The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dy being buried under 100 bushels OF
beans He was a dealer in beans. and
was repairing a bin filled with them.
when the bottom fell cut, and Brown was
buried.
Something for spOrtsmen TO consider
seriously, II they intend 10 get one Of the
new 00-caliber army rifles, is the great
penetration Of the bullets. says the New
York sun one OF the bullets would kill
man through a fOur-inch spruce tree. or
a COW mile and more away. No ordinary
tree can De depended on 10 stop one Of
these bullets, ana il might easily travel
half a mile through dense woods and hit
man far out Of sight with deadly effect.
fleld ana SJream says that the next leg
islature OF our great game states should
pass law prohibiting the use Of a jack
eted bullet. because of the danger TO hu-
man beings. Another argument il offers
IN favor Of such law will have great in
huence on the men who do not wish TO
wound without killing the game. This
c.ass or bullets IS useless for large game
unless soft pointed" il says, "as il rarely
Kills instantly, but allows the game 10 die
IRON internal hemOrrhage and in terrible
agony out CT reach" When such a rife is
used Tor big game a bullet that mush-
rooms should be employed. The mushroom
ing bullet VIII kill anything. as 1t goes
clear through an elk, moose or deer, and
the force OF the impact would knock a
running grizzly down.
The belief is widely entertained. says
the New York Tribune, that cutting the
frequently strengthens 1t. But it is also
tee IS injurious. 1T is limited that this is
the reason why there are about s. bald
men to one bald woman. Those who hold
the second of these two opinions say,
however that if, after being cut, the hair
Is singed, the harm is overcome. Such
treatment, il is alleged, stops the escape
of oil from the ends of the individual
hairs; or, as the BARRIERS express it, it
checks the bleeding" Various devices
have been invented for performing the
operation here suggested; and the latest
is of an electrical character. A metallic
wire is stretched along the teeth of a spe-
cial comb, close TO one SIDE near the
points, and is heated by means of an cleo
tr.c current sent through 1t by connecting
wires. one can regulate the intensity Of
the current, and therefore the tempera-
ture, easily; and the wire also can be adj
justed to suit thick or thin hair. With this
apparatus il is claimed, barber can SINCE
a man 5 hair IN less than a minute. The
old process requires 10 or Is minutes. The
new method does better work. too. A
small battery accompanies the comb.
"A novel scheme for developing the min
eral belts of Alaska adjacent to the coast
is described by the Searchlight, an Alas
kan paper: The proposition is to fit up
tug of about thirty tons burden with
electric attachments consisting of dyna-
mos, two or three miles of insulated wire,
ana diamond drill with attachments
for boring about 800 feet. Power will be
supplied from the tug to operate the drill.
All of the attachments will be made in
sections weighing not more than seventy
n,
easily packed from tide-water to the base
OF operations The tug viii carry crew
OF about ten men. In most places, if nee
essary, Indians will be employed to do the
packing Part of the crew will be en-
gagged in supplying the fuel necessary,
which Is plentiful in any locality in Alas
ka. While the drill is being sunk in one
location men Will be sent ahead to pro
spect for another, so that the drill will be
kept in constant operation, showing Just
what the lodges operated upon contain.
will hDPp from fNnrHr1 70 fort
feet per day, which will be a rapid way of
testing the different mineral belts, of
which there are many throughout South
eastern Alaska. Admiralty Island alone,
If properly developed, should furnish
enough to keep 10000 stamps going for
an indefinite period.
The stupendous growth of bicycling
since the Safety and the pneumatic tire
We're invented is Illustrated by state
ment which comes from London, where
| an International exhibition of horseless
carriages, motors and motor Industries
| IS to be held, beginning and continuing
| during May, June, July and August, says
the New York Press. The queen and the
| Prince of Wales are the patrons of the eX-
| hibiton, and the chairman is II. ]. Law
| son, VINO twenty years ago originated the
| bicycle, which is now in almost universal
| use, ana known as the safety" Last
| year banquet was given to Mr. Lawson
by the mayor of Coventry and by the
| chief nrms of cycle manufacturers of the
country, at which he was presented q
| testimonial congratulating him upon be-
| ing the original inventor of the chain
! driven safety and magnificent gold
! watch was left with him as a souvenir.
| The bicycling News says that, thanks to
| Mr.. Lawson's invention, over 100000 ma
| chimes are turned out annually by British
manufacturers, and an equal number or
| more IN the United States, France and
Germany ana II can be justly claimed that
| Mr.. Lawson has placed something like
| S5OUU,OOO in the pockets of cycle manu-
/ tacturers, steel merchants iron foun-
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! leather trades. Mr.. Lawson was asked
| now he came to patent the safety, and he
laughingly pointed to himself and said:
i am a very little, man and 1 wanted to
| ride bicycle as well as the rest and so
L had one cut down to suit me- ! may saw
| that my short legs have made my for
| tune" So the popular safety is the out
| come of one small man to construct, not
"a bicycle built for two" but a machine
to accommodate his own diminutive pro-
| portions.
A curious wholesale theft of electricity
| from the Brooklyn Nights Trolley Com
paay was recently detected by Superin-
| tendent Brockbank. The story is thus told
| bT Harper's Weekly: A few weeks ago
| the line of his road, observed that when
/ one OF the electric lights burned out ali
| the other lights in the saloon went out
| N n syInpat9y with IT. It seems that lights
furnished by regular Illuminating compa-
MES don't go out by wholesale in that
| way SO Mr.. Brockbank nudged himself
/ anu ptSdl " take llOuSQt. He PROMPTLY
| concluded that the saloon got its light
! from electricity borrowed from the feed
| Wire of his trolley road. To make sure
! he arranged that at a certain hour a
| few nights later the power on the trolley
! line on that street should be turned off for
! several minutes. The hour agreed on he
| stood opposite the saloon and watched
! When the time came the cars stopped
| and instantly the lights went out not
! only in the suspected saloon, but in ali
| the saloons in the neighborhood and in
some other places nearby. The story
| came out when he had the saloon keeper
| in court charged with stealing electric
| ity.. The saloon keepers defense was that
! he bought his light and paid for it, and
| didnt know where it came from That is
| all there is of the story. but the situa-
| ton where Mr.. Brockbank stands watch
| ing for the lights IN one saloon to go
| out and sees sudden darkness swoop down
| on dozen, seems powerful and edify-
| ing. His sensations must have been anal
| ogous to those of a man who fishes with
bunch of hooks and gets half a dozen
hard bites all at the same instant. He
continued his investigation and found that
over twenty people were using his COM
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