The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-07
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at present turning out 800 600 cards day.
TIE LIGHT seen throu. d the new eye-piece of
the Lick telescope will be 1000 times as bright
as that seen by the naked eye.
IL 1870 Chicago had but 4,479 people. New
Orleans at that time had twenty-five times as
many Inhabitants as the Lake City.
UKASIUx is now classsd among the rare met
ais; Oh account Of its electrical resistance it is
likely TO be used in electrical insulation
A FARMER living near Atchison will harvest
5000 boxes Of strawberries from three-acre
patch. Last year he realized $50 from a single
acre.
SOME POLISH IMMIGRANTS landed in Philadel
phia last week clothed in their winter apparel
all they possessed. Many were overcome by the
heat.
The GRAVE of Maj. Ogden in the National
cemetery at Fort Lsavenworth, Kan, is said TO
mark the geographical center of the United
States.
NEW LION HUNTER has arisen TO succeed the
late Bombonnel in Algeria, named Gather,
who invites not only men but women TO come
and hunt.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press has dropped the
Minneapolis date line from its head. The quar-
rel between the twins seems 10 b. beyond
reconciliation.
The PORTUGUESE NATION is said to be one of
the least instructed in Europe, the illterate in
habitants being officially stated at So per cent.
OF the total population.
The NEW BRIDGE authorized by congress to be
built across the Hudson river between New
York and Jersey City will be 1000 feet long and
nave one central span 2,SJ0 feet in length
THUNDER-sToRMs are said to be more numer-
GUS IN low ATTITUDES than i'll high, and one rea-
son given for their being less destructive in
England than in some other countries is the
dampness Of the climate.
a PAINTER arrested in Litchield, Conn, while
at work. walked along quietly for few minutes,
when he suddenly turned and dashed his paint
brush into the sheriff's eyes. He then escaped.
| The sheriff is badly injured
PROF. BIDwELL, writing in Nature about
| lightning, quotes figures showing that in Eng
| land and Wales, from 1852 to 1880, the average
annual death rate from lightning was consider
ably below one per million Of the population
| SALMON which weighed So pslnds was
caught in the nets at the mouth of the Esk,
| near Montrose, Scotland, a few days ago.
| This is the heaviest salmon that has been
! captured in British waters during the last two
| years,
NINE-TENTHs of the dolls sold in this country
are said to come from Germany and the prin-
cipal seat of manufacture there is Sonneberg
| IN Ihurnngen town OF about 1000 inhab
| ltants. DolLmaking is almost the entire industry
| of the place.
| FoREPAUGH's ELEPHANT Columbia, 20 years
old and over twelve feet tall. is reported from
Albany n. Y, to be dying. He was injured
| about month ago at Johnstown, Pa, by fall
| ing out of train and having freight train
run into him.
THE RESULT of the census taken in two of the
wards of Port Huron, Mich, places the popula-
| ton so much below the figures made by the
! publishers OF the directory that the Daily Times
| Will have an enumeration of its own taken and
| publish the names.
The amount of water the sun raises from the
earth is estimated at the enormous weight of
| $1,000 100000 tons minute; the quantity of
| coal required to produce a heat in any way
| equivalent TO the suns is calculated to be H.
| OO0OOOOOJ,O 900 tons.
GERMAN named Lilienthal, after experi-
menting for twenty-three years with artificial
| wings, has succeeded in raising himself weigh.
! ing 100 pounds with the aid of a counter weight
! hitting eighty pounds. How to raise the other
eighty pounds is still beyond him.
QUEER OLD WOMAN in Albany, n. Y. re-
Gently changed her mind about making a bank
deposit because the teller wouldn't promise to
| return to her the identical coins which she in
! tended deposting. She had made list of the
dates so that there would be no mistake
The French postof1ce department is examin-
ing new and original system for distributing
| newspapers through the mails. Every pubca.
ton is TO provide the central postoffice with the
list OF its subscribers and every number is to he
| sent to the subscribers without wrappers or
| printed address.
SURGEON MAJOR G. A SrERNBERG, U. S. A..
| who elaborated with En- Findley in getting at
| the origin, nature, etc, of the yellow fever
! germ. says DR.. Findley was mistaken in suppos-
| ing he had solved the problem. The formation
| that he got every time was simply a flaw in
the object glass.
The Providence Journal is responsible for the
! statement that an iceman there recently found
| in chunk of the watery solid little trout that
had been frozen in since last March. The Iinny
| fellow was released from his tight situation
| and, being placed in a jar of water, soon be-
came as lively as ever.
/ EXPERIMENTS made in Sweden by NJ Sandherq
on the strength of iron rails during winter have
shown that steel rails containing over per
! cent OF carbon are apt to break in cold weather
In fact, the result of his Investigations point to
the use of rails having less carbon than this
| say per cent.-in countries as cold in winter as
| Norway and Sweden.
| WIND observations at the Eiffel tower show
that at low velocites of fifteen miles an hour or
less the velocity of the wind at the top of the
! tower Is from four to five times as great as at
| the top of an ordinary building sixty-nine feet
| high, but as the velocity increases this differ
ence decreases until at high veocites the differ
| ence is only as two to one.
The Pail Mdu Gazette says that Prof. GIuck
recently performed a remarkable and success
| full operation He removed from one of his
male patients a diseased knee Joint. and in
serted an artificial substitute made from ivory
| The patient has now left his bed. He walks
with perfect ease, and says his ivory knee Joint
is convenient and comfortable in every way
On the Great Western Line, in England. it
has for years been the custom to set aside
ladies compartments" of each class on the
| principal trains, put these are usually empty
and the women for whom they are intended
| persist in filling the smoking carriages During
| given period 1000 seats were kept exclusively
| for ladies' in certain through trains, but the
maximum number of those seats which were
| occupied at any time was about $50
HEzIAH TIBBETTs brings report to Pendleton
| Ore, from Mountain Valley, which has been
| somewhat excited of late over the discovery of
| gold lodges, that new vein of coal thirtv-eiaht
| inches in thickness at the surface has been
! found about three miles this side of Fletcher's
| mine and will be located and developed by the
| discoveries Butter creek evidently finds its
| source IN a section rich in mineral wealth.
JAMES B. Sw1GERT of Carlisle Springs Pa is
the possessor of an old turkey gobbler which is
! now doing the duty of a fowl OF the feminine
| gender Mr.. Swigert a few days ago missed the
| gobbler, but subsequently found him in a field
| Matching a nest of eggs. The old fellow sat
| very COQtentedV. and seams oraa+fu ,7Iaoca1