The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

night for $500 This quaint BIT OF bust
ness was done at LlOyd's for premium OF
$25.
AT Bad-Homburg, a workman. a So
cial democrat. who had been condemned
TO five days Imprisonment, refused to ac-
cept the pardon of the emperor, and pre-
scented himself TO the police, demanding
10 fulfill his term of Imprisonment. The
magistrate sad he could not grant his
demand, and the workman left the court
highly discontinued.
The Queen of England has a necklace
of pink pearls that is worth $4,000. and the
Dowager Empress of Germany one made
OF thirty-twO pearls that would bring
easily Sl25.O00 The Rothschild women
have, however. gems of this sort that far
exceed in value those of royalty. Baroness
GuStaye de Rothschild possesses one made
up of five rows of pearls, the whole chain
being valued at 100000.
"A supply of water, estimated at about
5000 gallons day has just been tapped
at Richmond. England, in remarkable
circumstances. For some time past eX-
tensive borings have been made in the
adits of the Richmond Terrace Gardens
well, but with comparatively little sue
cess. Lately two water OWNERS" named
Gataker and Mullens. visited the well and
Doth predicted that water would be found
at certain indicated spots, the former al
leglng that by making fifty borings, at a
cost OF about $500, an enormous supply
about 1000 year. on the Southwark and
NauXhall valuation. On Monday of last
week it was decided to begin boring at
point where both the OWNERS predict
ed find, from thirty to fifty feet below.
At depth of about twenty feet a spring
was tapped which is yielding 500 gallons
day.-London Times.
An odd hunt for buried treasure has
been in progress lately in the little noun
tain town if Chilli, forty miles east of
Alhlnuprnnp NJ Of Ct,a Itch, nd
Indian settlements have been found in
several places thereabout. Some weeks
ago a band of gypsies came to Chilli and
the chief told the Mexicans there that
by digging in a certain place they would
come upon a cedar post, and that the
CEDAR post was guide post, from which
he would be able to locate a buried treas
ure to the value of some $8,000000. The
gypsy told the Mexicans to dig until they
found the post and then await his return.
Ineh with his band he started for the
ruins of Gran Quivera. The MeXicans dug
Tor a day or two and finally came upon
the cedar post, just as they were told
they would. Then, unable to curb their
curiosity, they kept on digging and have
been digging ever since. They have I'M
earthed several heavy walls and other re-
mains of buildings which indicate that
the place is the site of Spanish or pre-
historic city. Now everyone who can get
a. pick and shovel is digging for dear
IRE. The gypsy hasn't been seen since
his frst appearance.
-Superstitious people can be found in
all walks of life. says the Washington
Star. There is a southern senator who
has overcome all his suDerstitious beliefs
but one. He will never make his exit
from room through any other door than
the one that he entered by. The other day
his committee held a very important meet
ing at which the senator was present. I'M
mediately outside of the door of the com
mtttee room several newspaper men lay
in wait for the committeeman to come
out TO obtain inforation as to the action
of the committee. The room has two
doors, only one of which is used, however
as a thoroughfare, the other being used
only on extraordinary occasions. Two of
the committeeman in order to give the
slip to the newspaper men went out the
unused door. But the superstitious SEN
ator, although advised of this way of es-
cape, could not overcome that supersti-
tiOuS feeling, and out the main door he
rounded by his newspaper friends, with
whom he IS very popular, and was sub
Jected to severe MISUNDERSTANDING. The
senator said afterward; 1T was a mighty
hard job to turn those boys down, but /
would have felt worse had gone out that
other door"
The great density of the several sat
elites which accompany planets in our
solar system is also a very strong proof
in favor of the truth of the theory that
all the revolving spheres in the heavens
are increasing in heat rather than dimin-
lshing, says the Popular Science Monthly
OuT own moon is almost as dense as our
earth, and instead of being, as Sir John
Herschell supposed, IAN orb very much
heated possibly to a degree much ex-
ceeding that OF boiling water" it is now
known to be about sixteen times colder
than the earth, while Jupiter, that mighty
cold planet, even at its surface is found
| to be almost incandescent, and less dense
| imam the earth. That our solar system
has now but one central sun is no reas.
on whatever that it did not at one time
have two. The very fact of there being
diGRnUGrnH urh n a
| (suns), is a very good proof that every
| other solar system in the universe is not
always like our own as regards the num-
Der of suns-in uni-solar condition; and
there can be little if any doubt that the
| coal measures now to be found deposited
in our earth were made during period
| when our solar system had two central
suns, and it is reasonable to suppose
| that a secondary sun in our solar system
and one, too, if 1t should have revolved
| in close proximity to our earth would
| have sooner or later converted the earths
vegetation into coal.
The modern system of flying kites tan.
dem was devised by Mr.. Eddy in 1890 saws
| McClure's Magazine, although it was hi
| upon two years later Independently by DIR
| Alexander B. johnson, the distinguished
surgeon of the Roosevelt hospital in New
| YORK. The tandem system makes it pos.
| sible to send kites to far greater attitudes
! than had ever been previously attained
! And here the best record is undoI1htedly
| held by one of Mr.. Eddy's tandems. sem
! aloft at Bayonne, on Nov z, 1893 Mr.. Ed.
! dy began to send up the kites at 1880 a m
! but, being hampered by light breezes from
| the east, found he was kept busy unit
half-past 3 in the afternoon in getting nine
| kites aloft He had paid out nearly two
miles Of cord when top kite, a little two
footer, stood straight over the spar buoy
! in Newark bay. The lowest kite. a six,
! footer, was lowering some distance i'm.
land from the shore, on a line from the
shore to Mr.. Eddy's house (where the enc
of the line was anchored), measuring 5. 5O
| feet by the surveyors map Taking two
| observations from the two ends of this
base line, Mr.. Eddy's kite quadrant show.
ed angles of 30 and 36 degrees, and these
were sufficient to determine the altitude
of the kite, which was found to be 5.59I
feet-or something over a mile. The kites
were seen by hundreds of persons durine
the 10 hours that they remained up, the ex-
pertinent coming to an abrupt end at X
o'clock that night by the blowing away
of the two upper kites in the increasing
wind. The escaped kites disappeared in
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