The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


paper at Sedgwick. Kan, the other day:
Notice. hereby warn the public thai
am watching for the contemplate scoun-
drel who has been milking my COW. If
1 catch him 1 intend to shut my eyes and
shoot at tee cow"
Winston, N. c., claims the distinction
Of selling more pounds of leaf tobacco di-
rect from the hands Of the farmer than
any other loose market in the world. The
present tobacco year the market will sell
100000 more pounds of tobacco than it
has ever sold before, the sales reaching to
more than 100000 pounds.
-Pittsburg women have society for the
Promotion and Amelioration of Cats They
actually attempt the education of the fe-
lines and the president of the society says:
we feel assured that under our process
OF culture many hidden and unsupported
good qualities in the nature of the cat
viii be brought TO the surface"
1t has been less than two years since
the law making life Imprisonment instead
of death the penalty for murder in Col
orado went into effect, and yet agitation
mas already begun looking to a revival
or the death penalty. 1t is asserted by
those VINO wish re-establishment of the
gaIloWs that the imprisonment law
1850 @~SoANNA III ar ClJlueIutC Vi
The Great Northern Railroad has Just
placed an order with the Dunkirk Loco
motive Works, at Dunkirk, N. Y, for
locomotive weighing ninety-tive tons 1t is
claimed it will be the heaviest railway en-
CINE in the world, and will be used on
that portion of the line of the Great
Northern Railroad which traverses the
mountains from Eastern Montana 10 the
Western coast.
timber wolves are more numerous this
fall in Dickinson county, Michigan. than
in many years, and scarcely a day pass
es put some one comes to Iron Mountain
ana reports having seen one or more So
far the animals are not reported as an
noylng, but they may become so when
snow comes and food becomes scarcer.
A great many are reported around the
Sturgeon river.
Among historic trees growing in Phil
adeiphia is the great willow, slipped from
the weeping willow which grew over the
grave of Napoleon, in the island of St
Helena. SIX of such slips were brought
over by Count Archambault One has
grown to be large-sized tree at the coun-
try seat of Henry Coates at Wayne. An
other was planted by Mr.. Kellogg at his
place at Bryn Mawr. and three other of
the slips never came to maturity.
The chemicals constituting the mean
descent mantle of the Welsbach gas burn
er are principally the oxides of chromium
lanthanum, thorium and yttrium. The
mantle Is made by first inpregnating a
woven fabric with a chemical compound
containing salts of the above metals. In
lighting the first time, the fibrous sub
stance is consumed, leaving behind the
fragile cone of the above oxides. which
when heated to intense whlteness by the
gas flame underneath shine with great
brilliancy.
Not long ago a Frenchman died and
clause in his will set forth his desire
to be conveyed to his last resting place
IN motor car arranged as bearse
Near Marseilles there has just taken place
a christening of a new order. The chris
tening party consisted of nine persons, and
they were conveyed to church by motor
brake. French paper thinks it will be
source of satisfaction to the parents
OF the child-it was a boy-to say that he
began very early to patronize the new To-
comotion, which is described as "le sport
a la mode
The japanese are ruthless in their tam
pering with nature. If they decide that
they want bird or an animal of a certain
shape or color, they set about manufactur-
ing the article, so to speak by the exercise
OF exceedingly clever ingenuity and untir-
ing patience. Here, for example. is how
! the white sparrows are produced They
select a pair of grayish birds and keep
them in a white cage In a white room.
where they are attended by person dress
ed in white. The mental effect on a series
of generations of birds results in complete
ly white birds
The great telescope for the Paris ex-
position is to have an aperture of forty
nine inches and focal length of 1877 feet.
The usual equatorial mounting and dome
being impracticable for such gigantic
instrument, the tube will be rigidly fixed
in horizontal position on masonry sup
ports and will have the light from the
heavenly bodies reflected into it by a
movable plane mirror six and one-half
feet in diameter. This mirror is to weigh
nearly four tons. The estimated cost of
the telescope is $2S0OO0 and its magnify
ing power will be more than twice that
of the largest of existing Instruments
Although over 100000 tons of coal
have been taken from the "Pittsburg
seam in Marion county West Virginia.
since its discovery in 1887 the seam. run
ming from eight to fourteen feet In thick
ness, has been uncovered for but a trif-
ling part of Its extent. There are thous-
andS OF acres through which this seam is
known to run that have yet to be touch
ed by the miners pick and drill. James
Rowe, the horse trainer, who has been
both jockey and starter is one of the
fortunates who bought a big tract of this
land twenty years ago. before it's true
value was known, and he is now reap
ing a fortune from it..
DIR. A. j.. Harrison, chairman of the
Bristol and Clifton Geological Society, read
some observations on the so-called fascin-
alton of snakes before the recent meeting
OF the British Association, says the Lon
don Times. His observations had extend
ed over many years, he said, and he had
come to the conclusion-confrmed by 9TH
ers-that there was no fascination exer-
cised by snakes over their prey Ducks
mems, rabbits and rats placed in the cages
of snakes on feed, played about, hoped
on the snakes, pecked at them, and show
ed no signs of fascination or alarm even
when they saw their colleagues swallow
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