The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A woman morse thief was arrested by
the sheriff Of Nez Perces county. Idaho. a
few days ago. She was found TO be one OF
gang which has been operating in that
region for about a year. -Four male mem
Ders or the gang were caught with the
woman she is reported to be good look
Ing, = years old and Of a fiery DISPOSE
ton She was dressed in mans clothes
skill $50
"A well known Insurance broker said
IN the Washington Star. in speaking of
nre insurance risks: Contrary To the
general idea. insurance comuanies vvol1id
LatHef lake a risk on powder magazine
" powder mandatory than on an ice
mousse In the case OF powder manu-
factory there is the greatest care taken
ny those VINO work in it, or who visit II.
AHeIe = no need or signs hanging about
warning persons not TO smoke. for thew
WOuld never run the risk of entering viii
d cigar or pipe. even If the rules of the
pace allowed IL. Now with ice houses ii
Is dlmerent- Go into any Of them and YOU
VIII und the nO-smOking signs in plenty.
mere IS put little care, however, for
many people think such places will not
burh- Ihey do burn, however and the re-
SUIT IS the insurance companies charge
the higher risk on ice house property
The force of the tides as distinguished
from that of the swelling waves is TO be
utilized to keep in agitation bell buoys in
MbaIDSIs unqer a patent just granted. says
=
tuated Dell buoy is what the inventor
calls IL. The action from the force of the
cuIIent IS wholly automatic. The float
upon which the superstructur and bell
are mounted cuts and shifts from side to
SIDE A ball is confined in a tube under
Ihe DeH at It's mouth, and having free
passage as the float lists il strikes the
bell with great force. The bell will ring
equally well by the action Of the sea The
feature that is most novel is that the bell
Is az us pest when the sea is smoothest.
Just so long as there is motion in the
water, whether tidal or current il is suf-
ncient to ring the bell. This feature Will
be most appreciated by masters and pi-
lots Tor the reason that as a rule a thick
log Is accompanied by a death-like still
ness; II Is then that the skipper anX-
lously feels his way, listening for some
Iamlllar guiding sound. He has no hope
OF nearing a bell that is alone ed
py the sea, but the tide is always with
hlm' either at ebb or flow, and the tidal
Dell buoy is sure to be faithfully at work
peallng its warning notice.
Some time ago. when an item went
the rounds Of the press about the large
number of bow-legged children in Cincin-
hatl II was suggested that sand piles
should be provided for children to play in,
says the New York Journal The sand
pile idea has been adopted. not only for
the bow-legged children, but for ali the
httle tots, and promises to be carried TO
a novel extent Many of the school yards
nave now IN one corner large piles of sand
IN which the little tots roll and play to
their hearts content. Care is taken to
provide clean sand. secured from one of
tne bars IN the Ohio river, and it is
changed often enough to make it per
tectly healthful. Ii is declared to be the
best thing possible for children to play in
and some doctors have advised the making
of mud pies as a regular presentation for
puny youngsters. They say that there is
nothlng like contact with mother earth
ana that If the children do not get health
Iul SAND ana dirt to play in, they will
wallow in the gutter or yards and be con-
taminated with all sorts of disease germs
CITY Legislator John Regain has gone fur
tner ana has introduced an ordinance in
the city council 10 shut the worthless ele-
ment out of Eighth street or Garfield
Park, and give it over to the children He
proposes to have sand piled in the corn
ers of the parks and to let the children
play all they want. Mr.. Regain, who is
well known in New York, SAYS that this
should certainly be done.
California, which does nothing by
halves is to have the greatest animal pre-
serve on earth. Here will be no tame
toothless lion, no Jaguars that lap milk
from a saucer, no elephants nourishe6 on
popcorn and gingerbread. No. This is to
be simon pure jungle of the good old
Gays Detore the circus tent was heard of
me Ringing Brothers are the movers in
TINS extraordinary project, and their agent
IS now negotiating for a large tract Of
wild and thickly-wooded land at Long
Beach, near San Pedro Bay Southern
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by stone wall, surmounted by an iron
renee Caves will be made to afford hid
ing places, and the parent animals once
turned lose in this wilderness will he LETT
20 their own wills, sweet or otherwise
Two commissioners are now iourneving
around the world to purchase animals to
STOCK tne concern. As the principal den
lzens OF the preserve are of the family of
carnlVora, the animals upon which thew
naturally prey will be provided for food
mere VIII be tracts set apart for delicate
ana, 4 IL
camel, giraffe and zebra. A great timber
enclosure will be built inside the outer
GUARDS 10 connne the elephants. Herbs
ana grasses indigenous to the native cline
OF the herbiVora will be imported and
planted within the park for their suste-
nance. The monkey farm will be a fea-
pected, be animals enough born into this
strange beast garden to stock the cir
cuses OF the country for years unnum-
bered
in an article in Ueber Land und Nicer
on Electrical Phenomena in the Ami
NAL World, DR.. Frolich tells about a
sucker first found in the Nile and its
tributaries by modern scientific men i'm
1881, but well known to the ancient Egyp-
tlans as the sucker thunderer god" be-
ing Worshlped as such IN a sucker-god
temple in the city of the thunder sucker
or Oryrrhynchosee. The reason thew call
ga II the thunder-sucker. instead of the
'thunder-fish," was because they knew
of another fish, known to the English
speaking people as the electric cat 9fish1
TO the Germans as the z.tterwels, or the
shad-that-ma kes-one-tremble. 1t grows to
a length OF about foot, of which the
head and nose take up quarter, and
at the deepest part measures more than
a quarter of its length. Just why the
modern scientific men did not know of
this fish before is a question "a layman
finds 1t hard to answer except that the
sucker is bottomy fish. The old Egyp-
tians probably learned of the animal
after Nile flood, when some philosopher
was meditating over a mud puddle left
by the receding water. He saw a funny
hsh struggling in the water, and, out of
desire for knowledge, reached for the
flsh and touched it. If there were anv
disciples of the philosopher hard by they
prone biy saw the philosopher act sur
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