The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

me ATHENS ArcnaeOiOglcal society re-
Gently made excavations near Agya, in
Northwestern Thessaly, which have
brought to light tho foundations of ancient
towns and citadels, the very names of
which are forgotten, with tombs of the
Mycenian period containing terra-cotta
vases with inscriptions, arms and works
of art.
When graduate of Cambridge Uni
versity, England. commits crime the
authorities of the university take his de-
gree from him and strike his name from
the rolls of the alumni. Commenting on
this. the New Haven News says: Some
OF our American triennial catalogues, and
Yale's among them, would bear a little
pruning of this kind, and look the better
TOT IL. they use, abroad, loss of honor
ana position more than we do to make
or accentuate the punishment for crime
1t Is a healthy deterrent for those who
have any station in society to lose.''
The work of extending the great
wheel-pit of the Niagara Power Com
pany's plant for seven additional turbines
ana oyhamos has now been under way
LOT some time. 1t Is being pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible. There are
Two gangs, OF seventy-five men each, en-
ployed night and day, and the excavation
IN the solid rock has reached a depth of
ABOUT forty-five feet. The cut is $40 feet
lohg and 70 feet wide. The depth when
colIlpleteo' VIII be 1855 feet, and it is
thought 1t will take about year to finish
the work
1t Is said that an English steamship
company is about to build vessel which
will be for the "sole use of invalids" Tho
steamship is to be fitted up very luxurious
~ anu devoted entirely to the service of
tryl~
pulmonary troubles, and who can only nro-
long lie in the dry, salubrious climate of
perpetual summer. Convalescents from
other wasting diseases are to be accented
An eminent corps Of medical men will be
on board, and the cuisine will be in charge
ol cheIs trained to the delicate task of
mlnlsterlng TO the refined and capricious
tastes of invalids The vessel will make
IT'S initial trip next autumn and winter in
the Mediterranean.
Though 1 had often heard of II
never was fully satisfied that all white
cats are naturally deaf until recently"
SAID a scientific gentleman, who devotes
considerable of his time to experimenting
win the lower order of animals. to a
washington Star reporter at was aware
that PROFESSOR Bell, in his original experi-
ments in connection with the telenhona
mad ascertained and stated that his experi-
ence with white cats was that they were
all either deaf or very deficient i'm hear
ing, and that other experiments in the
same direction had reached similar CON
ciusions. To satisfy myself 1 recently Sc
cured in all twenty-three white cats. and
experimental on them, one at a time. ''In,
every case found them stone deaf. In
carrying the experiment further 1 found
that white dogs and white horses are def
Gent IN hearing, and that many of them
are entirely deaf. So are white rats and
white mice. l am confident do not over
state IL IN regard to white cats, though l
nave only personally experimental with
tWenty-three, and, of course, can onlv
speak positively in regard to them don't
hazard much, however, when make the
bold statement that all white cats are
deaf"
The Strengthening of chimney stack
at the Norristown tin works, located at
Ernest Station, Plymouth township. was
recently accomplished in novel manner
says the Philadelphia Record. The stack
was LIZ feet high, eleven feet square at
the base, tapering toward the top. and
weighing 400 tons. The walls are thirty
six inches thick. The top was forty-five
inches from the vertical line, and the
owners set about to right it. From the
foundations ten and one-half inches of
brickwork was removed on three sides
of wood were inserted, one after another
until three sides of the structure rested on
blocks of wood. Between the blocks sub
stantial brick piers six inches high were
quilt, leaving space of four and one-half
inches between the top of the pier and the
potion of the undermined brickwork. The
DOCKS were then set on fire and kent
burning evenly, and as the wood was re-
duced to ashes the stack slowly righted.
AS the top gradually swung back through
the torty-hve-inch arc small assures an
peared near the base. In every groove a
steel wedge was driven to maintain the
weight or the walls. The entire work
consumed one day and the reduction of
the wooden block to ashes, one hour
They were talking about tarantulas.
says the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
and the group of conversationalists com
prised several men who had Travelled ex-
tenslvely over the west, and who knew
all about the subjects of the discussion.
They are the nastiest, most repulsive in
appearance of all creeping things" said
one OF them, "and yet I once roughed II
with a man who thought no more of
handling them than l would of plavine
with kitten. He had a way of picking
them up and then frightening a friend
10 death by threatening to put them on
MIN. He tried 1t on me once; only once
1 had him covered before he was within
ten YARDS OF me, and / swore 1 would
blow his brains out If he came a foot
nearer. i knew a young lady," said an
other, who was nearly killed by a taran-
tula, and the thing never touched her.
She had been out walking, and when she
came In started for the piano to play
something. for me. Before seating herself
on the stool she shook her skirts, and the
hairiest, meanest looking tarantula ever
saw 1eu on the floor from out her petit
coats. AS soon as she saw what danger
she had been in she tainted dead away,
ana 1t took her weeks to get over the
shock. We all thought at first she had
been stung, but she hadn't been touched"
Some people say tarantulas can't xiii a
human being" said third member of the
party, but the only kind of tarantula /
am not afraid of is one preserved in al
cehol" Then the subject dropped.
There seems to be a hint of Spanish
character in the story that a New York
business man tells of his dealings with a
spanish engineer employed in Cuba, says
the New York Sun. The enCipaar r,;eh 81 = :