The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-07
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A cHIMNEY-PIEcE carved from wood over
5000 years old has recently been erected in a
house in Edinburgh. The wood, an oak tree,
| was found In a sand pit at Musselburgh thir-
| teen feet below the surface. Prof Geikie of
| the geology chair OF the University of Edin-
burgh, after personally examining the strata in
| which the oak was found, said the tree which
| was feet inches in diameter, must be at least
5000 year old, and described it as a relic of neo-
| Ithlc man. 1t was in a fine state of pres
eryation, due To the sand, and was easily work
| able.
The Chicago Vegetarian Society held picnic
| last week at which the bill OF fare was curious
to outsiders. 1t consisted of corn tomatoes
cucmbers, cabbage, potatoes, watermelon and
various fruit pies with no shortening in the
crusts The ChicaRo society is composed of
| foreigners, most of whom are Russians They
have a code of morals of the Tolstoi order and
live the simple life which the count prescribes
| for his own community. Nicolas Vostradki
| one of the members, declares that ''the eat.
| ing Of animal flesh is but one degree removed
from cannibalism. and in many respects equally
| as revolving. Neat is the cause of more crime
than alcohol, which is a vegetable substance
| The eating of flesh makes men bloodthirstY and
cruel, and for that reason is an offense. II no
meat were eaten, the world would be much
fur ;her advanced in civilization, refinement and
culture than it is at present"
THE advocates of cremation will not find
much argument for their propaganda in the
shocking scene enacted at the incineration of
lDe remains OF the late Percy Rockwell, the
Tammany politician, at Freshpond, last Sun
day evening, says the Baltimore Sun. Mr..
Rockwell was large man aud weighed nearly
300 pounds: The attendants placed the body in
is level with the door of the crematory,
but when they attempted to push il
through the oven door the weight of the
body caused the cradle TO stick. and the ma
chine came in collision with some obstruction
just inside the oven door. The intense heat de-
stroyed the alum soaked shroud in which the
WAa nd bur
the body in full view Of the Mortified as
semblage. In their efforts to get the cradle
within the oven the superintendent and two of
his assistants we're badly burned about the face
and arms.
Col. TELLFAIR STOCKTON of Jacksonville
Fla, said to a New York reporter Monday that
a new political condition was presented in
Florida this year by the fact that since the last
presidential election 1t had become AN October
state" the election for state officers having
been separate from the congressional and pres
idential elections in order to preserve home
co cor OF state voting "This as done, said
passage Of the force bill by the Fifty-first
congress. | ave no doubt that Florida will
go democratic ct both the state and federal
elections, and look for majority as large as
| 1900. For tbs state election the gubernato-
! rial contest is between Judge II. L. Mitchell of
third party candidate We realize that
the election Ia not one which our opponents will
allow to go to US by default. but have no
umph, and at the state election the republicans
will not succeed in transferring their strength
20 the third party nominees"
/ ONE OF the wonderful discoveries of
modern times is reported from Quebec. Ferdi-
! nand Allard a noor bac ismith of that citv
! has discovered how to temper copper so as to
make 1t hacder and tougher than steel. lie has
exhibited a number Of copper axes and otner
edged tools which rival in edge and temp r the
/ best steel implements made. Recently he p e.
/ pared a sheet of his hardened copper, one
forty eighth Of an inch in thickness aud hal il
| tested at the government rife range At the
| first shot, fred from forty yards distance I Q
! bullet was shivered into fragments; on the sec.
ond the missile, striking the copper more
| fairly, was completely hattened, but
remained imbsdded In the plate, which it
merely dented lightly without cracking it in
| any way. This is claimed by experts to be
vastly superior to anything the best steel could
! DO under like circumstances. and the matter
| is to be brought under the immediate notioe of
| the British lords of admiralty. The leading
military authorities here express the conviction
| that ii on further trials of the English dock
| yards the discovery maintains the same supe-
! rlorty, most important results must follow aud
| existing systems be completely revolutionzed
TIE wild reckessness and extravaganza of
George ~ have bee ONE provcrbial in history.
says Parsons Weeklu During one Of his
| carouses shortly after his coronation he in a
! seml-intoxicated state. commanded that six of
the palace chambermaids be BROUGHT before
| him The order was obeyed. whereupon the
| king. turning 10 his associates, asked them to
make waRers upon the maids as to which one
would smoke the most cigars In half an hour
Upon hearing what was expected of them
| two or three of the maids endeavored to beat
hasty retreat from the royal presence but
were prevented from doing so by the attend
ants. A box of mild cigars was produced and
each chambermaid hidden to light and smoke
one. The ludicrous manner in which most of
them attempted to light the weeds caused the
most boisterous merriment among the courtiers
In which the monarch heartily joined. With the
exception of one maid, the rest tried to light
their cigars without first cutting off the end.
only one succeeded 10 struggling through a
whole cigar, but she had to be removed in a
tainting state. The others refused to smoke
more than half of theirs, to the great annoy nca
OF the king and his courtisrs.
THE Duke of Norfolk is about to make another
pilgrimage to Lourdes. for the purpose Of pray
ing for the restitution health of his unfort-
innate son and heir, the Earl of Arundel and
Surrey. The latter is not only blind deaf and
dumb, but is also mentally afflicted and al
though his father, who is the premier peer or
the realm has expended enormous sums among
the leading lights of the medical profession no
improvement has taken place in his sons condi-
ton. The young Earl of Arundel is not the onIv
member Of this grand iustrious famiIy
who is bereft of reason. A cousin Of the duke
the Cardinal Howard, who is rector in CHIEF |
and arch-priest OF st. Peters at Rome Is like
wise insane. Formerly noted as the most mag |
nifcent type of manhood in the Roman Cath |
Ole church, he Is now complete mental and |
physical wreck and none of his old messmates |
in the Horse Guards, in which he served as a |
captain before entering the priesthood would |
recognize their former comrade. He became |
insane about three years ago and after at
tempting to murder his chaplain was placed |
under restraint. Should he survive the present |
pope a curious question would arise as to |
whether his vote could be taken and counted as |
valid in the next conclave.