The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-17
ITEMS or INTEREST.

are sall 70 De led 20 leeches annually al
Bordeaux.
While the artillery were out practic-
ing the other day al their annual firing
a. village near NIultan Cant0nment. IN
ala. lnree Indians were accidentally kill
cd NO blame attached 10 anyone. as the
villagers had been warned where the FIR
ing was 70 take place
The question OF experiments with
germ-destroying filters is now under the
consideration OF the government Of In
dla- some large environments. in when
typnoiq has been or is prevalent. viii
probably be selected and a complete in
staIlation OF filters viii be made IN sucn
places
The latest whim Of women cyclist is 10
have their wheels painted 10 match their
dress In the London streets are seen cy-
cles IN various shades of green. brown and
IerEa Gotta The fashion was started by
Lazy warwick, who IN the-summer. had
her wheel painted white. and who dresser
II white from head 10 foot
A whole mountain Of asbestos is said
TO have been discovered about four miles
north Of Mount Vernon. Ore. The asbestos
loef varies from half an inch 10 TWO inches
IN length and is Of excellent quality. The
discovery was made through the herdingi
OF sheep on the mountain. Where the an
lInais nad tramped the rock the asbestos
threads showed up like punches of wool
A strange incident occurred al cricket
practice near Calcutta recently. The bowl
er hit bird that was vain enough 10 fly
ratner low across the pitch. Bird and
pan came TO ground together. The latter
was dead, while the former, which on
examination was found 10 be a spar
row naWk. was alive. bul helpless with
proken wing. It was accordingly killed.
and the bowler is beginning TO think that
ne is OF the kind called deadly.
The Hindoos are great gamblers. One
Of ~s-a-4- 60
ting on a rainfall The Indian Mirror
Of Calcutta. OF recent date says The
rain-gambling Enclosure in Burra BaZar
presented a scene OF unusual activity or
Monday, when heavy clouds betokened the
approach OF unsettled weather There
was some heavy plunging. but as the
Talntal was extremely light. IL was only
the rain brokers who made a haul"
The naming Of ships is one Of the diff
culties that the English admiralty over
came by using old names over and over
again. To adopt a new name into the
navy seriously interferes with the service
signal books. The old names are in the
code and are as disable for the ships Of
to-day as for those OF Nelson's time But
the introduction of new name necessi-
tates an alteration in all the books That
IS why the old names survive generation
after generation.
Jacob Buch. who was once a Salvation
list and beat his drum through the streets
Of San Francisco. shouting as loud as any
OF his fellows, has an army Of his own
now. and declares he is the Ballington
Booth Of the Pacific coast. His army now
numbers 800 members and is called the
/ Gospel Army. The uniform is after the
style OF the Salvation Army, and he has
a number OF men and women in the field
TO raise money. Buch and his followers
report good success
There was recently launched at Port
Glasgow. Scotland, what is said to be the
largest steel sailing schooner ever built.
The vessel, which was built TO the order
Of a Honolulu merchant and ship-owner.
IS 70 feet over all, by Y feet beam and Is
| feet o inches depth Of hold. The vessel
Is OF the strongest construction. intend
/ ca Tor carrying heavy timber cargOes up
/ TO 10000 superficial feet OF lumber The
/ hull Of the vessel is of steel, and so is
the main deck from stem 10 stern. The
/ forecastle deck is also Of steel and the
| ship Will be provided with four l40-foOt
steer masts, each in one length from keel
to truck.
According to DR.. C. Shaft, who has
been making a special study Of ocean
| waves, their speed in moderate breeze
/ Is 1913 miles per hour. Their size and
/ speed increase prOpOrtionately to the We
loclty or the wind: In strong breeze
| they. increase. to go feet in length, ana
/ reach speed of IS feet per second. In
/ heavy storms their length increases 10
| 100 feet and the speed 10 IS miles an hour
/ Dr. Schatt does not think that the maxi
/ his maximum is just 50 feet. He believes
/ that in great tempests waves of more
than 90 feet are rare, and that even
| those OF % feet are exceptional In the
ordinary trade winds the hight is five or
six feet.
An irrigation company. with novel
! plan for getting water, has been formed
/ in Salt Lake said James H. Bacon.
/ FFeslaent OF the Bank Of Salt Lake
I n mr. usrrs= IN, -1-,e
1 IS known as the West Mountain or Bing-
nam mining district was as rich as the
| best Of Utah desert lands, learned also
/ tnat the miners up in the mountains mad
/ TO keep pumps running 10 prevent the
/ lower levels from becoming flooded with
! water. so he said: Why not take water
/ that is nuisance in the mines and put it
! where il VIII do some gOod?' Capitalists
/ We're found 70 carry out a combined
| drainage and irrigation scheme. A tun-
| mel has been started that il will take
| about a years labor to complete. They
propose 10. drain the Dalton and Lark
! mines 10 the ZOO loot level for a small
/ royalty and 10 turn the water loose over
| 1000 acres of land which they have &C
! quired. The land is worthless without
water. but if there is enough water in the
| mines. and very likely there viii be- the
! land will become worth 800 an acre. 1t
| is certain that this tunnel scheme for
/ getting water might be profitably applied
/ in a hundred places on the desert where
il never has been considered at all"
! According TO NJ. Leplay, green wood
/ when cut down contains about IS per
cent, of its weight in moisture. In the
| forests of Central Europe wood cut down
| in winter holds al the end of the follow
| ing summer more than 20 per cent or
1 water. Wood kept for several years in q
| dry place retains from Is 10 20 per cent. of
water. Wood which has been thoroughly
/ desiccated Will, when exposed TO air un-
! der ordinary circumstances, absorbs > per
! cent. of water in the first three DAYS and
1 will continue TO absorb it until it reaches
| from IA 10 Is per cent as a normal stan
| dard. The amount fiuctuates above and
/ below this standard according 10 the state
| of the atmosphere. NJ. Violette found
/ that by exposing green wood TO a tenn
! perature of 212 degrees Fair, it lost IS
1 per cent. of its weight which accords
| with observations of NJ. Deplay He fur
| Their found that by exposing small prisms
/ of wood one-half inch square and eight
\ inches long out OF billets that had
| been stored for two years, TO the action
| of the superheated steam for two hours
! they lost from Is 10 45 per cent. of their
/ weight, according to the temperature OF
! the steam, which varied from PSI degrees
! Fair. to 4S7 degrees Fair. Q25 degrees
! Cenugrade to 225 degrees Centlgrade).