The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-17
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TIE MAN who is credite with the original de-
vice and manufacture of the revolver pistol.
Benjamin Darling, died recently at Woonsocset.
K. l., at the age of SO years wit o 1t having ez-
perienced any of the substantial rewards the
invention brought to others.
The WINNINGS of Melchior Farkas, the lottery
swindler, who was arrested some time ago in
Temesvas, amount. all told, to 65s. 900 gulden.
During the quartz of a century in which he
carried on his nefarious practice he paid 100000
gulden for tickets and chances"
The CLIMATE OF CHINA is said to be growing
not only colder, but drier Animals and plants
accustomed to hot moist regions are gradually
retreating southwark. TWO thousand years
ago the bamboo fiourished In the forest of north
China. but it can no longer be found there.
LAKE CHELAN, Wash, never freezes although
in latitude 4So north. The reason given is that
it is so deep, and the warm water always rises
from the bottom to supplant the cold, which
the lake at all seasons, and use salmon eggs for
bait.
THE HUNTsMEN of Southern Oregon are en-
gagged in the wanton slaughter of deer. 1t is
said that in the vicinity of Kerbyville, Josephine
county, the skinned carcasses of deer are some
times so thick In the county roads that teams
are compelled to stop while the driver pulls
them aside.
NADIA, daughter of the Russian painter, No
of the most marvellous bridal dresses ever seen.
Her fathers friends aud fellow artists have
each painted an al egorical composition on the
dress, which, when the beautiful owner Is in
side d 1t, will be perfect walking arr gallery.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY is to have beautiful
and exclusive posse sion i'll a very valuable col
lection of glass flowers made by secret process
by a Dresden firm named Blatcka. Three or
four hundred specimens have been already
received. The co lection, when complete. will
Illustrate all the families of plants in North
America.
MODERN CHEMISTRY shows that the medical
lore OF the ancient herbalists had a much
sounder basis than had been imagined. In 1891
water crosses were recommended for the cure
OF scurvy and Scrofula. Chemists now say that
the cress contains sulphur, phosphorus, iodine
and iron-sub tances that are known to lie
actual antld ties 20 scrofula.
A NEW METHOD of ventilating railway car
riages and preventing dust from entering with
the air has lately appeared in France. The
more quickly the train moves the more rapidly
the apparatus works. The air is made to trav-
erse a receptacle containing water, which cools
it and relieves it of dust, after which it goes
through another fltering before entering the
carriage.
THE POSSIBLE ANNEXATION of Lower Califor-
MIA is still taken very seriously by the people of
the southern section of California. The press
dema d. it, the politicians see in it great fu-
| population, a large proportion of which is In
| dian There are also great many Englishmen
| and II liners there. The Mexicans are clearly in
| the minority. ~ u5-
THE bank clearings Of fifty-four cities last
| week make favorable exhibit as compared
with 1899, the total having been S1,313 4s9, 023, a
| gain of 1911 per cent; outside of New York the
| gain 1877 per cent. New YorK increased
| 14.5, Boston 1875. Chicago ESQ, st. Louis SO 2,
| San Francisco g. Pittsburg I5 Baltimore % s.
Cincinnati iSvilI g =
| Minneapolis S0.7, Buffalo 1888, Milwaukee SIS So
| Denvcr77. Omaha G6, Detroit 26.2 St. Paul Is 3.
Dallas 12s. Duluth 1914, Washington $40, Gal
weston 500, Sioux City $50.
A COMPLETE HISTORY of the wars In which
| Russia has been engaged is being written and
compiled at st. Petersburg. The three first
volumes are about TO be pu blished and they will
| treat OF these periods: Volume / will deal with
the campaigns of 1905. 1867, and 1912. together
with an account of the wars with Turkey in
| 1894 and 1881, and also of the campaign Of
| !799 in Northern Italy and Switzerland; volume
| will embrace the campaign of 1894, the wars
| in the Caucasus and with Persia from 1901 to
| 1925, and the campaign in Poland in 1885, vol.
| ume will deal with the compaIgn in Hungary
| in 1S49, and the eastern campaigns of 1888,
and also with the C-ntrai Asia con quests and
| expeditions Derwean 1890 and 1873. This preten-
| tlous history is to be edited by Gen. Leer,
| assisted by NJ. Doubrovine and other Russian
| authorities on military matters
THE OLDEST MAN in the British navy is now in
his Tooth year. Sir Provo William Parry Wallis,
| g. c. B.. the senior admiral of the fleet, is the
| only survivor of the famous naval combat be-
| tween her majestys ship Shannon and the
| American frigaJe Chesapeake off Bost n har-
| Dor on June l, 1918. He was the actual captor
| of the Chesapeake, the first lieutenant of the
| Shannon having been killed an the captain
! dangerously wounded, so that the American
| captain surrendered to Wallis as the senior
| officer in command. The aged and gallant
admiral was born at Halifax, in Nova Scotia,
| on April IL. 1891. and was actually entered on
| the books of the navy on May l, 1875, on board
] the l. Oiseau at Halifax, where his father was
| c1ief clerk in the naval yard. Thus he has
really been in the naval service for the space of
| nearly ninety-five years.
SOME remarkable achievements in surgery
are reported from Berlin. At the surgical con.
| gress, Prof Gluck demonstrated the successful
| substitution of catgut, ivory and bone freed
from chalk, for defects in bones muscles, and
| nervous sinews. Tue juices of the body are
| sucked up in the inserted material, thereby
establishing the junction of the separated ends,
| without any shortening of the part. He pre-.
| sented the cases of patients in whom there mad
been an insertion of from six to ten centimeters
or catgut to supply defec in the leaders of the
hands, to which complete mobility had been
restored. In the case of another patient Prof.
| Gluck removed tumor from the thigh, causing
a considerable defect in the BONE He inserted
| ivory, and no shortening ensued In another
| case ne removed large piece of nerve in the
| groin and inserted catgut, and the functions
| remained completely satisfactory.
| ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY MACDoNA OF
| New York, who is a survivor of one of the
Jeanette search exped tons, has accepted the
| invitation of the American Yacht Club to de-
| Liver an address at Rye early in June. In com.
mon with every one familiar with the far north
| Mr.. Macedonia is quite convinced that the coming
summer will be big with surprises for naviga-
tors in the Arctic for the reason that the mild
| winter has freed great continents of fast ice
! that have for generations prevented the north
ward passage of explorers Never. since com
munication was established between America
| and Europe has ice been encountered on the
Atlantic in such low ATTITUDES, and the quaint.
ties have been SO great as to make impractica-
| bic previously established steam lanes in the
northern "fortiesn The fact that many of the
captains reporting ice have noticed that it con-
tanned great quantities of clay and rock Mr.
Macdona regards as convincing evidence that it
| is what is cailel shore ice" and that land
| heretofore unapproachabe can now be reached
| The object of the club in inviting Mr.. Macedonia
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