The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-11
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THE constitutional convention has abolished
the office of lietsnant governor of Mississippi
ONE BUsHEL o Irish potatoes costs as much
In Missouri thi year as two bushels of sweet
potatoer.
THERE is ctored man living in Arkansas
City who is thu father of thirty-six children.
he has been married twice, and each wife bore
twins six times
In the alliano procession at Hutchinson,
Kan, was monlrous wagon containing fifty
or sixty children. Over the vehicle was a ban
ner bearing the iscription, ''over-production.
In BLooMFIELDN. j.. few days ago, was
buried Adam Nee. well-known citizen. In
accordance with his dying wish his funeral
procession was baded by a brass band. and
fourteen societie and about 100 coaches fol-
| lowed.
AT EIcHwEILER, n Germany "a lady left instruc-
| lions in her VIII tlat when she died she was to
be buried in aspltndid ball costume. Her wish
has just beencarried out. Her father in his last
VIII and Testament gave Instructions that when
| he shuffled If this mortal COLI he was to be
buried in hisyeddng garments, His wish was
likewise reisously obeyed.
THE great statue of Bavaria. uncovered a
Munich in 1879, represents female figure stand
| ing, with lin sitting by her side. The whole
monument ) ninety-fve feet in hight, the
statue being sixty-five feet and the pedestal
thirty feet. A door at the back of the pedestal
leads by a stne staircase into the lion through
the peck OF vhlch an iron staircase leads up 10
the head, in which there are two sofas and
standing rom for thirty persons.
THERE have been dozens of explanations
given for tn, origin of the Sir as applied to
the loin cut If the beef The following is the
ha 0ri crin Of he Ia 7
on his return from long, wearisome tramp
with hunting party, was so delighted when
he sat down % dinner, which mainly consisted
OF roast loil, that he laid his sword across it
and knighted it as ''Sir Loin." at Chingford,
Essex England, at demi-palace called Fri
day House" or Friday Hill House," thera is
still preserved the table used by the monarch
upon that historic occasion. Set deep in the
| center Of the table, which is of oak, there is a
brass plate with this Inscription: "All lovers of
roast beef will ike to know that on this table
loin was knighted by King James the First upon
his return from hunting in Epping Forest"
AMAN in Rochester, N. Y, noticed very
large June bug flying around his piazza. and
proceeded TO capture it. He placed the captive
under heavy glass tumbler, which rested op a
newspaper, expecting to examine the insect a
little later in the evening when he had leisure.
ON returning to the table where he had placed
the bug some half sn hour later he found that
| it had moved the tumber nearly foot by plac-
ing its head agairs the side of the glass and
the glass had beer moved by the captive he
carefully marked its position on the Newspaper
with pencil, and at the expiration of another
quarter of an hour found it had been moved
nearly five inches AS the lumber weighed at
least fifty times as much as the bug, the ease
with which it was moved around on the paper
was source of much aStonishment. The June
I bug was less than an inch in length, and was
| restored to liberty in view of the exhibition it
had given of its strength.
A GENTLEMAN now resident in Washington,
says the Star has become the possessor of a
rude light standard of the fifth century. 1t is
not candlestck for it antedates the age of
candles. 1t is about foot in hight. made of
iron aud wood. A rude and rusty rod of wrought
iron is driven into a block of wood, which,
though very aged, probably is not the original
block that was cut out for the Implement
The rod supports tool which works on the
scissors principle, one end being used for nip
pers. One of the iron rods extends backward
and has huge iron for a weight to hold it
down. The firebrands were placed in the nip
perS and held there by the weight One ma
Ierial which was used for illumination in the
days of this instrument was sort of vegetable
candle that grew in swannns The ends of this
were dipped IN grease and set on
instrument was presented by lady in whose
family in Wales it had been kept for genera
tionS.
THE SMALLEST ENGINE we have any record Of
is that made by D. A. Buck Of Waterbury,
Conn. The engine, boiler governor and pumps
all stand on space 716 Of an inch square. and
are about IS of an inch high. The engine has
| screws. Three drops of water falls tie boiler to
| overtiowlng. The diameter Of the oyIinder IA
l2f of an inch; the length of the stroke s-S2 of
an inch. The whole engine weighs but thsee
grains. not including baserplate. Levi Taylor
an ingenus mechanic Of Indianoa Ia. has
constructed an engine almost equal to the
Waterbury wonder. This pigmy was on exhibit
ton at the centennial of PHILADELPHIA in 1915
1t is built on a 25-cent gold piece the whole out
| fit weighing but fraction over three grains Il
must have been quite contrast to the enor-
nous CorllSs engine which was on exhibition in
the same building. Taylor's engine, while NOT
as small as that made by the Waterbury me
chanic, is wonder that will be better appreci-
ated when the reader is informed that it would
take l46 such engines to weigh one ounce
avoirdupois,
NUREMBERG, the cradle of invention the
birthplace of the watch and many other useful
mechanical devices, was not alone the home of
that which most is useful and helpful to man.
kind. Among some of her achievements are
the most horrible Instruments of torture ever
used by the inquistors of the middle ages chief
among which might be mentioned the "steeI
maiden" The maiden is now kept in one of
Ine upper rooms OF the town hall and shown to
visitors as curiosity. At first sight one is art
take it for gigantic statue of woman clun
SLY hewn out of wood. Closer Investigation
discovers two doors, one swinging to the rirht
and the others to the left. These open noise
!essly and reveal the fact thatthe statue is hol.
low, the cavity being about the exact s re of the
average man. inside are straps nv
which the offender was bound So
tightly that be could not move limb or muscle
Both of the doors are lined with long sharn
steel spikes, strong and thick When the victim
was firmly secured the door on the left was
slowly but firmly shut, the long spikes going
DOCv.
pierce his eyes. Then the door on the right was
closed In similar manner, whereupon he would
receive another complement OF spikes. the
Closing OF the door, as before, being done very
embrace of the maiden" might be as pro-
longed as possible. Death did not come until
the last spike was driven through a hole In the
door into the heart Of the victim. Taken from
the "maiden's" embrace be was ground to
mlnce meat and thrown into the river as food
fer the fishes 49, 800