The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-05
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Mrs. Robinson who keers q cigar stand in
the business part 81 Chicago. has a memory
That would do credit 10 the best detective in
me country wear ago a fellow bought
ltH cigars from her and rendered $50 RIA in
payment She made his change when be
I cieFerly palmed $40 bin. and claimed that
she had given him that much too little. She
gave him the 80 but when she made up her
cash she found that she was lust that $40
snort A few days ago the same man came TO
ncr stand, and calling for cigar laid down
$40 bill She knew him at a glance, and,
promptly sweeping the hin into Der cash
drawer, told him that they were even. He
demanded an explanation, and she reminded
MN OF the transaction Of a year ago. He
protested that IL was a case OF mistaken
identity and threatened to call the police. but
she was firm, and he went away and did not
come back.
The Raub locomotive is attracting attention
In the railroad world, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. The distinguishing feature is that the
plstOnS are placed vertically instead of hOri-
zontallN. They are three in number. instead
OF Two and are located between two boilers
Mnlcn are wholly independent of each other.
Inc piston rods are attached to a crank shaft,
oach attachment making an angle of sixty
9egTees with he other two so as TO avoid the
Iedu center. The driving rods are attached
TO Inc crank shaft and are lifted up and
pushed down instead of being driven by force
exerted horizontally as in ordinary lOcOmo-
yves The inventor claims extraordinary
power, and the two boilers give him steam
capacity to reach 100 miles an hour with
gOod-slzed train without any trouble. The
CAP is between the two boilers and the ends of
the locomotive are right and left duplicates of
each other. so the locomotive looks equally
well and works equally well running in either
direction. The preliminary tests are said to
nave resulted very satisfactorily.
The San Francisco Examiner says that
Kentuckian, who is a patient in a hospital in
that state, is as blue as new stoveplpe from
the top OF his head to the bottom of his feet.
his finger nails are blue, the white of his
eyes are blue, his lips are blue, and so is his
tongue, and altogether he is the bluest man
In America. The doctors say that the discol-
grafton is caused by nitrate of silver poison
ing. Asbridge for years has been subject to
epllept1c hts, and took great quantities of nj
trate of silver in order to ward them off This
was gradually deposited in the skin and on ex-
posure 70 light turned blacklist sort OF blue,
Just the way II does on photogra pher' plate.
His face and hands are darker than the por-
tions of his body protected by clothing. His
eyeballS look like hard boiled eggs that have
been soaked in a solution of indigo after the
shells were removed. According to the med
ical men it will take a good many years for
his ceorulean epidermis to bleach out. and il
may never be restored to the original tint
While large pine log was being worked up
at the Brown & Hall saw-mill, Acton Ontario
a wonderful discovery was made, says the St
Louis Republic. After the outside slab"
had been cut off, large toad was seen to
poke his head out of a hole, in which he was
Embedded, and where he had barely escaped
being cut In two by the saw. How the Great
ure ever got there is q mystery, as he was
perfectly incased in the wood with no posi-
Die means OF ingresS or egress. AS the log
was the fourth or fifth up from the butt of the
tree his position must have been at least fifty
or sixty feet up from the ground. There is
but one way Of accounting for the fact that he
was found in the situation mentioned. He
had grown up with the tree from infancy. and
was probably hundreds of years old when the
saw awakened him from his Iona nap. Nat
uralists Of Acton say that he is of an unknown
species of the reptilfa, and that the cavity in
which he was found was perfectly sound and
as smooth as though chiseled out by carpen-
ter: He was surrounded on all sides with
solid wood from AZ inches to 21& feet thick.
A Boston. paper notes that of all the ships
assembled at the late naval parade the
Americans were the only ones on which houor
was not regularly served to the sailors On
the British, Russian and German ships a "a
ton of some distilled liquor is served out to
each man daily. On the French and Italian
vessels, it is said cask of light wine stands
where every man can help himself whenever
he wants IT. The foreign officers believe that
liquor helps the men withstand cold and
fatigue. The Americans do not think so and
their position seems to be maintained by re-
cent experiments on whaling vessels in the
Arctic ocean. A writer, who has just returned
from long whaling voyage, says: lone Of
the curses of life at sea has been the use of
grog. Formerly liquor was thought TO be
necessary for men in the Arctic but expe-
rience has proved II to be harmful instead of
beneficial, and only in cases of great distress
is ii now used. Strong coffee has taken its
place, and on every whaler, during times of
great exposure or unusual fatigue strong hot
coffee is always at hand. grog never
Abundant evidence is daily forthcoming
that prisons are not by any means to be re-
lied on for the safekeeplng of those whose
liberty has been temporarily restricted by the
pronouncement of the law Given a certain
amount of patience ingenuity, alertness and
nerve, and the chances of a criminal of event
ual escape from enforced confinement be-
comes In many cases quite appreciable.
Should, however, the latest Improvement in
prison construction be adopted this posi-
bility would be reduced to minimum 1t is
proposed to build cells of iron or steel inter
communicating pipes, in which water would
he maintained under pressure. The theory of
the inventor is that an attempt to break out
of dungeon thus constructed would result in
damage TO the tell-tale tubes the smallest
puncture in which would cause a leak. of
which quick notice would be transmitted to
the warders by the reduction of pressure, and
the consequent sounding Of an alarm The
idea is ingenious, and whether or not it should
prove to ne practicable, 1t may form the nu-
cleus of feasible plan of increasing the
safety Of prisons.