The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t will be built by a British company on the
overhead system, and will cost about So,
10000
in Japan small children of the poor.
who have the gift of straying and no
nurses to look after them. are safeguard
ed by the simple precaution of hanging
labels round their neck which tell their
names and addresses.
Kansas boasts of hailstorm in which
the hallstones were as large as ostrichs
eggs, and it is said that one enterprising
farmer filled his cellar with the stones,
covered them with sawdust and will sell
them to families that need ice.
All the flags for British ships of war.
except the royal standards, are made in
the government dock yards, and the enor-
nous number required may be judged
from the fact that in the color loft at
Chatham alone about 1900 flags are made
in year.
The rumor that the Bradley Martins
have taken Barney Barnatos house in
London proves false. The house has been
bought by Ernest T. Hooley, who in the
last three years has promoted some of
the greatest stock schemes London has
ever known.
No sooner have people in Florida be-
gun to raise pneapples than a yankee
has found that they are much finer when
kept under partial shade, and their size
Is thus increased to eight or ten pounds
The best Florida pineapples sell for from
81 to 50 each.
The earliest thimbles were made of
leather, but in the seventeenth century
they were of gold and silver, principally
gold, and enriched with rubes and other
gems Blois, which had a great renown
for its gold and silver smiths work, saw
the making of most of them.
The public impression that the Dark
Continent is no longer the "unexplored"
area Of the old maps is a mistake. What
has been done is, mostly, to stake out ter
ritories along definite routes. Within
these lines the country is generally as I'M
known as in the time of Mungo Park.
"A new repeating rifle has been dis
tributed to one of the battalions of rifle
men of the guard at Potsdam. Its me-
chanism is kept secret, but the cartridge
cases are so elected automatically that
firing can be continued without disturb
Ing the aim. The stock of the new rifle
is as long as the barrel.
THE biggest farm in the world is in
the southwestern part of my state" said
Mr.. P. C. vinton of Louisiana at the Nor
mandie, according to the Washington
Port 1T is owned and operated by a syn
dictate of northern capitalists and en-
braces 1900 900 acres of land, which were
originally big pasture for cattle The
land is devoted to the cultivation of cot
ton, corn, sugar and rice. East and west
the estate extends 100 miles. The South
az
nearly forty miles. A good deal of at
tention is paid to raising cattle, of which
the syndicate owns 5000 head. The COM
pany operates several steamers on the
naVigable rivers that run through their
mammoth form, and they have also rice
mills, shipyard, ice plant and bank"
DIR. Toulouse the Partisan authority
on lola, hysteria, genius, and a few other
complex things more or less complex, pro-
nounces the reassuring opinion that
though diseased nervous system may
sometimes facilitate artistic creations its
general result is brutally to fetter the
workings of genius. For this reason he
condemns all the artificial stimulants of
the day, including spirits, abslnthe, NOR
phine, antipyrine choral, bromide and the
like. He quotes also, but only to denounce,
the unnatural pastures which some great
writers have assumed to tighten the ira
vail of the brain. OF Rousseau, who work.
ed with his head in the sun; of Schiller
writing with his feet in ice. of Cardau bit
ing his lips and arms, he has only to say
that laughter is lost In grief and pity. His
final advice is to fly ia nevropathe," and
hysteria, that climbing madness, with
their effects and causes. Seek your slim
illus In regular work. he says. Stimulus
but not stimulants would seem to be his
motto. OF the latter one only seems to
have escaped his condemnation, and that
is-beer.
-Four important attacks have already
been made on the Elias peak: Lieut..
Schwatka's in 1886, which attained a hight
of 1900 feet via the southwest flank, says
Scribner's. This was futile enough to stir
the blood Of all good members of the AL
pine Club, for Elias is $1,000 feet high
not therefore among the very first giants,
but grisly enough because of its arctic
condition. An Englishman named To-
pham went the lieutenant 1900 feet bet
ter in 1891, and in 1898 Mr. Russell tried
the northwest slope. The first effort fail
ed, but next year he came back to the
same starting point, and had climbed
about 1850 feet, when the weather sud
denly thickened and the avalanches thrust
him back. 1t is this northwest route that
the Prince Luigi Amadeo, Duke of Abruz-
ri, and his comrades will probably take.
On his staff. which includes four expert
enced Alpine guides and some Americans,
is Vittoria Sella, the fearless Italian noun
tain climber; he takes with him camera
with which he does wonderful work in re-
producing impressive scenes at great al
titudes, and in giving wonderfully faith,
full representations Of the glaciers and
their action on the earth crust.
Prof. Roentgen has again made a com
munication to the Royal Academy of
Sciences on his great discovery, says the
Lancet. He states that while the X rays
are passing through the air they traverse
II in every direction. When a plate imper-
Vious TO the rays Is placed between a fiuor-
escent screen and source of the rays, so
that the screen Is overshadowed by the
plate the platinocyanide OF barium never
theless becomes luminous. and this lumi-
mostly Is visible even when the screen
lies directly upon the plate, so that one
might imagine that some rays had travers-
ed the plate; but II the screen placed on
the plate is covered by thick piece OF
glass the huorescence becomes weaker
and disappears completely when the glass
Is replaced by a cylinder Of lead OIL cent?
meter equals 1-25 Of an inch) in thickness
surrounding the fiuorescent screen. Prof
Roentgen's explanation OF this phenome-