The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| no less than 500 heads. His nerves are
| now beginning to fail, and, as he bum
/ gled the last two jobs, the government
| mas recommended him to resign on pen
! sion. Deibler, in view of the active and
! widespread competition that has arisen to
4 secure MS place, announces that there is
no one so well fitted for it as his own
son, who, according to him, passed last
year with flying colors, "a theoretical and
! practical examination as executioner"
The sparrows are likely to have a warm
! time in the department of the Seine, Paris,
/ as the provincial council of that depart
! ment has issued a declaration OF war
against them; M. Paul Vincey, professor
at the agricultural institute having stated
! that sparrows are causing serious damage
| in tho nelghborhood of Paris, the conseil
general accordingly ordered an
the result that the damage
caused by these birds was assessed at 90
| O60 francs at Courberoie, 31,000 francs at
| Colonies. and so on. In view of these facts
! the council has applied to the ministry of
! agriculture that the protection law may
| be annuned so far as sparrows are con-
| cerned. in order that a general massacre
CT them may be organized.
The pope is allowed for his personal
wants about 100000 annually. A regular
! allowance is also made for other dignita-
| rieS of the vatican. The cardinals receive
! $l4OND. other expenses are: For poor
dloceses, $500 secretary of state, $500 900;
| employees and ablegates, 1000; support
OF schools and the poor $40 900; admins
]
| expenditures for ali purposes amount year
| ly to more than $1,400.O00. The income is
received from many sources. Strange to
! say, Italy contributes the smallest part
of the revenue The United States sends
among the largest amounts of money. The
! pope receives from time to time rich pres
ems from the crowned heads. The last
! Jubilee of Pope Leo Nil brought the vat
| lean $4,000.
"A correspondent of the Winsted Comm
Citizen writes to that paper that there is
| woman in the town who is guilty of pour
ing Kerosene over a captured rat and set
| ting 1t on fire. Another woman kills her
| captlVes by pouring boiling water on them.
| Another woman has way of her own for
| Killing cats. She digs hole in the ground,
| burles the cat alive and stamps the victim
down There is nothing in the daily APP
| pearance or conduct of these women to in
| dlcate that they possess less than the av-
| efage tenderness of their sex. On the 9TH
er hand, there is man in town who, when
| ne mas 10 drown a rat, invariably warns
| the water up to summer heat, and there is
hot1lng IN his daily appearance or common
| conduct to indicate that he is less cruel to
dumb Al. FINALS than the average man.
| Ihereon hangs an inference.
Prof. Harold Jacoby of Columbia Uni
versity is enthusiastic in the development
OF the Photographic telescope, says the
New York Times. While he was in Eu-
rope there were made specially for him. at
Helslngfors, Finland, a number of photo,
graphs OF the stars surrounding the pole
OF the heavens; The new photographs
telescope in Finland is not only without a
superior, but is situated the furthest
north of any in the world that are at all
comparable with it in quality The ele-
walton at Helsiugfors and the clear at
mosphere make that the ideal place for
an observatory, and the instrument there
has already added a large quota to the
scientific pabulum of the day. The mega.
tiVes which Prof. Jacoby has secured
We're exposed according to a new plan, de-
Vlsed Tor the purpose of determining the
most important fundamental constants
OF stellar astronomy. The plates were
maze with fixed telescope pointed eX-
dctly at the pole. Very short exposures
| We're made every half hour during four
teen and half consecutive hours Each
star gives, therefore, a series of tWenty-
nine images, which lie on the arc of a
circle. The common center of all these
circular arcs can be fixed by the measures
pole with respect to the surrounding
stars. When the position of the mole has
peea IiXed' the astronomical constants can
pe oeterm-ned by methods known to as
trohomers No other method in use has
accomplished this with precision approx
lmaung that attained under the new pro-
cess. Hence the value of it and the keen
interest felt by astronomers and scientists
generally.
"A rival of Brambel in the rotary motor
field is young Washington inventor nam
ed Prawl His model weighs but 1917
POUNDS, exclusive of the gearing and gas
generating apparatus, and the entire pro
pelllng machinery, it is said will not be
more than fifty pounds. It's shape is cy-
compact,
ABOUT eight inches from edge to edge of
the heavy clutch wheels, and it is but 81
lhcneS IN diameter over all. This infant
motor during the tests was bolted to
heavy flooring and belted to a big dvn-
amo, which, it is said, required ten horse
power TO develop it's full capacity of 100
l6-candle-power lamps. The difference in
size was ludicrous, but it showed the cleo
trlc machine with a rush. There are three
principal parts to the device-two pumps,
working alternately from eccentrics on
the motor, which supply the air; a heater
Tor the air and atomized gasoline thrown
IN by the stream of air, and, third, a pres
sure or combustion chamber, about fifteen
| inches long and three inches in diameter
having at one end a steel, grate-coVered
nozzle, backed by fine iron shavings and
an outlet 10 the engine at the other. The
most sensational feature of the whole out
NJ, ana the one around which the creates t
pubic interest will center, is the motor
| wagon, or horseleSS carriage, which the
| inventor has contrived to go with his mo-
tor This wagon is a marvel in itself
nothing like il for this specific purpose has
ever been built before. The body is built
on blackboard lines, with a single double
seat, and the wheels are 34-inch ball-bear-
ing bicycle wheels, furnished with the
| very latest thing in non puncturable tires
The steering is accomplished by a direct
par coming back toward the seat The lit
tie motor and gas generator will be carried
underneath and bolted to the body near
the rear axle. 1t is geared centrally to a
lateral revolving axle, in reducing ratio
OF one TO five, and again geared at each
end to the bicycle wheels in the same
ratio thus making ten revolutions of the
motor TO every one of the wheels, and Civ
ing the stunning speed of twenty-four
miles an honr; that is, that is what it
should be if the calculations and expecta-
tons work themselves out satisfactorily
and the motor gives a speed of $500 revo-
lutionS minute.
THE Hot Springs OF New Mexico"
said gentleman from Las Vegas to a
Denver republican representative ARE on
the Santa Fe railroad, six miles from Las
| Vegas, ana they are situated in basin
about thirty acres in extent. surrounded
on all sides by hills rising to a hight of
from 800 to 400 feet. shielding the place
from wind and sand storms. The mud
baths, which are famous for their curative
effects, are to be had only in two places
IN the world, here and at Carlsbad Ger
| many, and IL has been shown that the mud
found at the hot springs in New Mexico,
| and which is used in giving the baths is
of the same chemical composition as that
of Carlsbad. 1t is very interesting to note
the formation of this mud or peat. 1t is
| formed by the vegetation which has been
| washed down from the hills probably
| century ago, and which, settling among
the rocks, has become deeomposed and