The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-07
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ceived within year.
THE London Field says that a man who can
| ride with the hounds when they cover eight or
| nine miles within an hour 'accomplishes feat
| which takes him and his horse out of the COM
| mon herd
THE greatest long -distance ride on record is
now to the credit of Col Gatacre. He went
from Simla TO Umballah, ninety-sx miles, in
| eight hours and a half with three-quarters of
| an hour allowed for changes, and returned,
| making 1874 miles under twenty-five hours.
WHILE in Rome Mr. Blaine will occupy
suite of rooms engaged for him by his old
| friend Simmons, Names most prominent sculp-
| tor. He will, among other things he presented
| to the Italian King, call upon his holiness the
| Pope, and sample the maccarom and garlic or
| the peasants.
| FoRMIc acid is the substance which ants,
wasps, etc, deposit under the skim and which
| produces the intense burning and itching which
| accompany wounds inflicted by them. This
acid is a powerful poison, and if a mosquito was
| large enough to contain much more OF II the
| bite of that creature would be very dangerous
MIDDLE-AGE MAN with young woman on
| his arm entered the home of a parson in Au-
gusta Ne, and said they wanted to be married.
! They were invited into the parlor, and, as they
walked in, the man said cheerfully as he looked
| around: oh yes I've been married IN TINS
| room once before Then the ceremony pro
| ceeded.
AUSTRIA HUNGARY boasts of some of the old
est newspapers in the world. On Jan1 next
| the Pressburger Zeitung will commemorate the
| 125th anniversary Of its foundation. copy OF
| the first issue is preserved at the National MI
| scum in Buda-Pesth. There is, however more
ancient newspaper in Vienna, namely, the
Weiner Zeitung. which is the official gazette,
and was founded in the year 100.
PERSONS attending a funeral at Rochester,
| Pa were rather surprised the other day when,
| during the services, a small boy passed among
| them handing each the card of an undertaking
| firm, on which was the Information that the
| firm was prepared to furnish collins, hearses,
| carriages and bearers at the very lowest rates
! The firm was not the one at that moment
! engaged in experimenting the funeral
THERE are two paper carriers in Philadelphia
| with lusty voices who make practice of crying
out news which is not in the papers they are
| selling. They start up a street, one on each
| side yelling at the top of their voices: Double
murder in the ward - or Terrible wreck
Of a steamship; 300 lives lost'' or Great rail
| road disaster in the Vest and thus vctimize
| great numbers of people. These men have been
| at this business for a long while. A great many
| people, knowing them to be frauds, pay no at
tention to their cries, but as they take different
| routes every day they can always find number
| of new victims. The Philadelphia papers are
| demanding that the police suppress the frauds.
| AN article in Engineering describing where
antimony is found in Europe, states that large
| quantities come from ancient mines worked by
! the Romans for gold II is probable that these
! mines will become in future the chief source Of
| this metal, so far as its consumption in Great
| Britain is concerned. Anthony ore. however,
| is very widely distributed. Anthony IS gen
| orally found associated with other ores more
| especially with lead iron, zinc and Slve.. 1t is
/ constant source OF trouble to the smelter on
account Of the difficulty with which It is climi-
| mated. Anthony is chiefly used as an alloy with
| other metals. Mixed with lead 1t forms type
| metal; mixed with tin il is employed for music
/ type. Anthony is also alleged with copper for
| bearings and is found in pewter, queen S metal,
! Brittania metal and in shot A great deal of
! antimOny is used as colOring matter, especially
in paints. In medicine anthony plays an inn
! portant part, although the quantity employed
| in this way is very small.
The injuries which parasitic fungi produce
| upon their host plants were described in the
American Association by A. B. Seymour,
| Parasites take away the nutriment of the
| plants, killing or continually absorbing the
| food-supply of individual cells, and injuring
| cell walls They impair the power of assimila-
| ton, weaken the physiological power, causing
the formation of spots and of black nolds to
| obStruct the passage of light. Some fungi
| cause a change OF position in their host, and
| less favorable exposure They provoke abnor-
| mai acreleration or retardation of growth, with
| resultant distortion and impaired vitality. Any
| part OF the plant may be affected. In many
| grasses the entire inhorescence is destroyed.
! Decay is produced in ripe fruits and valuable
| plants become infected with disease from less
| valuable ones The extent of the injury
| attributable to any one cause is hard to deter
mine, because several causes act together.
A LATE NUMBER of the Pekjn Gazette contains
a memorial from two very high officials, one of
them being the Viceroy of Nankin, the other the
Governor of Kiangsu province, praying the
Emperor to reward two deities with tablets and
| honorifc appellations, they having behaved
| very well for a number of years past. The del
| ties in question are the god of war and the
| guardian deity of the CITY of Hsu-chOW in
| Kiangsu, where both have temples. In times of
food, drought, or OF er distress they have yer
| failed to remove trouble and restore peace and
happiness. Thus in the summer of 1876 there
| was no rain for three months and the crops
| were being burned up. A band of rebels took
| advantage of the situation to work upon the
| feelings of the starving people and a crisis was
| expected. But on prayers being offered to these
| deities seGSonable rain fell in such abundance
! that the rebel following melted away. Again,
| in 1879 and 1892 when the crops were deluged
| with floods, recourse to the same deties had the
| effect of securing good weather. Early in the
| summer of the present year, when the country
| was suffering from scarcity of rain. the people
| repaired to the temples to ask the intervention
! of these COOS The same day a response was
| given to their prayers in the shape of plenteous
and refreshing showers
! URIAH WEIGH, a well known hotel keeper has
had occasion through some of his guests to get
an insight into the workings of the mind-cure
| system, which he is inclined with most intelli-
| gent people to believe a most gigantic fraud
| There are schools already established in which
| the mind-cure system is taught and where the
| scholars pay a sufficiently large sum of money
to insure the promoters of the system that their
! secrets are not likely to be divulged because of
! the sef-interest OF the Students who will wish
| 10 get their money back by practicing the fraud
| Extensive printed formulas can thus be secured
| The system may be summed up in few words
| 1t consists in accepting every patient that comes
| along. and insisting that as a preliminary to
| treatment the pa lent must not think of any
| thing except that of getting well through divine
! interposition. If the patient gets well great
| cure is Immediately proclaimed. If the patient
| dies the assertion is made that he did not obey
! orders and follow out the instructions Occa-
| sonally some crank helps the mlnd-cure people
| to an advertisement by asserting that he has
| been cured. Thus not long ago a man in Wis
| consin got up before a large audience and
claimed to have had eyesight restored to an eve
| which had been put out in his youth The story
was the talk of the day in the region where it
was told, but the sequel was not so widely pub
| lished. The man was sent to lunatic asylum
| within three months and at the time he made
! his statement undoubtedly the victim of
! Authorizations
| REV. Mr.. EAKTN, the Samese missionary who
| came to this country recently to secure funds to
establish Christian high school in Bangkok.
has succeeded in securing $4,000 for that pur-
| pose, and he has the promise of the King of
Siam to give the additional S. 900 necessary to
complete the structure. He has already started