The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-17
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| Two HUNDRED THOUSAND secondhand book
are to be sold in one lot in Boston this week t
the highest bidder. They belong to the sstat,
| Of that famous dealer, T. o. H. p. Burnham
| and are now in the dingy basement under thu
Old South church.
THE German Society for the Prevention o.
| Wholesale Slaughter of Birds for the Purpose
| of Millinery" is preparing signed petition tt
| be presented to the Queen of Italy during hel
| visit TO Berlin in June, begging her to use he
| influence to prevent the slaughter OF small
| birds in Italy, where some of the most beautiful
| species are becoming extinct.
A LOCAL PAPER of Burlington, N C., says a
man Of that town has dog and a calf that have
formed strange attachment. Lately the dog
has been given bread diet, and as soon as
he gets his ration, he hunts up the calf and
gives it the bread, which the calf eats and
seems to relish. When the calf is fed the dog
receives share of the meal or bran. The only
explanation for this attachment is that they
have been kept In the same stall for some time.
HIN village on Long Island, N. Y, is a woman
who has not been out Of bed for thirty years,
not from any infrmity, but because she never
received proposal Of marriage. She told her
mother, who is long since dead, two months
before her 10Th birthday that if she did not
receive an offer of marriage before her birthday
she would go TO bed and remain there as long
as she lived. Her hair is now gray and her
skin very sallow, but one can easily see that she
was once q beautiful girl
AN ENGLISH JOURNAL has been compiling
some stories, almost incredible. that illustrate
the tremendous power exerted by waves. 1t
says that on the shores Of the Shetland Islands
1t is not at all unusual for gneiss powders
weighing upward of three tons TO be moved 800
feet in a single night AT Bishops Rock
England, an iron column twenty-eight feet
long and weighing 600 pounds-part of a
light house being erected on the rock, and
which had been chained by means of eyebolts
to heavy bOWlderS-WAS moved tWanEV
in one night and deposited upon a projecting
rock II feet and 10 inches higher than its
original position.
PERHAPS the most curious salvage case on
record, says the New Orleans Picayltne. is that
of the ship Two Friends which stranded on the
coast of Cuba and was abandoned by her crew.
Another ship, the John Blake, met similar
fate, and her crew, in attempting to find land
ing place, came across the Two Friends, which
they managed to get off and to navigate to
England without further mishap The Judge who
tried the case decided that salvage services had
been rendered. but Of only ordinary difficulty
and merit, inasmuch as the crew Of the John
Blake salved the Two Friends in order to save
their own lives. The owners Of the John Blake
of course, got nothing, but the saving crew re-
ceived $3.50 out of the total value of 6! ,237.
The shrewdest scheme yet devised by en-
poyes for beating q street railroad COMPANY
has been unearthed in Cincinnati. Tires or
four years ago an inquisitive conductor learned
punch, remove as many of the little bits of
paper as he desired, and to hide the robbery by
moving back the bands on the dial that regist-
tered the number of fares punched. He took
one or two of his friends into confidence and
they organized a secret society. They charged
an initiation fee Of 800, and agreed to assist
any one of their number who might be dis
charged or prosecuted. Recently certain con-
ductor was asked to join, and he has exposed
the whole scheme. The society numbered some
forty members, and each knocked down from
s. to 81 daily. Mr.. Harris, the superintendent.
began series of calculations which led hira 70
the conclusion that last year the company lost
S35,500 by the scheme aud 500, 900 in four
years. Most of the thieving conductors have
been discharged.
ALTHOUGH Patagonia has long been such a
terror TO the ordinary traveller, the name of
that country being associated with monsters of
cruelty, who kill strangers without the slightest
conjunction, Jonathan @. Davies, Welsh
man who has managed to live for sixteen years
in Patagonia, has issued q little book in which
he gives a lot of interesting informant on re-
specting Welsh colony that was planted in
Patagonia In 1859 by Rev. NJ. D. Jones OF Bala
The first settlers numbered $50. but the present
population OF the colony Is about 5000. The
aim. Of the founder was to secure tract OF land
for Weshmen who leave their native land to
form settlement together instead Of scatter
ing about among strangers in all parts Of the
world. Tho colony Is settled in Chubat valley
which is about 40 miles long and broad and
well protected by, ranges of hills 1t was not
until 1877 that the colony showed signs of pros
perty, and even now colonists have to struggle
with fears and dangers that would dsunt spy
but hardy and determined people.
THE committee on color vision appointed last
March by the British Royal Society have COM
pleted an elaborate report, from which the fol-
lowing conclusions are taken: They (the com
mittee) are Of opinion that tests which involve
the naming or colors should be avoided in do
Gliding the question of color blindness Failure
TO satisfy these tests may be due to color igpo.
rance, and lead to the rejection OF persons who
are not really color blind. candidate who
fails should be informed to what cause his fail
ure is due. whether to color blindness or 10
color ignorance, with view to subsequent re-
examination in the latter case. After practical
trials, and also from Theoretical
considerations, the committee are
of opinion that the simplest ETA.
Gent test is the wool-test OF Holmgren. applied
either in the form which Homgren himself
recommends or 10 that of Jeaffreson. which is
based on precisely the same principles Ii is
most important that the standard test-coIors
should be Of a proper character both as TO hue
and also as to dilution with white, the efficiency
of the test depending almost entirely ON q
proper selection. The committee recommend
that sealed patterns Of all three test-colors
should be Kept by some central authority such
as the board Of trade; and that every sci of
test-woos should be officially passed as fulfill
ing the necessary conditions as to these stand
ard colors, and also as to the sufficieucy and
varietv of confusion COiOra -