The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Signals nave been sent by wireless tel
egraph through a suite of seven rooms,
the doors of which were closed. They
were transmitted through a telegraph
switchboard containing both dead and live
wires
There is on foot project favored by
the Kaiser for giving Berlin a Wagner
Theater, in which the works of this mas
ter and other serious opera will be rep
resented, the old Opera House being re-
served for lighter pieces on the model o,
the Paris Opera Comique. If the projec'
is carried through Berlin will be in pos
session of four subsidized theaters-tht
Wagner Theater, the old Opera House
Krolls new Opera House for popular
pieces at popular prices and the classical
Schauspielhaus for serious drama.
In olden days there was curious Gus
tom in Alexandria. In this Egyptian city
at stated and appointed times certain per-
cons were commissioned TO drive through
the streets and, hating at whatever door
they pleased to chant aloud the faults of
which the jewellers in that house were
guilty. That they might not carelesSly re-
proach any one they were required be
forehand to inquire into the manner of
life of each citizen. The object of this GUS
tom was that men might be he'd in the
paths CT virtue by the thought of the
shame which was publicly provided for
eVil-doers.
According to an Italian scientist,
there is one thing in which women have
the decided advantage of men, if advan-
tage it can be called, and that is the
dreaming of dreams. Whether men are
less imaginative, or whether, to take
prosaic view, they eat more and sleep
more soundly: or, arguing by anology,
i11be seldom thpir
brains are not in such good order as
those of the opposite sex, we are left
to decide for ourselves. But the fact
remains, as Signor de Sanctis says, that
women can dream the heads off men. Not
only are their dreams more frequent but
there is always more story in them, and
this is certainty not a commendable
feature-they are better remembered.
Nevertheless, men can score to this ex-
tent-that all the historical dreams have
been dreamed by their sex. No womans
dream has ever been memorable, despite
the professors assertion that these
"baseless fabrics" of the brain are so
much more vivid.
An extraordinary criminal, known as
Sakamoto Keijiro, and famed in Japan
as the lightning burglar" is now
awaiting the decree of the Court of Cas-
sation 10 which his case was carried up
on MS concentration Dy the lower courts,
says a Toxic letter in the Chicago
Record. He was convicted some time
ago and. sentenced to death, the indict-
ment comprising thirty-One different
counts, all of which had been proven
against him. Some had involved muir
der, as well as robbery, and all had in
volved violence. After the Court of Ap-
peal had confirmed the judgment against
him, and while his case was still before
the Court of Cessation, Sakamoto APP
pears to have decided that death was
inevitable, and he confessed. In addi-
ton to the thirty-one crimes charged up
to him, he confessed to forty others, in
Guiding two murders, eighteen robberies
accomplished by means of cutting and
wounding. and twenty others achieved
by intimidation, with deadly weapons
The lightning burglar" who gained his
name from the rapidity with which he
conducted his operations in Saitama and
Chiba procedures thus goes to his doom
with total of seventy-one crimes.
Hitherto fish scales have been of little
use, except to collectors of marine curios
OF course. the demand in this direction is
limited, only certain exceptionally fine or
rare scales being sought after Now,
owing to the discovery of French chem
ist in Lyons, there is likely to be a grow
ing market for fish scales The French
used in the manufacture of artificial pearls
and other ornaments; in fact, the demand
has been so great for them in Lyons that
the supply is absolutely inadequate Mr.
Covert, United States Consul at Lyons
has interested himself in the matter, and
finds out that there is an actual demand
for large quantities of scales in his con-
sulate, where good prices are paid for
them. He has even deemed the innovation
of sufficient Importance to form the sub
ject of a report to his government, in
which he gives directions as to how the
scales should be transported He says:
THE scales should be sprinkled with salt
as soon as they are removed from the fish
and packed in tin cans. Any specimens
sent to this consulate will receive careful
examination, and the results, with any
suggestions that may be made and par
ticulars of prices offered, win be duly re-
ported 1t is believed In Lyons that the
sale of these scales may result in estab-
fishing an important business in an article
that now has no commercial value" Ow-
ing to the fact that the American sturgeon
has the most beautiful and largest scales
of almost any fish in the world this item
may have considerable interest to fisher
men both here, and on the Pacific coast
where the largest quantities OF this huge
fish are now caDtured- ID -.