The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The increasing number Of midwinter
bathers along the Jersey coast is calling
attention to the fact that the sea there in
winter is only little colder, if any, than
in summer, and the feat, while not to be
recommended a health measure, espec-
tally for people who are not robust, is
nevertheless not so wonderful as it sounds.
AT meeting of women's clubs in
Maine one of the speakers told of a girl
she had known early in life and who had
died insane. After the funeral the hus-
band remarked that he did not see why
Mary Ann should have took crazy for to
his knowledge she had not been out of
that kitchen for thirty years
When the new curfew ordinance went
into effect at Vineland, n. j. a few nights
ago the result was that every one, old
and young. turned out to see the fun.
burlesque parade was got up in which the
Mayor, councilmen and the president of
the Womans Christian Temperance Union
were represented by ludicrous dummies.
Boys broke into the High School, and tolled
the bell, and open defiance was given to
the local police, so great is the opposi-
ton to the curfew.
Nearly 1000, 600 900 yards of ribbon of all
shades and colors are consumed by the
fair sex in general of the continent or
Europe every year. OF this huge amount
France alone takes one-third, it being a
wel.-established fact that French women
are particularly prone to anything of a
snowy color. Britain comes next, but a
very long way behind, with 100000 yards,
and the rest is divided principally be-
tween Spain, Italy, Germany and Bel
GUM and smaller principalities. Blue
ard the HIGHER TiplxS fhn
1aVorite shades.
Government ordnance experts are gath
ering up unexploded shells around Santi-
ago, and are sending them to Washington
for examination by judges in order to de-
termine the reason why they did not ex-
plode when they struck the shore, so that
similar mistakes may be prevented in the
future and the responsibility fixed Capt.
| Donahoo of the bark Anita Berwind who
has just arrived at Philadelphia from the
scene of the recent conflict states that
| almost everywhere shells, apparently as
sound as when they were fired from the
| guns on the warships of SIMPSONS feet,
| can be picked up.
"A recent Siberian traveller narrates:
"At Sadonisk in the intensely cold nights
the silence was sometimes broken by a
| loud report as of a cannon. This was the
| bursting of one of the ice bubbles on the
| river; a phenomenon 1 had neither heard
nor read of before. The streams coming
| down from the hills were frozen on the
surface some six to nine inches thick. The
water beneath flowed faster than it could
| escape, and the pressure, on the principle
| of a hydraulic press, became irresistible
| First, the elasticity of the ice was seen
| by the rising of circular mounds some
six to eight feet in diameter and from four
| to five feet high. The bursting point came
| at last, with report like an explosion. The
water escaped, but soon froze again. have
seen scores of these ice hillocks in a few
versts of the river"
| Somebody has been discussing the orr
! gin of the skirt dance, which has begun
to lose its old popularity, not only on the
| stage, but in drawing rooms as we'll The
woman who invented the dance seems TO
have been more famous than anybody
| else says the New York Sun 1t was no
less a person than Emma Hart Lord Nell
sons Lady Hamilton. That is the person
Francisque Sarcey has selected as the real
| originator of the dance which in its some>
what degenerate and present estate is
| largely a matter of calcium lights and
dress goods. A letter which M. Sarcey
quoted was written by Goethe, ard de-
scribes what the French critic takes to
| b6 the OIlSlu Ol lIS dance. Inc famous
| German wrote in March, 1857: Sir Wiz
liam Hamilton, who is still the British am
| bassador here after having studied the
| works of nature for so long a time has
| found beautiful young woman the most
delightful thing in art or nature. She is an
| English woman very beautiful in face and
figure. She gives an entertainment dress
ed in Greek costume Her hair hangs
loose, she takes two shawls in her hands
md he y1rfae
and play of features that it is like a
dream. Kneeling, standing, sitting. she
assumes by turns an expression of exalta-
| ton, repentance, anxiety, remorse, af-
lection "
Rapid fire" or quick firing guns
are frequently referred to at this time.
but few laymen really appreciate the
meaning of the term, as contrasted with
the ''slow fire" breech loader, says the En-
| gineering News. The distinction is NOT
one of size, for the rapid fire system has
extended from one FOUNDER projectiles to
4-inch, 5-inch and 6-inch guns, throwing
| S6, 20, and 100-pound shot OF she'll The
essential difference is in the method of
loading. Instead of opening the breech
and inserting the proiectile and the DOW
der separately, the latter in a bunting bag.
ammunition is now prepared as for small
arms; the ball, powder and firing primer
are united; the powder in a metallic case
attached TO the shot, and the primer in
| the center of the base of this case There
| are number of types of rapid-fire guns,
differing in the way this fixed ammuni-
ton is fed to the guns and fired The
6 FOUNDER (2.24-inch calber) rapid fire
guns of the Hotchkiss. briggs Schroeder,
| Northumberland and Spousel types can
| discharge 100 shots in minutes 26 seconds,
minutes 25lA seconds, 4 minutes Al sec
onds and minutes 561a seconds respective
ly, or twenty to twenty-five shots per
minute with accuracy of aim. Without
attempt at accuracy of aim the rate can
be increased to thirty or thirty-five shots
per minute. With 5-inch rapid fire guns,
or 7O-pounders, thirty-six shots have been
| fired in Eve minutes.
An English woman who died at Caen, in
Normandy, where she had lived for many
years in strict seclusion, left $4,000 to the
London City Mission says an exchange.
She lived the life of a miser, and was
| at last in her S6th year, found by her