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


| legraphy is being placed on three British
| vessels, which are intended for active
| service.
"A new tunnel, which is being con-
strucied in Paris, for one of the electric
roads, will be lighted by lamps turned on
automatically as the trains enter the tun-
| mel and be cut off automatically as the
trains leave it. The lights have been
| paced on each side of the tunnel on
| level with the windows of the cars, so
| that during the daytime 1t will not be
necessary to use the lights in the cars.
Recently a curious accident occurred
at Quebec, which resulted in the fatal in
! jury of a man. He was pressing ashes
| into a cylinder, holding in his hand a long
| iron rod; the rod in some way met with
| an obstruction, causing him TO raise 1t
| quickly, thus breaking a globe of an arc
| light which was over his head, and
forming a circuit by which the current
passed down into his body, resulting in
| his death.
The proposed Cape Cod canal has re-
| Gently come into notice and figures have
been presented before the harbor and land
| commissioners by the engineers of the
| company The canal would be without
| locks. The maximum velocity of the cur
rent through the canal would be four
miles an hour, and possibly five in storms
| The entrance width at Barnstable was fix
| ed at 1000 feet.
| Russia has made overtures for the sup
| ply of 5000 freight cars and 200 dining cars
| for the Trans-Siberian Railway 1t is
| stated that the Russian government con-
| templates the purchase of more than TO-
| 900 cars. 1t is also said that as many
as 5000 freight cars of many varieties win
be needed in France owing 10 the expo
| sition.
"A man who lives in a thriving town
not far from Kansas City" says the Kan
sas City Journal, "a blacksmith by trade,
| makes quantities of tomahawks and sells
| them to Indians at Western agencies and
they in turn sell them TO Eastern tourists
| as curiosiCies He makes them by hand,
from old gun barrels. The man was for
merly a government blacksmith at one of
the big agencies, and learned the secret
of his profitable traffic there"
An officer in besieged Mafeking writes
to the London Graphic as follows: Men
with telescopes watch the enemy load and
lay the big gun and ring the big alarm
bell as warning when it is ready to fire
The boys watch for the fash of discharge
ana then at once ring a hand bell This
just gives the people time 10 take cover
| before the shell comes in. The boys, by
practice, appear to know from the sound
of each shot in which direction it is go
ing, and they do not leave their perch ex-
cept for a very close she'll
Borrowing leaf from WHO'S Who"
which gives list of peculiarly pronounced
proper names, such as Featherstonhaugh
-fanshaw, and Colclough-Cokely the
London Punch is pleased to add supple
mentary catalogue of its own: Kruger
should be sounded Grudger (of the fran
| ChiG9ls SflEDL-Stnin I'm he UyifNo -,
Joubert-You bear; Cronje-Crusty; Reitz
Rats! Albrecht-All brag; Judge Gre
gorowski-Jeffreyski; Mrs. Cronwris hit
acknowledgements Shrieker; Leyds-
George Washington; Baden-Powell-Bair
Dom Paul; Pretoria-Victoria; Johannes
misunderstanding; Bloemfontein-
Bluefunkton; Delagoa bay-Dontletgoa
bay next time it is offered YOU'D.
President Krugers pipe has been the
subject of judicial notice in Dublin
Messrs. Kapp & Peterson, tobacconists
of Grafton street Dublin made a claim
before the Recorder of Dublin for S25 COM
pensation for the breaking of a window
in their shop by tfle undergraduates of
Trinity College, Dublin, on the occasion
of MIR. Chamberlain's visit to the college
to receive an honorary degree on Dec 49,
1t was alleged in support of the claim
that Messrs. Kapp & Peterson had incur
red the hostility of the students by maxi
ing pipe for President Kruger In
letter to the Dublin Press Messrs. Kapp
Il Peterson state that the pipe was not
presented by them to President Kruger
but was made to the order of a firm
in Paris, and was purely a commercial
transaction" The President of the
Transvaal meanwhile calmly enjoys this
pipe at Pretoria, whittier it had been sent
| by French admirer. More than once
the British war prisoners have had an
opportunity of seeing mighty clouds of
smoke arising from its stem and Dom
Paufs nostrils.
| In an interview with Mile. Janotha the
famous pianist, in the Young Woman for
February, We are told that her home is in
the Isle of Wight, close to Osborne House;
ana when the Queen is in residence a day
rarely passes without the Polish artiste's
talent delighted the royal circle. She
speaks in terms of highest praise of the
musical powers and appreciation of some
of the royal ladies' The Queen" she says,
loves music greatly, and her judgment of
what is good and what is otherwise is far
better than that of the majority even OF
cultured people. But some of the younger
royal ladies' are really talented The Prin-
cess of Wales, for instance plays Schu-
mann with rarest understanding. To hear
her play the famous Quintet is treat
nave never heard anyone play it like her.
Then, again, Princess Beatrice is thor
oughly musical, and reads music more
easily prima vista than almost anybody
/ know. | played a Wagner arrangement
for two pianos with her the other day
not an easy thing as you may imagine.
She played it off at once, without fault,
though she had never touched 1t before
And she has such lovely touch, together
with her perfect technique Princess Hell
en- prefers Bach, and plays Bach beauti-
fully; and the Duchess of Connaught can
play Schumann TO you as only a German
and an artiste can pay it,"
Virginia is not only the mother of
Presidents, but of senators, says the
Washington Post. Senator TaIiaferro. of
Florida, was born down in Orange Court
House, Virginia, where he has spent his
j boyhood days, and where many of his
relatives still reside He is a descendant
of Robert Taliaferro, who came from
England in 1860, and settled in Orange