The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tee. and the next morning it IS drawn
back to its daytime location. The mules
go and come on schedule time, and il The
school is a little slow about dismissine
in the afternoon the whole outfit is apt
TO be given a free ride. A days supply
OF water and wood Is put aboard by the
trustee every morning before the school
house sets out upon its journey. The
teacher boards with the trustee and
needs no carriage. At night a bulldog is
chained beneath the little frame building
and bad man, armed with a Winches-
ter, sleeps inside of il. All of this came
about because some one threatened TO
burn the school house Why the trustee
does not have the building located in his
own yard and save the trouble of haul
ing it back and forth l do not know. I'M
less it IS 10 comply with some legal tech
nicality."
"A merchant at Ionia. Mich, paid a
debt due Detroit merchant with a check
on the First National Bank of IOnia, says
the Chicago News. The Detroit merchant
deposited the check in his Detroit bank,
which happened to have no IOnia cores
pondent The Detroit bank sent it to its
Chicago correspondent. Why, probably
because their Chicago balance was low
and they would collect it at par. The
Chicago bank sent il to a MuskegOn bank.
its nearest correspondent to IOnia. the
Muskegon bank sent it to its Grand Rapids
correspondent. The Grand Rapids bank
had no 1Onia correspondent but saw that
its Detroit CORES ondent was the CORES
pondent of the First National Bank of
Ionia, on which the check was drawn, so
they sent ii again to Detroit The De-
troit bank then forwarded it 10 Ionia, its
destination, for payment. | find this
check passed through six banks, being in
transit eleven days, and travelled S36 miles.
Taking into consideration the postage
paid twelve times by the different banks,
the stationery used and the time occupied
by clerks in doing the business, ii would
seem that if a short cut for the collection
of checks can be devised it would pay TO
adopt it.
Intense excitement is reported to exist
a . wiz Of fn.a Narrr
Forest, says the London St. James Ga
zetts. owing to the report that a ghost
has taken TO INDUCING in a nightly walk
IN the vicinity OF a local brickyard. The
figure is a dark one, and carries an UNI
brella, and it is stated that il approaches
close to people and then suddenly disap-
pears into thin air. SO great an effect
has the story had upon the villagers
that they are all afraid to go out after
dusk, and the road is entirely deserted.
me rude fOrefathers of the hamlet,
IN conference, have come to the conclusion
that the ghost is but some one trying to
frighten the people, and as a consequence
a letter has been addressed to this ghost
through the medium of a Southampton
paper. The writer, having stated the
antics in which the ghost engages, adds
that II was seen at Ashhurst Bridge last
evening at $40 D. m, by a woman whose
nerve IS generally good, and l wish to
warn whoever it NAV be that il is play
ing such Improbable pursuits to the dis
comfort Of women and others in the dis
trict, as some of the inhabitants are afraid
20 move after dusk, will put persons on
the alert, and should the ghost be seen he
or she will have a barrel of powder and
shot after them If it cannot be put a stop
TO by ordinary means"
A Frenchman named Leloup has in
vented a bicycle that can be taken apart
packed in a valise, and carried as he
insists, with ease and comfort whenever
the wheelman is travelling by rail, says
the New York Sun. His bicycle, too,
has this advantage. that If it breaks down
on the road the wheelman can uncouple
the parts and carry 1t slung over his Shout
der. The machine is not intended for
racing, or, indeed, for very fast rid
ing of any kind, but for ordinary road
work. In order to bring it within the
compass of a moderate sized valise, he
has reduced the wheels to a diameter of
about 1lA inches. The toOthed wheel
which communicates the power from the
peuals IS nearly as great as they in di-
ameter: The horizontal bar Is in two
parts that are made secure by means OF
screws. When the machine is to be pack
ed this bar is unscrewed. The machine
is then in two parts. The saddle is re-
moved and the handles are takn off. The
four pieces are then easily packed into
valise measuring 23l3 by 1874 by a little
more than 2-5 inches. The whole weight
OF the machine is not above 1884 pounds.
II the wheelman riding LelOup's wheel
finds himself with a broken-down ma
chine on the road he divides it as before
into four pieces, balances the parts, and
sings them over his shoulder by means
OF a padded strap carried for the pur-
pose. This, the inventor insists, is better
than holding the machine upright and
trundling it. The machine can be taken
apart and put into the valise in about
TWO minutes, and can be removed and
made ready for use in about the same
time. As pictured. it is rather an awk-
ward looking cOntrivance. the smallness
of the wheels eXaggerating the hight Of
the saddle above them. The pedals are
| so close to the ground that the rider may
at any time stop the machine by putting
foot to earth 1t is said that for this
| reason there is very little danger of Sc
rlous accidents with the Leloup wheel AS
| to speed, it is asserted that a single revo-
luton of the pedals will drive the wheel
| fifteen feet and six inches. and this gives
| prey rapid wheeling. The machine is
Said to be comparatively inexpensive
II is affirmed that the cost of replacing
| the small tire is much less chan in the
case of a larger wheel.
"A noble virgin in my time" saith
| Melanchthon, lat the court of Ernestus
Duke of Lunenburg, had two entire
bones instead of teeth and she was of
| great gravity and virtue" No mistakes
| in taking out a wrong molar could have
happened to her; but, on the other hand,
a toothache. when she had it, probably
meant business" Louis XIII had
double row of teeth, which was some
8d mss Of rather bie hi1dTanGe to the readi
Luce Homin" we are told of one Mich
CLAUS Sojerus, a Belgian, who had "a set
Of teeth of such an unusual property that
being struck upon, they sparkled fire
This was delivered me as a certain truth
by his own brother, Gulielmus Sojerus,
ing" I'm 1872, when the Emperor Charles
". resided above the Rhine, one night
in his sleep one of his grinders dropped
out and another Immediately Zone Won
ders how SOON came in its place, which
was the greater surprise seeing that the
emperor was then in the list year of his
age" Again, Fuller tells US in his Holy
State" that since the time of the great
pestilence in Edward HIS reign all that
have been born have two cheek-teeth
less than they had before which will
be also news 20 all but the
scientific, and perhaps even to them.
There is a story of Peter the Great in
the character of a dentist which strikes
one as very characteristic of his impuI-
sive and high-handed ways. Peter had
studied dentistry, in common with most
other useful arts, and plumed himself on
his deXterity in drawing a tooth, though
one finds no record of his giving himself
the trouble to stop one. Observing one OF
his Wallets de chambre to be in bad spirits
he asked what was the matter ian un-
expected trait in Peter and was told II
was the spectacle of his wife sufferins
from toothache that so distressed him.
why doesn't she have it out?' inquired
the czar, beginning to feel the profess
sional instinct. Il can't persuade her
sire; she always pretends not to suffer
when we wish to give her ease but renews
her lamentations (Which distress me 10