The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-19
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stirred so much were they unde&control of I
the superstition regarding the nber thir-
AN exchange prints list of thitthat may
be eaten with the fingers" Thefe eight of |
EN-. We are looking, saws ttsorristown |
Herald, for list of things that L he eaten |
with the moth, but do not mearfast in the |
meantime. /
pasadena. 9ne Of the booming his of Cali /
fornia' is apparently entitled to distinction |
of being the MODEL own of the WI There is /
not saloon to be fund in the nj! If Is said. |
and on Sunday thu eltire populatiturns out |
in a BODY to go to cAuch
Mas. PAUL WJERDEsEcBER. odilwaukee,
has a months old bad That weigAnlv three
pounds. Its arms are s tiny tbot ,notbar,s
HheuuIng tug VII edslypass over em up to
ny sl4uluef. InS ennis perfeg formed.
When born it weighed oH one no,k
GEORGE GULL, of Dallaslrg XIV sban a how
of only years, memoriz and Heated 400
verses of the Bible His Emory ,s 40 strong
that, after hearing a sernI nreacI5 ba could
repeat it verbatim. Yet, fan tba he did not
turn out well, for he was st to iailater in life
for horse stealing. |
THIRTY YEARS AGO Joshua, rdesh and Mar
garet Hardesty, of Madison, 4 wen divorced
The woman vowed that she Md p,,,or marry
again, and remained single, Y *, Lrchand !
married again. His second wifed Ne renewed |
his acquaintance with his first q racsntly and |
last Saturday they were remad.
ONE of the most successful Pc Of instru-
mental music composed in latyears is the
Racquet" galop, composed ivears AGO bv |
Miss Kate Simmons, of Washing Moro than |
100000 copies of the galop have L, sold and
within eighteen months after its biication n |
brought the composer check fok OOO
IN the monastery of St Alexars Nevst; in
st. Petersburg, is massive shrine nura s,I
YER that weighs two tons. 1t is pnidol in
shape, decorated with the most beaL,fchosad |
work, and is surmounted with angeEe size Of |
man, nodded of solid silver. The mastery
also contains the crown of st. Alexsar and
the bed on which Peter the Great died
CALIFORNIA BIG TREES will have to taa COO
ond place as botanical giants now that tLcaan
has undertaken to beat the land in the 80
its products Capt. John Stone. of tflsbSn
Clever picked up a Seaweed on the AtLi,s
near the equator, that was 1900 feet lOniTt
was an alga and has been identified as a Sli
men of macroceptis pyrifera. Perhaps it isa |
kind of weed that the sea serpent eats. |
In Death Valley. Ari., there are thousands II
acres covered with deposit of borax two feel
thick and adjoining it, almost equal quantities
of salt lime and soda. The place is 80 feet be-
low sea level, and is evidently the bed of dried
up ocean. crude refinery has been erected,
whose product is nauled 100 miles to Mojave in
wagons with tires eight inches broad, and
which cost, when new, 81, 200 apiece.
JOHN TRACY, of Elizabeth, N. j., aged about
% years, and robust several days ago was at
tackled with a severe case of pneumonia Dur
ing the first two days of his illness he coughed
up large quantities of coal dust When the
Delaware and Lackawanna Coal Company had
their docks at ElizabethpOrt fourteen years ago,
Tracy was employed by them as a coal trim
mer After the company moved TO Hoboken
hsaA hit sAngNyA
gagged in the business ever since
ALFRED JACKSON, John Smith and John Vice
all Of Owingsville, Ky, receive $72 month
apiece from the government Their pensions
are granted on the score of total blindness con
tracted during the late war. They were mem
bers of the same company of the same regi.
ment-the Twenty fourth Kentucky Infantry
Vices claim has Just been granted, and he OBJ
tains over $4,000 in back pension He has been
a mendicant for years, and his helpless family
has endured the most abject poverty,
PERHAPS the most curious battalion in any
army is the Norwegian corps of skaters These
corps are composed of picked armed men with
rifles, which they use with great precision. The
skates used are admirably adapted for travelling
over rough and broken ice and frozen snow be
ing inches broad and between and 10 inches
long. The soldiers can be maneuvred upon the
ice or over the snow fields of the mountains
with a rapidity equal to that of the best trained
cavalry. AS an instance of the speed they at.
tain it is stated that messenger at ached to
the corps has accomplished 100 miles in IS hours
and 80 minutes over a mountainous country.
ACCORDING to Prof. Gould's Investigations. il
appears that aerial telegraph wires on poles
transmit electricity at the rate of from 14OOC
to 16 900 miles per second, and that the velocity
Of transmission increases with the distance be
tween the wires and the earth or in other
words, with the height of suspension; and that
subterranean wires, like submarine cables
transmit with reduced rapidity Again while
wires suspended at feeble height are known
to transmit signals at a velocity Of some IL DOC
miles per second, those that are suspended
higher give velocity of from IL. 900 to "a O0C
miles. Wheatstone's claim of 2SS, 600 miles. in
his experiments, appear never to have been
confirmed
A COMPOUND CoRLIss ENGINE, of a gigantic
description has been produced at one of the
Scottish foundries, designed for cotton mill in
Bombay. According to the description. the
high pressure cyclinder Of this immense engine
is some 40 inches diameter, and the low pressure
cyclinder 20 inches, each having a stroke of {
feet; and the fly wheel, which weighs about nc
tons, is 30 feet in diameter by feet G inches
wide, grooved for SO ropes by which the power
is transmitted to the various lines of shaftinp
in the mill. The engine runs at the rate of &C
revolutions per minute, thus giving a speed OF
ropes of considerably more than one mile a
minute. The crank shaft made of the best
Whitworth fluid compressed steel is p inches
in diameter in the body and 20 in the bearings
The steam pressure is rated at 100 pounds ner
square inch. and the engine works easily up IL
2500-horse power.
SENATOR CULLoM has a4-year-o old granddaugh
ter, who is sometimes terrible but ALWAYS
charming. For example, the other day some
political callers came in at dinner time. The
ladies of the household waited patiently for a
time for them to 60 and let the Senator come to
the diningroom. But when their patience gave
out they sent the little one in as an ambassador.
She reached the door and saw a room full of
men. She heSitated a few moments until there
was a slight break in the conversation and then
in an abashed but also reproving tone said:
Grandpa, tea is getting cold The Senator
let himself and his friends down easy, replied
pleasantly: "Tottie, guess you're getting hun
gryyn Yes said the little one quite positive
ly, Il am, and mamma is getting hungry too -
The political conference broke up right Off
HECTOR DECAsTRo, the Vice President Of the
Commercial Cable Company, says very en-
phatically that there is no truth in the state.
ment which has received frequent publication
during the past few months that Gen. Boulan.
ger had anything to do with the California
wheat deal in which the Nevada Bank became
so heavily involved. The way in which Boulan-
gers name came to be connected with the
Mackay people was this: Count Dillon, who
represented Mackay's cable company In Paris
at one time, was q close friend OF the French
General The prospect OF war In Europe being of
course a bull argument on wheat and the power
which BoulanRer obviouslyhad through his utter.
ances to keep alive the anticipation of a war.ille
ending to the complications then existing, sug-
gested to imaginative people the idea that Bou-