The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two young women have been appoint
ed gardeners in the famous Kew Gardens
on condition that they wear trousers when
at work.
We wear away two inches of shoe
leather in a year A pair Of boots that
would last a lifetime would, cOnse-
quently, have to be fitted with sOles from
ten 10 eleven feet thick.
In Tartary. onions. Ieeks and garlic
are regarded as perfume. A Tartar lady
viii make herself agreeable by rubbing
pieces of freshly cut onion on her hands
and over her. countenance.
lie COnte Stevens has measured the
pitch of the human voice. and found it TO
rise as high as 3,072 vibrations per second
in the case Of a child's cry, but for adults
II ranges from 43 TO 2.0iS vibrations a sec
The ostrich is believed to see objects
behind him as well as those in front. Per-
sons standing directly behind an ostrich
can see the pupils of his eyes, and, of
course, are thus easily seen by the ami
NAL.
The entire population of Prussia,
which includes the provinces wrested
from Poland, Denmark and Saxony, as
well as the seized kingdom of Hanover,
counts up for both sexes on June II, 1895,
81, 49l, 200.
The commissioners of police in London
have taken in hand the unfortunate class
who earn a poor living by acting as sand
witch men, In future the boards that they
carry before and behind them must not
be more than thirty-tWo inches in length
and twenty inches in width; and the poor
fellows must be thirty yards apart as they
march through the streets.
Portland convict prison. erected on
the Bill of Portland, in the Weymouth
sTF -
est prison in England. nearly 1000 prisO-
ners sentenced to penal Servitude being
located there. They are chiefly employed
IN the crown quarries, from which be-
tween 5000 and 10000 tons of Portland
stone are annually exported. This prison
costs annually about $4,000.
The company which was organized
some time ago to mine the sands in the
American and Sacramento rivers has fit
ted out craft with three amalgamators
ana an endless chain arrangement with
scoops Tor hfting the sand from the bot
tom OF the river it attached. The orig
lnatOr of the scheme thinks he will get
from 81 to = worth of gold out of every
ton OF sand, which he declares will be
good pay.
France is to have a new coinage. The
model of the gold pieces by NJ. Chaplain
is now ready and shows on the face a
mead OF the republic in profile turned to
the right; above ii spreads an olive tree:
Whlle IN the background appear the roofs
OF a French village on one side and
minaret on the other The diverse rep
reSents the French cock growing, the let
tiers and figures representing the value of
legs.
For years curious phenomenon has
been noticed on Lake Winnebago, in Wis
consin. where, as soon as the ice forms
Solldly, an immense crack opens almost
eXactly IN the center of the lake, extend
ing lengthwise from one end of the lake
TO the other. The crack is now three to
SIX feet wide and about thirty miles long
1t IS supposed to be caused by the expan-
sion Of the ice, and. the pressure against
each shore being equal, the upheaval and
insure appear in the middle.
Harold Frederic tells, in his letter to
the New York Times, of a novel use of
the Roentgen photography in Vienna.
Ihere has been for some years in the mu-
scum in that city a mummy, wrapped and
sWathed like that of human being, but
winch has long been suspected to be that
or an ibis instead. To solve this problem
without unwinding the wrappings the
Roentgen process was applied, and the
photograph is said to have revealed the
shadowy skeleton of bird.
The Manchester Star contains this ne
culiar advertisement: ITO all the young
girls of Clay and adjoining counties be-
tween the ages of 16 and %, whom 1t may
concern, be 1t known: That 1, Jarvis Pin
ner, whose postoffice address is Pigeon
Roost Clay county, Kentucky being of
sound mind and capable of contracting
and being contracted with-and possessed
of an elegent farm of about $50 acres, with
an orchard of 800 bearing trees, and stock
ed with the latest improved Poland-China
hogs and Spanish chickens, together with
all necessary comforts of life-but like
Adam, with an Eden-but no helpmate,
do hereby promise to will to any young
woman between ages referred to, who
VIII be an Eve to me and share the COM
forts and JOY of my home and fortune,
being flesh of my flesh and bone of
my bone'-all of my realty and personal
effects and promise to be to her kind
and loving husband Be it understood
that no girl who is named Suse need ap-
ply. The girl, in order to be accepted
must be well recommended and of good
form and pretty face: No cross-eyed wo-
man need apply. This is a rare opportu-
nifty"
One of the neatest inventions that have
been made recently is the one planned by
F. V. Simms, says the Louisville Post. Mr..
Simms was greatly interested in the iail
delivery, and Immediately after the pris-
oners escaped he set to work to devise a
plan to prevent any similar occurrence
Mr.. Simms proposes to surround each cell
by an alright compartment This will
be filled with carbon-dioXide under pres
sure much higher than that of air In
each compartment there will be a small
retort, containing Jumps of marble COW
cred by diluted sulphuric cid. This will fill
compartment a small rubber balloon.
partly filled with air or other gas, is held
IN place by a wire frame. Fastened to
the top of the balloon is thin metal plate
connected to an electric wire Directly
over the plate is the point of a screw to
which the other wire is fastened. This
screw is turned until it almost touches the
plate, and the wires are connected with a
bell and battery. When a prisoner once
bores a hole through the wall of his cell
the carbon dioxide fills the room and he is
asphyXlated. In the meantime the Dres-
sure being reduced in the Commandment
the balloon will expand, and the Mate
VIII come in contact with the screw. When
the circuit is closed the bell will ring and
arouse the turkeys. Mr.. Simrns did NOT
explain about ventilation, and this seems
TO be the chief drawback to the nIan II
would be a simple matter for the prisoner
10 open his windows and allow the gas tn
escape. This might be prevented. how
ever by connecting two sets of wires with
the plate and screw, and the second Cur
rent will cause an outside shutter to fan
and cover the window. This would hard
ly ne necessary, as the sound of the heI1
would be sufficient to prevent the prison.
er escape The wires to the bell are in
SIDE OF the walls, so that they cannot he
cut by a deceitful trusty.
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