The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-01
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iB his arms across wild and rushing rivers
IS shown ia the Minnesota state building. Z he
sculptor Is fleldie. q Norwegian artist T he
women Of Minnesota raised the money for the
work. II IS shown TO plaster 81 The exposition
Later 10 will be cast IN bronze. and placed in
the state park az Minnehaha Falls, MINI.
The strange superstition in regard to the
proper disposition of an amputated limb Is
still prevalent in some parts Of New England
John NJ Currier Of Newport Vt. records in
recent issue Of the Journal Of American Folk
Fore, that he recently assisted in the ampu-
tation OF the foot OF a man who had u crushed
on freight train. After the operation the
friends questioned what should be done with
the amputated foot. one promptly decided the
matter by saying that il should be burned and
not buried. in order that the stump should not
always continue 10 be painful and the man
troubled by disagpeeable sensations. The
amputated limb was accordingly cremated.
How profoundly the nihnists are dreaded in
Russia is well illustrated by a story that
comes from Marinopol. Not long ago the
mayor Of that town received a letter that pur-
ported to come from circle OF nihilists and
ordered him to send , 600 rubles to certain
address in Odessa, on pain of being blown into
eternity with dynamite. The letter assured
him that his smallest action was watched and
known to the writers, and that any attempt to
deliver them to the police or to falter in the
matter would be visited with summary ven
geance. The terrOriZed mayor did as he was
bid, and few days after a couple of drunken
rogues in drinking house boosted how they
had done the mayor out Of his money. They
were arrested, and it was proved that they
had written the letter and divided the spoil
with a confederate in Odessa to whose ad-
| dress the money was sent.
In a work of criminology the learned inyss-
tigator says that out of ninety eight young
men criminals A per cent. did not blush when
examined says the San Francisco Argonaut.
OF 10 female criminals 81 per cent did not
blush. III our novels to keen with sci
ence they must change their induces or emo
ton. 1t must be the men who blush and the
other sex whose constituencies must not be
regular feature. Leander bushes as he de-
clares himself or is suddenly brought up
against a sentimental outcrop but Hero takes
| 1t calmly. The scientist also notices that
women blush about the ears rather than on
| the cheek. This also requires a change in the
novels. 1t is pointer, too, for the ladies'
man who is watching for signs that he is
making an impression. If he fastens his gaze
upon the left ear he may see something that
| will tell him he may consider himself happy.
new Canadian invention for use in the
| lumber districts is coming into general use in
Northern Ontario, says the Boston Tran
| script 1t is called steam warping tug. 1t
| propels itself on land as well as on water, and
| is used by lumbermen whose operations are
| carried on among small lakes connected by
| streams of uncertain navigation. Six of these
/ unique craft have been built by the inventors
| during the past season. They are built in
| screw shape, with steel shod runners for
| moving overland, are 80 feet long, 10 feet
beam, decked all over and having sleeping
| room for four men in the bow; the bottom and
| up the bow is covered with steel boiler plates.
| An engine of % horse power furnishes steam
| for 10 hours work, with three-quarters of
| cord of dry wood. In the water it moves
! miles an hour, forward or backward, as re-
| quired, propelled by side wheels. On land it
| is propelled by having cable drum on which
| is boiled tive-eighths of a mile of steel wire
| cable which is fastened with pulleys to a
| tree or some object in front the boat moving
| as the wire is cOiled up. The boiler is hung
on an axle in the center, and a screw ar
| ranged on the front enables the firemen to tip
| it forward or back and keep it level going up
or down hill 1t will move over an elevation
of foot in on land and draws about %
inches in the water.
More than one-half of all the oil Of pepper
mint, spearmint and tansy used in the world
is said to be procured and distilled in Michi
gan, says the New York Post The center of
the industry is St. Joseph county. Pepper-
mint plants to the weight of 1900 tons when
dried are cultivated every wear in the state
From these the essential oils are distilled.
Early in spring the roots are planted in fur
rows from two to three feet apart. In a day a
good workman will plant an acre with them
few weeks later the rows meet and cover
the entire ground. In September the plants
mature They are then covered with fragrant
purple blossoms and the time has arrived for
moving. After lying in the sun to dry they
are raclked into heaps and taken to
the distilleries, of which there are about $50
in the state. 1t is estimated that $50 pounds
of dried peppermint plants produce one pound
of oil. The yield per acre is fifteen pounds of
oil. Distilled peppermint brings from 81 p
to IS per pound in the home market. The in
dustry was originally established in Mitcham
England, about $50 years ago. Early in the
present century beginning was made in this
country in Wayne county, New York, and in
St Joseph. Mich. To-day nine tenths of the
entire product of the world is made in the
United States The rich alluvial soil so
abundant in Michigan. together with its de
sirablc climate, has enabled the state to take
precedence over any other state or country in
this industry.
The gilded statue of the Huntress which
surmounts the Agricultural building at the
worlds fair was made from model furnished
by M. Augustus st. Gauders, the famous
sculptor, Sanford White the New York arch
itect, furnishing the general outline of the de
sign says the st. Louis Republic. 1t was cast
in metal in October or November. 1891 by w
H. Mullins Of Salem, O and first shipped to
. Now York city and erected on the dome Of
| Madison Square garden. where it served as
weather vane. its position indicating the di-
| rection OF the wind as truly as though it had
| weighed only few ounces instead of MANY
| hundred pounds. The whole statue is made
| OF what is known as - Ounce copper struck
| of in drop presses, these sheets being riv-
| eted together, "hrazed' and soldered
J so as to make the figure water-tigbt
! AS Diana now stands, perched on one
, foot upon hollow globe % inches in
HlalnCCOl' ollC - cIHutteH le6J ana a traction
In hight the whole, iron frames. armatures
ETC. weighing 1850 pounds. Quite heavy
'weathercock The weight OF the figure is
sustained supOn two tall bearings nine feet
apart the whole being adjusted very nicely
/ upon an iron pipe seven inches in diameter
BY proper adjustment the center of gravity is
brought as near as possible to fall upon the
axis of the hollow iron shaft That the whole
is model OF mechanical ingenuity may be
conJectured when it is known that wind
pressure of onequarter of pound To tbe
square inch is sufficient to cause the great
figure to change position. 1t surely had oc-
casion to change position innumerable times
ana with varying degrees of intensity" dur
ing the. prevalence of the late Manitobian
zephyrs