The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27
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remembered her servants in her will, leaving
nearly $4,000 to six of them.
| Foa every 100 pounds OF soap used in the
United States. England uses IS, Germany So
France s.. Sweden 20, Italy 81, Bulgaria IS and
| Mexico q.
The latest invention Of musical Germany is a
mechanical conductor. a figure which beats the
time with mathematical accuracy at any tempo
| that may be desired.
VicroR MEYER in a recent address declares
| that we may reasonably hope that chemistry
| will teach US TO make the fiber of wood a
| source of human food.
The little books of soap leaves hid in a
| daintily embroidered cover of channels skin, or
between painted celluloid leaves, are pretty,
convenient additions to the toilet in travel
| ing.
Two CALIFORNIA FISHERMEN met with great
| luck. Their first catch was a man-eating shark,
| eighteen feet long. that weighed 400 pounds,
followed by landing stingaree that scaled 125
/ pounds.
| A PARSONS (KAN.) PRODUCE MAN says that Kan
/ sas eggs stand much higher il the eastern mar
/ kets than Missouri eggs. The hens in the latter
| state are smaller aud inferior in every way to
| those in Kansas.
JUST 100 years have elapsed since the inaugu-
ration in Europe of the high silk hat-yclept
1.-THE stove pipe"-and the centennial anniver-
sary thereof has been celebrated during the
| last week by the matters of the Old World.
ARTEs1AN WELLS are being put down in great
numbers in the district of Riverside, Cal.
and owing to them this district, which was pre-
| viously uninhabted on account of the scarcity
OF drinking water, has now population of
| 100.
| IT Is AN INTERESTING POINT in American his
tory if, as stated, the confederate gray uniform
was borrowed from the First Virginia regiment.
| which borrowed it from the Seventh New York
| regiment. The confederate song, Dixie" was
OF northern authorship.
| THREE YEARS AGO st. Clair county, Michigan,
clergyman preached sermon over the body of
| a good citizen. 1t was good sermon aud the
preacher charged the estate $50 for 1t. The bill
| has not been paid, and it is now in the probate
| court with S1l interest attached,
| THE TESTIMONIAL FUND to the Rev. Dr. Theo.
| dore Cuyler of Brooklyn already amounts to
$4,000 DIR. Cuyler has preached 2,750 sermons
| ing many of Talmage's funerals when the re-
nowned pulpit orator failed to turn up.
| THE RUBBER PAVEMENT invented by Busse.
| Hannouer consists of IS per cent. of ground
| stone and 10 per cent of a rubber mass, and
| when applied to the street on top of a layer of
| concrete, looks like asphalt, and although not
| as smooth, it produces no dust and is noiseless.
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every hummock was'swarming with hares and
rabbits that were driven from the plains They
| were slaughtered by thousands by boys and
| men, who used sticks, and when tired of the
| sport would run the poor beasts of their dry
| places into the raging waters.
MAINE WOMAN gives the secret of her won
derful success in raising Gala lilies. She SAYS
she allowed her Gala plants to rest during the
| summer, reporting them in the fall in good
| rich earth which contained much ammonia
The plants were then trimmed and moss placed
on the earth to retain the moisture.
GEN. SHERMAN expresses himself thus about
the telephone: Its one Of the biggest of mod
| ern nuisances. I've tried the telephone ten
| thousand times and never knew iC to work right
| If / want to send message, believe in put
| ting man on horse and letting him deliver
| Two MEN attempted to cross the ella river
California, in a skiff. They had $4,000 in bull
| lion from the Harqua Hala mines When half
| way over the boat capszed. One held TO the
| bullion until he struck bottom and lodged the
| treasure behind big bowlder. The boat was
| soon righted and the treasure safely recov-
| cred.
| WELL DEVELOPED CALF having six distinct
legs was born on farm near Pittsburg last
week. Four of the legs protruded from the
usual parts of the body. with the two extra ap-
| pendages about midway between the fore and
|
little awry, the calf was remarkably well formed
| and developed.
| A BIBLE has just been rediscovered in the
vatican library which is in Hebrew It is SUD
| posed to be the oldest in the world. and is
valued at 100000 1t is so weighty that it re-
quires two men TO lift it, the binding being in
heavy metal I In the yeaF 1872 the Jews of
| Venice offered Pope julius H. its weight in gold
] for it, but though he was financially hard up
| just then he refused the offer.
ACCORDING to the Lyons Medical the INQUIRY
made by the administration in order to carry
out the new law giving certain advantages to
| fathers of more than seven children, has shown
that in France at present there are 1000 900
| households which there has been no child.
$500, 900, in which there was one; 2 300 600 two
children; 900, three; about 1000 600 four:
$4,000, i've; S30.0O0 six, and 200 900, seven or
more. asra
| In THE FIRST WEEK of April enormous masses
of snow fell in the vicinity of the Simplon in
| Switzerland number of people were buried
under avalsuches which murdered down the
mountain sides. and those havin the care of
cattle in the open country were all in great dan
ger. One young man was seized bv an ava
lanche and carried along without physical in
jury. but killed by the air pressure resulting
from the rapid motion.
IT is WELL KNOWN FACT that ladies' seldom
trust their finest handkerchiefs to the tender
| mercies of q laundress. These pretty tri1es are
washed at home and spread upon window
pane to dry. They peel off easily and look as
| fresh as If just from the shop. Not MANY wears
| ago the wife of titled Englishman visiting
| this country and falling upon evil fortunes
| helped to keep the wolf from the door by
washing the laces and fine linen of American
women.
| AT COMPETITION by the Chinese Elswick
| built cruisers Chin Yuen and Ching Yuen, the
| former, while steaming at a speed of eight
knots, hit a target of 1000 square feet super
| fees, distant about mile, eight times out of
| thirteen, the Ching Yuen making eight direct
hits in nine rounds. The guns were eight-incb
weIve-ton Krupps On the same day two other
ships, Chen Yuen and Ting Yuen fred their
twelve-inch thirty-seven ton Krupps, making
TIVE We direct hits in twenty rounds. With their
six-inch guns they made twenty-one hits in
forty three rounds.
THE expedition of the Philadelphia Academy
of Natural Sciences has just returned to the
City of Mexico from an ascent of PopocatepetI.
which they found to be nearly 1900 feet lower
than the measurements of Humboldt It's
hight is stated by Prof. Angelo Heilprin and
Francis c. Baker to be 1900 feet above sea
level. The peak is, therefore, about 500 feet
lower than that of Orizaba, the measurements
of which were made week ago The summit
of Popocatepetl was destitute of snow. and at
no point on the slope apparently did the snow
1 kSsN1 a.