The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-06
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blacksmith who dug them up in order
to make use of the material One of them
exploded in his furnace when he exclaim-
ed: Bad luck TO your love of murther!
Isn't the battle Of Aughrim out of you
YETI"
Waterloo Station. in London, boasts
one of the largest signal boxes in the
world. To control the number Of trains
Inch pass in and out of the station, 49,
eco distinct lever motions and 10000 electrl-
cal signals are required. The shunting
alone in the course of four hours number
l7S, the actual cause and. time of eaen
shunt being duly reported.
One of the most remarkable develop
ments of the automatic machine is a Or
Cureall," in Holland. 1t is a wooden fig
ure of man. with compartments all over
1t labelled with the names of various all
ments. If you have pain, find its CORE
spending location on the figure, drop a coin
into the SLOT and the proper pill or powder
will come out.
"A marble tablet upon the house at No
"a Rue Richelieu, Paris, which falsely
stated that Moliere died there. has just
been removed by the authorities, and the
ParIsian press is now urging the confisca-
ton of another mendacious Inscription
that upon the house at the corner of the
Quai Cont and the Rue de Nevers, which
declares that Napoleon lived there in 1875.
1t has been discovered that the com
mon red clay of which bricks are made
contains gold at the rate of nearly a shill-
ing's worth to the ton-even, in some cases,
little more. In the houses of London
there are at least 100000 tons of brick At
the rate of / shilling per ton, it will be
found that no less than f250,0O0 of the prec-
ious metal is locked tightly up in the
walls of London alone.
Owners of large ranches in California
are preparing to be independent of the
elements in the matter of moisture. They
will rely upon gas-pumping engines rather
than on the clouds. A recent issue of a
California paper reports that gas engines
are being erected in all parts of the state
they vary in capacity from twenty to
siXty-horse power, and some of them, on
the largest ranches, have a lifting power
of 100000 gallons of water per hour.
Belgian. engineers, backed with Bel
sian capital and using Belgian machin-
cry. have about completed the railroad,
two hundred and sixty miles long, from
rapids of the Congo river, hitherto the
main obstacle to commerce in Central
Africa along the line of that immense riv-
er, fed by its innumerable navigable tribu-
taries. Up to this time commodities have
been carried around the rapids on mems
backs. an average in recent years of one
hundred thousand loads being thus con-
Veyed each season.
Since Secretary Long has accepted the
offer of the National Association of HON.
ing Pigeon Fanciers to utilize the services
of the birds on war vessels, President
Baker of the association has issued orders
TO members to Immediately put their birds
in training, with a view to their being
distributed in the navy 10 carry MESA es
10 the shore. The Philadelphia members
will furnish 1000 birds-three times as
many as any other city has been asked
TO supply. Several crates of speedy flyers
| are now on board the monitor Lehigh,
and will be released when the vessel
reaches Boston. Active training of the
birds between Atlantic City and Philadel-
phia will probably soon begin in order
to give them some idea of the flight from
| the seaboard.
Modern Society Nondon) says: 1t is
quite a mistake to suppose slavery to be
exterminated in Europe, for, incredible as
it may sound. ii is nevertheless true that
annually. early in March, hundreds of
| rustic boys and girls, varying in ages
from to 10 years, are Systematically sold
into bondage by their parents in the
! Oberinnthal, Vintschgan. Stanzerthal and
ST. Anton districts of the Tyrol. The pur-
chasers of the juvenile live stock are the
| Swabian, or Wurtemberg and Baden, peas
| ants who, while they keep their own
offspring at school. utilize the human i'm
ports for agricultural and domestic work
from spring till late in autumn The
children are exported in patches of fifty
in railway luggage wagons from the sta
ton at Landeck, an overseer being APP
pointed over each batch The local au-
| thorities do not interfere. The children
are released from bondage in the autumn
when they return home to their parents
the worse for wear, morally and physi-
cally, with nominal wages in their pock-
cts, and, If luck, Sunday suit of clothes
"A striking feature in the management
| of the new underground London railway.
says the New York Sun, will be the s, s.
| tematization of speed. The entire length of
the line is five and one-half miles. the
transit service being carried on by thirty
two trains of seven cars each the seat
ing capacity of each train being 396 pas
sengers; the average speed of the trains
| is to be fourteen miles an hour including
20-second stops at each station, the max
imum speed between stations to be thirty
miles an hour the running at first being
made on two and e-half-minute head
way. Now, in order to obtain these speads
with the smallest expenditure of cost. an
interesting eXpedent has been resorted to
in the construction of the tunnels; that is
| instead of building it on a level or with
constant grades from station to station
the separate tunnels which carry the
tracks are run in a series of dibs. the
train upon leaving a station Immediately
starting down an incline, so that gravity
shall add to the acceleration of its speed
Each train without the locomotive win
weigh, it is estimated, as many as 1O5 long
tons, and with ohe locomotive some IL
long tons, but with the dipping tracks only
100 horsepower viii be required for each
train.
y Strong liquors are of modern inven-
ton, for the ancients knew of nothing
more powerful than lightly fermented
wines, and they have left many warnings
of the abuse of them, says the Chicago
News. Alcohol was not discovered until