The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-15

Kew. Robert p horton % England who de-
hvcrod the Yale lecture on Preaching" e
| few weeks ago. tells tho Independent 81 Lon
< don that while IN this country he was sur
| prlsed nv the enormous proportion 81 rcenly
intelligent men In American church con
Fregatons. He found the domestic life Of
| the United states more ideal than 30 Is gen
orally In England. Man and wife" he SAYS
are more truly comrades and partners IN the
business OF life The wife, 10 the case OF
ministers, Is more distinctly admitted into
| her husbands work and her husband S
thought, and the children are more taken
into Intimate friendship. and live the life OF
the parents"
The big dam az Austin, Tex, which was re-
ported broken by the foods the other day
is, according to the New Orleans Picayune
one Of the most remarkable pieces Of engi-
neering works OF the sort in the world. There
are four dams that are longer than this and
perhaps a score that are higher, but none OF
these are built upon large rivers, and very
rev OF them have to stand the strain of hay
ing any considerable volume of water pour
over their crests. The Austin dam stands
across river which drains 10000 square
miles of territory and has to withstand floods
OF 25OOOO cubic feet of water per second pour
ing over its top. The recent break, it is said,
is not In the dam proper across the river, but
in the headgate masonry. The foundation OF
this work was not laid in the solid bedrock,
as was that of the dam. but in soft rock and
soil, which has been undermined by the i'm
mense pressure of the water above. The full
extent Of the damage cannot be ascertained
until the lake is drained, which will be done
soon.
In India, says a writer in the Chicago Inter
Ocean, 1 once witnessed a most remarkable
phosphoric light issue from giant flower
called by natives 'bed-swar." The flower was
nearly six inches in diameter and of deep
red color, but with yelowish petals. My at
tention was called to the luminous radiations
of this beautiful plant by n guide, and we
used to visit the garden every morning two
hours before sunrise to observe this fasci-
mating spectacle. This was during the months
of July and August. The light, although
most brilliant in the early morning hours,
could also be discerned during twilight, but
not after total darkness came on. This led
me to believe that the light was not emitted
from the flower itself, but that 1t was reflected.
To determine this placed one Of the flowers
in perfectly dark, that is light, tight room,
where l knew the air to be perfectly dry, and
not the faintest spark could be seen. This
might have been caused by the broken stem,
but am OF the opinion that the light was re-
Elected, as 1t was quite intense and could be
seen at distance of several feet When
viewed closely the petal resembled a mfnia-
ture incandescent electric lamp.
Fish have many times been taught to per-
form tricks, and 1t would appear as If they
had much more intelligence than is attrib-
uted TO them. J. A, Bailey, of circus fame,
told New York Herald man that he once
his private residence that would jump out
Of the water and take flies held between the
forefnger and thumb, and would also ring
little bell when they required food. They
would also leap over little bars of wood
placed about two inches above the surface of
the water. 1t was very simple matter to
teach the fish these tricks, At first a little
tower containing tiny silver bell
was fastened to the iron work OF the
aquarium with piece of string
attached to the tongue of the bell. ex-
fpHdiuU n to IN vvha no
On the loose end Of the string an insect or
other tempting morsel was placed which the
FISH would at once seize, and, pulling the cord,
the bell IN the tower would naturally tlnlkie
After this had been repeated several days the
1sh were left without food for some little
time, until they could obtain IL by pulling at
the string to which the delicacieS had been ats
tached. This they never failed 10 do after
ward whom they were hungry, and, as tkat
was nearly all the time, the little bell was
constantly tinkling, as the fish we're contin-
ually pulling the cord, and 1t was quite a
pretty and novel sight.
The death few days ago at Jacksonville Of
an aged squaw, the last Of the ROGUE river
Indians, settles the account between civiltza-
ton and once powerful tribe, which was
opened something like half a century ago. in
the most satisfactory, if not indeed, the only
way in which such accounts have as yet been
permanently settled, says the Portland
Oregonian. There is something In a degree
pathetic in the complete wiping out of q
brave and sturdy people which even the re-
cital of atrocities they have perpetrated upon
peaceful white settlers cannot wholly subdue
Yet, the passing of the Indian is so manifest
in accordance with natures great law of sur
vival Of the fttest that an attempt to stay
it's progress is futile. The best such
efforts have vet been able to accom-
plish in full 400 years varied endeavor
has been to push these people upon reser-
vations set apart for their use and herd them
there while they slowly dwindle away
knocking them meantime with pretenoe at
CIVILIZATION 1t is true that the various Indian
schools of the country have turned out some
dozens of young Indians more or less well
equipped for the industrial battle of life. But
these-especially the young women among
them-have found ii so hard to face the
altered conditions to which their school life
has presented them that they are scarcely
less objects Of pity in the struggle before
them and around them than is the last mem
Der of a vanQuiShed tribe, waiting in despair
ing silence the summons to the happy hunt
ing grounds
1t would be difficult to picture a more ele-
CANT or more interesting sight than the hatch
ing Of the butterfly broods in the Insect
House during the past few days of almost
summer heat, says the London Spectator
The glass cases, filed with damp moss and
earth, and adorned with portions of tree
trunks or plants suited to the habits of the
moths, are peopled by these exquisite and
delicate creatures, as one after another sepa-
rates itself from the chrysalis case in which
ii has been sleeping Ill the winter and fiut-
tering upward with weak and uncertain move
ments, exposes its full beauties to the light
me wings OF the largest KIND, such as the
great orsnge-brown ATLAS" moth are as
wide as those of a missel-thrush and the
great size Of this and other species
increases the strange likeness to
bird forms which is so marked even
in the smaller English hawk moths. The
giant moths of the tropics, unlike the rest of
the insect world, have faces and features not
devoid of expression. Some resemble birds.
Others cats. Some are covered with long.
soft plumage like the feathers of the mara
bout or the plumes of swans. Others are
wrapped in a silky mantle like an Angora
kitten, or clothed in ermine and sablcs The
depth and softaess of these downy nantes
make the impulse to stroke them suggest
itself at once yet, when the head keeper lifts
them from the branch on which they rest. as
falconer lifts his hawk the feeling that thew
are neither moths nor animals but long