The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Members OF the French army ambu-
lance corps are to be provided with in
candescent lamps and pocket batteries for
use on the battiehelds at night.
Nine trolley RAILROAD companies report
an increase Of 90 per cent. in number OF
passengers carried the year succeeding
the displacement Of horses as motive
power.
when Hungary celebrates this year
the thOusandth anniversary Of its exist
ence as a state the government will en-
deayor TO depict the whole history of
the Hungarian state and show the deVel-
opment OF the wild Magyars into a ma
Ton OF Tree and progressive men, In S96
the Magyars reached the fertile plain be
tween the Danube and the Thesis and il
mas ever since remained the home OF
their descendants.
Tom All Alone's." the dismal grave
yard in Russell court, Drury Lane. i'm
mOrtalized by Dickens in the Poor Joe
episode OF Bleak House" is now al
most an open space" owing to the ex-
tensive demClitiOns in the neighbOrhOOd,
says the London News. The old dismal
passage and steps have gone, and the
yard is paved and laid out as a poor
childrens gymnasium; but the sullen-
looking safe with the rusteaten bars still
remains.
One of the most famous of the old
time packet line Of ships is at present
represented by a single ship the Great
Admiral, which. under command of Capt.
Rowell, recently arrived at Boston 1872 days
from Manila, with a big cargo of hemp.
She is the last of the Old BLACK Horse"
line, which, when the firm of Baker, Weld
d Co. was in its prime consisted of tWen-
ty-eight vessels, and went a long way to-
ward laying the foundations of some Of
Boston's fortunes of the present time.
An extraordinary oyster shell is own
ed by Portland man, says the Boston
Herald. 1t is almost two feet in length
and one and a half feet in width. The
she'll is very rough on the outside, and
white and smooth and beautiful on the
inside. 1t is at least three inches thick
in the central portion and is very mas
thirty-seven pounds These huge oyster
shells were brought to Portland in the
hve-maSted schooner Governor Ames on
the occasion of her last visit here some
years ago. The oyster was secured alive
in Japan, and made a stew that was more
than enough for eight men. The whole
oyster when alive weighed eighty-two
pounds Leaving out the seventy-four
pounds for the SHE'LL and there is eight
pounds that the oyster itself must have
weighed.
There are vegetarans who deny them
selves flesh food on sanitary grounds only,
while others cling to the diet on humani-
tartan grounds, says the New York World.
decline to even remotely sanction the
slaughter of a living creat ure for any pur-
pose. This feeling is carried to the point
OF a rad in England, and as a result Vege-
tartan boots and shoes are advertised
as for sale in the London papers. The
uppers are made of Janus corium "
which, by the way, is oak tanned leather,
Dut feW people Will recognize the fact.
This is all the leather used in the shoe.
however. The soles are of closely water
prooted max betting. The vegetarians, i'm
arguing Of -1a D,
mails are not necessary say that india
rubber, gutta percha, steel. iron and brass
mans, cashmere, cotton, elastic webbing
wood, paper, cork, straw, silk, lutte and
wax go to form the modern mystery of a
lady shoe in which often-times no ele-
ment of leather enters.
The hottest region on the earth's sur
face is on the southwestern coast of Per
STA, on the border of the Persian Gulf.
says the Detroit Free Press For forty
consecutive days in the months of July
anu august the mercury has been known
TO stand above 100 degrees in the shade
InSnL ana DAY and TO run up as high
as 80 degrees in the middle of the after
noon. AT Bahreins in the center of the
most torrid part of this most torrid belt.
as though IL were natures Intention To
make the place as unbearable as pos
SlDe, water from wells is something nm
known. Great shafts have been sunk 10
a depth of 100 200, 800 and even 500 feet
put always with the same result-no wa
yer. MS serious drawback nOtWithStand-
ING, comparatively numerous population
contrives to live there thanks to coDious
springs which burst forth from the hot
tom OF the gulf more than a mile from
shore The water from these springs is
obtained in a most curious and novel man.
ner. Machadores' (diVers) whose sole
occupation is that of furnishing the peo-
pie of Bahrein with the life-giVing f1uid
repair to that portion of the gulf where
the springs are situated, and bring away
with them hundreds of the bags full OF
water each day. The water of the gulf
where the springs burst forth is nearly 200
feet deep, but these machadores manage
70 NIL their goat-skin sacks by diving To
the potion and holding the mouths of
the bags over fountain jets-this, too, with
out allowing the salt water of the gulf
70 mix with II. The source of these sub
marine fountains is thought to be in the
mis- OF Osmond. AGO or 500 miles away.
Being situated at the bottom of the gulf.
1t is mystery how they were ever dis.
covered, but the fact remains that they
nave peen known since the dawn of his
tory.
Probably the most important change
now going on in electrical railway work
tomato power brakes for the crude hand
brakes that depend upon the mere mus
Gle or the motorman, says the Pittsbure
iDlspatch. All the progressive street car
INES are eVlncing a preference for brakes
that eliminate the factor of human pow
er ana endurance, and are rapidly substi-
tutiHS dlrDrakeS, the air for which is
compressed by the car itself There are
also one or two forms of magnets
brakes and a new form is that of a nv
draulic brake. 1t is worthy of note that
until recently street railway men had a
prejudice against power brakes on the
score of their causing fiat wheels Inves-
ugation shows that the truth is exactly
opposite, and that the quicker the brake
IS applied, the less the flattening effect
The hand brake, working with compare
tive slowness and with less facility tends.
it seems, to make The wheels skid. and
hatten. Strangely enough, outside this
country, there is very little public worry
on the subject of tenders, but the de-
mand for power brakes almost everv-
where takes the form of a governmental
or municipal regulation 1t is believed
that American opinion will also reach
this point in time, no matter how good
the tenders may prove to be. Another
modification of street car practice is ex-
pected in the adoption of more musical
gongs. The prevalent types not only deaf
en- the passerby, but use up the energy
OF the motorman and jar their nervous
systems. 1t has also been predicted that
the big, heavy level handles, now famil-
lar on the cars, viii disappear and that
the men will be seen controlling the move
ments of the car by a small lever or
even by a simple unObtrusive push but
ton.