The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ed considerable prominence some years
ago as a member of President Garfield 5
so-called Kitchen cabinet" composed of
himself. Gen. Swain and Col. Rockwell all
army friends of the chief executive. Gen.
Corbin entered the army in Garfeld's reg
iment of Ohio volunteers in 1862, and the
regular army in 1856 as second lieutenant
of the Seventeenth Infantry. Since then
he has had regular promotion and now
reaches the important post of adjutant
general.
The difficulty to be met with in estab-
fishing an age for the so-called Indian
mounds and other antiquities peculiar to
this country is practically illustrated in a
find made in Missouri some years ago. 1t
was a curious pipe, discovered fully feet
below the surface of the soil 1t was of
native workmanship the material being a
dark colored wood, and representing, in
rude form, a duck. The chief popularity
however, was the bowl of a British clay
pipe of the last century, sunk into the
back of the bird. 1t is thought the origi-
nal owner got the clay part from some
Atlantic coast wanderer In every other
particular the pipe was of the most print
tive form and character
"A pound of salt does not cost much.
Nevertheless, 1t is not any too cheap con-
sdering the amount of salt there Is in the
world, says an exchange. Sea water is so
full of il that box three feet deep flied
with sea water and allowed to evaporate
Will show residue of one inch of salt
on the bottom Of the box Allowing an
average depth of three miles to the oceans
of the world, there would remain aFiayer
OF salt go feet in thickness on the bottom
should the seas eVaporate. Another inter-
esting comparison shows that if the salt
OF the sea could be extracted, it would be
greater in mass than all the land of The
globe that appears above the surface of
the waters. A German estimate fixes g.
100000 cubic miles of sea water on the
globe, which if boiled down would yield
$4,000 cubic miles of pure salt. Thus it
VIII be seen that there is no very good
reason why salt should be expensive.
South America furnishes the greatest
amount and best quality of curled horse
hair, used for filling mattresses and stuff
ing furniture, says the New York Tribune.
On the wide pampa many thousand horses
are bred especially for the hair and their
names and tails. These, between the
round-ups. which sometimes do not occur
in three or four seasons, grow to great
length, but, owing to the lack of care and
the state of the camps" as the open
country is called, the hair is usually tan
gled in what seems an inextricable mass.
All over the camps grow many kinds of
burrs and thistles, and the animals, as
they Craze or roll themselves about be-
come covered with them Their coats are
naturally rough, the hair growing in en-
uneven, shaggy way. Stuck all over with
burrs and with name and tail matted into
nearly unwieldy masses, the poor crea-
lures present comical appearance Aft
or 10 a1t ~
in the freedom of cropped necks and short
tails. The hair, when cut off, is free from
dirt and roughness of all kinds, and wound
into ropes, by which means it Is made
curly. 1t sells for 3S cents or 4S cents a
pound. The longest strands are kept sep
arated, and used for horsehair furniture,
cloths, etc.
The recent happening in Havana har-
Dor by which the United States lost one
of it's best warships and several hundred
lives, has drawn attention, among other
things to the power Of high explosives,
now used for war and for other purposes,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. According
to recent experiments the perunites rank
ing in the order B. G. d, are the most
powerful explosives. Next come eXplo-
sive gelatine, rack-a-rock, emmensite,
gun cotton and United States rife pow
der. This is the rank they would assume
used for blasting purposes. The various
gun powders and high explosives of the
present time would take rank as follows,
ranking perunite B, at 100 per cent: peru
mite c, 81 per cent; RosseIs mixture,
S95; perunite D, SO; Americanite, 50; ex-
plosive gelatine, 81; schnebelite, 80; rack
a-rock, 70; hello1te, Is; nitro-glycerine
(best quality, 70; NobePs smokeless pow
der, 20; explosive gelatine, made from No.
5 nitro-glycerine, IS; United States navy
gun cotton, 67.5; fulgurite, 81; emmenste,
66; French nitro-glycerine, GO; dynamite,
mo. u, 62.6; Cannonite, 81; Amide powder.
SO; progressive, 5S.5; tonite, 81; bellite. Sc;
oxonite, 54.4; atlas powder (No. y, so;
melinite, 40; silver illuminate, 4S2; mer-
curry illuminate AIS; rifle powder IS; NOR
tar powder, 80.
"A man has been found in Rome who
once endured for several years the torture
of Imprisonment on the lie du Diable. saws
the New York Times He is Gen. Paolo
Tibaldi who, with Ledru-R olin, Mazzini
and Campanella, was condemned to depor-
tation for life on the charge of conspiring
against Napoleon III. He says that, in his
day, the island was a bare rock, without
a'tree or a blade of grass, and each of
the prisoners had no shelter from the sun
until he made hut of driftwood The
government provisions, sent daily from
the adjacent Royal Island consisted of a
pound and half of the worst bread for
each convict, a piece of old meat or salt
fat, beans or rice, little oil and six
centitiiters of tatia, a kind of spirit "If
Is impossible" says the General, ito de-
scribe the sufferings to which we were
subjected by our cruel keepers Accord
ing to their caprice, we were chained and
kept for months on bread and water or
beaten almost to death with ropes. and
so obliged TO remain in bed for weeks al a
time, suffering horribly. In 1857, 1000 was
raised to organize an expedition to rescue
me, but several attempts of the kind only
served to make my situation worse. Final
ly, however, the press and public opinion
in France claimed my liberation, which
obtained at last, arriving in time to fight
for the French republic, and to have the
sad privilege of signing with Trochu the
capitulation of Paris to the Germans
-one of Gen. Buffers closest yachting
friends tells an interesting story concern
ing the generals connection with the cot
ton claims which arose out of the seizure
by the government during the late war
and were before the courts in Washington
long time before the claimants were vic
torious, says the Boston Globe This man