The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-14

Al onangnal the chinese are now
hawking pictures about the streets repre-
senting the late peace conference al SHIN
onosetI, IN which the Chinese ENJOYS are
drawn In very heroic attitudes. sitting al
japanese are depicted as kOtow1ng 20 the
delegates OF the Son OF Heaven and implor
ing them 70 grant peace.
Italian engineers are making great use
o. water power 10 generate electricity
Rome draws its power from the falls of
Ilvoli; Genoa utilizes the city water sup
ply, which Is drawn from the Apprentices,
by letting Il fall so feet from one reser-
vOir TO another: Milan gets its force from
the rapids OF the AIDA at PadernO, below
Leonardo da Ninci's aviglio, the first lock
canal ever constructed
The house In Paris of the famous San
son family, who were from generation 20
generation for so many years what the
french grandilOquently call the executors
or hlgh works-in plain language. the pub
nc eXecutoners-is, II is said, about 20 be
demolished. says the London News The
Sansons have a place IN French history,
not only because they continued 50 long to
mold their odious office, but because two
OF their number. father and son. held
once during the evil days Of the Reign
OF Terror, when they were kept so busily
engaged with their guillotine. The last of
the Samson dynasty was dismissed from
MS post in the reign OF Louis Philippe, in
1871, under remarkable circumstances. Al
though ne had inherited a comfortable
fortune from his father the executoner
o. the revolution, he got into pecuniary
dlfnculties, and was guilty of pawning his
gullotine, surely the most lugubrious
pledge ever taken by mortal pawnbroker
An order came from the procurator gener-
al Tor the execution of a criminal, and the
necessary appartus was not forthcoming
The prison authorities had perforce to get
u out of pawn, and the execution took
place But the last of the Sansons was in
formed that his services would no longer
be required. What became of him AFTER
ward does not appear TO be known
in the Victorian State Forest, on the
slopes of the mountains dividing Gipps
Land from the rest OF the Australian col
Ony OF Victoria, says London Tit Bits
grow the highest trees in the world the
noble gum trees of the genus eucalyptus
Ihese trees range from $50 feet to 800 feet
IN night one or the huge trees that had
fallen was found, by actual measurement
with tape, TO be 433 feet from the roots
TO where the trunk had been broken off
Dy the IAN and at that point the tree was
rect in diameter A cedar tree recently
relied near Ocosta, Wash measured 467
feet IN hight and 20 feet in circumference.
Or. James gives some interesting particu-
lars OF these gum trees. The eunAalyptus
gloDuius grew 30 feet high in four years
n Florida, with stem foot in diameter
frees or the same species in Guatemala
grew 10 feet in twelve years, and had
stem diameter of feet. Other species also
attain enormous sizes-eucalyptus diver
slcolor is known to grow 400 feet high and
trees nave been measured 800 feet long
WMhout a branch. Boards u feet wide can
frequently be obtained In 1860 a monster
gpetIlned tree was found in Baker county,
oregon. II was just SOS feet long and at rs
putt was quite 60 feet in diameter. Amber
like beads Of petrified gum adhered to the
or more.
I'm his Souvenirs de Voyage an Thin
CT Pere Hue speaks of a wonderful tree
Whlch mad the strange habit of produce
ing images and hieroglyphics upon its
raves sometimes religious figures take
the place of the letters. He called the
mysterious thing the tree of one thousand
images" These images are found on the
leaves, on the stems and on the Trunk
Near the temple of Buddha. in the Village
or Lioussar Thibet, this great tree flour
ishes. In 1891 Mr.. William Rockwell start
ca out TO see this famous tree. He vert
70 LlOussar, village of about $50 inhabi-
tants and possessing an immense laman-
erie; II shelters about 5000 lamas. or
buddhist priests. But It was in February
ana the tree had no leaves. At last Mgr
Biet of the foreign mission the apostolic
vicar of Thibet, has just solved the mys-
terry The fake was explained to him by
a lama, who adjured his faith and became
a Catholic. The trick was simple enough,
like every other trick when ii is found
out; In the spring and in the summer, on
of hand stamps, climbs all through the
tree and stamps the leaves with all sorts
OF holy images and characters, the most
numerous being the following formula:
IN the lotus. This is also stamped upon
the bark, and the leaves and portion of
the Dark are SOlQ 10 VISITORS.
There is quite trick in the batting of a
hook, says the Providence Journal Two
boys are fishing with exactly the same
sort OF hook, with the same length of line
out and fishing in exactly the same man
ner; but one of the boys is catching most
Of the fish. This is simply because the
successful fisherman is batting mis- hook
IN a way which insures hooking his
hsh. If you have ever watched a fish
swallow a m.nnow bait. YOU nave seen
that he almost invariably did so head first
This makes the effort an easy one, none
of the scales or fins of the minnow form
ing resisting projections as would be the
case were its position reversed. When
the hook is forced through the feshy part
of the minnow's back, its barb toward the
tail, the mouth of the fish Is warded from
the bait by the body of the hook, making
the matter OF swallowing the bait diff
cult one. If a person is careful in placing
the hook in the bait to have it's barb point
toward the head of the m,nnow, he has
very much facilitated the grasping of the
tempting morsel by the first finny conner
and there are many more chances that
the hook will serve its purpose. Should
the fish try to back out after only half
the minnow is in his mouth, it has gem
orally gone too far; whereas, to hook a
fish with the hook baited in the other
manner, necessitates that the minnow.
head, tail and all. shall be ravsnously
bolted.
The fountain that the municipality of
Geneva has recently established at the en-
trance of the port of that city is certainly
the largest fountain that exists on the sur
face of the globe. since it is no less than
800 feet in hight, says the PHILADELPHIA
Press. 1t may be seen from great dis
lance, in clear weather, detaching itself
like a great white sail Tapping through
the effect of the wind. The city of &C.
neva possesses most complete distrbu-
ton of water under pressure, the motive
power for which is obtained from an
artificial fall established upon the Rhone
at the point of the lake. The water for do
metic purposes and for the running of GER
tain motors is raised TO a hight of 2l5 feet
above the level of the lake. For the dis
triblltiOn of motive force & is raised to a
hight of 460 feet The reservoir is an omen
air one. and Is situated upon the top of
BessingerS, at a distance of three miles
from the turbine building. A very inge-
NOUS regulator. invented by Mr. Turret-
tent, assures the uniformity of pressure
in the piping. The length of the first pine
line is about 40 miles and that of the Sec
ond about sixty miles. 1t is with this
latter that the fountain conduit is con-
nected. The latter is set in play only on
on Sundays. 1t is sometimes set in oper-
alton also on week days, in the evening.
Instead of a single jet of great hight, sew
eral are then utilized that do not rise so
high. Powerful electric light projectors
placed in a structure nearby brightly a.
Illuminate them with their rays of varied
eolors, which transforms them into a
luminous fountain Of the most beautiful