The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-06
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A CURIOUS LAW has been issued by the Turkish
government prohibiting the importation into
that country of any quack medicines, chloro-
form, etc. Consequently there has been per
feet raid on all the available drug shops, and
their remaining supplies carried of at fabulous
prices.
The largest pyramid in Egypt is only 140
yards, that is about 80 times the average hight
of man; whereas, the nests of the termites are
1000 times the blight of the insects which con-
Struct. Their habitations are thus 10 times
higher than the largest specimen of archi-
lecture raised by human hands
A SPECULATIVE Scotch gentlemsn wanted to
dispose of some bees. So as to attract pur.
chasers he printed the following placard: "Ex-
tenslve sale of live stock, comprising no less
than 10000 head, with an unlimited right of
pasturage." The ingenious trick succeeded to
admiration, his stock brought high prices
TIE natives of Gibraltar, and also the Moors
across the strait. have tradition that some
where on the rock there exists a cavern whence
subterranean passage leads under the strait
to the mountains on the other side. The exist
ence OF the passage, they say, is known to the
monkeys, who regularly use 1t IN passing from
one continent to the other.
Four YEARS AGO Miss Lena Woodward, living
on Thorn creek, Washington. sowed the seed
from one head of barley. She harvested the
crop with a pair of shearers and sowed the
amount received the next year, again harvest
ing 1t with pair of shearers The third crop
her father cut with q grass scythe, gel ting
enough barley from the crop TO sow forty acres
last spring, which averaged forty bushels to the
acre when threshed. making a total yield of
1900 bushels from one head of barley in four
years
IL the strange little country OF Holland the
three principal cities are Amsterdam, Rotter.
dam and The Hague. These cities are a pc
culiar medley of canals and streets trees and
masts, bridges and boats. Amid their appar
ent disorder there is more or less of symmetry
Amster lam is semi circle, Rotterdam an
equilaterali triangle and The Hague a square
The difference between the three cities socially
has been aptly put: AT Rotterdam fortunes
are made, at Amsterdam they are consolidated
at Hhe Hague they are spent"
A REMARKABLE INSTANCE of going around
Robin Hoods barn to get the better of a rival
was witnessed in Maine recently. The lime used
in the construction of the Foxcroft opera house
was purchased somewhere in, Canada and
brought into the state over the Canadian Pacific
railway When the freight reached Greenville
Junction 1t was only thirty five miles from its
destination via the Bangor and Piscataquis rail
road, but instead of being forwarded over that
line it was carried to MatUawamkeag, thence
over the Maine Central to Bangor, thence west
to Newport and north TO Foxcroft, via Dexter
distance of lJl mites in all. That swing around
the circle was made for the sole purpose of de-
prving the bangor and Piscataquis railroad of
a few dollars in freight money. Similar per
| Iormances are gone through every day by the
Vudluc C6QLfal ana Ca0dQldn Rdclflc, which have
a freight arrangement designed to squeeze the
Bangor and PiscataQuiS.
IN new play now being produced at one of
| the New York theaters, electricity has been in
| troduced into number of the scenes in a way
| TO give effects Of the most pleasing and real
| istic nature. In the second act, during the pro
| gress of a desperate fight, bomb is thrown
| upon the stage and exploded. A papier mache
| bomb, made up of separate pieces aud stuck to-
| gether, contains just enough powder to scatter
| the pieces and produce flash. In the powder
/ isa fuse, and wires lead from this to portable
| key and thence to the main line. In one of the
| wings Is q small cannon which is exploded by a
similar fuse in a circuit that is controlled by the
same key AT the proper moment man throws
| the bomb out over the stage and presses the
button with his foot. The bomb is apparently
| blown to atoms, and the spectators, hearing the
| terrific explosion OF The cannon at the same In
| slant. imagine that the innocent shell is the
| cause of it all. In the last act the most i'm.
pressive sunrise occurs, the tinging OF the sky,
| a faint red until the horizon is all aslov being
/ secured by proper manipuations Of electric
1 lights and gelatine colored slides AS the sun
/ rises above the mountain, the orb Of day being
an arc lamp, the red light is toned down bY,
/ withdrawing the colored slides and white lights
switched in until, then the sun is full up only
The brilliant white light is visible. These excel
lent results have only been produced after long
study and practices, and the slightest mishap or
misunderstanding OF signals is sufficient to mar
| the whole. =
| An extraordinary feat OF house moving is re-
ported to have been successfully accomplished
| at Allegheny City, Pa. The building Is a long
| frame structure consisting of four separats
| dwellings. originally three stories in hight.
| l00x46 feet, and containing eighty-four rooms
| In the process OF removal the lower story was
cut away, and the number of rooms remaining
| in the two stories is fortyeight. The building
| was erected three years ago at a cost of S3l 900
| and was sold to railroad company for S3s 900
| the latter disposing of the structure together
| with four other dwellings a short distance
| away, for $3.50 For the purpose of towing the
| large building across the river to Pittsbur9 six
| barges were secured, each 90x16 feet These
| were placed side by side extending about ninety
/ five feet into the river. Then, by the use of
powerful hydraulic jacks and large rollers
the building was moved TO the river bank and
| after being blocked up to distance of twenty
| two feet above water. was rolled upon a massive
| trestle WORK resting on the barges, which had
| been securely chained together. Towboats were
| then secured, which successfully brought the
| structure TO the Pittsburg shore. One parricu-
/ lar feature about the removal that needed every
precaution to warrant its success was the
| necessity, after blocking the building I'D TO a
certain hight and showing it on the boats that
/ it be raised to level high enough to permit
1 landing on level with the PiLtsburg shore
1 The building is to be transferred from where it
4 now stands on the barge, q distance of about
| one-tenth of a mile. The removal of the four
| other houses mentioned to the same location
will be conducted in a like manner.