The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-05
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from Bordeaux to Biarritz, France, and back,
distance of 3O3 miles. Eighty-one men left
the Hotel de la Gironde at O'Clock in the
morning, mounted on stills, to test their speed
and endurance. They were started on their
adventure by military band and accompanied
by party of bicyclSts whose duty it is to see
fair play, A quarter of an hour after the men
had started party of eighteen women and
young girls, mounted on stills also, left Bor-
deaux for Cerane to try to run there and back,
distance of fifty miles, in one day.
THE orohippus, the ancestor of the noble
horse of to day Is first known to have existed in
the eocene period of geological epochs, says the
st. Louis Republic Some of the species were
as small as the common silver fox Of to-day,
and all had sixteen hOofs, four on each foot,
just as the COW brutes OF the present age.
After long ages had elapsed the creature be-
came a three-toed representative of animal
creation; later on he had single split hoof. OF
eight toes altogether. The perfected equine of
the present may be said to walk on his middle
| toe nail, the twelve others which his ancestors
| the orohippus, had having been "evoluted" out
OF existence.
THE idea generally seems to be that spring
comes slowly up in Maine. but this is not so in
! Belfast unless the 4ge is misnformed. That
paper tells of Belfast gentleman who woke
| about 4:45 O'Clock Sunday morning and glanced
out the window at the clock on the Unitarian
church, as was his custom of morning, to see
what time it was. Having found out he turned
| he again glanced toward the ste pie and was
surprised to find that the budding leaves in the
trees between his house and the clock had burst
forth to such an extent that they shut out the
clock so that he was unable to barely see the
large face let alone the hands. He was telling
this circumstance to neighbor later in the day,
when the latter said he, too, noted the fact, as
he also took time from the same clock
IT is a curious fact, says the Denver Great
DiUide, that no one miner out of every 100 who
hnch nod
put the sticks OF giant powder into his bootlegs.
He knows just about how much giant powder
he Will need during his shift, and these he re-
celveS before he enters the shaft house to 90
! down. Then he carefully places it in the leg OF
| his boot and IN this manner conveys IL into the
| mine. The miners have stopped "crImping'
| the Illuminating caps with their teeth of late
| years. This is due, probably, to the suicide at
| Chicago of Lingg, one of the anarchists who was
| sentenced to be hanged with Spies and the rest
Lingg exploded one of the caps by biting 1t, and
| blew most of his head off. Now the majority
| OF the miners crimp the cap on the heel of their
| boot with knife.
A BORROWED BABY, and pauper baby, too
has just saved the life of one of the wealthiest
society ladies of New York. The circumstances
surrounding it tended to excite the greatest
curiosity. Early W ednesday morning a fine
| carriage was driven astily up before the Belle
/ vue hospital and lady, alighting bagyeI OF
| the matron the loan of a little baby for few
! days This request is not such a novel one at
| the institution as might be supposed, and Min
! ME Jones, young mother, was easily persuaded
| to surrender up her 2-weeks- old babe. The
| visitor gave her name as Miss Charlotte Pace,
| and her address as 81 Fifth avenue The infant
was without delay whired away to the fine
| mansion at that number, with the arstocratic
name lie Grand B. Cannon" on the doorplate
| II was learned that some lady within was very
Ill and had the delusion that she was the mother
| of child. Her continual cries for her baby had
really made her Ill. Miss Pace was profess
! sional nurse. II often get babies for my
| patients" said She II can get them for 81
apiece. They are cheaper than puppies"
THAT weird story that comes from Texas of
| the negro who hanged upon the scafrold until
justice was satisfied that he was legally dead.
and who afterward came to life and is now able
TO polish off q POISON in f1rst-class style. re-
minds the st. Louis Republic that there are
| several cases on record of criminals surviving
Judicial execution. More than six centri-
RES ago Juetta de Belsham hanged for
three days, was cut down and pardoned
the superstitious people believing that God
had decreed otherwise. Obediah Walker
former master of New College, Oxford
England, tells of a Swiss who was hanged thir-
teen times, every attempt being frustrated bv a
popularity of the windpipe which prevented
strangulaton. Ann Green, who was banged in
oxford in 1850, survived the ordeal; was par
doned by the crown and was soon after married
In 1909 one John Green was hanged in London
| and recOv cred on the dssecting table of Sur
Reon BllZard. A hitting close for this mote" Is
the story of Half Hanged Maggie She was
hanged in Edinburgh in 1910; came to life while
being taken to potter's field and lived for years
afterward.
ONE of the oddities of the Columbia river is
the Williams patent fishing Wheel" an auto
matte disciple Of Walton. which stands on the
Oregon side of the river about a mile below the
famous cascade. The whole device consists of
ietty of rocks built out from the shore with
an outside sluiceway in which the gigantic
Fishing wheel constantly revolves IL ia an
understood wheel and, having been built at a
time when the river was remarkably low, can be
raised or lowered according to the stage of
water. The persons who built this odd piscato-
rial device understood the habits and instinct of
I the salmon, the finny beauty for whose cant.
ure it was specially erected, it being we'll
known that in making their runs" thew
follow the above short line instead of taking To
| the center of the stream. A sluiceway to the
| slackwater caused by the city has been built
and the salmon in attempting to 20 through
| this are caught in the net buckets that are fas-
tened to the arms of the fishing wheel and safely
| deposited in a trough. This trough or gutter
| communicates with the roundup" pen on
| shore, where the catch" is canned and Skinned
| to all parts Of the world. Besides several hun
dred young fish unfit for canning, from 500 70
5000 adult salmon are caught every dav In WIN.
| Jams fishing novelty, and it is safe to saw that
there 10 not more curious machine In the
| world to-day.