The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-27
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try, but with increased means it will take
its place among the Understanding instr
tUtions of technical instruction in the
world. Already students from India, Aus
traha, Japan and other countries have
been attracted to it, and with its facili-
ties, which win be materially increased,
it is certain to become one of the features
of Chicago. The institute has been the
pet child of Mr.. Armour, and in its growth
and wonderful development under DR..
Gunsaulus' administration he finds his
chief enjoyment"
"A Madison (Wis.) dispatch says: Prof.
R. W. Wood, instructor in physics in the
University of Wisconsin, has originated
the idea of thawing out frozen water
pipes with electricity and made two sue
cessful experiments. He takes the electric
current used for street lighting purposes,
attaches one wire to the frozen pipe in
side the cellar of the house and the other
wire to a similar pipe in the adjoining or
any other house, thus completing the cir
cult. current of about fifty volts is
then turned on, heating the pipes and
melting the ice within At the residence
of former Senator w. F. Villas $50 feet
of frozen lead pipes was thawed out in
eighteen minutes. Prof. Wood used a
TRANSFORMER to reduce the voltage, so
that the current will not melt the pipes.
"A London doctor Tucker Wise by
name, has issued a solemn warning against
the keeping of canaries. Ten per cent of
these birds. he AYERS, die of consumption,
ana they often distribute the disease among
the unfeathered bipeds who entertain them.
Well, one more danger of this sort hardly
counts in these days when everything
from kisses to Bibles has been denounced
as a source of Infection. while ago,
says the New York Times, folks were ad-
vised to get rid of their parrots, nominally
for the same crime now charged against
the canaries, but the suggestion is be-
leVed to have come from somebody who
hated parrots-there are such persons
and no attention was paid to it, Possibly
the smaller birds may also have their
enemies. and Tucker Wise sounds like
the name of man who would be inclined
10 sleep late o mornings
"A Kansas soldier in the Philippines,
writing home some time ago, spoke thus
Of Aguinaldos cabinet: MANY of them
are ignorant and greatly in need of educa-
tional ability; most of them are honest,
some are rascais of the worst type and
all need to learn something of the art
and science of war. If they are ever
engaged in a deadly conflict they will be
found wanting in the commonest class OF
military movements and will have their
followers slaughtered like sheep in a
butcher pen. All they know about war is
what they have learned in resisting the
Spanish, and that was nothing more than
a guerilla warfare of the poorest sort To
come out and meet a foe on an open bat
tlefeld would be a new experience for
them, and they are not inclined to face
that kind of music"
The reaf and genuine chief attraction of
the Paris Exposition of 1900 seems at last
to have been found. 1t is to be true
volcano crowned with bona fide flames
and vomiting real lava" This at least,
NJ. Jodice the devicer of this scheme
promises to present to the view of the mil
lions that are expected to visit the I'M
paralleled exhibition of the City of Light
The affair is to be established close to
the famous Eiffel tower. 1t will be 325
feet high, ASS feet in diameter and about
1882 feet in circumference, and it will cost
100000 francs, or s1,2OO.O00 Its outside
surface will be planted with trees and bed
6ed in the most careful manner, so as to
become one of the popular promenades of
the great show. In the volcanoes interior
will be panoramas such as Dante's I'm
ferno" and the Paradise" etc. Real lava
will come tumbling out of the crater, and
with the aid of fireworks at night a very
realistic spectacle may be expected.
The lawmakers of the United States
took no official note of last Ash Wednes-
day, although the Senate has frequently
adjourned on that day out of respect for
the religious opinions of certain Of it's
members. While Mr. Edmunds was one
of its number. he always moved for ad-
journment on religious anniversaries
and Mr.. Bayard usually followed the
same custom. Mr.. Voorhees, once at
tempted to- It's an old story, says a writer
in the Philadelphia Press but 1 think
you'll agree that it is worth repeating
The gentleman from Indiana was not a
churchman and his little blunder caused
him for long afterward no small an
noyance at the hands of his friends, the
late Attorney General Garland and Sena-
tor Vest. Letters came to him because
of it from all over the country. And this
just because one Ash Wednesday he
arose at the opening of the session and
with great solemnity, remarked: Mr.
President, 1 move that the Senate do
now adjourn out of respect to this, the
anniversary of the crucihxion of our
Lord" But the stenographers set him
right on the record.
Dredging has been successfully resort
eu 10 III recovering a valuable diamond
ring that was lost in Petaluma creek, says
the Stockton Independent Recently the
owner of the ring was standing on a
bridge just below Petaluma, across an arm
of the creek, when his diamond ring slip
ped from his finger and fell through A
crack in the bridge and into about eight
feet of water. The stone in the ring cost
without the mounting, $500. The owner
hated to give it up, yet he did not know
how to go TO work 30 get il out In his
perplexity he applied to Capt. John Hack
EFT, man of experience in dredging,
though on a somewhat larger scale than
hunting for so small a thing as a ring
The loser of the ring had been thoughtful
enough to mark the place in the bridge
where the ring fell through. Hackett
rugged a small clamshell bucket, to be op-
Grated by hand. With a rope this was
dropped through the bridge at the place
marked, and bucket of mud was brought
from the bottom of the bayou. 1t was
taken to the bank and washed out. A
second and then third was tried, and in
the third was found the ring.
The recent loss Of the Inflated vacht