The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


German.
An editor near Custer, I. T., got
cattel show and concert mixed in max
ing up and now he has to keep dark.
This is the way he did it: THE con-
cert given by Robinson's most beautiful
young ladies' was highly appreciated.
They sang in their charming manner,
winning the plaudits of the entire au-
dience, who pronounced them the finest
herd of ShorthornS in the country. A
few are of rich brown color. but the
majority are spotted brown and white"
The youngest of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence was Ed
ward Rutledge of South Carolina, who
was but q years of age. The Oldest
was benjamin Franklin, who had al
ready entered his 10th year. AS was
not unnatural in such an assemblage,
lawyers largely predominated. Thirty
of the delegates belonged to the legal
profession, five were physicians, seven
farmers or planters, eight merchants
and two mechanics. Roger Sherman of
Connecticut, was a shoemaker; John
Witherspoon of New Jersey, was
clergyman; Benjamin Franklin of
Pennsylvania, was printer and book
seller; AbFaham Clark of New Jersey,
was a surveyor.
The cow that jumped over the moon
has rival for fame in an agile heifer
at Rock Port, says the Kansas City
Journal. This particular heifer is yell
low, and, like most of her kind, has a
relish for garden sass. In pursuit of
her favorite grub she has several times
broken into John Douglass garden.
| The other night, according to the Rock
| Port Journal, she got into the Douglass
| garden and had eaten a half bushel of
| Stops and the garden truck before he
walked her up and asked her to depart
| In peace, but as she was in hurry to
! get home before daylight she jumped
over the house and caught her tail in
| the stove pipe. John said some immod-
| est things about that COW which We do
not care to repeat" The Journal does
not mention the hight of Johns resi-
| dence.
| An artificial horizon attachment to
| sextants, invented by Commander
| Campbell Hepworth, c. B., consists
| essentially of a contact maker, oper-
| ated by q plummet mounted in a sex
| tant, and connected with a gaivanic
| battery. 1t is so adjusted as to close
| the circuit and ring a bell when a slit
| or line on the horizon glass is in align
| ment with the eye of the observer and
the sensible horizon. Observations for
| latitude and longitude at sea are rem
| dered impossible when the natural
| horizon is obscured by fog or mist, al
| though sun, moon or stars may be
shining clearly; but with the aid OF
| this instrument the observer may OBJ
tain the true altitude of a heavenly
body Within FIVE minutes of arc. This
| rough approximation will often be val
| liable.
"A brand new pattern of electric
lamp is just now being put on the mar
ket. The filaments, instead of being
in ordinary bulbs, are inclosed in short
straight tubes about nine inches long;
the filament has a small curl in the
middle to allow for expansion. These
tubes are mounted end to end in a
metallic casing, which serves as a re-
| fiector and also carries the leads and
the sockets into, which the lamps mt
There is thus produced a single line
of light, which is very suitable for GER
tain forms of illumination, such as
shop-window lighting, lighting by re-
Election from the ceiling, decorative H.
Elimination and the like. The lamps
are made for all ordinary voltages
and of the same candle power and
eficiencies as ordinary lamps; the5
are run in parallel for voltages up tt
$780, but for Voltages above 200 the
lamps are run in pairs, the two lamps
of each pair being in series. The sys-
tenn has been tried on several occa-
sions recently with very satisfactory
results.
Along with the solemnity ant
pathos of Leo's illness there seems tC
be mingled elements of the serio'
comic which remind one of Gilber
and Sullivan situations or of Mr.. Rich
ard GaFnett's six cardinals hiding un
der a table, says the New York Post
Personal dislikes, decorously hidden al
rule, come to the surface with thu
prospect of a conclave which will b.
a tournament of many conflicting am
billions. Cardinal Oreglia announce:
that he intends occupying a certain
room in the Vatican, whereupon Car
dinal Rampolia promptly has a thou
sand chairs stacked up in that par
ticular room. One wonders whethel
we shall presently be RECALLED with tn,
spectacle of these Emminentissim
actually pulling each others hair. Th'
conclave which elected Leo XIII wal
not free from passages of flppancy
Oreglia, now the only living carolina
of Plus ks creation, delivered al
interminable harangue against holding
| the conclaVe in Rome. He was inter
rupted by Cardinal Ferrieri, who saF
castically called out. "Ebbene. you
Eminence, let's go up in a balloon!'
upon which the entire Sacred Colleg'
broke down.
That there is very little new under
the sun has once more been proved
according to the London Chronicle, al
Toberrnory Bay, Null where Capt
Burns of Glasgow, has, with the per-
mission of the Duke of Argyll, beer
searching for relics of the Admiral OIL
Florence, one of the vessels of tbs
Spanish Armada. known to have beer
blown up in 1883 in that faraway wat.
er. With the aid of an old chart the
diver went down into twelve fathoms
and came across a bronze breechload.
ing cannon, four and a half feet long
J eight inches in diameter at the breech
; and bearing the date 1853. The diver
also discovered a pistol heavily en-.
crusted with >lime, a sword blade, ant
q Hedge anchor. The relics will be ex.
hibited in the Glasgow Royal Elk
change on an early date. Breechload.
ing in artillery and small arms is DOB.
? ularly supposed to be an invention OF
the middle of last century, but such il
, by no means the case. In a Dublir
gunsmith's shop, at Cork Hail. is or
view breechloading rifle offered tC
the British war Office at the close OF
the eighteenth century, and rejected
as it was considered to need too much
ammunition
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