The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-06
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per cent. while absolutely black hair is only
/ found IN ratio of = per cent
In THE YEAR 1889 there were about &C. Ooo acres
OF fruit trees growing in England Now. the
runners Magazine says, there are 214O1O acres
pun, the mere fact that last year 500 600
D9 s s OF apples alone were imported at cost
OF &oOO,VOO, shows there is plenty to do yet TO
provide for home consumption only.
THERE is considerable excitement among resi-
dents OF Union Ridge Cabell county, West vir-
GINA, over the existence of a wild animal in
| tnat region People afraid to leave their
MONIES after DARK. Those who have seen the
Deast describe it as ten feet long five feet tall
ana OF dark-brown color. 1t roars like lion.
The Theosophists aud Occultists have re-
solved to found an institution to be called the
| traternltas," on the summit of one of the hills
| Whch surround LOcarno, and not far from the
| banks of Lago Maggiore. The ''Fraternitas'
lnsCltutlon is to Serve as place of retreat aud
| assembly 10 the students of occultism and
| tneosophy, in order that they may be able to
ana one another mutually in their efforts to
ledd NE IN conformity with the principles of
| universal brotherhood"
HE OTHER DAY Cheat river CNest Virginia)
hunter, named Smith, fired at fox that was
running away from him. His bullet didn't
toucn the fox, but the crack of the rife seemed
| 70 confuse sly Reynard as to his direction, but
ne turned right about and ran toward Mr.
smith Seeing that the fox was puzzled Mr..
game bounding along, hitting him in the left
foreleg: Then the fox wheeled on three legs,
Jumped under rock, and got away.
INSTEAD OF abolishing the gaming tables at
Monte Carlo. the proprietors are vigorously pre-
pairing Tor new campaign. The Casino is being
en!argeI ana 6eautlfled both within and with
| out. Inc new buildings, which are being fur
! hlshed with paintings and sculpture, will be
reached by an elevator from the railway sta
| tlon' ana splendid gallery ID being built which
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| terranean. In front of the new buildings will
be placed colossal statues Of day and night.
| 1T is dangerous to let man die in a hotel in
Paris. A queer French law enables the land
lord to present his bill to the relatives for the
/ death. Seven hundred francs was the item re-
cently demanded from an American family for
| Ine uecease or one OF its members in a we'll
known hotel This extortion would have been
| three times as great if the person had died of a
contagious disease, and doubled if the deceased
| was prince or member of any rich old
arlstocratc family The allowances by the
| Judges, however, are generally much less than
the claims of the landlords.
| HITHERTO it has been supposed that English
| miners in the middle of the eighteenth century
first utilized parallel rails like the modern rail
| way tracks, in the TRANSPORTATION of burdens
| In Description of the World" by Sebastian
Munster, 1541. woodcut has been found con
tanning representation of little four-wheeed
| car loaded with ore md with a man behind
showing 1t along parallel rails. The scene of the
woodcut is an Alsatan mine of the first part of
Ihe sixteenth century. Munster calls the car in
question inStrumenta1t Srdctor1n, and men
tlons that us four wheels were of iron.
THE defenses of Gibraltar are not by any
means in a satisfactory condition The 1OO-ton
gun which was displaced from its position some
Two years ago, owing to the platform giving
way during practice hfih& has not vet been
replaced and the other gunof the same caliber
cannot be used, lest worse accident should
rnNr llar;
unsuitable for the modern heavy Ordnance
Yet new batteries have not been Constructed
In TACT, the only benefit the Rock has gained
from the special fund voted for defense abroad
has been a small battery near the summit.
TALKING of typographical errors, the Bur
ington Vt0 Free Press does not remember
seeing more horrible specimen of this class of
plumbers than one which appeared in a Massa-
chusettS paper not long ago. At the close Of
an EXTENDED and highly eulogistic notice of a
deceased lawyer, the reporter wished to saw
that the body was taken to Hull for interment.
where reposed the remains of other members
or the family By mistake a letter "e'' was
substituted for the "u' in Hull, changing the
sense of the sentence IN such degree that no
extra copies of that issue of the PAPER were or
| dered by the family of the dead lawyer
LETTER-sTAMPING MACHINE is being tried in
the postoffices at New York, and the results
warrant the hope that most difficult problem
in the handling of masses of correspondence
operator, working with an ink pad is able To
stamp at the utmost sixty letters per minute
but the stamping machine, working at its max
lmum speed with evenly sorted letters is cana
BILE of stamping 500 per minute and performs
nearly as good work when the envelopes and
papers vary in size. The motive power comes
from small dynamo. An attendant feeds the
letters into hopper, and the machine does its
own selection and rapidly passes the misSives
by system of feed rollers to the printing die
AN ENORMOUS FISH, about twelve feet in
length and weighing upward of 1900 kilo-
grammes, was found by some fishermen at
Brusc, on the French coast entangAd in som a
nets Inc animal was dead, but, being consid-
cred still fit for human food it was taken to the
shore, the operation lasting fully eight hours
When opened the peQple who had crowded to
the beach TO see 1t, were amazed at the sight of
part OF man S body and legs, the feet only he
ing missing, lying in the stomach of the mon
ster. On examinatforit. was found that the
man must have been Crowned some time be-
for burial, but the fishernen, having cut IN the
fish, sent it on to Toulon, where it was sold in
the market. ~
A WRITER in the Medical Classics looked
through microscope at a closely shaved face
and he reports that the skin resembled a niece
of raw beef. ITO make the skin perfectly
smooth requires, he says, mot only the re-
movai OF the hair but also a portion of the
cuticle, and close shave means the removal ~
a layer of skin all around. The blood vessels
JnuS exposed are not visible to the eve hut
under the microscope each little ouiyerine,
mouth holding minute blood drop protests
against such treatment. The nerve tips are also
uncovered ana the pores are left unprotected
which makes the skin tender and unhealthy
This sudden exposure of the inner LAYER of the
skin renders a person liable to have colds
hoarseness and sore throat"
THE London correspondent of the Paris
Batdilte says that Rochefort has disappeared
from London without leaving any trace of his
whereabouts. The explanation of his departure
is given In another paper as follows: For some
time past pamphlet was being sold in the
streets of London. entitled 'Rocnefort on Eng
land which reproduced the articles published in
the IntrdnSi0ednt against England and Queen
Victoria. The pamphlet ended with a violent
appeal for vengeance. The prosecution of
Rochefort was talked of by the authorities. who
were thinking of arresting him for insults to
the queen, and as the English don't take long
to come to a decision in such matters, Roche
fort thought it prudent to follow the example
Of his skipper, Boulanger, and to skip.
MRL. L. c. STEVENS of Cameron, N Y. ia I'M.
doubtedly entitled to be called the champion
female angler of the country. She and her hus
band spend the summer in camp at Lake Keul5a
THIS season they went on June "a. They broke
camp on Oct. "a During that time they can't
ured 400 salmon trout of an aggregate weight
of 1000 pounds, $500 black bass, weighing
from half pound to five pounds, and 500 pick
erel of an average weight of pound and a
hale Me- ,rrEA