The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cation of what is known throughout
white county as "Milksick Mountain, -
says Chattanooga, Tenn, dispatch to the
New York Sun This territory, which en-
braces eight square miles, has been cele-
brated in a story by Will Allen Dromgoole
There are said to be all the various kinds
OF trees and shrubs, vines, canes. and
grasses known to the Tennessee mountains
on this strip of land. Years ago the Coun-
t. court Of White county fenced in the
boundary because of a noxious weed there
and imposed fine of 800 on any one pass
ing through and leaving the bars down
People live within this inclosure but dare
not keep a COW. Persons drinking the milk
from cow that has been grazing on this
land are taken i'll frequently, and in most
cases. unless relief reaches them quickly.
die At least fifteen persons are known to
the Inhabitants to have died from drinking
mix from cows that have grazed within
this territory. Hogs and sheep can eat the
weed with impunity.
"A commercial success, says Industries
and Iron, has been made of a process for
renewing burned-out incandescent electric
lamps, which renders possible the use of
the old bulb at a very Slight expense. By
the new method the collar or bare end of
the lamp is not disturbed, the old filament
being removed and the new one placed
through small hole in the lamp bulb,
made by removing the tip. The small hole
is subsequently closed exactly in the same
manner as in the case of the new lamp,
leaving nothing to indicate in the finished
repaired lamp that it had ever been open
ed. 1t is stated that some 100000 lamps
have been repaired by this method the
tilament being inserted through the small
hole referred to by a skillful twist of the
hand and secured in position by a special
carbon paste. The black deposit on the
fnc I,,II.
the lamp to the holder and removing it in
a gas furnace, while Immediately follow
ing this operation a small glass tube is
fused to the opening made in the bulb,
through which the lamp is exhausted
When this has been done and the last
trace of air and gas absorbed, a blow-pipe
fame is directed upon the throat of the
tube, which is melted into the point ex-
actly in every respect a counterpart of the
original lamp.
AT the time the well-known French as
tronomer, Prof. d'Abbadie, died, another
member of the Academic Franchise con-
ceived the idea of publishing the names of
the members in a list arranged according
to their age, says the Philadelphia Record.
From this it seems that the Oldest of the
academicians is NJ. Legouve, who is 80.
Next is the minerologist, DamOur, who is
SO. Third comes the philosopher Vacherot,
who is IS years; fourth is Gladstone, an
associate member of the academic; then
the German chemist Bunsen, another as
sociate member, and Count Delaborde,
both ST. Eleven other members are more
than so years old. They are, in the order
of their age, WALTON, Bouillier, Verdi (as-
sociate member of the fine arts,) RaVais-
son, Chatin, Faye Francois, Naudin, the
German chemist Bloch, DIR. Roussel and
the Swiss philosopher Naville The Oldest
m r11oa nf he in e11a ND O.
their admission are Ravaisson, 1919; Wal
Ion, 1850; Legouve 1856; Joseph Bertrand
and Hermite, 1856, and Leopold Delisle
1857. All told, the members of the insti-
tute comprise one nonegenaran, p octo-
genarians and 90 septua genarians. These
encouraging statistics are certainly not
calculated to discourage the candidacy of
would-be academicians.
The largest passenger coach ever built
is just being completed at the Tennessee
centennial exhibition at Nashville. by the
Sea Board Air Line railway, says the Chi
cago Tribune. 1t is 102 feet long and
Twenty-Five feet high, and if track wide
enough for it to travel on could be found,
it would be too large to go far from Nash
vile, because it could not get through the
tunnels. By the side of this coach an
eighty-ton locomotive looks like a toy en-
CINE. The top of the tenders of the big
mogul engines in the transportation ex-
hibit at the exposition are just on level
with the platform of this coach, and an
aVerage-sized man could sit between the
rails and allow this coach to pass over
him without being even scratched by the
brake beam. The car will seat 1870 people
and it contains Twelve times the space of
one of the ordinary day coaches of the
road, after which it is modelled. From
the rails to the floor of the car is seven
and ha ies e
The car is not intended for carrying pas
sengers, but to give banquets in. The in
terror contains so much room that it has
been divided into two stories, of which the
lower is used as the banquet hall and the
upper as dormitory for the employees of
the railroad who visit the exposition. Light
is furnished to the upper story through the
ventilators in the car roof. The car is
provided with a full set of trucks. the
wheels of which are six feet in diameter,
or about the same size as the driving
wheels of the fastest passenger Iocomo-
tves, and are twice the diameter of the
ordinary passenger car wheels.
of curious Bibles, the names of which
figure occasionally in sales, the following
are the best known: The Vinegar Bible
is so-called because 1.-THE Parable of the
Vineyard" is printed Parable of the Vim
egar.' The date of this Bible is 17l7. saws
the Strand Magazine for May The Ser
want Bible makes the error of printing
Servant" for Servant in the third
chapter Of Genesis, thus: Now the ser
want was more subtle than any beast of
the field" The Judas" Bible has a. bad
typographical error, substituting Judas
for the Saviour. Then cometh Judas
with them into a place called Gethsema-
ne" The Wicked" Bible Is of 1881. and
the not is left out in the Seventh Com
mandment. The printer paid for that
blunder, so IL is recorded, to the amount
OF 800 The Pagan" Bible contains IN
It's illustrations some terrible anarchron-
lsms IL was published In 1872, at the time
when the same wood cuts served for
many purposes. AT the head Of st. Johns
first Episle, Chapter /. appear Mount
olympus. Leda, the siren; Daphne. ana
Apollo. The least that can be said OF me
pictures IS that they are good examples
OF old art. The "Bugge" Bible is exceed
lngiy rare. Psalm xci, 5, reads in the
Matthew Bible Q55D. $50 that thou shalt
not nede 10 be afrayed for anye bugges
ooy nyghte.' BY bugge is meant "bogie."
A perfect ftRnroroff