The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-10
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bill in the lobby sometimes gives the drsmatis
persona Of the play, but most Of the actors
remain unknown by name. The curtain, as
elsewhere In Europe, is devoted to advertise
ments; and in the Madrid thesters advertising
cards are affixed, with their numbers, on the
backs of the seats.
A NUMBER of orders have been given to Phil
adelphia iron workers for machinery to be used
in distilling alcohol from sweet potatoes. A
gallon OF alcohol can be distilled from bushel
of sweet potatoes at a small cost, and there is
said to be good profit in the business. Large
quantities Of alcohol are made in the Azore
Islands In this way.
THE most remarkable man whom have
ever come across was a teleS raph operator
whom knew in Sedalia Mo-" said A. J. Ocle
OF st. Louis to re porter. He was remarkable
from the fact that he was deaf aud dumb and
yet have heard people who were well &C
quainted with his work say he had hardly bis
equal for accuracy or speed This must have
been fact. too, for ne was accustomed to de /
with the press dispatches-worK which requires
more than the ordinary ability. I believe he
deciphered the messages he received by reading
the movement Of the relay armatures, and you
can understand what ass of eye is required to
accomplish such feat. The most peculiar
thing about the mans position was that he had
been born deaf and dumb. have known of
only one other operator who was deaf His
plan of receiving dispatches was this: He
would put his head against the instrument at
which he was working, 80 that he could feel the
Jarring of the sounder. This was his only
method OF translating the dispatches received.
His copy was absolutely free from the most
common errors"
A HORSE not only sheds tears under
the emotion of grief, says london It'd
Bits but in moments of sudden or in
tolerable anguish utters a most melancholy cry
In one OF Cooper's Indian novels dramatic use
is made of the scream of a wounded horse. and
Lord ErsRine, In a speech made in the House Of
Lords upon the bill for enforcing humanity to-
ward animals. noticed this remarkable fact
An eyewitness relates the following, ION the
advance to the nights Of Alma, battery Of
artillery became exposed to the fire of a CON
cealed Russian battery, and III the course of a
few minutes 1t was nearly destroyed. men and
horses killed and wounded, guns dismounted,
and limbers broken. On passing this wreck
shortly afterw8rd observed . single horse still
attached aud unhurt By its side on the ground
lay its late master. quite dead. The poor brute
had turned round as far as possible toward MIN,
with its head to the ground smelling the body,
and there we're coplous tears flowing from IT'S
eyes. 1t looked so like a human being In dire
distress that could not forget the sad expires
sion for several days"
IT IS remarkable fact that in year after
the first printing press was established in Cam
bridge, Mass, or 10 $780, an American book was
issued from it (being the first published in what
are now the United States) which was soon
after reprinted in England, where ft passed
through no less than eighteen editions, the last
being Issued in 1854, thus maintaining hold on
English popularity for ia years. This was this
bay Psalm Book II passed through twenty
two editions in Scotland, where it was exten-
sively known, the last bearing date 1859; and as
IL was reprinted without the compiler ENJOYING
pecuniary benefit from its sale the Phil delphis
Record says we have irrefutable proof that
England pirated the first American book being
in reality the original aggressor in this line
| This first American work enjoyed more last
ing reputation and had wider circulation
than any volume since of Ameri-
can origin, having passed in all through
nn@6sr for she ago very Which Pem It oa4
| ished. Success attended the colonial
| press, and in 1853 the first Bible printed
in America was published in Cambridge.
| 1t was unlawful TO print an English version OF
| the scriptures, that right being a monopoly en-
| 1oyed by privilege and patent In England Ths
| one printed In Massachusetts was Eliot's famous
| Indian Btble," and although 1900 copies were
struck off, they are quite rare and sealed
| books, as the tongue in which they are written
is literally dead language, " the tribe and ali
| who had q knowledge of the dialect being lone
| extinct. Eliots work is unique, being at once 4
monument to his piety, perseverance and learn.
ing It's literary successor was Newman's
Concordance of the Scriptures" This was
compiled by the light of pine knots in a log
cabin in one Of the frontier settlements 81
Massachusetts. It was the first of its kind. and
for more than century was admitted to be the
most perfect holdlnS lts place in public esteem
until superseded by Cruden's, which 1t sug,
gested
HAVE you ever studied the antennal language
of meadow antsf asks writer in the Louisville
CotJrteT-JOurnoI. How is it that these small
creatures can venture far from the nest, dis
tances that are relatively enormous and never
hesitate about the road to take when they wish
to retrace their steps? Learned men who have
studied the matter attribute this power To the
formic acid evolved by 6le insect as it travels
enabling 1t to find its route in exactly the same
way that FOX or dog does zone day, writes
my learned friend J. Levallois. II followed an
ant Tor long time; she was far from the ant
bill and seemed to have no intention of soon re-
turning. In the middle OF the path
she came upon the dead body OF a
around il, then climbed upon the ugly
creatures back, crawled all over it and after
this thorough examination instead OF advance
ing ss before, immediately returned toward the
nest. When half way there she met one of her
companions; 10 an instant they had touched, or
rubbed antennR with great animation and she
was pursuing her course The same perform.
Ance took place when she met second and
third Of her companions. and, as soon as she
had left them, they quickly turned toward the
spot where the snail lay. The first ant soon
entered the nest and lost sight of her; but she
doubtless continued her work of informing and
exciting the rest, for long line of ants i'm
mediately came out and set forth for the prev
Ten minutes afterward the snail was entirely
covered With the yellow swarm, and by
evening not trace OF il remained 1t ia no
longer necessary to prove the existence of an
antennal language. 1t has been one of the
known facts Of science for the last half CEN
fury; what is interesting and important TO the
philosopher is to determine the extent of this
language. 10 discover its limits and the infer
ences to which it gives rise. Does it consist
simply in friction of the antennRi One would
naturally think so; yet a professor OF natural
history in Rhetan Prussia recently stated that
ants are provided with a sounding appsratus
resembling that of the wasp, by means of which
feeble sounds, such as are suited to the ears of
ants, are produced; but this remains to be
proved.