The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-22
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THE Columbian stamps have caused new
boom in Yolapuk correspondence, says the
New York Tribune A Volapukist Of this city
says that every mail from Europe brings letters
like the following: Dear Sir-I have become
very much interested in Volapuk. and wish to
correspond with you in that language. =
Your new Columbian letter stamps are ex-
tremely beautiful Would you kindly mail me
as many as you can sparef' AS a rule how
ever the correspondence ends abruptly when
the stamps have been sent.
A wELL-KNowN practitioner Of medicine SAYS
in the New York Sun: Probably you have
noticed the tendency Of epidemic diseases to
run themselves out, even In districts where no
precautionary measures are taken. 1t has been
shown In the history of every great plague
the black DEATH, cholera aud the rest, and now
it is illustrated in the grip. We have the grip
with us again, as you know, and there nave
been few fatal cases of it. but IL is nothing to
what it was in its first and second season
Then. you remember thsre were instances
where IL was fatal within twenty-four hours,
and its effects we're more severe aud more last
ing than they have been since. This is the regu-
lar grip weather. yet the grip is slowly dying
out. Diseasc die as well as the people who
have them"
SENATOR DAWES. in a recent speech in Massa-
chusetts, brings out the fact that the star of
empire has been making its way westward at a
greater rate than is commonly understood. A
hundred years ago the center OF population OF
three miles east of Baltimore. The census Of
1890 places it at a point about twenty miles east
of Columbus Ind. This shows a westward move
ment OF 5O5 miles IN 100 years, averaging for the
whole period los miles a year, which amounts
TO yard an hour, with an extra foot thrown in
every day for good measure. 1t is a noteworthy
fact that while the center of population has
been moving constantly toward the west, its
variation north or south of the thirty ninth
parallel OF latitude has been cry slight The
finishing point is only six miles south of the
starting point.
IT IS probable that the construction Of great
canal from ST. Paul to Duluth will be begun
before the end of the summer. 1t is the inten-
ton Of its projectors to Duid canal large
enough to allow boats loading at Buffalo to take
their cargo unbroIen to docks on the Mississippi
In st. Paul. Among the gentlemen Interested
in the enterprise are representative citizens of
Duluth and the Twin cities. Their purD ,se IS
to solve the coal problem and end the constantly
recurring quarrel between MINNEAPOLIS ami
carrying O ton of anthracite coal from Buffalo
to st. Paul is 81 50 The plan Of the gentle
men in the new enterprise is TO lay it down in
st. Paul at 80 cents. AS a starter for the big
canal, the Minnesota Canal Company was in
corporated Saturday at St Paul with a
capital of 100000 600. Tue business OF the
corporation is stated to be the construction of
asystem of canals and improved waterways in
Mime sofa.
IT APPEARS from British consular reports
|
Of the Rlole where intoxication, instead of be
| ing regarded as a vice, is looked uuon as a
virtue, and where drunken Ia borers are actually
alta premium. This peculiar coudItiol Of at
| fairs prevails in the Portuguese possessions of
| South Africa. 1t seems that the natives there
! when employed for any definite object have Ia
| be carefully and laboriously instructed how 20
| perform their work If man be temperate in
his habits he will in one or TWO months earn
| suttoient TO maintain himself IN idleness for
| nearly year, and the consequence is he re-
| turns to his home, and the instructions which
! nave been given to him are entirely lost With
| an Incorporate native the opposite state of
| affairs exists Month after month, on the re.
celpt OF his wages, he spends his entire earnings
| IN liquor, and never having sufficient funds to
| take him home, remains with his employer for
| years, becoming more and more valuable as
time passes by reason Of the fact that the repe-
tition of instructions becomes gradually less
| necessary.
| REMARKABLE veterinary surgical operation
was performed at Sheepshead Bay, l.. l., on
Tuesday, says the New York Herald A snake
| 80 inches long was removed from horses eve
! and 1t is thought that the animal will survive
although nine times out of ten the operation
results in death. The horse, which belonged to
| Frederick Graes, butcher of Sheepsheai Bay.
was taken Ill several weeks ago 1t was noticed
/ that a film had grown over the right eve and
! GraeS called in DR.. William Sheppard a we'll
known veterinary surgeon living tIe village
DIT. Sheppard, after washing the horses eye
with lotion which removed the film. observed
a small live object wTiggling about IN the puoiI
! he decided that it was a case OF what is known
| as snake in the eye" An incison was made
/ in the corner Of the eye near the nose and then
/ DR., Sheppard inserted q small silver hook Sew.
eral attempts were made to catch the snake
| and after half an hour of patient vo k the TO 1k
/ seized it aud 1t was pulled out and iell into the
/ hGud OF an assistant The snake measured
/ Just 312 Inche-, and Ia body was not thicker
! than an ordinary horse hair. The head was
shaped very much like that of a miniature ana
conda. II was placed in bottle of alcohol
where IL soon dt6d. DR.. Sheppard will send Il
to medical university at Glasgow, Scotland
ENGLAND will show at the fair the lsrgest
lump of coal ever mined. 1t is a monster speci
men of the Lancashire diamond Ii is what
the Eng ish call a cob OF camel coal and
weighs II English tons and IA hundred
weight 1t co t4ins 80 cubic feet
anu would yield 1884 cubic feet II
gas, equal to 2o,4G6 pounds OF sIerm. a
large force OF men worked nine months in hew-
ing out the big block and removing 1t to the
surface. Many hundreds of cubic Yards of
earth were removed. quarter mile OF rails
were laid through the workings of the mine
and an extra long car of steel was built 20
bring il TO the shaft. The ordinary cages etc.
were removed and special apparatus put in for
lifting It TO the surface. IL was then carried by
rail 20 the Alexandria docks, Liverpool and a
special apparatus prepared with four pulley
purchases and 6nch wire rope span for lower.
ing 1t into the PHILADELPHIA hold When the
cob was taken from the mine 1t weighed over
&c tons, but the worlds fair management could
not receive it so large on account of the diff
Guilty Of handling and IL was clipped down to its
present size. The total weight OF the cob in ina
elaborate packing IL moss, plank and iron is Is
tons II hundredWelEht English weight, but It is
marked for American shipment sc, S52 pounds
The cost OF obtaining it was over Gl 900 a rate
OF about &35 per ton.