The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc annual report of the superintendent
OF the Detroit House Of Correction. just
issued, discloses the fact that during 1895
tnat institution earned $500.
"A peculiar accident happened recently
to aepretty stenOgrapher Of Alliance. %.
A celluiOid comb in her hair exploded while
sls was sitting before crate fire; her
nan was nearly all burned of and her
scalp severely blistered.
Russia already ranks sixth among
the wine-producing countries of the world.
and will probably soon surpass GERMANY
IN this respect In the province of Bes-
sarabia alone there are 216.000 acres I'M
der vines, or nearly half the arabic land.
Not content with mere expressions of
sympathy for Armenia, the Wellesley col
lege- girls have agreed to do without but
ter for a month if the faculty will give the
butter money to the cause of Armenia
his IS certainly sympathy of the practi-
cal sort
Abraham Life, veteran soldier of
Farmland, Ind, who lost his right arm
during the war, is suffering from a Pc
culiar affiiction that is puzzling the doc
tors. few months ago his right leg
began to shorten, and it is now FIVE
inches shorter than it used to be and
ought to be-
"A letter mailed at West Point, Ind.
is now in the Lafayette postofffce ad-
dressed thus: What though the snow be
high as any mountain: whal though the
sleet and rain in torrents pour, so much
that earth would seem like one vast
mountain. No matter. With this letter
swiftly soar to Mr.. Garibaldi d. Nc
Ginnis, whom rumoF whispers dwells on
Burwell place. AS D., implies, his mid
die name is Dennis; this pointer use his
whereabouts to trace"
The rolling stock of German state rail-
Ho1
ance which will enable passengers on
board train to write without difficulty
and regardless of the motion of the train
The new appliance consists of board
suspended from the ceiling of the car
by strong but elastic cords, which will
prevent the vibration of the moving train
from interfering with the writer. At the
present time only the first-class compart-
ments of through trains are furnished
with this appliance. and a small charge
is made by the conductor for its use.
The Lumber Trade Journal speaks of
a floating sawmill which is being built
at Pensacola for work on the Escambia
river. 1t seems that during the past fifty
years in which logs have been RATED down
this river many of them have from time
to time sunk and are now lying on the
river bed. For about sixty miles they are
strewn along the bottom. The right TO
the lost logs has recently BEEN purchased
al nominal figure; and the purchasers
a slab from each Of the four sides of the
logs, using the floating sawmill for this
purpose.
The Worcester Gazette tells a story of
a lawyer who ran across an old statute
providing that any one who lights a bon
fire within 10 rods of a building shall be
liable to a fine of $50 Then ii occurred to
rubbish in cleaning up his grounds this
spring. He told brother lawyer. who also
expected to burn some leaves. They wor-
ried for several hours, until the explorer
into the lore of justice looked up the word
bonfire in the dictionary. It's definition is
"a large fire built in the open air as an
or for amusement" So all doubts as to
their rights fed from the minds of the
lawyers.
Have you any fdea what IAN atom of
electricity would look, feel, taste or
smell like? asks the st. Louis Republic.
In short have you mind that is capable
of imagining what such an infinitesimal
division of the incomprehensible fluid,
would be? We think not. The editor of
Notes for the Curious" has spent his
life 'deiving in the realms of the wonder
full" Yet he is free to confess that he
has no more idea of what an atom of
electricity would be than he has of what
is to be understood by the words soul"
and eternity" But there are those who
have been spending hours, days and weeks
exploring and investigating in the bottom
less pit of electrical mysteries, and who
have arrived at some startling conclu-
sions. That such a thing as an atom of
electricity exists has been believed in by
a number of eminent electricians and phil
osophers, among them the honored Helm
hotz and our own Thomas A. Edison.
Working on the theories advanced by the
former, Prof. Richarz, well known Eu-
ropean investigator, has made some eXper-
iments in that line that have startled
even the electricianS-men who come in
daily contact with things of the most
wonderful nature. According to recent
determination of Prof. Richarz, the small
est possible quantity of electricity, that
which may properly be called an atom"
is such that 430 multiplied by 100000 three
times-that is to say, by the cube of a
million-will give the number of atoms in
a coulombe of electricity.
The average street beggar is philoso-
pher and student of human nature. says
the Philadelphia Record. His ability to
flatter is his stock in trade. Every man
has his little vanities, and the beggar
is quick to perceive them. In one block
on Eleventh street last night an expert
enced mendcant by actual observation
'braced" no less than nine men, and
succeeded in getting ''the price of a lodg-
ing from six of them. He did it simply
study. In London the street beggar ad-
dresses everybody as me Lud,'' but the
Philadelphia beggar is far more advanced
in the science of fiattery The one on
Eleventh street last night seemed ahie
to tell at glance just how to approach
his man in manner which would most
readily appeal to his vanity. youth
who is member of an amateur dra-
matte company, and who delights in notn-
ing so much as to be taken for a profess
slonal, and who apes the manners and
appearance of the experienced thespiar
fell an easy prey. Pardon me. sir. 3 re,
marked the baggar, "but see you are an
actor. The game worked Another
stripping scarcely out of his teens. but
with decidedly worldly proclivities. was
addressed as 'old SPORT The Youne-
Men 5 Christian Association tale was nm
folded to man with a white tie ann
so IT went, through the entire category
Flnally the beggar approached an in6i
Vldual VINO might have been anvthinp
under the sun. He hesitated slightly he
lore sizing up his victim, and was sbon.
to make a venture, when a comDanioI.
VINO was evidently working the game
with him, came up and remarked: Come
on Gull; OATS noospaper man!I
The application of electricity IN 40
riculture goes forward but slowly The
instances in which electric light and
power are used on the farm while MANY
being utterly insignificant in view of
the magnitude of the industry saws +ba
New York Post. 1t is WORTHY of nctn
however, that Indirectly the farmer e.
benefited when electricity is used in