The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-16
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standing upright when found the child was
dead.
A DENTIST Of Kingston, N. Y, recently pulled
eight of his own teeth. He says he found it
somewhat inconvenient, because he couldn't
keep his head still.
HORSES could not stand the compressed air
which the men breathe while working in the
Port Huron tunnel and mule power was substi-
tuted. The mules get fat and sleek on it, and
90 not seem TO mind the pressure.
The 45Oth anniversary of the discovery of the
invention of printing will be celebrated at
koenigsberg. Germany, and the town officials
are now grandly preparing for it. Perhaps
they have William there again for a faring
speech.
Two YOUNG MINERS in the Empire and Hollen-
bark collieries at Wilxesbarre completed a rat
killing 1ntest lately. They were at the work
one month, and $50 was the stake The result
IS as follows: McQuade killed $50: weight,
400 pounds. Mcintyre. 3,s19; weight, 5,s2s
pounds.
AN ORDER has been issued at the press CEN
sors department in st. Petersburg that no tele-
grams can be either received or sent by the
papers between O'Clock in the evening and
O'Clock In the morning. The only reason is that
tne of1cials of the bureau object TO remain on
DUTY at night time.
IN HUNGARY there is considerable feeling be-
tween the clergy and the authorities regarding
the treatment of children by mixed mar
Tiages, that is, marriages between persons of
dhterent religious faith The cl-rgy maintain
that, where one party is Catholic all the ctil-
dren should be baptized in that religion
IN the year 1706 the average weight of fatted
steers in the London and Liverpool markets
was but $40 pounds. This, too. at the average
age OF years. In 1855 this average weight was
increased to 4S2 pounds. In 1880 the weight
was coo pounds, more than double that of 1905.
ion Of fha I'd H..
Is TOUR times what it was in 1905, only 164 years
ago.
IHE PLAGUE of rats continues unchecked
says London cable, and is indeed increasing
IN Lincolnshire, although hundreds of thou
SANDS have already been killed. The rodents
are killing poultry and eating the corn and
mangoids in spite of the efforts of professional
ratcatchers, who say the worst is to come
Some OF the rats are said to be as large as rab-
pits ana very vicious, aJtac king people when
brought to bay.
WHILE grading for site for new budngin
Nevada large stump was uprooted. The wood
was partially decayed, and bore no signs of any,
thlng unusual. but as soon as darkness had set
tied down upon the earth the stump became a
thlng OF beauty. Every particle of the fractured
WOOD glowed with phosphorescent light. and at
a distance of three feet fine print could be read
by this light. Phosphorescent wood is not un-
common, but it is not often that it is found to
throw light any distance.
SOME very interesting facts of crime are re-
vealed by a Scotch sheriff. He knew of one
woman who between the years 1874 and 1866.
was committed to prison 167 times for being
drunk, and when drunk her invariable practice
was to smash windows. A man when drunk
stole nothing but Bibles and was transported
Tor his seventh theft. Another man stole moth
ing but spades; a woman stole nothing but
shoes; another nothing but shawls: but the
queereSt thief was one who stole tubs and was
sent to penal servitude for his seventh tub.
TBE curious travelling stones" of Austral ia
are paralleled in Nevada. They are described
as perfectly round, about as large as a walnut
ana OF an ivory nature. When distributed
ABOUT on the floor, table or any other level sur
face within two or three feet of each other
they Immediately begin travelling toward each
other until they meet at a common center and
there lie huddled up in a bunch. like eggs in a.
nest A single stone removed to a distance of
TOUR Ieet, upon being released, returns to the
heap, but If taken away five feet remains
motlonleSs. 1t is needless to say that they are
largely composed of magnetic iron ore.
Two AND half MILES south of the little Next
can village of Las Hummetas, in Western Ari-
IONA, in a low, sandy valley fanked by tall
mountains, there is a hole about three feet in
diameter and of unknown depth, from which
dense cloud of smoke and steam is constantly
arising. For 100 feet on each side of the hole
the ground is moist and heated. Water col
lected in the holes which have been dug in this
moist ground has the tendency to make one
very "akeful, besides giving the face. hands
and feet paralytic numbness. Every
evening at O'Clock large volumes of sand are
shot from the hole, preceded by roar that can
be heard for miles.
ONE of the most noted sportsmen in Europe.
Herr Oskar Oehschlager, died last month in
Berlin. His horses ran in every racing coun-
try of Importance, but his principle achieve
nents were ID Germany. At one time he was
one of the most extensive breeders of race
horses in Germany. He was the representative
German sportsman, and the most venturesome
both on the turf and at cards. Fortune was in
variably kind to him until only short time
ago. He formed his first stud by taking over a
number of horses from sportsman who had
got INTO dlff1cultles, and through them he &C.
quired a large estate at Hoppegarten erected a
villa, and built long range of model stables
His luck at cards became as proverbial as his
fortune on the turf but two wears ago his star
began to fade, and horses, cards and stocks ali
failed him, SO that in 1889 he was ruined after
the most brilliant career of its kind known to
his country. He was not so when he died.
The small mystery of the Norwegian adver-
tisement goes on with time. Every day for
many months an advertisement has appeared
steadily In a prominent New York paper which
states that Norwegian who is thorough cook
and houseworker is looking for EMPLOYMENT
and can give the best of references as to char.
acter and ability \ number of men who watch
the papers carefully have written to this myste-
rous advertiser, but they have not succeeded in
finding out who she is. The amount of her adj
VerGlSlng OIL is considerably greater than the
wages she could earn, and it goes on month
after month as regular as the issue of the paper
All sorts of letters have been addressed to her
offering her good places. etc. but it is impossi-
BILE to get reply. Her letters are collected bv
man whose face would probably be recognized
at police headquarters and she sometimes has
hundred or more answers in day. Several
attempts by newspaper reporters to find out
what the advertisement means have failed
A coMELY YOUNG WOMAN, attired in soft.
clinging robe of white, stood on the stage in
Chickering Hall. New York City. Friday night
and under the spell of one mans will became a
rigid statue. She was picked up like any mani
mate thing and laid as a bridge over the space
between two chairs three and one-half feet
apart Her head rested on one chair and her
feet barely touched the other Then Prof
Donate, VINO had hypnotized her, sat upon her
BODY, swinging his heels two or three inches
from the floor. The professor weighs about 200
pounds. but the girls body remained as stiff
and unyelding as a plank. Half a moment
afterward the hypnotic influence was removed
and The girls limp form sank between the two
chairs like the closing of a jackknife This was
put one OF numerous extraordinary instances of
ms power as hypnotiSt or fascinator given nv
Prot. Donate on the occasion. He comneIIad
dozen or more obedient subjects to assume atti
udeS painfully unnatural and awkward In
her unconscious eagerness to reach a rose a
young girl was induced to bend over backward
until her head as well as her feet touched the
stage.