The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-03

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DIAMOND BACK rERRAP1Ns are bringing $50
dozen in eastern markets.
A HILLMAN, MICHIGAN, man is accused of sell
ing his vote for two bushels OF buckwheat.
THERE is lady living in Clarke county, Ga,
who has never tasted or taken a drink of water
in her life.
TIE BODIES of 1874 soldiers aud fifty-two tomb
stones arrived at Leavenworth, Kan, the other
day from Arizona.
The Ventura county. California, papers are
urging their readers to plant camphor trees
They are said to grow as rapidly as the euca-
lyptus.
On the $40 acre farm Of Ex-Governor Click,
near Atchisou, Ia, there Is not a single horse.
The governor believes in mule power and uses
those animals exclusively.
THE first poet laureate was John Kay, in the
| reign of Henry w.; the only perquisites of the
Office are $500 year and quantity Of wine
taken from the royal store annually.
New York has quite large and important
japanese colony. with clubs and other institu-
tons for mutual benefit. There is not a single
Japanese pauper in the city, and every Japa-
nese resident possesses at least moderate
means.
NEAR GANBY, NEs., party of ranchmen I'M
earthed den of young animals. which are sup
posed to be the young of the mountain lions
| that have been prowIiug around that place for
| the past Two years, or else the young OF the big
gray wolf. They found the den in the sand
hills. and had to dig some thirty feet before
| they secured the little fellows-ten in number.
THE WILL of Madhub Roy, wealthy Indian
gentleman, has been upset in the Calcutta
courts because, having lost the use of his hands,
haar Cfa1D .. cer., I'll
presence, and the friend, being unable to write,
| used a mark. II Madhub Roy had made mark
himself, or if tho friend had signed instead of
marking, it would have been all right. but the
| Indian law does not recognize mark made by
a substitute.
TIE question of the wholesale destruction of
swallows by electricity has at last been taken
up in France, and q report on the subject was
presented at recent meeting OF the geological
society. In the south of France lonE wires are
| Systematically erected along the seashore and
when the tired swallows alight on them they
! are stunned or killed by an electric shock. The
birds are then sent to Paris, where they are
used for decorative purposes.
In SWITZERLAND and other mountainous coun-
| tries the goat leafs long strings of animals to
and from the mountains but it is in South
| Africa that it is regularly kept and employed
leader of flocks of sh ep Should binding
storm of rain or hai drive the silly sheep before
| it, or cause them to huddle together in corner
so as to suffocate, each other, the trained goat
will wake Them. up, and, by method best
known to himself, will induce them to follow
| him to place of safety.
| Mrs. GILKIsoa Of st. Joseph recently died
| under very peculiar circumstances About two
weeks ago she killed chicken by chopping off
| its head, when the bird, in flutterng around,
inflicted a scratch on her left hand with one of
| its claws. The scratch was so trlfiing that no
| attention was paid to it until few days ago,
when her hand began to swell up and turn
black. The swelling extended up to her arm
and shoulder, and thence through her body,
| finally terminating in her death.
THE truth of this story is vouched for by a
| member the Portland tMe.) family who own the
| rooster. He is regular caller at the kitchen,
and seems to feel proud of the liberty given
him as be struts around the ROOM He used to
| be led quite often by his mistress from bread
| taken from stone bread jar that stood on the
| floor just inside the pantry door. He got well
| used to this agreeable habit. and now whenever
| he wants to be fed he will nip hold OF his mis-
tress's dress and actually pull it, and then walk
| to the bread jar and peck at that. These acts
will be repeated until his wants are attended to-
| For SEVENTY ODD YEARS three stocks of a
| plant which grows nowhere else in the state of
New York. and which seems to be generally I'M
| known, bave sprung up every season, blossomed
and gone to seed beside the old state road near
| Avon, n. Y. A remarkable fact connected with
! this botanical curiosity is that, although thou
sands of seeds have ripened on the spot, they
| have never increased beyond the original three
| stocks, nor will the seeds grow when given
| every care and attention. The spot where they
| grow marks the place where John Alexander
an American soldier, was killed during the war
| of 1872
| THE first recorded observatory was on the
top of the temple OF Belus; the tomb of Osy-
mandias, in Egypt, was another. IL contained
O golden astronomical circle 200 feet in dia-
meter. A mother at Benares India, is supposed
| to be at least as ancient as either of the two
| Others. The first in Europe was erected at
Cassel, in 1851; that of Tycho Brahe, at Urain-
| inburg, was built in 1876. The Paris obserya-
tory dotes from 1867. and that of Greenwich
! from 1875. The Nuremberg observatory was
erected in 1878, and that of Berlin in l111 The
| famous Bologna tower was bui three years
| later; that OF Pisa following next in 1870
| Stockholm, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Lisbon
| observatories were erected in 1910, 1890, 1855
AMI 1728, respectively.
| PRoF. TYNDALL has described various WAYS of
producing artificial ranbows by means of cleo
| trio light and artificial mist, the bows them
selves being almost, if not wholly. circular in
form. DR.. Fleming and others recently wit
messed a natural rainbow of circular form from
| the summit of Glydr-Vach, Wales Standing
on the pinnacle and looking into the valley
where lies the lakelet, Llyn Idwal, the specta-
tors saw their shadows projected on the mist
and surrounding the head OF each were two
concentric rainbows, completely circular. The
colors of the inner bow were in the order of the
primary bow, while those of the outer circle
were complely reversed. During the whole
| time of observations the sun was shining
brightly to the backs of the observers.
THERE has been big discussion going on in
Europe concerning the distance at which OBJ
jects on the earth's surface are visible. Emile
Metzger mentions that he once saw Keizers.
pickt, in Sumatra when separated from it by a
| distance of ITO English miles; he also saws that
! on very favorable occasions he has made out to
| see Guy Merapi, in Java, when $50 miles inter-
vened. Il. Hill, the civil engineer, says that he
has seen Mount Blanc from Piz muraun near
Dissentis, distance of almost 100 miles j.
Starke Gardner states that Mount Blanc is visi-
bic from Piz Lanyard, though distant about
three degrees. Waymper, the explorer, says
that when ne was in Greenland he could plainly
| see mountain peak from which he was sepa-
rated BY $50 miles. Tho whole range of the
Swiss Alps have been looked upon by j. Hip
pisly while 200 miles away; Sir w. Jones affirms
| that the Himalav have appeared 60 his view
from the great distance of PA miles!
| A fact that all men with gray and many