The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

If true, an eagle story widely circu-
lated in the foreign press goes far to ac-
count for the persistent legends that Gag
les have been known to carry off infant
children. The scene of this last kidnap-
ping enterprise of eagles is said to be the
village of House some twenty miles from
Nice and 1900 feet above the sea. The
eagle had hung about the village for some
days, and had carried off a small pig
from the farmyard of the house to which
the child belonged The baby was lying in
cradle under. or near, she'd and a
shepherd is said to have seen the eagle
stoop and fly off with the baby
"A fire alarm recently invented is a
combination of the graphophone and tele-
phone. In the use of the talking alarm
one of the graphophone machines is plac-
ed on each floor of a building and con-
nected with the telephone fre-alarm sys-
ten. For each machine a record is pre-
pared. For instance, the graphophone on
the second floor of building would con-
tain the record. There is a fire on the
second floor" etc: This record is then ad-
Justed so that these words are repeated
into the telephone by the expanding of a
thermostat whenever a fire occurs In this
way the origin of a fire is located mime
diately and automatically. The alarm also
lights the electric lights in the building,
sets a red light blazing in front of the
puA4u4llS " ulue the QTeDlen ana
the alarm into the street through a giant
megaphone.
"A very interesting statement comes
from Berne. The well known peace apos-
tle Baron Bloch of Warsaw, it is report
ed, intended TO arrange an exhibition at
Paris showing the evils of war in its dark
est colors, in spacious building the fit
ting up of which has been going on for
a long time. Great pictures in relief, cine
photographic representations and histori-
cal collections of arms were to show Wis
itors clearly what war is. Baron Bloch
succeeded in obtaining the help of officers
of different regiments, who devoted them
selves for months with great zeal 10 their
task They took photographs t different
places, worked gigantic relieves, drew
maps, prepared skeletons to show the eff
feet of weapons, etc. Many thousand
francs have already meen spent on this
work. Baron Bloch had been to Paris,
inspected the exhibition grounds, and the
plan had been arranged in all its details,
when all at once the Gar has prohibited
the project.
Few peope know that the floating dock
now being constructed for the United
States government, to be located a Al
gers, in the port of New Orleans will be
the largest floating dock in the world says
an exchange. This dock will easily lift
any ship now built or building. 1t is 525
feet long, 100 feet wide between walls, %
feet in draught, and will lift IS, 900 tons in
three and a half hours. Ii will cost up
ward of 100000, and will be completed
next fall. New Orleans succeeded in Sc
curing this dock through the efforts of
Congressman Adolph Meyer. AS accessory
shops will be necessary 10 make the new
dock efficient, an adequate naval station
on the Gulf is the next thing in order 1t
&c ha1 w 1ad INxt ,a t,,
great fresh water harbor of New Orleans
presents one of the finest locat lions for
such an establishment of any place in the
world, Congressman Meyer is doing ell in
his power to have New Orleans made the
naval station of the Gulf
The Harvard Crimson says that 100
years ago Joseph willard was president of
Harvard, with salary of 81, 400 a year, in
addition to fees for degrees and grants of
land. Eight of the present thirty-five en-
bowed professorships existed then. There
were six tutors and one Instructor. There
are now 135 instructors and one tutor. OF
the forty-siX buildings now built or being
built, there were five standing in 1900
Massachusetts and Hollis, the chief dom
| tories; Wadsworth House, the home of
| the President; Harvard Hall, in which
| were the chapel library and dining room,
and Holden Chapel. In 1903 the first cata-
| logue of the university was published on
| one sheet of paper. There were sixty-five
men in the senior, siXty-one in the junior,
| fifty in the sophomore and fifty-seven in
| Che freshman class. The most successful
| student societies, which We're becoming
popular in 1900, were the Institute of 1910,
and the Porcelain and Hasty Pudding
| Clubs, all of which are fiourishng to-day.
| John p. Holland, inventor of the sub
marine war craft bearing his name, was
| at one time monk In the Order of Chris
| tian Brothers, and as such taught classes
| in the brotherhoods school al Drogheda
| Ireland says the New York Commercial
Like most Irishmen, he was opposed to
| English rule in his native country, and
| when he left the order and came TO Ameri-
| ca he determined to give all possible time
| to the promotion of means for ending that
| supremacy. 1t was in accordance with
| that purpose that he set about building
| his submarine boat. His first one, built
in Paterson, N j., dived as expedtiously
| as could be expected after being launched
| in Passalc river, but it has not yet come
| up. His second collided with canal
| boat in the North river and went to the
| bottom. The Fenian leaders soon had a
| navy again, however, in the third Hol-
| land boat, which was built in Bayonne;
| but they quarrelled among themselves
| over it and it is now doing rusty and in
| glorious yet useful duty as a chicken in
| cubator.
| The last man of power among the
crushed Bedouins to come into the con-
| quering British hands is Frenchman by
| blood, says the New York Commercial
| Advertiser. Perhaps the last of the Beers
will be an Irishman. Osman Digna, whose
adopted name has filled the wondering
| ears of Christendom with the romance of
| the Sheiks wars, was a mighty sheik be-
| cause ne really wasn't one. But, with the
| inheritance of his slave-dealing stepfa-
| theirs wealth, he threw in his lot with the
Soudanese tribes and developed military
| genius which at times awed his antagon-
| lists. In the mahdis wars he has pre-
| served his liberty by running away when
| the day was going against his faster
| brothers of the desert The rout of the
| Khalifa has delivered this sturdy man of
| war into the hands of the Philstines. ac-
| coping the definition that Philistines are
hn think a do