The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-17
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eyes. This has been proved, says the New
York Independent by O. P. Hay, who to fac-
ltate the shedding of the skin, tossed one into
the water, when ION the side nf the basin there
suddenly appeared a number OF spots of red
fluid which resembled blood" This was mi.
| croscopcally proved TO be blood A day or two
afterward Mr.. Hay was holding the lizard be-
tween his thumb and middle finger and strok-
ing its horns with his fore-hnger. All at once
quantity of blood was thrown out against his
fingers and a portion of it ran down on the ami
mails ueck, ami this blood came directly out of
the right eye This has been noticed by others,
and Mr. Hay states that more than twenty
years ago A. r. Wallace published letter
| from a corresp ondent in California who de-
scribed this creature as squirting from one of
ITS eyes "a Jet OF bright red liquid very much
like blood"
IN 1875. says Chambers Journal. Mohammed
IL, in forming the siege of Scutari in Albsn q,
employed fourteen heavy bombards, the light
est of which threw a stone shot of $40 pounds
weight, two sent shot of 500 pounds two of $50
pounds, two OF $50 pounds, one Of l. eco pounds
five Of 800 pounds and one of the enormous
weight of $40 pounds. enormous even in these
days, for the only gun whose shot exceed the
heaviest OF these are our S0-ton gun, throwing
l,7OO-pOund projectile; our 100-ton, throwing
ore Of 1000 pounds, and the 1l0-ton, throwing
an l,6OO-pound shot with high velocity. The
stone shots OF No ahmed guns var between
twenty and thirty Two inches in diameter about
the same hight as a dining table; 1884 of them
were fired on this occasion, weighing, accord
ing TO calculation OF Gen. LEROY, about coo
spot. Assuming twenty -four inches as tbs aver
age diameter of the shot fred at this siege. the
total area of the surface dressed nearly
$4,000 square feet. AT this siege the weight OF
the powder fired Is estimated by Gen. LEROY to
have been $50 tons. At the siege OF Rhodes in
lisO Mohammed caused sixteen basilisks or
double cannon to he cast on the spot, throwing
balls two to three feet in diameter.
ALIrTLE VESSEL having a remarkable history
has piled for years on Lake Tanganyika, says
the Chicago P,st Her story illustrates the
progress in that region from slavery toward
civilization. The boat, known as tie Calabash
was originally huge tree trunk cut down by
the axes II the natives with enormous labor
and then, With ak and adze and fire nodded
into shape Boats like the Calabash are excel
lent see vessels, though in their ines they sug-
Rest rather clumsy hlppopolAmus than q
swan On one of her voyages, after she had
served as trading canoe for three years she
entered the port OF jill, where she was bought
by Mswahili slave-trader. For three years
she piled back and across the lake, bringing
forth cargoes of wretched men, women ami
children to the Ujji slave market. One day a
number of slaves had just been landed on the
| coast, when Mr.. Hore, who had recently come
| to Ujiji as an agent OF the London Missionary
Society, saw the little craft and decided that
= she was just about what he needed for explora-
D tory voyages around the lake He succeeded in
Y purchasing her. and the little boat was once
more launched upon TanKaIyika as the first
, missionary vessel on the lake. Consecrated to
\ | the cause OF peace, size became known in time
to every tribe as the harbinger OF good will
: | Lake Tankanyika, as it appears on our maps
: | to-cay is the result of these surveys which Mr.
| Hore carried out on the CalAbash. His survey
, Is the best that has yet been made of the lake
3 ! He padded and sailed along the shore every
a DAY seeing grand panorama OF unknown lands
! | and new tribes. BY careful measurement aud
observations, month after month, the outlines
Z OF the lake and the names of the bordering
/ | countries were marked on the map OF Africa
I THE theory that the modern bullet fired from
the modern rife, makes a less serious wound
81 ~ e. Ill.,
York Sun to be disproved by the results noted
i in recent warfare. 1t has been generally stated
: that the modern bullet, a small leaden cora
. with steel covering, little larger than an inch
! | of Ordinary lead pencil. would 90 Clearly
| through flesh and bone, and the results vould
| be more disablement and less loss of life The
! contrary has been noted, however, in the cam
psign by France and Dahomey. The Lebel bull
| let is found to have an explosive effect 1t
tears its way through flesh and bone, making
= terrible wounds usually with fatal results The
bullet from the Austrian Mannlicher rife is
found to act in a similar way. soldier was
q | accidentally killed near the Vienna arsenal
two weeks ago by bullet from a MannlcheF
rifle and the post-mortem showed that far
/ | from simply puncturing and passing Through
= the body it had made hideous wound The
|, steel covering appeared to have broken off
= from the leaden core on contact with the body
n and the two pieces spread in the body with an
p explosive effect, causing almost instant death.
: 1t is said the Austrian authorities contemplate
= trying new form OF bullet. II they do it Will
From the firing party's point Of view, especially
a bullet that disables but does
not Xxi XIII is far better than one
@ posing force out OF action dead soldier is
| out of every ones way, but wounded ono
!, | needs attendance, aud the greater the number
l Of wounded the more is the army embarrassed
l in its operations. Still, while being hit by one
Of these bullets seems to be highly unpleasant
: | it has been shown recently that the probabill-
{ ties OF such a thing happening are no greater
with the modern rifle and bullet than with the
; old-fashioned arms and ammunition, and that
I the proportion of hits to rounds fired Is very
; small.
LOUIS is a name which sounds to most of us
at the present day peculiarly French and GER
I tainlY very un-English. says Lonoman's Maoa-
zine. Yet there were Louis or their equivalents
among the continental English in their home by
the mouth of the Elbe long before there were
any bearers OF that famous title in the land
that is now called France after its English con-
querors The first half of the word is HI, d,
famous" or renowned; and the second half
Is our old friend loig, war as in Eadwig
{ (Edwyl and Oswig (Oswyl HodwiR is thus
equivalent to famous war" or perhaps more
truly to famous warrior" or war
, famed; and its Latinized form, 'l.udovicus,"
l still keeps pretty close to the memory
Of its original shape. Now these hIod
names. as it happens. were great favorites with
| the Franksh royal family, Just as Aethels were
in Wessex and Os' in NorthumbriA But the
Roman provincials found the initial a terrible
! stumbling block to their lisping lips tss vulgar
|
III, and generally Latinized it by the easier CHI
} So the first Hlodwig who went into Gaul as an
| important conqueror bears In low Latin the
name OF Chlodio, while his more famous grand
son is known to all in the disguised and
FrenchIfled form of Clovis. Clovis wife was a
Burgundian Hlodhid, now half disguised for
- us in the truly Gallo garb of Clotilde. though
- contempory Latin chroniclers knew
a her rather as Chlodechilda, Cpro-
=. nounce the ch hard in every as RutteraD.
, In later days Hlodwig, Clovis or Hluddis
I got gradually softened into Londvs and Louis,
= though Lluduicus is the intermediate Latinizsd
, shape In which the name was officially borne by
the person know as Louis 10 Debonnaire
, Since seventeen Louis sat on the throne of
France mot counting Clovis or the poor little
Dauphinl and one of them was also a saint, the
name became naturally the most popular in
, Franc. Thence spreading TO Italy, for the most
, part as Luigi, though a more truly local and
national form, Lodovico, introduced by the
! Lombards held its ground in Lombardy where
it has been made familiar TO US all by the fam
Gus name Of Ludovico Sforza. In Spain il be
came Luis, in Portugal, Luiz, and in Provence,
Alloys, or Alois, more renowned under its asti-
! fetal feminine form OF Aloyse, or Heloise.
Louise and Lousisa belong TO the same stock;