions of an incandescent particle
| we're conveyed to our eyes by undulation. il
followed that between our eyes and the par.
| tlcle tnere must ne something TO undulate. In
order to furnish that something the notion of
the ether was conceived, ana for more thar
two generations the main, il not the only.
function of the word ether has been to fur
nlsh nominatlve case of the verb ITO
undulate." Lately, our conception OF
this entity has re eved a notable extension.
One OF the most brilliant of the services which
| Prot Maxwell has rendered TO science has
been the discovery that the figure which ex-
pressed the velocity of light also expressed
the multipler REQ uired to change the measure
OF static or passive electricity into that of
dynamic or active electricity The inter
probation reasonably affixed to the discovery
is that as light and the electric impulse move
approximately at the same rate through
space, it is probable that the undulations
which convey them are OF the same
medium. And as induced electricity
penetrates through everything, or nearly
| everything, it follows that the ether through
! which its undulatlons are propogated must
pervade all space, whether empty or full,
whether occupied by opaque matter. or trans
parent matter, or by no matter at all. The
attractive experiments by which the late
| Prof Herr illustrated the electric
vibrations Of the ether Will only lie
alluded to by me in order that / may ex-
| press the regret deeply and genera ly
| felt that death should have terminated pre-.
| maturely the scientific career which had be-
gun with such brilliant promise and such
| Fruitful achievements. But the mystery of
| the ether, though IL has been made more
! fascinating by these discoveries. remains
| even more inserutahe than before. OF this
| all-pervading entity we know absolutely moth
| ing, except this one feet that it can be made
to undulate Whether outside the influence