The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-22

Forest and Stream, in an article on bivalves,
pronounces the giant clamp the largest bivalve
known. 1t adds: In Northern Australia this is
considered edible species and is regularly
sought after by the natives. Mr.. Denton of the
United States fish commission, has seen clamps
containing forty or fifty pounds of meat and it
is matter of record that individuals weighing
BOP pounds have been observed. The giant
clamp lies almost concealed in the reefs inst
showing the beautiful blue and green of its
mantle above the coral. The crushing power
OF this Shell is startling Mr.. Denton thrust a
stick as big as mans leg between the valves
OF one of them and it was broken short off A
mans foot would be crushed as easily as a
pipe stem. The natives have a wholesome
dread OF stepping unawares into one of these
formidable traps. They kill the animal by
stabbing it with long sword and then remove
the meat without disturbing the shell, thus saw
ing themselves vast amount of trouble and
labor
FRANCIS II. Brown of Boston has designed
for lady, partially deaf, simple apparatus by
which she has been enabled TO hear a sermon in
church. AS described by the Boston Transcrfpt
the apparatus consists of a trumpet-shaped
tin sound-receiver, having an opening slipe-
rlorly of six inches aud narrowing inferiorIy to
a diameter of one inch. It's upper end is curved
SO that the opening of the trumpet is directed
toward the mouth of abe speaker The sound
receiver stands on the edesk or pulpit and ia
partially concealeddby a gas fixture AT its
lower end 1t fits into the opening of a common
tin speaking-tu6e which passes down through
and under the floor to the seat of the lady in the
audience. At that point the tube ends in a
piece OF brass pipe, rising some four inches
above the seat, over which the person usin it
places the bell-shaped end of the fex ible CON
versation tube now very commonly EMPLOYED
by the deaf. " TIE clergyman of the pari sh in
which the apparatus is used says that six per
sons are accommodated by this device and that
all or them are well satisfied with it.
NINE. PATHS HEALTH despite the vapares Of
and bro 1+L
over which she has travelled is better now than
it has been in some years. She said recently
that she was never well in France and rather
felt the seventies of the Welsh climate but
that the air of America despite its MANY
changes, always had an invigorating effect upon
her. Her experiences on her long tour this time
have been varied enough to fill a book but the
people flock to see her wherever she goes and
with that she is content. Apparently the only
thing that she fears isa diminution OF her pon,i-
larity. She is said to have burst into tears one
night recently in Chicago over the coldness of
the house. 1t turned out afterward that the
coldness was Nine. PATHS. She sang llstessy
and the people resented it. When she threw
herself INTO the part in the next act and poured
out her voice with all of its oldtime fervor. the
people fairly rose to her. Then she cried for
Joy. she is, according to her managers almost
as much of a child in all other than financial
matters as she was when she began her career
upon the stage at Is years of age
THERE is a good deal Of unhappiness con-
nected with work in Wall street. - a man of ad.
vanced years who had an official connection
with the New York Stock Exchange, remarked
a few days since. There is some sort Of a
fascination about the business here which inva
raoly draws man back into the precinct no
matter what his failures may have been, If
dry goods merchant goes under loses every
cent he has, and finds that he is completely
wound up, no one sees him in the dry goods dis
trict until after he has tried a good many times
to get on his feet in other ways Then he NAV
go back TO his old conferes and ask them for n
lift. IL is the same with other branches of
trade. But when a man gets heavily
hit down around Trinity church he
can be found at the old stand
until be leaves the world for good There are
only few instances of men who have been en-
tlrely ruined who succeeded in getting on their
feet again through Wall street Operations
Those instances do not point much of moral
either; for In many cases. the wreckage has
LETT very comfortable fortune for the former
operator 10 begin on. When people speak OF
the total ruin OF James r. Keene and Henry
Willard they speak without knowing all the
facts. No man h ru ned who has a number of
negotiable securities on hand and who has
stocks which can be- turned n the market so as
20 realize money. Wall street Is full Of has
beens.' The game has an everlasting fascina-
ton for them 10 man likes 20 cut them. And
yet u u hard 20 listen ~ their complaints aud
opportunities AL The uule."