The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"a,
centenarian, held her 1OSth birthday cele>
bration a few days ago at Terrell. Her
son, Joel, aged Il years, was master of
90, saw that the inner wants of the visit
ors were supplied. Thirty-three grand
children and ninety great-grand-
children showed up on the occasion.
An egg service, says London Lady is
a somewhat uncommon feature in our
churches, but it IS an annual occurrence
at the little church of the Kentish viii
lage of High Halden, where yesterday
(April I'D the sixth egg service was held,
and some hundreds of eggs collected to be
sent to the large and very poor parish of
st. Luke's, Camberwell. High Halden is
a great poultry district and eggs are plen-
tiful there. The day following the service
the eggs are packed up and dispatched to
their destination. For the last three years
not single egg has been broken during
the transit, and one can imagine the boon
that they must prove to the sick and deli
cate of some crowded London parish.
1t is thought by many that the time is
not far distant when fog and the smoke
in the atmosphere of large cities will be
dissipated by electricity, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. Already a
patent has been taken out in Germany
for an apparatus for smoke prevention by
means of wires stretched inside a fiue or
chimney, and rendered iucandescent by an
electric current. This simple method will
consume the blacklist smoke, but at pres
ent 1t is much too expensive for practi-
cal use. primarily each chimney would
require its own continuous current dy>
namo which would absorb something like
fifteen horsepower. and perhaps more. in
some cases one dynamo might be used
several PhiOonpUS bA
electric plant If the speed of the dy-
namo were accidentally increased, the
wires would probably be fused. For
chimney 10 feet high ball-coiled wires
twenty yards long would be required
The pastor of prominent church In
Chicago is about to establish what he
calls University of Applied Christiani-
ty." 1t is proposed to construct a large
building, to be fetted with class rooms
study rooms, reading rooms, club rooms,
lecture rooms, and every apartment nee
essary to the work contemplated, as we'll
as an immense auditorium. Concerts and
lectures will be given in imitation of Lon
don music hall methods, the prices being
within the reach of all, and the production
of a standard which will reflect the better
taste of the auditors. There will be work
ingmen's clubs for the help of the work.
ers, such as there are at Toynbee Hall in
London. In the basement will be a gym
naSium and bathroom, and in the club
rooms there will be billiards and other at
fractions so that the attendant may en-
joy everything, except liquor, to which
membership in a club might entitle him.
There is to be no theology, no doctrine,
no dogma, but practical Christian work
without refernce to denomination or creed.
"A bishops coachman must not swear,
especially when he is on the box and the
bishop inside. says the Pail Mall Gazette.
There is a certain place in Spain called
Corrales and it is in the province and
diocese of Zamora, and the bishop of
Zamora recently went in his coach snd
four (but they were mules) to hold a con-
firmation at Corrales. When the children
of the diocese were duly confirmed, the
mules being confirmed already in Stub
bornness and original sin, refused to
start, and backed the carriage, with the
bishop inside it. against the church yard
gate, thereby making a breach in The
sanctuary of the church yard wall. At
this point the coachman is reported to
have uttered one of those thunderous
Spanish curses in which the language OF
Spain is so infinitely superior to the IAN
guage of France, and which even bishop
must feel has the dignity of power. I'M
fortunately for himself, the mayor of Cor
rales, Signor Tome had just taken leave
carriage when the word reached him. He
sprang forward and fined the coachman
four pesetas on the spot for blasphemy
and PROCLAMATION, for in Spain the mayor
carries the court with him wherever he
goes. The bishop also got out and dis.
missed the blasphemer on the spot; then
the mayor got on the box and himself
drove monsiegneur back to his episcopal
residence. The confirmation has ever
since been known by a title which may
be freely translated the blue blazes con-
firmation of Corrales.
The Rev. Mr.. Sheffield, a Presbyterian
missionary at Tung Chow, has invented a
Chinese typewriter, which is said to be a
very remarkable machine, and is exciting
great deal of comment over there, says
VIM. E. Curtis in the Chicago Record. He
made the model himself but sent the
parts to a factory a Hartford where they
were made in metal and put together. 1t
turns out to be a great success, and will
relieve both the foreigners and the native
Chinese from the necessity of using a
paint brush and a pot of ink in conduct
ing their correspondence. AS near as can
be understood from the description pub
lished in the Chinese papers, the charac-
ters, about 400 in number, are on the
edges of wheels about one foot in dame
ter. 1t requires twenty or thirty wheels
TO carry all the letters, and the operator
must strike two keys to make an impress
sion. The first key turns the wheel and
the second stops it at the letter wanted,
which is brought down upon the paper
by an ingenious device. Although the ma
chine is complicated it shows a remarka-
BILE degree of ingenuity and skill, and DR..
Sheffield hopes to make many improve
ments in the way of simplicity. The DIFF
ficulty of his task and the wonder of his
invention may be recognized when it is
known that there are 1900 characters in
the Chinese language, each one of them
representing a distinct word. There are
between 1900 and 800 in common use,
which he has selected and placed upon
his typewriter. The newspaper vocabul-
airy of China involves fully that number
of characters but the peasants do not
make use of more than 500 characters.
The principle of the bicycle has been
applied with successful results TO the max
ing of a home shower bath, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser The device
consists OF a shallow tub to which is Sc
cured a framework carrying a bicycle sad
die, a handle bar, pedals, sprocket wheels