The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


There were n44S9 fewer children being
educated in French primary schools than
the last report Of the minister OF public
instruction, while in the five years the
number OF pupils in the schools Of the
Christian Brothers nearly doubled. The
Brothers are now teaching 1906. SIS chill
dren, with no aid from the government
The Boston Herald tells a queer story
The other day. it Gays. man in Bangor.
Me. wished TO send a dispatch from that
city to Portland. Ne On account OF the
destruction OF the bridge al Benton di-
rect communication with Portland was inn
posi- bic. but the Western Union got the
message through all the same, and this
is the way II was done At was tele--
graphed from Bangor to North Sidney
B. G, then to Hearts Content. n. T..
thence to Valencia, Ireland. thence to
Lands End. England. thence to Dover.
thence 10 Brest, France, thence to st.
Pierre Miquelon, thence to Duxbury
Mass, thence to Boston and thence to
Portland
"A sure enough wild man was seen in
the Quillayute Mountains. near Cape Flat
terry. Washington, few days ago. and
was closely and carefully scrutinized. by
Lawrence f. Doyle, member of the Mon
tana legislature. who Is willing to furnish
affidavits with his story. He says that
he was travelling through an unexpiOred
timber belt when man of unusual large
size and splendid physique, hatless and
with a heavy beard and shock of long
hair, his arms and legs bare and his body
partially clothed in skins. stepped out be-
fore him. Mr.. Doyle was startled, and be-
fore he could say or doing anything the
Wild man. after looking at him closely,
walked quietly away. Mr.. Doyle watched
the man with his field glasses until he
was out of sight. ard is sure of the real
ity of his experience and of the wild
man. Settlers in that region have for a
long time past claimed to have caught
glimpses of strange man dressed in
skins, and general hunt has been Planned
for the purpose of capturing him.
Another queer conquest of light is
NJ. Charles Henry's sulphate of
zinc, says the London News, NJ. Henry
IS French savant of the school
of higher studies, who has revealed the
light and give it back in the dark. Pou-
DIRE de riz made with this mineral gives
soft luminosity to fair young face.
A lady cyclst busted all over with this
powder. is in herself a lamp on a pitch
dark night. The luminous pigment is not
liable to be spoiled by damp, by carbolic
rain If united to some strongly adhesive
body. There is a house in the Rue de
Longchamps where a wind owless set of
rooms is lighted with ii. The lady of the
house receives there her friends at IS
O'clOcks." The apartments seem bathed
in moonlight the curtains are as if stud
ded with slowworms, the ceiling scintil-
lates. The furniture looks as If rubbed
with PHOSPHORUS. The play of this
light on colored objects gives one the
impression of Aladdin's underground pal
ace. Often they take the rich, glowing
tones of the topaz, ruby and emerald.
This powder does not lose its hrilliancy
if used in starch or size. A black dress
trimmed with lace made luminous by ii
is more than bewitching.
For centuries the north was an ice
changed saws Iippincotts From the pole
to the southern ice limit not one noun
tain projected its head above the I'M
broken snow; even Mount Washington
was deep down under the surface Man
haitian Island lay buried at least 500 feet
under the ice; a wild, weird stiffness rest
ed over this favored spot interrupted
only by the crashing of the ice as pieces
broke from the end of the glacier beyond
the narrOws and, as iceburgs, hoated to
sea- Ages had now passed since man first
appeared in his primeval home. Some
progress the race had made but man was
still a rude and untutored savage; his
crude weapons were only pieces of rough
ly chopped stone, but 1t was man with
progressive and endless. mind. And as
the years passed the rude paleolithic an
ceStor gave place to men with higher de-
gree of primitive art; flint tipped arrows
and axes OF stone now gave man the mas
terry over every animal; food was no long
er a matter Of chance, but a matter of
Skill Still, at war with the elements, wild
fearful struggle; the world at the best
was then no garden of Eden. For 10000
years or more the ice with its various
advances and retreats covered the north
Then began its final departure. but il was
probably as slow in going as it had been
in coming. The land began to gradually
sink, the winters became miider and the
summers longer.
Few people are aware that what is very
likely the largest single-share pillow in the
present on one of the ranches of the Kern
County Land Company, near Bakersfield
says the Chicago Record. 1t is not in use
however, but is simply kept as curiosity
fifteen years since the idea of the pillow
was conceived by j. Thompson a ranch
foreman. He was tired of preparing a
3,OO0-acre wheat field for crops with the
ordinary nine or twelve-inch pIows worked
by two horses, then in use. He made his
calculations very carefully, but not being
He figured that if two horses could pull
a twelve-inch pillow, six horses could pull
a thirty-SiX-inch one and that eight horses
could pull forty-eight-inch one. 1t SEEM
ed natural enough TO figure that way
when, in fact, he should have "cubed'
the capacity of his tWelve-inch plow every
time he doubled the width of it. A twelve
inch ploW when 1t is pulled the distance
equal to its width, displaces one cubic foot
of soil and thirty-SiX-inch ploW will dis
place tWenty-SeVen cubic feet instead of
a. "A
all the calculations and drawings were
made a blacksmith came over from Ba-
kersfield, and in due time the monster
pillow was ready to go to work in the field.
The share was made to cut a fifty-inch
furrow and the top of it reached about
five feet from the ground The beam was
over a foot thick and the handles were
ten feet long, but, of course did not slope
at the same angle as in the ordinary plows
To enable the pillow to be turned around
easily 1t was suspended between two eight
foot wheels, on the axle of which was a.
seat for the driver. 1t made a huge. ugly
contrivance, that looked like nightmare.
When the plow was taken to the field ten
horses were fastened to it. The handles
were raised and the horses started but
as soon as the share was about half way
into the ground they stopped. More horses
were brought out and sunk ii a little deep
er, but not until fifty had been hitched to
the plow did it move through the soil
at any sort of speed. At best it moved
slowly. and it took four men to hold the
handles and make it stay IN the furrow.
Horses were cheap in Kern county at that
time, and feed cost nothing, so the pillow
was little saving after the men learned
how to handle 1t so it did not cut more
than eighteen or twenty inches deep. The
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