The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31
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MACS, says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. 1t is a good game, too, although safe
and somewhat slow. but awfClly fashionable.
don you know There Is very little differ
ence between shiny and golf. In the
former player gets an occasional whack on
peculiar bone just midway between the
knee and ankle. and knows thereafter that
he has been enjoying himself. In golf much
the same kind Of a snub-ended stick and
ball are used, but there is supposed TO be
more science in the links. Golf is really a
second cousin to shiny II will he popu-
lar game at Newport this season and has also
obtained at various fashionable watering
places ana summer resorts, but when the
novelty wears of golf will probably be rele-
gated to the fleeing lads.
1t is said that the miraculous picture In the
window Of the little Catholic church at Can
ton, MINI, refuses TO be banished, in spite of
the fact that the bishop in the effort to get
rid OF 1t has taken out every window in the
church and covered the openings with rough
boards. A number of people claim that they
can clearly see the picture on the surface of
the boards just as plainly as 10 formerly APP
peared on the glass, and others assert that
they see the vision now on the altar Of the
church. Another pilgrimage has set in to-
wards the church of persons anxious to be
healed of various infirmitieS. 1t is said that
the priest OF the church was formerly we'll
known in the east as a magnetic and spirit
ual healer and that the picture scheme is Of
his devising. 1t is asserted that during the
past year ne mas taken IN no less imam Gl0NOO
in addition to his regular income, from the
dupes who have hoped to find some miracu-
lous blessing, while positively not q single
one Of the more than 10000 people who have
thronged to the church has received the
smallest permanent benefit.
Nothing is more universally accepted than
the fact that the peach is an improved variety
Of The almond, says Mechen's Monthly. The
almond has a thin she'll around the stone,
which splits open and exposes the stone when
mature. This outer skin has simply become
heshy IN the peach, so that II is all that gives
IL its specific character 1t seems now clear
from investigation in the history of ancient
Babylon that in their gardens, now nearly
4 600 years ago, the peach was cultivated then
as it Is now. 1t must have Teen many years
before this that the peach was improved from
the almond, and this fact goes to show the
great antiquity of the fruit. Possibly gar
dentng in some respects, at least so far as ii
relates TO many of our cultivated fruits, was
as far advanced six, or perhaps eight or ten
thousand years back as 1t is to-day. Phoenl-
clans, many thousand years ago, as is proved
in the records, haze in their gardens almonds,
apricots, bananas, citronS, figs, grapes. olives,
peaches, pomegranates and even sugar cane,
was in extensive cultivation. Certainly this
shows how very far advanced these nations
were in garden culture these many years ago.
The old time superstitious belief that hui
man beings should sleep with their heads to-
ward the north is now believed to be based
upon a scientific principle. Some French sa-
wants have made experiments upon the body
OF a criminal who had suffered death, and
these tests 90 to prove that each human body
Is in itself an electric battery, one eleCtrOde
being represented by the head and the other
by the feet. The body of the subject upon
which the queer experiments mentioned
above were made was taken Immediately af-
ter death and placed upon pivotal board,
free to move in any direction. After some
little vaccilatlon the head portion turned to-
ward the north and then remained stationary.
One of the eXperimenters took hold of the
pivot board and turned it so 1that the head
pointed south, but upon being freed it almost
Immediately resumed the first named posi-
tion-turned until the head pointed north. To
prove that this was neither accident norcoin-
cident upon muscular twitching, some had
suggested the board was repeatedly turned
half around and then freed, but always with
similar results.
The voices OF singers need an occasional
'oling, and some peculiar remedies have
been in vogue among singers, which it is in
teresting to know, says the St. Louis Post
Disptch. When Gallmayer. the famous SOU
brette, visited this country, she confessed to
the writer that she treated her throat before
each performance to good rubbing with
rum and glycerine. This statement led to
further Investigations IN this line. with the
following result Labatt. the great Swedish
tenor, ate two salt pickles before going on to
sing. Watchtel used the yolk of an egg with
sugar. Other vocal stars drank beer, cham
payne, soda water or punch. Walter, the
tenor, drinks cold coffee without cream. and
Gelstinger relies on glass of grog. Zelia
Trebell, the famous contralto who died not
long ago, always drank lemonade before she
went on the stage. Kindermann cheWed
dried prunes during the intermissions. and
SOntheim swore by a pinch of snuff before
each aria Some singers who are passionate
smokers, refrain from smoking on the days
on which they are to sing, while number Of
cantatriceS believe that their voices are
vastly improved by the smoking of a cga-
rette just before the curtain rises.
The Sultan of Turkey is grieving over the
sudden death of twelve of the most beautiful
women in the imperial palace at Constantine
pie, says the New York Tribune. A few
weeks ago the l67 wives of his majesty were
obliged to submit to vaccination. Peculiar
ceremonies were observed at the time. The
physician asked to inject the virus in the
arms of the lovely women was young Ger
man who enjoys considerable practi in
Constantinople. As amatter of course he was
not allowed to look upon the faces of the
imperial women. 70 prevent all possibility
of an accident so terrible a temporary
wooden wall was built in one of the rooms Of
the palale. About two feet from the floor
hole was bored to four inches in diameter.
The women took their places on one side OF
the wall and the doctor on the other. One
after the other the arms of the princeSses
were passed through the aperture to receive
the virus. Several large officers stood guard
over the physician. AS soon as he had VacCi-
mated an arm, the officers fastened to place
large cloth over his eyes, while another officer
placed her arm in the aperture In this way
the physician saw the arms of l67 women
supposed to be the most beautiful in Turkey,
but the face of none. Unfortunately for him
however, twelve of the women have died
since the vaccination. An autopsy proved
that death was due in each case to blood pOis-
oning. Great excitement prevails at court in
consequence of the deaths. The career of the
young physician, il is feared win no longer
be a glorious one. The sultan naturally
knows that the doctor was innocent, but his
days Of favor at court are doubtless past
Mica fills the interstices of modern prog
ress says the Chicago Inter Ocean A few
decades ago we were seeking practical use
and market for the output Of mica mines al
ready found; now we are seeking new mines
to supply the multifarious uses to which mica
can be applied. Thus the law of necessity
changes in its relation TO all things Mica is
now as essential to the various uses of cleo
tricity as this great force is necessary to hu-
man progress In all appliances for electri-
cal lighting and power the most important re-
ctpToCal agent entering into their mechanism
is mica. All armatureS are built up with it's
insulation, whether for dynamOs, motors
generators or transformers. Without its use
as an insulation the core of The armature
would burn out with fash But by placing
sheets of mica between the thin sheets Of
iron, which are secured to the shaft that
runs through the drum of the aTmature in
sulation becomes perfect. Thus armatures
OF enven the largest generators can be run
for twenty-four continuous hours without