The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


mined enough for their court. So they in
tend hereafter TO wear black silk gowns
similar 10 those worn by justices of the
supreme bench Surrogate James NJ. Va.-
mum will set the fashion on Oct. l.
The Russian minister of railways has
prepared a time table showing that when
the trans-Siberian Railway is finished the
journey around the world can be made in
thlrty-three days as follows: From st.
Petersburg TO Nladiyostock, ten days; from
there to San Francisco ten days; to New
York, four and a half DAYS; to Bremen.
seven days and to st. Petersburg, one and
a half days.
A dispatch dated WiIkesbarre. Aug. s,
says: Little Margaret Allen of Spring
Brook, this county, has been fasting six
ty-tour days Yesterday the childs par
ents were much encouraged when they
persuaded her TO eat a part of a cookie
ana drink few swallows of milk. She
parJook of the few morsels, not because
of any craving or even desire for food
and it was with difficulty and apparently
with no relish that she forced the food
into her stomach. After that il was
thought she could be persuaded to eat
frequently, and possibly very soon partake
OF food at regular intervals. But the par
ents were doomed to disappointment, for
she has not tasted another morsel. The
child is literally starving herself for no
apparent reason except that hunger is
unknown to her.
"A prisoners queer freak caused con-
siderable embarras sment last week in a
criminal court at Toronto Junction, in
Canada, says the New York Sun When
sent for TO be araisned the man was found
lying in his cell with all his clothes off, and
ne refused to put them on or go into court
except as he was. The officers had to
handcuff him and dress him by force IL
Putnam county, some years ago, when
Mr. Justice Cullen was holding a Court
of Oyer and Terminer, a burly negro wo-
man, VINO was a prisoner in the county
jail, adopted similar measures for keep
ing out of the court room. The sheriff
reported TO the judge that the lady was
completely disrobed and refused TO come
The court directed him to wrap a blanket
around her and bring her as she was
Upon hearing this order, she clothed her
self and went with the officers without
further parley
"A hat manufacturer in Indiana has
organized a company to breed Belgian
hares and already has 300 fine hares in
tract of land inclosed by wire netting
says the ClOthiers' and Haberdashers'
Weekly. 1t expects to raise /, O000 900 hares
annually. Since the practical extinction
of the beaver there has been a sad lack of
nome grown furs suitable for hat manu-
facture, and we have been compelled to
wear upon our heads the product of the
pauper bunnies of Europe and Australia
Everyone who has had any experience
with the fecundity of the hare will wonder
at the moderation of the promoters of the
plan in estimating the output at a paltry
million a year. The hare growers will do
well to take precautions that will keep
the animals from dominating the soil like
the rabbits in Australia. Perhaps If the
plan proves successful we shall see the
day when a rabbit warren or hare ranch
VIII be an adjunct to every hat factory.
"A dispatch dated Laramie, Wyo., Aug.
9, says: DIR. w. ]. Holland of the Car
negie Museum, Pittsburg Pa. who has
large force of scientific people working
in the great fossil quarry near Laramie
Wyo., stated to-day that Dr.. ]. L. Worl-
man and DR.. Coggshall, formerly of the
American Museum of Natural History
who have charge of the work in the Car
negie fossil quarry in Wyoming, have dis
covered and exhumed a monster fossil din
osaur in a nearly perfect state. This an
lmdl had long neck, tail and hind legs
and short front legs, the whole length of
| the animal being sixty feet, and it stood
| twenty feet at the hips, The thigh bone
or femur being six feet long and fifteen
inches in diameter 1--WE found the fossil
near the surface" said DR.. Holland, land
We already have the vertebral column. the
centrum of the largest Vertebra being
twelve inches in diameter; eighteen ribs
which are about six feet long; the entire
pelvic girdle, which is something very few
persons have got complete most of the
bones of the legs and feet, and | believe
We will get them all. We also have near
ly all the cervical vertebrate. and are fol-
lowing them into the bluff, and hope to
| get the bones of the head"
Much difficulty has been experienced in
keeping liquid air from evaporatlng while
being conveyed from the place of produc-
| ton to the place where it is proposed to
use it, says the Boston Journal of Com
| merce. The fluid is very volatile and it
| readily absorbS heat from the walls of the
| vessel which contain it and from the sur
| rounding atmosphere. Prof. Dewar devised
| a receptacle for storing small quantities
| which was an excellent affair." as far as if
! went But an Austrian chemist has gone a
| step further. The Englishman's plan was
| TO construct a globular vessel with double
| walls that were half an inch or more apart
| except at the mouth, where they came to-
| gether. From the intervening space-which
| was air-tight-the air was carefully ex-
| hausted The vacuum prevented the alb
| sorption of heat from the outside, and act
| ed as an insulator. Nevertheless a little
warmth was dDle TO penetrate ana, IN con-
| sequence, evaporation would occur. The
Austrian method resembles this But it
provides coating of silver amalganr on
the inner surface of the outer wall The
coating serves as reflector for any heat
rays that may faE upon the vessel from
outside, and that is the only quarter from
which they could come The Austrian flask
| differs from Dewar's in form also. Its
shape is that of two cones placed base to
base Like the globular holder, it must be
supported on ring standard.
THE magnetic currents that exist in
the earth constitute a problem that sci
ence has done very little toward explain
ing" remarked a gentleman of this city
who has had a great deal of experience
in mining, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat. "Apropos of the subject. I
can tell you curious little story. Some
years ago a steel drill was driven 200
feet straight down through a deposit of
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