The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ing to buy the cage in which Dreyfus was
confined on Devils Island. They have az
ready written 10 the President of France
about it Offering a large sum for 1t, and
if they receiN e il will p ace ii on exhibition
in this coun ~. Now IL there really was no
cage the French government should man
ufacture one at once.
The tides are now utilized for generat-
ing power at Pont TAbbe, Finisterre,
France, during fourteen hours a day At
flood tide the water flows through the ca
nal two and oue-haf miles inland into -
pond in the rear of the power house, and
returns to the sea at ebb tide. The total
fall is seven and one-half feet, and eighty
horsepower is generated by turbines.
Following the example set by Chicago,
The club women of New York are taking
steps to secure from the owners of large
buildings where many women are employ
ed the establishment of rest rooms, -
! where woman may retire for rest during
the noon luncheon hour. In Chicago the
landlords have grown to like the idea and
in all the new buildings put up there are
specially designed rest rooms.
Mr. Charles j. Tinsfey of Henrlco coun-
ty has a remarkable and most accommo-
dating pear tree says the Charlottesville.
y
tree has borne. A few days ago Mr.. Tinsley
gathered the fruit of this tree. He found
then that IL had produced a pear for each
member of his family-13 in all-he and his
wife and II children. The tree had rem am
bered every one. This pear tree did not do
lit e, sneaky things, either 1t bore not a
pear thai we, ghed less than a pound. The
pear for the old man weighed IS ounces,
and for the mother II ounces. Mr.. Tinsley
regrets nothing, save that his family was
not larger.
For years chemists nave been trying to
prepare an easily digested substitute for
meat. says the Boston Transcript A great
sensation was created in Germany last
spring by The announC enent that a profess
sOr OF Bonn had succeeded i'm preparing
an albuminous powder which he caMed tro-
pom, and one pound of which, he claimed
would be equal in nutritve value to five
pounds of meat or 100 eggs, while costing
only 70 cents. Experiments were made in
hospitals, with the result that nearly all
The patients prospered so wei that they
preferred the trO9on to meat when allow
ed their choice. Tropon is now mixed with
various foods A roll made with -four con-
tanning per cent. of it equals in nutri-
tive value five eggs, or half a pound of
meat.
"A number Of experiments on the man
stopping" power of small-caliber bullets
have been carried out by firing with a
AS nm. Daudeteau rifle at living horses
In one instance the animal was placed at
distance of 100 m, and the effect of the
bullet, which traVersed the whole length
of its body, inflicting frightful injuries
was TO cause instant DEATH The norma |
charge was used and the initial velocity
of the projechle was no M. per second. In
other experiments, attended with like re-
suits, the charges were reduced to CORE
spond with the velOcities which would re-
main az various distances up to $500 M
and the conclusion was formed that the
small-caliber bullet, if not below the diam
eter of GAS nm, is absolutely deadly at
all ranges up to $500 m, beyond which
distance it was deemed unnecessary to
make experiments.
AS a rule the British admiralty are
not very successful in the naming of new
ships, but about twenty years ago there
was some one at Whitehall who had an in
SEPARATION. 1t may have been an accident
and he may not have been very different
from other officials; but at any rate he
hit on the idea of naming a series of lit
tie cruisers then naming them after we'll
known gems, and thus 1t was that Great
Britain got what has always been known
as the gem class" The names of these
ships were Opal, Diamond, Tourmaliue.
turquoise, Sapphire, Ruby and Garnet
For many years these little ships did a
great deal of very useful service, for they
were so small that they could be used for
work for which bigger ships were insult
ed. Now all of these WarshipS have dis
appeared from the active list Several of
them have found their way into shin
breakers yards, while the others-the Ru-
by, Garnet and Tourmaline-are to close
thelr careers as humble, dirty despised
coal hulks. strange fate for ships with
such pretty names
-"Garnets are coming back into fash
ion" said tourist from New York, ac-
cording to the New Orleans Times Demo-
Graf, and the curio-hunters who know
what's what have been picking up some
fine specimens in this city lately. have
made few finds myself The best was A
set of ten buttons for a lady's dress. Each
one contained almost twenty-five small
stones, heavily mounted in gold and ar
ranged In rose pattern. They are very
beautiful and II would be hard TO get
them duplicated at any figure / under
stand they were made especially for a
Mardi Gras costume nearly twenty wears
ago. Another trinket 1 secured the other
day was magnificent garnet buckle. I
fancy it must have been used originally
for slipper, but my wife intends to wear
1t on her belt. 1t is really an elegant piece
of work and bears the stamp of a gold
smith in Philadelphia Most of the old
garnet ornaments offered for sale are
worthless either on account of the moor
quality of the stones, or the clumsy man
ner in which they are mounted 1 was
offered brooch the other day for $50 and
while it was a very elaborate piece of
ork would consider Ii dear at one-tenth
that iigure. The stones were naturally
dull and they were set in such a way as