The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-25
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piece the section of his skull that was removd
| 1t is highly polished and he saws be intehs
| keeping 1t as mascot the remainder of Is
| days.
A CONNECTICUT school teacher. who was r.
Gently forbidden by the school authorities Il
punish pupils by putting sticks an inch or twd
| long between their jaws and tying their hands
| bennd them, Is said to have since then punished
| the unruIy by sealing their mouths with court
plaster. occasionally seasoned with cayenne
pepper.
DURING visit which Henry Irving paid to
Dalmeny Park. the other day, Lord Rosebery
presented Mr.. irving with ring which had be
longed to David Garrck. The ring is one of an
beautiful Upon it is an exquisite portrait in
| enamel of Garrick while within the ring itself
Is the name of David Garrick.''
| THE QUESTION having been raised as to how
to reach the top of the tall chimney at the Clark
Thread Works. in Newark after the workmen's
| elevator has been removed, the Scientific
american suggests that a balloon, with line
| be seat up through the central flue aud allowed
| to lose its gas and descend on the outside This
| it says, will provide means for drawing I'D a line
| OF sufficient size to enable q man to ascend the
| shaft
LAST year an orchard at Grass Valley, Cal,
was infested with the Goblin moth and other
| Understanding insects. Although no attempt
| to eradicate the pests was made, this year the
orchard is free of insects and the fruit is sound
ana clean TO the presence of an electric light in
| the immediate vicinity this change is attributed
| and perhaps rightfully, for thousands of the
dead pests have nightly been found on the
ground under the light
In cleaning out the lower levels of the caves at
| DordoSne, in France along with some of the
| most documentary stone arrow heads yet dis
| covered, there were found great many oy er
| shells piled in such manner as to show tina
| the Neuderthal man used the bivalve as a com
| mon article of food. The oyster is thus demon
strated to be the oldest domesticated delicacy
| known to mau. These relics are estimated to
| be over $4,000 years old.
The log of the steamer City of New York on
| her last voyage from Liverpool to New York,
showed an average run of 431. knots per day
The daily runs were respectively 1866, 425 AS 4f2
4i0 453 and 448 miles She had fresh head winds
and considerable head seas for two DAYS The
| omclal time OF the VOYAGE from Roche's Point
| to Sandy Hook is days, Is hours, 81 minutes;
the average speed 17.4S knots per hour upon an
average number of revolutions of the screws of
| lib per minute.
The handwriting of English literary men be-
| ing under consideration, it is said that Andrew
Lang writes peculiar but not illegible, hand
| SwInburneS was curiously schooI-boyish but
perfectly legble; Matthew Arnold was lucid
lty itself; Mr. Ruskin'S is pretty and plain; Sir
| Edward Arnold'S is also very plain; John Nor
ley is difficult at first but easily got acquainted
| with; Labouchere's is pretty bad; T. P. O'Con-
| nor's is rather rough, but easy to read; Fred.
erick Greenwood's is called agreeable.
PEOPLE at Point Isabella, Tex, are on the
| tiptoe of excitement. \ lighthouse is located
| there, and lately the keeper died. The other
ni2ht his late residence was showered with
| mails, oyster shells, etc. The next evening the
| bombardment was continued. An investigation
| did tot disclose the throwers of the missiles ard
| credulous perso lsnow think that "spooks are at
| the bottom of the affair" 1t is recalled that
| about ten years ago house in Brownsville
Tex, was similarly bombarded and all efforts
| to discover the source whence the stones came
proved unavaiIing
| FREDERICK VANDERBILT has been buying
| some large hagstones to form his sidewalk in
| front of his new Fifth avenue house These
| stones are about twenty in number, and are
| - feet long, from 10 to Is feet wide about II
| inches thick, and weigh from twelve to twenty
| tons apiece. The fat cars DESIGNED for carry
| ing them were specially built of extra strength
| for the purpose and special machinery is re-
quired Tor loading and unloading the great
slabs. 1t is estimated that these flags when
| laid in place in the sidewalk in New York, will
| have cost $4,000 apiece
MAN was digging q hale in a field adjoining
Trinity church, Margate, England, when mis-
pickax suddenly penetrated a cavity and fell
| from his hand. He just managed to move be-
| fore the earth gave way and exhibited large
| subterraneOuS chamber about u feet in hight
| 1t was found to contain a number of human and
| other remains, ard there was also long under
| ground passage, probably connecting the cham
1
| of the spot there are some very remark q BILE
| smugglers caves, and there is little doubt that
the present discovery is of an obscure portion of
| this retreat.
| UNIQUE cottage entertainment was given at
Newport, R. L., on Monday night. 1t was
| termed an "autumnal oyster roast" About
| fifty guests were present. At II o'clock the
| guests were ushered into the servants hall
which was artistcally decorated. Pumpkins
made into Jack o lanterns hung from the
| ceiling and punches of red berries, together
| with branches OF evergreens, of corr
| wheat, rel peppers apples and other autumnal
| products covered the walls. The guests then
| seated themselves at long tables, at each cover
being tin plate, on which were a coarse nan
| kin, bottle of beer and large mug Under
| the table was wooden pail, in which the oyster
| shells were to be thrown
In July. 1870, fifty families just from Sweden,
reached the heart of the Aroostook wilderness
| in Maine. where, for their accommodation.
were already erected twenty-five rough log
houses, each standing in five acres of cleared
| land. They went to work in their new homes
and now, eighteen years after New Sweden as
they called the colony, contains 700 inhabitants
frame houses, and forty log hutS
There are 100 farmers in the colony, owning on
an average, thirty acres o. land each. There are
five Shnge mills, cutting 5000 shin lies week
two postoffices three churches. three stores
and six school houses. 4 starch factory ia erect
ing, and on all hands are signs of thrift and
prosperity
THE mystery Of the so-caled Japan magical
mirrors, SO far as the cause of their rejecting
objects that are on the back side of the mirror
are concerned, appears to have yielded to a l. tile
painstaking investigation. They are thin mrL4l
hand mirrors, with raised figures on the back
of them and are cast of an alloy of about Ell ghty
parts copper and twenty of tin, making very
hard yet elastic metal. In grinding the mirrors
they are presumably laid on fiat plate and
the grinding pressure and the thick parts CD
posite the raised figures, are ground more rap
idly; the pressure removed, the plate springs
back and the mirrors concave where the
figures are. The light reflected from this mir.
rUr will show the figures on the back, not from
any magical power, but because of the concayp
surface produced over the fgures-the result of
accident rather than of design.
A CHARMING GHOST STORY has Just come to
light at Independence Mo. One of the store
buildings situated on the public square for the
past few days has had the reputation Of being
haunted by the ghost of a good lady, who FOR.
merly ran millinery store there. Blue lights
and white robed figures have been seen fitting
from room to room in the upper story, so il was
said, and strange noises were heard and other
queer things attributed TO q certain back room
in the third story. Finally q reward was Offered
TO the man who would go up at a late hour at
night and bring down certain article in the
haunted chamber. Several tried il, but were
scared, one man even tumbng down stairs i'm
his great haste to get away from the fated
room The other evening. however. one man