The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DR.. William Everett is credited with the re-
mark that he lies awake at night to devise
some method by which he may offend the
/ newspapers"
I The caprice Of the moment in Paris is
| Chinese soup In this sharks fins are the
7 chief ingredient. Only the nigh class grocers
nave them, an put up as they are. beaded on
/ PINK wool. IN little glass boxes they look at
! hrst glance like some goodies from the con
4 fectloner s. Another dish seen now at fash
I lonable dinners in the French Cspital is young
] roast peacock, served with trurfies. aud the
I mo st auected ice for the same feasts is fla
] Forea Win nazel nuts and Gale "Bom5e
{ AVelane' "a souvenir Of the recently visiting
4 russians, who, though lost to sight, are still
/ eFldentIy 10 memory dear.
/ While workmen were once engaged in sink
ing well on the farm OF David Dunning in
/ Washington township, Ringgold county. Ia.
! tHey had some queer experience. At a depth
/ Vi fourteen Ieet they found between a peck
| ana a half buShel Of white walnuts. or but
| ternuts, ana depth Of twenty six feet fine
/ pair OF deers horns and large log OF wood.
| Inc horns were very soft when first taken
! out, out soon hardened exposure to the
| ar The peculiar part OF the whole affair IS
! tle Lact that there Is not single butternut
the state.
! Thirty-oae PERSONS died OF actual starva-
ton IN London during last year, eight In
| tants and twenty-three adults. Not one of the
| unfortunate persons had ever applied to the
| parish authorities for relief, and IN only one
| case had the deceased person been at any
time the inmate Of a poorhouse or hospital.
| Al We're people of unquestioned respecta-
! Dlllty, who had come upon hard times and
| whose pride and horror OF accepting public
| aims overcame the sharpest pangs Of hunger.
| a sample story is in the OFFICIAL record:
James Mcdonald age about so wears: date
| OF INQUEST, FEB. 10. Deceased would not ap-
| ply TO tDe PARISH; verdict. starvation.
Another most interesting sight in Naples s
! the aquarium. says a Chicago Times writer
| We thought the Chicago one quite fine but in
| the QueernesS Of the tenants and the skill OF
| the arrangement this far exceeds it, The
cutt4ehsh, are. OF course, the centre OF atsrac-
tlon, and when you have seen these horrible
| creatures stretch out their hIdeOus tentacles
and envelope crab in their arms go home
ana eat lltt.e too much dinner and the cut
llensh VIII come and eniIven your slumUers.
The cuttlehsh feelers are not bad to eat I
often nave them served to me at restaurants.
Ihey taste very much like scanoEs and are
no more revolving than crabs claws or frogs
| legs.
Gems were engraved at a very early period
! Of the worlds history. The very Oldest speci-
men of this art in existen e is believed to be
| a sgnet OF yellow jasper, engraved in the
year 1850 B. c., and now in the British Mu-
scum The engraving upon it is fair picture
OF the morse OF AmenOphiS II, and the char
| acters underneath have been deciphered as
| being the names and titles OF tnat monarch.
Inc earliest instance Of an engraved precious
stone IS I ne emerald ring Of POlycrates 80
b. {. The Bible tells US that the Judean hi h
PIl9Sis wore breast plates with the names of
Iuc WE'VE t.lDeS engraved upon them, but
inns Notwithstanding there is no known He
bre" engraving older than the nth century.
The recent report that citizen of the
United States has discovered among the
mountains OF the Mexican State OF Sinaloa a
long FORGOTTEN city, TALES with curious
Iocal traolil9n OF that region. Adjoining the
STATE Of SlnalOa on the south is the state of
JalllSco, ana of this state Guadala lara is the
capital. Llv NJ in the mountains of JalIisco.
part OF the same great Sierra Madre, or
mother Range that extends through Siua-
loa and thence northward are the uncon-
| quered y aQuiS. a brownhaired people. with
hight eyes and almost fair compilations
GCadalalara is the only civil zed town that
these Gaquis visit. and it has long been be-
ueVed there that the Naqui Businesses OF the
Slelre Madre range conceal not only rich
mines OF silver but as well the lost city Of
the Aztec race. No one has hitherto pierced
the mountain wilderness, because the naked
aqus have an effective system of Massive
resistance that has hitherto successfully
closed the sole line OF approach The only
human beings other than the TaOuis them
selves admitted to the mountains Of Jalltsco
are rev renegade ApacheS murderOus
wretches, vastly more dangerous to would be
explorers than the peaceful hut persistent
Haquis.
An electric machine viii be put in operation
this week in varioJs Wall street offlces which
newspapers or other institutions or persons
desiring quick transit of news, says a New
York special dispatch. 1t is a modification
OF the OLD tape printing ticker" which the
general public has so long seen in use in
hotels hanks and brokers OFFICES to record
transactions and such other news as is gen
orally bull ct ned in that way The page
prln er uses pretty much the same little
wheel 10 do the prin ing. IN place OF the tape
OF narrow paper continuous roll, a little
Wlcer IMAM two COLUMNS, is automatically fed
int
in broad line of clear tyre whatever
the matter is that is to be pub
lished This roll of news can be two inches
2lect or ~ yards long, or any other length de-
! sired. An expert telegrapher is not needed to
send out the messages, which are printed sim
| UNANIMOUSLY on all the instruments on the cir
| cult. Ihero is keyboard like that of a
| typewriter on which the sender spells out his
| message. Inc instrument can, therefore be
breezy described as an electric typewriter
win an automatic printing attachment. A
| speed OF forty words minute can be had
and the circuit can be worked with one wirs
The practical value OF the machine is to be
tried one OF the dallleS, which viii put TWO
| or thfee OF them at different stations in the
city, and have rs reporters send their items
to the publication Office in this manner.
The military authorities Of Vienna are ex-
trenely reticent concerning the mechanism
OF the new Austrian Salvador mitrailleuse. or
qulckhr machine gun. But correspond
ent Oh the London STANDARD learns that the
firing trials made at the Vienna arsenal have
Teen reported upon as highly satisfactory
The weapon has been adopted by the service
and fully 100 pieces are now ready for distri-
button. The gun is not intended for USE In
the held; as in the case of the English Maxim
and NOrdenfeldt machine guns The new
mltralIeuse Will be mounted stationary on
the outH or<s encircling important fortresses
It's only half the weight OF the Maxim and
It's average rate Of discharge is about the
same-eOl rounds per minute with a maxi
mum OF ~ The diameter of the bore is
eight hll1meters, being similar to that of
the Mannllcher repeating rife now in use IN
the Austrian service. The barrel is
pot encased in water Jacket. and
1900 continuous rounds can be fired
before it shows the effects of the
excessive heat The cartridges are sun.
Piled as in the NOrdenfeldt from n
large hopper fixed above the firing cham
Ter. The gun IS fired by means of an ordinary
trigger with trigger grip. and a recou spring
supplies the automatic action But the
principal point Of interest in respect OF which
the new gun differs entirely from the mechan
ism OF similar weapons now in use in other
countries IS the oscillating pendulum royu-
lating the speed of fire. There are two firing
commands with the Maxim single ire and
continuous fire. " The DISCHARGE is regulatad
by the turning of the crank handle The
single ire is as the hre from an ordira~v
repeating rife, while the continuous repre-
sentS the most rapid discharge of which the
machine is capable. With the Salvator
mltralueuse however the great advantag e is
gained OF sustaining a moderately heavy dis
charge OF thirty fifty to 100 rounds per min