The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tip and drag on the ground.
"A strange story comes from Curtin
Township, Pennsylvania, ON top of the Al
leghany mountains of bear taking
child of a certain Mr.. Watkins into the
woods and covering it up with leaves,
without harming it.
The caribou or reindeer of Newfound-
land roam over an area Of some 25,O0O
miles of unbroken wilderness. They are
| magnificent creatures, some of the larger
stays which have been shot having weigh
ed from 500 to coo pounds
"A real old-fashioned dragon was seen
not long ago, day by day, by terrified
peasants in the River Vistula. near Ora
COW. It was finally captured in a net and
| killed, when it proved to be an alligator
which had escaped from a menagerie.
1t has been a great hunting season in
Maine Some 1916 carcasses of deer were
shipped over the Bangor and Aroostook
railway in October, or nearly double the
| average number in the same time during
the previous three years 1t is estimated
| that over 4.00O deer have been killed in the
| state since the hunting season opened.
Western Kansas is overrun this year
with coyotes. 1t was thought that they
had been almost exterminated by the
! warfare made by the settlers of the new
country, but reports from that section in
dictate that they are multiplying instead of
diminishing. They have killed thousands
of sheep, and even go into the farmers
henhouses and kill their chickens. Dogs
| are no protection against their invasions,
! for one coyote, if cornered, will whip three
! ordinary dogs.
| Some time ago attention was called
to the fact that the Western Union Tele-
graph Company was using copper wire ex-
| clusiVely on new construction and renew
ais on its principal lines. The company
has recently completed a line of copper
wire from New York to San Francisco,
the longest heavy copper wire for tel
| egraphy in the world. The wire is strung
between San Francisco and Ogden along
| the Southern Pacific, and from Ogden to
Omaha along the Union Pacific.
-Primative woman was often as COM
plentely tattooed a Pacific island war;
rior of the present period, says the Pitts
| burg Dispatch. Her jewelry was bits of
fossil coral; beads made of hardened clay;
bears, boar, wolves and fox tusks. Pol
ished balls of calx, varying from one to
! two inches, were worn on belts of neck
laces. When the woman partook of wine
it was by using the skull of her husbands
enemy as a drinking cup. There is every
evidence that ancient woman was as fond
of ornament as her daughter of the pres
ent day The petrfed body of a woman
found in Europe some years ago was lit
orally laden with rude ornaments. Flat
tened PEBBLES formed her belt, while around
her neck was a necklace of polished
ivory.
The largest volcanic crater in the
world is that Of Aso San, near the city of
Kumamoto Japan, says an exchange 1t
is more than thirty miles in circumfer-
ence. In 1884 the mountain Vomited fire
and smoke and such tremendous quantities
of black ashes that for three days the
blackness of night prevailed at Kumamoto
There have been many other eruptions
while from the central part of the crater
a steady column of steam is always roar
| ing from cavity half mile in diameter
Strangely enough 10000 people live within
this crater. They have built town, and
there are miles of smaller towns, fertile
farms, school houses and churches. The
daring inhabitants put the many hot
springs to use, furnishing power for rice
mills etc.
The nightingale, when in fun song, has
a peculiar note, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. Like all bird songs, it has in GER
tam localities a superstition attached to
il. In Westphalia they believe in the fol-
lowing myth regarding the songster nam
ed A shepherdess, beloved by "a shep-
herd, was cursed by him, because she
time and again broke her promise of mar
riage. One day he cried out in his an
gulsh the wish that she might not sleep
again until the day of judgment The
nightingale is the shepherdess. That is
why she sings the night through, rs it,
is tit, is tit, to wit, to wit-Trsty Tristy
Tristy, to bucht, to bucht, to bucht"
'Tristy'' is the name of her dog and ito
bucht" is the call of the shepherd 10 his
| dog when he wishes iY,
If you don't like the word kaleidoscope
says an exchange, you can call it a phan-
tascope, criterioscope, vitascope, cinemat-
ograph, biograph, acknowledgement, wonder
scope, animatoscope, vitagraph, panoram-
agraph, cosmoscope, anarithmoscope, ka-
topticum, magniscope, zoeoptrotrope, phan-
tasmagoria, projectoscope, variscope ci-
nograph, cinnomonograph, hypnoscope
centograph, X-ograph, electroscope, Gina
Sraphoscope, craboscope, Kaleidoscope,
cinematoscope, mutoscope, cinoscope ami
maloscope, theatograph, chronophoto-
graphoscope, photograph, kinetograph, ray
oscope, microscope, kinotiphone, thromo-
! trope, plenakstOscope, venetrope, Vitre-
scope, acknowledgement, vitopticon, stinneti-
scope, vivrescope, diaramiscope, lobster
scope, corminograph, kineoptoscope, or
any other old scope.
The New York Herald thus describes
the new subway which has been built
across the Harlem river for the accommo-
dalton of electric wires: 1.-THE construc-
ton of the subway is in some respects a
triumph of modern engineering 1t is more
than $50 feet long and was built before be-
ing launched 1t does not, however, as
might be imagined from this statement.
lie on the bottom of the river. 1t is sunk
in trench, which has been made for it,
at an average depth of eight feet below
the bottom. 1t lies twenty-five feet below
the mean low water mark Dredges have
been at work digging this trench for two
months, and about 10000 cubic yards of
earth and rock have been removed Now
that hte subway has been launched and
put in place the trench will soon fill up
again by natural action and bury it eight
feet below the bottom. 1t has been laid
just beside the new Third avenue bridge
on the west side of the structure. The
piers of the old bridge have been used for
the supports of the subway. The subway
itself is two feet in diameter, and at first
sight it looks like solid mast, built up of
Georgia pine and bound with wrought