The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-10
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poid apes. it appears that the goril and chin
I panzee ap roach nearest to man, but in diff
J f-rcnt degrees, the Orang-Outang holding the
/ thr place But great differences exist be
| tween the proportions of the human frame and
| those OF all the APPS
AN Ariz ma paper says that at Proctors
! well. Santa Rosa, the shells of seventeen year
! locusts we're brought up from depth of 76S
! feet to which dep-h the piping extends 1t
! says; Their was quite quantity OF them.
| The entire shell was perfect also the limbs and
hairy covering of the back"
EDWARDS D.NKs, a well-known farmer of
| Muhlenburg county. Ky, recently killed the
! largest rattles lake seen in Southern Kentucky
| for long time He was cross ing q field aud
heard a slight kissing sound in bush. He saw
| rattleSnake cooled up, and picking I'D a stout
| stick killed the serpent with a single blow. The
I snake was six feet long. aud had seven, rattles
and three buttons, and was II inches IN circum
! ference.
The cigarette habit is increasing. Tho com
missioner of int -rnal revenue collected taxes
last year upon sis, 800 which is an increase
| of 3sS, 7S9, 260 over the preceding fiscal year
The number take ! is pretty good indication
| OF the consumption. The number of cigars
taxed during tie last fiscal year $780,, 3S5,
$40, an Increase Of p, 65S 800, showing that the
| consumption of cigarettes is increasing more
| rapidly than that of cigars.
WHILE the wolves at the London geological
| gardens were being fed one afternoon recently,
| one of them Ieaped over the head of the keeper
and escaped into the gardens. There were
| several children near at hand aud hut for the
! bravery of the teeper they could scarcely
| have escaped injury. This mau instantly seized
| the animal, and, although his hands were ter
| rlbly oltten-one hand, indeed being pierced
throuyh with the VOLTS fangS-he succeeded in
| mastering the beast and returning it to its
| cage. Fr.
RUTLAND PAPER credits Vermont with hav-
ing the smallest town in the United States. 1T
| IS Baltimore, parched on the side of Hawks
| mountain, and composed mostly of rocks and
! Knolls. Years ago 1t was part of Cavendish
| situated on the other side of the mountains but
voters had to so fifteen miles to cast their ba
| lots; SO a petition was crcul tted and the town
| o! Baltimore was set off. The popul alton in
leoO was 10 and there were not enough voters
to ill the town offices. The voting list numbers
| scarcely dozen, and there are twenty offices
| to fill"
SOME russell shoes, it appears, are fraught
| with danger to the wearer. The Berlin Medical
| Society, at a recent meeting discussed at length
the effects upon the skin of dyes used to color
/, wearing apparel. DR.. Weyl described the case
| of young man in Munich who had been pos-
| oned by the yellow dyeing matter used in color
| ing russell shoes After wearing these shoes one
| week, 1t was related. the young mans feet were
covered with small yellow blisters which, in th-
| middle of the second week, began to spread to
| his ankles. His doctor had him give up the
| shoes aud cured the eruptions in ten days. The
| yellow leather was subsequently examined at
the MUNICH hyglenIc Institute and found to be
saturated with dangerous yellow dye, so the
| story goes.
THE reaping and other agricultural machines
| shown at the Paris exhibition have been tested
| on the great farm at Noisel of Nine Menier
| the head of the chocolate making house, she
| having put her land and harvests at the dis.
posal of jury; The manuflctory at Noisiel
| turns out about 100000 pounds of chocolate d
| year The Tin paper with which the cakes are
| covered costs 100000 per annum, and the work
| of wrapping up the cakes gives empl0ymen t TO
| 600 women. The ManierS have their own rail
| way to meet the main line; they nave their own
| cocoa plantations III Nicaragua, and they grow
| their own sugar. They employ 500 workmen
| IN all, whose children receive gratuitous edu-
| cation, and who get per cent. for all savings
| they cOntide to their employers. The house
| started in 1916.
| WILLIAM O'GRADY, a seaman, has been locked
| up in Liverpool for capturing the ship Gas
| Sc di, on which he was employed, while in port
| at MilazzO, Sicily. Two other seanen are under
arrest as accessories. The three prisoners went
| ashore, and were bowling drunk when they re-
| turned to the vessel. They promptly knocked
| down Second Mate Backwith O'Grady seized
| Seaman XII and tried to throw MIN over
| board, and would have succeeded if Beckwith
| had not got hold of Kings legs he was going
over. capt. Grelg came rushing up with re
| 7olver. . Grady took it away from him and
| proceeded to clear the deck. The captain and
| the mates locked Themselves in the cabin and
the crew sought the for castle, while O'Gr ady
| stormed around the deck like a mailman He
| managed to shoot himself in the leg which
sobered him up considerably, and soon he
| knocked at the captains door and handed in
the revolver with the remark: There's one
| shot in it yet" The thr men were broupht
| in irons to Liverpool, where the police Justice
| sentenced O'Grady S comrades to month S i'm
| prisonment and held him for trial at the
| aSSiZeS.
ALONG the shore of the Oneida Lake there is
an Indians grave, where at times weird an0
| supernatural light makes its appeara c. 1t is
| described as a ball of fire about the size OF a
| large orange, and Sways to and fro in the air
about 20 feet from the ground, continuing it's =
| regular movements witlin space aDluJ 100
| ct square. People have attempted to 20 near
| enough 10 solve the mystery, but it would sud
| denly disappear before reaching it. a very pc
| culiar story is told by the ncghbors near the
| spot. They claim that many years ago the To-
| cality was the part of an Indian reservation. A
| man by the name of Bell1nap frequently
| dreamed that there was crock in the Indian
| cemetery containing immense treasures and
that If he went there at the hour when the grave
| yards yawn h could secure it. These dreams
We're repeated 50 often that they had strong
| effect. and he went there with pick and shovel
| according to instructions, but he failed to
| turn round three times when he found tn
| crock, as tn dream di ected. He went to pick
| it up, but was stunned by flash of lighting
| and the crock disappeared. Since that time
the spot has been haunted by this mysterious
| hight.
THE DUKE OF FIFE, although respectable
member of English society, has the misfortune
| of possessing near relatives whose behavior has
| given rise to much scandal The character of
MS three sisters has been such that it was
| found absolutely impossible to invite them to
| attend their only brothers wedding last Satur-
day at buckingham palace The eldest mar
ried to the eCc nitric Marquis of Townshend
| lives separated from her husband from Wnom
she eloped in years gone by The second Lady
Ida, who conferred her hand on the well known
turtle, Adrian Hope likewise eloped and be-
came the heroine of one of the most remark-
able divorce trials ever heard in the L0nd IN
courts. the youngest, Lady Agnes deserted
her husband the late Lord DupDlin and eluped
with MS best friend, the handsome Herber1
| Flower. Both the former and the latter are
now dead, and have thus enabled Lady Agnes
to contract third marriage with the ia nous
| London surgeon, alfred Cooper. The conduct
of the three sisters. pf the Duke Of Fife is now
ever, hardly surprising when one recalls the
relations which subsiste 1 bet ween their mother
the late Countess Of Fite,' ahd the Journalist
Edmund Yates
SAYS q correspondent: 81 met Z. big wiscon
sin lumberman yesterday who, in his summer
excursion, had just visited Washington. and
was bursting with pride in Uncle Jerry Rusk.
as he called him. L tell you, he said, he's the
most popular man with the employees of the
| sricultural department that been around in