The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-25
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1HE sultan narem COSTS Sl5,UUOOO yearly
About 100 women leave every year TO marry,
and each has S37, 800 dowry. Yet the number
never falls below 300. Every official struggles
to get his daughter in, for each mas ten ser
wants, a carriage and four, aud the possibility
OF gaining influence over the sultan.
CoLoRED SHOES for men are to be very fashion
able this coming spring and summer, and shoe
manufacturers and dealers are making extern
sive preparations based on this anticipation
Red and russell are the colors most manufact-
ured just now, but something else, new and
startling, may be sprung unexpectedly,
MINERAL, SPRINGS, o., comes to the front
with a monstrosty. The head OF the child, il
such it can be called, resembles 6 rhinoceros
and Is Of soft cartilage and almost transparent
By close observation the blood can be traced
The least touch will cause the child to open its
mouth and make noise like an enraged animal
triangular mark Of blue color extends entirely
across its forehead. The case is vouched for by
Dr. Connor, N. W. Cross and E. w. Johnson Of
Mineral Springs The freak consumes about
three quarts of milk daily. The child belongs
to a family named Die, residing near Blue Creek,
in this county. Its left eye is black, while the
right eye is deep blue. Its hair from its nose
back to the right side is light and fine while the
opposite is coarse and black The left hand
and foot resemble the claws Of an animal 1t
makes short barks like dog.
No BIRD can fly backward without turning;
the dragon fly. however. can do this, and can
RAJ instances on record of the fall of live insects
serpents and animals from the couds-in short.
instances when it has literally ''rained" such
creatures. AT Lyons, France, in 1906, lit
rained, for goodly spell, toads the bigness of
mans hand aud the stencil fro II them some
days later, was intolerabe." At Limerick Ire
land. in 1927, Wyatt records "a shower of
| small live toads." Ducks fly at an average
rate of 80 miles per hour. With a fair wind it
Is believed That they can make 100 mics in the
same time. The temperature OF the planet
Neptune ia estimated to be 900o below zero. 1t
has been estimated that it would take a man
3,OOOyears to read all the standard works Theos-
ophlstS favor cremation for two reasons II ia
the common Hindoo method OF disposiDg OF the
dead, and it is a convenient and expeditions
way of letting loose the astral body. Some of
the native women of Australia have queer idea
OF beauty. They cut themselves with shells,
keep the wounds open for O long time and
when they heal huge scGrs are the result
These scars are deemed highly ornamental
BEFORE WATTS, the discoverer OF the present
mode Of making shot, had his notable dream.
induced by overlndugence in stimulants tha
manufacture IN question was a SLOW labori ouS
and consequently costly process says the Bos-
| ton Commonwealth. Great bars of lead had To
be pounded into sheets of thickness nearly
| equal TO the diameter of tho shots desired
These sheets had then to be cut into little cubes
| placed in a revolving barrel and there rollad
around until, by the constant friction the edges
! wore off from the little cubes and they became
! spheroids. Watts had often rAked his brain
! trying to discover some better and less costly
! scheme. but in vain. Finally, after spending
an evening with some boon companions at All
| ale house, De went home, went to bed and soon
| fell TO sleep. His slumbers however, were
disturbed by unwelcome dreams in one
! of which he was out with ''the bows -
| and as they were stumbling home it began to
| rain shot - beautiful Rlobules of nOlished
shining lead-in such numbers that he and his
! companions had to seek shelter. In the morn.
| ing Watts remembered bis curious dream and
| 1t obtruded itself on his mind ali day. He began
| to wonder what shape molten lead would as,
= sumo in falling through the air, and finally "a
| set his mind at rest, he assembled to the ton OF
the steeple Of the Church of st. Mary at He'd
cliffe, and dropped slowly and regularly a lad e.
ful Of molten lead into the moat below. De-
| scending, he took from the bottom of the shall
low pool several handfuls of the most perfect
shot he had ever seen. Watts fortune was
made, for from this exploit emanated the idea OF
| the shot tower, which ever since has been the
only means employed in the manufacture of the
little missiles 30 important in war and sport.
The following letter, dated Savannah, Ga.
Feb. 6, and addressed to the editor of the New
| York Journal of Commerce, is Of interest: "A
| friend has a violin, described as follows; ON
tbs back is representation of town, done by
| inlRyinR different kinds of wood. On the sides
extending from tail piecs to neck carved in
| large letters, is the following: viva Fvi wi
| Sylvis, Dec vi Mort va Dulce.' On the inside ia:
| 'Gaspard Dufopru Gard, in BoBonnsis Ammo
! 1875 Please give me a translation of the
| carved inscription. and tell me something about
| the instrument" The editor replies as follows:
| GaspardlD uihoprugcar was an inlayer or mosaic
worker who made lutes and viols (but pobably
/ not violins) in various parts of Europe iaclId
| ing Bologne, Paris, Lyons and the Tyrol from
| 1910 to 1870. The inscription which he com
monty placed upon his work consisted OF these
two Latin lines:
viva fui in sylvis, sum dura occIsa securi.
Dunn Wiki tacui, mortua dulce cano"
| Freely translated, the inscription means: az
was alive in the woods, but have been slain by
! the relentless ak; while alive, was silent, hut
| in death sweetly sing" There are in existencs
| many vIolins bearing the name and inscr,ntion
| OF Duiffoprugcar, but oil of them, we believe.
; which have been submitted to experts have
been declared to be fictitious During the early
| part of this century, for example, j, B. Vuii-
/ laume, a very skillful French violin maker
made large number of violins carved and in
| laid after the manner of Duiffoprugcar and
sold them as the work of that artist. Other imi-
tations have been made by various woodwork.
| ers. The instrument described by our CORE
| spondent is apparently one Of theee limitations
| The inscription has no meaning whatever but
| is part of that used by Duiffoprugcar, The
| Boboninsis OF the inscription is probably in
| tended for Boloniensis. Tue date 1915, is about
| 100 years too late. The fact that the name is
! not spelled in the usual way is OF slight i'm
! portance. because it was not at all uncommon
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for a
man to spell his own name in various ways but
the other Inconsistencies are enough TO prove
that the violin is not the work OF the real Du-
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