The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-30
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AN ENGLISH experimenter, E. t. Chaplin, has
giVen an account Of hypnotizing a laying hen.
| and inducing her in that manner TO sit ON a sat
ting OF eggs until seven OF them had Matched
out.
SEVERAL japanese editors have been SEN
| fenced TO four years imprisonment with hard
labor, for speaking disrespectfully of the EN-.
Peror Jlmmu, who, II he ever existed, lived
about 900 years ago.
SUBMARINE ERUPTION was recently witnessed
In the Mediterranean by Capt. Sibery of the
Clan Macgregor. The occurrence took place
between Malta and Port Said, resulting in vio-
lent rolls anu boiling appearance of the sea-
SHARK recently washed ashore at indian,
British Columbia, had two distinct tails, three
perfect eyes, and what appeared to be the rudi-
ment OF a fin or fipper hanging to the under
| fair. --0
THE LONDON police are giving up their old
| Dull s-eye lanterns, which, up to the present
nave been their only means of flashing the light
OF intelligence upon the DARK spots where
crimlnaIlty testers. They are now supplied
Win little electric lamps
OUR English ancestors in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries, had four meals day;
breakfast at Z, dinner at TO- tea at 4 and sum-
| per at or 8, soon after which thew went to
| bed The tradespeople and laboring men had
| only three meals; breakfast at g. dinner at -
| and supper at 6.
! The chapter of St. Peters cathedral has sub
mitted to his holiness the pope the designs for
The golden throne which the chapter, in co-ope-
| ration with all the other Roman Catholic cathe-
| drals of the world, will present to his holiness
| The throne is designed IN Gothic form and will
| cost 100000 francs.
| A PROMINENT woman doctor of BIRMINGHAM
England, goes her rounds on a tricycle.. In a
neat and pleasing dress, equally suited for the
| N nF Ga al Hl..r lii H.
the crowded streets an object Of interest to all
| In the suburbs If Boston women 90 calling
shopping and marketing on their safeties,
IT Is remarkable fact that the specific
gravity of hardened steel is less than that of the
unhardened. another singular point being that
steel, OF course expands with heat and when IL
ls allowed to cool slowly regains its original
size, but II it be cooled suddenIy-the only
way In which it can be hardened, although it
contracts very mucn-it does not quite reach
the small size OF the unhardened state.
| CHICAGO author-at least he has a CHICAGO
publisher-proposng to be fin de steele or bust
| throws In the following ia his recent novel.
| lie looks at me with eyes like those of dead
| Cod-hsb, eyes as unlike the dear blue-soul win.
| doWs that had won my heart as am difYerent
| TO the verdaut, trusting girl who, a few weeks
ago. came from Buntown to the metropolis +"
| TWO natural objects seem to have furnished
| the model for the spoon to primitive man thu
river or sea shell and the leaf Of plants In
southern China shell spoons are still used that
are closely reproduced in the familiar porceIair
spoon Of that country, while metal Spoons are
| found in India on which are reproduced even
| toe veins OF the leaves from which they were
copied.
THE Japanese ivy has been charged with
| many serious things, such as lnjuring the stone
and brckwork of buildings upon which I.
grows, and ahording a safe harbor for mice
| And now comes another. The offending plant
covered the walls of a stable and forced an en-
| trance by the window. There one Of the horses
IN ms eagerness for green food, nlbbled freely
OF the leaves within his reach Immediately fell
III and died soon after from their poisonous eff
rect, on an examination indicated. All of
| which says the New York Tribune, is doubtless
libel on this lovely creeper.
HAIRPNs are made by automatic and verv
complicated machines, says Public Optnfo,
The coied wire is put upon drums and becomes
Strengthened as it feeds itself into the nacbina
IL passes along until it reaches two cutters
which point the ends at the same time thai
they cut it to the length required This niece
OF wire then slips alone an iron plate until
| 1t reaches slot, through which it is pressed
| into the regular shape. The hairpins are then
put into pan and japanned, after which thew
are heated in an oven with a temuAPakrra ~
from 800 to 400 degrees. There are bus four
American factories. The largest are in Birm
lngham and Waterbury, Conn.,, the Others in
| Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Five hundred
thousand dollars worth Of hsirpins are annu-
ally Imported from England, France and Ger
many.
81 HAVE observed. says an old minister In
the Glasgow Herald, that marriage esna-
cially among the working classes il greatly
| affected by the state of trade. When trade Il
good marriages increase, and are less frenuent
| IN times OF commercial depression. This fact
indicates That the romance of life among a class
who are generally regarded as reckless in the
matter or marriage, is, after ALL restrained nv
the dictates of common prudence During the
Lancashire cotton famine, early in the Cos,
had church in Dundee. The failure of COTTON
occasioned an abnormal boom in the iute trade
and Dundee whs the principal emporium for the
import and manufacture of the hex BILE fhra II
was then that that town laid the foundation of
It's wealth and greatness. In those prosperous
times marriages were frequent and In the
course OF few years. united in the sacred
bonds of matrimony greater number of vonnp
couples IMAM In any similar period during nv
ministerial career"
w. K. VANDERBILT has, it is said on good
authority, decided to- build two steam yachts To
take the place of his former magniflcent steanna
the Alva. Mr. Vanderbilt's experience with
| the Alva has borne fruit IN his desire to buiid
two yachts this time instead of one The Alva
was FOUND tco large for running about the coast
or simply for means of conveyance between
New York and Newport. Now he will have a
| big yacht for deep-sea cruising and a snaIl
| one for coasting The small yacht will
Vanderbilt and his. friends between here and
Newport, and will be of great speed The bj1
yacht is to be built in all respects as If she were
a man -ofwar She will be something In the
nature of gunboat like the Petrol or a dis
I patch boat like the Dolphin Several naval
| architects are thought to have prepared plans
for these boats for Mr.. Vanderbilt although
what plans, il any. he has decided on has NOT
yet been made public. Among the designers is
said to be st. Glare Byrne of ENGLAND Mir
Byrne has designed many well-kuown large
steam yachts, but has had no experience in de-
signing naval vessels 1t was ST. Glare Bvrne
who drew the plans for the Alva