The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I coming coronation Of the Car Of Russia
I is one Of the richest treasures in the pos
/ session Of European royal or imperial IA
l miles Cathsrine the Great had il made by
| JeWeller from Geneva in the last CEN
! tury- She gave orders al the time that il
/ was 70 De the most valuable crown in Eu-
] rope me JeWeller, however, was inform
! ed that il must not weigh more than FIVE
I pounds, as the empress was to wear il for
/ uFe hours at the ceremony of the corO-
| nation Inc Genevan was successful in full
] nlllng all the requirements, and the crown
/ to-day is valued al nearly $4,000 on its
/ Iop Is ruby, sur4nounted by cross of
/ INe magnificent diamonds, and the rest of
! II IS fairly covered with diamonds and
/ pearls.
Not all authors have been condemned
| 10 penury, says the Chicago News. Some
| Of them received liberal pay for their
/ work Scott was paid for one Of his novels
/ az the rate OF SO a day while he was writ
/ ing IL and his total literary earnings aggre-
gated the unprecedented sum Of 81 100000
4 Byron received $4,000 for "Childe Harold"
/ and $4,000 for Don Juan" Moore sold
| Lana Rookh for Sl5,l50 and his Irish
Melodies" brought him $4,000. Gray re-
I celNed only 500 for his poems and not a
] cent Tor MS immortal elegy out Of which
| ms puDiIsher made 5000, but II was his
I Iault. He had prejudice against taking
I pay Tor writing. For many years Ienny-
/ son had an annual income Of from $4,000
I 70 $4,000, though when he was unknown
/ ne received next to nothing. LOngfellOw
/ So4d MS early poems for a song, but he
| Hanging of the Crane" and when he died
/ he was worth $3.50 900. Whittier left an es-
tate of 100000 The late Robert Louis
I stevenson made $4,000 in twelve years
and there are many other modern writer's
| whose incomes are as large.
Eighty per cent of the preidents and
| general managers Of the railways of the
United States, says the Railway Age. are
| men who have climbed up the ladder from
/ the bottom. Out of $50 only SO stepped into
/ railway service at, or anywhere near, the
| top. And even this is a very unfairly large
proportion, for this reason, namely, that
1 with only some half a dozen exceptions,
/ JnOSe men who have dropped into digni-
4 ned office from above are the heads of very
/ small companies. AT least so Of the So COM
/ panles were ones of which had never, 50
4 Tar as knew, heard the name. And this
4 TACT, that 1t is the small companies which
/ get their presidents and general managers
/ from outside the railway service, is easily
/ understood. In large proportion of cases
/ Tie man at the head of such a company is
! member of the firm of contractors who
/ built the road. In by far the majority of
| the other cases he is a banker or financier
/ usually local mani whose interest has
! been needed in Swinging the enterprise.
/ In these little roads the head of the com
| pany does not need much knowledge of
practical railroading-a superintendent"
/ furnishes that and is the real manager.
But with the big roads it is different.
The tolls are closing around the burg
| lar, says the Pittsburg Dispatch The
electric light gave him a fatal blow,
when he took away his cloak of dark
| him relentlessly with ever more efficient
| safety and alarm devices, until his
! chances of doing a clean job" are hardly
| worth taking For the large class of fe-
/ males, who, especially in suburbs and
| country places, are subject to the time
! honored, womanly CONVICTION that there
/ IS a man under the bed" a godsend
/ has been provided in the shape of a
/ button in the bedstead headboard. This
| button has a wire connection to the
! nearest police station. 1t can be pressed
| by slipping the hand up under the pill
| low This can be done so quietly and
| unobservedly that It seems almost like
! taking a mean advantage of the burglar
/ who may be moving stealthily about the
! room in the discharge of his professional
| duties. The bedsteaad button alarm re-
verses the usual order OF Things. For
! merly every moment of waiting seemed
| an age to the awakened and attrighted
occupant of the burglar-invaded apart
| ment now the moments Of suspense are
! not all devoid of pleasure, for he knows
! that every second brings nearer to him the
help that is Fastening from the police
| station.
Where do the pins go?" is a common
saying, but when one takes a few notes
of the tack industry. the question, "where
do all the tacks go?" seems to be the
| made by hand, says the New York Led
| ger The operator used a wise and dies.
/ A DIT OF metal was QelQ Win a clamp,
| and the head was made by striking blow
| with a hammer. Later on machienry be-
| gan to be used, and now metal is fed into
an immense apparatus that will cut near
| ly 800 tacks a minute. The processes are
! extremely interesting, and a tack fac
| tory has many visitors. The machinery
| is automatic; narrow strips Of metal
! are fed IN and clipped off, the heads are
| made by pressure, and 1t literally rains
| tacks into large boxes placed underneath
to receive them. They are then poured
int n fsn hi oh f1 raw nj
| ing cylinder, through which a jet of air IS
! forced under high pressure. This removes
all of the dust and loose particles Black
| read is sometimes put in to give them a
| polish, and then they pass on to the
| sitter, which sorts then and takes out the
imperfect tacks, leaving the good ones
| to be passed on and dropped into a Dox
| from which they are taken to be packed
| by quick-ingered girls. A good workwo-
| man can pack 1,600 pounds of lacks a
| day. When one realizes that many OF
| these machines are going, and that tacks
| at this rate are being sent out to market
the wonder grows-where all the lacks go.
DR. Andrew Wilson, a noted English
scientist, has an article in a recent mum.
Der of the Illustrated London News is re-
gard to the ocean steamships of the fu-
ture; IN II ne says: persons who re-
| gard an attack of maldemer with the
natural horror which that transient but
| most terrible aftiiction is given to inspire
non-nautlcal minds, will feel interested
| practically realized by the New Contin>ut-
al Express Company. This company pur-
| poses on July l to commence a passenger
service between Tilbury and Ostend and
their steamers are to be constructed on
an entirely novel principle which is said
to combine steadiness at sea with an in
crease IN speed, and with greater ease in
steering and in handling than is expe-
Tri;enced in the navigation of ships of or
binary build. The steamers. / believe.
are to be built in a Scottish yard. to he
manned by English crews, and to sail
under the British flag The Hodgefts
safety ship principle is the invention or
Mr.. J. F. Hodgetts, formerly of the In
dian navy, and late professor in the Rova1
Naval College of Prussia This gentle
mans theory was founded on the obser-
walton of an albatross in flight. The
bird, he noted, did not roll and the cur
Eature OF It's wings, measuring about 16
Ieet IN eXpanse, suggested the curve on
Which ships bottom should be built .
MT. Hodgetts ship will have three keels
ftnere are TWO concave curves springing
from central keel, and these keeIs. If -
contended, will keep the boat from pitch.
ing or rolling" The claim is also az
yanced that there viii be much less la