The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-18
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AN IMMENSE STRIKE of gold and lver-bearing
| ore has been made in the Pilot, on Mount
Cniffels, Col, by George French. Assays run
Z, 1926 ounces in gold and 1856 ounces in silver,
has only recently been trying to get some one
to grub-stake him. Offering a half interest in
his prospects for such advances.
DEAL is on the point of being contaminated
which will give an English syndicate control of
every gallon of bourbon whisky in Kentucky
/ The deal represents an investment of some
100000 The distileries on which options
have been secured represent an annual output
of -, 100000 gallons. Each concern will retain
an interest of 10 per cent, and will continue the
management The profits will be pooled
quarterly and divided on the pro rats plan. A
supervisory board will control the production.
New York and Louisville. 1t is expected that
the syndicate will be able to take control and
begin operations at the opening of the next
distllling season, about Oct. !.
The British authorities in India are advanc-
ing slowly but surely toward solution of the
great problem of the water supply, Only a
few days ago 6n account was published of the
opening of the great Bombay reservoir and
water works, and now the completion of a
similar enterprise at Baroda is reported. The
reservoir there is lake with an area of five
square miles, containing when full ], 800, 000,-
900 cubic feet Of water The dam creating it
is nearly three miles long, begun seven
years ago, and was finished in 1890, In time to
whole supply system is finished and properly
filtered water is delivered in abundant quantity
to the entire population The sanitary benefits
of these engineering improvements can scarcely
be overestmated.
IN BR1TTANY when housewife begins to
knead dough she makes a cross with her right
hand, the left being placed in the trough If
cat enters the room 1t is believed the
bread will not rise. 1t is supposed
that certain women can cause
the dough to multiply itself. On the coast of
the channel the dough is adjured to initiate the
leaven, the miller and the baker and to rise.
The oven is sacred object and connected with
crowds of superstitons. The oven is dedicated
with ceremonies; in certain places of Brittany
the wood is watered with blessed water Bread
must not be cooked on certain days. as on Holy
Friday lin Brittany, or during the night of All
SAINTS, when the ghosts would eat it. There is
usage, general in France, that bread before
being cut must be marked with the sign of the
cross. The neglect of so marking the bread il
supposed TO involve misfortune. IN Lille to step
on bread is a blameworthy act. 1t is common
superstition that the falling of piece of bread
on the buttered side is fatal to luck.
THE North China Herald has been analyz.
ing the records of suicide in the Pekn Gazette.
1t finds that out Of 81 instances, 2S are ascribed
TO poison. IA TO hanging, II to drowning, to
cutting or staboinG, to starvation, and one
each to shooting, leaping from q hight, and
daShing the head against a wall The poison
IN seven cases was opium, and in six was gold
with brine, and another with face powder
Suicide under certain circumstances is regarded
as meritorious in China. 1t Is thought to be
commemorate for widows to starve themselves
or put an end TO their lives in some other way
although few of them display their grief in
such an extreme manner. In the western
world suicide is the last resort of despair and
pesslmlsm, but In China it is often the work of
malice or revenge. The Chinese believe that
the spirits of the dead have extensive privi-
leges, and an i'll used person may, by suicide,
haunt his motherin-law or other Objectionable
persons. and thus inflict real punishment on
the oppressor or the object Of hatred.
In his annual report Col. Haywood, the en-
gineer to the London city commission of sew
ers, referring to the work of scavenging, street
cleaning and the removal OF refuse points out
that one day in May last 1885 900 people and
$4,000 vehicles entered the city. No fewer than
BOIL persons work In the city daily These
figures alone would explain the difficulty of
dealing with the refuse produced daily by so
vast traffic and such an enormous resident
day population. The whole OF the carriage.
ways are swept daily, and the main thorough.
fares in wet weather are frequently swept a
second time. In addition about $50 boys and
youths are constantly employed each dav as
street orderlies. The WORK of cleaning begins
at o'clock in the evening and is finished by
or O'Clock a m. on the following day MANY
OF the carriageways are washed daily with jet
and hose. The courts and alleys inhabited by
the poorer classes-whch, saws Col HAYWOOD
are fast disappearing from the city-are
cleanSed daily. The quantity OF water used in
these operations last year was $685., 2S2 gallons
No fewer than 71055 van loads of refuse were
removed during the year.
AN AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL gives the following
case, which is nearly as remarkable as the crow.
bar accident TO Phineas Gage: Robert Camp
bell young man connected with the postal de-
partment. was admitted to the Melbourne hos
pital with pistol ramrod through his brain
The story of the accident is that Campbell was
out shooting with q muzZleloadng pistol
While he was ramming home the charge the
weapon exploded, and the ramrod, which was
composed of fencing wire, with lead plug at
the end. made by the victim, was sent through
his cheek across the eye and came out at the
top Of his head. DIR. Harris stated that when
the man was admitted to the hospital IL
was found that the ramrod had
passed through his cheek on the left
side of the nose, into the infraorbttal
plate of the superior maxhla, right through the
eye, going in its course throagh the superior
orbltal plate Of the frontal bone the brain and
coming out at the top of the skull, about the
middle of the internal portion of the parietaI
bone. The wire portion of the ramrod was stick
ing out of the skull about inches. Dr. Charles
Ryan, assisted by DR.. Harris, trephined the
skull, having first cut off the wire. When the
bone was removed the leaden base came with
it, and the eye, which had been completely de
stroyed, was taken out. Antiseptc lotion was
then syringed through the eye socket along
the course the ramrod had taken and by this
means the wound was well washed. Campbell