The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-04
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with such high ceilings as were in favor
fifteen or twenty years ago. says the New
oTk Journal Every foot Of hight in the
celllng requires more than foot Of length
IN Lne stairway. and every stair must be
trodden over many times a day by every
member Of the family. Where in such
houses ceilings fifteen o. even eighteen
lteL We're sometimes used by the builders
o. q former day, thirteen, twelve. or even
eleven are now more usual nights. In
a country house OF moderate size / should
FAVOR ceiling on the first floor as low
as ten feet SIX. or even nine feet six, and
on the second floor eight feet six or nine
leel- hen the hight Of room Is les
sened its extent seems GREATER. and dec
ordllNe effects Of a coy sort are more
easily produced than in higher rooms.
Eagles are sometimes Of considerable
service TO a hunter. and this is especially
true Of the eagles of the Potomac river
at Wide Water, where President Cleve-
land shoots. According to an American
REID writer, eagles on calm day often
give the hunters shots which they would
not otherwise get. The eagle goes flying
up and down the stream, and on seeing
a nOck OF ducks goes toward them hoping
TO get cripple, being unable TO capture
ducks as the peregrine falcon does. When
the ducks see the eagle coming they jump
into the air and go looking for a safer To-
cality, and this is where the gunner comes
IN The gUnner's place Of COncealment
IN a blind is not nearly so safe as the ca
giles vicinity, but the ducks think IL is
SAFER tli the ShOt go through their feath-
ers- Three or four eagles will keep all
the ducks on the move and the gunners
get good sport where they otherwise would
not have dirtied their gun barrels The
eagles sometimes steal cripples from the
gunner, but the knowing man does not
hurt the robter birds, getting his pay
back on calm days.
Inventors seem to be giving a great
deal of attention to pneumatic devices.
Among the patents recently granted are
those for a pneumatic bed Stat and a
pneumatic billiard cushion The former
consists OF an ordinary wood Stat with
a pneumatic tube applied along its upper
surface. This tube is ADAPTED to be in
mated IN the usual manner by a pump. a
Ded provided with these Stats needs no
springs, as the elastic action of the air
tubes more than cOmDensates for their
omission. The pneumatic billiard table
cushion consists of a suitably shaped tube
applied about the edge of the table and
covered in the usual manner with cloth.
This cushion is adapted to be inflated in
the same manner as bicycle tire and will
never wear out or lose its resiliency as
II may be retilled with air at any time
RMS . certainly an advantage over the
present solid rubber cushion which soon
becomes dead by the hardening of the
rubber. The cushion IS slightly concave
on its outer sides so that when filled and
expanded by the compressed air the faces
Will be perfectly smooth and Hat.
"A man was stabbed in the back of the
a
men use, says Chambers Journal The
pin broke when the blow was inflicted.
and only the head with the upper part
could subsequently be found. The man
suffered no inconveniece from the injury
ana, TINS beng the case, he thought no
more of the matter. However, some
months afterward he suffered a good deal
from pain in his right shoulder, and this
was ascrDed 70 rheumatism. But no re-
lief followed the treatment adopted. and
II was not until some weeks had elapsed
mat the symptoms entirely passed away.
IN the course or time he noticed long,
hard substance under the skin in the re-
BlOn OF the lower part of the breastbOne
which puzzled him greatly. Suddenly he
cnanced TO think of the stab with the pin
which he had received about twelve
months previously, and then il occurred
20 MN mat the hard substance was the
missing portion OF the pin. He obtained
the services of surgeon. who cut down
upon the foreign body and found il to be
exactly as the man had supposed The
portion OF the pin extracted was two
lncnes ana liVe-eights in length, and
slightly bent in the middle
The most extraordinary of all light
houses is to be found on Arnish Rock
Stornoway bay-a rock which is separ-
ated from the sland of Lewis by a channel
over 500 feet wide, says London Tit-Bits
1t is in the Hebrides, Scotland on this
rock a conical beacon is erected and on its
summit a lantern is fixed from which
night after night, shines a light which is
I
there is no buring lamp in the lantern and
no attendant ever goes to it, for the sim
pie reason that there is no lamp TO attend
TO- no WICK 10 train, and no Oil-WeIl to re-
plenish The way in which this peculiar
lighthouse is Illuminated is this: ION the
Island OF Lewis, 500 feet or so away, is a
mirror in the lantern on the summit of
lighthouse, and from a window In the
tower a stream of light is projected on A
mirror in the lantern on the summit of
Arnish Rock. These rays are reflected
to an arrangement of prisms, and by their
action are cOnVerged TO focus outside
the lantern, from where they diverge in
the necessary direction. The CONSEQUENCE
is that to all intents and purposes a light
house exists which has neither lamp nor
Hshthouse-keeper and yet which gives is
serVlceaDle lght-taklng into account
the requirements of this locality-as il an
elaborate and costly lighthouse with
lamps, service-room, bedroom. living
room, storeroom, oilroom, Watertanks and
all other accessories were erected on the
summit of the rock.
Nowadays famous misers seem not to
exist, says the Chicago News
We have no one to compare with
Daniel Dancer who was the chief of the
class. After his death it took several
weeks TO explore his filthy dwelling. His
favorite hiding place for money was a
heap OF manure in the back yard. Nearly
5,O0O gulne as were found there 5000 in notes
We're in his teapot and as much again IN
ms chimney. The notes were safe, as he
could not afford tea and never had fire
There has not been an Elves for half a
century He inherited his. misery ten
denotes. His mother, who possessed $780,
co., nearly starved herself to death. and
his uncle, Sir Harvey, who had half as
much, lived to be so on a diet of Cruel
and water. ELVES was neither a monster
or magpie. He was a great gambler
and, after losing at the gaming table
several thousand, would leave the room
to meet his cattle coming up to market.
He also kept hounds and horses His
maxim was eminently sens!ble-that all
great fortunes were originally made by
saving. Generally speaking, misers have
no conscience, yet Audley, the money
lender, of the Stuart times, had a remnant
Of one: He purchased an office I'M the