The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-23
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/ The annual reunion OF the Winnings last
week attracted % South Weymouth. Mass.
I about 100 descendants 81 Noah Nining, the
/ meeting being held IN the house that has been
I occupied by some members Of the family Tor
/ 80 years.
/ It is sometimes not dificult TO make a street
/ car driver mad. The most exasperated one
/ lately heard from operates in Portland, Me.
| A countryman visited the town the other day
/ TO buy span Of horses to help him out in his
| laying. and seeing pair he liked the looks
| 81 hauling street car, he stopped them, eN
| amined their teeth, and tried TO dlcker with
/ the driver for their purchase
Generally speaking the slope of rivers
! flowing into the Mississippi from the east is
| on an average about three inches per mile;
| those entering il from the west have an aver
| age descent of about six inches per mile, The
| average descent per mile of the Missouri after
| it leaves the mountains is reckOned at about
I a foot; the Des MOines, from its source to IT'S
| conjunction with the Mississippi, about 7.3
| inches. The entire length Of the Ohio shows
| a fall OF even five inches. The Mississippi,
| from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf, has a
| fall OF but two and one half inches.
Persons who have visited Europe, Asia and
Africa say that of all mosquitoes the American
| specimen is the most energetic, the simplest
in Its manner and the most deceptive in its
appearance. Its song IL not more soothing to
| the sleeper nor its bill more formidable in
Its looks, but it has a penetrating power that
| puts to shame the ram of the CamperdOwn.
The American mosquito is besides vastly su-
| pertOr in the construction OF its digestive or
gans and its ability to repeat its vicious at
tacks. 1t can work through a smaller mesh
and surpaSses all rivals in accuracy OF aim
and skill in the selection of strategic posi-
tions.
A young man whose offer of marriage was
! rejected by a young lady residing in Lynn
! county, Oregon, burned down the barn of her
father, whom he thought responsible for the
daughter refusal. subsequently his con
science SmOtc the youth, and he went to the
father. confessed his crime, and paid him for
the barn. The stern father, having securely
deposited the money, realized that he, too,
had a conscience. Combined with stern sense
Of duty, and he went to the police authorities,
! complained OF the young man. and saw to it
that he was arrested, tried, and sent to the
penitentiary Now he has nice little sum in
the bank as a dowry for his daughter when the
right sutton comes along.
A curious history is attached to carpet US
ed recently in the production at the Prince Of
Wales Theater Of the comic opera, Poor
Jonathan When the star of Napoleon III,
was at its zenith an AubusSon carpet of Il
magnificent description was ordered by Gen
eral Fleury for the chateau at Compiegne, but
when II was seen by the emperor directions
were given that it should he transferred to
the Tuileries In 1871. during the commune.
the carpet was appropriated, and with other
I
carpet has since had several owners, but Ow-
ing to its size has proved practically useless.
| To its present pOsSessOr it was recently sold
! for tl50 relieved to be about an eighth part
| of its original value. So much is thought of
| this carpet, which in Poor Jonathan will be
| laid down in the reception room of the mill
| ionaire Vandergold by the manager of the
| Prince Of Wales, that he has had the dresses
| of the characters appearing in this scene
| made to harmonic with its colors. Such a
| circumstance is probably unique in the theat-
| rical annals.
A curious statistic1an in the St Louis Post
| Dispatch, anent the recent carryings-on in
| England over the nuptlalS of our English
prince, demonstrates that there is so little
! English blood in him that he scarcely de-
serves the name at all 7 he exact proportion,
| according to his carefully calculated figures.
| is only one part in Sl92. The present heir
! presumptive to the British throne holds from
/ Margaret Tudor, the sister of Henry VIII
| ! his lady he supposes to have been Of pure
| English blood as both her parents and all
| her grandparents were English She married
| James ". of Scotland, so her son. James V.
| was but half English Mary, queen of Scots
| his daughter, was half French and but one
| fourth English, Her son ty Lord Darnlcy a
: Scotchman, was James I. OF England. but one
eighth English. So the line is traced down to
| the young prince, and it shows that he has
| less than l-S0OOth part Of English blood: that
| he is more French than English more Scotch
| than French, nearly half German. and more
| than half Spanish. His wife. the writer as
serts, is as little English as he is but much
| more German. 1t is little curious to find
| that Englishmen. who are fond of bOasting
! the greatness of Anglo Saxon blood, and take
/ great pride IN their descent. are subject to
| rulers who have scarce a drop of English
| blood in their veins
Another expedition to Artic seas. which has
not been so much heralIeG as Pelry's, but
| which promises quite as much in the way of
results, sailed from Baddeck. Cape Breton. a
/ few days since. 1t is under the direction Of
| Dr. Frederick A. Cooke. and sailed in the
schooner Zeta, OF Halifax. DR.. Cooke, in
! speaking OF the expedition said; Three men.
! all 5 ientiSts and students OF nature will &C
! company me. These are benjamin Hoppin
I of Yale College: Robert -. Perry. of Brain
| tree, Mass aud A. NJ. Sutherland Of Cape
( Breton We start from Baddecz Cape
| Breton thence to cruise along the Labrador
/ coast, then cross over to Greenland
! and coast along the whole west shore
| of Greenland to cape York if the
condition of the weather and ice viii
permit. mere we expect to stop few weeks
to study HE fauna and horo. [ expect to com
plctc my stud. Of the Arctic highlGn lers the,
most northern trlte of natives On earth
which be gan while surgeon and ethnologist Of
the Peary North Greenland expedition in 1891.
IL can induce family of natives to return
! with me l shall bring them to the United
| States From Cape York we shall cross BAT
| I'm bay to Lancashire sound, TO Jones sound
/ and cruise along the Hudson bay reglon stop
| ping at native settlements to study their hah-
| hits and customs gather scientific specimens
anu NUM- llAt Ejit VI IlltS' IeIlOnS. w @ Will
! return to Sydney about oct. ~
! Now the electricians have advanced the
! proposition that electric light has curative
properties says the St Louis Globe Demo
! crat. The new apparatus is arranged to throw
( rays of electric light upon the whole or aDv
/ part of the body. The doctors all know that
ozone is a powerful diSinfeCtant. Dr. Ohlnu-
| eller. the Berlin expert, has killed the typhus
bacillus in two minutes with ozone and the
, cholera bacillus in five minutes. It is also
! known that the transmission of the elect rio
/ current through atmosphere converts the
/ oxygen into ozone. A thunderstorm clears
! the air. On such established facts as these
! the electricians base their claims that the
| electric light has a curative property When
! the rays are directed from this apparatus to
| any part of the body the effect is to increase
! the circulation and to bring on a copious
| If 1t is desired to treat some particular
part of the body, the screens and
/ refiectors are adjusted so that the electric
! light is thrown to that place alone If gener-
| al treatment. as we'll as local application is
! wanted, the patient sits with his back to the
! apparatus. The specific rays are thrown
| upon the diseased spot and the general cleo
| trio light IS thrown upon the whole BODY
Dlnerent colored lights are employed for diff
! ferent diseases. For some cases the electric
lights thrown through blue glass. For sDe-
clal e1ect on the lood red electric light is
used, and for results on the nervous system
the color IS yellow. Sun baths are as old as
the hills Electric light baths are something
entirely new. The doctors examined the con.
trlVanceS with good deal OF interest THO