The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-22
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| HUNTSVILLE tTex.) dispat CHI says: Lee
Ennis, young colored woman who witnessed
the hanging OF All White on Saturday, tainted
| when the drop fell and died late last night from
| the effects OF the shock.
CURIOUS marriage custom is recorded bv
| DR.. Post as existing in Southern India among
some of the more primitive non-Aryan tribes
This consists in wedding girl TO a plant, a
| Tree, an animal, or even TO an inanmate object,
/ Tue notion being that any illiluck which NAV
follow an acCual marriage will be averted by O
union OF this kind.
cow belonging 70 Levi Mogg OF Lydltoh
Dorset, England, was observed recently to be in
great agony, and eventually dashed its head
| against the walls of its shed. breaking its neck
On examination live snake, two feet long. and
| SIX young ones, also two water nevis, were
| found IN its throat 1t is supposed that the
animal swallowed the reptiles while drinking
| from tarn.
| LAST YEAR alone the British and Foreign
| Blind Association embossed $500 books in En-
| glish, French, German, Latin, Greek and other
| languages for the use of blind readers. About
| $50 seeing volunteers are, we are informed, en-
gaget in writing out the first copies of books in
Btaille for this association, and seventy paid
| blind writers are employed in making copies
Besides these the association continues to pub
| lish its two magazines for the blind Progress
started by the la Q Dir. Armitage in 1881 and
Ptdyttme a magazine in uncontracted Brallle
Tor children which made its first appearance
last summer.
up IN Northern Minnesota" says a physi-
clan in the st Louis Globe Democrat" elves a
man who entered the service in 1861. He was
very dull fellow almost fool During one of
the sorties made by the confe1erates at Donel-
son he received buckshOt in the head. The
surgeons could not find it and the wound healed
He returned to duty one of the brightest men
10 his company and in time became second
lieutenant At the close of the war he returned
home, married superior woman. proSpered in
business and was elected sheriff of his county
Three years ago his head began to give him a
great deal OF trouble. He came to St. Paul
and located the buckshot and removed it, He
is now as now as healthy as ever, but is the
same stupid dolt taat he was before the fight at
Fort Donelson."
a FAIRLY RELIABLE TINE INDICATOR, it is stated
by the New York Sun. can be found in the
| northern skies on every cloudless night. AS is
generally known, the group of fixed stars called
tue upper makes an apparent revolution
around the north star in every twenty four hours
| with the two stars forming the outer elevation
| OF the bowl of the dipper pointing nearly
directly to the polar star continuOusly;if there
| for5, the position of the pointers" is taken at
| any given hour, say O'Clock in the evening in
winter time, and as soon as il is darl In the
summer, the hours can thereafter be pretty
| accurately measured by the eye during the
| night Frequent observations of position will
| have TO be made at tbs given hour, as owing to
| the constant Changing of the earth's position in
space, the position Of the pointers in relation
| to ones point o. observation and the star also
| change. In this wa observations taken during
| year and impressed on the mind make a very
far time indicator Of that part of the celestial
! space
| THE London Opticion says, in discussing the
| width of columns of reading matter: 1t is not
| a mere question of large or small. Pages and
| columns of type are often too wide SO that the
| eye cannot take in the " ole of them in the
| range of one focus, bat has to strain itself to
pass rom tn 6,Snl!ng OF each line to tbs end.
| We ore advised that the only way to AVOID such
| a strain is to turn the hea from side to side,
| after the manner of short sighted people
| Further, 1t is said that the width of a col INN
| or page OF reading matter ought not to exceed
| at most over two inches, because this is about
the natural range of the eye when the head Is
| kept motionless. The tiny edition of Dante
produced at the French exhibition is said TO
| have blinded two or three of the persons en-
gagged in printing and correcting the sheets. bus
the shape of the type, as well as the size. is OF
| great Importance. The worst types of all are
| those which my be described as tall and thin
Round, fat-faced types are in ever respect to
| be preferred.
! In the mint, as we learn from the masters
report, inst published, says the London Netcs,
a new counting machine for telling" bronze
coin has been erected in the hr ,nze store n
| waI designed by Messrs Mlu lsay Sons &
| Field lLimited). This machine mas four distinct
sets OF counting apparatus, eacl of which can
! be worked independently of the Others and
| when all four are in full work upward OF 5000
| pence can be counted per minute. The coin to
be told is raised to the level Of two tables placed
| on platform by lift worked by an electric
motor wh ca also drives the counting machines.
| A pair of the machines is fed from each of the
| two tables, the coins passing from the table
| down an inclined iron plate forming fiat hop
per, from which they issue in single file through
channel of appropriate width They are then
| gripped by a pair of india rubber driving
wheels, which force the coins past the rim OF a
thin disk provided with recesses in its clrcum-
ference TO fit the circular edges of the coins AS
| the disk is thus made to revolve the coins are
pushed forward, falling into a bag placed O. re-
celve themI and continue to advance until the
counting wheel is automatically stopped an
the bag containing the coins is removed.
If Uncle Sans alien labor laws do not DON.
ffct sighseers at the worlds fair will be toted
around from place to place in the Japanes,
jinriksha, which corresponds in that country RI
| our GAO or hanson service. The Jap anese ye4
hicle Is a 2-wheel cart made of bamboo. and
very light and easy running. There ia room for
two people on the seas, but it is seldom used by
more than one, as the airy little jap who fur
nlshes the motive power has all the halkiness OF
| the American mule when overloaded A Janan-
=, ese company has applied TO the expcsitton for
permission to use 800 jinrikshas within the
| grounds during the fair 1t is proposed to bavs
of the grounds, like cab s psrts
! in American cities, and to establish a
moderate price for service, either by the
| hour, day, or to giAen destination. The plan
| is looked on with much favor, as, besides being
a novelty, the little carriages, with their almost
| tireles! and tieet-footed perambulators would
| De the least likely to interiere with the crowds
| OF any mode Of rapid transit around the
| grounds 80 far proposed Two iinrikshas were
| put in service here in one Of the public marks
laSt summer, and became very popular The
order OF United Hackmen raised the claim
| however, that the Japanese runners came nm
! der the ban of the alien labor law and ratbar
| than contest the matter in the courts the owner
| took them back TO Japan. The concessinn TO-
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