The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ing been piled up TO a hight of six feet
The Chesapeake oysser beds are rap
idly diminishing in productiveness. Fiji
teen years ago they furnished about 10000.
coo bushels of oysters. The product this
year viii not be more than 100000 bush
els.
Some cold weather is expected in
Western Massachusetts before the present
winter closes. as the pine grOsbeaks have
begun TO put in an appearance Inese
birds are considered the harbingers OF Sc
we're weather and plenty Of snow.
-Three-quarters of a second is the time
occupied by the fall OF the knife in the
guillotine The knife is weighted by 10
pounds of lead, falls nine feet and cuts
through flesh and bones as easily as
through bar Of SOAP.
1t is announced that the Cuban war
has affected a fiOurishing industry in
many Maine towns. Because of much Of
the sugar crop in the island having Deen
burned and little or no sugar made this
season, the bottom has dropped clean out
Of the hogshead-hoop business.
"A small appliance for egg gamblers
has recently been patented. 1t consists
of a small box with hole on the top and
one on one side near the base; a concaVe
mirror is fastened within the box at an an
gle OF 40 degrees, opposite the opening
of the base. over the top of the box all
electric light with a reflector is fastened.
The egg Gamblers are enabled to work con-
siderably faster with this appliance than
with the crude manner in which they are
used to decide the soundness or the eggs.
The reflection of the mirror below indi-
Gates, without doubt, the translucency
of the egg, and dealers who have intro
duced the new system find that they can
safely guarantee the soundness of eggs
that have been tested by the new appli-
ance.
"A man killed on a railroad never
dies with his boots on" remarked a Read
ing railroad employe, at Wayne juno
ton, to the Philadelphia Record. In
my experience of over twenty years have
seen perhaps over a hundred cases where
people have been struck and killed by
engines and in every instance, when the
body was picked up the feet were found
minus shoes. Even men wearing heavy
top boots are not exempt from the in
variable rule. Any old engineer will tell
you the same thing. 1t is a mystery which
inexphcable as that other strange phe-
nomenon of the drowned man, wha al
ways floats on top of the water face
downward, while the woman floats face
upward"
If the customer of a certain perfumer
and hair dresser knew how their favorite
tonsorial artist spent his spare hours says
the Philadelphia Record, they might not
lie so calmly under his soothing touch.
Every medical student in Philadelphia
could tell how the little Frenchman, with
rare skill and patience, works far into the
night dissecting bodies and articulatng
skeletons. The product of his skill finds
ready sale among the medical students,
who either buy an entire skeleton or parts
of the human form in the shape of skulls,
bones of the arm, including the digits, the
delicate bones of the face, like those en-
tering into the formation of the nose and
palate He also makes a speciality of the
peculiarly pretty little bones of the ear,
which are shaped like anvil. mallet or
stirrup respectively, They bring 81 apiece.
An arm or leg, fully articulated, costs
from SO to IS. first-class skeleton viii
bring about $50.
"A natural gas pipe line belonging to
the Philadelphia Natural Gas Company
of Pittsburg is being laid from the gas
fields of West Virginia to Pittsburg, says
the Railway Review. The line, when COM
pleted will measure 101 miles in length,
the largest in the world. The company
is also the largest, operating over 1,00O
miles of pipe, including the above line.
The latter will cost $2000,000 and will
largely increase the supply of natural
gas for Pittsburg, the field of West Vir-
glnia being also rich in the product. Be
ginning at the Pittsburg end of the line,
a thirty-six inch pipe was laid a depth OF
four feet under ground for distance of
fourteen miles, this part of the line alone
costing nearly $1,000. OO0 The second Sec
ton Of pipe is twenty inches in diameter
and five miles long, while the remaining
section is eighty-two miles in length and
runs through and over a considerable
extent of mountainous country. up which
difficulties were experienced in hauling
pipes. Forty-eight miles of the line is
now in use, the natural gas from the
Green county wells having been turned
into the mains.
Nearly all the money changers down
town have stopped displaying gold in their
show windows. and in place of it have
| great piles of new copper pennies, says
| the New York Sun. Up to a year ago the
| changers We'd with one another in dis
| playing gold coin. Sometimes there would
| be as much as $1,000 or s. 900 in a window
and there was usually a crowd around
| looking at it. About year ago a thief in
! one OF these crowds smashed a window
and made off with a double handful OF
| gold Then the police asked the money
| changers to take better means to protect
| their windows Some of them put up
| wire screens. Others put up iron bars
| Both interfered with the view of the gold
| Who originated the new funny idea is not
known, but 1t has taken hold generally
| The pennies, when they come from the
| mint have about the color of an Amer
| can gold coin. They are piled in the win
| dows, Indian head up. There is nothing
| on that side of a cent to tell what If is
| and no doubt great many foreign patrons
| OF these places, who are not familiar with
| our coin, think them gold. Some of the
| their windows, beside the pennies The
| bags are marked $4,000 or $40, 900 or some
other large amount.
The strongest hight on any seacoast
! of the world will soon be in working or.
| der on the Jersey shore. 1t will have nc
| rival for power anywhere here or in Ell-
| rope. This electric light will have $500 90
! candle power, and its warning rays will
| be sent forth from the top of Barnegat
| lighthouse. This huge light was exhibit
ted at the worlds fair at Chicago, and il
| was purchased by the United States gov
| eminent to be placed on Fire Island This
| project was, however, abandoned, as a
! hghtship has been substituted for the
| Fire Island lighthouse. The government
| officials then decided to place the new and
| powerful light at the next most important
point on the coast, which is Barnegat
| The present light at Barnegat is 165 feet
| above the level of the sea, and ii can be
seen under ordinary circumstances nine.
| teen nautical miles. The new light is SC
! powerful that it will not only be seen a
| great deal farther than the old one but
| it will penetrate haze and fog which of.
| ten make the present light invisible. All
cid sea captains know the Barnegat light
| as showing white flash ever ten sec.
| onds, and the new one will have the same
/ characteristics. Many important addi.
| tons have been made to the Barneqat
| lighthouse to prepare it for the new light
| and 1T is now one of the best equipped
! structures of the kind in the world
"A needle factory. the first in United
States, is soon to be started here, says a