The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-10
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solved the problem of perpetual motion. His
explanation as follows Is peculiarly clear: = |
have used the principles Of the OVershot wheel
all the weight az every revolution being on the
descending line. the weight on the ascending
being drawn TO the descending by each reVoIu-
ton"
The GRAND DUCHESS OLGA, mother Of the Rus
sian Grand Duke Michael, was so strange a
| woman in some ways that her suicide causes
| little surprise. Her pride such that she
| pre- erred living in the Caucacus, of which her
| husband was governor. rather than at St
Petersburg, because. as she said in the Caucacus
| she could be the first lady OF the nobility and
receive al alone the hOnOrs due to a princess of
the blood royal. whereas iii the capital she
would only be one of the crowd of grand duch-
esses. But it also said that her exile from
/ ST. Petersburg was not wholly voluntary, and
| that Alexander II. kept her at a distance be
cause she was such extremely bad terms
with the czarina as to render II undesirable that
they should meet.
A TELEGRAM went out from Washington city
on Saturday that csuseda CLEAN of satisfaction
to spread over the presidential face on the
Pacific coast. 1t was to effect that BENJAMIN
! Harrison Mckee, VINO had been left in charge
| OF the government while the rest of the family
| went swinging around the circle had donned
| pants. In the exuberance of his delight the
! favorite grandson of the President strutted all
/ over the building, calling upon everybody to
| take notice of his manly appearance. All would
have gone well had il not been for the fact that
! the youngster met the wife OF cabinet minister
in the east parlor, who had several young ladies
| with her. Young Mckee called out to the lady
| IN a loud voice: DO you wear pants? I do"
| There were bushes, slight scream, and
| Baby Mckee was rushed off to the conserva-
! tory.
IT seems that the pope can be a defendant in
a civil action. Some time ago the Marchioness
de Plessis- Bellievre left her property to Leo
NIL, including very fine house looking upon
| Place de la Concorde, in Paris This was to
{ a in MIA Of hat NOW
| situated in the Rue de Varennes. There was
| nothing TO show that the teststor was not of
sound mind; but relations very naturally cut
up rough when they find money going out Of
| their hands. Their plea is that the pope. as a
| spiritual sovereign, cannot acquire property on
| French soil. The matter will soon be settled by
the tribunal of Montdidier. Why the pope
| should not have one house in Paris as well as
| another is a rather difficult problem to solve
| The papacy has its acknowledged trustees, and
| ITS investments are to be found not only at the
| Bank of England but in house property near
| London.
FULL particulars of the drowning of four per-
sons while returning from dance near Reno
| w. Va, on the Ohio side, show the wonderful
| heroism of a woman. Mary Sheldon, Ella Carr
Lua Ridenour, NJ. krider, T. H. Osborn Berie
| Mccain, Smith McDae, Charles Adams and
| Charles Frank were in one boat at night cross
| ing small swift stream. When in the middle
the boat eapsized, throwing all into the water
| Mary Sheldon, tall, muscular girl, and a fine
swimmer, started for the shore, taking Charles
| Adams with her. Then she swan back and
succeeded in saving Arthur Osborn who could
not swim, and was almost drowned. She came
| back the third time, when, her strength giving
out, she was compelled to return alone. or
the others, two managed to save themselves,
and four were drowned. Charles Frank and
Smith McDale, IN attempting to save their par
| t1cular friends. BERTHE Mccain and Lua
Ridenour, were drawn under the water and lost
The affair happened out of reach of any help
and it was an hour later before any of the
| bodies were recovered. James Mccain whose
brother was drowned, is reported as losing his
mind from the shock.
A RAILROAD across the Atlantic is on the list
| of possibilities for future achievement of
| science. Many years ago a civil engineer read
| a paper before the French Academy suggest
| ing submarine railway. His theory was that
| at a certain depth of the ocean-lO0 fathoms or
mOre-fGr below any agitation from surface
! storms, the water is of such a density that
| nothing in tubular form, whatever the
weight, can possibly. sink. Having
thus made a foundation in the very
| bowels Of old Neptune, he proposed to sink a
continuous line of immense iron tubeg-after
| the manner of cable laYIng-iu which a double
track could be laid between Cape Clear, Ireland
| and Cape Race, NewtOund aud, and thus send
| trains booming thrOu- b the tubes to the con-
| sternation of the sea serpent aud the mortal
| terror of the big and little fishes. The only
| serious objections this Academician could see
| to the successful termination of this widest
Of all deep sea schemes was the suffocating
| effects OF the SMOKE from engines used in q
come, he said, then the grand oceanic railroad
| only required the necessary construction
| capital,
Mrs. J. NJ. MErCALF of st Panl arrived at
Chicago from st. Louis Wednesday night &C
companying the dead bodies of three of her
| family. Her story is particularly sad. Early
in the fall she and her husband, son and daugh-
| ter went south to spend the winter for her hus-
| band s health. Mr.. Metcalf, prominent grain
| merchant of St Paul, had been failing for some
| Instead of batf in tha
ern climate he became worse. Early last week
| his physicians in New Orleans notified him that
he had only few days to live. AS he wished to
| die at home among his friends the family started
for the north. Before reaching Jack
son, Miss, Mr.. Metcalf died. His daughter who
has for some years been victim of heart ais-
ease was taken suddenly sick Just before reach
| ing Memphis, and there she died. Overcome
by this double calamity. Herbert Metcalf II
| years old, was also stricken with heart disease
aud he died aboard the cars a few minutes be-
fore reaching st. Louis, and now the widow and
| beresved mother is finishing a Journey during
| which all her companions have died. She left
| last night by the Milwaukee road for ST. Paul
| where the funeral services of all will occur as
soon as they arrive
JOSEPH Sutton, 60 years of age, of 6S South
| Fifth street. Philadelphia at breakfast Tuesday
last was in particularly good spirits, and while
eating piece of fish, stopped to speak to someone
at the table, He took short breath and sud-
denly inhaled the piece of fish he had taken in
| his mouth. The PARTICLES lodged in his throat,
ana In moment MS friends noticed him gasp
ing for breath. For some seconds his suffer
ings were most acute 1t seemed as if he would
| choke. All known remedies for similar cases
| We're resorted to, but nothing seemed to relieve
the sufferers agony. The fish had lodged in
the larynx and was filing the Office of
valve, almost completely shutting the air
passages. He finally succeeded in getting the
| particles of fish out of the larynx. but several
fish bones remained IN the throat, and although
his sufferingS were relieved to some extent, still
he was unable to breathe freely, and the sharp
edges of the bones caused him intense pain.
| A physician was called in and upon his advice
! Sutton was removed to the Pennsylvania hos
pltal. The fish bones have been found to be
| firmly lodged in the throat, and while there
| does not seem to be any immediate danger of
the patient dying, still he is unable to breathe
freely or to swallow any solid food. 1t will re-
quire a peculiarly delicate operation to remove
the bones from the throat now that they have
b come so firmly lodged there. and great care
will have to be taken for fear the bones in be-
ing taken out, will tear away some of the deli
cate portions of the throat.
Nothing Could Save Him.
When the physician, who had been hastily
summoned, arrived at the house, says the
| 4 T6n,i SdIr TrnpeloT. he fOund the patiapt a