The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ increased from 5000 10 over 1000. while
+ the expenditures of the department are
now about 81. CO.., 900 year. More than TO-
/ 90 persons are employed.
The church OF st. Mary in Knburn,
I suburb in the northeast Of London. has
I had an unknown benefaetor for nineteen
years On certain December day, every
year. an envelope is found in the collec-
/ ton box, containing 300 II was found
mere as usual rev Gays ago no Ell
fort is made to discover the beuefactor,
| for fear the discovery might result in the
/ loss Of the annual gift.
/ There is a stove, in the Virginia state
capitol at Richmond Gf it has not been
/ recently removed) which is believed to be
/ the Oldest iron stove now in existence,
J says the St. Louis Republic. 1t was man
/ ufactured in England some time about the
/ middle of the eighteenth century by one
/ BuzazlO, and was imported by Lord Bote-
! tourt, then in Virginia, in 1873. It was
/ used in the House of Burgesses when
] Nirginias colonial capitol was at Will
/ iamsburg, and Is now counted among the
| most sacred relics of early days in Amer
/ lea.
| 1t is interesting to note that for the
! first time in the history of warfare
! typewriter is to be brought into play on
! the battlefield, the English war office
/ having ordered one for use in the Ashanti
/ expedition The value of the machine
! for such purposes was first demonstrated
/ some two years ago at the royal military
! tournament at the agricultural hall. In
/ the various maneuVers the machine was
| shown to be a more than efficient sub
/ stitute for the cumbrOus printing-press
| and connected apparatus that usually
| accompanies an army on active service.
This province is stated to have a NOV
ing mountain. says the Vancouver World.
| Il rises near the Cascades,a gigantic mass
/ Of dark basaIt six or eight miles long.
| 1900 feet high, and with a three-prOnged
| pinnacle to tempt the adventurous. Year
| by year this mountain is moving down To-
| ward the river, and some day il VIII dam
! 1t and form vast lake. The forests at
/ its foot are being gradually pushed be-
| meath the water, and are fringed with sub
merged stumps. The railway that runs
| along il has been displaced to the extent.
! in parts, of ten feet within a few years.
| The cause of the phenomenon IS supposed
| to be a gradual subsistence of the soft
| sandstone at the base of the mountain,
which is continually washed away by the
| swiftly flowing waters of Columbia river.
The famous German war treasure"
kept on hand to provide against invasion
| by foreign country or other emergency.
| is stored at present in the Julius Tower of
the great fortress of Spandau. The mon
/ ey is all in 10 or 20 marks gold pieces and
| is kept in bags, 10000 marks to a bag.
| These bags are stored in wooden boxes,
| held together by screws. The official seal
is placed over the head of each screw, so
any one tampering with the boxes could
be readily detected. The gold in the
boxes is not counted, but is weighed pc
riodically as a precaution against posi-
Die loss. Inc store OF BOiu amounts W
100 900, 600 marks, or about S30,000000 in our
money, a sum that would not go very
far in case of war, but would prove an
acceptable prize to san enemy capturing
it,
The old bell of st. Johns Episcopal
church. EFicottville, n. Y. has an inter
esting history says the New York Tri-
bune. 1t hung originally in a monastery
in Malaga, Spain. The monastery was
sacked in 1882. and this bell. with others.
was shipped to New York. Nicholas Dew
ereaux. agent of the Holland Land Com
pany, at Ellicottville, bought it and sold
it to St Johns church. The inscription
on it is as follows: ABE sol labos del
angel owe en- alto svena Maria Gracio
meaning of this was a mystery for long
! time, until Bishop Coke studied ii, and
} said it was in corrupt Spanish, in which
| b was often used for V, and which changed
many other letters. "Thus," he said,
:" abe should be ave and 'labos should
be la vos' The inscription put in pure
gel owe en- alto svena) Maria, plena gra-
cia." The English translation he made
thus: Hail, q am the voice of the angel
who on high stands forth. Mary! full of
/ gracer' The last words, of course, mean,
"Bargas made me, Malaga, 17OS."
Science is ever adapting materials
! from the vast laboratory of nature to
practical use says London Invention.
We have almost arrived at rediscovery
| of malleable glass At all events, glass
is now ranked among our textile fabfics.
! In Venice a manufacturer is turning out
bonnets by the thousand from glass
cloth They have the simmer and brill
| liancy of silk and are of nearly any color.
They are impervious to water. For a
| long time in Russia has existed a tissue
; manufacture from the fibre of peculiar
flmentous stone from Siberia. BY some
process it is shredded and spun into a
fabric, soft TO the touch, and OF exquisite
l pliabiity, durable in the extreme. When
soiled, as it is indestructible by fire, it is
simply subjected to heat sufficient to
,1rixr ont oil the dirt In the of the
glass silk however, it will not stand such
) extreme heat. 1t may be made clean
again by simply brushing with a hard
brush and soap and water, when it is
| none the worse for being either stained
or soiled The material is now to be had
in white, green, lilac, pink, and yellow.
| IT bids fair to become fashionable for eve
ming dresses The new fabric is rather
| costly 1t is also made for use as table
: cloths, napkins and window curtains.
It is even claimed that glass is capable
of being made into fabric which may
| slightest discomfort. An Austrian is the
inventor of this new textile.
The story of the white Cement
mine is a curious one, says Chambers
Journal One day a gold-seeker named
, | White came into Horse Head Gulch, Cal,
from Northern New Mexico, and took out
of his pack number of pieces OF what
, looked like hard white clay glittering with
specks of metal. Before night it was
, known in the camp that Whites Speci-
mems showed one thousand ounces to the
) ton. The excitement was intense. In the
, morning a party called on the owner of
the specimens, and told him that he must
pilot theme to his find. He should have
, the pick of the claim, and help to work it,
! but go he must; and on his refusal, was
warned that his life would not be worth
shucks if he stood off, the camp. Then
he consented. The trail went down and
across the Rockies. 1t led along rocky
trails up and down canyons, and across
mountain crests. On the evening of the
| third day White said the miners were near
to their journeys end. Every one lay
) down that night expecting to arise a mill
/ ionaire. In the morning, White was gone,
and had left no trace. One-half of the
party, after incredible suffering, got back
! to life and civilization; and yet despite
their story, one hundred men started
back over their trail two days later Three
years after, White reappeared in Salt
Lake City with his cement specimens as
before, incredibly rich, and again disap-
peared, and from that time to this has
never been heard of. But men still wear
out their lives in seeking this Lost Ce-