The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

valley north of Sumner nearly every spring.
The mud shoe consists of heavy board about
eight inches wide and from eight to ten inches
| long, rounding in front On this board a red
| hot shoe of the size worn on the horses foot
| for which it is intended is placed until il
| burns into II to depth almost sufficient to
| bury itself 1t is necessary that the shoe
have a long toe and long corks. A piece of
! circular band iron to fit over the top part OF
the hoof is then attached to the board and
| over the hoof to hold the mud shoe solidly to
| the foot. One end of the band is fastened to
| the board with screw which when frightened
| holds the board squarely to the bottom of the
| hoof as If it had grown there. The horses be
| come accustomed to wearing them, and after
| a day or two experience no difficulty in work
| ing in them. BY this means farmers are en-.
abled to pillow land in the spring where with
| out the use of the mud shoes horses would
mire down.
An interesting English invention consists OF
I a camera combined with parachute, especi
ally designed for obtaining photographs of
! Notifications and of the camps of the enemy
although pictures may also be made for gen
' eral surveying purposes. The parachute is
l snugly folded in thin case at the end of a
rocket, which is fired to the required hight
and bursts open by means of a time fuse. The
explosion sets free the parachute, which is
| protected from injury by means of a casing of
| asbestos. The parachute has a number of
thin umbrella ribs, and these are forced out
ward and kept in that position by means of a
strong spiral spring. From the parachute a
camera is suspended, and a string held by the
operator is attached by a universal Joint to
the bottom of the device for the purpose of
pulling the parachute back. The camera is
fitted with an instantaneous shutter, operated
by clookwork, so as to give several exposures
at intervals. At the back of the box is an
arrangement by which the plates can be
manipulated by clockwork A swinging mo-
ton can be given the camera by the operator
and this will enable him to obtain successive
pictures over a wide area.
j. M. Campbell, the most extensive sheep
man in Western Texas, has lost % per cent
Of his flock during the past twelve months
says San Antonio special. They were all
killed by wolves. He now has 1900 head of
sheep on his ranch in Valverde county, and
the wolves continue to depredate upon them.
Over 100 wolves have been killed on his ranch
since January. Mr.; Campbell endeavored to
get rid OF the varmints by poisoning them,
but met with little success. He has now hit
upon novel plan for DISCRIMINATING every
wolf in Western Texas. 1t is by incubation
he trapped ten wolves about two months ago
and penned them up with a dog that was
badly affected with the mango. The wolves
soon caught the disease and are now thor
oughly covered with the parasites that prod
uce 1t. They will he turned loose on the
range in few days, and Mr.. Campbell ex-
poets the disease to spread among the depre-
dators so rapidly that there Will not be one
of them left in Texas two years hence. 1t was
never known before that wolves were Srscep-
tible to the mango. They live together in
1t is incurable, and no animal having it will
breed. If Mr., Campbell's experiment proves
successful 1t will be worth thousands of dol
lars to the sheep interests of Texas and other
states and territories annually.
We are indebted to L. B. Hawks. recently
in the government Indian service in Arizona.
for description of the manner in which some
of the braves in the Apache region prepare
their deadly arrows. says the Pomona (Cal0
Progress. Although the Apaches have had
little or no use for their poisoned weapons for
years, still they, because of tribal instinct,
each summer go through "a preparation of
their arrow tips as carefully and methodically
as though an Old-time war were at hand. This
work on the arrow is one piece of labor that
tho Indian brave will not leave to the sduaws
He gathers dozen or more rattlesnake
heads and puts them in a spherical earthen
vessel. With these he puts half q pint of a
species OF large red ant that Is found in many
parts of Arizona. The bite of this ant is
more poisonous than that of a bee. Upon
these he pourS bit of water and then seals
up with moist earth the lid of this vessel He
| then digs a hole two feet deep into the
ground, into which he builds roaring fire
and puts in some stones. When the interior
of the hole and the stones are red hot he
makes place in the bottom for the earthpn
vessel and puts it in. About il and upon it he
puts the Goals and hot stones and upon the
top he builds fierce fire and keeps it up for
twenty-four hours. Then he digs out his YES
sci and, standing off with long pole he dis
engages the top and lets the fumes escane
The Indian insists that if the fumes shohId
come in his face they would kill him The
mass left at the bottom of the vessel is a
dark brown paste. To test the efficacy of his
concoction Mr.. Hawks has seen an Indian
with hunting knife make a cut in his leo
Just below the knee and let the blood run
down to his ankle. Then taking a stick he
dipped it into the poison and touched the de-
scending blood at the ankle. 1t immediately
began to Sizzle as If it were cooking, the
blood, and the poison followed the blood right
up the leg, sizzling its way, until the Indian
scraped the blood off with knife The saw
age assuredsMr. Hawks that had he allowed
the poison to reach the mouth of the wound
he would have been dead man in twenty
minutes.
The ancient custom of whirling the tea Gun
and telling fortunes by the dregs, seeing a
kiss here. ring there, clear sky or tears. is
known as part OF the old divination which
even the more enlightened of the heathens
ridicule, says Harper's Bazaar The notion of
disaster with thirteen at the table was ex-
ploded long ago. The idea that Friday is n
day of tllluck, that any of God S days can he
days OF tll-luck, ranks one adhering to IL as
among the low and ignorant. That one must
not trim ones nails on Sunday lest one do
something that one Is ashamed of before the
next Sunday; that the scissors dropping into
the hoor instead of upon it announce a com
ing guest; that the rocking OF an emptv chair
gives spiritual warnings; that the having of a
dog at night, the breaking of a looking 9Iass
the putting on OF another's Grape, all prophesv
htdtu-tLo DSll6l III IueSe ana kindred sinner
stitions and the expression or exercise Of sIIcb
belief give one a low caste, and are no longer
to be INDUCED in with safety bv those an,
bilious Of social correctness and elegance
enlightenment has gone too far In these
days for those desiring its extension
to subject themselves To the
idleness of belief in any nos.
sible power over us inherent in any contihua.
ton of inanimate substances. We have come
out into the light and left the bats and owls
and creeping things Of night behind us. We
cannot be hampered by those who persist in
looking back and lingering over such dust
and ashes; we drop their hands and 20 on. II
has become by the edict not only of the
christian faith, but even of CAV society an
evidence Of vulgar breeding, both inadmissi.
ole ana impossible, TO give any more heed
than VIC should TO objects Of curiosity to these
notions and fancies, which are in amount Inc
creed OF the ignorant beldams OF the darlr
ages. THESE useless and depravlng things
must all go together In the caldron where Inc
sisters OF the blasted heath performed their
nominations, belonging TO the legends ~
dark history and unhappy ages. and be- al
lowed TO bear 20 relations whatever Ia the
sweetness and light OF our own fortunate