The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-23
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municipality is doing excellent work. 1t
rendered valuable assistance at the Trian-
on Theater fire and at the St. Ouen spirit
warehouse fire. The engine carries six
men and travels at the rate of thirteen
miles an hour.
Some old quarries of oriental alabaster
have recently been discovered in the
neighborhood of Monte Amiata, near
Siena. 1t now seems probable that the
beautiful columns OF that material in the
interior of the cathedral of Siena came
from those quarries. The quarries are
about to be worked.
The Board of Health of Independence,
Kan, recently purchased a patent fumi-
eating apparatus, and the thing was tried
for the ffrst time last week in a house
which had been occupied by a smallpox
patient. 1t exploded and blew a hole
through the roof but the health officials
are satisfied that the disease germs were
killed by the shock.
DIR. Koldewey, director of the excava-
lions at Babylon, has informed the Orien-
tai Society of the discovery of a canal
built of Aramean bricks, which waterway
is believed to be the long sought East ca
nal. A temple of the goddess Ninniach
has also been unearthed, together with
stones bearing inscriptions whiJA date
from the time of ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Last winter a Detroit newsboy found
an old soldier lying asleep in the snow,
and saved him from freezing to death by
arousing him and plotting him to a hos
pital. The William Richardson Post of
the Grand Army, of which The soldier was
a member has passed resolutions thank
ing the newsboy, and has caused the same
to be published in all the Detroit papers.
Mgr. Crostarosa, secretary TO the Com
missione di Archeologia Sacra, has issued
from Rome an appeal to archaeologists
and TO all those who are interested in
Christian antiquities TO subscribe toward
the further exploration of the Catacombs.
Statistics of the criminal population of
the United States show that only per
cent. of the total number of criminals
are women.
The hardened end of a steel bit or
chisel broke off in a bore hole al a depth
of $50 feet in a place in Germany and this
obstruction prevented further boring of
the hole because all diamonds wore away.
The following plan was hit upon to re-
move It: A soft steel bar, five feet in
length, and two and seventeenth inches in
diameter was covered by a single winding
of India rubber tape and magnetized by
the current of a small dynamo driven by
portable engine employed for the work
of boring. The steel bar was let down
magnetiZed into the hole, and when Ii
reached the bottom the current was
switched through the conductor inclosed
in the rope for letting down and drawing
up. On the first day that this method
was employed the piece of steel was
drawn up to the surface, so that the
boring could be resumed
1t is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Record, that a great deal of
paper money that is constantly circulating
about gets frequent Washings in the same
way as the housewife or maid goes
at the dirty clothes on Monday morn
ing. In some banks there is regular
washday every month, usually at the be-
ginning when clerk may be seen bent
over tub and rubbing real money up
and down a Washboard. The dirty green
backs that have been saved up for a
month are soaped and rubbed just like
handkerchiefs and socks, and are run
through a wrnger before being put out to
dry The paper currency may be handled
somewhat roughly, as it does not tear,
because there is in it great deal of silk
and linen. After the notes have been
passed through the wringer they are hung
on a line stretched in the bank clerks de-
partment. Said one clerk the other day:
Il wash about a hundred notes every
tell them from new money. The washing
strengthens as well as cleans the notes"
Senator Dixon H. Lewis of Alabama
was the largest man who ever held a
seat in that body, weighing 4s3 pounds.
says the Washington CORES pondence of
the Chicago Tribune He was member
of the Senate from 1913 to 1s49. There
was not a chair in the cahmber large
enough to accommodate the form of this
giant, and, after breaking three or four
of the ordinary variety, he was provided
with large mahogany chair. When
Senator Lewis retired his chair was plac-
ed in the basement, and when David
Davis of Illinois came to the Senate it
was brought out for his use, but the IL
lnoisan did not relish it, and got ex-
tremely wrathy about ii, and considered
that a personal affront had been offered
him. He declined to use the one made for
Senator Lewis. This chair was sent to
the Columbian Exposition as the chair
occupied by Senator Davis. This was a
mistake, as he never sat in It. The chair
was finally returned to the Capitol and
placed in the basement A few days ago
Represent alive Ball of Texas received a
letter from Dixon II. Lewis, a grandson
of snator Lewis. The writer said he I'M
derstocd his grandfather occupied a chair
which had been specially made for him
during his term in the Senate An inves-
tigation was set upon foot by the Texas
congressman and the chair was found.
Mr. Ball had it condemned. purchased it,
and sent it to the grandson of the gigan-
tic Senator.
Queen Victoria, in her earlier years,
though perhaps not being, strictly speak
ing, a gourmet, was fond of good things
and plenty of them. But of late she has
had 10 reduce both quality and quantity,
till she is almost on che verge of being
vegetarian, says the Philadelphia Press
The Prince 81 Wales probably has learn
ed the art of dining as wen as any gem
tleman, titled or otherwise, in the world
The Kaiser also knows palatable dishes
when he sees them, though he HASN'T the
respect amounting 90 reverence that char
acterizes his uncle, Albert Edward, for a
properly cooked and served dinner. Ger
manys ruler cares for game, feathered
game, more than any other Wand. affect
ing a special fondness for salmi or stew
made Of thrushes. Another royal exam
pie Of ability 10 recognize good dish is
furnished by the Car Of Russia who is
just dsloyal enough to his country to