The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-02
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is fastened with iron cuffs o. the ranle gpd ~
an old storchouse a. skull shoals post 'fte.
Nervous mortals who imagine that they
could stand dying an right enough were 70 not
for the fear Of being buried alive may be In
tercsted in q recent announcement made by
French scientist He SAYS thar an uulalliug
test OF death may De made by producing %
blister on the hand or foot OF the corpse.
using candle FOR that purpose. II the
blister, uDon being opened with pin or other
instrument, Is found TO contain fluid OF any
kind there is still life IN the supposed corusc.
ON the other hand, should 10 contain steam
only, rest assured that the spark has flown.
a chain Of compressed cakes Of gun cotton
tied around the trunk of the largest sized
trees and exploded will, by the action OF their
violence cut the tree down instantly ana as
smoothly as though done by an ak in the
hands of an experienced woOdman. Timber
cutters working among the forest giants OF
Montana, Idaho and Washington declare IL 10
be the cheapest and most economical mode OF
telling trees that has as vet been devised.
Only experienced persons with suitable cleo
trical apparatus for exploding the dangerous
material used in this operation should at
tempt such short cuts in time and labor saw
ing.
Hello is almost a new word, as it differs
in FORM sound and use from the old "halloo,
says the Pttsburg Gazette It is merely
mentioned by Webster and the searcher for
information is referred TO ''halloo," which is
defined as an interjectiOu, loud call or the
noise of the hunt. The forms there given
'haloa' and halloo'-are not well adapted
to the American tongue, neither are they suS
cept1ble to the variety OF expression that can
be given to hello" Probably the word halloo
grew out of the call hail, ohi' which was
almost universally used by wayfarerS in olden
time when hating at house along the way
Hail oh! the house" was another form quite
common in this section in early times, This
would quite naturally take the form of hal
bOmSp However *
not given by Webster, but merely suggests
itself.
The four countries in the world which pos
sess the smallest telegraph facilities are
according to the Hartford Courant Peru,
Paraguay, Uruguay and Persia In the first
named there are only thirty-siX telegraph
onlceS in the whole country and but 1000
miles OF wire. In the territory Of Paraguay
there are only $40 miles of wire in operation
and the entire telegraphic service of that
country requires the services of but twenty
eight persons. One line of 800 miles, owned
and operated by the government, runs from
Asuncion to PaSo de Patria, the limit of
Paraguayan territory. and the other $50 miles
by the railroad from Asuncion to PiTapo.
Owing to high water and camp fires in that
country the line is often interrupted for days
at time. At Paso de Patria the line breaks,
there being no cable over the Alto Parana
river, which is three miles wide. Communi-
cation is therefore by canoe, which takes
messages over in the morning to the Argen-
at night An important telegram is often
delayed ten or fifteen hours.
1t is a fact not generally known, says a
writer in Science, that if one holds his breath
wasps, bees and hornets can be handled with
impunity. The skin becomes sting proof, and
by holding the insect by the feet and giving
her full liberty of action you can see her
drive her weapon against the impenetrable
surface with force that lifts her body at
every stroke; but let the smallest quantity
of air escape from the lungs and the sting
VIII penetrate at once, | have never seen an
exception to this in twenty-five years OBJ
servation. 1 have taught young ladies with
very delicate hands to astoniSh their friends
by the performance of this feat, and l saw
one so severely Stung as to require the
services of a physician through laughing at q
witty remark of her sister, forgetting that
laughing required breath. For a theory in
explanation l am led to believe that holding
the breath partially closes the pores of the
skin. My experiments in that direction have
not been exact enough to be of any scientific
value but am satisfied that it very sensihly
affects the amount of insensible perspiration.
The first posts are said to have originated
in the regular cOuriers established by Cyrus
about $50 b. c., who erected posthouses
throughout the kingdom of Persia, sLys a
writer in Chambers Journal Augustus was
the first to introduce this institution among
the Romans, 81 B. c., and he was initiated by
Charlemagne about 800 A. d. Louis XII. was
the first sovereign to establish posthOuses in
France. owing to his eaGerness for news. and
they were also the first institution of this
nature in Europe. This was in 1470, or about
1000 years after they were started in Persia.
In England in the reign of Edward " tl4SD
riders on poSthOrSeS went stages Of the dis
tanCe OF twenty miles from each other, in or
der to procure the king the earliest intelh-
genCe OF the events that passed in the course
of the war that had arisen with the Scots. A
proclamation was issued by Charles l. in
1851, that whereas to this time there hath
certain Intercourse no
Kingdoms Of England and Scotland. the king
now commands his postmaster of England
for foreign parts to settle o running post or
two between Edinburgh and London to 90
thither and come back again in six days"
In travelling around the world from east to
west a day is lost, for the same reason that if
one could go around the world in twenty four
hours in the same direction he would retain
the same relative position to the Sun-hc
would travel with the sun as il were. ana
there would be no succession of day and
night SO. in travelling more lciSurely west
ward certain amount of time is added to
each day, viii, h. in making the circuit of The
earth. would amount to an entire day In or
der therefore. to adjust his reckoning to the
calendar of the place which he left. he must at
some point In the journey pass over one day
of that calendar as if be had not lived the
whole time, by lengthening every day in his
journey. NavigatOrS have agreed to make
the change in the 1s0th degree east or west OF
Greenwich. When they reach this meridian
sailing NOntN ttLA tllC9 ICptdi "a Jay. lUefG
is no other point or line on the world s surface
so favorable for making the change in reckon
ing. for dropping or adding a day as that
which has been taken Ivy navigators the
prime meridian. 1902. 4 his line falls in the
Pacific ocean, where there are no inhabitants
to e affected by the change, except on the
scattered islands.
Among the many queer stories related in
the old Jewish Talmud and copied into Bar
iuRGould's "Patriarchs and Prophets" and
works of similar import is one concerning the
action taken by the great race of giants at the
time Of the deluge, saws the ST. Louis Re
public At the time of the food the giants
we're not all drowned. Their leader. o..
planted his foot upon the fountains of the
deep, and with his hands he stopped the win
doTs of heaven. According to Rabbi Eliezer
when the flood broke upon the earth the giants
exclaimed: If all the waters of the earth he
gathered together they will only reach to our
waists, and il the fountains of the great
again. This they did. as they had declared
they would Then God made the waters
hot and boiled their flesh from their bones
The Targum OF Palestine also saws the waters
of the flood were hot. The Talmud then goes
on to relate the story of the escape of Og, de
claring that he went into the water along
with the rhinoceros. clinginR to the side of the
ark. The same authorities which give us an
account of how Og saved himself tell us
that all the waters of the deluge were hot ex-
cept that which Immediately surrounded the
hull of the ark. One rabbinic authority cited
by Gould's 'Patriarchs and Prophets page
3, says that Og climbed upon the top of the
ark, and that when Noah discovered and at