The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-08
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iitical refugees has been given up. A
Russian journalist named Bourtzeff has
been sent to jail for eighteen months for
publishing in London pamphlet in which
assassination of czars was justified.
DIR. A. W. Nelson of New London,
Conn, has invented a policeman's club,
coated with semi-yulcanized rubber, which,
he claims, is efficiently yielding to pre-
vent blow with the club from fractur-
ing the skull, while still being sufficiently
convincing to the unruly arrestee.
One of the Oldest and most curious
samples of the locksmith's art is attached
to the door of Temple Church, Fleet street,
London. The key weighs seven pounds, is
Is inches long, and unlike other keys, it
was not made for the lock- On the con-
trary, the lock was made for the key.
The Oldest match factory in the world
long before the old, roughly trimmed
was discarded with the finder boxes for
which they were used In twenty-five
years the export trade of Sweden in for
eign matches increased to 1,OOO,OOO,O00 box
es a year.
I'm the sixteenth century there was
curious law in England whereby street
hawkers were forbidden to sell plums and
apples for the reason that servants and
apprentices were unable to resist the sight
of them and were, consequently, tempted
to steal their employers money in order
to enjoy the costly delicacies.
old Cairo is changing visibly. The cleo
trio tramway to the Pyramids is an ac-
complished fact. and the eight-mile trip
before so expensive-is now possible for
a few pence. Ismail's great causeway will
in no way be spoiled, as the rails have
been laid right along the side of the ave-
nue., and, indeed are scarcely noticeable.
Tulips are cultivated in Constantinople,
and there is a tulip festival there once a
year in spring. Every palace, room, gal
lery and garden is decorated with tulips
of every kind. At night they are all light
ed by colored lamps and Bengal fires, and
the Sultan sits in their midst while wo-
men sing around him and his odalisques
dance before him.
The Oldest piece of wrought iron in
existence is believed to be d roughly
fashioned sickle-blade found by Belzoni in
Karnas, near Thebes. 1t was imbedded
in mortar under the base of the Sphinx,
and on that account is known as 1.-The
sickle of the Sphinx" 1t is now in the
British Museum, and is believed to be
nearly 1900 years old.
The law of Afghanistan is, in theory,
the same with that of Mofammedan coun
tries in general-that of the Khoran. This
is, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,
and enables the party wronged to avenge
himself on a relative If circumstances pre-
vent him from reaching the aggressor in
person. Hence, a point of honor, which
no man may waive except with disgrace.
An ingenious stage waterfall devised
by NJ. Gailhard has attracted attention
at the Paris opera balls. 1t is made Of
tulle stretched on frames initiating the
curves of a fall. Behind it little streams
of water are discharged through fperfo-
rated pipes against a metal plate, so as
to throw spray upon the tulle. When
the electric light is played on this the eff
feet is magical.
For cleaning optical lenses a German
technical journal recommends vegetable
pith. For this purpose the medulla of
rushes, elders, or sunflowers is cut out, the
pieces dried and pasted singly alongside
of one another upon a piece of cork,
whereby a brush-like apparatus is obtain
ed which is passed over the surface of the
lens. For very small lenses pointed pieces
of elder pith are employed.
Few even of the lovers of Charles
Dickens are aware that portion of the
old Marshalsea prison yet stands hidden
away behind the borough High street and
st. Georges Church, but the remaining
wards of the prison, which once was the
home of MIR. and Mrs. Micawber when
THAT gentleman's affairs had arrived at
a "crisis," says the London Mail, are
about to disappear. The new scheme
which has been undertaken by the L. c.
c., for the continuation of Tabard street
into the High street, passes the east end
of all that is left of the old Marshalsea
through the church in which Little Dor
rift spent the night when she had been
locked OUT will stand as monument
of the great novelist's creation. The gate
way of the prison, up to court No. 205
High street. stood until few years ago.
and The new warehouse entrance-for the
ward which was left so utilized-bears the
inscription, This site was originally the
Marshalsea prison, made famous bv
Charles Dickens in his well known work.
Little Dorrit." The windows of the
prison ward can be seen from the court
alluded to, which is the second court on
the right hand side of the borough High
street going from st. Georges Church
toward LONDON Drldge. DickinS was very
fond of painting this district, and it was in
the adjacent Liant street that Mr.. Bob
Sawyer entertained Mr. Pickwick and
friends
An organ which the leading organIst Of
New York could not play is now being
used by professors of Cornell College. saws
the Chicago Chronicle. This organ is nor.
as might be supposed, out of tune. 1t is
because it is in perfect tune that il dif
fers so radically from an ordinary organ.
The ordinary organ, such as Is used in
churches and drawing rooms is not in
tune, even after the maker has lust de-
clared it to be in perfect order The Cor
nell organ was invented by Won Helm
holtz, and it contains a purely mathemati-
cal scale. 1t Is made for the composition
of chords such as are not to be obtained
on an ordinary instrument, and is used tn
study the vibration of notes. and of what
tones an organ note is made. Every tone in
music is to be found on this organ. For
instance, what are known as sharps ard
Hats on piano are not really sharps and
flats. c sharp and D fiat'are struck IN tho
same black key. but, strictly speaking. that
black key is neither; it is a note of tone
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