The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-16
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experienced in identifying him. Witnesses
stated that when trying to dispose of his stolen
horses he bad two eyes. When arrested re
had but one eye. A glass eye was found in his
clothes ami when placed in the socket every
person recognized him.
SOMEBODY has perpetrated an DISCRIMINATING
war upon the fnny tribes of Leatherwood
creek, near Quaker City, o., by turning out tie
contents of an underground cavern of sulphur
water. The whole creek on Sunday was so
impregnated with sulphur as to render tue
water and banks perfectly yellow with the
mixture Bushels of dea fiSa could be seen
floating down the stream on Sunday.
A DISPATCH from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, says:
Frederic Rouse was employed as deck hand
on the steamer Walter Brett and June 2, 1898,
got drunk at the steamboat bar, fell overheard
and drowned The guardian of Rouse's
child has secured a verdict of $1,000 against
the steamboat company, Principally on the
ground that it had no right to sell liquor. This
verdict is likely to abolish bars on Hudson river
boats"
AT RECENT MEETING of the Paris Academy
of Medicine, DR.. Dujardin- Beaumetz exhibited
a new alimentary substance, which he named
Fromentine. 1t is obtained from wheat by the
aid of 81 g ial millStoneS and is the embryo OF
the wheat reduced TO -four 1t contains three
times more heterogeneous substance than meat
and large proportion of sugar Ii ls Thought
that it may advantageously replace powered
meat as a concentrated food. 1t may be en-
ployed for making soups, and even for making
biscuits.
No NEWS Of the week, says New York ex
change, has been more agreeable than the an
nouncement that the names of the streets Of
Brooklyn are at last to be placed where they
can be seen. on street lamps and electric light
supporters. There has been great demand
for something to be done in this direction, and
the commissioner of CITY works has at length
made a contract for 1000 signs of glass with
black lettering on a white ground, and it is said
nlaCiDpp
be begun at once
THE STEAMER RossMoRE, which was recently
launched at Liverpool and which is to ply be-
tween Baltimore and European ports, is said to
be the largest cargo ship ever built on the Mer-
sey She is 400 feet long, 46 feet beam and 70
feet depth of hold Her; draft, when loaded,
will be 26 feet. She has long forecastle, bridge
and poop deck for the protection OF cattle. Her
motive power will consist of triple expansion
engine OF 5O0horSe power nominal and 1900
horse power effective. She will carry 800 tons
dead weight and about 800 cattle on her upper
decks
THE largest compressed air establishment in
the world is at Paris. 1t has plant with 5000
horse power. Begun in 1881 to distribute the
power necessary for the driving of pneumatic
clocks, 1t was not long before it was discovered
that the air could be prOfitably used for two
other purposes-to distribute motive power to
manufacturers by day and to produce electricity
for lighting by night The works, which ara on
the nights Belleville, on the edge of the city,
now occupy an area of 10000 square feet, or
two and a half acres, two-fifths of which is
covered with buildings.
JOHN BROWN was stealing ride in a box car
on narrow gauge road Nov. 8 last. When
near Charleston, ILL.,, brakeman open the
door and fired into the corner where Brown and
another tramp were sitting. The bullet whizzed
unDleaSantly close 10 them so close, in fact
did the ball come to Browns head that his 81 yht
was destroyed and portion of his nose carried
away. His home is at Terre Haute. and since
the occurrence ne has had to have an attendant
constantly at his side. He brought suit against
the company for $4,000 damages and it is now
occupying the attention of the circuit court.
A LITTLE CHILD about years old, wearing
skirts was lost in the West End, Washington,
and two boys, after making inQuiries took him
to the station house. Fere an offi ,er, after en-
deavoring to obtain from the little one some
clew which would direct him homeward, handed
him pencil and piece of paper, and asked if
he could write his name, little expecting that
he could do so, or that it could be read after it
was written The little fellow sat down, and
on the back of business card wrote plainly,
'Boggs; 1927 o. 49, The policeman at once
directed his steps with the child to No 1877 0
street. where the liete fellow was joyousy well
coined by his dist d parents. He was a
very accomplished 4-year-ol ~
A BAPTIST CLERGYMAN in Chicago r'c1at1y
made book trade with Congre zational clergy
man and he discovered that the Congregation
alist had carelessly slipped his next Sunday
sermon into one of the beautiful f, los Some
what of humorist, the Baptist clergyman de-
termined to profit by his brothers labor and to
deliver that sermon from his own pulpit The
preachers occasionally enjoy a joke on one
another b 1T this joke was a double-edRed
one. Along about the middle thereof the Con
gregationalists sermon bore down rather
severely upon the doctrine of Immersion and
the confusion that this discovery caused our
Baptist friend rendered the concluding part Of
his discourse exc 9edingly brief and desutory
The ancient monument in Essex known as tie
Long Man of Wilmington" is about to receive
some much needed care at the hands of the
Duke of Devonshire. This is one of the most
primitive OF English monuments, having been
built by people wholly impossible to deter
mine. 1t consists of a trench C It in the turf in
the form of a man 240 fee. loa- and with a staff
in either hand. 1t has been So overgrown with
trees as to be hardly discernible. There are
two other figures like this near Plymouth known
as Cog and Magog, another on the Cambridge
Shire hills, and another on Dorsetshire all
nearly of the same gigantic size. The White
Horse OF Berkshire which is annually secured
as described by Thomas Hughes is one of the
same sort.
THE Manufacturer and Builder gives some
interesting information about the manufacture
Of toothpicks in a Michigan factory. The wood
of the canoe birch is used exclusively The logs
are sawed into pieces % inches long, which are
thoroughly steamel and thea cut into vene .r
The veneer is cut into long ribbons three inches
in width, and these ribbons, eight or ten of them
at a time, are run through the toothpick ma.
chinery, coming out Of the other end the par-
tect pieces falling into one basket, the broken
pieces and the refuse falling into another The
picks are packed into boxes, 800 IN a box. bv
girls. mostly comely- )Iing young sqlaws.
and are then packed into cases and finally into
big boxes, ready for shipment to ali parts of
the world About 100000 toothplcks are
turned out each working day by this one estab-
lishment.
The NEW DRUG sULFoNAL, according to the
0icaE Reporter, is by no means as harmless as
has been asserted. Dr. Bornemann l..s iu,1 re-
ported a case of severe poisoning resulting from
the administration OF the diuS Tue patient To
whom sulfonal was given for insomnia cause1
by cerebral excitement, was a physician. The
result was a pronounced toxication showing
very complicated symptoms There was a dis
tinct interference of c0-ordina, ion. first in the
lower and later in the upper eXtremitieS He
could n I, for instance raise a cup OF coffee A
very prominent feature of the poisoning was
his perverted feelings and illusi las The pa
tient believed he mad two hea is, four feet and
arms, etc; ne believed he was on a boat or
in a railway car, and that some one was about
to kill him. Toe drug did not exert any un-
favorable influence over the heart and circula-
ton.
A NEW GUNPowDER, the invention of Mr..
Hengst, has recently been tested, and the re-
suits point to it as a promising substitute for
black powder for military and sporting pur-
poses Tie new powder is prepared from straw,
which is pulverized, chemically treated and
in .i.r fort, f,e,, l.