The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-13


British companies.
Telephone communication between st.
Petersburg and Moscow is obtained by a
line 412 miles long 1t is said to be the
longest single line in Europe. Nearly a
Of the towns in Finland are connected by
telephone; the rates are very low.
The United States Publishers building
at the Paris Exposition is now being con
structed. 1t is for the exclusive exhibit
ton of American printing machinery and
allied interests and will be the headquar-
tiers for the publishers of the United
States. large number of the latter will
exhibit bound volumes of their periodicals
and current numbers will be kept on file
for the use of visitors
Several months ago a bather was diving
in shallow water and fractured several of
the spinal vertebrae. He was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital, New York city and
an operation was performed upon him for
the removal of the fractured pieces of
bone. The result of the operation has been
very satisfactory and the improvement
from day to day is marked. He is now
regaining the sense of touch and has some
slight control of the muscles.
"A water-driven electric plant is pro-
posed in Brazil to obtain 1900 horse
power from the Tiete river and transmit it
electrically to the city of Sac Paulo TWEEN
ty-four miles distant. A masonry dam
1000 feet long and 50 feet high will be built
and the water will be conducted by a steel
conduit y feet in diameter and a half-mile
long to the turbines. The electric trans
mission is to be at 10000 volts. three-phase,
and the current will be used by a company
which owns 104 miles of street railway in
Sac Paulo.
"A record in ship-building has been es-
tablished al Davenport, England. The
first-class battleshiD Bulwark, one of the
new modified Formidable class, the mos;
powerful in the British navy, is ready for
launching. in seven months after WORK
was begun on her In that time over $500
tons of steel have been built into the
ship. When completed she will, like her
sister ships, displace 5000 tons. She is 400
feet between perpendiculars and Is feet
beam, and it is intended that her engines
shall steam eighteen knots an hour.
New York undoubtedly possesses the
finest morgue in the world. It was built
two years ago, and has a capacity of 125
bodies which are kept in cold storage.
The bodies are not made a grewsome ex-
/ hibition as in Paris, and the room in
which they are kept resembles a safe de-
post vault. There are from twenty to
passed through the morgue. The bodies
of unclaimed persons are photographed
and their clothing is preserved for a period
of six months.
Probably the largest poster ever used
in the world was brought out by the COM
mittee in charge of the advertising of the
street carnival at Battle Creek. The pos
ter was neatly pasted on the pavement
| between the car tracks of the main thor
| oughfare According to the Inland Print
| er this huge poster was printed in a roll
of paper containing 1884 600 squares inches,
! each one thirty-five inches wide and over
a mile in length The printed matter was
| repeated every twenty-four inches. The
| poster was obtainable by diverting the
| printed web from its regular course to the
! folder end of the printing press and at
taching it to rewinding device.
A specimen of Brazilian horned hum
ming bird is reported to have been seen at
the Red House, Westleton, Norfolk. An
unsuccessful attempt was made to capture
| the stranger which was little larger than
| bee, but longer in the body. 1t had
| feathers on the back of greenish- brown
tint with reddish velvety gloss, a broad
! tail black and white in color, let black
eyes, horns and beak, while its throat re-
setnbled that of the lesser white throat.
i The horns were about three-eghts of an
| inch long, and the beak three-quarters of
an inch. The constant and rapid motion
| OF the wings produced a peculiar hum
| ming sound. A similar visitor-believed
! however, to be the hummng-b bird moth
has been observed in a garden at MuswelI
Hill.
Here is queer story about an owl
from an exchange: 1t was a barn OWL and
it used to come out of wood at night to
steal the young pheasants that were being
reared in keepers coops 1t had a clever
way of going to work to get the young
birds. 1t would fly down and knock
against the back of coop, so as to fright
| en- the brood out on to the grass in front
of it; then it would swoop down and carry
one off into the wood One night the keep
er lay In wait for the thief, hiding near
| the coops. Presently he heard a bit of
| commoton among the pheasants, and
thought stoat or weasel must have got
! m among them; so he went to look Viii @
he was stopping down against a coop he
felt something hit against his back. and
when he looked round he found the owl
had bumped against him. 1t had taken
| his back for the coop.
Painting from loss of blood and in ter
rible pain, Telegraph Operator Howard
! Lowman, whose hand was torn off bv the
explosion of a gun, p,uckily stuck to his
! post for six hours on Friday at Garway
| Station, Pa. The station is a lonely sDot
on the mountain, on the Cambria and
! Ciearfeld division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Lowman. early in the morning,
! fired at squirrel, and his gun which was
! old and rusty burst manning him fright
fully. He bound up the stump of his
| wrist as best he could, and then tele-
graphed to the superintendent: Left hand
| shot off; relieve as soon as possible"
| Asked If he could hold m FOL ra Of
| the homecoming trains until afternoon
| LOwman replied that he would stick to his
| post until relief came. No trains were due
! up the mountain until afternoon, md when
one reached Garway the crew found him
half-conscious, but sticking still to his
| post.
Says a lover of dogs: Some fourteen
years ago a gentleman living near my
house had a Mount st. Bernard dog of the
best blood that would dive into any depth
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