The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-18
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trades in New York city I27 900 support their
husbands
THE talest chimney in the world is In Fort
Dundas, Scotland. 1t is Asa feet to its cope
from the ground
The color of the sharks egg Is blac K, Of
leathery texture. thin. rough and in form SINH
lar to a handbarrow.
The latest "true story" is that bolt of
lightning drew all the nails from mans
shoes in Connecticut town without hurting
him.
LETTER addressed ''Charles Smith, K. PAN"
didn't bother the Boston postmaster a little
bit. He sent it right on to it s destination, Cape
Ann.
A TREE near Jackson. Miss. died about a
month after crowd had used it for lynching
purposes. and the people are gravely theorizing
the why and wherefore.
a WILL recently probated 10 the surrogate's
court at Albany contains this clause: ITO my
son Simeon l give the sum of so cents for the
trouble he has taken to ill-treat me-"
TIE old spinning wheel is said to be coming
in again as a faddish fashionable occupation
1t is to be fitted up with sundry modern i'm
provements, so that the fair spinner may toll
not overmuch even while she spins.
A GOLD Vermont doubloon is worth $500 and
a Vermont silver half-dollar will fetch 800.
The Massachusetts cent of 1898 ia valued at 80.
Washington silver pieces of 1872, bearing the
bust and name Of G. WashinRt on, will fetch
$50 each.
AN immense bald eagle, properly stuffed and
spread, will be suspended over tine main stair
way Of the Delaware building at the Chicago
show The bird was shot not long since about
two miles from the eastern terminus OF the
Chesapeake and Delaware canal, in New Castle
county, and is one Of the largest eagles ever
killed in the state.
SOME silk worms lay from 1000 to 20O0 eggs,
the wasp 5000, the ant from 5000 to 5000, says
the Chicago Herald. The numbef Of eggs laid
by the queen bee has long been in dispute.
Burmelster says from 5000 to 5000, but Spence
and Kirby both go him several better, each de-
claring that the queen of average fertility will
lay no less than 10000, and probably as high as
$4,000 in one season. Termes fatals tthe white
anti is possessed Of the most extraordinary egg
laying propensitles of any known creature; she
often produces SO, 400 eggs in q single day.
From the time when the white ant begins to lay
until the egR-layinR season is oveP-uSually
reckoned by entomologists as an exact lunar
montb-she produces 2, SOC, 900 eggs. In point
Of fecundity the white ant exceeds all other
creatures.
ONE Of the most singular features Of the older
churches in England aud Western Europe, says
a writer in the st. Louis Globe Dem Ocrdt, is the
presence in the walls Of large numbers OF jars
| They are imbedded in the masonry with the
neck turned toward the interior of TIL church
and the mouth opening into the audience room
For = long time the openings were supposed 10
be holes in the wall, but closer examinat ton a
number or years ago, on one or two of these
old buildings disclosed the fact that the open
tngs were the necks OF the jugs, and led to no
little speculation as to why they had been
placed there. All old churches-that ia to say
churches erected from the eleventh to the
seventeenth centurles-have them, and in some
they are present in great numbers. church
in Leeds, England, has over fifty, while this
number is considerably exceeded In some of the
old French churches, nearly 200 having been
counted in the Cathedral of Angoulenne In
France. The explanation of their presence Is
easy. They are placed in the walls with view
to lettering the acoustic properties of tho build
ing. The i1ea is as old as Vitruvius, who, in q
work on the Roman theater. advises that
esrthenware jars be placed In the walls for tho
purpose Of increasing the resonance OF the
building. In several Roman structures such
jugs have been found. used in the way after.
ward adopted by the architects OF The middle
ages. AS to- the efficiency OF the device, its en-
ploymene Is open TO question. For Increasing
are probably useless, but no one can certainly
say that they are &C until the experiment has
been tried OF constructing two rooms. with
Jugs In the walls OF one and the walls OF the
other solid: A test made under these coudi-
tions would determine the question which other
wise must remain unsettled,
JosEPHs PoLYCHRoMATIc coat that woke envy
in the hearts of his brethren had no such rich
commingling OF rainbow colors as the wonder
full silk quilt which Mrs. Abby A Hickman is
hoping to finish in time for the worlds fair
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. This quilt
which is destiled to become historical, is to
have one square for each of the forty -four
states aud seven territories OF the union one to
represent the different countries of the entire
world, and one to be known as the woman suf-
fragst block. Il conceived the idea of the
quilt" Mrs Hickman sail yesterday, lin 1884
while living in Terre Haute. Ind. l have been
working at 1t odd times ever since. Just before
beginning it two of my daughters died and
sought this means of diverting my mind from
my overwhelming sense of desolaton ami
bereavement. The hardest task has been
to collect the scraps for the different SQUARES
from the different states and countries All
this has been done by correspondence and [
have letters from many noted persons All
thar l now lack TO complete the quilt is one
square to represa New Mexico and another
for Indian Territory" The square represent
ing tn different countries of the world at large
contains silk scraps from Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands, Wales Sweden, India, Germany, Eng
land, Scotland Ireland, Mexico China japan
France, Canada and other distant lands; also a
bit OF bridal gown worn in Nova Scotia in 1775:
q scrap of Ella Wheeler WilcoX's wedding dress
pieces Of gowns worn in England during the
War of the Roses, and various interesting
relics OF revolutionary times Some Of the
scraps are 200 years old. All the squares are
handsomely embroidered With silk and Mrs.
Hickman intends TO add still further to the
beauty of her great work of art by painting
landscapes and floral and historic designs on
some of the squares