The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF sunshine per year, while Italy has $500
Germany comes next with 100, and Eng
land with 1,4O0
-One of the Rockland (Me.) city Of
ficiais is a great man TO prepare for the
unexpected. When he goes off on a Jour
ney, if it isn't farther than to Portland
he places in his private desk a memoran-
dunn of what he owes and what is owing
MIN, together with brief statement of
the disposition he would like 10 have
made of his affairs in case of sudden
death.
Capt. w. S. suter and Mr.. George
Windle, while fishing in the south branch
of the Potomac. near Springfield. W. Va.
saw fshhawk catch a large bass and
try to fly away with it. The fish was too
heavy. however. and the hawk dropped it
on dry land. MIR. Windle secured the
bass which weighed five pounds.
Collectors of antique furniture have
struck bonanza in Havana. In prepar-
ing to return to Spain army officers are
placing on the market pieces of fine work
manship and ancient pattern which are
being eagerly snapped up by dealers. A
correspondent cites a handsome old wal
nut wardrobe, with three full-length bevel
mirrors, valued at $50, which was sold for
less than SIS; and that is simply one of
many examples.
The evidences of our senses is correct
in nearly all cases in which two of them
are called into play so that the testimony
of one is checked by that of the other.
But when we have to rely upon one sense
alone, we are sometimes curiously deceiv-
ed The experiences of those who have
lost limb are familiar. For some time
afterward they feel pains in the member
that is gone This is because the nerve
which used to convey feeling to the lost
extremity is affected. Another experience
in deceptive senses may be made by cross
ing the second finger over the first and
then placing a marble between the tips of
the fingers, when it will be almost impos-
sible to convince ones self that-there are
not two marbles. This is because two
points in the fingers are touched stimuli
taneously, which in the ordinary position
could only be touched al the same time
by two marbles-and the brain infers that
there are two.
The superstition that 1t is bad luck to
be hanged on Friday will probably stand
the test of time, but otherwise the evil
fame of the day is pretty well dissipated-
at least, that seems to be the case in New
Orleans, says the Times-DemOcrat
Not very many years ago the
passenger traffic out of this city showed
a startling contraction every Friday, and
the regularity of the decline left no doubt
as to the cause. AT present Friday Is about
as good a business day as any other for
the transportation lines, and one promi-
nent railroad man declares it Is peculiarly
favored by fortune. Il had the curiosity
to look into the subject recently" he said
land in eight years which was as far back
as my data went, l found that the accident
record of Friday was the second lowest of
any day of the week OF course, one may
Na1rA 4 - 1rs 1, ~
month and discover all manner of horrible
things that have happened on 1t in the
past, but l have never been able to find
reason why Friday should be marked for
special stigma. It's an absurd fact how
ever, that railroad people were formerly
obliged to take account of the superstition
In making q forecast of business" A New
Orleans jeweier had something interesting
to tell along the same line. 1.-The Friday
idea is about extinct" he said ''but the
jewelry trade was certainly affected by it
In the past 1 have known lots of people
who wouldn't think of buying anything
intended as a gift on Friday, especially If
1t was TO be engraved, but nowadays one
seldom hears anything of the kind. l sup
pose the world is getting more practical"
Several illustrations of the kinks in un-
winding red tape" have been published,
but there is room for another good one,
l.
Democratic candidate for Governor of Min
nesota, was the beginning of the endless
chain in this instance. He Is quartermas-
ter of the Twelfth Minnesota When his
regiment was awaiting orders at Chicl1a-
manga TO go to Porto Rico general orders
We're received that when regiments trav-
eled on cars. should two different reg-
ments come together in one car, that is If
part of a Wisconsin regiment and part of
Minnesota regiment should occupy the
same car, it should be the duty of the SEN
Tor office in command of the detachments
in the car to have the line of demarcation
between the commands marked on the car
floor with white chalk, so that Minnesota
and Wisconsin might know their true
boundary. Then the steps of the car were
10 be marked with blue chalk showing to
which command those steps belonged In
view of such possible need of chalk
Quartermaster Lind made a requistion for
four pounds, two of white and two of blue
the whole of the value of about eight cents
This requisition was signed in due time
by the colonel of the regiment by the bri-
gade quartermaster by the brigade COM
mander, by the division quartermaster, and
by the division commander. That brought
it to the chief quartermaster Office and
there it was halted, for delibera ton as to
whether the Twelfth Minnesota really
needed so much chalk, and the amount was
reduced one-haf. With nearly as many
signatures as there are on the Declaration
of Independence the mutiEated requisition
for four cents worth of chalk went back
through the channels by which 1t went
forward, and Quartermaster Lind, by send
ing a man three miles to wait half a day
at the quartermasters depot, got his little
bundle of chalk.
The Engineering Record of Sept 10
gives a good deal of space to discus
sion of 1.-The air-lift' method of raising
wafer from wells. When air is forced into
the bottom of tube submerged in water
the level of the water in the tube is
raised. The upward movement of the air
helps along the water immensely, so that
a pipe is made to deliver vastly more than
it would without the "air-lift." "In prac-
tice.' says the Record, the wells are
piped in various ways. Sometimes the
air pipe passes down the center of the
we'll, and the water is forced up between
its outside surface and the casing; some
times the air pipe is hooked at the bot
tom. and its upward-pointing nozzle Is
fne haln ba of