The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

They make short work of pirates in
China. In July last a vessel in charge of
Chung Kwei, the son of a wealthy mer
chanI at Singapore, While on it's way to
Canton was seized and run aground by
pirates and looted Of its full cargo of silks
and money. The Canton authorities i'm
mediately sent a gunboat down the river
and the pirates, twenty in number, were
captured. They were taken in triumph
10 San Ling, near Canton, and were con-
demned by a military tribunal and be-
headed in the course of a few hours.
The English, in matters electrical, still
have to follow Americas lead, yet in the
artistic application of electric lighting
they are masters. Many of the arc lamp
posts used in the streets are examples
of fine art while such ornamentation as
festooning the sidewalks of seaside prom
enades with incandescent electric lamps
is not rare. Dover is one such town, and
there are miles and miles of incandescent
lamp festoons along the board walk Civ,
ing a holiday air to the promenade during
the summer season. These lamps are en-
ployed merely for their artistic effect, the
usual arc lights supplying the general IL
Elimination.
Horses have played no inconspicuous
part in history, in some instances even be-
ing Hdeifed says the Memphis Scimitar
Saddle White Surrey for the field to-
morrow cried Richard III at the battle
of Bosworth Field. Black Agnes was the
favorite horse of Mary Queen of Scots
Bucephalus the favorite charger of Alex
ander the Great, used to kneel when the
King mounted him. He cost $16,500, and
was 80 years old when he died Chosroes
IL or Persia had a horse, Shibdiz, called
the Persian Bucephalus. Orelio was the
favorite horse of King Roderick, and Kan
thos the Janus charger of Achilles. Copen-
hagen, the horse of the Duke of yelling
ton, was n years old when he died.
Queen Victoria has received from the
Parsees of Bombay a casket representing
in gold and silver embossed work, an old
Persian palace. On the panels are seen in
relief Persian figures in ancient national
costume, while the antique batons or
maces with bulls heads, the old-fashioned
war clubs, from the extreme corners of
the casket, which is about twenty inches
long. The miniature palace is crowned
with three figures symbolic of Parsee wor-
ship They are pure gold. A Parsee king
is praying before a fire altar, and in the
center is seen an angel. Kneeling ele-
plants form the four feet of the caSket,
tracing an allusion to the period when,
driven from Persia by the worshpers of
Islam, the Parsees found a resting place
in India.
Can the dumb be made to
speak? Inventor Berlinger saws
they can, and that. too.
without much difficulty, says the Chicago
Chronicle. He has devised an apparatus
| which, he asserts, will produce sound in
the mouth, and with it's aid all mute
will have to do to talk as well as any
body is to go through the motions of ar
| ticula ton with the tongue, lips and teeth.
Of course, the speech will be in a mono
tone, but it will serve all practical pur-
poses. If this is true, the invention will
be of great value The scientists should
now set to work to discover some way
to make the deaf hear. That ought not
to be any more difficult than it is to make
the dumb talk, and when the way is
| found, it will be of far greater value, for
mutes are few, but deaf persons are nu-
meroEs.
The latest development as regards mo-
| tors is the private motor train, says Lon
| don Truth. One of these is being built
| which is to be composed of an engine, a
| saloon-to be used during the day as a
| drawing room and at night as a sleeping
cara wagon for the accommodation of
| the servants and luggage van. If private
and public motor trains become common.
as no doubt they will do in time, the traf-
| fic along the country roads will appear
| strange to those who are accustomed to
| the present order of things in this respect
| Moreover the railway authorities will
| have to bestir themselves to counteract the
! evil results of this unexpected form of
| competition, which will be tantamount to
| the revival of stage coaches, only with
electricity substituted for horses, With
! motor trains and bicycles to compete
! against it would appear that the halcyon
| days of railway enterprise are threatened
/ with extinction.
| The old mansion in which George Ban
| croft lived so many years, in which he
wrote his history and spent his last days.
! is being fitted up for a boarding house,
| says the Washington correspondent of the
| Chicago Record. 1t was inherited by Mr..
| Bancrofts granddaughter, but she has
| never occupied it, and it has remained va
| cant ever since his DEATH Mr. Bancroft
| books, which once lined it's walls from
basement TO attic, were sold to the Lennox
1 library, in New York. 1t was perhaps the
| most complete and valuable collection of
| Americana in existence. The old mansion
| is one of the most stately and imposing
private residences in Washington. 1t
stands on H street, only a block from the
| white house, where used to be the most
/
| now being invaded by hotels, clubs and
| boarding houses. Mr. Bancroft's grand
children who inherited his estate spend
| most of their time abroad.
Most prominent men are either remark
able for their ability to sleep at a mo-
| mentS notice, or else resort to some spe-
| clal method for inducing the same, saws
| the Westminster Gazette. OF prime minis
| tiers, Lord Derby on one occasion advised
| an Irish member to danish business mat
/ ter from mind by reading before going to
| bed any trash calculated to bore or stupi-
/ fy you;" and Lord Rosebery found the hot
| water cure effective; but most of English
| premiers have been able to do without any
| aids to slumber. Mr.. Gladstone, as is well
| known, would in times of great anxiety
| lie down on a sofa, and in a few minutes
| be fast asleep, while Pitt was also able to
sleep at any time, attributing to this habit
| the fact that at the most anxious periods
of his life he was able to cast aside all
| care and worry, and enter into the frivol-
| tiles of social life as if his mind were free.
| Once Pitt slept after an unusual strain
| for sixteen consecutive hours. Lord Palm
| ersteen was another prime minister who
| could WOO sleep whenever he pleased, and