The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


from the Maine for President Mckinley.
This curio win hardly be needed by the
President TO make him remember the
Maine" a
Pawn brokers in Frankfort and Paris
have found 1t necessary to enlarge their
premises to make room for the storage of
bicycles. The Paris municipality has voted
s2.e00 TO convert one of the halls at the
Mont de Piete into a bicycle store room.
The earliest records Of illustrated com
ic literature have been discovered by Brug
sch Bey in papyrus of the twenty-sec-
ond dynasty recently found at TOnnah.
The drawings are colored and they repre-
sent animals performing curious antics.
Cats and rats figure largely in the illus
trations.
Uneasy lies tho head that wears
CROWN yet some of the wearers of crowns
are fairly well paid for their uneasiness.
The income of the Emperor of Russia for
one day IS about $25 coo; that of the Sultan
of Turkey, $4,000; Emperor of Austria,
IS COO; Emperor of Germany, $1,000; King
of Italy. $1,000; Queen of England, $500,
and the King of Belgium, $500. The Pres
ident of the United States receives about
$3.50 per day.
French bacteriologists have discovered
that tuberculosis may be communicated to
fishes, and that it proves fatal to them
very quickly. The bacini used in the eXper-
iments were derived from human beings,
rabbits. hens and previously infected fish.
tuberculosis bacilli from fish, however,
have very little effect when injected into
rabbits and fowls, owing TO the attenua-
ton OF the power of the germs in the cold
er blood of the fish.
The single opera glass was first used in
the time of Louis XIV it became the
rage and everybody used one The double
opera glass (Jumelle) was invented in 1925,
but did not at first find favor with women.
A treatise was written in the early part
of this century on Tart de lorgner, in
which it was shown that woman with
fine arms would hold the glass with both
hands, if she were blessed with fine hands
she would take off her gloves, if her neck
were long she would recline back in her
chair, and so on. 1t was quite a treatise
on coquetry.
Just to do something extra and out of
the ordinary before he departs for Europe,
J, Marsden, the agricultural commission
er of Hawaii, will develop sea toad for
the use of certain island districts where
den is a firm believer in evolution and will
follow lines suggested by Darwin. AL
ready toads have been produced in brack-
ish waters. This tells the commissioner
that he cannot fail. For the next culture
he will make the water still more salty,
and at about the fourth or fifth breeding
will try pure sea water. He is confident
that the plan will work out correctly. In
the undertaking Mr. Marsden has receiv-
ed much encouragement from Prof. Koe-
belle, the government entomologist, and
from other friends.
The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has
an inventor, Senior Bonteau whose newly
devised method by which photographs may
be taken under water has attracted no lit
tie attention, according to the New York
Sun The light for this purpose is furnish
ed by an incandescent lamp placed in
steel case in the divers headpiece, the lum-
inous rays being projected by a reflector
placed.in The rear of the steel case, and the
electricity provided by means of small
dynamo carried in the boat above. The
Photographic apparatus itself consists of a
common camera placed within an India
rubber envelope, the front of which is
glass, and the machine is regulated and
pictures taken by pressing buttons through
the India rubber covering. The result is
such as TO be pronounced an achievement;
that is, through experiments made in the
bay of Rio de Janeiro, it is demonstrated
that pictures can be taken under water of
objects at a distance of 10 or Y feet as
easily as they can be obtained above an the
full light of day.
Says a Washington special to the
Globe-Democrat of Saturday: 1.-The first
instance since the war began of a naval
rofo
to sea. was presented to Secretary Long
this afternoon. The young man is a grad
uate of the Naval Academy and was to
be assigned 10 a ship but says he suffers
from seasickness to such an extent that
life is miserable the entire time he is
cruising. He comes from Maryland and
perhaps is not so anxious TO remain on
shore as his mother is to have him. She
called in person to-day, with one of the
Maryland congressman, and appealed TO
Mr.. Long to revoke the order sending her
son to sea. The secretary called in Capt.
Crownnshield, chief of the navigation bu-
reau, and directed him to issue additional
orders sending the young man to sea al
once. There are many officers of the navy
who, like the Maryland youth, suffer Sc
verely from seasickness every time they
begin a new cruise, but it is seldom that
an officer tries to get out of his orders on
tndt account. secretary Long does not
expect to have such another request made
of him While the war lasts. On the con-
trary, he is overrun with appeals from ev-
cry officer now on shore duty to be sent to
sea, and the few left are finding it diff
cult to secure berths."
During the last few months the Solent
has been the scene of some interes ting ex-
periments in wireless telegraphy, says the
London correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger. Under the direction of Signor
Marconi two stations have been fitted up
one at Bournemouth and the other on the
Isle of Wight-nearly eighteen miles away
The only sign of anything unusual at
either place is tall mast, some 100 feet
high, from which depends a metallic con-
ductor. Sometimes this is simple wire
At others an ordinary strip of wire net
ting has been tried as affordng more cleo
trical capacity, but there does not appear
to be any great difference IN the result
Inside the stations the first piece of APP
paratus that catches the eye is an lnduct-
ion coil, capable of giving a spark S inches
or 10 inches long. This, with an appro-
pirate battery and a key to control the
current, constitutes the sending instru-
ment The receiving instrument CONSISTS