The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-04
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Nor even the pipe Of peace will be tolerated
by the natives of Pitcairn island, as sailors who
arrived at New York recently on the ship Wig
liant from Yokohama have testified. ship
wrecked sailor named Coffin recently landed
there with pipe and enough tobacco to last
him month. He banished to plateau
far away from the settlement, and smoked
away by himself until he was rescued by q ship
from his solitude.
MARRIAGE Reform" is a hobby of Repre-
sentative H. C. Wilson of the Illinois legislature
He will endeavor. says the New York Post TO
secure the passage at this session of bill pro
viding that marriage licenses shall be issued
only to persons who can read and write, who
are sound mentally and free from disease, who
can furnish satisfactory evidence that they if
males, are engaged in some honorable employ.
ment from which they derive a sufficient in
come to support their wives AS evidence OF
their state of health the certificate of family
physician in good standing will be necessary.
Should the parties desiring TO enter into the
marriage contract be strangers in the county
where they apply for license, the bill would
require them to visit physician, submit tc an
examination. and obtain certifics to as a con-
dition precedent to the issuing of the license.
In pigeon English chop-chop means quickly,
says the New York World. A Chinese waiter
in any coast city of Chinawould hasten to bring
your dinner il you said to him, "Catchee chow
chow chop-chop.H Pigeon English is q strange
mixture of Chinese, English and nondescript
words. When the late King KaIakaua was 10
Shanghai an American gentleman called to pay
his respects. The hotel proprietor stepped to
the foot of the main stairway and called the
boy on the next floor, 'Hil That piecee king
top side hab got?H "Hab got, replied the boy,
and the American was shown up to his
majesty's apartments. Another American who
called at private residence in an Rristocratic
quarter Of FOO Choo was told by a servant that
the young ladies Of the family were not to be
seen. This is the way in which the informa-
].
washee; No. 9 go walkee" One of the young
ladies was bathing upstairs and the other had
gone out for walk.
THE subject of short sightedness in animals
was under consideration at a meeting of the
Paris Academy of Medicine, when NJ. Motais of
Augers maintained that this defect in vision is
one of the products of civilization. An unex-
pected proof of this view was found in the con-
dition of wild beasts, such tigers, lions. etc.
NJ. MOtais having examined their eyes by means
OF the ophthalmoscope, discovered that those
captured after the age of or months retained
the long sight natural to them, but that those
made captive before that age and those born in
state OF captivity were short sighted. Some
time since a case was published of a horse 10
this country that wears speotacles The farmer
who owned him, having come to the conclusion
from various symptoms that the horse was
short-sighted, got an oculist to take the
necessary measurements and had pair OF
spectacles manufactured for him. They
wee made to fasten firmly into the head
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place. AT first the horse seemed frightened by
this addition to his harness. but he soon got
used to his glasses and liked them. I'm fact"
said the owner to a Brooklyn Eagle man,
when turned him out to pasture he felt un-
easy and uncomfortable without his goggles
and one Sunday he hung round the barn and
whinnied 80 Dlaintiyely that put the headstall
and goggles on him and he was so glad that he
rubbed my shoulder with his nose" It is
thought that the of shying, which spoils so
many otherwise valuable horses is induced bv
gluhTn1naCR 70 no py,pt ca
particular object sufficiently plainly to feel
sure that it is OF harmless nature and SO SHES
away from 1t. Owners of dogs may often
prove that their pets suffer from short sight,
for II will often be found that dog is unable to
recognize people with whose appearance it is
most intimate when they are a little way of,
another dog, at the same distance has no diff
Guilty whatever in recognizing them. Dogs have
been provided with spectacles In the same way
as the farmers horse alluded to, and have been
conclusivelY shown to have derived great bene-
tit from them.
THE largest mass Of gold ever found in Cali
fornia, says the San Francisco Chronicle. was
that dug out at Carson Hill, Calaveres county
in 1854. 1t weighed 1876 pounds. Other Jumps
weighing several pounds we're found at the
same place. Aug. 49, 1860, w. A. Parish and
Harry Warner took from the Monumental
quartz mine, Sierra county, a mass of gold and
quartz weighing 1873 pounds. II was sold to R.
b. Woodward OF San Francisco for S21 636 Sc
1t was exhibited at Woodward's gardens for
gold to the value of 81, 654 81. Aug. l. 1858 Ira
A. Willard found on the west branch of Feather
river nugget which weighed 81 pounds avoir-
dupois before and 4914 pounds after melting A
nugget dug at Kelsey. El Dorado county was
sold for 400. III 1854 nugget was found in
the middle fork of the American river, two miles
from Michigan bluff, that weighed Is pounds 10
ounces and was sold for 34,204 by the finder
In 1880 at Corona. Tuolumne county. was found
a Rold-quG ritz nugget which weighed l5i pounds
ounces. Half a mile east OF Columbia
N,%lVY srr.Nv- H..
Mr. Strain found nugget which weighed 80
pounds avoirdupois. 1t yielded $500 when
melted. In lS49 was found in SuLlivans creek,
Tuolumne county, nugget that weighed Is
found in Kanaka creek. Sierra county, that
weighed &c pounds. At Rattlesnake creek the
same year a nugget weighing l06 pounds
ounces was found. A quartz bowlder found in
French Gulch, Sierra county, in 1851 yielded
$4,000 in gold. In 1857 a bowlder Of gold quartz
was found at Pilot hill, Ell Dorado county that
yielded $4,000 when. worked up 1t was
"Bowlder Gravel' claim, from which
many smaller gold-quartz nuggets have
been taken at various times. Outside Of Coli
fornia few nuggets Of note have been found in
any Of the Pacific coast states and territories
The largest nugget ever found in Nevada was
one taken out OF the Osceola Placer mine about
twenty years ago. II weighed twenty -four
pounds and is supposed to have contained
nearly $4,000 in gold hired man foun and
stole it, but reporting, gave up to the owners in
a month or two over 81, 900 in small bars-all he
had left Of the big chunk. In the same mine
about year ago, nugget worth 80 100 was
found. Montana's largest nugget was found by
Ed Rising at Snow-Shoe Gulch, on the Little
BlacEfoot river. Il was worth 1885. 1t lay
twelve feet below the surface and about a TO Z
above the bedrock. Coorada's biggest nugget
was found at Breckenridge. 1t weighed thirteen
pounds, but was mixed with lead carbonate and
quartz
A RARE EVENT is Charles A. Dana's appear