The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| -CapltaI punishment IN Denmark is ex-
ecuted publicly with the ak. If several
are to be decapitateds on the same date
one is not present while another is execu-
| ted.
The gondola has made its appearance
on the Thames Two or three of these
craft have been seen lately in the upper
| reaches of the river and are owned by pri-
vate people.
1t is estimated that the United King
dom produces something like 1.5O0, 600. OcO
gallons of milk every year, over and above
| what is used on the farms for rearing
calves, etc.
The oldest London theaters are: Drury
Lane theater, opened 1868; sadler's Wells,
started as an orchestral assembly room in
1888; Haymarket 1920; Covent Garden, 1872,
| and Lyceum, 1875. 49,
| The directory estimate of the popula-
ton of Halifax and Dartmouth, N s,
which is As. 534 this year, is an Increase of
| 1879 over the population estimated on the
same basis for last year.
What is probably the most venerable
| piece of furniture in existence is now in
| the British museum. 1t is the throne of
| Queen Hatasu, who reigned in the Nile
| valley some 1000 years before Christ.
-Forty-one tramps in Baltimore have
| got the better of the law by invoking it,
Being arraigned for vagrancy the other
| day, they demanded a trial by jury. AS
| result they were sent to Jail, where they
| will have plenty to eat and nothing to do
| for some time to come.
The successful miner in Alaska is of
temperate habits. He has got to be. No
man can stand whisky at high altitude.
| Coffee is very bad Tea Is nearly as in
| furious. The drink for the Arctic circle
| is cold water, cold, water, then more cold
| water.
A memorial signed by nearly $50 rul-
| ing elders, has been presented to the Irish
| general assembly of the Presbyterian
| church. in which the Joint Hymnal" is
| furiously denounced as " modern idol"
| containing 'wretched doggerel" the
| hymns, moreover, being "doctriney def
| Gent and written by "unnspired men,
One of the Oldest women teachers in
the public schools of Portland, Ore, has
the Klondlke fever, and proposes going
| north. The clerk of the board of educa-
| ton, a California forty-niner, advises her
to take up a load of candles, cigars and
| nuts, rather than to try any other way
of making money or a living there. He
| recalls the visit of a woman with such a
cargo to a California camp, and says that
| she cleared $1,000 between Saturday and
Monday.
In an anonymous book on the Emperor
| Williams suite, which has just been pub
| lished in Berlin, occurs the following pas
sage: "Of the life of the emperor and
| his suite on board the Hohenzollern, the
| chatter of the sailors has disclosed some
! facts which may be given here. The
| emperor hobnobs with individual members
of his suite though they were his
| equals. In many respects he is the type
| of German corps student. He is fond
| of lively company and harmless Pleasures
On one of these tours he often took his
suite to a retired spot, and there the sea
men could bear witness that the ruler of
1t mighty empire and his companions
would take off their shoes and socks to
| paddle in the shallow water and sling
stones along the surface of the sea. The
sailors, too have to contribute to the en-
tertainment of their master. Some of
| them are good acrobats and conjurers
while another, dressed in girls clothes,
wins great applause for his amusing songs
The emperor often arranges handicap
races among the men, and gives medals
suitably inscribed, as prizes"
The monster slab of gold which was
taken out of the Blue Jay mine by the
Graves brothers in Trinity county, Cali
| fornia, says an exchange, is the largest
and most valuable nugget in the world
In taking it out the miners broke it into
halves and then further cracked 1t into
| smaller pieces. Its weight was 2 400 ounces
and it was worth $4,000. The Coffee
Creek slab was even larger than the fam
Gus nugget Welcome, which was found at
Ballarat 1t weighed 2,166 ounces and
was valued at $41,SS2. The Australian
nugget has for many years been exhibit.
| ed as the largest ever discovered The
Graves brothers slab also surpasses in
size and value two other great nuggets
One is the Ural nugget found in the UraI
mountains, Siberia, weighing 1900 ounces
and the other Is the Viscount of Canter-
bury nugget, found at Berlin Australia,
in 1870 which weighed 1,12O ounces, and
was valued at $4,000. The largest of the
fragments into which the California mug
get was broken Is worth about $10S00,
and is now at the mint here for coinage
1t was three feet long, 16 to is inches
wide at its widest part, inches thick at
its heaviest end and / inch thick at its
top.
| "A demonstration was recently given in
Newark by d. McFarlan Moore of results
obtained by himself in vacuum tube light
ing since his exhibition before the Ameri-
can Institute of Electrical Engineers about
| d year ago. says the Electrical Engineer.
n large room was well lighted by diffused
light from vacuum tubes placed around
the side of the room near the ceiling. The
progress made in this method of illumina-
ton is summed up as follows: In wiring
all tubes are now run in multiple wire
A rotator, to break or interrupt the cir
cult, possesses great advantages over the
| original vibrators. Now one rotator ana
coil transforms the current for all tubes
| instead of one vibrator and coil for each
tube thus requiring only one-twenty-fi
as much apparatus as before, the power
| required to produce a given amount of
| light being reduced in similar proportions
| The average rate of vibration has been
| increased from 5000 to $4,000 per minute
which means very marked improvement
on the quality of the light. Colored
| lights can be produced in the tubes by
| using different degrees of vacuum BY
using this system of Illumination Mr.
Moore claims that the lighting power OF
an electric plant will be increased 100
times. No figures are given, however, as
to the cost.