The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

girls 70 death in the Wakkerstroom dis
trict some months ago has been sent need
to two years hard labor. NJ Id as the
sentence Will appear 10 those who cor ectly
estimate the value of human fe. f. as
astounded the relatives and friends OF the
accused. 1t says a good deal for the ju
that tney did moi decide on an acquittal,
seeing that the state attorney stated
the raad not so long ago that to thrash
native servant 10 death was not a dislon-
oring crime"
An English clergyman publishes the
following notice in the parish paper: THE
vicar earnestly requests the parishioners
to put their family graves in order. He
would also remind the men who smoke
cigarettes and whistle tunes on the graves
that the churchyard is not the parish dust
bin. If, therefore, they are unable to get
rid Of the paper packets In which they
purchase their pennyworths of flags 9TH
er than be depositing them in the church.
yard, will they be so very kind as to let
him have them on Sunday mornings after
service? He will also gladly receive any
other litter, such as tin cans and paper
bags, which have hitherto been so lavishly
deposited upon Gods acre.
Most people seem to think" says a
maker of furniture that secret drawers
and hidden receptacles in furniture only
no means So 1 very frequently take or
ders for such items, and I employ clev-
er woman designer, who shows positive ge-
MUS in planning places of concealment
which no amount of tapping or measuring
could reveal. In most cases, even were the
hollow receptacle discovered the wood
work around would have to be cut away
SO complex are the fastenings. Most of
the orders come from wonderland rich
people, of course-and l have no doubt
that desire to hide articles from too Gu
rious servants dictates the orders"
An interesting paper by P. Of. Dewar on
the solidihcation OF hydrogen. read at
recent meeting of the British Assoela ton.
shows that hydrogen is not metal as il
was formerly supposed to be. but presents
IN the solid state the appearance of frozen
water. 1t does not, as was expected, re-
semble frozen mercury. The temperature
of the solid is sixteen degrees absolute at
a certain pressure, and it melts at sixteen
or seventeen deg es, the lower limit of tenn
perature obtainable by its evaporation be-
ing fourteen degrees absolute-that is
fourteen degrees above the absolute zero.
hydrogen Is the last of the old gases to be
soldided, and Prof. Dewars achievement
has brought him many compliments He
has also succeeded in Hquifying he,ium
AS mixture of hydrogen with air is a
dangerous explosive, the professor has
been congratulated on being alive 10 tell
the tale of the solidiication of hydrogen.
Perhaps the most effectual system
with the mutineer in church." writes Ian
Maclaren in the November Ladies' Home
journal, lis not scolding and stormng. but
a policy OF isolation. AS Nature makes
a cyst and incloses any strange materiai
so that it be kept separate from the body.
let this man be imprisoned in a place by
n i'm h.
upon church affairs, let the other person
answer on the state of the weather; and
II 'he criticise sermon, say that you are
sorry to hear of his dyspepsia. If he rises
to speak at a church meeting let the ST.
lence be such as may be felt, and after
he has spoken let the chairman call for
the next business as if he had never ex-
isted If he has ever TO be spoken to.
the best plan is to treat him as an alb
surdity, and play around him with ridi-
cule, for this will give much innocent
amusement to other people, and it is the
particular attack which he cannot stand.
Between loneliness and laughter he will
depart to another church"
Cuban war relics" says the Phila-
delphia Record, seem to be a drug on
the market, while, on the other hand. the
scarcity of scrap iron is almost unprece-
dented. These two circumstances have
great quantities of shot and shell from
the battletields of Cuba, which are being
shaped up at prices varying from SIS to $l7
a ton. In fact, all kinds of old iron. be
they relics or not, are coming this way
from the West Indies From Cuban sugar
Plantations which were wrecked during
the war large consignments of disused iron
are being sent. A vessel carrying a car
go made up of 1000 ions of this old metal
together with several hundred cannon
balls, is now on its way to this port whila
5VVO cannon balls were recently consigned
to Glasgow direct from Cuba Negotia-
tons are now pending for the Importation
into the United States of all the Old iron
that can be found Five thousand tons
have been shipped here from Cuba within
the last two months"
One of those extraordinary cases saws
the Allahabad Pioneer, that police work
in India occasionally brings to light came
to notice almost accidentally in a district
OF the northwest provinces. Two consta- !
bies, Nobhat Singh and Rup Ram. while
patrolling on their beat, overheard in |
conversation that mali named Durba had
murdered his wife. They took the man IN |
the police station at once, and he there |
stated before the officer In charge that his |
wife had been suffering from ieprosy: that |
latterly The complaint had become worse |
and that the woman had desired to be bur |
led alive in order that her children should |
not inherit the disease. In compliance |
with her opportunities he and his son dug |
a hole outside the village and buried the |
woman alive in it, four neighbors assisting |
them In covering the unhappy creature in,
Inc SIX nave been arrested and have con-
Iessed 10 the deed before magistrate |
Ihere seems to be no doubt about the |
truth OF the story that the woman sacri- |
hced herself for the sake of her children
and that her husband and those who helm
ed him acted in good faith. The supersti-
ton, however, that the self-immolation of
leper is a protection against the trans
mission OF the faint would appear to be a
very rare one.
of all the bloody traditions of nediae-
val Italy, and especially of the feuds of the
Guelphs and Gh.bellines, the most horri-
Bile, perhaps, is the story of Count TrroIino
della Gherardesca. With his sons. Gaddo |
and Useccime, and two nephews. Ansel
muccio and Ugolino II Brisata, he was i'm
priSoned and condemned IN star,,at{o,, -,