The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-06


to remain. The edifce was an object Of great
veneration by the Mussulmans, for about it
were clustered many sacred traditions among
which was one that within its walls rested the
head OF John the Baptist.
Says the Philadelphia Record: 1.-THE re-
cent marriage in this city of Mr.. Tarr and
Miss Feathers, thus forming the most har-
monlous union OF tar and feathers known to
history, Is matched by Bucks county couple,
VINO crossed the Delaware the other day to
avail themselves of the easy marriage laws Of
New Jersey. The groom was Bartlett A.
Downs and the bride Miss Elizabeth Ups. and
their runaway wedding moved rural poet to
sing:
In matrimony's happy state,
Through Cupid smiles and frowns,
We find in life. however straight,
There will be Ups and Downs"
DR.. A. Ivor Thomas gives in the Lancet an
account of the effects of a wasp's sting on the
middle finger of the left hand of man of So,
on Sept 25 a time OF the year when wasps
nave plenty OF other work to do. On ad-
mission to the hospital the man became faint.
and severe pains extended up his arm and all
over his body; a severe rfgor followed, ending
in violent vomiting and diarrhRa. The sting,
1t appears had been distracted by the man S
wife, but when the doctor reached the patient
he found him in a cold, collapsed condition,
| having thin, wiry pulse with the tempera-
ture $50 Fahrenheit. There was no difficulty
IN breathing, but the tongue and throat were
| described by the patient as becoming
| larger" The patient recovered but his case
shows what wasp can do with his sting.
If you really need a stmulent at all, or
think you do, you may often find rum far
purer than brandy, says the Leeds Mercury.
The rum served out to our sailors in the
| royal navy is supposed to be very good. Well,
it has age. There is, / have been told tank
at one of our great seaports that holds 10000
gallons. Think of that reader. Why, there
is enough in that tank to give q stiff glass to
every man in London, and a little drop for
the missus. Only total abstainers are low
cred into the tank to see after the sides
| thereof. The fumes make them drunk very
soon, and they have to be hoisted up again,
perhaps singing AUD Lang Syne." But the
tank, they say, has not been emptied since
the time of Nelson. Those were the days Of
tossing cans, but all that is altered now and
Jack is quite different being. Rum is dis
titled from mOlasses. In France it is made
from the mOllasSeS of beet root sugar. Its
peculiar smell and taste depend upon a VIOLA
tile ether-butyric. Rum has tendency to
cause perspiraton, therefore a drink for
colds is often made from It, with the addi-
ton OF hot water, sugar and butter.
The increase of deer and of some other
kinds of game in Southern Pennsylvania is
termed by newspaper Of Franklin county,
zone of those apparently unsOlvable problems
that continually confront the hunter" In
spite of the IA t that forest tracts are all the
time being reduced in area, that hunters are
more numerous. and that dogs are still used
contrary to law, there are, according to the
New York Post. three times as many deer in
that county as there were few years ago
AS many as eight deer in bunch were seen
recently in the South Mountains. Another
thing that puzzles the hunter is in the in
crease OF the red fox and the disappearance
of the gray. The one is frequently seen
now the other rarely. Pheasants are
more plentiful than usual all over the Frank
lin mountains. This is accounted for by the
dryness of the season and the abundance of
small berries. Quail too, are heard and seen
on every side, Notwithstanding the havoc
made among them by the severe storms OF
last winter. Wild turkeys nlnOfiful
early in the fall. but few have been shot. The
method OF hunting them, generally practiced
in Franklin county is to lay bait for them, the
hunter being concealed near the spot, but this
requires great time and patience and
knowledge OF the turkeys haunts.
Some Of the oldest equine habits which
horseman has ever imagined are TO be found
in lands AUDITING on the home of the Arabian
but where he himself Is not to be found
though, indeed, the Arab himself has enough
Of Oddities says writer in Harper's Maya
zine. The Kurds ride tree covered with
plated straw quite fiat and padded with
blankets. This they never remove from their
horses. except occasionally to dry it out. The
horse is kept saddled day and night summer
and winter. This seems incredible but is lit
orally true. In Turkistan the horse, under
his saddle, is covered with the biblical number
OF blankets, seven, which he likewise wears at
all times, and which are supposed to sweat
him out and keep him in condition The habits
OF the horsemen IN such countries vary in a
most curious fashion. The Kurds ride their
straw pad like saddle with very short stirrups
and employ severe bit. The CircaSsianS ride
also in straw-covered slddle, but with an
exceptionally high camle and pommel, and
with extra long sttrrups fOrked-radiSh or cow
boy style. The Cossack. again rides with
short stirrups, as well as the Persian, and
neither he nor the CircasSian uses, as q rule
bit, but simple rope halter. Wherever
the Arabian is in his glory, you find substan-
TALLY the same seat, already described; as
soon as you wander away from the type YOU
find as great variety OF habits as Of dress
The Persian horse, although a neighbor, APP
pears to be "a creature OF quite different blood.
He Is taller and Logger than the Arabian
and has comparatively little stamina. The
kurbs and Turcomans use a horse which is
the produce or an Arabian sire on a Persian
dam, and this creature appears to gain the
endurance OF the desert blood which il sadly
needs. One does not expect much from Per-
slams. and the horse corresponds to ones ex-
pectations.
We can write by electricity, can send pic
lures and designs by the same agency. and
talk to our friends at a distance by means of
the electric wire. When the British Associa-
ton visited Newcastle Eng, saws the
Chronicle. of thas city, Prof. Perry told his
auditors that seeing by electricity was a DOS
Sib1ltty OF the future, and he had shortly be-
fore drawn a picture of scientific achieve
ments which would enable friends divided by
large continents and oceans. not only to talk
with each other, but to look upon their feat
ures. Even before that Prof Bell was known
to have been at work in his laboratory en-
tiSo NoAlLS W SO4NC tLG pTODl6ul. ana though
ten years have elapsed since the possibility
of applying the well-known principles of
light in the same way as the principles of
sound have been applied as in the telephone,
was first suggested, the professor is Still as
hopeful OF success as ever. There is no
theoretical reason why light may not be con
Quoted in the same way as sound but Prof
Bell tells us that it will be very much more
difficult to construct an apparatus for the
purpose, owing to the immensely greater
rap1dity with which the vibrations OF light
take place when compared with the vibra
lions OF sound. The difficulty, however. is
merely one OF finding diaphragm suflcientIv
sensitive to receive these vibrations and nro-
duce the corresponding electrical vibrations
and 1t is encouraging to have 1t on the
authority OF such a man as Prof Bell that al
least dozen men, eminent in science in
various parts of the world are at present en-
gagged in endeavoring to find the solution of
this problem. Prof. Bell himself. who has
never ceased to grapple with the dificultv
eandldly admits that up to the present his
iaDors have been in vain, but he is full of
hopefulness as to the successful issue of his
own research, as well as that of the other
scientists who have taken the matter up.
How Jowett Converted a Prig.