The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The recent school census of Chicago re-
veals some interesting facts the chief of
which is that Chicago is far from being
an American city says an exchange. 1t is
simply an enormous condemnation of
people from all quarters OF the globe, or
ganized in the form of city. All the same
it is the rushingest city in America If not
on the globe. Out of 1900 75 persons which
the diligent enumerators have been able
to find, only 1872, $50 were born in America
OF American parents. Some 10000 were
born in this country of foreign parents
and nearly the same number are foreign
born. Germans number 1873. 1877, Irish 1856
SWedes 53,l22, Poles 1855, Italians R,SS
The Chicago composite viii evidently
bark back to European types.
IA rare relic Of the first Napoleon has
been discovered in Abilene, Kan. in the
possession of C. II. Bagley, a native of
st. Helena, and whose forefathers resided
there from 1850, says the Philadelphia
Record. HIS mother and Mrs Lowd,
nurse of Napoleon in his last illness, were
close friends, and when the Bagleys left
the island, in 1860 Mrs. Lowd divided
with the mother a lock Of hair from Ma
poleonis head that she had kept for forty
years. She was then II years old. After
Napoleon's death she had cut the lock by
ptIIllSSlOn OIL zen. bertrand. his nearest
friend. Half of it remains in the Lowd
family on the island. The lock owned
here is sealed in a bottle, and consists of
twenty-four hairs, brownish black, per-
fectly straight. 1t has been handed down
to the Oldest son, who prizes it highly,
having refused many offers for it. The
family also possesses many other inter-
esting relies, such as plaster from Ma
poleon's room, bits from the coffin etc,
all of which, with the lock of hair. are
family heirlooms. All are of undoubted
authenticity, and each step in the trans
fer has been accompanied by affidavits
from persons competent to testify. Mr.
BagleyS father was captain of the guard
of the tomb for fifteen years before the
remains of the emperor were removed to
France, in 1910.
The rare case of a person living with
the heart on the right side was brought
to light on Sunday afternoon in the New
York hospital, says the New York Tri-
bune. The coroners office was informed
on Sunday that Miss Law Fisher, II years
old, of Walpole, n. H., had died at the
hospital from burns received nineteen
months ago. The hospital authorities al
so told the coroner that the Woman's case
was a most mysterious one. The doctors
were not sure on which side of the body
her heart was before she died, and they
WGI0 VI the OplulOn IIldI she ndQ uNeQ
some time before her death with her
heart performing it's functions on the
right side of her body. Deputy Coroner
O'Hanlon performed an autopsy on the
body yesterday afternoon, in the operat-
ing room of the hospital, before the en-
tire medical staff. 1t was found that the
woman had died from exhaustion follow
ing burns of the body, and general
anaemia. The heart was found to be on
the right of the breastbone, which was
caused by the middle lobe of the right
lung having collapsed. This permitted
the sac which holds the heart to slope
over to the right side, where it performed
its regular functions without interrupt
ton. This, DR.. O'Hanlon thinks, must
have happened over a year ago, but had
not been noticed by the woman.
When Henri Rochefort planned the
erection of a workman's glass works at
Carmaux, to help the glass workers, he
received an anonymous gift of 100000
francs says an exchange. The donor
was Nine. Dimbourg, who has recently
died al Boulogne aged Y. She was a Gu
rious old lady, wildly generous, yet care
full to miserliness; sending her gift to the
glass works anonymously, and then COM
planning when her name was omitted from
the stone bearing a list of subscribers.
She lived in an unpretentions house, fur
nished in the plainest fashion; boarded
up every scrap of paper and bit of rag
she found, yet helped all whose want
came to her ears. She sent 1000 francs
here, 5000 there, while her own servants
could scarcely get enough to eat, and their
wages were extremely small The money
for the glass works was sent in small
linen bag, comparatively worthless, which
no one thought of returning to her. She
sent a servant to claim it, however, and
We t1Hr on as1 hot
sent back. She was very fond of cats, but
even the food of her pets was measured
out with a niggardly hand, and the young
est kitten had its milk in the cover of a
pomade pot that it might not drink too
much. During her last illness she scolded
the nurse for rinsing a glass with fill
tered water FILTERED water wears out
the filter; you must be more economical"
Yet this woman so parsimonious in her
own concerns, lavished benefits on the
poor wherever she found them, and made
princely gifts out of life annuity by no
means large.
There are clocks that go eight DAYS.
some that go month. and others that go
not at all, but there is only one clock that
will keep good time forty years without
winding, and that has just been built in
Chicago, says the Cincinnati ENQUIRER
Purdy Campbell, Chicago jeweler, made
up his mind that he had 40 years of his
life before him. He figured on this basis
that he would, during the rest of his life
spend about 60 days of his valuable time
winding the clock, to say nothing of time
and temper lost through forgetting it.
Then he decided to make a clock that
would have to be wound but once in forty
years. He spent his odd minutes at the
task, and has succeeded in producing a
wonderful piece of mechanism-the only
one of its kind in the world. This forty
year time piece is Is inches in diameter
and weighs seventy-five pounds The
movement is geared SO that the barrel
wheel containing the handspring revolves
once in two and a half years. When this
wheel has made sixteen revolutions some
body will have to give the key seventeen
turns. The clock will then be wound for
another forty years. The first wheel
from the barrel wheel crowds around at
the rate of one turn a year. The dial
plate is six inches in diameter Every
part of this clock, this near approach to
perpetual motion, was made by Mr.
Campbell, and the work took most of his
leisure for twenty-four months The
movement is full jeweled The clock will
be put in Theoretically sealed case. and