The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

her "a beautifully embroidered table
cover that he had made. She accept
ed it with thanks.
The National Association of Car
rage Dealers, which lately convened
in Boston, had on exhibition at that
place an ancient vehicle that was built
in 1876, and which is still as good as
new. 1t was built for Gov. Jonathan
Trumbull of Massachusetts, the original
Brother Jonathan"
Owing to the stamy on a postcard
coming off in his pocket a Viennese
merchant discovered that his friend
was carrying on a clandestine CORE
spOndence with his wife. Messages
were written in a minute hand under
the postage stamps on illustrated post
cards. He got a divorce.
Experiments are being made by
the German army with a newly-dscov-
cred method of wireless telegraphy by
means of kites. The kites are raised
to great hights-10,0 900 to 1000 feet-at-
tached to copper wires, and it is said
messages can be sent to the greatest
distances without affecting any wire
less telegraph station.
r One of the most interesting fea-
lures in connection with the Grand
Army parade in Boston on Aug 16 will
be the Living Flag" The stand will
be 100 by so feet, with 1920 seats, and
will be used by the school children.
The Stars and Stripes will be perfect
ly represented by the little girls, who
will be seated on the stand
More than twenty large steam
dredges are in use on the Baltic sea
for digging amber from a depth of Z
to IL yards. Sea amber is character
lied by the fact that it has no wealth
cred exterior Amber is used for max
ing smokers requisites. heads for
bracelets and necklaces and other
trinkets. 1t is fossil rosin.
The beds of brown coal Qignite),
occurring principally in Bohemia and
in the Halle district, in Prussia, often
attain considerable thickness, twenty
to twenty-five feet being not unusual.
At Gruhl, near Cologne, the bed of lig-
mite is in places as much as 340 feet
thick. Most Of this coal is compressed
into briquettes for domestic use.
In the window of a London pawn
shop is a silver casket deliberately dec
GRATED with emblematic designs and
DCcli LIE Iil6 lIlSCElpJlOIs OdSkGG pre-
Sented by the corporation of Edin-
burgh, along with burgess ticket, con-
ferring the freedom of the city on
Charles Stewart Parnell, Esq, M. P,
July 20, 1882" The pawnbroker asks
$3.50 for it.
The wonderful insect-killing ca
pacity of the toad is known in a gen
eral way to the enlightened few, says
Country Life in America. An import
ed colony of toads may be the saliva
ton of a flower garden. Many gar
deners give their children a cent
apiece for every cutworm destroyed
From May l to Aug. 1 a toad may de-
stroy 2160 cutworms, which it would
cost $2160 to destroy by hand. Eng
fish gardeners are said to pay as
much as $25 a hundred for toads for
colonizing purposes.
-Seventy-f1ve cents worth of iron
ore when turned into bar iron is
worth IS. If you make itHnto horse
shoes It is worth $40, or if into table
knives $3.50. Seventy-five cents worth
of iron ore manufactured into needles
is worth $500, and when converted
into some kinds of fancy buttons it is
worth about $4,000. If the iron is
made into watch springs the product is
worth ten times more than the buttons
and when turned into hair springs it
will sell for the enormous sum of $500. =
900.
The deepest gold mine is still to be
credited to Behdigo, in Victoria, Aus
tralia. although the time is coming
when the Rand. South Africa. will
claim the record, says the Engineering
and Mining Journal. For the present
the Victoria quartz mine, at Bendigo.
has probed deeper into the earth than
any other digging after gold; work is
now going on in this mine at 1850 feet,
a wtnze having been sunk $50 feet be-
low the lowest level at 3,700 feet
Among its neighbors the Victoria
quartz mine has the New Chum Rail-
way, with work proceeding at 1856
feet. and the New Chum Consolidated
1883 feet. The celebrated $780, mine,
the property Of Mr.. George Lansell and
long the deepest gold mine in the
world, is being exploited at $3.50 feet,
although the shaft itself is 200 feet
deeper.
Rough measurements of the hight
of wave are based upon the princi-
pie that when wave-crest near the
ship just obscures the horizon the
wave has the same altitude as the OBJ
servers eyes. The distance between
two waves can be found by noting the
position of two succeeding crests along
the ships side; two persons can do
this best, one watching one wave.
The average hight of all waves run
ming in the gale is about twenty feet.
yet, according to Lieut.. Paris, who is
a veteran in observing waves, the hight
of waves varies much; thus waves as
high as thirty or forty feet occur where
the average might be twenty-five feet.
The highest of large waves in severe
gales is about forty feet. Waves in
the ocean are not so steep as those
in a large lake of small sea.
I'm recording the death of the late
Prof. Adolfo Cancani, foreign
science journal tells of his introduce
ton into seismometry, while at the
University Of Modena. OF the use of
large and heavy horizontal pendulums
the movements of which were record
ed mechanically. The first of these
which are probably the largest In the
world, were seventeen feet in hight
The booms, made of "T" iron. were
ten feet in length, which at their out
er ends carried in one case a block
of marble and in the other "a piece of
pig iron. Beyond these heavy masses
glass fibers recorded movements on a
surface rotating at the rate of sixty
centimeters an hour. With this an
paratus, all of which was homemade
and cost only a few pounds sterling
Cancani obtained some striking seis-
mograms.
The chief difficulty in the eradica-