The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

charlton tAlOD courier, dlleI pay iuS A4An
fines resulting from an alteration with
Sumner uncomfortable in Mayor /. ".
Dempsey's court last Monday, still has the
town in debt to him 500, and unless we
can realize on that soon we may be com
! peeled to take il out in pugilistic punches.
! If we have any enemies who would like
| to be punched 50 20 worth, we may con
| clude 10 accommodate them if they first
give US an opportunity to recover from the
effects of the slugging contest to which
we were a party last Monday"
Mr. Forster Brown, president of the
Mining Association of Great Britain, in a
lecture the other day in London on the
| available sources of the coal supply of
| Great Britain and its bearing upon the
| future prosperity of the country, said the
| best of the coal resources at a moderate
| depth of 1900 feet, and of the best quality
| cheaply worked wouldst last about fifty
| years, but there would stll remain I'M
exhausted the best seams al great depths
and thin seams at shallow depths suf11-
| Gent to maintain a supply of coal of ESQ.,
100000 tons a year for $50 years.
An old-tme folders contest took place
the other day in Charlestown, Ind. The
! following prizes were offered for the best
| performance of the tunes named: Money
AuShI pan VI SlNtp SllcdAos l-CPtAiAA
| Breeches," corn CUTTER "Old Dan Tuck
err" pair of pants mo one barred; Rye
| Straw" fine hat; Pop Goes the Weasel, F."
! 81 worth of jewelry; Devils Dream 81
worth of groceries; Girl I Left Behind
Me-" 81 worth of cigars; "Suwanee River"
| 81 worth of groceries; Arkansas Travel
err" 81 in cash; Dixie" 80 cents worth
| of soap; Yankee Doodle large coffee
pot; "Raggedy Bill" rocking chair;
l1-s,, gs,s.1f !. linn loe1f
"Gulderoy" twenty-five pounds of flour;
Home, Sweet Home" 81 worth of goods;
Flowers of Edinburgh" one fine hat.
Mannheim Pa, has felt itself famous
ever since the Philadelphia Record chron-
icled the fact that Samuel Hamaker of
| that place had the champion long beard.
At least the Mannheim people thought
that Samuels beard, which is forty-four
inches long, stood a championship chance.
The following letter, however. will dash
their hopes to the earth: Minneapolis,
| Mimi, May TO- '99.-Dear Sir: l saw your
boast of the length of Mr. Hamaker's
| beard. / know of a Norwegian, Hans
| Langseth of Glyndon, Mimi, who can cas-
| lily dance on the end of his beard, stand
ing erect. He is a six-footer, and think
ne is entitled to the championship. His
| beard is sixty-two inches long. I would
be interested TO know if there are any 9TH
ers who think they can beat Mr.. Lang
| seth, who is a farmer He wears his
beard coiled inside his vest when he
works. Very truly, o. B. Stevens"
A. E. Bernays, a graduate of Keble
College. oxford. and a government inspec-
tor of schools in England, now visiting in
this country says: The most surprising
thing TO me is the social position of your
public school teachers and principals. l
understand that the education, culture,
taste and friends of a teacher alone de-
termine his or her standing in society. Con
sequently you get very superior men and
women for the work. In England, with
the exception of very few head mas
ters and mistresses in the larger schools
the teacher has no recognition whatever,
In some of the smaller places he or she
may occasionally visit the clergyman and
his wife, but under no consideration will
the family of the village doctor condescend
to notice the teacher. The position of
private governess in good family is con-
sdered of a much higher social standard
than that of teacher in the public schools
The salaries, too, are very low compared
with yours. The masters will not average
more than $500 a year, and the mistresses
$3.50. These result in our drawing our
teachers almost entirely from the lower
classes, and the children, of course, must
suffer"
There will be innumerable interesting
novelties at the Paris Exposition One of
the most popular will undoubtedly be the
artificial volcano. Few people are lucky
enough to see a real volcano in action and
| Will welcome the chance to view its coun-
terfeit. 1t will be built says the Scien-
tific American, at Grenele, on the banks
of the Seine; will be 1928 feet high and
4S5 feet in diameter From the figures
one sees that il will be in reality a small
mountain visitors will have the privilege
of climbing. The sides of the mountain
will be provided with shady roadways and
| footpaths, so as to make the trip to the
top very agreeable. The framework of
the volcano will require no less than 49,
100000 pounds of iron and steel, and the
earth that covers it viii be real turf A
| roadway twenty-five feet wide will wind
spirally up a level of 240 feet and viii
be decorated with climbing plants. bow
ers and trees One hundred and twenty
feet from the bottom there will be a cir
cular platform, 900 feet in circumference
called "the Alley of the Twentieth Cen
fury" Vegetation will be arranged up-
ward from the bottom so that visitors will
| pass from the flora of the Mediterran ea n
to the stunted shrubs usually found at the
craters of volcanoes, Paths will lead to
various restaurants and concert halls. and
there viii also be a reproduction of Dan
te's Inferno" In the evening the sum-
init will always be surmounted with a
cloud of smoke, three eruptions will take
place at fixed hours and an imitation lava
will prove interesting.
Bad science occasionally gets into the
newspapers as well as into the magazines.
says the New York Times, and in the for
mer, since there it may escape expert at
tenuon and REPUTATION, it may do consider
able harm by encoura ging ignorant but
ingenious mechanics to waste their time
and money in efforts to accomplish the
utterly impossible. For example, we no.
tice in the Cleveland Plain Dealer grave
description of clock that approaches
very near to perpetual motion" Study Of
the details given shows that the clock
in question differs from other cocks sim
{ ply in that instead of being wound IN
once day or once week. it is kept going
by an electric battery. The approach 70
perpetual notion is therefore, neither
close remote the man -,