The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-03
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c.cr forcfel the weather Iy means of lceeh
I in on open mouthed bottle partly Hued with
water The water must pc changed once
/ week and spoonful of blood poured in ID
abput as often When The weather is good
tnt ifech VII remain coiicd up 20 the l0ttom
l OF the bottle, whenever rain D. near at hand
I ~ VIII creep up ~ the top and stay there until
: the weather Is settled again II wind is im-
miuenf 10 VIII Dec very restless and dart about
I ~ the water rs though in pain, while before
I thunder storm IT. viii appear 90 Be In convul-
slons 10 Is SO generally trusted that 90 hay
\ ing time and other seasons when fine weather
I y important the leech is one OF the most use
/ tul members OF the household.
The -Jorgensen rifle, just adopted BY
/ the United States army board is thus de-
scrihed: The magazine Is OF the fixed type.
| IS placed horizontally below ana to the left Of
! the receiver. II holds five cartridges. which
| are loaded from the right hand. Closing the
/ cover brings the magazine spring In bearing
| against the cartridges. which are pushed
| around unuer the receiver until they enter IL
In succession through cut at its left hand
upper surface. A cutoff permits use as a
| single loader and the light metal charges for
loading the magazine enable il to he replen-
lshed quickly. The gun weighs nine pounds
eight ounces and is 30caliber. The barrel is
surrounded by an outer metal casing that il
may be handled during rapid firing and has a
knlfe bayonet attached to this casing by an
ingenious clasp"
There is general idea that the Presidents
salary OF $50 900 year is all that he receives,
anu llldt, Wntu compared with the salaries
| palu the SoVereigns of Europe, this sum is
| not enough. This is a mistake says the st.
Louis GlODe-DemOcrat In addition to his
salary, the President receives S36. O64 TO pay
| the salaries OF his clerks and subordinateS.
| HIS private secretary has So $50: his assist
ant secretary. $3.50; the StenOgrapher gets
| Sl,oUO, each OF five messengers 81 POO, the
steward 81 500, each of the two doOrkeepers
| Sl,2OO, while other employees are paid in pro
| portion, down to the man who takes care of
| Jhe nreS, who receives 1864. In addition s. 600
/ safl sole
| airy and carpets, S12,500 for repairs and re-
furnishing, S250 for fuel, s. coo for the green
house, and Sl5 900 for the stable, gas and other
| lncldentals. IN all the President and his
! mousse cost the country over Sl25,0O0.
| M. Ardaillon, of the Ecole Franchise
| d'Athenes who has been investigating the
| causes of the Zante earthquakes, saws that
| they are due to the phenomena of plication or
| foldlng OF the earth strata. The same ten
| sion and compression which produced many
| OF the mountain ranges is here in action AS
| the interior of the earth cools, il contracts
| and tends to leave the outer crust behind.
| The weight of this outer crust, however, is
greater than II can sustain and II is therefore
| compelled to wrinkle. Thus biologists ex-
| plain the great ridges and burrows which con-
| stltutes continents and river basins, and they
| compare this folding of the earth's crust with
the wrlnkling of the skin of dried apple.
While this process of wrinkling or folding is
| going on the mighty movement, of course, de
StroyS the equilibrium of the rock strata and
In consequence earthquakes occur and con
| tinue with greater or less violence until
| equilibrium is again restored Unfortunately
Tor Iante 1t lies In the line Of disturbances
ana must suffer until the same causes that
reared our Appalachian mountains cease to
| operate in its neighborhood.
In a London store there is on exhibition a
dolls house which writer in the Queen
thinks is the most wonderful that ever was
made. 1t is large, substantial building
made of wood, with windows that open and
| shut. It Is provided with lace-edged blinds
| and hall door; indeed, even an electric bell
| that rings through the house. Before you en-
| ter there is much to surprise you; well laid
| out garden, with full-grOwn trees and a
| fountain in the center playing. The hall and
| every room is papered, and either carpeted or
covered with kamptulicon. The kitchen is
| provided with a sink and tap with real water
/ How delightful this would be to the rising
| generation, and so would the bath supplied
| in like manner from q tank in the roof.
| Every want OF Nine. la Poupee, her spouse
| and family, has been duly recognized, In the
| nursery is large room from back to front
| anu specially airy. There is a back door as
well as a front and a suite of rooms, dining
room, drawing room, morning room, and
many bedrooms, afford luxurious accommoda-
| tions.
English half-pennies have q curious origin
and one little known to the public at large,
| says the Collector. Half-pence were issued
centuries ago by English authorities and were
| nothing more than minted pennies cut di-
rectly in half. Specimens of these coins have
| D66n discovered frequently among the buried
| treasures which from time to time have been
unearthed in Great Britain. In Lancashire
| in 1S40 were found a rare lot of coins among
which were several pennies of the time of
Alfred and Edward divided in this way. SINH
larry divided pence of the time of Edward
the COnfessOr have been found, and in speak
ing of the discovery in 1888 of a number of
these curious half-pence Of the time of Will
lam the COnqueror an unqueStiOned authority
states that they were probably issued from
the minis in that form, since the whole col
lHT in Dir 7,ls,ff
the British museum in London are specimens
of these divided coins issued under various
mOnarchs from Alfred to Henry III. with the
latter OF whom the custom ceased An emf
nent archROlOgist accounts for the divided
coins by saying that this doubtless arose
from the scarcity of small change, which was
in part remedied under the reign of Edward L
by the coinage of half-pence and farthings.
Theocrtus in one of his idyls describes
| how Alcmena washed and sucked the infant
Hercules and his brother Iphicles and put
| them to bed in a big bronze shield, "a beauti-
| full piece OF armor which Amphitryon took
| from PterelauS. his fallen foe" And as she
made the great shield revolve and rock she
| sang lullaby sleep, my babies sleep the
| sweet sleep from which one awakes: sleep,
my darling, my bonny boys happy be vour
| rest, and happily fare until to morrow morn
| ing. Sleep, my babies" Ever since the
world begun, says Harpers Bazaar mothers
| have been rocking cradles and singing lul-
| labieS. From the lmmemorial the problems,
| have existed: What can we do with this
| baby? Where can we put it so that it will be
| safe? How can we manage to secure few
| intervals of peace and tranqulity2 How can
we still its cries and wines? How
| can we teach il to walkY In
a word, how can we emancipate ourselves
! from the absorbing tyranny Of these sweet
| babes our offspring? The solutions which
| have been invented by the SOictude the in
genuity and the instinct of mothers have
| taken the form of cradles, swaddles, leading
| strings and go-carts. The variety of these
/ inventions is considerable. and descriDffon
of them would form. perhaps, a curious chap
| ter in the history of hygiene and domestic
| economy. But where can one find find the
| elements for such history? Poetry and
| legend might be suggestive to a certain ex-,
| tent We may figure to ourselves the infant
| Moses exposed on the banks OF the Nile
| Graded in osier basket We NAV re-
| member the poetical Greek name for a
| cradle, which is the same as sthe name of q
| winnowing fan or basket the traditional
| cradle of the infant Bacchus. Referring to
| the monuments Of the graphic arts we NAV
| find representations of basket cradles and
also OF little beds on rockers: for the instinct
| OF mothers, it would seem, has always
| prompted them to seek ready means of com
: munlcatlng an oscillating movement to the
| infants bed. In manuscripts of the ninth
and tenth centuries we find pictures of cradles
| formed of part of a tree trunk dug out with
| holes bored through the sides for the passage
| OF straps intended to tie the baby down In its
| bed. The dug-out cradles are still common in
modern Greece. Finally, when we come to
consult the manuscripts and bass reliefs ~