The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An Arizona prison has an extensive
apiary. which is under the charge OF the
inmates A single hive is said to have
produced 90 pounds of honey last year,
ana It Is expected that the industry will
prove exceedingly profitable.
-Englishmen have introduced foot ball
into the Lake Nyassa region At Kota-
kota, few years ago. the greatest slave
depot on the west shore OF the lake, mixed
teams of blacks and whites meet every
saturday The negroes, however, refuse
10 wear shoes, playing in their bare feet
In order that there may be no obstruc-
ton to travel during the construction Ct
habit to roof over the sidewalk for the
purpose Of shielding passers-by from fall
Ing tools or bits of building material
When the buildings are large the sidewalk
under the temporary roof is in almost
impenetrable darkness This has been
overcome by transparent roof, which
has been erected over the pavement in
New York, where a large building is in
the course OF construction on Broadway
A portion of the pavement about thirty
five feet long is covered by a heavy plank
roof, supported by wooden beams and
pairs of posts about six feet apart. The
1901 consists simply OF two thlcknesses
or heaVy mesh galvanized iron wire net
ting supported on light wooden joints
across the beams of the regular platform
Dents, and having an inclined portion slop
ing up to the tops of the windows and
door openings. This ARRANGEMENT is neat
and cheap, and is intended to effectually
protect the sidewalk, and at the same
window.
An italian sea captain, Clio Batta Va
sallo OF Genoa, has made a very interest
| ing innovation in the use of sails. He
claims that the force of the wind can
/ not fully take effect in a sail, since the
arr IN front of it cannot properly cir
culate in the inflated part, and remains
stationary Immediately in front of part
| OF the sail proper. He avoids this stag
natlon o. ar as ne calls it. by the apph-
| cation of number of small holes in that
| part of the sail where the depression is
| deepest when 1t is filled; these holes are
/ reinforced like a button hole so that
/ they Will not tear out. Trials made in va
/ rlous weather have resulted as follows:
| With light wind a boat with ordinary
| sails made four knots, while the new sail
! increased the speed to five and quarter
| knots. In fresh breeze the respective
| speeds were seven, and eight and three
| quarters knots, and in a strong wind they
| We're eight and ten knots per hour. 1t
| stands to reason that the doing away with
! a layer of air which cannot escape past
| the sides of the sail, must increase the
| efhciency of the sailboat. Where the wind
| formerly struck a cushion of air which
| acted like q spring mattress, decreasing
| the actual pressure of the wind against
| the canvas, this current of air now strikes
| the sail direct, and, of course, has
| greater efficiency. Vasallo has received
| much encouragement from practical sail
ors, as well as theoretical scientists.
"A boy was sent into the basement of
| Thompson's drug store, on Fifteenth
street, opposite the treasury. this after
| ington Star. He had a candle in his
| hand, and the flame ignited the vapor
| arising from the carboy of cologne, which
was largely. alcohol In moment there
| was lively blaze. Then the carboy burst
| and the flame grew dangerous. The
alarm was given to the clerks in the store
| above, and the FIRE department was called
| The chemical and several other engines
were on the spot, together with a thou
sand or two people, who thought the
treasury was on fire again. Meanwhile the
clerks in the basement were making a
desperate fight with the flames. To one of
them, Frank c. Henry, the happy thought
| occurred to roll a soda water cylinder up
TO the fire and turn the carbonic acid gas
on to the blaze. This Mr.. Henry, with the
aid ofthe colored porter. was able to do
ana IN second a terrific combat set in
between the burning alcohol and the hiss
ing gas. 1t did not last long, for the valve
was pulled wide open, and the full force
| of the gas, compressed many times its
own atmosphere, soon beat out the flames
and ruled the basement in its own furious
ana persuasive way. When the hremen got
to the scene they found their work all
done for them, and in ten minutes the
crowd was gone and ladies and children
nothing had happened.
In reading the stele found by the
American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, which is a sacrificial calendar,
a kind of current account of values some
important deductions can be arrived at
as to the worth of animals in Greece
some $40 years before Christ, says the
estimated rather by his weight and ap-
pearance than by his age. high price
was allowed in accordance with the con-
dluon OF the animal. Sometimes sixteen
and seventeen drachmas are given,
against eleven and twelve for the various
grades of sheep Barley is estimated at
Mr.. r. B. Richardson. would find an
equivalent in twelve cents We sell bar
ley cheaper than that to-day, though we
do not eat it, but malt it for beer A pig
for three drachmas, of about fifty cents
Is cheap, irrespective of size, according to
recent Chicago quotations. That distin-
guished German Boeckh-Frankel, who
has given particular attention to the sub
Ject of ancient values, states that the ra-
ito of prices of sheep and oxen was one
to five. Thus, a sheep in the best period
of Athens was worth from ten to twenty
hundred. On the sacriical calendar
sheep are worth twelve drachmas, and
sometimes eleven. The value of a COW or
OK on the STEELE is less than one hundred ;
therefore the Boeckh proportion is not
| exactly kept up.
The recreations of the monk were few
and monotonous, says the Quarterly Re
view. The chief of them was, perhaps, the
pacing up and down the little walks of
the narrow limits of the cloister and gar
den, or cemetery, during certain hours of
the day, where even such gossipy talk as
Jocelyn de Brakelonda tells us of in his
quaint Memoirs of the House of St Ed
mund at Bury" in the days of King John,
was sternly checked by the obedientary'
the Circa, as he moved about among the
brethren at recreation. There was a
bowling green for the novices, which the
professed monks seemed to have used at
times; These novices and the other
school-boy pupils in the house have left
the traces of their games. On the stone
benches of the Gloucester cloisters, where
we know these boys were taught, and
where they spent portion of their lives
are playboards not obscurely marked in
the stones. These game boards for fox
and geese" mine mems Norris" 'in
and out" and other games, are found in
the other conventional buildings at West
minister, Norwich, Salisbury, Durham,
etc. Other vestiges of unlawful recreation
of the more youthful jewellers in mones-
tary such as cutting and carving the
stones with letters and other devices are
occasionally found. For instance. half
way up the winding stair of the great
tower at Gloucester there is a rough III
tie figure in the perfect dress of a burgher
of the time of the war of the roses evil
IDENTIFY secret work of a youthful anna
teur carver in stone. In some monaS-
teries monk was allowed to possess and
amuse himself with strange pet animals
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