The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-01
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| Ihomas Wilson, the eldest of the group, will be
| lOO In few days.
ANTHONY H. NEWELL, known as the heaviest
man in Allegheny City, weighing 36l pounds.
| died last week of a disease caused by a sudden
increase OF corpulency due to overlndulgence in
| but6ermilk. lie was Il years of age and native
| of Massachusetts
| AN undertaken at Cresco Ia. states in an adj
vertisement that he has number of debtors
| who, though now living with their second wives,
have not paid the funeral expenses Of their first
ones, and if they do not do so in sixty days he
| will publish their names.
DURING the last thirty years there has been
marked decrease of pauperism in London,
there being now about twenty-five per 600.
! This however, says the British Medical journal,
| does not imply corresponding diInnutiOn
| or poverty. 1t comes mainly from the stricter
| administration of the poor laws.
THE medical papers of Prof. Won Gudden.
| who met his death in his attempt to save his
| unfortunate royal patient, King Louis H. of
Bavaria, from drowning in the Starnberger
lake, are shortly to be published, and it is ex-
| pected Will form an important contribution TO
medical science. The editing of the work was
intruSted to DR.. Grashy the son-in law and sue
cessor of Prof. Gudden as director of the Munich
insane asylum.
AN enormous wave is reported to have struck
the beach at Baracoa, in Cuba. recently, and
flowed inland for distance of 400 feet before it
retired. 1t destroyed in its course nearly 300
nuts and houses, but happily no lives. as the in
naOltants saw 1t coming and fled to the nearest
hiLl Curlously enough. the wave was neither
TIDAL nor due 10 earthquake disturbance but, it
Is stated, to north wind which had blown for
three successive days
CHARLES HUFFMAN, of New York, who at
tempted suicide, seems TO have BEEN in pleas.
ant mood at the time. After sending one bullet
INTO ms head, the landady attracted by the re-
port or the pistol rushed to Humans rooms.
he smiled at her and said politely, Good
morning; am trying to kill myself" She i'm
medlately ran for an officer, but before he ar
rived the suicide sent two more bullets into his
head. The attending surgeons are in doubt as
to his recovery
In an Augusta (Me.) court girl aged ii, and
apparently without friends or relatives pleaded
guilty to charge of inceudarism The judge,
thinking her innocent, deferred sentencing the
girl, but remanded her to Jail, and while there
her innocence was proven and there appeared a
| gentleman who explained that the prisoner was
his niece and sole heir to his property. Why
th9 girl admitted having applied the torch isn't
stated, but tEat is only one of the numerous
| gaps in the story, which comes via a rather cir
| cuitous route.
AN EXCITING RACE from Wampum Pa, to
Beaver Falls, took place, it is said. between
two railroad trains on Saturday The tracks of
the two roads are on opposite sides of the
Beaver river and are parallel with each other.
AS soon as the race began, the passengers got
excited, and with hats and handkerchefs
waving, urged the engineers to greater speed.
Mile after mile the trains sped on, almost
abreast, but at last the Erie and PittSburg
made a'dash and pulled it into Beaver Falls a
| train length ahead of the Lake Erie. The dis
lance of twelve miles was made in ten and
half minutes.
DR.. DAsTRE, French Psychologist who has
been experimenting with animals to determine
the nature of seasickness, reports that after
they had been subjected TO various kinds of
motion, corresponding to the rolling and pitch
ing of vessels he found their intestines strangely
displaced. He concludes that similar disturb
ance produces seasickness on board of ships.
Cocaine is said to be an excellent remedy. An
other French physician who agrees with DR..
DaStre as to the cause of seasickness, claims TO
have discovered two nfallible remedies, one
mixture OF atropine and strychn!ne and the
other caffeine.
FREDERICK W. CLouGH, engineer of the
Comstock mines, has returned from a trip
among the Sierras, in Tulare county, Cal. and
reports finding a tree of the seouoia species
which he thinks is bigger than the biggest big
tree Of Mariposaor of Calaveras. He and his
companions had no measure except a rifle.
which they knew was four feet long. They
measured the tree as high above the ground as
they could reach, and it was forty.four lengths
of the gun in circumference. This monster
stands In small basin near the Kaweah river
and is surrounded on all sides by walls of rugged
aud steep rocks.
The residents of Westerly R. l., are interested
at present about a wonderful crowd of butter
flies that have been lowering over their town.
The swarm seemed to be going from Rhode
Island to Connecticut. 1t filed the air like
snowflakes many hundred feet high and the
flight seemed to be endless, stretching eastward
as far as the eye could see. The butterflies
were of all kinds and sizes; they were gor
geously painted yellow, brown and black, and
notified with bird seye spots, and in their flight
through the golden sunshine suggested the idea
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trailing its shivered particles across the land.
No one ever saw so great a swarm before, and
the question suggested itself to them: Do
butterflies migrate in the fall?
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says that the par
ticular vice of Virginia is gambling. and he re-
lates this incident of his recent tour through
the state: when returned from Lees burg
heard two men talking behind me for the space
of two hours, and their whole conversation was
descriptive OF games of cards held the night
before-how one man had held two pairs and
another had a full, etc. Into this game these
grown-up men of respectable appearance-men
probably 30 years of age-went with
relish that astonishing" At the Vir-
GINA villages, be says, you see the young
men ride up about II O'Clock. and hitch their
horses. They enter the groggeries in the back
of which, behind a sheet, are tables for card
playing. There they drink bad whiskey with
each others money till about O'Clock in the
afternoon, when they mount their horses and
ride home
THERE are on exhibition in the rooms of the
State Mining bureau at San Francisco four
"desiccated human bodies that we're found by
Signor s. Marghieri in a sealed. cavern at an
elevation of 900 feet on the eastern side of the
Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico The bodies
were found in a sitting posture, with the hands
crossing the breast, the heads inclined forward
and facing the east. Two adults, male and
female, were Side by side, and by the side of the
man was a boy. and girl by the side of the
woman. The bodies were apparently dried by
the air, no embaming process being used
They are not like any known Indians of to-day,
the hands and feet being exceptionally small
and the woman's hair brown and silken The
woman's forehead was large, and the reasoning
powers were apparently well developed. In the
lobe of each ear is piece of hollow reed The
burial garments are OF cotton, hair, hide
grasses and the bark of willows. In addition,
the little girl is covered with the skin of some
animal.
A DISPATCH from Wichita, Kan, says: 1.-THE
baby of a farmer, William Beattie, who lives on
the Cimarron river, north of the territory line
was carried Off by an eagle on Saturday Beat
tie went to work in the morning. leaving in his
dug-out his two children, one years old and
baby aged months. About noon Beattie re.
turned home and found his girl in tears She
said she had taken the baby into the yard and
left it while she went into the house. In a few
minutes she heard a cry, and ON looking out
The father knew at once that an eagle had Wis
tied his home and summoned his neighbors to
the wooded banks of tho river. for which the
eagle had made. In about an hour the sound ~