The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-29
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Cancer Is most common in Brussels. 80
death per 1000. shanghai has the highest
/ death rate from heart disease-l.5l0 per l0o".
soil in Egypt Is titled by exactly the same
kind Of plow as that used there 5OoO years
ago The burrows made are extremely shaa-
low. and the clods are further broken up with
a big wooden cudgel
Marly-le Roi or Marty the King" is the
! romantic name Of President Carnot's summer
suburban home. where the cable dispatches
state frances chief executive and the mem
hers Of his cabinet met yesterday to discuss
Siamese affairs. Marly-le-R0i. the temporary
summer home Of Mr.. CarnOt. was christeneq
with that royal name because II was founded
and beautified by LOUIS XIV. His malestys
plans to spend his last DAYS there in the midst
OF Martyrs beautiful forest and calm surround
ings were frustrated. The villa is the proper
" of Nine. Boissaye the widow OF the late
Hippolyte CarnOt, father Of the President.
The palace built by Louis XIV. was pulled
down in the course Of the French revolution,
and the fine gardens and alleys OF the royal
park were almost destroyed. The villa now
at Marly-le- Roi. is known as Mes Delices, and
il is an unpretentiOus villa built upon the
ruins Of a feudal dungeon. The house, OF gray
st.pe and red brick, cannot he seen from the
village public square. II Is surrounded by
large trees, and is only short distance from
the forest
The entire cost Of the white house up to the
present time has been 81 $4,000. Nine hun
amount has been expended in finishing, fur
nishing and carpeting the mansion since 1877,
says the New York Times. Since 1907 S762,-
600 has been spent in repairing 1t, and since
1918 $4,000 in improving the grounds sur
rounding it. Notwithstanding the fact that
il has cost over s. 600 coo the capacity is sing
ularly inadequate for the uses required of 1t,
II is capable really only of comfortable ac-
commOdatiOns for the President office rooms
and apartments for social receptions. There
are but five bedrooms, a dining room, sitting
and nn rod no pl0 n.y. for II n
family The other public reception rooms
and state dining room could. of course. be us
ed by the Presidents household, but they are
too large and grand to offer many attractions
to a quiet family. The repainting OF the
white house is not an inconsiderable item OF
the yearly repairs. Enough white paint. II is
said has been laid on the porticO pillars to
| double their present diameter, and the out
side walls would likewise have gained sever
al feet if the old paint had not first been re-
moved.
Every now and then, says the New York
Post, the town Of Alameda, Cal, is stirred up
by rumors that one OF its citizens is on the
eve of finding the treasure which tradition
says lies buried near the Encinal landing
place on the shore front. The legend runs
that two robbers in the time of the Spanish
occupation, having made big haul OF gold,
olsen barked to hide il. They went several
hundred yards from the shore and proceeded
to bury the coin at the foot OF an oak tree ana
mark n, so that they could tell the spot upon
/ their return. While one of the robbers was
| in the act OF STOPPING down he was stabbed
| by his companion. The dying man uttered
| curse on his assailant and expired. The muir
| derer was so terrified that he hurriedly
buried the gold and ran from the place, never
! to return. Years later on his dying bed
he told the story, and since that time
| searCherS have been at work, year in and
year out TO find the treasure. Tradition also
saws that NaSQueZ, the bandit, returning from
his raids in the san JOAQUIN valley, some
times buried his booty In the region where
Alameda now is Vague as these stories are,
credulOus persons still dig for the gold as
their fancy or investigation directs them. A
| giat oak tree SCARED with the onSetS Of many
storms, is supposed to'be within the charmed
| circle Of the buccaneers spOilS. AT any rate
| IL is very much of a landmark and imigina-
| tiOn has done the rest. An enteTpristng Ger
! man who recently purchased the property on
! which the tree stands, is now engaged in dig
! ging very deep trench around IL in the be-
! lief that he might come upon the elusive
treasure, and all Alameda is watching
| him.
Mr. Fisher, the head OF q concern for max
! ing old horses into sausages, at Bedford u,
| has figured il out that there is a demand for
| sausage in European countries greater than
| the supply, says New York letter in the
| Baltimore sun. In the countries where this
| demand exists, Mr.. Fisher declares the main
requisite for sausage is that IL shall be
sausage. no particular attention being given
| to its composition He proposes, therefore, to
J buy up all the old horses he can and to make
| sausage meat of them. In pursuance of his
/ plan he has now in the broad meadows sur
I rounding his factory fifteen horses waiting
/ for the sacrifice. People in this country do
! not understand 1t, but in European countries
, sausage is a standard article of diet. The
| flesh Of the horse is regarded as highly over
! there as that of the COW is here. 1t Is true
! that propose to engage in the manufacture
of sausage from horse flesh, but all my pro
| ducts will he shipped to agents in
Hamburg, who VIII dispose of them
in France, Germany, Belgium
and Italy. shall make brand of sausage
know as Metwurst and will guarantee il to
keep two years. My agent in New York is
buying up horses, We want them cheap. for
only by getting them on easy terms can we
compete with the sausage factories of Eu-
rope. He buys broken-down horses of any
kind and sends them here. ! turn them
out to Craze and they probably have Il better
time than they have ever had before | ex-
pect to begin killing the horses in October
| shall kin shoats and bulls and other cheap
animals and mix their flesh with that of the
horses, thus making sausage that will take
well in Europe. Before the horses are killed
l will have each Of them examined by
veterinary surgeon, and no animal which
shows the slightest faint Of organic disease
will be allowed to become a sausage. The
horses destined for European food purposes
were in all stages of decrepltude. They look
ed ready to die, but not fat enough to kill
The 'Spccter of the Broken" belongs to a
class ofgbeautiful and deceptive and atmos-
pheriC phenomena known as "mirageS. Sc SAYS
the st. Louis Republic The particular mir
age now referred to is to be seen at only one
known place on the earth's suTfaCe-On top of
the Broken, the highest summit of the Hartz
mountains. Those who have teen fortunate
enough to get a good view of it declare that
the apparitiOn is cry speCter-like indeed
! There is an Obsery. DRY near the point where
| the "specter' is to he seen to the est advan-
taFe; and you no sooner step upon the little
| platform to the south Of the tower than yonr
| shanOw, grim and gigantic, is projected out
! against the eastern sky. where with unlimit-
| ed space for a playground IL fits swiftly
| from place to place, accurately following your
| before sunset, that the phenomenon NAV he
| is dOubly exaggerated First, by the dis
| by the rcmOtenesS of the background
| The explanation of this extraordinary at
! east OF the Hartz mountains there is always a
! very dense and hazy Atmospheric dense,
| in fact. that it presents a surface capable Of
| receiving the impression of any 1ject and re-
| Hecting its shadow just as a wall does. When
therefore, the sun gets around to the west the
shadows of all objects which are near enough
to the wall OF the atmospheric particles are
| projected upon it. During the dense fog Of
| February, 1871, in London. A W. Clayien
made experiments with a view Of getting up
an English edition" of the famous 'specter'
| This he finally succeeded in accomplishing by
placing a steady lime light few feet behind
and projecting his shadow aginst the fog One
account even states that the eXperimenter was
able to take photographs of his artificial
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