The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-06
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The late Lord Derby was considerate enough
to hequeath 8l00OOO to his brother with which
to pay the heavy duties entailed by the latter's
succession.
The discussion is still hot over the question
whether the highest peak in the state of
Washington should he called Mount Tacoma
or Mount Rainier. The latter is the name
used In the standard aliases and on the maps
of the United States geological survey But
the citizens of Tacoma maintain that, while
RAINIER may be the historic name, having
been given to the peak by Vancouver In 1872,
| Tacoma is the prehistoric name, having been
the Indian name for it from time immemorial.
For this reason, and because Tacoma is much
more euphOniouS, they urge that II be Of
ticially adopted as the name of the proposed
park which is to include the mountain.
Areport comes from Mexico that the cathe-
dral of Acapetia Macan has been recently
robbed of ornaments and valusbles aggregat-
ing $4,000 in value. From the altar of Dolores
was stolen a reflector of solid gold, several
ancient silver ornaments, works of grand art
studded with diamonds, and an ancient figure
having on il more than forty brilliants and q
great many small diamonds, two strings of
pearls, a silver heart, ana seven large dag
gers of solid silver. From the altar of the
most pure was stolen one double gold crown,
a golden thread to which was attached twelve
stars of solid gold, and other gold and silver
ornaments and valuable stones. From the
altar of Jesus was stolen a crown of thorns
ana costly costume and foot adorned with
silver. The robbers also took large sacred
goblet of gold. 1t was the most ancient of all
the valuables of the church, and dated back
more than 300 years. 1t is adorned with
diamonds and great many other fine stones.
It's thought that the rogues will not attempt
10 dispose of their rich plumber in Mexico, but
Will try to get away with it to the United
States.
NJ. Tsakni, Russian writer has published
an interesting work entitled Queer Religious
Sects OF Russia, from which 1t appears that
there are not less than 15,0 600 900 followers Of
insane and cranky notions in the empire Of
the car, says the Philadelphia Press. These
communities of devout and deluded beings are
constantly being enlarged in spite of all efforts
made to the contrary by the government. One
of these sects is known as the "Runaways"
As soon as they embrace the new faith they
hy from their villages and towns, destroy their
identity as much as possible, and henceforth
live as SdYageS. THE ChristS'' are another
curious sect. They worship each other! The
chief ceremonies are a crazy species
of dancing, yelling as loudly as possible,
and pounding stones with sticks The
"SkoptSyS' believe in selfmutilation, but
will not submit to amputation, even though
it would save life. Like the "Christs' they
dance and yell for hours without intermis-
sion. Still another of these deluded sects is
the Dumb Boys Why they are called
Dumb Boys no one seems to know. but It is "a
curious fact that the sect is composed of both
sexes, old men being in the majority 1t is
claimed that some of these aged partriarchs
have not spoken in fifty years although per
fectly able to do so did they SO desire. The
Suicides are sect led by NJ. Souckelif
who breaches self-destruCtion an absolute
necessity to salvation. he IS very eloquent
and ii is said that he often leaves church
with a dozen suicide remains strewn about
the floor
Recent years have seen great Improvements
in photography, and it is daily becoming more
and more indispensable in many fields of
science, art and industry, says the New York
h4il md 1t7a IL
work that was deemed impossible only gen
Grafton ago, and does it without exciting very
much comment. People have become so ac-
CuStOmed to the wonders of inSta lta1eOuS
photography that nothing now seems to sur
prise them When in 1872. Mr.. MuyDridge OF
/ California secured the first picture of a trot-
/ ting horse in action, showing the position of
the horses feet at every stage Of his gait and
/ upsetting all the prccOncciVed theories of
! artists and hOrsamen, ordinary folks took
/ some little interest in and wildly ap-
+ piauded the achievement. Yet how
/ few of them have kept track of the advances
| made since then in this one matter of photo
| graphing moving objects: 1t is not rash as
| sertion to say very few. The latest con
| trlVance for this purpose is a Photographic
/ gun. which, II is claimed. will secure pictures
| at the rate of a dozen a second of any object
| omed at, no matter what its position or how
| rapid its motion. The gun is the invention of
| a trenchman and is "a breech loader. The
| enterprls1ng amateur may now go forth in
| quest of his game looking like sure enough
! sportsman, gun on his shoulder and belt
| full of cartridges about his waist-only the
| cartridges will contain extra sensitive dry
! plates, which. though sure enough on snap
shots, will not prove deadly.
/ Proceeding westward from the Irish coast the
ocean red deepens very gradually; in fact. for
/ the first 23O miles the gradient is but six feet
/ to the mile, says the Nautical Magazine In
| the next twenty miles. however. the fall is
! over 900 feet. and so precipitous is the sud
| den descent that in many cases depths OF
| 300 TO 800 fathoms are encountered in very
| close proximity to the l00fathOm line With
| the depth Of 800 to 1000 fathoms the sea bed
I in this part OF the Atlantic becomes slightly
| undulating plain whose gradients are so light
| that they show but little alteration of depth
| for POO miles. The extraordinary fairness Of
| these submarine prairies renders the familiar
| smile of the basin rather inappropriate The
| hollow Of the Atlantic is not strictly basin
| whose depth increases regularly toward the
| center; it is rather a saucer or dish-like
| one. so even is the contour it's of bed The
greatest depth in the Atlantic has been found
| some 100 miles to the northward of the
| island Of St Thomas. where soundings of
| 1873 fathOms were obtained. The seas around
| Great Britain can hardly be regarded as
| forming part Of the Atlantic hollow They
are rather part OF the platform banks of the
| European continent which the ocean has
overfiowed. An elevation Of the sea bed 100
| fathOms would suffice to lay bare the greatest
| part Of the North sea and join England to
! Denmark. Holland, Belgium and France. A
/ deeD channel OF water would run down the
| west coast of Norway, and, with this the ma
| jority Of the fords would be connected.
| great part of the Bay of Biscay would disap-
| pear; but Spain and Portugal are but little
| removed from the Atlantic depression The
| lOOfathOm line approaches very near the west
| coast. and soundings Of 1 900 fathoms can be
made within twenty miles Of Cape St Vim
| cent. and much greater depths have been
sounded at distances but little greater than