The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-24
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! The magnificent public baths presented By
James Lick to the city of San Francisco have
been COMPLETED. The total cost of the gift is
I nearly 500 600.
PARTIES at Santa Cruz. Cal, are engaged in
sailing and packing mackerel for the first time
in the history of the town No such season has
ever been known for fish and sea birds and the
old residents prophecy dry winter.
BETTY BENTON was born twenty-five years
ago. near Bradford. Pa, says the Pttsburg Dis
patch. She was twice a widow before she was
| Is years old, it was claimed, and was last week.
at Covington, KY, married u her sixth hus-
band. OF the five gone before four are dead
and one is divorced.
The HOP VINE is said TO be sinistrorse. because
1t twines with the motion of the sun, that is
from right to left. Beans, morning glores.
t ana al oIner species OF climbing plants. with
the exception OF one of the honeysuckles are
dextrorse, turning opposite to the apparent
motion OF the sun, or from left to right.
In a st. Louis police court the other day Louis
Guyban, blind man, identified thief who had
robbed him by recognizing the prisoners voice.
me slisp scted man was brought in with sew
eral others, each saying good morning" upon
entering AS soon as one Kennedy had said
TINS Guyban at once exclaimed, That's the
man" The prisoner thereupon confessed.
TIERS is tradition among the Persians aud
the Jews of Eastern Palestine that the old
patriarchs and people in general had three eyes,
one Id the back part of the head, prior to the
time NJ seS was given the law on the tables of
stone. On that eventful day. Moses commanded
MS followers to turn their faces from Sinai
ms they did, but TO TX care 10 uncover the
other eye, which Moses commanded to hence
forth be forever closed.
IL THE MAJORITY of mammals the teeth are
limited in number and defined in their forms
The number ranges from one in the narwbal to
~ In the do phn- The average is ~; the types
with this number being represented by man
the apes aud the ruminants. Forly-fou is called
the typical or normal number The animals in
Whlchthls number occur are represented by the
hog and the mole. The number of teeth in the
animals last named is exceeded only in animals
OF the lower groups,
A SALMON taken at Astoria Ore, had silver
Waltham watch and chain in its mouth, says
the New York Commercial. The watch had
evidently laid in the water for wears as the
steel portions crumbled to dust when touched
Its presence in the salmons mouth is accounted
Tor by the fact that salmon at this season of
tne year eagerly bite at any bright object, and
the watch and chain had been caught by the net
dragging on the bottom. AS 1T was haulsd in it
attracted the attention of the salmon and he
took it in.
HE PAPYRUs MANUSCRIPT found In the old
hermits den in a cav near Jerusalem in 1856.
and said to be the work of st. Peter, has been
submitted to committee sent out by the Bibli-
cal Society of London, who have come to the
conclusion that the manuscript is in reality in
the handwriting of the great apostle. They
nave refused S10o, 900 offer for the document,
whic1 was made by British society of literary
vouptuares The Hebrew Bible in the vatican
and the manuscript copy Of the Book of Nor
mon are the only other documents for which so
hlgh price has been offered and refused.
The FIRST BOOK of any kind published in
Philadelphia was Atkins Almanack for the
year 1856. 1t was an unpaged pamphlet of
twenty pages, only two copies of which are now
known to exist, each beng worth more than It's
weight in $50 notes. The first copy of the
Aldlanack" printed was sent to Col. Markham,
Penn'S deputy, who reported to the provincial
council that it declared Pennsylvania to have
been organized by Lord Penn" The council
emphatically disapproved of this euphemistic
falsehood, and directed both auth lr and printer
William Bradford) ito blot out ye words 'Lor
Penn This caused the recall of the whole
edition and the obliteration of the obnoxious
words
The AGRICULTURIsTs seem to have things
very much their own way in Kansas as result
Of the election. 1T is believed that 1i5 out of
125 memhers-elect of the House are tillers Of
the SOIL and at last accounts only four lawyers
were chosen" Mention has already been made
OF the election of Mckay, an allanceman, to
the bench in the district embracing B lrber
Harper aud Comanche counties, although he is
farmer, is not member of che bar and has
no technical Knowledge OF law. It is reported
that Tour OF the prosecuting attorneys elected
by the alliance are not lawyers The State
Journal tells of a farmer who drove into To-
peka with a load of turnips the other day. and
insisted on storing them in the State House
basement. He explained that the farmers were
going to run that institution now, aud would
put 1t to practical uses.
IT is GOING to be hard winter, SAYS dis
patch to the New York Sun. Horace Johnson
of Middle Haddam, Conn, who predicted the
great blizzard and has been on the top shelf in
the estimation of the Connecticut people ever
since, says 50. He bases his prediction on the
phenomenaly large hay crop and the hard,
thick shells of crabs. He fiads further vertical
ton of the signs in the two-story muskrat
| he uses, with base burners on the top floor and
coal in the cellar. Then he examines the
corn cf w6 nISks and the finds ;rs,d eecy sort
brought him squirrel the other day,
and he says the fur is triple extra
thick and very fine. 'Coons are fatter than
usual, and this is sign that they are preparing
for long siege. Mr.. Johnson paid man so
cents TO dig ont woodchuck, and more signs
were found in the bottom of the burrow
plush CLOAK hung on projecting stone, and it
has been Mr.. Johnson's experience that wood
chucks never purchase plush coats unless the
weather is going to be unusually cold. Pumpkin
rinds are of the thickest this fall. He has not
yet had goose bone to study, but he is will
ing to stake his reputation as the Virgins of
Connecticut that it will indorse all he claims for
the winter.
REFERRING to the case of Mr.. Heller, student
at the South Kensington schools, who, having
ioSc his naHuS III early ire, now paints quite
successfully with his mouth the Pail Mru
Gazette says that ne is by no means the first
VINO has triumphed over an unkind fate About
Is years ago there lived in Antwerp an artist
named Cnarles Felu. who, born without arms
painted with his feet and not only that but
painted admirably. He an accomplished
artist and charming and handsome man. and
was often seen copying in the museum where
his toes alone we're exposed. Then there was
Miss Bitfin, who died in Liverpool in 1910.
Born armless, like Felu. she showed re-
markable artistic talent Educated by Dukes
and by Craig. the miniaturist she was patron
lied by the Earl of Morton, and in 1921 gained
the Society OF Arts prize medal George III
George w., William w., and Queen Victoria
and the Prince Consort SUCCESSFULLY employed
her as miniaturist, and many of the aristoc-
racy followed the fashionable example She
fell on evil times, however, and was rescued
from absolute restitution by the late Richard
Rathoone. NJ. Noel Mason, too, the painter
etcher, VINO died in March last, lost his hands
by accident; yet, by means of mechanical hands
he attained high degree of merit in his art as
all will remember, Who since 1878 nave seen
his delicatey etched plates Of landscapes.
WATER, when pure, like the gases, oxygen
and hydrogen. of which it is composed has no
smell or taste and, like air. appears to be col
orless when in thin layers, but when looked at
IN large masses, as in seas and lakes is of a
blush green. Pure water, especially sea
water, is limpid, clear and Transparent It an |
serbs all the prismatic colors except that of
ultamarine, which, being reflected in every
direction, imparts to some bodies OF water a
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