The morning news., 1899-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1901 NAAAON iAOLLAAS- inns Wlkl reHeNG a
man judge, for instance, from dete~nin-
ing questions as to fit in suits brought by
dressmakers against their clients; and il
ought TO do away also with much expert
testimony in such cases.
"A football team composed Of Kaf1rz
from the Orange Free State is now in
England. 1t is composed principally Of
members Of the Basuto tribe, though two
| are Hottentots. All of the PLAYERS speak
English huently and profess unbounded
| loyalty to the Queen and to British au-
tnorlty in South Africa. They look upon
| the Beers as enemies who keep their kind
IN slavery until Great Britain interfered.
Prof. Bergman, the great surgeon of
| the Berlin University, states that the heal
, ing power Of the Roentsen rays is imagin-
I ary. The determination of the presence
and position of foreign bodies has been
extremely succe ssful with the Roentgeh
| rays, as is wen known. Their use in con-
| hectlon with broken bones has also been
very satisfactory. The hope of discover
| ing, by the aid of the Roen gen rays. the
position of gall stones has not been full
filled
A perpetual calendar has been con-
structed by Frenchman named Jagot. It
cons SITS Of five wheels having a total of
ninety-six teeth and of nine levers or
! catches. 1t indicates automatically, with
out any attention save winding. the day
OF the week, the date and the month and
shows the 29th Of February every four
years, besides suppressiug it in the centen-
ary years that are not leap years and
showing 1t in those that are.
"A wedding was recently celebrated at
Saint German PAuxerrois one of the most
ancient churches in Paris, at which The
entlre bridal party arrived in some TWEEN v
motor cars of the newest pattern. The
brides and bridegroom's carriage we're
decked out with white lilac chrysantbe-
| NUNS and ferns. The others were merely
resplendent with brilliant new paint Aft
er the ceremony as the party drove away
TO Saint Cloud, the mechanicians of the
cars played a kind of discordant wedding
march on the foghorns and trumpets with
which automobiles are customarily pro-
vided.
The Cape Town correspondent of
London paper says that of the sum of u
shillings pence, which was the total
amount in the Boer treasury at the time
| of the gold find on the Rand, President
Kruger thoughtfully appropriated the only
| gold coin with the remark 'The last Of
the old gold and the old luck" He has
| since worn the coin as a charm upon his
| watch chain, and is said to have regard
| ed 1t with feeling of almost superstitious
| Veneration Some two months ago how
| ever, 1t became accidentally detached and
| all efforts to find 1t have been in vain. The
| President has been inconsolable for the
loss, regarding it as an omen of dsas-
ter.
"A dispatch dated Chicago, Nov p,
says: A pendulum 300 feet long swung in
the Masonic Temple to-day. BY means of
the pendulum and some falling balls,
which had been specially prepared for the
occasion, Prof. Bevis of the Armour In
stitute gave practical demonstrations of
certain mathematical laws. The deviation
from the laws of gravitation was demon
strated by means of the immense pendu-
lum. This deviation is caused by the ro-
tation of the earth, and in the few min
utes that the pedumlum swung it had be-
gun TO revolve in a horizontal circle which
would have been completed in thirtv-six
hours of constant motion had the heavy
ball been allowed to swing that long The
weight and motion of the pendulum were
neither accelerated nor retarded except
by the influence of gravity and the at
mosphere. Three hundred feet of the fin
est wire were used in suspending the
weight, thus making it an almost perfect
pendulum.
TN crossing over to Liverpool recent
ly," says a business man, quoted by the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, q noticed
that our dinner bills of fare were printed
on cards especially designed for mailing
ON the back We're several ruled lines for
the address, place to aff1x a penny stamp
and the usual Inscription stating that they
could be mailed under the present laws
of the International Postal Union. 1t
struck me as being a particularly good
idea, and one that could be advantageous
ly adopted by hotels and restaurants al
most anywhere. A traveller for example,
in passing through New Orleans, would
be glad to send some such souvenir to his
friends at home, especially when 1t in
Volved no trouble beyond writing an ad-
dress and pastng on a stamp. I was sur
prised during very brief stay in Europe
to see how generally the post card scheme
was being used for advertising purposes
Almost every business house of any con-
sequence had cards containing pictures
of the store-sometimes of the exterior
and sometimes of odd hooks and corners
inside, most of them very handsomely
done"
Recent progress in Siam shows that
that country is developing rapidly, espe-
ciady in the matter of railways The
greater part Of the railways now in opera
tion in Siam have been built within the
1891, runs from Bangkok, the capital. to
Pak-Nam, at the mouth of the Menam
river, distance of ff cen miles II now
pays a regular dividend of per cent with
probability of increase as other roads de-
Veop different sections of the country. A
government line l65 miles in length extends
from the capital 10 Korat. IL was begun
in 1892. is standard gauge, and has been
built at a cost of $4,000 gold per mile, the
materials having been imported from Eng
land, Germany and Belgium. Still another
line, from Ban Magee to Chienmai a dis
tance of 400 miles, has been begun. This
will also be standard gauge and will oc-
cupy many years in building, the greater
part of the materials having yet to be pur-
chased. Various other and shorter lines
have been surveyed-or franchises obtain
ed, at least-and the immediate future
promises a remarkable development in
railroad building in this country-a fact
American manufacturers viii do we'll to
take note of.
One of our consuls has sent in a report
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