The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-08
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when Buffalo BINS Indians ger through
/ their work ir Chicago in the afternoon they
. like nothing better than to repai- Co "a merry
I ro.round near 'hei- camp and revolve to The
] music of bad hand organ. The pasecrhy
] s.Ous 90 see the show. for the bucks and
! sgUa2-s are m their fun pauoply OF feathers
[ and paint Most people would get enough
: fun by riding horseback three OF four hours
every day without wanting 20 ride on wooden
/ horses afterward; but then. You see, real
/ horses have uO hand organ attachments.
Il is reported that an English syndicate has
purchased the big Ferris wheel, which has
proved 10 De one Of the biggest attractions at
/ the world S fair, where II is doing the biggest
! kind OF "a business and has paid a pig price
] for il $4,000. When the fair is over the
/ wheel is 10 be taken down and transported to
! Atlantic City, where il will be set up near the
! board walk. IL is said most of the stock
! holders in the scheme are Philadelphia bank
/ ers. The wheel is 80 feet in diameter, and
! passengers, when at the top, gaze at the
| scenery from an altitude of 2Gi feet. There
| are 80 cars swung to the periphery Of
! the wheel, and at each whirl 2164 people can
| 90 around The whirling is done very slowly,
! each revolution occupying half an hour
The natives of Botocudes. one Of the hot
test regions of the earth. believe that heaven
will be a land of cool streams and shady
! groves entirely cleared of all underbrush and
cactic says the St. Louis Republic. All desert
jewellers, it is said die expecting to awake in
wooded land supplied bountifully with cold
water. You will remember, if you have ever
read books OF arctic travel. that all natives of
the frozen North have paradise pictured as
land OF warm sunshine with glowing fires
overhung with pots Of boiling whale plub-
Der, and eaSeful touches of fur scattered here
and there. The Caroline Islanders, who are
paSsionately fond of liquor. but who are in
mortal dread of breaking their necks by fall
ing from one of the millions of cliffs with
which their islands abound, believe that para
disc will be land as level as floor, where
one can get drunk and not be in constant
dread OF cracking his cervical Vertebrae
Did you ever stop to ask yourself or your
knowing friend the meaning of The" in the
place named The Hague? If you are looking
for something that will knock the above
mentioned knowing friend of his feet just
ask him the signihcation of the three letters
quoted, says the st. Louis Republic. When
he fails to answer the question, tell him that
the The, as it occurs in the instance cited,
is simply the Anglicized form Of the Dutch
word ) GravenhaaZ' or IS GraVenhaZe,
either Of which in the Dutch language,
means the Counts hedge" or the counts
grove or woods Originally the location
now occupied by the city of The Hague was
the hunting grounds of the Counts of Holland.
About the year 1910 a palace was built in the
grove. Presently village sprung up around
the palace-still IL was called THE Counts
which in the Dutch language has it's original
signification. but which in modern parlance
has been evoluted Into The Hague"
The execution by shooting of Choctaw In
dian at Wilburton 1. T., last Friday, has
caused no little comment at a time when
death by electricity for murdererS is being
urged by the press of other states than New
York. The Choctaw method is barbarious in
itself and brutaliZes the eXecutioner. In the
case referred to the duty of putting an end TO
the condemned man fell upon the sheriff BY
his orders little square Of white paper was
pinned over the heart Of the Indian, and two
men kept him steady by holding his arms.
He met his fate with StotCism, however, stand
ing erect and looking his executioner squarely
in the face. The latter knelt down at a distance
of five PAGES, and with rife at his shoulder
aimed at the square of paper. With the re-
port of the weapon the Condemned fell back
dead. For the work required of him the sher-
if had need TO be both cool and callous A
tremor would have diverted the bullet and
prolonged the victim s life in agony. A west
ern paper, commenting on the incident says.
1T is to be hoped that such executions will
become more and more uncommon. 1t seems
too much like oriental barbarity for a man to
legally shoot another to death single handed,
and conscious that his finger alone sent the
missile of death on its unerring way"
Prof. Roberts, of St. Andrews University,
Edinburgh, has lately published little vol
ume under the title "A Short Proof That
Greek Was the Language Of Christ, in which
he reiterates his conviction, expressed in q
larger work number of years since that the
language spoken by. Christ was not q dialect
of the Hebrew, but a Hebraistic form OF
Greek, and maintains that in the Greek Tes-
lament we possess the teachings of Christ in
the original form in which they were uttered.
In this little book the learned author dispen-
ses with the subsidiary arguments which APP
peal rather to Biblical scholars and confines
himself to a single line of reasoning
based upon the evidences that ancient He
brew was in the time of Christ q dead Ian
guage, and that version of the scriptures
was then in wide circulation and familiar to
the people in Palestine. which was neither the
Hebrew original nor an Aramaic version. but
a version in Greek. Dr.. Roberts seems to
have overlooked the fact recorded in the 22d
chapter of the Acts that when St. Paul would
gain the attention of the Jews at the time of
his arrest he addressed them in the Hebrew
language Nothing could demonstrate mere
fOrcibly that the Hebrew was the Vernacular
of the country at the time and was the Ian
guage in which Christ spoke to the people.
Historians and military critics have long
discussed the causes which led to the result
of the battle of Waterloo. In fact. the contro-
versy is not yet ended. But there is no longer
any doubt on the subject says the Philadel-
phia Record, A Sabbatarian brother in this
city has discovered that Napoleon lost the
battle because he attacked Wellington on
Sunday. Had no waited till Monday we are
to assume that he would have defeated Wei
llngton, and the map of Europe would have
been very different to-day. but for this viola
ton of the Sabbath. But the truth is that
the battle which ended at Waterloo on sun
fore at Ligny and Quatre Bras, From the
same eminent interpreter of the judgments
of Providence we learn that the brave Gen.
Montgomery lost his life because he attacked
Quebec on Sunday Had he made this at
tack on Saturday is is to be understood that
he would have captured the town, and that all
British America would now have probably
belonged TO the United States. Other causes
more obscure might be diffidentlv suggested
both for the death of Gen. Montgomery and
the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo But who
would rashly and profanely undertake to deny
the authority Of prophet of the Lord on his
torical questions Of this kind?
The production of artificial cold says a sci
entifc writeri in the Leisure Hour has. dur
ing the last fifteen years, become quite an i'm
portant industry. Freezing machines" are
now among the permanent requisites of civil
lied life. The refrigeration of perishable
articles of food for transport by ship stands
first on the long list of commercial appica-
tions of the science. The problem was first
solved by the construction of the Bell-Coleman
air machine, an apparatus so well thought out
and perfected that, in its first trial cargo
OF meat of the value Of 5000 was transported
across the Atlantic in a perfectly fresh con
ditiOn. In the cold-air freezing machine now
nTf1fN nd fNfoh ard oh 60,