The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-16
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kingdom may be observed a short distance east
of Ashburnham. Mass, says the Albany
Journal. The tree is ABOUT the size of a large
apple tree and has q limb about IS or 90 inches
in diameter. Persons have dug down and found
but one root underneath but it has tw kinds of
foliage, that of a pine and that of an ok, which
may be distinctly seen from distance. In the
fall of the year burrs fall on one side and acorps
on the other.
The British naval authorities are saving
money in a novel way in connection with big
gun practice. The Benbow has been practicing
a good deal with her no ton guns, aud, as this
gun throws projectile wei ching 1900 pounds,
the expense of each shot runs pretty high. So
tubes have been placed in the bores of the big
guns which fit a musket cartridge. and, while
the big guns are themselves handled and aimed,
al that is fired Is a musEet bullet Some ex-
cellent hits have been made in this practice.
A WRITER in a New York medical journal de-
clares that shoes and stockings are among the
worst enemies of health, and thinks that the
contact of the foot with old mother earth
would do more than anything else to restore
our degenerate race to its pristine vigor He
says that people who wear shoes are notorious
lY inferior to savages and the lower animals In
power Of recuperation from bodily injury, aud
asserts that the children OF the poor are health
Ter and harder than the children of the rich,
because they are so much oftener barefoot.
Physicians have often recommended bare
feet as a preventive OF Group. That the
children e1joy barefooted freedom admits of
no question. Then tahe off their shoes.
ANY whisky drinker can easily satisfy himself
as to the effect of ripe fruit in controlling the
appetite for spirituous liquors, says writer in
the st. Louis Globe Democrat. The man who
can take a drink OF whisky or beer after eating
two or three ripe peaches, apples or pearS-any
ripe fruit in fact that is a little juicy-has a
peculiar appetite, to say the least. 1t is no diff
cult thing to cure the liquor or morphine habit
whenever a man fully decid that he wants it
cured. especially if he is accustomed to a sufs-
cheney of nourishing food. An impoverished
diet is the cause of very much of the drinking
among the poorer classes. The deficient supply
of Indigenous food creates a demand in the
system for a stimulant. TO cure that class you
must feed taem.
SAID ole of Phadelphia's ex .sherifs the
other day t. Press reporter: most of the
rope that is used for the purposes of executions
is furnished gratis by cordage firm of this
city. The length is usually 80 feet, the thick
ness Ii inches, and manufactured from the best
imported Italian hemp, guaranteed to stand a
strain of 600 pounds. No charge is ever made
for these judicial nooses, and upward Of several
thousand have been already supplied through
out the various states of the union. The sheriff
OF Camden has just received three, and the
heaviest one day shipmen. fifteen. It is
considered an act # cua ity to furnish rope
that sill do is part o. tho work skilltully and
surely witnouJ any mISnap or mistake, and
hence no charge Is made"
The RUINS OF the famous palace of Saint
Cloud have just been sold at public auction.
There were only eleven bidders, and tie IN
perial residence, or what remains Of it, fails
into the possession of one Kassel, a contrac or
His bid was 8, 325 francs AT present Saint
Cloud is interesting ruin The roof is gone
and the walls are partly demolished In reality,
little remains Of 1t. Its magnificent reception
rooms and the private apartments OF Napoleon
Ill and Eugene ara now covered with a nc
collection of wild weeds and shrubs. the growth
of twenty two years, and all around are heaps
of stones blackened by the fire of 1871 Here
n1d "a fra M nppa al
work. the junk that constitutes the only present
value OF the once princely palaces.
THE GIRLS in the London board school, says
the LADIES' Pictorial, are now learning laundry
work in large numbers, and an improvements in
the get uD' of linen may be confidently hoped
for. In 1890 thirty girls comp eted a course Of
practical instruction IN laundry work; in 1891
the number had risen to 67S, and at present the
board has eighteen Laundry centers in daily
operation. The superintendent has high no.
ton of the scope and aims of her branch Of
school board lucation, as witness the following
extract from her report. She says; 1T is a
great mistake to suppose that the teaching of
laundry work merely trains the girls to WASH
ana iron-it does much more if 1t fulhls its true
| mission 1t is useful means of training the
hand and eye, for in the finer branches OF
laundry work, including goffering. lace ironing
etc, great skill and dexterity, as well as neat
ness and tidIness are necessary to insure good
results, Besides this, the children are shown by
careful explanation some simple truths in chem
istry, as the effects of alkalie and acids upon
water and upon cOOrs, etc, and how to ap Oly
the knowledge they gain at school to their daily
home life"
WOULDN'T you like to see a honeybee as large
or larger than the average man? There is just
such creature in the specimen room of the
University of Pennsylvania at PHILADELPHIA
says the st, Louis Republic. 1t is the largest
insect Of its class seen in this or any other
country. Its wings broad as those of an
eagle and its honey-bag of twenty pounds
| capacity. Its legs are also large and well
| formed, reminding one of the crooked support
ers of piano stool Of ye olden times. The
| proboScis, which Is attached TO a hea the big
ness of a candy bucket is over foot in length
and as big around as a broom handle. | know
that you are wondering wnere he ever found
clover-heads large enough 10 work on,
and who provided a half a mill
ion of similar sized specimens with
hive 10 which to store their tons of
honey, but there is no use exciting your
curiosity further-he never gathered honey,
never improved each shining hour in fact,
he never had hours to improved He is made of
| paper mache, and is so constructed that every
part of his body cad be disarticulated for study
This, giant of the honeybees. was the work Of
ingenius French artfcer, VINO spends his
time making gigantic worms gnats, bees. flies
| etc. for the benefit Of students who are study
ing entomology. "wormooRy" and kindred
sciences, TIE university mentioned has two
| other specimens of his work, huge snail and
leech, each as large in proportion as the bees.