The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

conceived the idea OF driving her in
cart She soon developed a very consid-
cradle speed, and the young men on the
road who endeavored to pass her found
themselves left behind The cows road
qualities became very much talked about,
and finally Joe Russell bet so that his
horse could beat her both at walking and
trotting. He found that he was mistaken
and White took in the money. White
says that his COW can trot her mile in less
than four minutes. He drives her in
regular harness, with a bride and bit
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
tells how the school children of Roches-
ter killed $4,000 caterpillars. inspired by
the promise of a bounty by the Genesee
Valley Forestry Association. It says: so
thoroughly was the work of gathering the
cocoons that the caterpillars have practi-
cally been exterminated for the present
season, and the trees of the city have
been in full and vigorous foliage. The
amount paid in prizes this year was
$3.50, and the number of cocoons destroyed
was $500, 900. This is but a trifing expense
for results so valuable, and the members
OF the Forestry association have earned
the gratitude of the community for bear
ing the cost of a campaign which any
city might properly and profitably make
a public charge. There is no way of de-
stroying cocoons that Will compare in
effectiveness with setting an army of
school children in pursuit of them"
1t is reported that a large majority Of
the Chinese of Chicago belong to a secret
society called Gee-hing, the main object
of which is to overthrow the present gov
eminent of that country and restore the
native dynasty. One of them recently ex-
pressed himself as follows For years
the Gee-hings have been growing in
power, and to-day have generals and Off
III.
object of the Gee-hing is to overthrow the
present emperor and to restore the old
dynasty. 1t is a secret society with mill
lions of members in China, and at least
eighty in Chicago. The emperor has Of
fered 1900 reward for every Gee-hing
head, but there is not enough money in
the treasury to pay for their heads. The
war with Japan will not last much longer,
for the Gee-hings will soon be strong
enough to come out openly and dethrone
the emperor" Moy thinks this winter
will see a new emperor and an elaborate
coronation in China, which many China
men now in America will attend if they
can beg or borrow the money to cross
the Pacific.
Capt. Manard an Englishman, is giving
exhibitions with a bullet proof cloth of
his own, or his daughters invention in
Chicago. The cloth is an inch thick, and
its composition is unknown, but it is said
to answer its object perfectly. A coat
made of the stuff is worn by Miss Man
ard, and is fired at by her father, with
Martini-H Henry rifle, and with the regula-
ton arm of the United States army, first
putting a bullet through steel plates and
a large number of one-inch boards, to
show that there is no humbug about the
exhibition. The material was discovered,
it is said, quite by accident, and long be-
fore Herr Dove produced his much
talked-of Cuirass. Miss Manard was
amusing herself one evening shooting at
objects in a rubbish pile, and observed
that one article, which she hit repeatedly
was not pierced by the balls. She ex-
amined it. Experiments were made with
a quantity of the same material and the
bullet-proof cloth was the result. Capt
Manard says that he will give his secret
to any government that will put it to a
military use. He has invented a shield
to be carried on the muzzle of a gun,
which, he says, would give perfect pro-
lection to q soldier behind it.
Nicola Tesla the wizard of electricity
gave an exhibition of some of the won
ders at his command before the ladies
and gentlemen of the Electro-Thera-
peutic Association of New York the other
day, and among other things showed them
new invention of his for the generation
of electricity, which he claims must soon
supplant the dynamo, as it will do the
same work at half the expense and with
out the wear and tear which shortens
the life of the,present instrument used for
the generation of electricity. The 'ocu-
lator," as he calls it, is a small affair and
exceedingly simple. There is a piston rod
which works by a combination of steam
and electricity, and which runs in and
out of its socket just 500 times TO the sec
ond. 1t is hard for the mind to conceive
of such rapidity of motion, but there the
little fellow is, hard at work, in plain
sight, and looking almost like a solid
bolt so swiftly does it come and 60 And
the best of it is, says the inventor, as
he looks with parental pride upon the
offspring of his genius, ut works abso-
lutely without friction thus overcoming
the greatest defect of the dynamo So
precise is 1t in it's action that ] can main
tain the same speed within the thousandth
part of a second for hours. You will IN
derstand the tremendous possibilities of
economy" The electro-therapeutics all
said they did, for they were well stored
already with electric lore I'VE have only
reached the ante-chamber of electrical
discovery" said the tall and handsome
Montenegro, who doomed above the. tall
est doctor present at least six inches,
but we are making giant strides in the
way of knowledge. We are going to use
electricity for almost everything. We are
going to know all about it, and above
all, we are going to know how to control
ii. Even now it is the safest motive power
we employ. If the steam boiler in a large
factory bursts it is likely to kill a score
perhaps a hundred-people A horse run
ming away with a carriage full of people
may kill all of them Electricity rarely
kills more than one man at a time.
live wire in this room might kill one
man, but hardly two men. Electricity is
like a rattlesnake. 1t strikes it's victims
one at time. But it will not long be pos
sible for it to kill anybody. We arc going
to harness it and make IL absolutely safe
AS a motive power it will be safer than
engines or horses. because 1t will never
get out of harness. Just as soon as we
learn how to harness II so as to secure
perfect safety, and I think that time
is not far distant, electricity will take the
place of fire and steam, and will be the
only agent employed to light and heat
and move the entire world"
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