The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

leaves no ash; the flame is exterior, like
| that Of a cork, and when il has blazed it
self out there remains absolutely no trace
of it,
"A Topeka, Kan, physician recently
sent bill TO a private at Camp Leedy for
''sergiceI servisses' rendered. Another
| charge was SIS for damages to his clothes
at the camp, which garments the surgeon
says were knew"
Diamonds may be black as well as
white, and some are blue red brown, yell
| low, green. pink and orange, but there is
no vioiet diamond. although, in addition to
amethyst. there are sapphires, rubies and
| garnets of that color.
Norwegian seamen are entitled to vote
| before leaving their country, if the polling
| day is within three months of their de
| parture, or they can vote at a foreign port
within the same time by having their votes
| sent home through Norwegian consul
The longest wave hitherto observed is
said to have had a length Of half mile
and to have spent Itself in twenty-three
| seconds. During storms in the North At
lanuc waves sometimes extend 10 a length
/ of 500 and 600 feet and last from ten TO
| eleven seconds.
In the West Indies a lemon bath is al
most a daily luxury. Three or four lines
| or lemons are sliced into the water and
| allowed to lie for half an hour, in order
/ that the juice may be extracted A re-
| markable sense OF freshness and cleanli-
| ness Is given to the skin.
| An aeronaut says that there is the
| same difference in the air at the earth's
| surface and at an altitude of half mile
that there is between water in a muddy
! puddle and the purest spring water. He
| states that for a time one feels, after COM
! ing down from an ascent, as if one were
| breathing solid dust
-Spitzbergen has reached the stage of
| becoming the subject of International
| complications Though Sweden claims
! suzerainty over the islands, Mr. Nossilof,
| the Russian explorer, is urging his gov
| eminent TO hoist the imperial standard
! over them before the Swedes strengthen
! thelr claim by erecting there an astronom-
lcal observatory and rescue station.
Probably 80 persons out of 100 believe
that the familiar expression. 'Esau sold
his brthright for a mess of pottage" is
scriptural but they Will look for it in vain
| in the authorized version. 1t occurs in
| the chapter heading of the Geneva version
OF Genesis, XIV, and it is owing no doubt
| TO the popularity of that version that the
I phrase has obtained SO wide a currency.
One of the raging sensations through
out the British islands to-day Is an Amer
lean circus. The tour of the circus
throughout England has been triumphant
| and the newspapers in the northern part
| OF England have been devoting as much
| space 10 it as they have to the acts of
| Parliament. The English papers insist
mat the like of it has never been in Eng
land hitherto
| The speed of electricity is so great that
its passage from point to point along
conducting wire may be regarded as prac-
| ucalIy instantaneous. Various attempts
| have been made to measure the rate at
which 1t travels, and observers, with deli
| cafe instruments, have affirmed that il
! was not less than 114.O0O miles per second.
| ana IN one or two places its speed was as
high as 100000 miles.
The first American tramp steamship
has just been launched at Bath. Me. she
is 500 feet long, with a 42-foot beam. and
| 27-foot depth. The vessel will carry $500
tons Of dead weight freight and viii seek
| for cargOes wherever she can get tbeno
| The reason this class of vessels are called
"uamps" is the fact that they roam
| around all over the world get a cargo
| wherever they can and have no home port.
The pressure in Great Britain in the
direction of the adoption of the metric svs-
| tenn is increasing daily and Russia Is also
| agtating the question. In Europe Asia
| and America the metric system is used
by over 400, 600 900 people, and if the Rus
| sian empire We're added lt would bring this
! number up to 100000. 1t is probable
| that before the lapse of many more years
| the metric viii be the universal language
of quantity"
in a London club there is the most
| unique pair of curtains in existence This
portiere is formed of hundreds of cham
| payne corks, taken from every known
| brand of champagne, each of which bears
the tin top which adorned it when the cork
was in its parent bottle. The corks are
| made into strings, their being sixty of
| them to each string. Between every two
corks there are three big Chinese beads of
| torQuOlse blue.
-Twenty-eight years ago the German
socialistic vote was about 100000, and at
that time only one deputy was selected by
| them. With the exception of the period
| during which anarchists eXerted an influ-
ence, the party grew. and by 1892 had as
| sumed great strength. In 1890 il had thir-
y-five deputies. Four years later the
| number was forty-eight. To-day the party
| polls 100000 votes and has fifty-eight
| deputies III the herman EdIiIdueul.
Experiments upon materials at low tenn
peratures which have been made possible
by the advent of liquid aid develop some
| unexpected results. A ball of India rub
| Der cooled TO the temperature of the air
| becomes brittle, and if dropped on the floor
flies into pieces, while a ball of lead will
| rebound, having acquired a remarkable
| Increase of elasticity. Lead also makes a
| very respectable spiral spring at a tenn
perature Of 200 or 300 degrees below zero.
The women connected with Toynbee
| Hail in London have formed a society call
ed the Guild OF Compassion. the object of
| which is to reach and assist some of the
poorer classes of women and children The
| guild has decided to establish a small in
| stitution in one Of the suburbs where a
| few elder girls can be trained, and tired