The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ton of Mr. Thomas Rowan, is not very
happily termed the "mantleless incandes-
cent gas light" says the London Times.
1t has, indeed, no mantle, but since the
| introduction of the Welsbach light the
term incandescent, as applied to gas burn
ers, generally connotes the presence of
some foreign substance in addition to the
ordinary products of combustion, which,
by being heated to incandenscence. in
creases the illuminating power of the
flame. But there is no foreign substance
OF this sort in Mr.. Rowan's device which
IS simply the application of the regenera-
tive principle to a specially constructed
Argand burner. Instead of one chimney he
uses two, arranged coucentrically, so that
the air supplied for the combustion of the
gas is heated in the annular space be-
tween them as it passes to the burner.
thus 1nSuring the complete combustion
and fun incandescence of the carbon par
ticles in the fame. The inventor claims
tTT5rr' ny carefully adjusting tire -v0fun1e OF
heated air, and by burning the gas from
a modified ring burner with fewer orifices
than are usually employed. he is able to
get an Illuminating power which is shown
by photometric tests to be someth hing like
double that obtained from a London
standard Argand with the same consump-
ton of gas.
A new bicycle game, or rather a game
which can be played on wheels, has lately
been evolved by a cycling genius, says the
London Cycle 1t is called the royal game,
and requires a court or field divided into
alleys. Two teams of nine riders each take
part and the field is divided into a right
and left field, with the courses chalked out
plainly. An aleyway constructed of ropes
or cabfas, extends from the upper to the
lower field on the division line between
right and left field. Gables also form two
upright sides between which the play
wheel rolls and is driven backward or for
ward by the riders i'm passing at any point
between the lower and upper field. The
playwheel is a single bicycle rim having
a four and one-half inch pneumatic tire
The idea of the game is to drive this
piaywheel from the center field through
attack of opponents, to a goal ahead, the
riders using sticks especially made for the
game The ends of the alleyWays are the
goals for the respective teams. Players
ride in single file and always circle to the
Iett. Thus the two trains are constantly
meeting and passing each other in oppo-
site directions on the upper sides of the
alleyway. Royal is a game requiring swift
riding and much skill. and a novice would
scarcely venture to form one of a team.
-Austrias lower house of the Reichs-
rath is composed of 425 members, and is
divided into twenty-four different politi-
cal parties, representing the various ma
tionalities of the empire, each bitterly op-
posed to all the others, and all ready to
fly at each others threats with every op-
portunity, says the New York Tribune
They are thus numerically distributed:
Young Czechs, 60; Agrarian Czechs g.;
Poles, 80; German clericals, Al; German lib
erals, 40; anti-Semites, or Christian So
clalistS, %; German peoples party 80:
StoVenes, 10; Croats, IL; Ruthenians IL;
Rumanians, 6; Servians, 2; Italian liber-
ais, IA; Italian clericals, 5; socialists, IA;
teudal party, 81; Feudal liberals, Is; Feu-
dalS Of the Center, 3; Polish peoples party
3; German irredentists, or the Schooner
party, .; followers of Stojalovski, the dem
ocratic priest, 6. In addition to these are
the Young Czech radicals, Czech clericals
and Moderate socialists, consisting of one
member each. Besides these, the govern
ment has a Hungarian parliament with
assorted parties and nationalities to deal
with. There are five different bodies Of
electors for the Austrian lower house. IS
members being chosen by the great landed
proprietors, III by the towns, q by
chambers of commerce, 100 by rural dis
tricts, and 172 by universal suffrage.
"A man who alleges that he is a French
count and is now running an elevator in a
Broadway apartment house, says that he
is tired of hard work and it going to sell
his title for 100000 or so, less the brokerage
fees, says the New York Sun. The ele-
vator man says that there is getting to be
corner in French titles, because no new
ones can be manufactured in France
Therefore, now is the time to buy because
prices are likely to be advanced. Despite
his assertions, 100000 seems like a pretty
nigh price for French title, as the market
STANDS. One man who owns a very re-
spectacle French title, whose face for sew
eral years was familiar sight in a certain
restaurant in this town, has recently turn
ed up as a dealer in newspapers and light
novels at an exclusive summer resort be-
tween New York and Boston. 1t was re-
ported several years ago that he and his
wife had signed a curious contract with a
New York restaurant. They agreed to
pay the proprietor $40, 900 year to furnish
to them all of their meals and wines. They
were 10 have the privilege of ordering at
any time any or all of the dishes that were
on the regular bill of fare, and to have
served with them such wines as they might
select When this curious contract became
known every one said that the man who
ran the restaurant knew his business. The
titled Frenchman and his wife, however
developed wonderful appetites. They were
10 De found in that restaurant morning
noon and night Poo.s were made as ~
whether the Frenchman or the restaurant
keeper would be the winner at the end of
the year The result was never definitely
known, however. but the French nobleman
was quoted as saying last week in his lit
tie DOCK store at the summer resort that
ne had spent $4,000 in five years in this
restaurant. At that time he was sun-
posed to be millionaire. Now he has lit
tie beside his title and his book store. ana
OF tne two the latter contributes the more
to his support.
queer grievances get into the rordo,
papers, says the New York Times For
instance "A Victim" writes to the Stan
dard that a lady who. for reasons not sta
ted had been moved to give him a pres-
emit went to West End jewelers. shop
pousht a cigarette case which the sales
man SAID was made OF gold. and had II
sent 10 the proper destination. when /
came to examine IT," declares this curious
Brltisher, IL found that ii was wbat is
called nine-carat gold. that is two-thirds
base metal Apparently The correspon-
dent does not regard this testing OF a glft
as at all open TO criticism as unusual or
indicate, and he proceeds 10 give further