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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
A SEA SERPENT ON LAND.
The Terrible Monster Seen in Florida
by Fishermen.

Nine Heads en- One Body-It Came Out
of st. Johns River, and After Tear
ing the Tent of the Fishermen to
Shreds and Gobbling Up Their Pro-
visions it Went Back Into the Water
and Swan Down the Stream Faster
Than ANY Steamboat Could Run.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Montrose, Sept. l7.-John Anderson,
his two sons, Abraham and Walter; viii
liam Rawlings, Thomas Green, Edward
Tyson and Theodore Graham, residing
a short distance below here on the west
bank of the Susquehanna, have returned
from a fishing trip in the extreme south,
and tell blood-curdling story of their eX-
perience on St Johns river, Florida.
The party has been absent several
months and did not intend to return until
late in the fall Their itinerary included
q trip up the Mississippi and stop at
Chicago to visit the worlds fair, but
their experience on the st. Johns 50
shocked their nerves that they dropped
their programme and took the first con
veyance they could get III order to leave
the place as quickly as possible for their
homes, where they were seen yesterday
by representative of The Times and
have the following account of their ex-
perionce
when we left home in May" said the
elder Anderson, ''we were as hearty a set
of men as could be found in any part Of
PENNSYLVANIA 1t was rather a bad time
of the year for trip in the south, but we
made up our minds to 90, ana went. Ty-
son and rawlings, who are cousins, were
interested in Florida property, and were
anxious to take look at il before nego-
tiating with a syndicate for its sale. So
you see it was a trip for both business and
pleasure.
FISHING IN THE ST. soHN's.
eyes. were all here together, and it's
pretty hard to say how long it will be be-
fore Wen be separated, for the doctor
SAYS that it will take some time before he
gets our nerves toned up to their proper
tension. ia a great deal rather not talk
on the subject, for l know that
what ! will tell you win be put down
by slIeptics as merely a fish story. We
got along all right and had a splendid
time until the day we concluded to try
our luck on the sluggish St. Johns. We
hired two good-sized rowboats from an
old negro. who. | believe, charged us
more money than the craft were worth.
After fixing our camping OuUnJ ana other
fiXings in the boats we started up stream
The weather was hot and sultry, so we
Rugged the shady shore and took our
time The first day was occupied almost
entirely in rowing or pushing the boats,
and we spent the night camping on a little
island. where we had TO keep a fire going
close to our tent door to prevent our be-
ing eaten up by gallinippers as big as
western grasshoppers.
Tho second day brought us to the
place we had been told was excellent for
fishing We had become pretty well ac-
customed 20 the climate and considered
ourselves capable of withstanding any
of the changes that come at times in
travelling but a short distance. We had
hshed for tarpou and had any quantity
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
new LIGHT ON LIBERIA.
Its Commissioner in Chicago Says 1t
is No Place for Poor Negroes
And no Sign Of the American Emil
grants Work in the Exhibits AID
vantages and Disadvantage.

vantages and Disadvantages.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch
jackson Park Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE
alarmists who, in fit of fright over the
'nogro problem,p advise the deportation
of the colorod man to Africa, should take
Fred Douglass advice and 90 to Liberia
themselves to prepare the way Or, in
lieu of that, they could appoint a commit
tee of one to visit the w. f. Liberia wv.
+. all over Chicago stands for worlds
fair where he could sit and scratch the
hayseed on his chin and reflect on the
'aggrawatin mistit" of the solution of
some problems, while surrounded BY an
exhibit, every evidence of culture in
which is of Mohammedan origin and
wonder what has become Of the couple Of
thousand American migrants sent
out in 1922 by the American Colonization
Society. Not that Liberia does not make
a creditable showing, but it certainly is
not the emigrants' exhibit, and ever the
President of the state is native,
Joseph James Chesernan.
The exhibit is located in the north ern
end of agricultural building, along with
Curacao the Guianas and other small
countries chiefly agricultural and not
wealthy enough TO make an extended dis
play 1t covers 200 feet of floor space
and owes It's presence largely TO the kind
ness Of some Liverpool merchants. There
are two commissioners a Philadelphia
man, w. c. ROthery, and A B. King,
LiberiGn, the acting commissioner The
latter's recretary is Charlie Naumbaugh.
Mr. Naum baugh is a native, and, saving
his fine cafe-au-lait color, might be taken
for a Young and vigorous (irPpW
4 wish people would come here and
study the map of LIBERIA said MIR.
Naumbaugh to-day, as he pointed with
the handle of the broom with which he
was sweeping the pavilion floor to the
familiar outlines Of Africa hung up on
screen covered with queer implements
and textures. The place he pointed at
was a strip as boOt-shaped as is Italy,
s6irting the western coast 1t runs down
10 Lower Guinea, and looks like an I'M
even slab of bisque ice cream. why
those different colors H' l queried.
FACTS CONCERNING LIBERIA
"They are part of the history of I.ibe-
ria. Each color means a new piece of ter
rltOry acquired by purchase or CessiOn in
some way by native kings-never by war
1t is ali honestly acquired and we don't
drive the poor natives out either. We
just take them in. naked superstitious
and all, just as they are. Those strips
mean ABOUT clghJ acceSSlOns. The fact is
Liberia Is not third of it civilized ]
mean by that that very few people speak
English are Christians. and are not super
sttOuS. While Liberia has now . 500. coo
inhabitants, scarce 10000 speak English
and half Of these are Americans Then
there are $1,000 civilized natives So
you see. DO this territory. which IS about
three times as large as Illinois. only one
twenty-ffth Of the people are civilized
Perhaps you VIII misunderstood me. q"
SAID he. thOugbtfullY. as be looked about
40 the exhibit. "When ] say the Christ
laLs are the only civilized people. Over
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
WALTER GRESHAM OF TEXAS.
The New Congressman From Calves
ton Tells the History of His First
Law Case.

Washington, Sept. 16.-Representative
Walter Gresham of Texas, the new mem
Der from the Galveston district, is con-
spicuous as the only member of the dele
CATION from his state who voted in favor
of the repeal of the Sherman law Mr.
Gresham is a lawyer in Galveston and a
very wealthy man. He is regarded as
one Of the ablest men in the state and has
done more, perhaps, than any other one
man to develop the banking and railroad
system Of Texas. He served for six years
on the banking committee in the
state legislature. and was a
candidate for membership on the com
mittee on coinage, weights and measures
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

Visitor Whose exhibit is tha!l hi
lumbar Guard Cobligingly inspfe1G..lN4r ame
Some Russians, i guess. hI I,.s,1ne.
seems to be Handsoh. '-ChicagO Inv
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24

Blakely las TendertOne, the long-haired
tenor, passes III that fellows hair and
his brains were 10 change places he would
be balQ-headed BLIZZARD.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
The Toothseme Tsrrapin.

In two or three places along the Chesa-
pcake terrapin Of the precious diamond
back variety are hatched and reared in
crawls." Such "cfawl' is simply
an enclosure through which the tides
ebb and flow. The bottom is of mud
and grass, and there is convenient sand
bank for the mother turtles TO Law their
eggs in. At breeding time the mamma
turtle scratches shallow hole in the
sand and deposits from eight to twenty
eggs, which she covers up, and then
goes back to the water. Lest gulls and
crows should scratch the eggs up and
eat them, nets are sometimes spread over
the nests. The young are hatched about
September /, but often remain buried
until spring. Sometimes they are packed
in boxes with straw until they get to be
few weeks old and are ready to 60 into
the water. They grow about one inch
year, and at the end of six years are big
enough TO be called "counts" and to
sell at the highest market price. They
are fed twice week with crabs and fish
to fatten them Washington Star.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
A LOFTY SUGAR TREE.

The sugar maple of New England has
a rival. 1t grows in the Andes of Chile
at a height of from 5000 TO 4,500 feet
above the sea. 1t is curious variety of
that most useful, wonderful tree, the
palm, whose varieties also give us dates
and cocoa, and cocoanuts and fans.
This palm is not slim and graceful
like most kinds we see in tropical pic
lures. 1t is about so feet tall, with a
very thick trunk, enlarging in diameter
from the ground up TO about half its
height, and then taDering again TO the
top, where its long leaves spread out
These sugar palms produce great guam
titles Of sweet sap, which, when boiled
down, makes both molasses and sugar OF
a peculiar, but delicious flavor.
On one estate the trees grew in such
numbers that once it was determined TO
count them. After counting several
hundred thousand, more than half re-
NAMED uncounted, 50 the task was given
up.
What "larks' it must be for the chill
dren when ''sapping time" and sugar
ing of" come round But the Chileans
do not collect the sap in the way the
New England farmers collect sap from
the maple tree. No; instead OF boring
small holes in the trunk, the palm is cut
down and beheaded of its crown of beau
tiful leaves, and then the sap begins to
flow from the upper end ana keeps on
flowing for months. Every morning a
thin slice is cut off TO prevent the wood
from hardening and forming "A crust
through which the sap could not flow.
A good tree will yield nearly hun
dred gallons of sap. queer thing is
the fact that tho sap will not run if the
tree lies with its head downward. 1t
will only run upward. - New York Press.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
\ SQUIRREL IN A STUDIO.

Such cross little model as Jumbo !
had never known. He scolded continu-
ally, and all my efforts to soothe him
were in vain. Even sugar seemed to
sour his disposition. He scolded when
eating, and when not eating. IL
placed anything near his cage, he would
Jump to the wires-still Scolding-a
though he meant to break through them.
Only a few days before | bought him he
was free squirrel leading rollicksome
life in the woods. Poor fellow, what
wonder he was indignant at finding him
self prisoner,
Well, one afternoon | opened his cage
door, and offered him the freedom of my
studio of course expecting to have n very
lively scene. Visions OF upset vases,
broken windows, and general disorder
stimulated my curiosity. | wanted to
see just how much mischief he could do.
The cage door open, Jumbo leaped
nimbly to the floor, and surprised me by
behaving in the gentlest manner possible [!
After he had run about for little
while, | reached for paper bag of
hickory nuts lying near me. Jumbo ran
forward Immediately, jumped into my
lap, took n hickory-nut from my fingers,
and hid il under the bookcase. Stand.
ing up, shook the bag quite briskly; in
moment Jumbo was running up my
side to my shoulders, AID again took a
nut from my fingers. Now he did not
scold at all, but was perfectly amiable-
truly strong contrast to his former self.
lie kept taking nuts from me until
almost every corner of the studio con-
tanned oae. Finally rug in the middle
of the floor struck him rs the best place
under which to hide them, and the
manner in which he patted the rug down
after hiding each nut was very comical.
He finally grew tired of this fun, and,
jumping into my lap again, looked into
the bag, and, think, concluded it was
too much work TO conceal all the rest,
for he pstted the paper down over the
nuts, and started on tour around the
room. Unfortunately, l opened the bag
To take another nut out for him, and the
sharp little fellow, hearing the noise,
ran swiftly to me, aud, seeing the paper
bag open, bit my hand. jumped up
and ran s,cross the studio with the bag,
but he was after me. As quickly "a
could, dropped the bag upon the table,
and then the angry little fellow was
satisfied
After this he pattered around the room
at his own sweet will. examining chairs
aud tables, occasionally stopping TO give
an extra pat to the rug under which
most Of his nuts were hidden. - st.
Nicholas
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
The Grunting Ok.

1t has been suggested that the yak, or
'grunting OK of Asia, might be intro
duced and bred advantageously in
Alaska, supplementing the newly i'm
ported reindeer This animal is to the
natives of Thibet what the reindeer is to
the Laplander. 1t requires no care
worth mentioning and gets it own food,
the herders only bringing it down in
winter from the mountains to levels
where the snow melts and pasturage is
accessible. Left to its own devices it
propagates its species rapidly. 1t seems
to love the cold and to thrive in rough
weather. 1t likes to bathe in frozen
rivers and to lie in the snow. It's milk
makes excellent butter--a merit which
reindeer milk has not. 1t is an odd fact
that many ancient Scandinavian gold
medals, which have been come across by
digging, bear the unmistakable repre-
sentation of the yak. This would seem
to indicate that the ances tors of the peo.
pie who now inhabit that region must
have come from part of Asia where the
yak was. II so. why did they not bring
the yak with ~ st. Louis Repub-
lic
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
GOLD BULLION.
The Interesting Process by Which 1t
IL Refined and Made Into Coin.


Though the show Of gold at the Treas
ury in Washington in not impressive at
the first glance, one has more respect for
/ it when the contents of the bags are
enumerated. Stacked in heaps around
the compartment referred to are ninety
eight sacks, each containing 900 yellow
double eagles. Poured out on the
floor they would make a very decent
pile Of giittering metal, representing
altogether $780, 900. Besides these
there axe 469 bags, each holding g, 500
shining eagles, or $2,3l5, 900 in all.
Then there are 1913 sacks, each containing
1000 fve-dolar pieces, of a total Of
50, $40, 900. Lastly, there are fifteen
sacks, each filled to bursting with 1000
Of those annoying two-dollar- and-a half
pieces, which are SO easily mistaken for
cents that no more of them are 10 be
coined by the mints.
One OF the most interesting sights in
the world is the refining Of the raw gold
bullion at the United States Assay Office
on Wall street. Arriving there from the
mines it is first melted, TO free it from
all earthly matter and other foreign sub
stances. Then a certain quantity OF
silver is added TO it, and the mixture is
immersed in bath OF nitric acid. The
acid has no effect on the gold, but it
dissolves the silver into a liquid which
looks just like pure water. This limpid
liquid is drawn of, leaving the gold at
the bottom Of the tub. The precious
metal thus purified looks like so much fine
red gravel TO get rid of all moisture it
is subjected to pressure. On coming out
Of the squeezing machine it appears in
the shape of big cakes, resembling angel
food cakes in form. These cakes are
worth about $2j, 900 each, and one could
afford to pay $4,000 for slice Of very
moderate size.
This is the material out of which the
gold coins are made. The gold is melted
in crucible, from which it is dipped
out with ladc and poured into iron
molds. When cooled the molds
are unlocked and taken apart, the
precious metal then appearing in the
shape OF what are termed "ingots." For
the coinage one tenth part of copper is
mixed with the gold, but the Govern
mcnt also makes business OF manufac-
turing "merchants' bars" for the use of
jewelers.. gold leaf makers and dentists,
who require the virgin metal in their
trades. Such bars are as near TO perfect
purity rs can be, being 800 fine out of a
possible / 200. The Government, while
it makes big profit by coming silver,
gains nothing by minting gold pieces,
the intrinsic value of which is equal to
their face. There is always some loss
by wasting, too. The sweepings of the
Philadelphia Mint alone sell for $23, 600
annually. New York Commercial Adj
vertiser.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28

Reyber estimates that between 3, 600 and
6, 900 of these insects make their home
in his bottling department, which occu-
pies a large room probably sixty feet
square.
The ceiling is fairly covered with
thousands upon thousands of little
patches Of fibery material within which
the insects nest and lay their eggs. At
this season they spend little time in their
nests, but in the daytime hide in dark,
out ofthe-way cracks and corners, but
in easy command Of their woven snares.
Spider webs are everywhere spanning
the space between floor and ceiling or
spread about the machinery, in front Of
the window in fact, the
busy wcavers can find place from which
to hang their network A big corner OF
the room is besides given up to the
insects, which have apparently divided
the space into many four-walled apart
ments.
Mr.. Reyber is pleasant and intelli-
gent talker and shrewd observer.
Said he: "Those creatures know more
than a great many people. keep them
because they wage such constant war cn
flies cockroaches and other vermin which
are very troublesome to me and which
are attracted by the syrups, sugar, ETC.,
used in the bottling business.
"A spider never cares for sweet things
nor drops into my watts or bottles. Flies
and cockroaches are natures scavengers,
but those spiders watch everyone that
approaches like hawks and soon lure him
into their meshes. | never disturb them
when | can help it, except to feed them
occasionally.
''Thcy appear to know my cal, and
will come when called and crawl upon
my hand or take fly from my fingers.
They arc tame and have never bitten me,
though | couldn't promise as much to n
stranger.
"This spider is hibcrnating animal,
and shuts himself up during most Of
the winter in those little nests you see
like mud daubs on the ceiling. When
winter comes brush away all these webs,
for the spiders prefer To weave new webs
every spring.
As n cow must be MIXED every day,
this wary and prOvident little creature
must unravel each spring the silken
fabric that is stored in its body. He
does not make his appearance till May,
when the flies have laid their eggs and
Matched their first young, else the fly
crop would soon give out
Meantime the hundreds Of eggs which
each female spider laid during the pre-
yious summer and fall have been going
through process of incubation, and
now turn out with the older ones to seek
n living ior themselves.
Mr.. Reyber has encouraged the insects
to harbor in his establishment for two
years past, and finds the spider of such
practical utility as to be almost indispen-
sable Chattanooga Times.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
A Nearly Automatic Steam Plant.

A new London steam plant has been
constructed of character so largely
automatic in its various mechanisms as
to appear almost independent of human
attention. This is particularly marked
in the case Of the huge boilers, in the
management of which, so long as the
steam pressure is under 100 pounds, the
automatic stokers keep steadily at their
work feeding the furnac S, and the
steam blast keeps the fires roaring AS,
however, the indicator on the pressure
gauge keeps up tow rd the 100 pounds,
a driving belt begins to slide off one
wheel on to another, and precisely at the
maximum pressure the steam blast is
shut off, the stokers stop dead, and the
fires begin to lie down; then the driving
band begins to reverse its movement, and
presently the steam blast is turned on
and the fires begin to be fed again, the
vast and magnificent driving wheel of
thirty feet in diameter, in the center Of
the building, all the while revolving
with the utmost possible steadiness and
regularity. The self-regulating charac-
ter of the different parts is pronounced
one of the typical wonders of modern
machinery. New York Sun.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
The First Europcan-Japanese Mar
ringe.

AT one time if Japanese girl married
foreigner she was instantly deCapi-
tated. A Portuguese gentleman whom
we met in Yokohama related his expert
encc in this direction. He went there
thirty years ago and fell in love with Il
Japanese girl. Her parents warnxd her
Of the fatal consequences Of marrying
him. He was young and ardent, and
she romantic.
IF you agree to marry me will die
with you, 4" he said.
"rhen will marry you, die or live"
the pretty maiden said.
lie was IA Catholic, and he had prom
ised his parents not to marry out of his
religion.
"WiIl you Join the Church" he
asked
Join anything" said she; 1--WE die
together"
They eIoped and visited the nearest
priest, who advised them against their
fatal marriage, but to no purpose.
She cannot be baptized, confirmed
and married all in the same day." said
the priest.
''She must" said the lover.
Il must" said she, ''for we both die
to morrow morning"
The priest waived few customary
rules to tit the occasion and performed
all three ceremonies at once, and then
lntercedcd for the brides life. The
Mikado decided that he could not
behead the Portuguese, but the girl
should die. The priest warned him,
saying, "She is now Portuguese, too,
aud you would better postpone the de-
capitation until you confer with the
Portuguese Government.
Time was granted. The priest per-
suaded. The husband pleaded. The
Portuguese Government demanded.
After a correspondence which lasted
five years and in which the British.
American, aud other Consuls or repre-
sentatives took much interest, the young
woman was permitted to live. Mr.. La
Ro a, the happy husband, is now in
business with n family surrounding
him.
lie, it is said, is the first European
who dared to marry a japanese. ..-
lChicago Record.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-28
Nocturnal Creatures.

Most curious in origin of all nocturnal
insect hunters are the leathery winged
bats, which may be regarded, practi.
Cally speaking, rs very tiny monkeys,
highly specialized for the task of catch
ing nocturnal flies and midgcs. Few
people know how nearly they are related
to us. They belong To the self-sam di-
vision Of the higher mammals rs man and
the apes; their skeleton answers to ours,
bone for bone and Joint for Joint, in an
ordinary manner; only the unessential
fact that they have very long fingers with
Il web between rs an organ of flight pre-
vents us from instantly and instinctively
recognizing them as remote cousins,
once removed from the g5,lla. The fe-
male bat in particular is absurdly human.
Most of them feed off insects alone; but
few, like the famous vampire bats of
South America, take mean advantage
Of sleeping animals, and suck their blood
after the fashion of mosquitoes. as they
lie delenselcss in the forest or on the
open psmpas. Others, like the flying
foxes of the Malay archipelago, make a
frugal meal off fruits and vegetables /,
but even these are persistent night fliors.
They hang head downwards from the
boughs of trees during the hot tropical
daytime, but sally forth at night, with
Millions sons of Belial, TO rob tho banana
patches and invade the plantain grounds
OF the industrious native The bat Is a
lemur, compelled 10y dire necessity to
become flying night bird. i Cornhill
Magazine.