The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-29
IrEs.s OF INTEREST.

in an immense closet in the winter pal
ace at st. Petersburg.
-One of the newest things in the build
| ing line is the aluminium hut for the
KlondilIe miners. When packed for car
| rage 1t weighs 10 pounds 1t is compos-
| ed of four sides and roof of thin sheets
OF aluminium, and when put up the house
contains 1870 cubic feet.
The laborers who built the pyramids
| did not work under such disadvantages as
have long been attributed to them. Re
| cent research shows that they had solid
| and tubular drills and lathe tools. The
| drills were set With jewels and cut into
the rocks with keenness ana accuracy.
Bangor manufacturers are sending
canoes or birch and canvas to Palestine,
| Japan and China. One recently sent to
| India was made to the order of a British
! officer, and the cost of transportation was
more than SIS. capoe just ordered is
| Intended for trip up the river Jordan.
The Boston and Maine Railroad has
issued an imperative order that baggage
masters must exercise great caution in
handling trunks and that they must not
| be thrown from the car door onto the
| hard platform. Sliding boards will be pro
| vided, and now the big trunks will de-
| scend to earth gently.
The great periodic star shower which
| is seen at intervals of thirty-three and
one-quarter years is due Nov II or 10.
1893. But on the same dates this year a
| considerable display is expected Of these
| meteorS, supposed to be a swarm of cold
matter until rendered incandesceht by fric-
ton with the earth's atmosphere.
One of the severest punishments re-
| fractory soldier can experience is to be
nailed down" in a tent. 1t is said that a
| Turkish bath is a frigid affair as com
pared with a perfectly close tent under a
| hot sun, and after an hour or two of that
sort of sweating the most rebellious SOL
der will readily promise to be good.
| "A curious Transformation in the habits
| of wild animals is reported from New Zea-
land, where it is said the kea, or noun
! tain parrot, formerly vegetarian, has in
recent years been changed into a rapac-
| ious beast of prey. 1t is unknown in the
| north island, but In the south island 1t
has become a terrible pest, killing over
$1,000 sheep year.
| Fifty years ago a well at Steinerville,
Belmont county, Ohio, was closed for the
reason that it was contaminated with
I typhoid fever germs. Recently it was re-
| opened and the water used and although
| the well was made deeper than formerly
| the germs had remained and a fever cpl
demic was the result The we'll has again
| been closed.
! observations made at the Massachu-
sets agricultural experiment station show
that so per cent. of the food Of the ungain-
| ly and repulslve- looking toad is made up
| of insects injurious to agriculture The
toad is an especial enemy of the army
worm, the cutworm and greenhouse pests
generally, and does lot Of good in its
modest way.
The 5000 given in trust by BENJAMIN
Franklin in 1890 to help worthy appren-
tees and for other public objects in Bos-
| ton now amounts to 100000 and has been
decided to be at the disposal of the city.
A difference of opinion exists as to its
proper use. One proposition is to expend
1t in building trade schools, this being in
line with Franklin's intent.
Japan intends sending to the Paris Ex-
position huge house, hexagonaI in shape,
and composed entirely of porcelain. 1t
measures several yards in circumference
| and its weight will not be less than seven
ty tons. From the artistic point of view
according to the several models already
finished, 1t will be exquisite 1t is esti-
mated that the cost of making it will be
about $4,000.
In the Militar Wochenblatt a leading
German military organ, Mr. Won PIoetz
recommends horse racing as a panacea for
| socialism. He says that the reason why
| there is no socialism in England Is that
| they encourage horse racing there, and
that "the love of the sport is the connect
ing link between all classes of men, en-
| abling the poor to comprehend the neces-
sity for a difference of fortune"
"A Connecticut clergyman on a recent
Sunday gave out the following notice:
THE regular session of the Donkey Club
viii be held as usual, at the close of this
service. Members win line up just outside
the church door, make remarks and stare
at the women who pass, as is their Gus
tom. Any member known to escort
young woman to church like a man and
sit with her like a gentleman will be
promptly expelled from membership"
The barbed-wire fences surrounding
Santiago, which has proven a hindrance
and nuisance to our hard-worked soldiers,
have, it seems, after all, their advantages.
Not long ago one of the wires of such a
fence was sufficiently insulated to allow of
| Geographic messages being sent from one
army corps to another a distance of five
miles. Thus the Spaniards unwittingly
saved the enemy's signal corps the trou-
bic of laying a wire through a rugged
country.
"A wood-planing machine, believed to
be the first and largest of the kind intro
duced in this country has been erected at
Roach's shipyard, Chester, Pa, for the
purpose of planning decks and other wood
work. This machine is operated by a driv
| ing-belt travelling a mile a minute and
operating knives which will plane the
sides of square of timber 14x20 inches at
the rate of fifty feet a minute. The feed
ing is automatic and blower is attached
for removing the shavings.
Tho largest musical instrument on
earth will be exhibition at the Paris
Exposition of 1900 1t is called an auto
electropolyphone, and its inventor and
| builder is an Italian, Antonio Zibordi who
claims to have worked upon it for fifteen
| years: The instrument executes every
| kind of concerted music, and contains no
less than 5000 different and independent
musical instruments. 1t cost about $4,000
The inventor has employed most varied