Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-27
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| IN AUsTRALAsIA singular but beautiful
tree has been named in honor of Prof. Owen.
1t propagates only by suckers. The seeds will
not terminate. They are contained in a solid
stone 50 dense that it cannot be broken with
hammer. Two years pass before the stone
decays, and then the kernels have persisted
also.
| ONE OF the members OF the German East
African association, who paid a visit to the
Sultan of Zanzibar on the feast of Bairam,
wrote a long account Of the interview The
German deputatiOn was received by q troop
OF soldiers who presented arms as they passed,
ana when they entered the palace the band
struck up Die Wacht am Rheine."
PNEUMATIC TUBES between London and
Paris is the latest scheme. Letters could thus
be transmitted between the two cities in one
hour. 1t is proposed to employ wagonettes
Ike those now used to transport kilograms
| from Paris, and to start 90 pneu matte trains
every hour. The distance is AIS miles, and
the total cost, as estimated. is S7.000,t00.
Prohibition is making great strides in
! Canada under the local option set, which
leaves the matter to the counties. Forty nine
| counties have adopted the provisions of the
act, which remain in force until repealed by
formal vote, and no effort to repeal has sue
ceeded. Complaints of non -enfore ement are
made, but not 6y the wholesale liquor dealers,
who admit that their business is suffering.
A BEE KEEPER having been told that q lad
through being repeatedly stung by bees, had
become impervlOus to any unpleasant sensa-
| ton when attacked by them. resolved to ex-
pertinent on his own person. He kept 2
record Of the number OF times he was stung
and when be began to cease feeling the effects
Of the stings. The result was that all sense OF
! teellng had gone when hevhad bsen atung
thirty times within few weeks.
VAssALBoRoUGH QUAKER sold a man a
| .Nntr - ~
! troubled him by breaking Down fences or
walls. The next day after buying them the
purchaser found them In a nelghbor's garden
| They had broken over the wall, and were
tramplng down the vegetables and eating the
corn. Look hereH' said he to the Quaker,
Il thought you said those cattle never
! troubled YOU by being breachy.H ''FriC n |, y
sad the Quaker, 81 never allow such things
to trouble me-"
A TENNIS PLAYER has had D. curious ex
perience. He has had a. sore elbow Joint.
What is the meaning of it? What should he
do about it? Who will tell him how to cure
~ Iennis-elbow is common Complaint.
win MN 1t came on quite suddenly, and he
has tried embrOcations and warm fOmenta-
lions without avail This week he played two
sets, but had to give up, the pain was so in
tense; lie IS very unhappy. Friends have
told him that tennis sometimes re-
mains for year or even longer.
HITHERTO the course adopted by the police
authorities of London for identification of the
dead has been to issue a written description
of the body, and have it posted up outside
some of the police stations; but instead Of
this, or In addition to 1t, it is proposed to
photograph each unclaimed body and have
the likeness circulated and placed outside
each station. Ire unclaimed bodies which
are continually being found in the rivers and
canals, and in the streets of Lon on and its
suburbs, render some further endeavOrs to
procure Identification necessary.
WHEN Mr.. w. w. Graham, the English
mountaineer, was in the Himalaya region he
noticed two peaks north of Mount Everest,
now regarded as the highest mountain on the
globe, when appeared to him to be still
loftier than that summit. More recently. two
members of the survey department of the
government of India observed four or five
peaks in the same district which they think
may possibly be as high or higher than Mount
Everest. Lord Aberdare, however, the re-
firing President of the Royal Geographical
Society of London, is of opinion that the SUI
premacy of Mount Everest (29,002) viii not be
effectually disputed until the frontier ranges
of Nepaul and Thlbet are thrown open to sci
entlfc examination by competent surveyors.
BY MEANS of an ingenious machine, wood
intended for paper pulp is shaved Off SO finely
that it is ready to go at once into the boiler.
The machine takes a log twelve inches in
length, which it revolves at a speed of 1000
revolutions per minute, aud sharp cutter
shaves on shaving so thin that il would take
$50 of them to make an inch a nicely Of exc
cutlon which may be judged of by the fact that
200 sheets of ordinary paper are required to
make an inch. AS described, the knife of this
machine has sliding motion and gradually
moves forward as the block decreases IN di-
ameter, and, in order that it shall not become
dull and the fore consequently fail to be of
uniform thickness, there is provided a unique
arrangement of whetstones constantly at
work on the knife.
THE increasing tendency of the English
mind to the ''cockneyism" of misusing the
letter ''h'' is indicated here and there In the
new revision of the Old Testament. Thus, in
Jonah j., 9, where the old version gave 81 am
a Hebrew" the revision gives II am an He
BREW" or, as 1t should naturally be pro-
nOunced, 81 am an 'Ebrew." This is in vo-
latlon OF the ordinary English rule of employ
ing the article ian" before the aspirate s.h''
only where the accent falls after the first syl-
liable. as. for example, in ''historical:o but IL
is in obvious accordance with the coinnbner
English practice OF dropping out the SshO
where it ought to be pronounced. American
revisers had to watch against English cock
neyisms in order to preserve the integrity of
their mother tongue. -l...'-.-,.
The Secretary to the English Marriage Law
Defense Association writesi0 "After fifteen
months litigation the Supreme Appellate
Court of Calcutta has, In a Very1engthy judg.
menu just puDllsneu, prOuOunceu marriage
with deceased wife's sister, when contracted
by Roman Catholics with the sanction OF the
church, TO be legal throughout India. The
case, Lopez VS.. Lopez, in which the decision
has been gwen. was carried to the Appellate
Court at the request OF the Marriage Law
Reform Association. the counsel for the an
pellant being Mr.. Lewis Pugh, NJ. p ., for Car
dganshire. 1t follows from the judgment
now declared that marriage with a deceased
wifes sister is legal TO all classes of her Ma
jesty's SUBJECTS IN India, except European
Pedestrians. In Ceylon there is no excep-
ton. s#
Mr.. Rom ASEs has collected a few more un.
equivocal cases of intelligence in swallows
cases where the end TO be attained was pecu-
liar to the special passing circumstances. and
where instinct, therefore, or inherited habit.
could not possibly come into play to deter
mine their action. In one such instance a
pair OF swallows built nest in the veranda of
house. But bell-wlre on which the nest
partly rested twice demolished the rising edi.
ice. Convinced that the wire was danger
Gus object, the swallows constructed a tunnel
Tor II 70 pass through. so that ever after the
wire worked without damaging in any way
their domestic felicity. In another case a
pair OF swallows were molested under their
own roof by evil disposed sparrows, which
frequently tried to dispOssess them OF their
nests. Thus attacked, the swallows modified
the entrance To their home, so that, instead OF
opening by simple hole, II was carried on
outward In the form Of tunnel
THE BULGARIAN SOLDIERS are pictured AZ
fine, solid, hale-looking fellows, but slngularly
ill-fayOred Of countenance and awkward %