The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-05
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The greatest number of people ever killed by
an earthquake since the dawn of history was
10000. The date of the terrible disaster was
1903 and the scene of the most violent disturb
ance at Heddo, Japan, and vicinity.
PIsCAToRY authorities of the highest standing
tell us that were it not for natures grand
''evening-up' provisions the fishes of the sea
would multiply so rapidly that within three
short years they would fill the waters to such
an extent that there would be no room for
them to swim. This will hardly be disputed
when 1t is known that single female cod will
lay 45,OOO,OOO eggs in single season.
BRITISH newspapers are discussing earnestly
the question Of cloak rooms in churches, refer
ring to the absence of, and absolute necessity
for, facilities for disposing of wraps, hats aud
overcoats. Some churches in the country have
wire barracks beneath the seats, and a few
have wire bars for overcoats and wraps on the
back of. seats. One church in Chicago has
regular opera chairs and the attendant con-
venienc9s. A cloak room seems to fill long
felt want for there does not appear to be any
good reason, these days any way, why a man
or woman should not be as comfortable In a
church as in theater.
ZONE of the most extraordinary forms of in
sanity is a mania for stealing womeus Shoes"
says Or, Dodd. physician at the BloomingdsIe
Asylum, in the Boston Globe. ut is diStin-
gUished as a disease by itself, and the Germans
nave named It 'FrauenschuStehlmOnom
1t is more common among men than with the
other sex. There is one case on record OF
young man whose sisters lost their left shoes as
fast as they could buy them. 1t was always the
left one of each pair that was taken. For a
long time the thefts remained mystery, until
one day the brother caught a young woman in
the street. threw her down. tore off her left
shoe and ran away with it, He was captured,
and thus the secret was discovered"
A HUMANE PHASE of city life down town, says
the New York Times, whose verbal brilliancy
disappears when he puts himself on paper.
owing to the badness Of his spelling. thinks he
has hit upon device for relieving the emhar-
rassment of all who are sensitive 10 regard to
this failing as he is. Hers in the scheme in his
own words: "TalleJr rand SAYS that speech Is
the art Of conceaing thought. By the same
token writing should be the srt of concealing
bad spelling. What we bad spoilers need Is a
system Of penmanship upon basis OF radical
reform. Let teachers be sent out who will teach
us to write pleasing hand, but in which poor
spelling cannot be detected. have no time to
work out system, but it ought to be easy and
very profitable. For instance, why not have e.
and i written alike in worIs in which they oc-
cur together, with the doC midway over themt
Big money is waiting for somebody who will
work out complete scheme"
- OCEAN STEAMSHIPS consume much more fuel
than the average person Is aware Of. Take for
an instance the vessels Of the Orient line which
make regular trips between Australia and Great
Britain. The fastest steamer of that line is the
Austral which makes tbs voyage from London
70 DyuuS1 III JQlTLy-uNe Gays. during the trim
OUT she never uses less than 500 tons of coal
and on the return voyage often as much as 4, 900
tons. She has three c0alinR stations and bun
kers that will hold 1880 tons without over
crowding English American liners" like the
Oregon consume $50 tons OF coal per day for
every day between Liverpool and New York
The Sterling Castle went to Oh ma for load of
tea. She brought back cargo Of 2 200 tons Of
that staple Chinese commodity, but consumed
$500 tons OF coal in making the round trip from
Liverpool. Immense stocks of coal are con-
stantly kept on hand at SC. Vincent, Madeira,
Port Said, Singapore and other Oriental coaIin9
stations, there being often as much as 200 900
tons in store at the last named place
CAPT. ALVIN HALL, a sea-going man of Maine,
tells Of a remarkable experience with the ohol-
era He says that he was at the port of St.
Jago, on the uthern shore Of Cuba, when the
cholera was raging there with terrible violence
the deaths in the village numbering over $50 a
day. In the midst OF the plague there occurred
a great earthquake. that toppled over the
houses and choked up the streets with debris
and from that moment the cholera was at an
end, though nobody could tell why. In his in
teresting memoirs the Rev DR.. Chaplin, form
erly os New Orleans, relates a similar incident,
1t was in 1882, when the cholera committed
such frightful ravages in New Orleans and one
sixth of the entire population died within
twelve days. At the very hight OF the plague
when the mortality amounted to 500 day
there came tremendous thunder storm. The
rain poured in torrents, and the lightning was
terrific Shortly the storm passed away, sue
ceeded by a cool breeze from the north, and it
carried the cholera with it, There was not an
other death.
GOLD SEEKING in Rhode Island would seem to
be prosperous undertaking, but DR.. Phanuel
B. Carpenter Of Providence does not think 30
The doctor is firmly OF opinion that the precious
metal is to be found in Stump HILL in the
town Of Lincoln, and he has set up an engine,
derrick, drill, ETC., to get it out. ALI his life be
has been an ardent mineralogist, trsversing
miles Of ground and chipping tons Of rock 10
his search for the mineral wealth Of both Rhode
Island and Connecticut. Several years
ago he came to the conclusion that he
would be rewarded by tapping Stump
HILL" and accordingly he sank 60Lfoot
shaft there, finding, he alleged, traces Of gold
Nobody could advance the money which he
needed to carry on the work and be was con-
strained to abandon his pit. The doctor. having
now earned enough money to resume opera
tions, is on the ground again and has sunk an
other shaft. He has taken out a quantity OF
quartz which is now in Boston awaiting an as
say. He is confident that it will be favorable
but his faith is secuted by miners OF experience
Maine. however, produces gold In small guam
titles in the Salt river region aud the strata of
he Rhnda Island hills ara nOr aaaan all