The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-04
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not appear % be quite the moral common
wealth Neal Dow assumes TO make ia. A
Lewiston paper complains Of The gambling
and fake schemes prevalent az the country
fairs. and says that the authorities az some
Maine fairs sell licenses 20 exploit skin
games ana thieving tricks which would not be-
allowed moments daylight on the Bowery.
Paynter Frame. a farmer Of Sussex county.
Delaware has shipped TO President Cleve-
land watermelon weighing y pounds
and measuring as inches one way round
ana 81 inches the other. II is IN Mr. Frames
region that watermelons are vanished and
kept to grace the Christmas dinner table. Ii
IS there, too. that the pulp of the watermelon
Is boiled and preserved in sugar as winter
delicacy.
Prof. Jordan OF the Minneapolis public
schools, with the aid of a number of physi-
clans. has made a discovery that ought TO
have heen made long ago. The professor
states that physicians who have investigated
the causes OF sickness in the lower grades OF
public schools say that nine-tenthS of it comes
from stomach troubles. and that il is the di-
rect result of having children in school from
1:3O O'Clock in the morning until 80 o'clock
IN the afternoon without giving them chance
TO get anything toeat. The confinement also
tells upon the scholars AS a result of these
Investigations the superintendent will abolish
the one session plan in these two grades and
VIII inst lite the old two sessions.
Some time since the State Board of Horti-
culture of California imported some Austral-
ian lady bugs U2hizdribs ventralis) with the
design of pitting them against the black scale
bug, which has,been creating great havoc in
the orchards in the southern part of the state
for some years. The board announced last
week that the lady bug has proved perfect
success in its work of DISCRIMINATING the
black scale bug and colonies will be sent out
to orchardists, who will turn them loose on
the common enemy. The board is also Guilt
waiting colony of the red scale parasite (Or
Gus chabybeus) for the same purpose, and ex-
poets good results
The sixtieth anniversary OF the invention
If the word may be used-of matches will be
celebrated this year, according to German
papers German student f. Kammerer,
while serving six months sentence for
political crime at Fort Hohen-ASperg, they
say. made the discovery. AT that time in
Is, g. there we're no patent laws in Germany
and Kammerer was forced TO begin the
manufacture of matches without governmental
protection. The secrets of his discovery
soon became known, and competition grew
so sharp that the former student lost his for
tune. He became discouraged lost his mind
and was sent to the asylum OF Ludwigsburg
in Wuertenburg. There he died in 1887
About two dozen young women of Balt-
more own and control a house in the Blue
Ridge mountains which. with slight state aid
they conduct as summer home for working
girls. The building is known as Vacation
Lodge, and it can accommodate forty guests
at time Each guest pays $3.50 per week
board, and the railroad company sells round
trip tickets from Baltimore for small sum.
The young women who have provided this
place of rest for the weary do not dismiss the
recipients OF their aid at the railroad station,
but by turns they reside with and look after
the guests. The lodge is comfortably fur
nished and contains many of the luxurles of
life All that is required of applicants for
admission is that they prove their good char
acter and that they are supporting them
selves.
A woman, lately returned from Brazil, tells
Of the curious nomenclature of the streets Of
Para. They are Biblical or commemorative
Of some event in the Brazilian history. 1t
seemed to her quite irreverent to be told that
a desirable locality was at the corner of ST.
John the Baptist and St. John the Evangel-
ist streets" She went with her uncle who
was on business, to dine at the house OF
q wealthy merchant. Everything was very
gorgeous and lavish, in South American style,
but, on leaving she was amazed to have her
hOSpitable host say to her: If you have any
washing send it here" It is a custom there.
it seems for wealthy households to take in
laundry work as an employment for their
large rctinues of servants. 1T did however"
said the relator, give me turn at the end of
formal dinner party to be asked for my
soiled linen"
THAT curious quality of consideration for
the rights Of others evinced by the travelling
Englishmen saw exempted the other day."
Sdlu bllG bOuTlSb JuSN DUCK lfOIu his overland
trip. "One of the passengers in the Pullman |
sleeper Of the train eastward found from
California was an EnglIshman, who naturally |
was absurd in appearance and behavior, but |
seemed inofenSive. We came up the Rio |
Grande valley in the night and at Albu-
querque the passengers in the Stepping car |
were called that they might prepare for |
breakfast at the next eating station When |
the ladies in the car wished to make their |
toilet it was found that their lavatory was |
locked from within: Through the transom |
the porter discovered the Englishman stand |
ing above the basin taking most lesurely |
bath. For an hour and half. until long after |
the train had arrived at and left the eating |
station, he occupied the lavatory, to the ex-
clusion of dozen ladies'. Upon leaving the |
train at Las Vegas he gave the porter ten |
cents"
Near the little village OF San Jose, Peru, |
on the bleak and barren shores of Lake riti- |
caca-the most elevated body of water of any
considerable size in the world-lre three |
large pillars of st one. II they were not Of |
unequal height they would resemble gate |
posts or piers upol which, at some time in |
the far past great arches had been erected. |
To the different tribes of PeruVianS they are |
known by words which signify standing
stones and tall stone gods" Upon the
north side of each Of these huge powders the
rude features of human face have been |
deeply carved, the other three sides of each
being chisel cd with designs OF various shapes
kinds and sizes. These carved symbols are
all supposed to have some reference to sun /
worship, which the ancient PeruVians are
known to have practiced Although the ancient
inhabitants of that country were highly CIVIL |
lied and probably had MANY mechanical ap-
phances, 1t is believed that they were un-
equal to the task of placing these gigantic
monol1thS in their present position. The, evil
dence rather points to their having originally
been wandering or erratic bowlders de-
posted by some melting glacier.
That monster wine vat, the famous "tun OF
Heidelberg which we have been taught from
childhood to consider the most gigantic re-
ceptacle for liquid ever made OF wood and
bound with iron hoops, has at last been ex-
celed In shape OF gigantic cask built for the
Blatner Brewing Company of Munich The |
Ola Heidelberg tun was built during the three |
years ending with 1891. 1t was com posed Of |
oak beams each inches square and n feet
long, and had diameter Of even 18 feet. The
hgures for the exact weight are wanting but
the item which tells us that the iron OF the |
hoops alone weighed II 900 pounds is quite |
suggestive of the great weight of the entire
vat. Nearly 200 years after the first tim
was built, a second, OF much greater
proportions, was constructed. Heidelberg
tun No. was 80 feet long and "A feet in al |
ameter and had capacity Of 500 hogsbeads
In 1876 Stretton & Co. the London brewers
constructed beer vat at their works in
Nuremberg which was ninety-six 800 feet
IN diameter and thirty-four go feet deem.
The day this stupendOus affair was finished
the brewing company gave dinner to 796
customers, all of whom were comfortabiv
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