The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-Telegraphic. Communication between
England and the continent has so enor-
mously increased Of late that the British
postal department must lay new subma-
/ rine cables 10 France and Germany.
Ihose now existing are quite inadequate
/ for the traffic.
A Paris policeman had a curious ex-
perience the other night. when he met a
woman wandering about in her night
robes. She was also wearing a wreath OF
| leaves, held piece of rusty ratings in
| her hand TO represent a Tyre. and intro
| duced herself to the police as The Muse
OF Nerlaine." She added that the poet
was in the Champs Elysees, but she her
/ self inhabited Olympus.
"A luminous foresight for use in a bad
light with guns Of various kinds has been
patented in England by Mr. Winans. says
the Army and Navy Journal A tiny in
candescent lamp, supplied with current
| from a simple form of battery concealed
In the stock, is mounted within a shield
at the muzZle Of the gun, and a faint ray
OF light, calculated to indicate the position
OF its source, as exposed in the direction
OF the shooters eye. and this Is sufficient TO
ment with the back sight and with the tar
get, be II animate or otherwise. The
| special application, of the sight is FOR
| game shooting at night and for service
purposes, such, for instance, as the HUI
minatiOn of a machine gun used against
| torpedo attacks during the night.
In the resting-place OF the old kings of
Denmark. the Cathedral of Roeskilde, says
the Boston Traveller, there is a column
against which a number of monarchs have
| been measured, and upon which their diff
ferent nights are recorded. One of them
| is Peter the Great, and we learn by this
| means that the ship-wrecked car meas
ured no less than eighty Danish inches,
equivalent to something like six feet ten
| inches in our measurement. Only one
other of the SOvereigns was taller, and
that was Christian i of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, was just a
| trifie over seven feet The late Car Alex
| ander III was about six feet one inch, or
nearly couple of inches taller than
Christian TX Of Denmark, and about four
| inches taller thanr King George of Greece,
| neither of whom, nevertheless, is what
would be called short man. 1t is worth
noting that in the same ancient cathedral
| where this column Is to be seen, Saxo
| examinations, the Danish historian, from
| whom Shakespeare borrowed practically
the entire plot of Hamlet lies buried.
Speaking of the recent test of the In
diana's great guns, which had not then
taken place, the Pittsburg Dispatch of a
| recent date said: During the forty-eight
| hour ocean run which the Indiana will
| take, and which will be the government s
| test o. her capabilities she will discharge
| the 13-inch guns with which she is equip
| ped, this being the first time IN
| the history of our government that so
| large a gun has ever been fired from a YES
! sci. Few people understand the serious
| ness of this feat. Let US first understand
/ what a l3-inch gun is, and the Indiana,
| by the way, carries four of them in adj
| ditiOn to a large number of weapons of
/ smaller caliber. Each of the 13-inch guns
\ on the Indiana is thirty-nine feet, eleven
| and One-half inches i'm length-One-half
| inch less than forty feet. Each weighs
| about S1Xty-seVen tons. Each fires solid
| steel shot or shell thirteen inches in diam
| eter and about four feet in length. Each
| of these weighs 1900 pounds, and is COM
1 a n tool a
| cents pound, making the valuation OF
| each shot exactly $299. To fire this projectile
| when in war action, requires the use of
| 80 pounds of powder, so that il will readily
| be seen that each discharge of the gun
| costs pretty penny. With that amount
| of explosive force back of it in the 13-inch
| gun VIII throw one of these steel messen-
| gers of death to distance of about twelve
| miles. Imagine projectile of that size
| we are speaking now of solid shot-strik-
| ing the side of vessel, say only two
| miles away. 1t would require a wonder
| fully perfect condition. of armor to with
stand the shock of the impact.
On the subject What Kurd Is Like, -
Blackwood's Magazine says: In color they
are usually no darker, and often not
nearly so dark, as southern Europeans.
| The eyebrow $ and lashes and eyes are
| generally black, the nose aquiline and fine
4 and the mouth well formed. The face
| is long and oval, while in stature a me-
| dunn hight seems to be general. The chin
| is shaved, the mustache alone being left,
and over it no end of trouble is taken
with comb and wax. The hair is usual
| ~ shaved along the top of the crown,
| but LETT long on either side, though little
| or nothing of ii is visible owing to the
| peculiar and characteristic manner in
| winch the men deck their heads. The
kurd' s costume is distinctly his own, and,
| except in the south, where he has come
| more or less under Persian influence he
never abandons it, A high silk can crowns
| the head, round which is woven a number
o. SILK scarfs and handkerchiefs in skill
| fully arranged disorder. The faYorite col
orS Tor these turbans- are dark claret and
gold, with here and there narrow stripe
of some brilliant hue. The rough fringes
| are left hanging down as often as not
covering the eyes and ears of the weareI
| and adding not a little to his fantastic
| appearance over white linen shirt
with sleeves that end in points more thar
a yard long so that they touch the ground
! a SILK coat Is worn, crushed strawberry
peIng the 1aVorite color, though cherry
| color and white satin were almost equally
| common; these coats are made collarless
and open at the neck and fold across the
six sash pe sR nfiS fo 9 Pae Snd by wide
EN- TINS SASH the long pipe and curved
dagger are thrust.
Recognizing the fact that considera.
BILE part of the. purchasing public" "a
term which has a fond significance among
commercial people) is abroad after night.
| ran, says the New York Journal an
| Englishman recently devised a means OF
| casting advertising signs on the clouds
by means of an ordinary stereopticon
| provided with a very brilliant lime light
| Ihe scheme was and is a success in
| London, where the atmosphere is loaded
| most of the time with clouds, smoke and
| fog. But it met with failure in this coun-
| try, owing to the general fairness of the
| weather: 1t was found that the stereopti.
| con could be used on an average only
| about two nights week at the most
| A German genius has discovered a means
| whereby advertisements may be readily
seen on the darkest night in all sorts
| of weather. He has patented an arrange
ters and pictures on bill boards The eff
| feet is weirdly attractive. In the day
| time the signs show in their usual paint.
| ed colors and the innocent observer would
not suspect that they were ghosts in
disguise. But at night the letters and
| the pictures take on peculiar, fasci-
| mating light, as though illumined by
] thnlIs nds of thrnhhincc cclnr-1..nrr,s IT,