Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-10
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and ewes are represented by different colored
flowers.
WHILE Charles Rasch, of Sprague, W. t.,
was taking bottle OF soda water from an ice
chest the bottle exploded and the patent stop
| per was thrown into his face with force
enough to tear out one OF his eyes.
A YOUNG WOMAN of Woodstock. Can, cross
ing field heard distant crack of a rifle, and
| then felt slight bio " on her back. Investi-
! cation showed that a rifle bullet had IT her
dress as clearly as a razor, and had jI4st grazed
her corset.
CHICAGO citizen is desrious of transport
ing to his summer residence near that city
one of the big California trees 200 feet IN
! height, 9S feet in circumference. and weigh
| ing about 40 900 pounds. The estimate of the
| cost Of the work is $4,000.
THE Indians gather aud dry "swcet grass"
| to scent the nselyes with. In early times they
used to come long distances to get it, as it is
not very plentiful on the We'tern plains. 1t
| has quite long blade like timothy, is striped
and when dried smells like sweet myrrh
| A FARMER, two horses and lumber wagon
| tried to cross the Canada Pacific Railway,
near Pontypool, ahead of fast train. The
wagon was Knocked fifteen feet into the air,
| the horses were unhurt, and the farmer was
| found cllngng for dear life to the cow
catcher.
! KING GEORGE of Greece has nearly finished
a splendid pa ace at Copenhagen, and has
saved enough money to give him life income
of $l25,oo0 year Independently of any public
position; and now he ls only waiting for
good excuse to abdicate and retire perma-
nently from the king BUSH ess.
ENGINEER HEADLEY saw two horses fast on
the Erie railway bridge that spans the Ram
apo river. 1t was dark, and when he saw
| them he was too near to stop his train. so he
/ tspullp1 wi nd str H. ha
| at full speed. He was fortunate. One horse
! was torn TO pieces and the other knocked off
| the track and fatally hurt. No damage was
! done to the train,
AT the sale OF the great collection of prints
! left by the late Mr.. Addngton, of London, the
| greatest number of really magnificent i'm
| pressions were among the meZzotint portraits
| after Sir Joshua, Gainsborough and Romney.
! These brought very high prices. while the
! Marc AntOnios, Dufers and Rembrandts did
| not sell for as much as was expected. 1t was
! not in the old masters proper that the aged
/ collector of st. Martins lane was really rich.
| 1t was rather in eighteenth century mezzo-
| tints.
| SENSATIONS of vision require a definite
| time of exposure of the retina, which time
Mr.. j, NJ. Cattell, of the University of Leipsic,
finds to be considerably dependent on the ma
| ture of the object and the intensity of the
| light. 1t varies with the several colOrs.
! Orange gives the quickest impression of the
| eye. and yellow closely follows it; then came
| blue, red and green: while the retina is least
! sensitive to violet iight-time, which is from
! two to three times Is long as for orange. BY
| lIght the eye works more slowly than by
! daylight, and the order of perceiying colors is
! changed to orange, red, yellow, violet and
/ blue.
IN Eastern Oregon and Washington Terri
tory, where settlements are rapidly extend
| ing, the grass is growing Short for the
! countless herds pastured on the public lands.
! 1.-The range is no longer boundess and boun-
| tiful, but is limited to the narrow spaces be-
! tween farms, to elevated districts where there
! Is little or no water, and to regions far remote
! from the railroads. Herds have been reduced
! greatly during the past five Years. but stll
| the stock business is largely oyerdone. Such
! limited range as is left is eaten down and
| tramped over till the native grasses are we'll
nigh destroy d. Unless the stock business is
! reformed it will soon die out as distinctive
| industry.
| Two fatal accidents, rem ark able from their
! similarity, occurred in New Orleans on Fri
day. Felix Alvarez, y wears old, was play
ing with his adopted sister, ami, half in earn
est half in jest, threw pair of buttonhole
| scissors at her. one OF the blades struck her
| in the left shoulder and penetrated the aux
Iliary artery, and the girl bed 10 death before
| physician arrived. An hour or two later
| two negro boys quarreled over a game of
marbles and one stabbed the other with
! small knife. The blade cut the femoral ar
| terry ana the boy Dleu to death. Had either
| weapon in either case struck fraction of an
| inch to the right or left the wounds have been
| insignificant.
A CURIOUS EXAMPLE of how to violate the
law was recently furnished by the French
Minister of Public Works, NJ. Balhaut In
France the sport OF fishing cannot be INDUCED
| in before June Is. AS this Whtsuntide fell on
| June 49, number of amateur fishermen ex-
| pressed IN the Lanterne, the Radical organ,
desire to have the beginning of the fishing
season exceptionally fastened by two DAYS
NJ. Eaihaut, anxious to gain the good will OF
! the Lanterne, wrote to the editor expressing
| his regret at his inability to change the law
! but adding that. in order to grant what locke ed
/ Ike reasonable requests he had given orders
| To the officers of the law not to modest persons
who were caught fishing during Whitsuntide,
| A GENTLEMAN very intimate at the White
! House has an unwritten contract with The
President to collect for him all the pleasant
newspaper paragraphs about his wedding.
| He has been collecting personal mention of
! the President in other connections, and com
| pleted the work 80 pleasantly that the Presi-
! dent mad no hesitation IN starting him on The
! other tack MIR. Cleveland greatly ENJOYS the
| funny things SAID about the marriage and
| particularly all the serious utterances about
| h s wife's beauty. He says every body sup
| poses he sees all these paragraphs, but ne
| anxious as he Is to do so he cannot find the
| time. There is a very interesting SCRAP book
| now being completed for his summer read
| rag. WnlCn Mrs cleveland ana ne Will enlOY
! together.
AN English chemist has found a wav for
! turning to account the practically ilimitable
| quantity of seaweed that the ocean supplies.
! or at least as much of it as may be desired.
| He boila the weed with carbonate of soda and
! treats the filtered solution with sulphuric
| acid. Obtaining from it in this manner a sub
| stance that mas more viscosity than starch,
| or even gum Arabic, and that can be profit
| ably empIoyed In stl1fening various textile
! fabrics. il Is also said to bC eXcelIentlv
adapted for the making Of syrdps aud for cor
| tain culinary uses. From the cellular and
fbrous matter left after The extraction of that
material-to which ne has gwen the name OF
"alguma"-a very good quality of writing
paper can be cheaply made.
CURIOUS STORY comes from Moscow. A
clever and beautiful girl had an immense for
tune left her TO he paid into her hands on the
occasion of her marriage. Her friends tried
to oblige her to marry a man who mshe could
not endure, and she had no money
to take herself out OF reach of his
attentions. SO she sent for an
| Old boggar man, to whom she had coca
! sona(ly gwen a few cents, and offered him
| 800 rouble4 If he would stand up for the mar
! rage ceremony with her and straiRhtwav
! leave the town and never let her hear OF him
! again till news should be sent OF his death
| lie consented very cheerfully and the mar
| rage took place, all the beggars of Moscow
| coming to see the strange pair welded IN a