The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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a large newspaper on TO a postal of the
average size. Another candidate, VINO
probably intended to ingeniOusly allude
10 a famous incident in the career OF the
Columbus and a history of his discoveries
on common hen egg. One submitted
1900 words from Coppee's novel Henri
eta written on the back OF a caDlneJ
photograph, and another 302 words writ
ten on grain of common white corn
"A journal of modern astrOlogy has re-
Gently published the horoscope OF queen
Victoria of England. 1t says IN part
The queen was born in London on May
a. 1873, four minutes after O'Clock In
the morning. If photograph could have
been taken of the sky at that moment
ii might plainly be seen that the des-
tiny of the new born child was TO exert
considerable influence upon the fate OF
England. The constellation OF Gemlnl
was ascendant, the sun and moon stood
close together, Jupiter, the benenclal
planet was in the zenith, alone and above
all other stars and not Obscured by
clouds. The planet Mercury IS the star
Of commanding influence over her maj
esty's life, and the month of November
of the present year, 1895, is TO form
critical point in her life.
1t would hardly occur to one innocent
of the solemn rites of secret societies, says
the Chicago Record, that there was any
particular art in lighting a lodge room,
but an expert on the subject says it is
an unique branch of the lighting business
To begin with there should, OF course,
be plenty of light, but a matter of still
greater Importance is the manner in which
it is distributed and the heXibility with
which It's various combinations can be
handled. At times brilliant effects are
desired; at other times total darkness is
called for, and all the gradiations be
tween darkness and bright light must be
easily available. A typical lodge room has
a large central chandelier with possibly
twenty lights. At the platform at each
end are two standard uprights Of say
three lights each, or a chandelier hang
ing from the ceiling. At each side plat
form are ordinary portable desk lights,
and extra dark-lantern reading lamps are
distributed along the sides of the hall
for the use of the officials who may be
reading at different desks. All around the
room are placed plugs, which can be
used for portable lights for scenic Ell
fects or connected to fan motors or heat
ing apparatus. By this means the room
can be kept warm or cool according to
the season. Lodge room switches for
turning the current on and off are inVa-
riably OF the noiseless knife" pattern.
The total length of the common roads
in this country, good, bad and Indifferent,
is estimated by Gen. Stone of the road
bureau of the department of agriculture,
at something over 100000 miles. The ma
jOTity of these roads have been opened by
common laborers hired by local superVis-
Ors, and no engineering principles have
been observed in their construction, says
the Manufacturer. As result, 1t costs
more to keep them in repair than If they
We're so many finely macadamized roads.
Keeping these poor roads in repair and
opening new thoroughfares cost Massa-
chusetts in 1893, outside OF cities, $l,l36,944,
or $500 per mile; New York. $250,00O or
$50 per mile, and New Jersey, SUS,4l0.o2,
or $43.25 per mile. The total expenditure
for roads in that year amounted to about
OJO. As a greater part of this enor-
nous sum was spent to repair poorly con-
structed roads that would need exactly
the same attention next year, II is not an
exaggera ton to say that most of the
money was wasted. Fine roads can be
constructed all the way from $500 to $500
nor mill frnar f1aa 10 nf
| country through which they pass, the cost
| of crushed stone and other engineering
| problems. The cost of keeping these roads
/ IN repair IS INFINITELY smaller tnan thaL re-
/ quired to repair the ordinary dirt roads
| each winter and spring when great gulleys
| and ruts are washed into them by the rains
| and foods. The secret Of success of the
| fine roads in France is attributed to the
prompt and systematic repairs made at
| all seasons of the year.
| Dancing has been described as the
| poetry of motion and perhaps it was at
1 the time the description was penned, but
! that was some time ago, says, the New
| Of motion is found in driving in rub
! ber-tired hansOme cab over wood
| paved London street. For miles you
| glide along, scarcely conscious that you
! are moving until your course is arrested
| by blocking of teams near Hyde Park
! corner No conversation is ever inter
! rupted by a drive in London. Indeed, If
| you want few quiet words alone with
| a friend, the best way to get them is
| 10 take a CAP. QOn Know now many
! hanson cabs there are in London, but l
| know that there are al least l5,645, for
| saw that number on the back of one.
| So that you are never at a loss for them.
| London cabbies, as a rule are very
! amiably disposed toward their fares"
| They may sometimes over charge you,
! but they do 1t with a deprecatory air
that makes il possible for you to refuse
| their demand A London Cabbie, whom
| L asked to take me fVe-mile distance
| one day and suggested that l engage
]
| so gently yet so cOnvincingly that 1 at
/ once yielded to his superior wisdom.
by ii the hour said he. "TRena we We has
our fares we loafs. but if you take us by
! the mile we don't waste no time gettin'
! there" l liked his candor and there
was something about the editorial 1--WE"
that divided the responsibility of what
| otherwise might have been regarded as
a personal popularity, which was reas-
surfing.
The romantic novelists are responsible
| for many misconceptions, says the Brook
| Ign Eagle. Their heroes are always SPLEEN
did looking men. Their dukes have
| naughty manners and stride about as POM
| pOuSly as second rate actors in tragedy
and their money kings are men with COM
handing manners and loud and heavy
! voices. There have been two or three il
| lustrations recently of the popular i'm
| preston that dukes and the rest resem-
| BILE those in fiction. For instance the DO
liceman who arrested the Duke of MARI
borough in Central park, New York on
! Atuel9 III WHALING the rules IOT GlQlnS
| bicycles, said he had no idea that the lit
tie fellow was a duke. He thought dukes
were big men. Then, too, the reporters
who described the duke when he first ar
rived in New York informed a waiting
world that there was nothing striking or
dramatic in his manner as though they
had expected him to bear in his face or
his gait the continuous consciousness that
he was duke. A Chicago lawyer has Just
returned from London where he saw Bar
ney Barnato, the Kaffir mine owner, and
he was as much surprised with the APP
! pearance of the man as the New York re-
porters and policeman were surprised by
the duke He says that "Barnato has no
great commanding figure with a voice
that would frighten a timid broker into
tit of collapse, no aristocratic hands that
have a habit of Juggling at a tremendous
gold chain while the owner thunders his
orders for his days financial operations. -
Barnato is an insignificant looking little
Jew who was once a circus performer.
Both the duke and the Kaffir millionaire
are men of ordinary appearance and man.
ner. II the newspapers were read more
and the romances less the popular notion
of the appearance of men of great wealth
or great position would be more accurate.
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