The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-15
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that she had been engaged and Tilted three
times.
! THE participants in a recent ball in Paris
/ drank 81, 900 glasses Of ale wine and champagne,
besides 5000 bottles of claret and 1000 cups of
iced coffee. There were eaten $4,000 sand
witches, 1900 buns etc.
! WHILE William Jackson, a Chicago roofer,
! was sliding down roof distance of IS feet,
/ he haG time to tell fellow workman that he
| owed three debts and had the money in his
| trunk to pay them. Then he reached the caves,
and went to his death on the frozen earth.
! A 14-YEAR OLD GIRL, who lives in Highland a
town near Harrisburg, was converted lately at
a religious revival. Soon afterward she fell
into a trance, and much of the time since sue
/ has been in that state. The frances last from
| five minutes to half an hour and don't leave
! her in the least exhausted.
DEATHS from mining explosions in England
for 1888 were only 43. This is the lowest record
| since 1851, when the number was first officially
given. The lowest previous to 1888 was s.
| deaths in 1884, The highest record in the past
| thirty eight years was in 1866, when $50 lives
| were lost by expiosions-360 of these being COW
cred by the one casualty at the Oaks colliery.
| A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE from instant death was
made Saturday by seven railroad hands en-
| ployed near Leavenworth, Kan. Thev occupied
q tent in which seventy five pounds of dynamite
were stored. The dynamite exploded, and beds,
trunks ana tent were scattered IN all directions,
| but the men were not injured in the slightest,
though their clothing was considerably torn.
AN ingenious person who was getting up
popular entertainment in London, lin aid of
| well known charity wrote to a business man
as follows: "It has occurred to me that you
might be inclined to support SO good a cause
! say on these terms: If you will take seven IS.
tickets, will cause the ventriloquist to refer to
| your firm and business If you agree to this, !
| will write the ''wheeze" myself, or will adopt
any you may send"
THE eight families occupying the four-story
| tenement house No. 241 East Seventy fifth
| street, New York, were saved from
being aSphyxiated Thursday night by saga
cious old black cat, which is the Joint properly
| of family named Way living on the ground
| floor. The cat detected that the gas was escap-
ing from leak in the pipe, and crawled into the
| May family. waking her by pulling at tho bed
clothes Mary realized the DANCER at once and
called her mother who aroused the rest of the
| house with difficulty Two members of the
| May family were nearly sufocated before res
cued and had to be taken to the hospital .
DICK WoRsHAM of Mexico, Mo, recently had
on exhibition a hens egg which was an object
| of great curiosity. Upon one side OF the shell,
which was of extraordinary size could plainly
| be dlSCerned a number of war ships at sea,
| peacefully gliding along upon the waters calm
| surface. Three vessels are plainly visible.
| Turning the egg gradually over, a seaport
comes fully into view, resembling the harbOr of
| Apia. The similarity is striking, indeed, and
the Samoan matter a once enters the mind
| upon beholding the egg, which is the product
| of hen that some German neighbors Of Wors-
ham brought over from the old country three
years ago. The extraordinary figures upon
| the she'll are thought to have peculiar sgnifi-
canoe just at this time.
Mr.. CRUMPToN, who lives in the Arkansas
| flats, seven miles south of Quanah, had an INK
| ling that something was going wrong around
| his place, and determined to seek out the tres
paSser Going short distance from his house.
| he entered a cave, and in the darkness he was
confronted with pair of fierce glaring ewes
| and rumbhng growls. Whipping out his re
vOlver he shot at his mark when scream was
uttered and suddenly an enormous panther
| Sprang upon him. knocking HIM some feet back
ward, when hand-t0-h hand fight enSued After
| a fierce struggle, and being violently scratched
| in the face, Mr.. Crumpton finally succee ded in
| firing the fatal shot, which stretched his game
| out. The animal was dragged from the cave
| and measured over nine feet.
AN ELECTRICAL ATTACHMENT has been devised
which may be applied to an ordinary clock for
awakening sleeper at any given time the con-
trvance thus taking the place of the ordinary
| alarm clock that needs to be specially provided
| for the purpose aud which needs to be wound
up the night before it is to give forth its sound
This electrical clock is so constructed that it can
| be set to any given five minutes of each hour
| the bell beginning to ring at that time and con :
| tinuing to ring until the switch is turned to cut
| of the electric current. There is, of course no
| call for winding an alarm where this device is
| employed, it being only necessary on going to
bed to turn the switch, thus allowing the circuit
| to be completed at the time the bell is to ring.
! In tins arrangement the clock and battery are
made in compact form, the cell of the battery
| being inclosed in theclock case.
| A DISPATCH from Chattanooga says: The so
year-old court house at Washington, Tenn, is
| to be torn down on account of the removal of
| the county seat. For thirty years the old
temple of justice has been haunted. and it is
| almost impossible to get men to work upon it.
| The testimony of eX-officers whose nerve is I'M
| questioned agrees that during all those years
| i'll a vacant room upstairs, footsteps have been
| heard at night, but hundreds of visits to the
room have failed to detect anything out of the
| common the mysterious tenant has been
| known to speak and ask an intelligent question
| The only occupant of the room has been a
skeleton called, locally, Jimmy Lonesome"
| left there by young doctor aud local tradition
| is divided as to whether its former owner stay g
| with it or whether the ghost is the wrath of a
| man murdered in the vicinity. Every man in
| the little hamlet and the country side around
| devoutly believes that the court house is
| haunted and that the ahost can only be laid by
demolition of the old pioneer landmark.
TIE MtcroScopical journal says that in order
| to draw pictures by means of the camera lucida
| without straining the eyes, it is essential that
the microscopical image and paper and easel be
uniformly Illuminated. If the image has, in
| comparison with the paper, too strong a light
the pencil will be seen with difficulty if at all
| on the contrary, If the paper, in comparison
| with the image, be too strongly Illuminated the
| delicate outlines of the latter will prove inds-
| tinct. This difficulty NAV be rexnedied nv
| throwing either the image or the paper into n
| shadow, and both may be done simply with the
| hand, or by properly constructed screen of
| paper, or by disk of pasteboard set up at some
| distance, and the like. A few trials made with
| the microscope with different degrees of mar
| Indication will be found to afford the necessary
| experience for managing the light in salts
| factory manner. Il is of course essential in
| tracing the outlines of the IMAGE under the,
camera that The pencil employed be not too
hard, and the lines should be very light
| The INGENIOUS PLAN proposed by Berlin in
ventor, of simple and inexpensive elevator
for private dwellings in place Of the ordinary
staircase, has attracted some attention as
| lQngfelt desderatum. 1t is on the principle of
| the inclined railway, and the motive power is
| furnished by the city water, which is applied in
the cellar; each flight has its separate chair SO
| thatl Tor example, one person can ascend from
the first TO the second story while another is on
| his way from the second to the third, or still
another is descending from the nth to the
iourth. Inc chair, being only of the width of
| the human body, requires but little space and
stil leaves free passage for any one who wishes
| TO Walk up or down, instead of riding IL is set
| in motion by simple pressure upon one of It's
arms while after it has been used IL slides back
| 10 the bottom step, its descent being regulated
| IN such manner that the carrying OF passen-
| ger IN a matter of entire safety The motive
| power IS, OF course, more or less expensive.
| according to the cost of water this
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