The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-02
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ana clipping seven times.
In printed card OF regulations for public
information issued by the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company in the early nfties the last
regulation read: This company viii not be
responsible for any loss OccasiOned by fire,
the acts Of God, or Of Indians or any other
public enemies OF the government.
Cardinal Gibbons will hold the services OF
his silver jubilee on Oct Il. This date was
decided on 10 order not to interfere with the
regular Sunday services of the Baltimore
churches. I he exercises will be held IN the
cathedral In that city, and il is expected that
Archbishop Corrigan will preach the sermon.
A party Of Esquimaux has been brought to
San Francisco from Port Clarence station, on
Boring sea, by Minor W. Bruce, until re-
Gently superintendent of the United States
Reindeer station at Port Clarence They will
set up and furnish an Arctic village in San
Francisco, ana will then come east to Chicago
and other cities returning to the Pacific coast
IN time to become an attraction at the mid
winter fair in san Francisco.
Mr.. Joshua Oldaeld. in the Vegetarian ex-
plains why people go to sleep so often in
church. No blame must henceforth be at
tached to the gentleman in the pulpit for it is
not tedious sermon or drOning voice which
is responsible for the inclination to slum Der.
The cause crops out in our old friend hyp-
notlsm, and the soothing effect is obtained by
the iteration OF sounds long familiar to the
ear 1t is the iteration that makes us sleepy
not the sermon-as has been hitherto com.
monty supposed.
Prof. Lombroso, in the Nouvelle Revue, dis
cusses somewhat learnedly the origin of kiss
ing which he declares was till comparative
ly quite lately, an entirely maternal action
ana not in any way peculiar to lovers
Homer, he points out, never mentions a kiss
except when speaking OF the embrace of a
father and son; Hector, in his scene with An
dromache, does not kiss her, but squeezes her
hand; neither do we find a kiss mentioned
apropos Of Venus and Mars, Ulysses and
Calypso, or Ulysses and Gree. In the old In
dian literature no mention is made Of any
thing but the maternal embrace but in the
modern Hindu poems twelve kinds OF kisses
are registered.
In Monterey, as we'll as Santa Clara county,
there grows a weed called the rattlesnake
weed, says California exchange. 1t is SO
named from the story that when rattlesnakes
get to fighting and bite each other this weed
If eaten by them, will prevent death. 1t
grows about six inches tall, has a red stalk
and slender leaves. On the top OF the stalk
comes a head OF flowers, and the seeds OF
these flowers are said to be very annoying to
one in passing through mass Of them, as
they are furnished with sharp barbs common
ly called stickers. The early settlers who mad
herds of sheep always made their heroSmen
keep with them bottle of strong tea maze OF
rattlesnake weed, and when any OF the sheep
d,
which always saved them.
when was last In Maine, four years ago"
said a tourist to the New York Sun, the
lawns and gardens OF village homes and the
fields were all fenced Now throughout the
villages the fences have been taken away
from about the house premises, leaving each
street block bordered by one continuous
lawn. With the spacious and agreeable effect
thus produced, the throwing of all the front
yards into u common green space has led
every house owner to vie with his netghDor
in Identifying the plat before his home. Be
You'd the villages, along the country roads,
farmers no longer maintain fences, except
those about pastures. Many fences have
been removed, and others are allowed to
stand, only to be taken away as material is
needed for various purposes. The roadside
fields now extend to the edge OF the turnpike,
gaining for the farmer cultivable land tertu-
lied by the dust and wash from the road
All this Improvement has been enected
through the enactment and enforcement OF
statutes making it misdemeanor for any one
to permit his cattle to run at large"
The Times of India recently announced the
death OF one of the living idols of Siam. The
oldest one of the white elephants, which was
born in ITO died in its temple at Bangkok in
November last. Everyone knows that this
famous white elephant, before whom whole
people bow the knee, is the emblem of the
Kingdom Of Siam. 1t is honOred with the
most beautiful presents, for the Indians, fun
Of the idea of metamorphosis, still believe
that so majestic an animal could only be AM
mated by the spirit Of heaven or OF an en-
peror. Each white elephant posse Sses its pal
ace, a vessel of gold, and harness respondent
with jewels Several mandarins are attached
to its service, and feed it with cakes and
sugar cane The King of siam is the
only person before whom it bows the 6nee,
and similar salutation Is rendered it by the
monarch The deceased idol has been accord
ed magnificent funeral. A hundred Budd-
hist priests officiated at tho ceremony The
three surviving white elephants preceded by
trumpetS, and followed by an immense con
course of people, accompanied the funeral car
to the bank Of the Menam whore the king and
his noble lord received the mortal remains,
which were transported to the opposite bank
for burial. procession OF 80 vessels figured
at that curious ceremony. All the floating
houses, ranged in double file ON the Menam to
the number of over 10000, were adorned with
flags OF all colors and symbolic attributes.
In the machine shop at Cramps shipyard,
says the Philadelphia Record, there have
just been completed three immense engines
or wheels with which the mighty currents of
Niagara are TO he bridled and forced to do the
work Of steam. They are the turbine wheels
built for the Cataract Construction Company,
and each OF them is OF 5000 horse power, the
largest turbine wheels ever manufactured
Great interest has been attached to these
wheels, as they are expected to completely
control the mighty force of the waters, and
visiting engineers have spent hours eXamin-
ing lUJO lublE CONSTRUCTION. Iu6 machines
are extremely simple, consisting of an i'm
menSe pipe, into which the waters pour turn
ing the wheels, and with them an upright hol-
low shaft, which operates dynamo at the
top They will he placed in immense pits
$50 feet below the surface of the ground
level. Into this pit the water is to be
conducted so that it will fall with full
force into the feed pipe, an immense iron,
curved tube, feet 4 inches in diameter at the
top and 10 feet inches at the bottom. The
two turbine wheels are feet inches in di-
ameter. They are to be placed back Of the
feed pipe and 10 feet 4 inches from each
ether. Ihe rushing water is to be divided at
the bottom of ths feed pipe into two streams,
work will escape through exhaust tubes back
into the river. Tho wheels are to turn the
great vertical tube which Is composed of s
sections each Is feet incher long. or III feet
in all. AT the top this tube opeI ates a dyna-
mo which generates electricity, to be used in
various ways. There will be in all 10 of the
machines, but at pres ent provisions are only
made for placing the three now completed in
operation.
Since the adoption Of a bartender by Buff
falo electric railroad company, fifteen lives, it
is estimated, have cen saved, says the New
York Post The fender or life-guard resem-
bles large wire door mat with the outer
corners rounded of, the edges bound with
piping, and sticking out from the front end Of
the car about two inches from the ground. 1t
is made of lh-inch gas pipe, bent in circular
form, cushioned with Pinch rubber hose and
tnterlaceu with tarred rope. 1t has two spiral
springs at the back that act as cushion in
conjunction with the hose on the front. The
guard Is fastened to the car with two large