The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-06
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marry in twenty-three states and territories.
They are as follows: Connecticut, nlinoie,
| Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Name, Massachusetts,,
| Michigan, minnesota, Montana, New Hamp
| shire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island.
South Dakota. Vermont. Washington, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming.
A NEW idea in shipbuilding has been developed
| at Belfast, Ireland, says the Boston Journal
There is an Immense vessel on the stocks there
which has no keel for about 10 feet from the
stern post, while six feet OF the sternpost is cut
| away the hull Of the vessel sloping from the
horizontal for the 100 feet, until level with the
| curtailed sterDpost. The bottom of the stern
post and the actual stern Of the vessel are not
connected in any way. The vessel is a twin
| screw and the propellers will work through a
small aperture with nothing between them and
| the water beueath. They will therefore AlwayF
| be in unbroken water.
| A LOCAL PAPER tells how Albert Smith Of Mil
ford. Pa, allowed old apple tree to stand be-
tween him and fortune. A party of oil pros
| pectors, having become convinced that there
was oil on his farm, decided to bore q well in
his orchard Smith objected strenuously be-
| cause it would destroy an apple tree for which
he had a particular fondness After vainly en-
| deavoring to have Smith change bis mind the
| prospectors removed their apparatus few feet
| beyond his tree Cd the edge of another mans
| land, and in few days oil was flowing at the
| rate Of 100 barrels an hour. Farmer Smith
| saved his apple tree and his neighbor got S35,-
UOO IN royalties.
| A STRANGE romance was ended by the death
near Stonersville, Pa, recently, Of Mary Refs,
who for fifty years led lonely life because her
parents forbade an early marriage, says the
! Philadelphia Record. She was as years old.
| When girl she fell in love with young man
| whom her parents did not admire. and they for
| bade marriage This broke Mary's heart and
| her home had no more charms for her. She
preferred to live by herself. and she refused to
| accept the hospitality of friends or neghbors,
| saying that all the world was against her.
| Twenty-three years ago she moved into the
| little stone house, and after that she rarely saw
| anybody. On Monday friend called and Of
fered to help her in any way, but the aged lady
| refused aid Her body was discovered on her
! kitchen floor and $50 was found in the little
| house of the reCluse.
! THE various accomplishments OF BARRIERS IN
the older days illustrated by an advertise
ment recently published in the German Fedd-
nooueS' Gazette, which appeared the sign
| board of q barber of Nuremberg in 1910. 1t read
| as follows "Isak Maperl, barber. wigmaker,
| surgeon, cOpyist, school master. blacksmith,
| physician. SLAVES for a kreuzer e cents)
cuts the hair for 2 kreuzer, using butter and
| pomade for pretty young ladies; lights the
| lanterns by the year or quarter; teaches young
| noblemen to speak their mother tongue gram
| matically and with ease; teaches them good
manners and how to spell. master in style,
| makes and repairs shoes and boots teaches 20
| play on the flute and other Instruments; teaches
| in the houses cotillions and other dances; sells
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sailed behring's honey cakes, mouse traps,
candy, Notwithstanding condiments, pota-
| toes, sausage aud other vegetables. N. Bile
teaches also chirography, and explains the nat
| ure OF foreign wares every Saturday and
| Wednesday. Isak Maperl."
! IN AUSTRALIA, where population is sparse and
distances are great, some remarkable feats of
| endurance in horse riding are credited TO the
| mounted police-feRts more remarkable in some
instances, taking into account all the circum-
stances, according to the London NeWs, than
those accomplished by the winners In the mill
tary ride between Vienna and Berlin. Trooper
| Power, In February, 1880, undertook an arduous
journey across most inhospitable country In
pursuit Of q horse stealer named John Smith.
This Jealous officer travelled 766 miles in twenty
six days without changing horses For one
stage of so miles he was wholly without
without water and the country was in such
bad state for $50 miles thar his two horses
had nothing to eat. His powers of endur-
ance may be judged from the statement that
he did thirty miles day on wornout horses,
along long, dry stages and with bad water
no water at all to drink. Trooper Wiltshire on
another occasion rode eighty-five miles in twenty
hours on one horse. This was on May %, 1887,
two days after the natives had had stuck up"
Eriduna station. This same man travelled 200
miles in four days when he heard that a com
rade named Shirley had died Of thirst He did
not have macadamized roads and plenty of
fresh water, like the German officers, but had
broiling sun to endure, sand hills to climb,
mulRa" scrub TO penetrate, and was some
times compelled to take dead animals out of
native wells before he could use the water.
A METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON which,
though triding in itself, is important because 1t
may afford a clew TO hidden agencies that are
Intimately related to storm formation is the
slight daily undulation in barometric pressure
which is usually masked by the general weather
changes taking place, says the New York
Tribune. 1t has usually been supposed that
the diurnal temperature fiuotuation had some
thing to do with 1t; although Buchan, in digest
inar ha Ehall nhgar bras
ago, showed that it was not the result of the
alternate heating and cooling of the earth's
surface, but possibly the thermal changes in
the air itself which produced this effect on the
barometer readings. Further light on the
problem is now shed by Prof Frank N. Cole, of
Ann 4 AFo IT, ~ pamphlet just issued
bureau, THE Diurnal Variation Of
| Barometic PRESSURE" Therein the phenome-
non is shown to be more complex than has
been imagined hitherto, consisting of two or
three, possibly more, distinct oscillations, one
of VIII oh appears only on land and attans its
greatest extent in the center Of continents
while another is universal and OF semdaily oc-
currence, Still another element shows three
waves day, Diagrams and elaborate tables
are presented to substantiate this analysis
This separation Of the uuduation into indie
pendent Incidents while increasing the number
of problems to be worked oct, will probably
facilitate the solution Of them.
On the banks of the Tigrls and the Euphrates
the lioorice plant is chiefly grown These great
rivers, says the New York World flow through
fiat, treeless prairies Of uncutivated and nearly
uninhabited land. For three months of the year
hot winds blow, and the temperature reaches
| lO4o. For six months of the year the climate is
moderate and salubrlous, and for three months
bleak and wintry, the thermometer going down
to 30o at night. The licorice plant is a small
shrub with light foliage. growing to about three
feet nigh where its roots can reach the water.
II grows without any cultivation. No lands
are leased for the purpose and no objection is
made to its being cultivated II grows
on red earth soil and also on light
almost sandy soil, where the wood is
best, provided 1t has plenty OF water and the
ground is not more than fifty yards from the
actual river or stream The wood. after once
being dug up, grows better afterward. The
time for collecting is generally during the win
ter but II is possible all the year round. The
root when dug, is full of water. d must be
allowed to dry, a process which takes the best
part Of year. II is then sawed or cut into
small pieces from SIX inches to foot long. he
good and sound pieces arc kept and the rotten
ones are used for frewood. 1t is then taken in
native river boats to Bussorah, whence it is
| shipped In pressed bales to London, and again
| from there to America, where it is used largely
in the manufacture of tobacco. The black lie
orice STICKS sol1 in drug stores come mostly
from Spain and are made OF pure juice mixed
| with a little starch, which prevents Il from
| melting in hot weather. The word "hcorlce" is
Of Greek origin and means sweet root"