The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

YAKIMA CWAsH.) ARTISAN WELL Is exhibit
ing most peculiar Characterization The drill was
sent go feet, when work was suspended awaiting
casing, owing to phenomenon which cannot
be accounted for. Sometimes there is a suction.
and sometimes a blast OF air from the we'll
one day piece Of paper placed over the hole
would be drawn down, while the next 1t would
De sent flying into the air. That an air cham.
Der has been struck there Is little question, but
the varying mood of the wind is what is puz-
cling those who are interested.
THE TIME can be approximately told at night
by the position of the dipper. II position of she
pointers" is taken at any given hour, say 6
O'Clock in the evening In winter time and as
soon as 1t is dark in the summer the hour can
thereafter be pretty accurately measured by
the eye during the night Frequent observa-
lions OF positions will have to be made ct the
gwen hour, as. owing to the constant changing
OF the earth's position in space, the position OF
the pointers" In relation TO our point OF obser-
walton and the star also change.
THE POSTAGE STAMP will be SO years old In
May of next year. It's inventor was q printer,
James Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland, who
died in 1858 England ffty-two years ago, In
broduced the new system OF preparing letter
postage, and according TO q decree Of Dec. 81,
1850. issued the first stamps which were to be
put before the public on May of the follow
year. as noted above. A year later they were
introduced ia the United States aud SwIt1er-
land; and within three years had become COM
mon in Bavaria, Belgium and France
THE TrMBERs at present most sought after
for shipment from Honduras, where the trade
was opened 100 years ago, are mahogany,
cedar, rosewood zebra and fustic. Mahogany
and cedar are the leading exports and are
shipped mainly to England, alt ough some
contracts have recently been taken in the
United States. The price OF mahogany in Lon
don ranges from Sii0 to S176 per l,00o super
cal feet, and cedar 500 to $3.50. Rosewood,
zebra and fustics are cut into shost lengths and
shipped as ballast. Rosewood brings from S9o
ff and q n
squared before shipment. The present average
cost OF the squared timbers on the bars ready
for shipment Is $50 to $40 per 1000 feet ma
hogany and cedar, and IS to $40 ton for rose
wood, zebra and fustic.
THE african pumpkin" or gamhen, is very
different from the well-known American fruit
of that name. being a tree with a short but
abnorma!ly THICK trunk, but it Is OF the pompion
family TO which belong the melons, The trunk
grows about IA feet high. with q diameter of
from 3 TO feet The rind is white as chalk and
perfectly smooth, and the clumsy trunks among
the green shrubbery look more like marble
columns than anythias elsa. These plants at
found at Kadhub, not far from Tamarid, n
the bark of a gamhen trunk an Arabian In
scrtption bearing the date Of 1910. The wood
trees we know, but full of sap and cuts like
turnip. penknife is sufficient 70 cot Q
stairway into the trunk Of q gannhen, over
which the flowers on the top can be reached.
Miss Coma ARLEDon, young girl a years OF
age, with her father arrived in the town last
night from the forests Of the west and from the
Big Horn basin, says the Denver Ne.cs Miss
Arledge met With a most serious and remark
able accident at her home recently Her father
Is ranchman in the Big Horn basin, and one
day last week cowboy rodo up to his ranch on
young horse that he was breaking.
In spirit Of jest he dared Mise Cora 10
ride the horse, when. without q thought.
she vaulted into the saddle, throwing her leg
around the horn. and the horse started in to
bucking and pitching at furious rate, but she
stuck to him, quietinE him every jump Then
the horse began to run. and ran for two straight
hours over the prairie. with Miss Arledge hang
ing TO the reins and three cowboys in hot pur-
suit. One Of them at last succeeded In lassoing
the frightened animal and gradually brought It
to get Off. but she answered that
she could not AMI jest then the horse
made another plunge. broke the lssso and
started again on its wild careAp. Il ran for over
twenty miles and then dropped dead, and It's
daring ri Ter was found unconscious By It's sids
At first II was thought that her leg was broken,
as she did not appear to have the use Of 1t. but
upon an investigation z was found that no
bones was broken. but tie muscles of the right
leg from the long and severe strain IN holding
to the horn OF the saddle, had lost their power,
and the leg hangs limp and useless. She was
sent to Omaha for treatment.
The POWERS of the fakirs, or faqueers, of In
dia and Persia Of Stimulating death are marvel
Gus and almost Incredible. remarks the London
Times Several sects in these countries regard
the art of apparent death as part Of their re-
ligious ritual, and practice it assiduously. In
their ancient books it is described as pura
nayam, or stopping the DEATH Many cases in
which these Indian fakirs have allowed
themselves to be buried alive for
long periods have been verified
by British officials In India and attested by evil
dence which dispels all doubt OF their Truth
This representation of death continues for as
long as six, or even ten, months ] he wav the
fakirs go to work to produce this condition IA 10
have the little hgature under tho tongue cut
whereby they ara enabled to stretch this organ
out to great length. Then they turn it back.
inserting the end In the throat, closing no at
the same time the inner nasal apertures. The
external apertures OF the nose and ears are
closed with wax and the eyes covered to
exclude the light. Long preliminary practice
is, however. needed in holding the breath and A
long course of fasting before burial The fakir
then sinks into condition resembling death
and the body Is wrapped in linen, placed in a
boxand buried. When the box is taken up at
the expiration of the ng-continued death like
sleep and opened the fakir is found
cold and stiff; no pulsation can be felt: the
heart, the wrist, the temples are still; 'the body
is not cold as a corpse would be- but is colder
than that Of other living men, except over the
seat of the brain. An the secretions are fnlIv
stopped; the nails, hair and beard have in
creased growth. After being resusctated the
fakir feels great dizziness, and for few hours
cannot stand up without support, but grsdu.
ally he RECEIVERS strength, and enjoys amazingly