The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Philadelphia record tells Of some
ridiculous questions which the pupils in
an elementary school were recently asked
10 answer. For instance, Where have
you ever seen the surface of the earth -
marry mad eight apples in a basket;
now many apples would il take 10 fll-six
Dasketsg' with no reference TO the size
OF the apples or the capacity Of the bas-
kets- One Of the examination questions,
IrduSnt with deep meaning, read. Com
pare a slate pencil and a lead pencil"
Inc puzzled pupil with a sudden CLEAN
OF intelligence. had written, Positive,
slate pencil; comparative. more slate pen
cl' superlatlve, most slate pencil Ditto
lead pencil"
"A gentleman whose Office is in Wor-
eestOr. says the Gazette OF that city. and
whose home place is a suburban town,
Is planning building which will contain
perpetual summer. It will be a cOmbi-
nation greenhouse and aViary. A great
room will have double walls and roOf
glass for winter and wire netting for the
summer months. In il will live all the
year round native birds, which may nest
in trees Of the same species where hung
lneIr parent nests, or IN the shrubbery
or grasses, as instinct dictates. The wild
movers Will bloom at Christmas time.
Inere Will be miniature sWamps and
rocky pastures. All sorts of conditions
are possible to the enthusiast fortunate
enough TO have an opportunity. In the
sprlngtime, when the glass is removed
the house will be almost as pleasant for
its inmates as real freedom. So large a
STRUCTURE would hardly deserve to be
called a cage.
Steam may excel muscle. says the
New York Sun. when it comes to endur-
ance, but that tact sometimes eclipses
both was shown on the Boulevard last
Thursday. A wheelman who was mounted
on bicycle provided with a gasoline en-
CINE, set out to distance everybody i'm sight
by scorching wildly in defiance of both
the law and the bicycle police squad. The
officers, not suspecting his novel means Of
locomOtion, each took a turn at chasing
him, and each in turn was left behind
Matters changed however. later on, when
one of the officers, who had discovered the
fugitiVes route, came upOn him and took
him prisoner. From the first appearance
of mounted policemen in this city 1t seems
to have been the determination of a good
many scorehers to defy the cycling blue
coats; though rarely, If ever, has one of
these reckless challengerS escaped an
overhauling finally. and a sharp lecture
or a fine in court The case in point should
impress every lawless wheelman with the
fact that, while superior racing ability is
usually a safe guarantee of his capture it
is possible for some officers to use STRAIT
egg, when necessary.
of the two effects produced by X rays
after passing through Opaque substances,
fiuorescence and Photographic action, the
former was the first to be discovered. An
interview with Professor Rontgen is re-
ported in a recent number of 'McClure's
Magazine" The now illustriouss Bavarian
is quoted as saving: Il have been for a
long time interested in the problem of the
cathode rays from a vacuum tube as stu
died by Hertz and Lenard. had followed
their and other researches with great in
terest, and determined, as soon as l had
the time, to make some researches OF my
own. This time l found a the close of last
October. 1 had been at work for some
days when / discovered something new
The occurrence here referred to was the
development of fiuorescent glow upon a
piece of barium plantino-cyanfde paper
which happened to be lying on bench
was covered with black cardboard. This
happened on Nov. s. 1t was while conduct
ing further experiments that the Wurz-
burger found that he could get photo
graphs also. He did not publicly announce
these results until the closing days OF
December, and the new year had come in
before they We're heard of in America.