The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ our Paris correspondent tells US, propell-
/ ed by a screw. which also serves the pur-
! pose OF a rudder, the shaft being joined
J 10 enable its being moved right or left,
says the London Daily News The horse
/ power is extremely small, tone or twOD
tnls, IL IS said. being sufficient under wa
/ ter, where there is no Wavemaking to
/ give seven or eight knots. The motive
/ power IS supplied by an electrical Dat
/ terry, accumulators being tabooed on &c
+ count Of the fumes in case OF any break
/ Gown The boat may be rowed backward
4 or forward by a pair of finlike arrange
/ lnents to the fore. When the boat is in
\ harbOr the dome energies. When this Is
/ cioSed and the boat sets out on the war
/ pain, water IS let into compartments in
/ the lower part of the boat, which grad
| ually sinks. The Quantity of water is
| regulated by very ingenious automatic
! apparatus. and when the Goubet is sunk
| 10 any required depth, at that depth II re-
mains, the screw propelling ii in hori-
zontal plane. 1t is so delicately poised
/ that merely one ounce of water more
or less viii cause the boat to sink further
OF come up TO the surface. While il is
Just beneath the surface OF the water,
sort of telescope can be thrust up. The
instrument is provided with mirrors at
an angle of IS degrees, and this, It is said,
enables the observer down below to ex
plOre the hOrizon-eXcept probably, in
rough weather. Another novel and in
geniOus arrangement is for sending up
dispatches to the surface in bottles. NJ.
GOubet the inventor of the boat, claims
that three men can live in the Goubet
Under water for twelve or thirteen hours
with the supply of compressed air. In
case of accident lead keel. weighing
over tor, can be dropped, when the boat
comes up to the surface like a cork. The
boat is ballasted in such a way as to re-
main stable under water neither pitching
nor listing. The chief purpose of the
GOubet VIII be TO throw torpedOes. Inc
iofpedo-throwers are on the sides. and
| act by means of springs set before the de-
| parture. As the torpedoes are of the
same SPECIFIC gravity as seawater, and
are projected under water, they will al
ways follow on straight in the initial di-
/ rectiOn given them. Thus accuracy of
| aim is ensured. But how come up to the
| enemys ship? The boat is provided with
| several portfolios fore and aft But of
| course one cannot see beyond few
/ yards under water. NJ. GOubet relies
! upon his telescope. Evidently there is
/ here room for criticism. On account Ct
! the electric engine the crew has to do
/ without a compass. The GOubet cannot
| go far out of its way to pick up enemy s
ships; but might she not be conveyed on
! board ship and launched in sight of the
! enemy? Her sphere of action must be
! very limited, but it is understood that she
! is intended merely for coast defense. At
! any rate, the GOubet has many improve
| ments, as compared with her predeces-
! sors. and she deserves a share of the at
tentiGn which is so readily given now to
! naval matters.
| A curious method of obtaining horses
! is practiced by some of the Indian tribes,
| says the Philadelphia Record. 1t is called
/ on the plains smoking horses" If a
! tribe decides to send out war party, the
/ first thing to be thought of is whether
! there are enough horses It hand to
mount the warriors. If, as is often the
case, the horses of the tribe have been
stolen by other Indians, they decide to
smoke enough horses for present needs
and to steal supply from their enemies
/ at the first opportunity. When this de-
/ cision is reached runner is dispatched
to the nearest friendly tribe with the
message that on certain day they will
! be visited by number of young men,
forming war party from his
tribe who require horses. on the ap-
pointed day the warriors appear
/ lently to the village of their friends, seat
! themselves in a circle, light their pipes
and begin to smoke, at the same time
making their wishes known in a sort of
dreaming chant Presently there is seen
| far out on the plain band of horsemen
riding gaily caparisoned steeds, fully
equipped for war. These horsemen dash
! up to the village and wheel about the
| band of beggars sitting on the ground
in circles which constantly grow smaller,
! until at last they are as close as they
can get to the smokers without riding
| over them. Then each rider selects the
man to whom he intends to give his pony,
| ana, as ne rides around, singing and yell
! ing, he lashes the bare back of the man
| he has selected with the heavy raWhide
! whip till the blood is seen to trckle down
| If one of the smokers should finch under
| the blows, he would not get his horse,
| but would be sent home on foot and in
! disgrace. At last, when the horsemen
think their friends have been made to
| pay enough in suffering for their ponies
| each dismounts, places the bride in the
| hand of the smoker he has selected and
at the same time hands him the whip, say
| ing: Here, beggar is a pony for you ia
! ride, for which | have left my mark -
After all the ponies have been presented
! the beggars are invited to a grand feast,
| during which they are treated with every
| consideration by their hosts, who also
! load them with food sufficient for their.
homeward Journey The braves depart
| with full stomachs and smarting backs.
but happy in the possession of their po-
| MES and in anticipation of the time when
their friends shall be in distress and shall
come 10 smoke horses with them.
L. X. Minnock the representative Of
| several large English rolling mills who
mas sold vast quantity of rails to lie
! used in the construction of the great Si
| berian railroad, is in the city on a pleas
| ure trip, says the San Francisco Exam
iner. The entire length of the road from
| St. Petersburg to Nladvostock is to be,
| 5000. There remain 300 miles vet . be
constructed Mr.. Minnock stated that the
authorities of the Greek church had with
| the approval OF the Russian government
decided upon novel means of spread
| ing the religion of the church through
! the sparsely populated portions of Sibc-
| ria that the road has already penetrated
| There are long stretches of territory in
| which there are hardly any people what
ever, so the building of churches is out
or the question. The authorities, ne says
finally decided to construct some churcne-s
on wheels, that would be hauled over
the road and stopped for religious ex-
was found. Five of these church cars
have been constructed, each one beine,
assigned to a certain section of the rail
road, and they are hauled back and forth
between the scattered small settlements.
Each of them, he says, is fitted up wi h
all the paraphernalia of an orthodox
Greek church and two priests are in each
car. All told, the five churches on wheels.
he thinks, visit seventy settlements a
week. Each settlement knows when the
church-car is to arrive and all the peoDIe
are expected to come down to meet il
promptly for the services held in the car,
Immediately after its arrival Each
church can comfortably seat thirty or
| forty people, and two settlements are
visited daily by each one Several settle
| ments have more people than the church
can accommodate and in such cases the
cars make longer stops to hold two and
| sometimes three services before depart
! ing.
M; Got, the great French comedian
and dean of the Theater Francais is q :
present engaged in writing his memoirs
Like Bernhard and Patti, he will leave
] an n int