The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ed for Tristan da Cunha. volcanic ISL
and 1,75o miles from the Cape of Good
Hope and 1900 miles from st. Helena, the
nearest point OF land.
Joseph Brosmore, of Covington, KY, is
the owner OF a wonderful sheep. The
animal is eighteen months old, has five
legs and six feet, and is lively. The left
side contains two shoulder bones in full
growth, while on the other side there is no
sign of such a bone, but instead there are
two legs. On the end Of the fifth leg 1t has
two feet.
The Popular Science News is authori-
ty for the announcement that sensitive
persons who are annoyed by the sharp,
incisive sound OF the electric bell, will be
glad to know that French electrician
has produced a bell which gives con-
tinuous musical sound The note Is very
soft and sweet, although penetrating, and
Is said to be an exaggeration OF that OBJ
tanned by rubbing the edge Of glass
with the finger. Instead OF s. bell with
hammer and Il spring interrupter, steel
bell is used, which Is its own interrupter"
Mr.. c. H. Lamson, OF Portland, Me-,
who is doing so much TO solve the prob
lem Of aerial navigation, has made no eff
fort to fly the big kites since the fair. 1t
is quite a costly operation to get the big
airship up, and he will not attempt it ex-
cept in connection with some exhibition.
He is at present at work upon an airship,
which will be two-thirds as large as the
big one, and so constructed as to be east
ly folded and readily portable. The kite
will be intended for military purposes, and
of size and strength sufficient to carry
man up in it.
Near the top of Mount Washington,
in New Hampshire" says the Observer,
lives a little colony of very cold-loving
and mountainous butterflies, which never
descend below 1000 feet from the wind
swept summit. Except just there, there
are no more of their sort anywhere about;
and as far as the butterflies themselves
are aware, no others of their species exist
on earth; they never have seen a single
one of their kind save their own colony.
A writer on high life in the Cornhill
Magazine says that this little colony of
chilly insects was stranded on Mount
Washington at the end of the glacial pc
riod some odd thousands of years ago,
and the butterflies dwelt there ever
since, generation following generation"
"A queer parsonage, says the Water
bury American, giving his name as DR..
Charles King, presented himself at the
American editorial rooms late yesterday
afternoon, and astonished those present
by telling them that he possessed two
hearts Later he visited a local physi-
cian The doctor would not believe the
mans statement and proceeded to make
an examination. He was able to detect
two heart-beatS, one on the right and
one on the left side of the body. This
might be caused by a transmittance of
action, so the man was told. But he fool
ed the physician by stopping the one and
allowing the other to beat, and by max
ing them beat alternately. King says he
has appeared before all the leading scien-
lists of the country, and none of them has
been able to explain the cause of the
phenomenon.
"A fleet of twelve giant freight steam
ers has been built in less than ten months
for the Bessemer Steamship Company on
the Great Lakes, controlled by John D.
Rockefeller. The vessels have been APP
propriately named for men famous for
their connection with the mining, engi-
neering and metallurgical world. The
flagship of the feet is the Sir Henry Bess-
emer, while among the others are such
names as Nasmyth, from the inventor of
the steam hammer; Ericsson, from the
builder of the monitor; Corliss, the
maker of engines; Krupp, Fulton, Watts,
Siemmes, Bell Fairbairn and Holley.
<AluIu an inc QeN6lOpIU6ilI VI the ldhe
marine and steel interests in the last few
years it has strangely enough remained
for this new company to honor the men,
cries of the greatest men these industries
have had by naming ships for them.
The Charity Organization Society of
Baltimore has come across a new dodge of
the professional beggar. Late in August
one of them wrote to a prominent sound
money democrat, requesting a loan and
adding II am a true democrat. Not a
democrat to-day, but always one, and not
a Bryan democrat, but such as we have
now in the white house. Always was
SUCH Never voted any other ticket but
the true and solid ticket Now my dear
children are hungry" Early in September
he wrote to a prominent republican again
requesting a loan, and saying: 81 am a
true republican; could be nothing else. The
first vote 1 had was such, and the last
will be the same. pray the day is not far
distant when We as good republicans, will
win the day throughout the United States
and am confident that this coming No
vember viii tell the story OF our great and
needed victory
Lawn billiards is the latest sugges-
ton for the popularization of garden par
ties, says the London Telegraph. The
game is, as yet, so little known that it
merits a WOru or TWO OF ueSCTlptlOn. "A
ground about The same size as that used
for croquet is rolled as smoothly as pos
sibe, and its boundaries banked up a few
inches in imitation of cushions. Croquet
balls can be used, and holes in the turf
take the place of the regulation pocket.
The d and balk line are marked with
white chalk, and for cues a broad-point-
ed implement is employed with small
roller at the end on its under side to en-
able it to run with ease over the surface
of the grass. No STOPPING is required, and
those who have tried the game with ap-
pliances made TO their own order and
lawns prepared by themselves, are con-
WINGED that If the requisites were cas-
fly procurable and grounds upon which
1t could be played more numerous, lawn
billiards would attract to garden parties
many who at present attend them more
for duty than pleasure. kiss" cannons
would of course, be barred unless the
sides were playing for love"
Hundreds of ancient cleaners of mis-
cellaneous eurios, legends. myths and ira
ditions give US to understand that Cush
was born on the ark says the ST. Louis
Republic. Others claim that there was a
child born on the sacred vessel, but that