The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-13
. ITEMS OF INTEREST,

/ everyone VINO spends an hour in Salt Lake
/ CITY visits the handsome three-story stone
structure dignified by that title. The wo-
| man whose memory the building will per-
Petuate is stiH living. Amelia Folsom
1oung, the sixteenth and favOrite wife of
Brigham Young, is still handsome and re-
markedly well preserved. So well has
she managed the liberal estate left her by
Hef Famous husband that II has Increased
many times in value. and she is one of the
| Wealthlest of her sex in the far west She
mas exceptionally refined tastes, and is fond
OF travel, having made several extensive
european tours. Mrs. Young is a deVout
Mormon. She resides, not in the palace
but IN spacious home a few blocks west
of the historic building. She is a cousin
OF Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
1t has been often proved that misdi-
rected philanthropy and charity can do
more harm than good to the people for
whose benefit its efforts are extended A
case in point is that of a British multi
mllAonalre who proposes to devote the
sum OF $2,OOOOO0 to the poor in the districts
surrounding his house in Derbyshire. The
income on this amount of money is to be
annually distributed, but whether Mr..
Hooley; the gentleman in questionable
made his fortune in bicycle tires-will
really help the poor in the long run is a
question. The London Spectator thinks
not. 1t thinks that Mr.. Hooley would DO
better to open a pension fund for persons
over 90 YEARS OF age that were born within
the districts ne wishes to "beneht' In
this way the danger of pauperising the
| benet1ciaries would be reduced to a mini
mum and there would be no inducement
for undesirable paupers and beggars to
come in from other parts of the country.
No money in spider killing?" said the
shabby man. to the Hartford Times.
| isn't there though? You don't know
what a really spider-infested house is.
in the country you've probably noticed
that the walls and ceiling corners OF the
houses are much more cobwebby than in
the towns. It's almost impossible for 4
housekeeper to keep them down. they
must be exterminated. Well, it has to
| be done scientifically. l always carry ten
or twelve pounds of sulphur and a very
| strong-smeling vegetable substance call
| ed asafoetida with me. / close the win
| dows of the rooms and all the ventila~
| tors. Then | put tray of powdered sui
| phur, generally half a pound, in one cor
ner of the room, and a small quantity
| of asafoetida in the other. ! set light
| to both, and close the door tight put.
| ting wet cloth under the door-mat to
keep all the air in. l then proceed to an
other room, and treat it in the same way.
| When / open the doors and windows or
| the room ! have smoked out find spiders
on the floor, dead as mutton; No. it isn't
a fortune; but | can generally made S. to
| $3.50 week spider-killing.
-Cheiro. the palmist, whose name is
! Lewis Warner, is bringing to the United
States a remarkable invention of the en-
inent French savant, NJ E. Savory d'Od-
iardi, for registering cerebral force, says
a London dispatch The machine in queS-
ton is inclosed in glass and is so small
that it would easily fit into a good-sized
hat box. Under the glass dome is d COCK
faced compass, but in place of Roman
numerals minute numbers are cut, which
register the smallest degree of emotion. 1t
also registers the amount of magnetism
in the body, the strength of the will and
the power of the intellect. The person
| being operated upon does not touch the
machine at all, but stands foot away
from 1t and fixes his attention on the
dial. Immediately this is done an indica-
tor of wonderfully delicate workmanship
suspended by an invisible good thread be-
comes agitated, and finally proceeds to
as the machine is called, measures thought
and indulgence so accurately that it is
impossible to imagine what may be done
with it in the future.
How much actual time is necessary to
transfer a telegraphic message from Lon
don to Valparaiso, Chilli, was the question
propounded by some South American edl-
tors last summer, says the New York Adj
Vertiser. The reply was furnished by
| special communication, when an arrange
ment was made with the telegraph and
cable companies to keep open the wires
and get the Geographic results of a re-
cent sporting event to Valparaiso with
the least possible delay at the intervening
stations. Ten minutes before the message
was to be sent the wires were cleared
along the entire distance and all the ordi-
nary communications through the cables
were suspended. At the given astronomi-
cal time the dispatch was sent from Lon
was transferred through a submarine ca
bic to PernambucO. wherefrom the Brazil
ian coast cable conducted the message to
BuenoS AyreS. 1t was from these dis
patched over the South American Trans
continental Telegraph Line and arrived at
Valparaiso fifty-fve seconds after leaving
the London office, although the distance
1t had to travel in this short space of time
amounted to almost 10000 miles, and the
eight words of the message had to be re-
peated four times.
At the wreck of the English troopship
Warren Hastings another instance of the
value of discipline. courage and blind ODE
dience to orders was furnished by the Brit
ish soldiers, says the Philadelphia Ledger.
The Warren Hastings went ashore on the
rocks at night in the midst of terrible
rain and wind storm. The troops were or
dered below and drawn up in line. With
the ship in danger of going to pieces or
capsZing at any minute. with all the hor
rors of darkness, the noise of the storm
and entire ignorance of what was being
done for their safety, the men stood stol-
idly in the ranks for nearly an hour. Then.
by ones and twos, after the women and
children had been rescued, they were low
cred over the bow on to the rocks and
helped ashore by ropes. One thousand.
two hundred and forty-six persons were
on board when the ship struck. and only
two, both native Indian servants, lost
their lives. No doubt the example of the
marines, who went down on the Victoria
drawn up in line to the 'Brkenhead drill"
had its effect upon the actions of the men
in this very similar case. "Once in a
while we can finish in style" as Kipling
wrote of the British marines. and that the
troops on board the Warren Hastings did
not finish was largely due to their dis
cipline and obedience which do not de-
tract in any way from the credit due them
for the courage they displayed or from the
merit of their performance.
Forty years or so ago umbrellas were
made with stretches or bows of whalebone,
says the San Francisco Chronicle. These
bows were rather bulky in themselves, and
they were apt to get a little permanent
bend from long use, so that they bulged
when the umbrella was rolled up, making
the big, baggy umbrella familiar to mid
dle-aged and older people, and occasional
ly still seen, though on the stage oftener
than in real life. With the Introduction
of petroleum oil into general use as an il
Eliminating oil and the consequent very
general abandonment of the use of whale
oil came the decline of the whaling indus
try. Fewer and fewer vessels went after
whales because there was less and less
demand for the oil OF course, the supply
of whalebone decreased with the supply
of oil, but the price did not, nor did the
demand. There are still some uses for
which whalebone Is considered most desir-
able and with constant demand and de-
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