Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-14
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thaginian ruins furnished to Moslem builders
all the material required.
THE average Rhode leland farmer, says q
| Providence letter. depends for living on
carting the rocks from his land to the city,
| 10 be sold fer 15c. a ton. Rocks are about the
only crop many of the farms yield, and 1t has
the advantage Of being perennial, and can be
| always gathered"
TIE MEMBERS of the New York Coaching
Club are debating whether to wear black OF
white big hats at their annual four-in-han
parade on May "A. August Belmont. Willie
JAY, Mr.. Bronson, Mr.. Kiyes, and others favor
| the white plugs, u lille Delaney Kane. Mr..
iselln, Mr.. Lorillard, and others advocate the
| black.
! H. H. RICHARDSON, the architect, not long
before his death told Phillips Brooks, rector
Of Trinity church, Boston, that he did not
! have much re>Dec for his am the members
| OF the Trinity church committees taste, be-
cause they had accepted his design for that
church, "You ought to nave waited" said
ne, tin l could do such things as l can do
now"
MAUNA LoA, the Hawaiian Volcano, is
situated on the southern slope of the Mauna
Loa mountain, some several thousand feet
below the apex. Tue crater proper is nine
miles in cir umference and about 600 feet
deep. The floor of this crater is covered W tn
black lava, aud every few weeks or months 1t
receives new coating.
THERE was no water IN jefferson Market
New York; prison for five and a half hours
Tuesday morning. Gus SaYin, the prison en-
gineer, went fishing He had found small
hsh fast in the pipes before. Tnis time, in the
elbow of the ll2-inch pipe over the engine, he
found big eel. 1t TOOK him five minutes to
get the eel out. 1t was 80 inches long and
weighed over two pounds.
An AUSTRIAN DISTRICT COURT recently
published a curious list of twenty per-
sons whose whereabouts ''are unknown" and
for whom it appointed a guardian. The list
included twelve Counts, -four Countesses, three
BarOns and three BarOu esses of well known
noble Austrian families, and, what is most
singular. some army officers in active >ervice,
whose Whereabouts the court alleges it does
not know.
THE New York Board of Health empowered
Dr. Cyrus Edison Tuesday to go to Chicago
with an inspector of his stan to make a search
ing investigation into the manner of dressing
amt treating the ef sent to New York by the
great packing houses. The charge has been
made that il is washed before packing in
water from artesian wells that is unfit for use.
The packers requested that a thor. ugh exam
nation be made by competent persons.
A SHOCKING CASE of brutality was investi-
gated by the Barnsley bench of magistrates
recently, resulting in Charles wilkinson,
being committed for three months without
the option OF fine. The defendant, " no had
charge of the ponies under ground, took a
large piece OF iron. struck a FESTIVE pony sew
eral times over it's side, and afterwards drove
the sharp end five times into its shoulder
almost killing the animal and causing Lerma-
nent injury.
THE GREAT LICK TELESCOPE, when mounted
and swung against the sky, will have focus
of So feet length and nearly 10 feet longer than
the largest one ever made. 1t will be a re-
| frac or, which means that the image is formed
directly to the eye by the object glass, as con-
| tradistinguished from the Gregorian and
Herscheiian telescopes. The largest Instru-
ment ever known of the latter style was Dr.
HerschePs. The tube lacked but eight inches
of being 40 feet in length. What new revela-
tions in the heavens this largest and most
| powerfurof all refractOrs may disclose from
| its costly minaret and the surprising aid it
| promises to the further study of the surface of
| the moon alone, are matters which already
| excite impatient expectation from the whole
| scientific world.
ARLO BATES tells this story of little Bos-
ton maiden, II years of age. She has been
much exercised over ethical and religious
problems during the past winter. "She was
at first a Theosophist. but when the Lenten
| services at Trinity began il seemed to her that
] the responsibility of the family demanded
| that some one should occupy their pew in that
church, and. as nobody else seemed likely to
o.
noon meetings and became much inclined
| toward the faith inculcated by Mr.. Brooks
| There is a )oi deal of il that is like TheosO-
| phy,' she assured me, and I think perhaps
| IL better to go with your own people instea
of with folks that live so far of as India; 80
! can't quite tell whether I'd better be a
| Theosophist or not"
AT BLAIRsvILLE, thriving little town Of
between 1000 and 5000 inhabitants in Indiana
county, Pa, Tuesday, fierce wind came up
and lasted a few minutes. Then a strange noise
| was heard. some describing it as the rumbling
/ of a freight train over a bridge, and others as
| the rushing of vast body of water. or the
| sound emitted from gas well. A strange
! looking cloud, funnel-shAped. rose over the
| place from the northwest aud rushed onward
\ with fury. As IL passed along trees we're up
rooted and fences levelled, and everything in
| its track seemed to give way before it. The
cloud suddenly veered in westerly direction
| and struck the Kiskimlnetas river Just below
| the hill, sending the water up in a solid col
umn to height of nearly 100 feet. 1t again
| changed its course, and travelling northeast
| erly with terrific speed 1t struck the water at
different points, lashing 1t into spray until the
view was completely INSTRUCTED.
No SPECIAL FOREIGN OFFICERS are to be in
vted this year to attend the grand imperial
manpuvres ofthe Fifteenth Army Corps in AL
SAGE -Lorraine-none, that is to say, beyond
! the ordinary military attaches Of the various
| embassies here in Berlin. 1t Is certainly
a new and somewhat surprising departure ;
| but the semi official reasons ri en- for it are
on the one hand, that other powers-Russia
| and Austria. fOreXample-do not ALWAYS in
! vite foreign critics to watch the autumn evo-
| lutiOns Of their armies, and that, therefore,
Germany in this Respect Is ent tied to have
| recourse to the principle OF reciprocity;
while on the other hand, the EmperOr's hos.
/ pitality will have to be absorbed this year by
| larger contingent than usual of South Ger
man officers Of rank, owing TO their adiacency
| TO the Reichsland. All political motives for
the new departure are disavowed, though
! perhaps the denial just goes little too far.
ABOUT 140 students in the medical depart
ment of the University of Vermont Tuesday
organized ia open rebellion against DR.. L. NJ.
Bingham, recently appointed professor Of
surgery The students refused TO attend his
! opening lecture. and marched around Town
making demonstration during the lecture
hour. The trustees elected DIR. Bingham to
| the chair made vacant by the death of Pro-
| fessor Little, Of New York. The students
made a written protest against the appoint
/ ment of DR.. Bingham. on the ground that he
| was not man Of sufficient experience, and
! that he had made serious mistakes in dag.
/ noses and operations in clinics before the
| class. The trustees made an inform al inves-
/ legation, but dad not alter their decision. The
students thereupOn vote 10 boycott the new
| professor They will attend all the other lee
lures, and. as under the rules OF the uni-
versty they cannot be compelled to listen to
DR.. Bingham, the revolt is not an adequate
cause for discipline.
on LAST Tuesday Mr.. Poliet, with gang of