The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

w nat are probably the smallest Bible
and Testament in the world have just
been issued by Glasgow firm. The Tes-
lament Is three-quarters of an inch long
and one-half an inch wide. The Bible is
one and tErec-fOurth inches long and one
and one-eighth inches wide, and il con-
tains 955 pages.
Among the answers given by certain
Chicago high school pupils recently in an
examination were the following: New
York was settled by the duck Of York,
and Pennsylvania by the English Quack-
ers; The earth is sphere, because, if
it if we walked that way The declara-
tiOn Of independence was a document
drawn up by Abraham Lincoln at the close
OF the revolutionary war, giving freedom
to the negroes"
in order to get new ideas it is some
times necessary TO seek the most out of
the way places for them. A method of
educating children in vogue among the
Pathans of Peshawur is certainly original.
The mothers pray daily that their children
Education along this line is considered of
second importance to only one thing
physical strength Travellers who have
been to Peshawur bear witness to the eff
cacy of this method of educating the
young.
An interesting book could be written,
telling the story of the African kings, or
rather great chiefs in exile There is an
Arab in CeylOn, and ZObies, who was sent
TO Gibraltar. Then there is Ja-Ja, whom
the English dispatched to the West In
dies with a badly selected lot of wives,
as he complained pathetically), and Be
hanzin Of Dahomey, who was lately in
debted to the French for d passage to
Martinique. The English, too have Zulu
chiefs interned at St. Helena-Gungun-
hama and Prempeh-whose future place of
residence is still to be decided.
1t is customary among most civilized
nations. when launching or christening a
vessel. to break bottle of champagne or
with their usual thrifty notions, do not
believe in this unnecessary waste. When
they christen vessel, instead of breaking
a bottle they Iberate a number of pig
cons. At the christening of the Yashi-
ma, the largest and most powerful battle
snip ever constructed for the Japanese
at the Elswick shipyard on the Tyne,
TINS unusual sight was seen. Madame
Kato, the wife of a member of the Japa-
neSe embassy, chriStened the vessel and
let loose the pigeons at the same time.
The frightening of an ocean steamer
is a rather unusual work now being car
ried out by Harland & Wolff at Belfast.
Ireland. The steamer is the Scot, of the
South African mail line, which holds the
speed record between England and Cape
Colony. The boilers have been removed,
and the riVets cut from the shell plat
ing seams amidships The bow will be
moved forward by hydraulic jacks ana
steam hosting engines for a distance
OF about fifty feet, which is the extent TO
which the hull is to be heightened The
steamer is SOP feet long over all, and ago
feet on the water line, 5412 feet beam ana
3l52 feet nodded depth; it has tonnage
OF 6,SS4 tons, and a displacement of 10000
tons 1t is propelled by two triple ex-
pansion engines and twin screws.
An electric motor geared to the wheels
of a truck body, resembling an ordinary
moving machine, and connected to a
source of power by a flexible cord, has
been used this winter al Concord, N IL, in
harvesting the ice crop. A circular saw
in the forward part of the machine is
rotated by means of a belt connected to
the armature of the motor. The operator
in his moving machine seat controls by
levers, the direction in which he wishes
10 direct the apparatus, forward, back
ward or Sideways. A guide runs in the
last groove cut, making the cuts parallel
The whole outfit is stated to weigh about
the same as an ordinary horse. The depth
OF the groove cut can be carried from one
inch to nine inches. The saw was a sue
cess from the start. A speed of 100 feet a
minute was attained, making a groove
nine inches deep and three-eighths of an
inch wide.
The Amsterdam Gazette mentions that
company has been organized for the
raising of a treasure sunk with the shin
Lutine, which was lost almost a hundred
years ago off the Dutch coast. This boat
there being on board a very large sum in
gold, which was intended for payments of
continental accounts by English mer-
chants 1t is believed that there was 81 600
O00 in gold in iron Golfers aboard the Luz
tine. The vessel was sighted off the Dutch
coast, and that was the last ever seen of
ner, and she was never heard of again
Several attempts have been made to find
the wreck in the last ninety years but all
EFFORTS were fruftless until recently. 1t
seems that the hulk of the old vessel
located. a
ganized to raise the prize has gone to
work. AT last reports four guns had been
ried on by experienced divers who have
succeeded in clearing the hulk from sand
by py means 1os OF great pumps. The wreck is
land, on the Dutch coast.
Two little pieces of paper, which, when
originally issued by the Canadian govern
ment, were valued at u pence each. were
SOLD at auction Thursday night in Boston
Tor $l,32O says the Sprinfield Republican
Inc price paid was the largest given for
any single lot or stamps in the three days-
sale which closed last night. All Cana
dian stamps of the issue of 1851 are rare.
but these two 12-pence stamps are believed
to be the only unused ones of the kind
printed on laid paper. The stamps were
bought by Mr.. Needham of Hamilton.
ont, who sold these stamps to the com
pany holding the auction and got 81 900
for them Mr.. Needham bought a number
OF other Canadian stamps at prices rang
ing from STU 10 SlS5. scent ST Louis
1S45-46, which is a postmaster's provisional
issue, sold for $251, while a Decent specT
men of the same date brought S1O5 United
States government issues sold from
$50 down. The former price
was paid for an 1876 30
cent unperforated, unused. which is onn
of the rarest of United States stamps.
"A Chicago man in Washington thus
describes the Coliseum now being erected
in Chicago for the democratic national
convention: 1T will cover 2S5.OCO square
feet, but a better idea is convened bv
the statement that it is twice the size Of
Madison Square Garden, in New York.
The republicans will hold their conven-
ton at St. Louis, in a building 1SOx26O feet.
II could be put inside the Coliseum and
there would be room enough left for a
race course, a foot ball game a bicycle
tourney and a circus. The seating ca
pacity for delegates is over 1000, and the
speakers stand will hold 800. The news
papers will be accorded for actual working
men seats for go. Their desks will be in
front OF the speaker, and not back of
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