The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cured the opinions of all the most eminent
jUTists of Europe as to the guilt or inno-
cence of Dreyfus The result is all in
Dfeyfus' favor and the great majority of
them say that here is absolutely no doubt
to his innocence.
Country roads in China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely unde-
fined. While the farmer has the right to
plow up any road passing through his land
drivers of vehicles have an equal right,
and they exercise il, to traverse any por-
ton of the country at will.
The black and white school issue re-
mains unsettled at Alton, H.. and mean
time the Lovejoy sehoolhouse, built es-
pecially for the color children, is being
avoided by the blacks. Only one child at
tends school there and his education is
costing the city S1,1S6 annually.
Mr., De Roger, who is recognized as
one of the leading authorities on questions
of heraldry and genealogy in France, cal
culates that in a single year about 10000
900 francs, or 100000, found its way into
the pockets of the French nobility through
the successful quest of American heiresses
by titled Frenchmen.
An elderly Philadelphia woman, Sarah
Loura, recently went to st. Mary's Hospi-
tai and asked to be relieved of distressing
noises in her ears. Experts who were
given charge of the case found a living
spider that had made a nest in her ear
This was successfully removed and the old
lady now hears as well as ever
1t has been less than two years since
the law making life Imprisonment instead
of death the penalty for murder in Colora-
do went into effect and yet agitation has
already begun looking to a revival of the
death penalty. 1t is asserted by those who
wish establishment of the gallows that
the life imprisonment law has resulted in
an epidemic of crime
On the accession. of a new Emperor of
China he goes in solemn state to the Tenn
pie of Heaven in Pekin and formally an
nounces to his imperial predecessors the
new titles and dignities which he has as
sumed. These ancestors are then dutifully
invited to the banquet of commemoration
where seats are duly reserved for them.
"A new terror is in store for travellers
In tropical Africa, says the London CORE
spondent of the Birmingham Post, if DR.
Oscar Baumann is correct in his asser-
ton that the domestic flea, which was at
first known only on the west coast of At
RIGA, has spread across the continent and
has just made its appearance at Zanzibar
In advocating the practice of boiling
water land milk of uncertain purity Prof.
Btzzozero combats the prejudice against
boiled water as a beverage He maintains
that the taste" frequently complained of
in boiled water is really caused by the ket-
tie, and can scarcely be due to the absence
of dissolved air, of which water from wells
Of great depth often contain very little
When Bar Harbor well digger com
planned that he received electric shocks
while descending a well in that fashion
able resort his fellow woTkmen laughed at
him. But when dog, fastened to a plat
form, was lowered to the surface of the
water he howled piteously for an instant
and was dead when hauled up to the SER
vice. Now the ignorant workmen think
the well is bewitched.
The Maori tribe have a godsend in the
way of boiling springs. They can soak
! themselves all day In warm weather; cook
| their meat and potatoes by simply hanging
them in their nets in a corner of a hot
water spring; launder their garmets by
soaking them in a boiling soda spring and
rinsing in the warm, clear water of an
other bubbhng geyser and walk proudly
off In clean garments.
The old Bradlee house, at the corner of
fremont and Hollis streets, in Boston. is
being torn down to make way for a mod
ern one. 1t is one of the most interesting
| historic landmarks in Boston. In its wide
| old kitchen the leaders of the Boston tea
| party disguised themselves as Indians on
the evening of Dec. &c. 1773, before going to
! the wharf where the cargo of tea was
fnrnVCp mi n he 1f
| The old South Church and Faneuil Hall
are the only two buildings besides the
| Bradlee house now left of those that shell
tered the patriots on that eventful day.
Writing on the mysteries of Sound"
a contributor to the Strand says: 81 have
often gone out on my lawn just before
o'clock on a still night when the wind
| was either dead calm or else blowing soft
ly from the south, and, having accurate
! time, have listened with all my ears for
| the report of the evening gun from Ports
mouth, forty miles away, but neither my
| self nor any friends who have been with
me have ever succeeded in catching even
| the slightest suspicion of the sound. Yet
| you may go to the neighboring preserves
| and, precisely after the hour, the pleas
ants will give a startled futter Unaues-
! tionably the birds detect the sound that.
| too feeble to affect ourselves, yet con-
veys alarm to their more sensitive hear
| ing. The same may also be said of other
vibrations which are not feeble, but, on
| the contrary, intense and rapid-in fact
! so rapid as 10 be just beyond the human
| auditory scale. Mr. F. Cation, the ia
nous anthropologist, has invented a little
whistle with an adjustable plug, by which
it can be rendered more and more shrill
| until it ceases to give any true note at
all to our ears; yet a little dog may clear
ly hear it as whistle still, and respond
to its call.
If two glass plates are laid upon one
another in such a way that they form an
angle, and when next drop of oil is
placed between them, says the Horologi
cal Review, 1t will be found that this drop
will approach very closely to the corner
or near the point of the angle, if this an
gle is small. If the angle is made still
smaller, the drop of oil will draw away
from the DOint of tha anole. b,r o.arf,-..