The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The force which beans are capaDle OF eN-
erting under these conditions is equal TO
the average pressure in the boiler of
steam engine.
The longest bridge in the world IS the
I Lion bridge, near Saugang China 1t eX-
tends five and a quarter miles over an arm
Of the Yellow sea, and il is supported by
I 800 huge stone arches. The roadway Is
/ seventy feet above the water and is en-
closed in an iron network. A marble lion
I twenty-one feet long rests on the crown OF
every pillar.
From reports received from South
western Missouri thousands of bushels of
/ peaches VIII be lost because they cannot be
marketed 10 advantage under present
transportation facilities. Some attempt
/ has been made to convert these great
/ quantities Of fruit into brandies, etc, but
| in spite of this the loss in this section
/ viii be very heavy.
1t is not every one who is aware that
I Bank Of England note is not of the same
1 thickness all through. The paper is thick
I er in the left-hand corner, TO enable it TO
retain keener impression of the Vignette
[ there. and ii is also considerably thicker
/ in the dark shadows of the center letters
and beneath the figures at the ends. Coun-
terfeit notes are invariably of one thick
ness only throughout.
"A novel operation in surgery was per-
formed by an Ansonia, Conn, physician
on the 2-mOnths-Old son of Edward
Feeney of the same place, a day or TWO
ago. The child fell out of a hammock
and its skull was badly injured, so that
a portion of il was depressed nearly an
inch. The doctor contTived a curious
pump resembling syringe, applied it
over the depression and pulled the piston.
Instantly the sunken part of the skull few
/ into its proper place with popping sound.
The child, which had been insensible since
the accident, regained consciousness at
once and Is rapidly getting we'll
-Apropos Of ne caterpillar nuisance in
'~fic@s. sections, reports have been re-
ceivod from Bismarck, n. D., which state
that q new kind of caterpillar has made
It's appearance IN that region, and has pro-
ceeded at once to denude shade trees Of
their foliage. The worm spins Il cocoon,
which is large and of unusually strong
fiber Upon examination by experts it has
been found that the thread is almost as
strong as silk and of similar texture.
Specimens OF the worm and of the cocoon
have been forwarded to the government
experts at Washington, and II may yet
turn out what the Bismarckians cOnsid-
/ cred bane may be a blessing in disguise.
The amount paid for Carlyle's old
I holno IN chelsea, hereafter to be a mu-
scum of Carlyle relics was f2,OS9, a little
more than $4,000, says the New York
World. The house used to rent for $500 a
year, and 1t is not imposing, though it has
several stories. 1t contains nine rooms
ana the little garden in the rear is a
shabby bit of ground unworthy the name.
Inc house has been cleaned Gt was form
cry tehanted ny woman with num-
Derless cats and dogs) the rooms have
been papered in the style Of the Carlyle
occupancy and some pieces of furniture
that belonged to the Sage and few
relics, including a stovepipe hat, have
been placed in position.
Rev. David Utter of Salt Lake City,
the well known Unitarian minister, re
Gently made the descent of the Colorado
| river on raft. The raft was built of
drittwOOd, 70 feet long, feet wide and
Wei spiked together. Two boxes, with
, false bottoms, containing provisions.
We're nailed upon the raft. They served
as seats when the water was smooth. and
protected the provisions from the sWash.
On the first day the raft was carried into
. E f9p lnr1er Il foot
wide, t>s1 very deep At the foot Of the
/ eduy the current was so strong that IL
required an hour Of the hardest kind of
paudllhE TO get over into the stream
again. He and his companions were three
days on the raft. tying up at night and
made about half the distance the first
day.
Every Partisan who owns a dog has
10 pay about SLIGO annual tax on his
! pet. The latest statistics on the subject
give the number of dogs declared by their
owners and taxed as about 1900 The
number Of dogs seized by the dog-catch-
/ ers shows a remarkable and unexplained
/ drop in 1891 over the previous year. In 1898
ABOUT Z1,VO0 dogs were put to death by
the city, but the year following only 5000
We're destroyed. There has been some
talk in Paris of establishing a dogs
home for caSt-Off CANNES, similar to the
one in London. This refuge is very pros
porous and popular, and but lately re-
ceived bequest of 5000 from the estate
OF a wealthy dog fancler. During the
year 1894 this institution gathered up To-
121 abandoned dogs-not abandoned IN
/ the sense of being dissolute, of course
and out Of that number 3225 were re-
claimed or sold Not a single case of
hydrOphobia was observed.
The most artistic swindle known to
the history of the gold mining industry
occurred some years ago at place called
Georgetown, in Colorado. IN the center of
a very rich mining country, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. In the winter, snow drifts
hundreds Of feet deep among the noun
tains and freezes hard The old miners
ran a tunnel into the snow a the base of
mountain u distance of 300 feet timbered
it up nicely, plastcred il with mud and
at the far end piled q quantity of very
rich quartz. Thea they went down to
Denver and became acquainted with
couple of wealthy Enslishmen, who had
just come over to look for an investment
for their spare cash that would pay big
dividend They took them to GEORGETOWN
and showed them their TUNED, and the
FL Dora at the end of it, The tunnel had
it been really into the Rocky mountains
would have represented thousands of
pounds. The Englishmen We're charmed
with the prospect. They bought the claim
for $4,000 cash, and went to New York
to arrange for bringing up a quantity of
quartz mill machinery. When they re-
! turned in the spring there was nothing
LETT of the tunnel but the woodwork, and
/ a wagon load of quartz at the end. 1t was
the most ridiculous sell ever known, and
the most successful.
Tho consumption of tobacco of all
| kinds in France, according to recently
! dred and twenty-five million pounds per
! year. An analysis of the figures shows
that the people of Northern France use
nearly four times as much per capita as
! those in the Southern Provinces. Almost
/ every other country of Europe, however
! consumes more smoking tobacco in pro-
/ portion TO its population than does
/ France. This is especially the case with
| Germany. In many small German towns
! smoking in the streets is forbidden Less
| than fifty years ago if a man Ventured
/ on the streets of Berlin with a cigar in
| his mouth he would be liable to arrest.
| The same provision existed until 1913 at
| Vienna, though the law was not obser-v-
| ed by the populace. The town of Brock
! in Holland, which is said to be the clean
! est city in the world, has long forbidden
| the people within its walls to smoke after
| sunset in the streets unless with a COW
| cred pipe, lin order that the cinders NAV
/ not be blown about" Smoking with an
/ uncovered pipe in German or Austrian
| forests is an offense that is vigorously
| punished, and as a result of this regu-
lation forest fires are rare in those coun-
! tries.