The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

E. V. DEBoIssIERE, French citizen of Will
iamsburgh, Kan, has donated all his real and
personal property, amounting to nearly $3.50 600
to board of trustees to found an Odd Fellows
orphans home.
JOHN BEATTIE OF New Haven claims to be the
owner of the oldest seaworthy craft in the
world. The vessel is the Wasp. a schooner pur-
chased by Mr.. Beattie in 1870. She was built at
Cohoes, on the Hudson river, in 1912. The
Wasp is older than the whaleship SJonington,
chat is to be taken to Chicago to the world g
fair. For years after being launched the Wasp
ran as Hudson river packet. and along points
on the sound. Once, when lying in the North
river, her crew mutinied and murdered the cap
tain. The murderers were hanged, The vessel
is now employed in carrying granite to the
breakwater off the mouth Of the harbor.
SOME New York dogs go out of town for sum.
mer vacations just as their masters and mis-
tresses go, and not always with their masters
has set up summer resort for dogs in New
Jersey, where the board is So month for big
dogs and less for little ones The keeper Of the
sort has family of boys whose duty and pleas
ure 1t is to lake the canine boarders swimming
every day. Some member of the family calls
for the dogs when they are to leave town and
returns them to their urban homes when the
vacation is over. The big dog of a famous
actress spends his summer at the canine resort
Few of our readers, perhaps, are aware that
the human body falls asleep by degrees, says
Homeland. According to NJ Cabins, a French
psychologist, the muscles of the legs and arms
lose their power before those which support the
head and these last sooner than the muscles
which sustain the back; and he illustrates this
by the cases of persons who sleep on horseback,
or while they are standing or walking. He con-
ceives that the sense of sight sleeps first; then
the sense of taste; next the sense OF smell next
that of hearing and lastly that of touch. He
maintains, also that the viscera fall asl eep one
after another, and sleep with different degrees
of sOuudness.
ONE of the most pitiful sights ever witnessed
10 the streets of Portland. Me-, was presented
the other day by two French Cana 1ian boys
who had begged their way from st. Francis, on
the northern boundry of Aroostook. The
younger, aged II, had lost his left arm and all
except the thumb of his right hand by an acct
dent in a ser-mih, while the elder aged about
"a, was totally blind They had come to Port.
land in the hope that ocWists would be able to
restore the sight of the unfortunate boy, but
the doctors were obliged to tell them there was
no hope. They had letter from their parish
priest, on the strength of which they managed
to get enough money to take them back to their
Aroostook home.
A VALUABLE ADDITION to the many forms of
apparatus used for the detection of firedamp
has been made in the introduction of an auto
matte detector Of great sensitiveness and abso-
lutte certainty Of action. A series OF tubes
through which the air Of the most dangerous
points Of the mine is pumped are conducted
into chamber in which is q lighted Bunsen
burner. When the gases contain more than
per ceat. of methane, the mixture ignites aud
moves valve, which strikes a gong and thus
gives warning. Smaller quantities of explosive
gas can be detected by adding to the mixture
known quantities of methane. Another ad-
vantage OF the apparatus is that the condition
of the air of q mine can be ascertained before
any one enters the workings
THE little baby daughter of the Chinese
minister at Washington has only two years
more of happy infancy before her, for when
she reaches the age of years her thy feet will
be sWarrhed in tight bandageS to reiard their
growth and to produce the pedal dimnutive-
ness chat seems hdeous to American eyes but
is one of the delights Of Chinese visual organs.
The torture las FOR three years. A cont m
porary finds that there is a curious similarity
between this barbarous practice of Mandarin
aristocracy and that of the Flatlead indians
which leads the latter to bind pieces Of board OF
the heads of their infant children and fatten
their foreheads to the desired anRle-or the
practice of silly girls of civilization who deform
their waists by tight lacing.
THERE is fruit grower in Kentucky who
evidently thinks great deal while sitting under
the shade of his own vine and fig Tree He no
ticed that in three out of five years his best APP
! pies and peaches were killed by March frost,
| and be set hims If the problem of finding some
] means Of so prolonginR the winter in his latti-
| tude that the trees would not wake from their
hlbernal sleep until spring was far advanced.
| After trying various experiments he hit on the
| idea of digging a circular trench around the
roots of each tree, filling it with pounded snow
| and ice, aud then covering up with a thick
| stratum Of clay. ~The plan was perfectly sue
| cessful. The ice melted, but so slowly that its
| influence kept back the flowers from three to
| four weeks. In other words trees which used
| to bud IN the middle of March can thus be made
| to prolong their winter sleep until the begin
ming of April, when the danger from night
frosts is generally past
WHEN visited Nine. Tussaud's the other
day" says gentleman just back from Lon
don, there was on exhibition hfe-sze figure
! of DeemlnR, dressed in the actual military uni
| form whichhe wore while at Rainhill at which
| place he committed the atrocious murder of his
| wife and three children and then buried them
| under the kitchen floor. Not only was the wax
| Deeming i'll his rael clothes there, but in the
| Chamber Of Horrors which is q leading feat
ure of Nine. 1ussaud's show, there had been
erected the little kitchen, identical cement floor
| and all, in which the drsadful crime had been
! DONE and which had been purchased and taken
| to London. At the Aquarium, a big show
place down near the House of Parliament I
| also met with another instance OF the same en-
terprising desire to cater to the craze Of the
| moment, for there were the original pearls
stolen by Mrs. Osborne from her friend. Mrs,
Hargraves, and about which there was such a
| highly sensational trial not long ago.
| WHAT is believed to be the largest aerolite
ever known to have fallen is lying in the Caspian
| sea, a short distance from the Peninsula of
| Apsheron. In falling the aerolite made a most
| terrific noise as it rushed through the air, and
| the white hot mass made light that illumi-
mated the country and sea round about for n
| great distance. When it struck the water
| clouds of steam arose and the kissing could be
| heard far off. Huge masses Of water were
| thrown upward, and the sight to those who
were not frightened was most beautiful one
! So enormous is the aerolite that it projects
| twelve feet above the water. and save for its
| fused black crust, which gives it the appearances
| of having been vanished, it has every appear
| ance Of being one of the usual rocky lorna
| tons met with along the coast Scientists are
! deeply interested in the phenomenon, and a
number OF them are making preparations To
visit the peninsular to examine the aerolite
POWDER.