The morning news., 1889-03-10

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THE PRIZE offered by the French Academy
! of Sciences for q pap=r on the Transmission
/ Of power by electricity has been withdrawn,
/ no paDer of sufficient merit having been re-
ceived.
| A DOMESTIC in Bangor, Me-, who was given a
| physicians prescription to have filed, misun.
/ derstood her instructions and mailed the paper,
7 and in due time it reached the doctor who
wrote Il.
| UPPER STRATFoRD, CONN, has a hermit He
| is young man, and, according to accounts,
| began the life of recluse because of a disap-
pointment in love He lives in a cave dug b.
meath large rock, and his only companion is
mink, which he has trained to obey his com
/ mandS.
| VACCINATION is compulsory in England and
| optional in France In the large cities of
| France the number of deaths from small pox
was 1856 or 03l per loo of the living popula-
| tion. In the large cities Of England during the
same period the number Of deaths was 332 or
| OO4 per 1000
A SPECIAL from Winnipeg says: At Kewatin.
an Indian boy 10 years of age, was fed with
| whisky until he refused co drink any more. He
was then laid on his back on the floor and the
| liquor poured into him. He was found dead on
| the following morning. having evidently b en-
| choked to death. Blood was running from his
| ears anu mouth.
For SIX YEARS William Teneson Of Bristol.
Bucks county, has been troubled with sore on
| his neck for which a number of physicians have
| treated him without success. On Thursday last
| Drs Pursell and Groom of Bristol, cut open his
| neck and found tooth that had become de-
| tached from the jaw and had buried itself In
| the tissues Of the neck. The tooth was honey
combed and much enlarged.
AN ONO POULTRY RAISER has made a curious
discovery. He says that if you go out TO feed
| flock Of chickens and will cause them to wait,
| they will invariably. as hey crowd about you,
begin a circuit around you from right to left, in
| front, and continue this revolution as long as
| you stand there. No amount OF interruption or
| maneuvering can confuse them or compel them
| to take the contrary direction at any time
THE New York Tribune says: "Dr King, the
| Bishop of Lincoln, who has been brought to
trial for alleged violations of the ecclesiastical
| law. is described by the Pail Mall Gazette as
| having one OF those spiritual faces which one
cannot look at without feeling the better for it,
| and which positively beam with benevolence.
| And then in the next column the Gazette prints
| a portrait of him which looks like a cross be-
tween Fagin and Bill Sykes.
In BRAZIL there is a tribe called Cafusos,
| which has sprung into existence by marriage
| between the long, stiff haired natives and the
imported negro slaves. As might be expected
from the admixture of these extremes, this
| people possess hair of very extraordinary
| k nd. 1t rises perpendicularly from the head in
thick. curly masses, and forms wig of sucl
enormous dimensions that the possessors must
| stoop low when entering their huts.
JOHN IcKEN, employed as coal HEAVIER on
the steamer La Bourgogne, appeared at the
| money exchange at Castle Garden Sunday,
| with his pockets full 4 tin tobacco tags and can
| tops He asked to ave the money exchanged
into American bills. The attendant laughe =,
| and asked him where he got his new coin. The
| fellow replied that he had been paid off with it
on La Bourgogne. When he understood the
joke that mad been played upon him he started
off for the steamer, where his money and no
end of chaf were awaiting him.
ATA RECENT MEETING of the Royal Society of
Edinburg, John Aiken submit d a paper on
improvements in apparatuses for counting
| dust particles in the atmosphere, and explained
| that he had made a number of experiments
last month in the open air at Colnonell, Ayr
shire. He there found that the number of dust
particles in the air ranged frombO0 TO 9,O0J per
cubic centimeter He tested the air of the
meeting room and found it to contain 400, 900
dust particles per cubic centimeter. while the
air near the ceiling was found to contain g. 5O0,-
600 particles per cubic centimeter.
YOUNG WOMAN in the state of New York,
who had suffered for months from insomnia
and tried all the familiar remedies in vain, was
finally cured bya device which is probably Ii tile
known in this country Recently there came to
work in the family a Swedish woman who
hearing of the young woman's trouble, told her
of a practice OF the people in her country who
are similarly afflicted. 1t was to TAX a napkin
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| lay il across her eyes. The plan was followed,
and it worked like charm. The first night the
girl slept four hours without awaiting, some
thing she had not done for several months. AT
the end of that time the napkin had become
dry. By ~etting 1t again she at once went to
sleep, and it required considerable force to rouse
her in the morning.
THE Rarotonga cor Q spondent of an Auckland
paper writes the following interesting ITEM
Quite stir was caused in Arognan by the
| of
master marine, to Akaili a native maiden. The
young bride is related to the three queens of the
| island, consequently great deal of interest
| wa taken lii tue marriage, an1 the amount of
| pig killing and present giving was truly aston
| iShing. The bride, really handsome maiden
was dressed in very rich pale piuk satin dress,
| trimmed with heavy white lace, and, as she
| stood at the altar with her Anglo-SaXon lord
and master, she presented a very pretty appear
| ance, and such would not have disgraced
many Of your fashionable Auckland weddings
| There was a large congregation of Europeans
| and natives at Tnomna's palace at Arognani
| where the wedding dinner was given"
A SERIES OF REPORTS that shook houses
alarmed Springfield (Mass.) people the other
night. Persons rushed to their front DOORS and
many thought that there had been an earth
quake, but the Republican says no. The noises,
it explains, "were due to no other cause than
| the cracking of the ice in the intense cold. The
| earth was soaked with water from the recent
! rain for several inches below the surface, and
there had been frost enough to hold the water
toere, while the light snJw that remained in
| patches converted into ice The cold wave
| came down from the north savagely seized
upon the earth and froze it tighter tIan a drum
| Then the earth drawing away from the ice and
the Ice caught By the grass had tusse the n
exOlable law that cold contracts was set in
! operation, and the icy enamel gave way, tn a
| separation and its accompanying percussion of
air causing the violent noise and disturbance of
the air that were heard and felt"
OF GEN. FELIX AGNUs, who is one Of the most
conspicuous figures in the south, as well as in
journalism. the New York World says: His
life story is a strange one. Coming to New
York French lad. at the breaking out of the
war he a. once enste in the famous DURYEA'S $
| Zouaves. He learned the language of his COM
rades at the cannOn's mouth WITH a name
| signifylng Happy Lamb he did not seem
fitted for deeds Of herosm, yet the French lad
who entered the Gnion army as a private left it
a brevet brigadier neral. His subsequen {
! marriage to a daughter of Charles Fulton, o t
| the Baltimore american, gave him close as =
| sociation with one of the best newspaper prop-
| critics in America. What Fulton thought of his
| endeavorS was shown in his will, uy whose
| terms Gen. AgnuS was given full charge of the
| entire property. While he has a soldiery air
and bearing, years Of peace nave brought an un-
| martial rJtundity to his figure and moonlike
| roundness to his face. His grayish mustache is
long, and the scantiuess of his hair permits him
to part it with towel"
In A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution