The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-22
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I line and are consequently only New Workers.
by adoption This statement is made upon
the authority ~ an eminent physician on Mad
I isou avenue. who had an occasion 20 iuVesti-
( gate she subject. The class If physicians re-
Z f"rTod 10 are those whose Incomes are from
+ S-0up year upward. They are men who
hove attained rank in the general practice Of
/ medicine. Many of them have distinguished
themselves by important discoveries in medi-
cal science and surgery.
IT has often been remarked that English
men who have not visited these shores have
| the vaguest notions Of the habits and GUS
toms Of this country, says the New Ydrk
! sun. As an illustration Of the fact that Amer
! leans also entertain somewhat peculiar tde,N ~
| Of England. mention may he made Of an incir
dent which occurred Mt reception in New
! York at which an Englishman WIS present.
/ The conversation had drifted to things Eng
! lish, when q lady observed to the English Wis
| itOr, You have no great hotels in London
| like those which we have here. have your
| In reply, the Englishman fastened to explain
! that If there was thing on which the Eng
| NSh pFlded themselves ii was the grandeur
| and number OF those very same buildings
! and in support Of his allegation he produced
| some tlne photographs Of one of the largest
| hotels IN the British capital. The lady exam
| med these with interest and noticing that
| electricity was employedsOr lighting, she eX-
| claimed: Dear me! Do you know | always
| thought that they were lit by tallow can
! dleS;'
In Galicia. the province northeast of HIM
| gary says the Houston Post, the peasants be
| licve that when star falls to earth it is at
| once transformed into rarely beautiful wo-
| man, with long hair blonde and gittering
rms splendid creature miraculOuSlY engen-
| dered, exercises on all who come in contact
| with her magical influence. Every handsome
| youth unfortunate enough to attract her at
| tentlOn becomes her victim, Thus. having
| allured them to her. she encircleS them in her
arms in an embrace that becomes
| gradually tighter and tighter I'M
| til the poor dupes are strangled to
! death. II certain words are murmured the
moment the star starts to fall they cause her
allurements to lose their power From this
superstition springs the custom of wishing
while a star is seen hurrying through the air
wish said surely to come true if completely
formulated before the light is eXtnguished.
The SpaniardS saw in the falling stars the
souls of their dead friends, the thread of
whose existence was cut short by destiny
| The Arabs thought these stars to be burning
stones thrown by the angels on the heads of
devils who attempted to enter paradise.
What is sometimes called the Beer Flood"
of London was caused by the bursting of one
of the watts on he premises of Henry Meux
& Co. in Banburg street. 1t was on October
Is, 1914 The accident liberated $500 barrels
of strong beer, which swept out into the
neighbor1ng streets, causing great loss to life
and property. Two houses adjoining the
brewery were completely demolished and the
back parts of the houses of "a Mr.. Goodwin
and of Nos "a and y Great Russell street
were wrecked. The residents of the vicinity,
the majority of whom belonged TO the poorer
classes, were nearly all at nome, II DHlrAg
about 8O'clOck in the evening when the re-
markable accident occurred on the first floor
OF the house. A mother and daughter were
at tea; the first was killed on the spot and
the daughter swept away by the current of
beer as II rushed through the ruins and q
female servant of the TavistOck Arms was
drowned Many cellars were entirely flooded
and in some houses the inmates only saved
themselves from dro wning by mounting the
highest article of furniture. After the debris
caused by the flood was cleared away, nine
hCf fGE fnNFTf p0A DUO
out alive.
A few weeks ago says the Nashville Ameri-
can, an old negress came from Bridgetown, on
the Island of Barbados to a missionary and
asked him TO read three masses for Victor
Hugo. The missionary was astOnished, and
at first believed that he had misunderstood
the visitor. But the negress replied to his
questions that years ago she had given aid to
HugOs daughter, who had married an English
officer against the will of her father. and had
fed with him to Barbados The officer de-
serted his wife, who consequently became al
most insane, and was cared for in that cOndi
tion by the negreSS. The negreSs wrote to
the poet of the sad condition of his child. Hugo
sent her 10000 francs and had her go to Paris
with his daughter. After remaining a time ia
the house of the author. the negress decided
TO return to Barbados. One reason for this
was the fact that the poor daughter had be-
come incurably insane and beenu consigned
to an asylum. The poet, who respected the
negress because of the love she had borne his
daughter, said to her before her departure
from Paris: When you hear of nv death in
your native country have three masses read
for me. The old woman, who first herd of
the death of Victor Hugo a few months ago,
has now fulfilled the wishes of the poet.
According TO accounts from Belgium. a
great exhibition of novel character is shortly
to he given in Antwerp, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. The expression, "A castle in the
air has hitherto borne only a fgurative
meaning. but an Ingenious engineer named
Iohlanski proposes to make it more than a
mere figure of speech. He has formed
company for the purpose of building literal
castle in the air. He has designed a sort of
raft, having an area of about $50 square feet
ana made OF bamboo canes and steel and
aluminium piping Upon this is built most
luxuriously fitted restaurant The raft is
held, floating in the air 500 feet above the
ground, by number of balloons, and an
arrangement of anchoring by means of
cables will, according to NJ TObianski
prevent the restaurant from rocking even in
the strongest wind. Two small captive bal
looms. each holding from eight to tea persons,
are to serve as elevators between the aerial
restaurant and the earth. There is regular
system for supplying gas to the balloons, and
at night the exhibition Will be Illuminated nv
an immense electric light projected from the
raft The whole thing can be lowered to the
ground within ten minutes by steam wind
lasses, specially constructed Whether NJ
T0bianski's scheme ever becomes a castle in
the air in a double sense or not, il is quite on
par for enterprise with the Eifel Tower of
Paris or the Ferris Wheel of our own Chica-
go.
An interesting exhibit at the national mu-
scum shows the physical ingredients which
go to make up the average man, weighing 1874
pounds, says the American ANALYST A
large glass jar holds the 96 pounds of water
which his body contains. In other receptacles
are three pounds of white of egg, a little less
than 10 pounds of pure glue-without which it
would he impossible to keep body and soul
tOgether-48R pounds of fat, eight and one
fourth pounds of phosphate of lime one
pound of carbonate OF lime, three ounces of
sugar and starch, seven ounces of fiuoride of
calcium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesa
and little ordinary table salt. Divided up
into his primary chemical elements the same
man is found to contain 81 pounds of oxygen
enough to take up, under ordinary atmOs-
pharic pressure the space of a room 10 feet
long. 10 feet wide and 10 feet high. His BODY
also holds IL pounds of hydrogen which under
the same conditions would occupy somewhat
more than two such rooms as that described
To these must be added 3 pounds and 13
ounces of nitrogen. The carbon in the cor
pus OF the individual referred TO is repre-
sented by a foot cube OF coal It ought to be
diamond of the same size because the
stone is pure carbon, but the National Muse
UNI has not such one in its possession. A
row of bottles contain the other elements 20
ing to make up the man. These are ounces |
Of chlorine 81 ounces of nuOrine. 8 ounces OF |
phosphorus, 80 ounces OF brimotone 90 |
ounces OF sodium. 219 ounces of potassium
one-tenth of an ounce of iron, ? ounces of |
magnesium and pounds and 13 ounces of |