The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-17
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and then slip away at the first opportunity,
taking everything movable with her
1t Is alleged of q gauger not long ago dis
missed from the revenue service, that he
lost his place because Of tin brea plate.
| This chest protector followed in shape the
contour of mis- form, fitted beneath the vest.
! II was hollow and held about huid gallon.
| Its frequent filling at the expense OF whole
sale liquor dealers led to his downfal.-Chi-
| cago Herald.
Chamois skin is one OF the many things sell
dom met with save by proxy. Nearly all Of
the chamois skin in this market is made of
sheep skin or goat skin from England and
| France. A dealer in these substitutes de-
clares that single importing house could use
| in one year all the true chamois skin that
Switzerland produces in ten years. The
genuine article fetches nearly three times the
! price OF the substitutes.
The gold bugs which were so popular as or
naments few years ago were most Of them
manufactured. There is genuine gold bug,
| or beetle. cOlored a pure bronze, but it is
! found only in the tropics, and is not plentiful
| even there. The gold bug of commerce is
| simply the common Juno bug dipped in shell
| lac or some other gum and rolled In very fine
| gold dust, After the dust has dried in the
| shellac, the bug, except in weight would pass
for piece Of genuine gold 1ewelry.
There is certain way that experienced
stockmen know of throwing a horse down so
as to break his neck and kill him at once. An
| ordinary halter is put on the horse the lead
! strap from it passed between the horses
| front legs, a turn being taken around the far
one near the fetlock. The executioner then
hits the horse sharp cut with whip, and
When he Jumps up pulls sharply and strongly
on the halter strap The horse strikes head
first with the entire weight on his neck. The
fall is invariably fatal.
Residents of the town of Scituate, Mass,
show with pride the very well in which hung
the old oaken bucket that inspired Samuel
! Woodworths famous poem. Some Of them
| even contend that the self-Same iron-bound,
moSs-covered bucket still hangs there, in
| spite OF the lapse of nearly hundred years.
The name Scituate is said to be a corruption
OF the Indian Saint" or cold brook" from
little stream hardly mile long, which the
! first settlers of Scituate found refreshing as
had the savages before them.
Thesupreme judicial court of Massachusetts,
is to decide whether a creditor who invades
debtors bedroom and wakes him up early in
the morning in order to present his bill is
| guilty of an assault. The aggravating party
In the dispute is milkman, and the aggrieved
! person is his customer, who says that he for
| babe the milkman to invade his privacy, and
| was awakened by being shaken by the Shout
| der when suffering from a severe headache.
| the lower court entered judgment for the
milkman, but the plaintiff appealed to the
| IuIl bench OF the supreme court,
Zone Of the most remarkable cases in my
experience said a well-known piano man
the other day to a Minneapolis Journal re-
porter, in speaking of wave sympathy and its
| effect in sometimes causing discords in the
! harmonious sounds of piano through wave
| vibration with articles of furniture loose
| doors, chandeliers and stoves in the room
! with the piano occurred a short time ago
! when was called upon to tune the piano of a
| prominent lady and well-known musician
In this city. After running the scale found
! the dtscordant key, and Immediately pro-
| ceeded to act upon the wave theory in irving
| to ind the loose articles of furniture from
which the unsympathetic tone was produced.
had the lady In the meantime sounding
| this particular key, but after searching and
| listening all around the room was unable to
| locate the cause of the discordant note. Fin
all Y, getting upon a chair, I sounded the
ceiling. In one place the sound appeared to
| lie more distinct than in any other spot. On
sounding the wall found that the paper had
t 1een otlelcneu over stoEeplpe mole ana That
there were some small pieces of loose plaster
| lying on the paper ] removed these pieces
and Immediately the discordant note became
perfectly harmonious"
| We can write by electricity, can send pict-
ures and designs by the same agency and talk
| to our friends at a distance by means of the
| electric wire. When the British association
| visited Newcastle Eng, says the Chronicle
| OF that city, Prof. Perry told his auditors
| That seeing by electricity was possibility of
me future, and he had shortly before drawn
| picture OF scientific achievements which
would enable friends divided by slarge CONT
| nents and oceans. not only TO talk with each
| other, but to look upon their features Even
| before that Prof. Bell was known to have been
at work in his laboratory endeavoring to solve
the problem, and though ten wears have
elapsed since the possibility of applying the
| well-known principles of light In the same
| way as the-principles of sound have been ap-
| piled as in the telephone was first suggested
the professor is still as hopeful of success as
| ever. There is no theoretical reason why light
| may not be conducted in the same way as
sound, but Prof. Bell tells US that 1t viii be
very much more difficult to construct an ap-
paratus Tor the purpose, owing to the i'm
| lnenSely greater rapidtty with which the vi
Dratlons OF light take place when COMPARED
with the vibrations of sound. The difficuty
however, Is merely one Of hnding a diaphragm
| Sunlclently sensitive to receive these vi bra
tons and produce the corresponding cleo
trlcal vibrations, and it is encouraging to
nave II on the authority of such man as
Prof Bell that at least dozen men eminent
IN science in various parts OF the world are
at present engaged in endeavoring to find the
soIutlon OF this problem. Prof. Bell himself
who has never ceased to grapple with the
dlmculty, candtdly admits that up to the
present his labors have been in vain, but he
Is tull OF hopefulness as to the successful is
sue of his own research, as well as that of the
up. ''0-
While W. Seward Marshall and William
| Patton. OF the firm of Marshall, Patton & Co.
coal dealers, Of Rochester, N. Y, according
to the Democrat OF that city, were rowing in
evening
| aoouts o'clock, and Just as they had reached
| a point at about one half a mile from the
| Snore opposite the Patton cottage and east Of
! windsor Beach, they were much startled at
| nearing noise as Of something rushing
thlough the air down on them. They saw OBJ
! lects OF some sort strike the water on either
| side OF them. They had fallen so close to the
sldes OF the boat and with such an imDetns
that the occupants were thoroughly wet from
! lhe SCATTERING They concluded since the
| boat was at such distance from the shore
| ana no other boat was near from which the
| strange objects might have been thrown nj
| them, That they must have fallen from the slyv
ana were of meteoric origin. The
| OBJECTS hoated along side and
one OF the men suggested that the other
Rlek them out and that they preserve
| them Tor future investigation. Naturaliv as
| they thought they had come from the slfv
| they concluded that they must have a biSb
| temperature. So the other was not very fast
! IN grasplng for them However after thew
mao waited long enough. as they Thought ~
| allow the objects TO be cooled thev fisbeS
| them out They were still warm. At least
| mat Is the story the two gentlemen Nv,
| neither OF whom a practical Joke is nbborra9
| TOLD friend of theirs when they got ashore
! and exhibited the meteorites Their friaDd
| who Is somewhat Of a scientist. doubted tho
meteorlc origin of the porus fragments. since
meJeorltes, as rule, do not float He ven
| tured the explanation that thew were voIcaDio |
Scorine and might have come from, me -