The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-12
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Lightning struck the trees. and, passing down
ward, Killed every COW in the drove.
THERE are 493 mountain peaks in the United
! States more than 10000 feet in hight. The
highest mountain east OF the Mississippi is
Mount Balsam Cone, in the Black mountains of
| North Carolina, that is 6,611 feet high.
BosToN BARBER declares in his business card
that he is "a first-class tonsorial artist, facial
| operator, Uranium manipulation and SLAYER of
| contisuments," And yet he modestly refrains
from calling himself professor And in Boston,
| too.
CHINESE CHRISTIANS Tor christianized China
mem are becoming numerous enough in New
| York to make a new quarter for themselves
near University Place, Tenth street, and Mott
| street is rapidly becoming abandoned to the
| heather.
HISTORY of the pope's jubilee is, it is said.
beng compiled within the vatican precincts,
and great care is being expended over it's prep
| ar9tlon and some issues of the work will prob
| ably be highly embeliished, the material for the
artist being copious.
EDWARD VAN RANsT, who had furnished all
the carriages to the city of New York for great
events from the time of James X. Polk down
70 ana including the funeral of Gen. Grant,
| dled last Thursday, aged "a. His mother died
last winter at the age of 101 years.
NEW IDEA in tricycling has been invented by
| an Englshman who has been travelling with his
VIE through France on a machine lifted with a
bamboo mast on which a sail can be hoisted.
| Inc WIND has sometimes kept him moving, even
| on up grades, without using the pedals.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMPANIES in Providence,
R. l., have signified their willingness to build
conduits for their wires through the streets of the
| central portion of that city if they be granted
| an exclusive franchise for a term of wears for
tne privilege OF allowing the city to use the con-
\ duitS
SIX THOUSAND POUNDS Of powder we're set off
at single blast in San Francisco, causing
| trembling of the earth for miles around akin to
mat produced by an earthquake. The charge
IVES nred in quarry on Telegraph Hill, and dis
LOGGED, 1t is estimated from 30 900 to so 600 tons
| of rock.
| DOCTOR in an Ohio town, who lives on a
street leading to the cemetery, has reversible
sign. Usually the sign presents his name and
once hours; but when funeral passes, he turns
| 1t over, and then the following legend is dis
| low my directions
REV. FRANK NJ. BRISTOL of Chicago has a
Cato Major" printed by Ben Franklin in 1746.
| that is said to be as fine specimen of typogra-
| ply as one could find anywhere II was printed
| when Franklin trundled his forms from his
| composition room to the building where his
| presses were, set up.
A JAwBoSE weighing 100 pounds and measur
ing "a inches around and ID inches across, with
two 9-inch moars still in their places. was re-
Gently dug up IN bed Of brick clay at Arkansas
Pass, Tex Opinion is divided as to whether
II belonged to an armless prize fighter or to a
professional demagogUe.
WoREMEN in the stone quarry of the Nevada
state prison at Carson recently uncovered a
stone on which were the impressions of immense
rect resembling mans in shape some of them
measuring 10 by inches Prof. Trast, of the
California state mining bureau, says that the
tracks are those of the sloth or some similar
quadruped.
GILES CLAIBORNE, a Vermont farmer offers
to sell his wife. In circular advertising her
merits he says: Hight, feet 5; age 80: form
finely developed; hair, brown and luxuriant
| eyes, large and hazel-colored hands and feef
about the usual size; temper bad" The last
quality is supposed to be the cause OF this
| unique procedure.
A YALE GRADUATE, who was a student about
thirty years ago, said, in speaking of changes
| that had taken place since his time: 81 never
knew whether to attach any significance to it or
not but when was there the law school ad-
| Joined the jail the medical college was next the
cemetery. and the divinity school was on the
| road to the poor house."
| DR.. HINzPETER the German Emperor former
tutor, has told an American who talked with
him recently, that in his opinion the young
| Kaiser owes much to the fact that he had four
| years of hard school life and strict discipline
| elbow to elbow with the average German school
| boy. AS q result of this he knows the people
| as thoroughly as any man in so high position
| ever can.
| IT is STATED that noiseess tire for adjust
ment to cab wheels composed of a combination
| of rubber, asphalt and Portland cement the
| invention of cab proprietor), is likely very
soon to be extensively used in London 1t is
believed that this silent noiseless tire can be
| affixed to the wheels of vehicles for carving
| heavy loads. If this is practicable the roar of
London street traffic will be effectually dead
ened.
THE German chemist, DR.. Peter CRIES.. died
recently in England. His name is prominently
associated with the history of the manufacture
of aniline colors. He was for many years in
charge of the laboratory of the great Allsopp
brewery at Burton ION Trent filling the Dositon
till his death. He did not permit his practical
labOrs to interfere with his prosecution of his
scientific work, and contributed largely to the
Journal OF the German Chemical Society.
Griess was member of the Royal Society of
London.
THERE is great excitement among the He
brews of New York over the decision of Grand
Rabbi Joseph that tag must be placed upon
the legs of all fowls killed by the Hebrew poul-
try dealers. 1t is not the tag that causes the
excitement but the tax of cent that must be
paid for the tag. The consumers say that they
do not want the tag, and cannot afford TO pay
the tax. They say that if they admit the right
OF the grand rabbi TO levy a tax of / cent, they
it to any figure that pleases his fancy.
A SINGULAR PHENOMENON is observed in work
ing the ore Of the Martin White mine at Ward.
New. The ore is very base, and it is necessary
to roast the whole Of it. During the roasting
process no deleterious or disagree cable fumes
are observable, yet the hair and all the boards
of all the men engaged about the
works soon dyed bright and per
manent green Even the eyebrows of the
workmen are as green as grass. The smeters
say this change Is not caused by arsenic but is
due to some mysterious element in the metal
The shades of green vary in intensity with the
color of the hair. The hair is not injured but
retains its original softness and strength So
reports the Virginia Enterprise.
The Dresden Municipal authorities have been
investigating the possible danger of the spread
Of infectious disease by books. number of
much used volumes from the town library were
taken, and the dust from the leaves was sown
and cultivated in a proper bed. with the result
that 1t turned out TO be only dust and nothing
more; microbes we're produced Then the |
drtiest leaves were rubbed first with dry and
then with a wet finger. Scarcely any microbes
were found on the dry finger, aud while there |
were plenty OF them on the wet finger all an.
peared to be harmless and of a non.infectious |
character IL was especially noted that there
were no tubercule bacilli. The books were then |
soaked for two days IN spirits containing 10 per
cent. of carbolic acid, a treatment which de- |
stroyed all the microbes and proved harmless |
to the books The conclusion reached was that |
there slight danppr Of tho grraad 80 |