The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-30
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RAILROAD MEN In England agree with Charles
Francis Adams when he said that the safest
place in which to spend an hour or two is on an
express train on one of the main railways
Last year only i've passengers were killed on all
railways OF the United Kingdom, while on the
streets OF London alone Il. deaths and 6,764
injuries resulted from accidents.
LAST WEEK. during a severe thunder storm
at Payne. Ind, fences and trees were blown
down and a number of houses were unroofed.
The next morning while two Men were walking
along the railroad track they noticed several
large trees that had been blown down. While
examining the hole made In the ground by the
uprooting of one of them they claim to have
found box which contained nearly $4,000.
BEER SALOON on wheels is the latest story
from Portland, Me. A hack stands by the curb
as II waiting for a passenger. A man. who
knows the ropes, gets in, aud the hack starts on
trip around the block. The occupant lifts the
'front.' seat finds bottle and glass, takes a
drink, puts the money IN the box and closes the
trap When the vehicle gets back at the start
ing point the man gets out, and the hack waits
for another customer.
AN old oak tree that was dead at the top was
chopped down on the hillside back of Valley
Forge village. The trunk of the tree was split
up for wood. In one OF the pieces that had
been about six feet from the ground the wood
chopper found this legend: &c. W., Continental
army The inscription was two inches from
me SURF zee, underneath the bark, and it is
0eheVed was placed there with knife by
george Washington when he wntered at the
forge during the revolutionary war
\ The Khyengs of Burmah are. probably, the
only race CT tribs of people that have any ira
ditlon Of the origin of the human race that do
not have man CT male human being In some
way connected with tdat important event. The
hhyend genesis opens in this WISE I'm the
beginning Of the world, after the sun, moon
and stars had appeared, the EARTH by its own
Inherent power of productveness, brought forth
female creature which was called Hleeueu.
She laid 100 eggs and hatched them in cotton
wool, and from them sprang 100 human beings,
the progenitors of the different races" The
| least that can be said of this curious belief is
that it is fine illustration of the multiple
theory as applied TO the origin Of the human
race.
| CONTRARY to popular opinion" says a west
ern shoe dealer, 1.-THE female descendants OF the
| Puritans have smaller feet than those OF the
Cavaliers. We manufacture ladies' shoes almost
| exclusively. We sell most small shoes in the
northeast, most large ones In the southwest. in
Arkansas. New Mexico and Texas. The Caro-
| linas Alabama Mississippi, Kansas and Ne
braska also order a good many large sizes.
Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland. Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri buy medium sizes.
The retail trade OF ge cities requires more
| small sizes in proportion than does that OF the
smaller cities and villages Still there is a great
difference in cities. Boston is pre-eminently
order named come Hartford, st. Louis, Louis
vile, New Orleans, New York and Denver
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago Pittsburg
and Salt Lake City may be classed as big
footed
A FALMOUTH QSEB) DISPATCH to the Phla-
delphia Press says: Many strange things are re-
corded about the foods which have come down
the Missouri and Platte rivers this year, but
none Of them are stranger than the discovery
| that was made in place where there has
always heretofore been a sand bar About a
| mile below the mouth of the Platte, on the
shore Of the Missouri, was a most dangerous
piece of ground, 1t being Quicksand which had
| swallowed up more than one human being.
Four years ago two school children were lost
and the only remnant of them that could be
| found was the straw hat of one of them, which
| was laying on the bank near the quicksand In
washing away the banks during its annual
| change the Missouri cut deeply into the quick
| sand and in fact almost obdterated il. Where
there was most dangerous piece of ground is
| now lot of rocks, and ON these rocks were
found the remains OF the victims of the quick
| sand which have been swallowed up for many
| years. The rocks at the bottom OF the quick
sands were strewn thiokiy with animal and
human skeletons. The bones of the two children
were found and down in the mass of debris
| were discovered the skeletons Of five other peo-
pie, all full grown. while over fifty skeletons of
| animals we're counted. Among the sand was
also found considerable silver money which had
evidently come from the pockets of the victims.
|
building a citadel In the time Of Voivoid Nea-
| goe. found on returning to their work each
morning that tie portion of the wall which
| they had completed the day before had fallen
| to pieces during the night and was lying In a
| heap of ruins in the ditch. ManoI Curtea, the
| head mason. informed his comrades one morn
| ing that voice from heaven had warned him
| in his sleep the night before that their labors
| would continue to come 10 naught unless they
| all swore on thai very morning to i'm
/ mure in the structure the first woman, be II
| wife mother, daughter or sister, who should
arrive with the morning meal Of one or
the oath, and the last man had hardly been
| sworn when Manors own wife Appeared carry.
| ing her husbands breakfast The oaJh was
kept, and the woman; known in the legend as
| Flora OF the Fields was murdered, and her
| blood and flesh Incorporated With the wall of
| masonry. A curious practice of the Bulgarian
| masons the above scene is laid ia Bulgaria.,
| which survives to this day, testiies 10 the
| vitality OF the legend. To insure the solidity
| of the houses they build they measure with a
reed the shadow of the first person who passes
| after the digging OF the foundation has beeu
| completed. When the foundation is commenced
| this reed Is buried under the first rock usually
| the cornerstone.
THE director Of the mint has estimated, and
| the Secretary Of the Treasury has proclaimed
| the values Of foreign coins TO be followed in
estimating the values of all foreign merchan.
disc exported to the United States on and after
July /. 1919, NpTeS5eQ IN any OF such metallic
cunenc1es. The following changes have been
made in the values OF foreign coins since the
circular of April |. 1892 to July 1. 1892: Silver
| form of Austria Hungary, s0.s2; bolivisno Of
| BOLIVIA, $40; peso of Central American states.
Gag: Shanghai tael of China .946; Haik wan taei
Of China (customs). 81 067; peso of Colombia,
| $40; sucre Of Ecuador $40; rupee
of India, ,30s; silver yen of Japan
.699; silver dollar of Mexico, .704 sol
| OF Peru $40; silver ruble of Russia, 519:
| mahbub OF Tripoli, .bS5; bolivar OF Venezuela
| .13. In the circular the director of the mint
has estimated, and the Secretary of the Treasury
| has proclaimed, the value Of the gold form of
| A stria- Hungary at S0.482 Hereafter the value
| OF the gold form will be used instead of the
value OF the silver forin in estimating the value
| OF foreign merchandise imported from Austria
Hungary expressed in forms. The nominal
| standard OF Austria-Hungaryis silver, but the
actual money in which merchandise is pur-
chased is paper FORMS the depreciation of
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