The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-22
Losing a Vacuum.
From the Youth's companiol

from the OlLLi 8 companion.
The teacher of the Roseville high school
was young man, with an ardent love of
science, and the boys and girls had all
caught something of his spirit. Twenty
homes in Roseviile gave evidence of the
experimental work which was being carried
on by the young people, and mothers and
aunts held indignant n meetings over the
bugs and toads and snakes and birds, alive
and dead, that appeared in unexpected
pllces. One day Frank Newman found an
unus ally handsome mud turtle, nearly as
large as his hat, in which he carried it
home.
That evening, after tea, there was an ex-
cited meeting of young people on the lawn.
Tennis was forgotten, as the boys discussed
ways and means of preserving this turtles
fine shell. Finally they decided to and
asked their teachers adv ce. Mr.. Dean was
full of interest. He told them that he had
once cleaned shell of this sort very easily,
after he had killed the turtle, by putting
him under a glass receiver and pumping
out the air with an air-pump.
Next day, therefore, the zoology class
assembled after school in Mr. Deans class
room to witness the experiment. Frank
Newman put the big tortoise under the re-
ceiver, and Mr.. Dean pumped out the air
until the creature lay limp and hfeless,
sprawling out of its shell.
"We will leave him here until morning, to
be sure that life is extinct, before we re-
move the body from the plastron and cara
pace"
On his way to the class room early the
next morning Frank Newman met the ian
itor with his dust pan full of fragments of
glass.
"Sure, Masther Newman, it's trouble
you're makil' with yez animals and the
fr1ac hell L.
one in Misther Deans room is smashed in
slivereens by that shelled haste you left
shut up-and here they arel"
But he was deadW cried Frank. "How
could he break the receiverg"
Faith, l fetched HIM to life, the poor
craythurl l found him there a-gaspin'
when went to sweep out the room yesther
evening, just afther ye'd gone, and l
thought you'd been forgetting him, so 1
saved his life fur him; and then look how
he broke the glass bellr'
"You saved his life for himI HowY'
Sure, and I just slipped thin book
under one side OF the glass, to give him a
bit of fresh air. And to pay me, he had to
go and hump himself up, and kick over the
bell and smash it, bad luck to hlmI'
''Where is he now?"
"He's found the bad luck" said Mike.
with a slow smile. 81 was some mad. to
opeenO Si4O eOL1A uOLl, WlOh saw WHdb ne u
done, and before I stopped to think I'd
picked him up from the floor, where he was
prancing about. and give hima fling out of
the window. And there [ see one of thin
little rascals from the patch a-licking off
down the roa wild him." 'ssw
A''Wen, Mike, hope that in future you'll
not NEEDLE with our experiments" said
Frank, with some irritation. 1--WE left the
turtle over night in the receiver because
we wished it to be there. II you hadn't let
in the air the accident would not have hap
pened. You see, we had a vacuum" he
concluded, condescendingly.
''Sure, was the craythur a vacuum 81
said Mike, with great respect. 81 thought
twas lust q common mnd-turtIeln