The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-13
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LONG before Elaine Goodale went as mis-
sionary to the Indians to become the wife of an
educated savage Delight Sargent had tried to
convert the Choctaws and Cherokees in Tonnes
see and Georgia, and married E. @. Boudinott
who was a promiu ent figure in the land troubles
between the Cherokees and the United States
AFTER the assassination of her husband, Mrs.
Boud1nott went to Troy, N. Y, where the ven
cradle lady died few days ago at the age
of 90.
A HAMBURG firm, 1t is said, is making q
fortune by selling bogus Heigoland postage
stamps to collectors IN Germany. As soon as
Cne AnRlo-German agreement concerning the
island became known there was a tremendous
demand for the old Heligoland stamps, and the
prices went up to IS and so cents apiece The
nrm In question at once bought the Heligoland
stamp for little more than its value as old
metal, and has kept 1t going day ana night ever
since 1t has sold already 20, O0O and has more
orders in sight than it can FILL At recent
meeting OF the Postage Stamp Bourse at Berlin
movement to stop the fraud was started
THE jasperized wood of Arizona has become
well known by reason of the many cabinet
specimens, paper weights and decorative slabs
OF IL that are sent to the eastern cities but this
Is by no means the only petrifled forest in this
country In the Hoodoo district of the Yellow
stone stumps of trees are converted to
stone, some of them showing knots, grain of
wood and bark as plainly the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone river are
strewn with tons of FRAGMENTS of fossil wood
In the dreary desert of the Dakota bad lands
leaf impressions are frequently found in the
hardened clay, and at Little Missouri, at the
point known as the Burning mountain where q
coal seam has been on fire since nobody knows
when, there are half dozen tree trunks about
thirty feet long. This is remarkable on account
OF the almost total lack Of tree life in the region
at present.
PROF.. MoLLER Of Carlsruhe has made most in
teresting observations on clouds. The highest
clouds, cirrus and cirro-stratus. rise on an aver
age TO hight OF nearly 10000 feet. The middle
clouds Keep at about 10 900 to 23, 0G0 feet in
hight. while the lower clouds reach TO between
500 and 900 feet. The cumulus clouds float
with their lower surface at hight Of from 1000
10 oUOO feet, while their submits rise to i6 600
feet. The tops of the Alps are often hidden by
clouds OF the third class, but the bottom of the
clouds or the second class and especially of the
thunder class often enfold them: The vertical
dimensions OF cloud observed by Prof. Moller
on the Netleoerg was over l 300 feet. He
stepped out of it at hight of about 8, 700 feet,
and high above the mountain floated clouds Of
the middle class, while wales of mist lay on the
ravlnes and clefts. The upper clouds were
growing thicker. while the lower ones we're dis
solving and soon it began to rain and snow.
THE New Orleans Picavuns quotes some in
teresting statistics from a recent issue of the
Bluehelds Messenger. published in Bluefields.
the leading shipping port Of the Central Ameri-
can republic OF Nicaragua, showing the ship
ments OF bananas from that point during 1892
According to the Messenoer. there has been a
considerable increase In the shipments OF ba-
nanss from there, and that had the shipping
facilities been larger the movement would have
been even more extensive, as sufficient fruit
was available to swell the exports to 1900, 600
lunches, or practically 6OO,OO0 punches mora
than the actual shipments. Notwithstanding
| the drawbacks placed in the way Of the trade
| by insufficient shipping, the exports for 1892
| showed an excess OF 20 per cent, says the Mes
sen0eT, over 1891 The total shipments aggre-
| gated 49,, 10 punches. Most OF these bananas
were shipped TO New Orleans, which the Pfcd-
ylne claims has become the leading importing
| point for that fruit in this country
DID you ever see a rainbow snake?" asked
B. Nj. Vanderhurst. chairman of the Prevarica.
| tors Club in session at the Southern. saws the
| Globe Democrat "Well, sir, had that plea
sure few weeks ago. was down among the
Yaqui Indians, who inhabit the Sierra Madre
| mountains in Mexico. young buck had a
| rainbow snake for pet, and would not part
| with it for any consideration. | offered him
! $500 for it, but he did not appear capable az
| realizing that there could be any sum of money
| greater than handful of Mexican dollars. He
| said that he had caught the snake in the mount
aims two or three years ago, when 1t was bnt
| half grown. 1t is now about two feet LONG
rather slender. and, when lying in the shade. Is
very pale green, or rather COMPROMISE he
tween blue and green. When the sun strikes it
| 1t looks like streak Of variegated fire. Red
yellow. oranRe-in fact, all the colors of the
| rainbow-chase each other in broad rings from
the head down TO the tail, blending, Simmer
ing and seeming TO almost crackle. It was the
most remarkable thing 1 ever witnessed.
| tried to get the young fellow to accompany me-
| to the states with the wonderful reptile, but he
had just married a young and pretty wife and
she would not consent to leave her native
mountains. The snake is believed to be per
fectly harmless and feeds chiefly on rice and
milk. l would have stolen It, but did not care
| to take the risk OF racket with the Yaouja
who are remarkably quick on the trigger and
have precious little use for white men | would
rather have that snake and a streak of sunshine
at the worlds fair than to be the sole PROPRIETOR
Of a drug store in prohibition town
ONLY five years ago, says the Engineering
Nd0ozine, a magnificent harbor was discovered
at the mouth Of the Pungwe river, about IFS
miles below the Zambesi delta. 1t is about two
miles wide and six miles long, and on its north
ern shore has arisen the town of Bcira where
800 Europeans, halt OF them British, are now
living. Beira is one of Afrca's latest maryels
Probably no white man. six years ago. had ever
seen the barren promontory OF sand it occupies
On Nov. 2S. 1892, a locomotive that had been
put together In Beira pulled through one of the
streets and a little way out OF the town; for
Beira is to be the port Of Mashonaland. the re-
| gion of mountain and plateau where British en-
terprise is opening new gold fields. month
ago thirty-t1ve miles Of the railroad had been
completed The route for nearly hnlf the way
| to Massikesse lies along the Bust river
! Its total length is not less than 200 miles, its
| longest bridge has "a span of about
800 feet and the cost of the road is estimated at
! about s., 600. The Mozambique Company,
| Portuguese corporation, is carrying out the
! work, but by arrangement the British South
| Africa Company is to have certain privi eyes in
| the management Of the road and will build an
! extension from the Portuguese frontier at Mas
sikesse to Fort Salisbury. the seat of govern
ment in Newfoundland. The Portuguese line Is
| to be completed by the end OF this year, and
| then the British extension will be pushed for
ward. This line will give TO MashonRland-
which 10 agI icutural aud mineral resources and
| the salubrity of its climate is one of the most
favored paris of Africa-its shortest outlet to
the sea. Eeira is destined to be port of large
| Importance, and lots for business purposes are
now selling for 1880 to $3.50 apiece in place
which not many months ago q barren
waste. Five years ago only two or three white
men had ever visited Mashonaland; its present
population includes 5000 white settlers.