The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-04
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sampled the ore and went to Tacoma, where ne
formed company and disposed or the property
for 100000 OF this $4,000 was paid to day,
the rest being due in three months. The dealis
strictly financial one no part OF the 500 900
being paid in stock. Toe purchasers are W. R.
D Rust F. W CLARK and Richard Briggs Of Tacoma
I smelter; j. T. Smith of Helena and George
Boetler of ElkhOrn. They have organized a
company with capital of S3O0,OO0. The aver
age assay OF ore is Si4 gold, S23 so silver and
81 20 lead.
WHILE TROUT FISHING a few days ago @. a.
Sheets OF Quigelville, Pa. had the novel expert
ence Of Witnessing fierce combat between a
golden eagle and hawk. Both birds were Of
immense size. and the fight was to the death.
AT a favorable opportunity Mr.. Sheets sprang
from his place of cOncealmeut and sucCaeGed
in capturing the birds. The talons of the eagle
were so firmly imbedded in the flesh of tne
hawk that it required great effort to separate
t tneln; Inc ha"k only hved few moments.
but Mr.. Sheets succeeded in getting the eagle
| home, where he is keeping him caDtlve The
eagle measures seven feet from tip TO tip and
has talons eight inches in length. From head
| to tail it measures two feet The hawk meas
ured four feet four inches from tip to tip The
! golden eagle is a very scarce bird in this sec
ton of the state, this being the frs one seen
| Tor many years.
The JAPANESE WATERS are frequented by
many species of the crab family. and have the
honor of enveloping the largest of all crabs.
| These grow to an enormous size and from the
point of one large claw to the other with a well
| grown crab, the distance is fully ten feet, while
the front legs are quite five feet long. The
| body Is triangular in shape and small in com
| parison with the length of their legs. Clarence
| Greathouse, when American consul general to
| japan Sent good specimen to the state mining
bureau that is veritable curiosity. The front
| feet are five feet and three inches in length
| while the body is at least twofeet wide. AT the
| end of the great long spider-like legs are
J sharp, knite-like protruberances and the front
| legs have powerful pincer-like claws armed
| n. DlArqd "a
walls of the museum it looks like gigantic
| spider. These crabs are eaten by the Japanese
The PICKET was generally inflicted on cavalry
| and artillery men, and was a singularly brutal
bit OF torture, says the London Graphic. A long
post, near which stood STOOL was driven into
| the ground The delinquent was ordered to
| mount the stool; his right hand was fastened to
a hook in the post by 1ose, drawn up as high
| as 1t could be stretched, round his wrist. A
| stump the hight of the STOOL with its end cut to
a round and blult point, was also driven into
the earth close to the post. Then the stool was
| taken away and the sufferer had nothing to rest
| his bare feet upon but the stump, (which,
| though 1t did not usually break the SKIN" saws
| Capt. Grose, put him in great torture his only
| means of relief being by resting his weight on
| his wrist. tho pain of which soon become ntol-
| cradle, One can very well believe him, espe
| clally when he makes the addition that a man
| was not lnfrequently left to stand in this posi-
/ ton for half an hour-although the orthodox
period of endurance was fifteen minutes.
| ONE of the keepers in the monkey house i'll the
| New York park menagerie has been very much
attracted Of late by the appearance OF a little
| short, thick-set man with iron gray hair and
| long whiskers, who makes daily visits to the
| monkey house and stands for hours chattering
to the beasts, and he has come to the conclusion
| that the man is Darwinian, philosopic lngL-
| ISL who has discovered the monkey language
| and who Is making himself fluent in 1t by con-
versing with them. One thing is certain, - said
| the keeper, the monkeys know him, for they
! always come to the front of the cage when he
appears and chIrp ana chatter and smile as if he
were telling them funny stories. 1t seems rldicu-
| lous, don't it? But he is the only visitor who
can get their attention. Maybe he hypnotizes
| them" The noises he makes are exactly like
| their chattering and seem to be done with the
| lips closed and teeth tightly shut, and his eyes
| seem to sparkle as the monkeys chatter back.
so netim S when they answer him he almost
| bursts with laughter and when he leaves the
raj ing they all bill him good-5y with much
feeling.
THERE may be seen at the corner of Mont
gomery avenue and Kearney street, at San Fran
cisco, at frequent intervals during the day, a
horse that would make a comfortable living for
| It's owner II placed on exhibition in the dime
| museum. Neither horse nor master, however
seems to be imbued with desire for fame and
the former is content, apparently, to serve ont
| his days at his allotted task of drawing an aX-
pr IS wagon about the city. He is an ordinary
| sized gray horse, with most amiable cast of
| countenance, and with nothing remarkable
about him except the possession of a large and
well-Shaped mustache. The latter is kept care
fully trimmed and brus by the owner of the
horse, but the posSessor of this unusual ap-
pendage seems to pay little attention to it. He
| has never been known, at least, to stroke it as
| men do, but by watching him closely it NAV be
observed that he eyes it occasionally in a criti-
cal sort of way. He is years old aud was born
| in Mexico; but so far as can be learned he is
the only member OF his family. who has ever
boon blessed with either mustache or whiskers.
| On the contrary, his fathers lip was without
suspicion of a hair, and his mother, of course.
| was stranger to such a thing.
SAYS Boston photographer: THE last time
that Emerson ever sat for his picture was Just
before his mind gave way. He come into the
gallery one day with some relatives, who as
| sisted him with his wraps and in making ready
| for the photographer. 1t was very difficult that
day to make picture of the great man that
| would suit the relatives who were with him It
wasn't because Emerson was fussy or perv-
| ous; he was, in fact, a most delightful sitter
| and on this occasion his courtesy was no less
marked than at other times. But when he di-
rected his gaze steadily at the object which the
ARTIST selected, the features relaxed very pecul-
larly and the expression OF the eyes and mouth
| was strongly irrational, if that word NAV be
used in such connection. The relatives, who
| were accustomed TO his features and their ex
preston, saw in the negatives what thew
| couldn't see in the original of the picture So
they ordered that the negatives be not devel-
Oped but destroyed And the visit was paid for
| but no photographs were ever delivered 1t was
| noticed that as Emerson left the gallery that
day his eyes were bent steadily on the floor. and
he smiled continually. Very soon after the
| story of mental trouble was published but this
story of the last sitting no one ever heard.
In THE center of Senator In gals 20-acre truck
farm, south of Atchison, Kas, surrounded bv
trees and covered with bluegrass is a grave
which evidently received considerable attention
for many years 1t is supposed to contain the
remains of an Indian girl and her pale-faced
lover. Away back in the early part of this CEN
tury when what is now known as Kansas he
longed to the territory of Louisiana, there lived
in lonely hut on the bank of the Missouri river
an old Indian and his daughter, who had wan
dered away from some southern tribe. One dav
a white hunter stopped at the hut having been
lost in the wilderness. He was taken sick the
| day he reached the place, and was nursed nv the
Indian girl for several weeks until he recovered
The girl fell desperately in love with her patient,
The man was already married, and so exDleined
to the girl She was crazed by her love how
ever, and the night before the day set for his
departure she crept to his couch and shot an
| The father found the pair dead, and they were
buried together. The grave on Mr. Ingalls,
truck farm is supposed to contain all that is
LETT OF this couple. Mr.. ingalls, says be will
have the grave opened some time and ascer-
tain, If possible what it really does contain.
LIEUT.. CHARLES j. w. GRANT, it will be re-.
membered, was on his way to Manpur with
eighty men at the time of the massacre of Mr.
Quinton and his party. A messenger was at