The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-09
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pamr az Arehaurei this month Tho e1Hh an
niversarv OF the foundation nf the Empire
I mercantile shipping II was liz that port on
. the white sea that Peter the Great formally
/ laid the keel 81 the hrst Russian merchant
mau IN july, 1888
/ A romantic incident has interrupted the
western tour Of the nephew Of the Sultan Of
4 .Johore. who. with his inustrious uncle was
/ expected 70 VISIT the worlds fair At Chicago
/ this fail. and the young prince viii return
! home Two years ago the prince visited
/ Europe and at Carlsbad fell in love with the
! daughter a local locksmith, who was famed in
/ the district for her beauty. When the royal
I party reach Carlsbad, three weeks ago, the
prince sought out the young woman. and after
! few days introduced her to the sultan, who
/ consented to their bethrOtaI The wedding
| was to take place about sJune TO- and the SUI
| tan made the couple present of $500 900 and
/ also settled $4,000 on the brides parents,
| After the wedding the young couple were to
/ return to the far east.
| Travellers IN our southwest and especially
! in Mexico, find a striking resemblance be
| tween the domestic architecture there and
! the same architecture in Palestine says the
| New York Sun. There are old towns in Tex
| as, Arizona, and California that are so like
such places as Bethlehem and Bethany that
| If photographs Of them were thus labeled not
one observer in twenty would be the wiser.
| The low, fiat-rOOfed house of adobe with
small deep windows and doors, the rude bal
comics and stairways in the courts, the mar
row Uttered streets without wards the fOuu-
talns pools ard palms in enclosures of houses
OF the better lass. even the occasional low
dome and slender tower are characteristic of
both countries The Spaniard got his archi-
| tectural ideas from the east and the persist
ent survival OF the type OF these models after
several centuries is markedly obvious where
ever he has built
WEIGH is the greatest game OF the Chinese,
especially with the literary class, and is rank
ed by them superior to chess. Like chess.
this game is of a general military and mathe-
NAUTICAL character, but is on much more ex-
tended scale, the board containing 261 places
and employing nearly 200 men on a side. All
of the men, however, have the same value and
powers. The object is to command as many
places on the board as possible. This may be
done by inclosing empty spaces, or surround
ing the enemy'S men. Very close calculation
| is always essential in order that a loss in one
region may be met by gains in another, thus
employing Skillful strategy when the contest
ants are evenly matched. The game has come
down from great antiquity, being first men
toned in Chinese writing about 625 B. @. 1t
was in all probability introduced by the Baby
lonian astronomers, who where at that time
instructors of all the east
One of the most remarkable discoveries in
the shape of peculiar species of fish ever
made on this continent was that made at Car
son City, New, in 1876. At that time both the
Hale 81 Norcross and the Savage mines were
down to what is known as the "2,200-foot
level When at that depth subterranean
ldkS Oh DOlllUB WdUCr was tapped. Inc dCCl-
dent flooded both mines to the depth of 400
feet After the water had all been pumped
out except that which had gathered in basins
and in the inaccessible portions Of the works,
and when the water still had temperature of
1913 degrees-nearly scalding hot-many queer
looking little blood-red fish were taken out.
In appearance they resembled goldfish
They seemed lively and spOrtive enough
when they were in their native element
boiling Observation-Disclosures the fact that
they did not even have rudfmentary eyes.
When the fish were taken out of the hot
water and put into buckets of cold water for
the purpose of being transported to the sur
face, they died as quickly as perch or bass
would if plunged into kettle of water that
was scaldtng hot not only this, but the skin
peeled of exactly as If they had been boiled.
EyeleSS fish are common enough In all sub
terranean lakes and rivers, but this is the
only case on record of living fish being found
in boiling water.
AS long ago as 1888 years before Christ Alex
ander the Great employed mirrors to convey
signals by the light of the sun. Since the
time of the great warrior the idea has been
reduced to a science and called hello
graphy." The heliostat, an instrument in
vented in Holland early in the eighteenth
century, and the Photograph, invented by
Manse IN 1875 have both been used by the
Bri 1ish army in their eastern campaigns. The
instruments mentioned differ somewhat In
construction but the results are the same no
matter which instrument is used In both
signals are produced by causing reflected
ray of the sun to appear and disappear alter
nately at distant point the intervals of APP
pearance and observation being carried in
| lengths so as to produce the combination of
! long and short signals known as the Morse
alphabet. In these instruments the rejecting
body is glass mirror, which varies in size
according to the distance to which it is de-
sired to signal A tlve-inCh mirror has given
under favorable atmospheric conditions dis
tinCt signals that could be read sixty miles
away. The heliograph has also been found to
be Of great service in defining distant points
OF large surveys and was used to fine ad-
vantage for verifying the arc of the meridian
by the astronomers at the Cape of Good Hope
few years ago,
Il never ask about a horses traits" said
horse buyer to a Sporting World reporter the
other day. An want is good square look
in the face. Once in hundred times l may
mistake the head. but not oftener than that /
believe. - 1t doesn't require an expert to
read horses faces, either A person who has
never handled horse can saunter down
Broadway any afternoon and point ont the
good, docile, family carriage horse, the biting
horse the treacherous animal, the one likely
to kick or run at any moment, or the proud
high spirited horse. that may be dangerous
and vet not vicious in the least The Kicking
horse can nearly always be singled
out by the vicious CLEAN in his eye
which stamps him a born kicker. OF ali
horses. though, the miserable looking horse
attracts most attention. This is the horse
prosecuted by the checkrein. Like women
and men who wear shoes d size too small he
shows the outward evidence of his misery
have been made fretful and vicious by being
enslaved by the infamous and cruel check
rein. There are horses, broken down by long
and continual service for man. which show
sad facial expression. These may be found
hitched to drays around town to rickety wae-
ons of pedlers and ragpickers, and occasion
ally to wagons of contractors and transfers
Once, perhaps, they were full of the buoyancv
OF youth, but constant drudgery has made
them mere tools, barely animate"
The killing and devouring of sparrow
by blackbird was witnessed in PhiladeI-
phia on Sunday by large crowd of pedes
TRANS. The blackbird was first noticed on
limb of tree near its nest. few feet
below, on another limb was perched the
sparrow, which every moment or so would
fly toward the blackbird nest, as if to invade
it, The blackbird, with fluttering of wings
and a few shrill notes, would rush to the de
Tense OF its nest, when the sparrow would
retreat. The sparrow, however. was not to
be scared away, and with the impudence
characteristic of it's kind, it was no sooner
settled down safely on the limb than it was
again threatening an attack on the black
birds nest. This continued for prob
ably ten minutes when the blackbird, greatly
excited and unable to longer control its an
ger, few down toward the sparrow as the lat
ter assembled catching the back of its neck
in its bill and bearing it to the pave