The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-16
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tween the boat and the slip, until he was pulled
back on the boat feet first
A LITTLE GIRL named Sallie McAdams has
been astonishing the people of Crawford, Neb..
by the plucky manner in which she tames
vicious horses. No matter how wild the horse
may be, she sticks to him until he is conquered,
ana the most expert cowboys in the region
acknowledge that they cannot beat her.
A BURGLAR who stole meerschaum pipe in
Chicago the other day returned it to the owner
with polite note begging him to color it artist
lcally and then to leave it where it would be
handy to get at. professional Duties" added
the gentleuanly burglar, prevent me from
pipe, and think cab trust you to do the work
we'll"
A DENTIST in Calgary, Manitoba, has been
busy lately extracting teeth from Indians. 1t
is stated that before the advance of civilization.
when the natives subsisted solely on buffalo
meat, decayed teeth were unknown among
them. Braves who stand the torture of the sun
dance without flinching reduced to a state
OF abject terror when they feel the cold grip of
the forceps.
MAURICE FoRAN. of GAINESVILLE, o., has just
built new house. Under part of the building
there is no cellar the floor being ~ to IA inches
from the ground. An unfortunate cat happened
to be perambuating under the building when the
last board OF the floor was nailed down. No one
knew OF the imprisonment of the feline until six
MccAS dlloI Sne was closed In, ana Sne is now In
very weak condition and hardly able to stand.
BAKER in Bloomsbury. Eng, sued man
for Sic so for bread furnished The man en-
tered counter claim for S45 for the value of a
dog The evidence was that the bakers boy
leaving bread, left the gate of the customer
open, and the dog ran out and was lost. The
court held that if the man could not take care
of the dog himself, he ought not to expect the
bakers boy to do 1t, and judgment was for the
baker.
SOME small Boston boys were giving Buffalo
Bill entertainment the other afternoon, and
young Joe Cannon was an Indian whose bust
ness was to be stabbed by the scout. To pre-
pare for the act, he had stuffed the breast of
his jacket with newspapers, but the knife of
Butfolo Bill found joint in the armor of the
red skin, aud with Shrek of ''Ow," the child
of the forest dropped to the ground. The wound
was severe enough TO warrant hospital treat
ment.
A FRENCH INVENTOR has discovered a way to
stop the Roadway of a steamer in short order,
and consequently lessen the dangers of collision
at sea. the Havre and Bordeaux papers speak
of coming test of the machine by one of the
French war steamers. The machine consists
OF a number of parachutes so placed that they
can be tossed overheard readily and lowed by
cable. The resistance, without being great
enough to produce shock, rapidly overcomes
the headway OF the vessel.
THE great Lick telescope in California prom
ises wonderful discoveries in the skies Prof
Holden is very enthusiastic over it's revelations
and says that he has had views of the planets
the stars, the milky way and the nebulee that
no other astronomer ever before had. The
telescope resolves the nebuR in Lyra in
wreaths of sun STUFF which are in the process
Of developing into solid bodies and the observa-
ton of Jupiter promises to solve some of the
curious questions about that planet.
A Boston SWELL recently took a trip way
down on Cape Cod He had occasion to drive
from the station to his destination with a typi-
cal Cape Colder" one of those keen, but not
over brilliant-looking, sons of the sea coast
The Bostonian had noticed, as they rode along,
the bleak country with its uninviting fields and
sandy strips Of land, and finally said to his
companion: II don't see how you live in this
fCrOrnSlo os country Whas do You raise
ing answer, I'VE plant schoohouses and raise
men,"
TIE Shah has caused great stir in Persia by
issuing an imperial edict telling his people that
they may engage with perfect confidence ia
all industries and enterprises which are the
basis of civilization and the sources of happi-
ness and prosperity" that they may, without
fear or apprehension of any kind, exercise all
rights Of ownership over their property" and
that they may undertake any enterprise re-
quirng the combination of capital or the.
formation of companies, such as the construct
ton of public works, roads, ETC." The world
may be considered conquered when Persia
opens her doors TO clVlllzatl0n.
THE youngest child Of w. NJ. Upton" saws
the Macomb Qll) Journal, "a bright little fels
low of summers, was out in the yard playing,
and when found by his mother shortly after
into bottle The little Fellow was fondling it.
and would lay it down and pick it up again the
snake all the time being perfectly passive, and
making no effort whatever to bite. The moth
er's horror can be better imagined than de-
scribed when she took in the situation. She
called her husband, who came, and when the
snake was laid down, he grabbed his child and
killed his snakeship."
1T SEEMS like rank lunacy," remarks the
Toronto Globe, ITO point out that in the water
supporting a, ship reside absolutely inexhausti-
BILE stores of the fuel that will propel it at any
desired speed. Yet in Toronto we burn and
suffocate ourselves with water gas to produce
which is as easy as lying. True that coal is ufed
in the production of water gas, but one ton of
coal so used will produce the gas that will raise
many times the power in steam which
can be raised if the coal is burned
in direct production of steam. 1t is probable
that the consumption of coal on a large steamer
could be reduced vesixths by the interpostion
of water gas"
Dr. JULIUS WIEssNER has been making a
microscopical examination Of some old manu-
scripts, says foreign exchange, in order to dis
cover of what ingredients the paper on which
they are written composed. HE has con-
cusively proved that linen rags were used in
the manufacture of paper as early as the eighth
and ninth centuries. The fiber is chiefly of
linen but there are also traces of cotton hemp
and animal fiber present. The manufacture of
paper is an eastern and not O German or Italian
invention as has hitherto been supposed Out
OF 800 oriental and eastern specimens, not a
single one raw cotton paper. All those
that were examined had likewise been 'clayed'
like modern papers"
SAYS a writer in the Chicago Tribune: "Henry
James must have changed his points of view
within the last decade Apropos of his re-
Gently published statement that he is not an
American, but a n Englshman, is the following
extract from a sketch of his called Occasional
Paris" published in 1877: The consequence of
the oosmopolte spirit is to initiate you into the
merits Of all peoples; to convince you that
national virtues are numerous, though they
may be different, and to make downright
preferences really hard / have, for instance
every disposition to think better OF the English
race than of any other except my own The
last words would certainly lead one to suppose
that Mr.. James did not at that time consider
himself an Englishman."
woRKMEN digging trench for gas pipes in
Bosworth street, Boston, came upon three slate
gravestones, all lying horizontally about three
feet below the surface The inscription on one
was this:
: RUTH BRADINo
AGED ONE YEAR
: AND XII MoETHES
: AND n DAYEs.
F.: DYED THE OF