The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Virginia. The picture shows that the grave
of President john Tyler. at Richmond,
Va, Is absolutely nmarked-even by
small maidstone. Visitors 10 Hollywood
Genet ery are shown a scarcely perceptibie
mound, over which magnolia tree spreads
its shade in summer, as the restng-place
Of our tenth President. The burial-places
of all the others are marked with monu-
ments or tombs, except those of the two
Adamses, who are buried under the portico
of the First Church at Quincy, Mass
"A packing case which contained Pc
ruvian mummy intended for museum in
Client, was recently opened by mistake at
an English railway station, thereby caus-
ing the authorities no end of trouble. Muir
der was at first suspected. but the cor
oner's Jury disposed of the case in quick
order, rendering this unique verdict: That
the woman was found dead at the railway
goods station, Sun street on April 15 and
did die on some date unknown, in some
foreign country, probably South America,
from some cause unknown. No proofs
of a violent death are found, and the body
has been dried and buried in some foreign
manner probably sun-dried and cave-bur-
led. and the jurors are satisfied that this
body does not show any recent crime in
this country, and that the deceased was un-
known and about twenty-five years OF
age"
One of the homes of the great d'Artag-
nan has just been discovered in Paris by
NJ. de Grouchy, the antiquarian. In day
book belonging TO one Maitre Caillet, a
Paris notary, NJ. de Grouchy has found
an inscription stating that "Maitre Pierre
Cadeau does let and duly devise to Pierre
dArtagnan, chevalier brigadier captain,
and major general of the Kings army,
house, with large entry, situated in the
Rue de Richelieu for LOO livres a year"
The lease is signed, "Cadeau and Artag-
man," the latter being evidently not as
proficient with the pen as with the sword.
This interesting discovery-and it is
amusing to note that d'Artagnan should
choose house named after his most pow
erful enemy-is rendered doubly interest
ing from the fact that it clears up once
and for all the vexed question as to OAR
tagnan's Christian name, which was
Pierre.
The Saxon ministry of education has
issued a regulation forbidding girls at
tending all the public schools in the king
dom TO wear corsets. The reason given
for this measure is that the corset is
undoubtedly injurious to health, as II
girls are expected to wear a loose-ftting
jacket in the form of a blouse. A remark
able counterpart to this forethought ON
the part of the government is provided bv
recent decision of the Dresden municipal
authorities not to accept proposals for tho
construction of school baths, The town
fathers were of the opinion that as il has
always been the task of parents to see
that their children are kept clean. IL is
decldedly wrong TO relieve parents of too
many of their duties. The vice chairman
Is reported TO have given himself as an
example of one who had grown up well
and strong, although he knew little about
baths in his youth.
The tomb of Esther and Mordecai. the
famous characters in the Old Testament
DOCK OF Esther, has been discovered In
Hamedan, Persia. The inscriptions on
the sarcophage and the tomb itself. which
have been deciphered and translated
prove its identity. In view of the fact
that some writer's have tried to discredit
the Biblical story, In whose commemora-
ton the festival of Purim Is still annually
celebrated by the Hebrews, this discovery
is important. The Juedische Taeeblatt In
a description of the tomb, states that Il is
sixty feet high and evidently has received
trance, which is to the left of the center
leads TO an outer passage, which contains
on one side the memorial of some ancient
sage and on the other that of a physician
with stand bearing lamps in front of
each. A wall separates the sacred part
from the outer sections, at whose western
end door leads to the principal sepulchre
To the right is Mordecais tomb, and to
the left Esther's. A corridor between the
graves forms a passage for the pilgrims
to the shrine. A scroll of the Mosaic law
was found preserved in a niche and an
ostrich egg suspended from the dome, the
latter being the custom in all Persian
tombs.
In an article on wireless telegraphy a
London electrician states that its electro
magnetic waves, set in motion by each tap
of the key, travel at the rate of 16S, 900
miles a second. They pass through stone
and wood and brick as easily as light
passes through glass. They are, however
absorbed by metals or conductors of cleo
tricity No sooner has the operator sent
his waWegram across the channel than a
mysterious tapping is heard by his col
league at Boulogne. This comes from the
coherer, the sensitive instrument which de-
tects and records the waves. Signor Mar
COM has still several serious obstacles To
overcome. He has to discover some means
or preventing the collection or his tele-
grams at any point within the area of
wave commotion. For example. the mes
sages to the French coast, which go to
the Goodwin lightship, would be recorded
III any snip or at any part of the coast
where they happened to be a receiver I'm
der present. conditions, it is as though a
man We're to stand on the English coast
and TO shout through megaphone into q.
series OF ear-trumpets dotted along the
shores OF France. DR.. Slaby of Berlin
mas estimated that base line of $500 feet
would serve for communication across the
Atlantic We're it not for the curvature Of
'Ae earth Marconi has already made i'm
ProVements to reduce this estimate hnt
the pracucability of such an extension a.
present appears very remote
by the aid of improved machinery that
which at the beginning of the century ,raa
the luxury of the rich is now the comfort
OF the poor. Material and labor are no
longer the sole factors of production sa,s
the Engineering Magazine. Assisted nv M
emery and tools, mans labor now 80,