The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Will present for Inspection jail complete
I'm sanitary equipment and absolutely safe
A prisoner incarcerated within It's iron
cages will be absolutely protected from
without and will ind IL impossible 10 es-
cape even IL allowed 10 work for liberty
with the most improved jail-breaking
tools.
1t is held by some. says. BlackwOOd's
Magazine, that the coinage OF China was
invented especially for the confusion OF
the foreigner. Al any rate, TWO marker
tain 10 have different rate OF exchange.
ami (but this may be only a coincidence
the foreigner is not the one VINO prOuLs
thereby. Thus. suppose you tender qoi-
lar al Stone Umbrella mart. and after
much Weighing and testing thereof,
are given IN exchange lo30 brass coins
strung on a string, OF varying weight ana
thickness Arrived a the Plain OF Peace
YOU buy dollars worth OF fowls, ana put
down your l059 coins only 10 pe ioI1 ne
exchange is 100, and you nave 10 nh1 thg
balance. Next day. having invested al
your savings in cash. YOU return 10 stone
Umbrella intending TO buy up all the silver
in circulation ar the lower rate OF eX-
change. Alas, for your hopes! You are
met with a chilling. These cash are ten
parts ii. e.. 100 per cent?. worthless; ana
and in confederation of his statement your
WOuld-be victim points out, or pretends
to point out the absence OF certain Dlurs
on the horrid little rings OF brass
A bats wing is, in short hand with
very long fingers, and with the SKIN
stretched between them so as 70 form a
| flying membrane, says the Cornhill Maya
zine. OF course. the exaggerated length
| In each Joint in fingers shows how very
long o time the bat must have taken TO
develop his hand into so specialized
| form, but a hand it still remains in under
| lying structure. and il still retains most
hand-like popularity in the separate
thumb which forms no part of the wing.
but il is used by the animal, in many
| cases as a hook or bent finger TO hang
| itself up by. \ thumb. once acquired. is
/ far too valuable possession to be readi-
/ Is given up and the bats have stuck to
| theirs with creditable persistence, even
when the rest Of their hand has been prac-
| tically lost by conversion into an expand
ed flying organ. One other feature, still
| more strfkingIv displays the underlying
| kinshiD between the bats and ourselves
| in spite of long divergence; the female bat
! has her breasts in the same position as
! in our own race, which gives her., small
| as She is. when looked full in the face. a
/ singularity human and almost pathetic
/ aspect.
| Ono of the latest novelties abroad is
/ a cigar or cigarette-holder for nOn-smok-
| ers. This curious article is made as much
| for joke as for those who, while not
| smokers themselves associate with invet-
crate consumers of the weed, and do not
| Ike to refuse a cigar from their friends.
! The makers also advertise i
stage, in scenes where they are
| called upon to smoke, even If the taste
! and odOr are disagreeable to them. The
! holder is so constructed that a valve in
serted between the tube of the holder prop
| er and the mOuthpiece VIII actuate a
! feathering membrane; while the inhaling
| of air through the mOuthpiece Will set
| the cigar glowing and actually withdraw
| smoke from the cigar, this smoke viii
| go only as far as the membrane. no taste
| Of the smoke permeating the latter. As
soon as the suction ceases the little mem
| brane resumes its first position and the
| smoke is forced out through the valve
| without ever having reached the mouth of
| the apparent smoker The greatest fun
| derived from this holder is the presenting
| Of il to a smoker not aware of the nature
| of the gift. The antics of such a victim
| attempting to get his smoke out of one of
| these holders are truly sidesphtting.
The Electrical Engineer protests against
| the popular mania for compelling electric
! companies to equip street cars with fen
| ders. 1t states the case in the following
| fashion: To us it seems to be altogether
| the better way to give the cars improved
| braking facilities Then the fender can
| be added If desirable but as q general
| tI,fner tbese ferdare bavc man, clement
! Of undesirability. They Obstruct the
| street more or less They add to the driv-
| er's cares and demand special attention,
! instead of relieving him of strain and wor-
| rY. They act after the event instead of be-
fore il and instead of preventing it, Gable
! or electric street cars often make locOmO-
| tive speed They are permitted and adopt
| ed because they can give the public such
| speed. If they did not, il would be better
| TO go back to horses. But on a locOmo-
! tive the cowcatcher does not replace the
| air brake. How can it? The main. vital.
| essential thing to-day with all fast run
| ming cars is to give the drivers swift di-
| rect, easy control of the speed of their We
| hicles. and this is to be done only with
| brakes that act simultaneously. IF there
IS to be any legislation, let it be. Of the
| kind looking to the adoption of good
| brakes. A car with its running gear all
| housed around with light valance close
! to the ground and furnished with an eff
| cient brake can maintain high speed and
viii take no life that is not sacrificed to
| it, Accidents there will always be so long
as humanity is weak, careless and erring;
but cars equipped as we suggest will be
| jugernauts only to willful suicides.
Among the songs that are on the wav
to popularity, says the Boston Herald, is
when You Press the Little Button on the
! WALL" by John Kenton It's title is At
| portant thing in the song that is to make
| its tour around the barrel organs and the
| Aside" by the author of After the Ball.
! A song that no lover of music can afford 10
| do without IS Let Me Kiss Your Tee RS
| Away" a charming sentiment but of saltv
| If put literally into practice. A title that
| can hardly fail to carry a song to usccess
| First Sweetheart" by composer of THE
| Sidewalks Another taking title is THE
| Face Upon the Barroom Floor" by j. p
| Shelly. Il Loved You Better Than You
! Knew" by Johnny Carroll should be full
OF pathos. but Charles Graham's won
You Please Let Her Go Home?" should
| pililS fears rum d wing stone II Its
| possibilities are worked out skillfully
| Lachrymosity, though may be too po-
tently stimulated, for, as 1t appears, !
P Skelly's "Snce My Mothers Dead and
Gone" is so pathetic that the manager of
| a Chicago theater recently prohibited one
of his singers from using 1t. saying that il
moved too many people to tears" song
| that should be a genuine prize is The Girl
I Love Is Short and Sweet" because the
| music is so simple that it can be memorized
at one hearing" Other songs with great
titles are: Love Caused 1t All" by Joseph
Strohm The Rose My Mother Wore" bv
Charles Edwards, and Dreaming of Her
| Boy" by George J. Gaskin The Song
| Writer is a perfect treasury of such
things as these, and the seriousness with
| which 1t deals with popular song and its
| seeming oblivion to songs of other order
make it delightful reading. How the com
| posers will relish the persistent harping on
| the brainlessness of their efforts is and
| probably will remain, unknown; but il
they think as the Song Writer" evidently
does, that 1t is merit to be able TO produce
a song without any mental effort and with
| out causing them one brain throb they
| viii doubtless be pleased al their success
under highly unintellectual conditions.