The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
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Financial statisticians estimate that the
amount Of money held By the various London
hanks is not far short Of fe20 OooOo0
! The celebrated Johannisberger wine all
comes from one comparatively small vine
1 yard, which is guarded with jealous care.
/ There is little town named Markneulyir-
/ chen, IN Saxony, where nearly every inhab-
liant Is engaged in the manufacture Of violins.
In Denmark Il is the law that all drunken
! persons shall be taken TO their homes in car
| riages provided at the expense OF the pub
| hcan who sold them the last glass.
The bones Of the whales that the German
kaiser slaughtered in the North sea last sum
mer are to be turned into furniture for the
Norwegian boat house at Potsdam.
A curious angsthetic used in China ha re-
! Gently been made known. It is obtained by
placing frog in a jar of flour and irritating It
| by proddlng. Under these circumstances 1t
! eXudes liquid which forms paste with the
| flour. This paste, when dissolved in water
! has well marked ana7sthetic properties. After
| the finger has been immersed In the liquid
! for few minutes it can be cut to the bone
| without any pain being felt.
Among the many ancient coasters that reg
| ularly visit the port Of Bangor is a small craft
which has the honor of being the oldest mer-
chant vessel in actual service in the United
States, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal
but they are not in service nor registered in
the record Of the bureau of navigation. This
is the schooner Good Intent, Capt. Watson
Wardwel of Rockland. The Good Intent is
twenty-three tons register and was launched
at Braintree, Mass, in 1873 making her so
years old. She has been repaired and rebuilt,
with hundreds of sparS and acres of canvas,
| till. like the 1rishmans jackknife she is the
same old original, and her skipper claims that
there are still in her hull two or three white
oak planks 'that were in her when she was
launched.
A dealer in American wines says in the
New York Sun: THE claret, burgundy, port,
angelica, catawba and all such wines that are
grown in America are purer and better than
those of the same class in Europe, but there
is one thing we can't make, and never can,
and that is sherry, It is impossible to get
that burnt, nutty flavor that good sherry has,
and people would kick about 1t if we did get
1t, Tor 1t is caused entirely by carrying the
wine in goatSxin and sheepskin bottles. With
us life is too short and railroads too handy to
send that way, and casks are cheaper than
goatskins; but it's the goat that gives that
nutty taste to sherry"
A European authority on cholera believes
that the best way to conquer that disease is
by going to the roots of the evil. He SAYS:
This disease is endemic at the delta Of the
Ganges river in India in low area of about
$500 square miles, caused by the putrefying
remains of animal and vegetable life cast
into the river by the inhabitants and con
stantly floating about. Formerly the fellaheen
of Egypt inferred their dead on the borders
of the river Nile, and the bodies were then
washed out into the stream during the annual
overflow of the river and were carried down
to spread disease throughout the delta. Since
an end has been put to this custom the plague
no longer harnesses the country"
In India and Africa the charmers pretend
the snakes dance to the music, but they do
not, for they never hear Ii. snake has no
external ears and perhaps gets evidence Of
sound only through his skin, when sound
causes bodies in contact with him to Vibrate.
They hear also through the nerves of the
tongue, but do not at all comprehend sound as
we do. But the snakes eyes are very much
alive to the motions of the charmer, or to the
moving drumsticks Of his confederate, and,
being alarmed, he prepares to strike. A
dancing cobra (and no other snakes dance) is
simply a cobra alarmed and in a posture of
attack; He is not dancing to the music, but
is making ready to strike the charmer
Suppose you try the experiment of writing
few sentences without vowels, without word
spaces without capitals and without punctua-
tions-just placing the consonants of the
words, one after another, the same space be-
tween each two letters until you fill page.
That is all that Hebrew writing for fifteen
centuries Afforded Take such q sentence as
God is love" 1t would be written g d S / w
II you had simply these consonants you would
be at a great loss what to make OF them. You
might put in one set of vOwels and it would
! read, God does live" With other vowels it
will read, "aged slave" and with others
ROOu save. Inc hebrews kept Jle pro
nunciation and the division into sentences by
reading aloud and practically committing
TO memory from generation to generation.
A queer case of hypnotism, or something
of that sort, is reported from Omaha,
Neb 1t was reported to the sheriff that
| doctor, E. A. Raymond, was holding young
| womanprtsoner IN an old building near the
| river. He wentto the place and found the
! young woman, who said that she was under
! the power OF peculiar influence all the time
4 CHI tn ffan don't
| years he has eXerted this influence over her.
! The doctor broke up her home and took her
| away from her husband while she was under
! his treatment for some ailment, which he
said he could cure. In his absence she loaths
! and detests him, and has repeatedly run away
| from him. but in his presence she is power
| less and cannot help doing whatever he com
mands. The woman was placed in an asylum
| and the doctor cannot be found.
An experiment in "telepathy." which is ex-
| tremely interesting, and would furnish great
| deal Of amusement at an evening entertain
| ment may easily be tried by a number of per
| sons. One of the party is blindfOlded, and the
others form a circle around him, in which all
! stand with their hands joined. A card is Sc
| lected from pack and placed where it may
| plainly be seen by all but the person blind
i folded. He is expected TO maintain a per-
| fectly passive state, while the attention of
| the others is fixed exclusively on the card
| After time the image Of the object on the
| card is suggested to the mind" and named
| In one instance where this experiment was
| tried. the ten Of diamonds was on the card
| selected and the bllndfolded person, being
| ignorant Of the object decided upon, described
| ten real diamonds that he saw arranged as
| they would be upon the card. In blindfolding
| the light may be entirely shut out from the
| eyes by folding kid gloves into pads to Law
over them, and then binding with a handker-
chief.
Mrs. Fannie Brown, who was a trance
medium died at Port Huron, Mich few
weeks ago, and ever since her ghost has been
making it very unpleasant for the people
living near the house where she breathed her
! last. Strange noises are heard in the house
unearthly rappings disturb the still hours of
! the night, and shadowy form, which those
| who have seen declare to be the exact
! counterpart of the deceased medium is some
| times seen lowering about the premises An
| old detective and a nervy reporter went to-
! gether to the house the other night to investi-
| gate the mysterious affair. They chose a
| dark night and scaling the back fence hid in
| the yard, and awaited developments After
| about an hours watching they saw pale
light CLEAN from one of the windows. They
! crept around to a side porch, and
peered into a window. Presently
! they heard a noise like the rafting Of
| dishes, then faint light appeared at the
| window where they were, and suddenly the
/ al, nd