The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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/ out Of each 30.
/ -Mulhall is authority for the statement
i that there are b.W3 pieces IN the modem;
! high-grade locomotive.
/ The female Of the common mosquito
! lays So eggs. which hatch in period or
] from seven to nine days.
] The deepest hole that has ever beel
/ drilled by man-that at SpBrneberg, Ger
| many, is Alp feet in depth.
| 1t is said that the spire of the famous
/ Salisbury Cathedral is in an unsafe cOndi-
ton. and may toppiepver unless repaired
/ at once.
The French artificial pearl is produc-
/ ed by boring a hole in the she'll of the
! oyster, and Introducing a small bit OF
/ glass. which the animal covers with
1 'nacre.' or mother OF pearl, TO stop the
/ Irritation. such pearls are fiat on one
/ side. and Of less value than those produc-
/ ed naturally.
/ "A snOwwhite otter has been seen sew
| eral times recently in the vicinity of Otter
/ Rock. off the coast of Oregon, and
! large number of fishermen and hunters
| are keenly on the watch for chance 70
| capture il. Such an otter is extremely
/ rare, and its skin would probaly be worth
/ pretty close TO $1,000 Several sDaling
| schooners have lately taken to the bust
/ ness OF catching offers in ms region,
/ finding it much more profitable than seal
| ing.
! Near Augusta, Ill, there are two pecu-
| liar wells, each of which deserves special
| mention IN a department devoted to &C
! counts of things out of the ordinary. The
/ first is a "bOttOmless wel"-One which
[ was sunk down until the immense rush
/ ing, underground river was struck The
! second is a well in which the water re-
/ mains frozen winter and summer. These
| TWO wonders, each Of which may properly
/ be referred 10 as combined natural and
/ artificial curiOsities,' are located at a
distance of about mile and half apart.
! The frozen wei is only about ten feet in
/ depth, that of the other is not stated.
At the dinner of the New York Vaga-
| bonds TO the lady authors, says the
/ Queen, Mr.. Frankfort Moore told some
OF the witty stories which have given
lin such unique reputation as an after
| dinner speaker. 'Aiost of us he said,
! "haNe had our books translated into two
| or three languages; some of US have
| gone into dialects Of Sanskrt. I have
not been so fortunate. though ] appear
| in "a few European languages In every
| case l nave been indebted TO a woman
! Tor the translation, and I nave been lost
| in admiration at the way the work has
| been done. The poor things have had "a
| hard task but only once did any one of
1 them show signs of breaking down. She
wrote 20 me saying that l had made use
Of the word wake in describing an Irish
scene, and she could not find the word in
any dictionary. Now. it was a country
man of mine who said he supposed that
| the hrench for an Irish wake a spree
de corpse; but the equivalent required
was to be German. However, we got out
Of the difficulty by footnote. Ladies
only deferred by an Irish wake. must,
think you viii agree with me, be re-
Sarued with admiration.
The medical literature Of this country
as well as that of England, France and
Germany, relates many instances of the
| spontaneous combustion of the human
body. says the St. Louis Republic. In the
majority Of cases, the victim has been
slave of the liquor habit, formed by an
| OVeTinUugenCe, either in the way Of using
II as beverage or in tho form of a bath.
| In 1856, Sir William Gull. the great British
surgeon, testified before a committee of
the House OF Lords on intemperance that
such a thing as the spontaneous combus-
ton OF a drunkard's body was neither i'm
possible or improbable. In support of the
theory he said: In 1876. u large. blOated
| man, who was suffcrinp from difficulty
! of breathing was brought to GUYS hos
pital. He died that night. and at the post
mortem, on the following day. the body
w wnT hoce9 % Dc WHSh ds5c9dei as If
made in the skin. the vapor of alchohoI
could be plainly smeiled, and a lighted
match applied 10 the places where the gas
was escaping caused il to burn with a
blush flame. As many as a dozen
Of these little blue flames were burning
on his body at one time" There are sew
eral cases on record Of drunkards going
| TO bed TO sleep off a spree" only to
awake to find themselves enveloped In al
coholic flames, the result of spontaneous
firing of the gases in their tissues. Such
cases always end in an agoniZing death.
The British Annual Register of 1888 re
cords the death by spontaneous combus-
ton Of the Countess Bandi of Cessna. Italy.
| In our own country. such cases have been
| rare. indeed, the last occurring at San
francisco in 1871, when a drunkard, who
was lighting cigar at a gas Jet actually
lighted his breath and died in a few mo-
ments in great agony.
Photographic reproduction Of electro
types for newspaper printing is the latest
achievement of electric invention, says a
German publication. The innovation is
very remarkable and consists in the
transferring and reproducing of exactly
similar newspapers in different cities by
, telegraph: \ Berlin paper can by the
nf Yfaea In. oil
larger cities of Germany at the same hour
in the morning, without being sent
through the mails The inventors claim
Tor their apparatus not only increased
J rapidity, but they say, also, that it will
reduce the cost OF printing. The invent
ors and pattntees, Messrs c. Merav-FIOr-
} vath and c. Roar at Graz. describe The
working of the apparatus as follows: The
copy is first of all run off on a typewriter,
next to the typewriter copy, which serves
as cOrrectCrs proof, special attachment
, releases narrow strip of silvercd pa
per which is covered by number of
short strokes and dots constituting an al
phabet peculiar to this machine. These
strokes and dots are made by means of a
chemical HUid, which so changes the
metallic surface of the paper that it be-
comes nOn-cOnductiVe. Any corrections
becoming necessary can be made on the
strip of silver paper; insertion or cutting
out of copy is also easily performed.
After being edited and corrected, the long
strip of silver paper is rolled up on spool,
? and inserted into a telegraphic appara-
t,s Irr1,iCl, ,,-I7a1 go -, r,otfo,o ~,t;fI -
produce the same strokes and dots on
similar silver paper at any distance, and
in any number of apparatus connected at
the same time These strips of silvered
paper are placed into the Electric Typo
, graph" The strip passes beneath six
points of electric contact. covering the
entire width of the metallic surface
This typograDh operates in such a way
I that the steel type representing each char
acter is impressed upon a prepared card
, board in the proper order An autOmati c
mechanism provides for the varying width
? of the type, for the spacing and alignment
and for the moving of cardboard at the
end of the line. The cardboard fully COW
cred with characters represents one solid
? colum of copy and is ready for the electro
tYper. AS compared with the typesetting
? machines now in use this apparatus gives
the advantage of correcting and editing
the entire copy frOw typewriter proof
sheets. The inventors claim for the typo
! graph that it will do the work of eight ex-
pert typesetters and save two-thirds of
; the cost of setting up the copy by hand
Awarded