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


monk OF Arezzo, in Italy, in A d. los.
"A Partisan thief entered a cab without
baggage, and directed the driver to con-
vey him to an address some two miles
distant On the way thither he requested
the driver TO halt at the shoD Of a Ger
tain dealer in secondhand goods. The
passenger entered the shop bearing in his
arms a large paper-cOvered parcel. He
mad ripped open the cushions, stolen the
horse-hair' and was ready 70 sell it.
Spain is waking up to the necessity Of
reafforesting her mountains. The little
king recently went to a village few miles
east OF Madrid and planted pine sapling
after which 1000 children selected from
the Madrid schools each planted a tree
MEDALS were distributed among them, with
me inscription. First Arbor Day, insti-
Iuted IN the reign Of Alfonzo Kill, 1886. -
Similar festivals are to be held yearly in
ulIerent places, and the children are to
be taken out to see how their trees grow.
IN the hope that they will foster tree
planting in their districts.
Russia has two codes for dueling. By
the civil law it is strictly forbidden, but
since 1894 it is compulsory in the army
whenever an officer has been insulted
the case is submitted to a regimental
court of honor which decides what shall
be done, regardless of the wishes of the
persons concerned. If an officer who has
been ordered to fight does not obey or
send in his resignation within two weeks
of the courts decision, he is dismissed
from the service. An agitation is now 60
ing. on to put an end TO this practice, and
make the law the same for military men
and civilians.
East of Australia and north of New
Caledonia is the republic of Franceville.
an island with an area of about eighty-five
miles says Harper's Round Table. Its in
habitants number $50, of whom forty are
whites and 80 natives. It was once a col
ony Of France, but in 1873 II was declared
lDQeDe0uGDT. DeOnie adOnt-
ed a republican constitution. 1t is govern
ed by a president and a council of eight,
men and women. Only white males hold
office. The president elected recently is r.
ID. Polk, native Of Tennessee, and rela-
tive of James X. Polk, one of the presi-
dents of our own republic.
Some money, part of 100000 in Brazil
ian paper currency. lost in the wreck of
the steamer Buenos Ayres, on the coast of
Brazil between Pernambuco and Rio ia
metro, six years ago, has just turned up in
a fishing village north of OpOrto in Portu-
gal The British company that paid the
insurance recently received an anonymous
letter from Portugal. which they put in
the hands of the Portuguese police, who
have already recovered $4,000. The case
containing the money was picked up by
Oporto fishermen, fishing on the Brazil
coast, who divided it among themselves
and said nothing; they vowed to give part
of il to the church, and were betrayed for
not keeping their vow.
My Pretty Jane was one of the most
profitable songs to the publishers ever
written. Some years ago it brought over
f2,OOO yet all that Mr.. titzbaiiD the writer
of the words, and Sir Henry Bishop, the
composer of the music, jointly received
did not exceed goo FitZball, to be sure,
declared that it took him just ten minutes
to write it, and Bishop thought so little
of his own setting that he had thrown the
manuscript into the waSte-paDer basket
from which ii was tished out by the man.
so, the composer was surely entitled to
prOportiOnate reward with the publisher,
and 1t is not consoling to recall under the
circumstances that Bishop died almost
pauper.
European observers are obtaining in
teresting results with the x rays. Prof.
Virchon's assistant at Berlin has shown
the lungs of a frog in the act of BREATH
ing. They have reproduced at Vienna the
veins and arteries in a woman's hanG
into which a chemical preparation haG
been injected. Two Paris journalists have
photographed the writing in a letter
through the envelope inclosing it. Al
Aberdeen rubies and diamonds were in
closed in an aluminium box when the
plate showed the rubies and the box,
but not the diamonds. The French ex-
perimenters seem to be coming to the
conclusion that the pictures are due to
chemical action on the substance with
which the plates are sensitized, caused
by the electricity transmitted into the
rays, while many English observers think
that the pictures are formed by the ac~
ton of electricity on the plates, rather
than by any property of light.
The latest candidate for over-Niagara
Falls honors is an aeronaut. This is
Prof. Coryell Bartholomew of Jackson,
Mich. Prof Bartholomew has designed
a kind of balloon, shaped like a huge
dumbell. Two balloons, four feet in di-
ameter, are transfiXed by an axle of light,
hollow steel tubing, which is 100 feet long.
hallO0nE ShPatlRd with
plates. Hydrogen gas will initiate the
balloons, and the specific gravity of the
lighter than the air. This will enable the
cataract-shooter to carry ballast ana
govern his descent. Clinging to a ira
peZee supended from the axle shaft, he
will have his ship launched in the rapids
a short distance above the falls. Thus
embarked, Mr.. Bartholomew expects to
gently to the lower river, a distance of
about 100 feet. Alighting in the eddies
the Maid of the Mist, the steamboat which
carries tourists to the foot Of the Horse
shoe Falls. will pick him up.
"A native of Montreal has invented
gun which, he confidently believes, when
it is adopted by all nations, will make war
impossible says a New York dispatch If
all that is claimed for it be true this gun
is certainly the most remarkable piece of
ordnance in existence. "A description of
the piece is furnished by NJ. Sommery of
Montreal, an agent of the inventor who
recently returned from Washington, after
giving an exhibition of the weapon before
NJ. Patenotre, the French ambassador
and the military attaches of the embassy
The most remarkable feature of the gun
is that no explosive is used and that it's
missiles are projected by an agency, the
nature of which is a profund secret which
without noise or smoke, is capable of dis
charging the almost incredible number of
$4,000 shots a minute The mechanism
Mr.. Sommery explains, is put into action
by simply giving slight oscillating move
ment to the trail by means of a lever
worked by two men. Once started the
mechanism is said to generate force
enough as long as the motion of the trail
is kept up. How the muscular force of
two men could produce power sufficient
to throw 100000 bullets a minute, with a
range of about 5000 yards, is something
that the inventor is not yet prepared To
explain. He insists however, that no
other source of power is used. A report
on the gun was recently made to the board
on Notifications.
Awarded