The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-13
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remarkably complicated, but united
family OF fifty persons. representing three
languages and races resides near Florence.
Several years ago three English sisters mar
ried Italians. One sister, secondly married
a Frenchman, and their daughters married
Italian cousins. The three English grand
mothers are, therefore, aunts to each others
grandchildren, and double great aunts to each
| Others children. Also the sisters-in-law are
| all first cousins to each other S husbands and
| to one another.
French Canadians are said to be leaving the
| vicinity of Quebec for the United States at
| the rate of $50 day The immigrants are
nearly all farmers or habitants from the
| lower st. Lawrence region, and in many in
| stances they are following friends and rela-
| tives who have already found homes in the
United States Many of these immigrants
desert their farms absolutely, leaving them
| without inten ton of returning, selling them
for what they can get, but leaving them any
way.
lone can almost tell what section Of the
country man comes from" said we'll
known cigar man, who has lived in Washing
ton, to a Richmond State writer, by the kind
OF tobacco he uses, both chewing and smOkl
ing. Take westerners first. They want a
very sweet plug tobacco and will have moth
ing else. Plain graduated American leaf is
what they smoke. The middle states man
the individual from Illinois, Ohio and Indiana
will take nothing but fine cut, in which the
natural taste of the weed ha S been preserved.
There, too. they are patterning after the cpl
cures OF the east and the north, and for their
smoke they demand the fragrant aroma of
Havana tobacco. If their purses will not al
| low such luxury plain American leaf is
| good enough. Then for the north. OF course,
| both Boston and New York are cosmopolitan
| cities, where everything from old Virginia
| dogtail in corncob pipes and the
dudeens of Ireland to the finest imported
| cigars and cigarettes are consumed by the
| thousands of pounds There is practically no
| individual taste in the metropolis Every
| thing goes. In the southern states the leaf
! pure is the only thing used, no matter to what
| purpose the weed may be put. If in plug, you
| will find only natural leaves. OF course all
kinds and qualities of tobaCcOs are manufact-
ured in the south, but all the born and bred
| southerner asks for is purity" Richmond
| people are good Judges of tobacco, and most
! OF them, even of moderate means, use the
| best. especially the chewers, and they ape
! very partial to good cigars
When flying from justice criminal rarely
! escapes through disguise says the Irish
Times. In many cases the buying of the
things selected by him as being most helpful
to conceal his identity affords a claw which
1nsures his capture In most cases shaving
off the beard or mustache is relied upon to
hide a likeness but the police always recog-
nize such a proceeding as probable. and an
| expert thief-taker is well able to identify his
| man minus such adornments In some cases,
| indeed the wanted persons likeness is put
! into the detectives hands with the mustaChe
| and Whiskers removed showing what the
/ man Will Db ike WITHOUT Lnen. An aOStOnU-
! ing bank cashier short time ago attempted
| to leave the country dressed as a woman. His
! disguise was seen through by a loen-eyed do
| teCtiYe who was watching outward bound
! vessels and although he did not recognize the
man he detained him on suspicion, and, com
municating with the head authorities the
prisoner was soon identified. In that case
| the disguise Itself actually led to the detec-
1 ton of the criminal. In two other recent
/ cases men wearing false boards and mus
/ taches were secured by the policemen anxious
I m DEr hpr
/ IheSe aftCrWard proved to be so unsatisfac-
! tory that one OF them received eight and the
! other eleven years penal serYltude The
/ thing which most stands criminal in good
! stead in making his escape is his having a
common face, one with no marked pecu-
! liarity, and an iron nerve to enable him to
! carry himself like an innocent person.
| Prof Edward Hill read paper before the
! Victoria Institute recently on How the
| waters of the ocean became salt" saws the
| London Standard From an inquiry into the
! character and aftinities of the organic forms Of
J past geological ages, the ,onClusion was justi-
! fled that the waters Of the ocean must have
| been salt from very early geological times
| but it by no means followed that they were as
! fully saline as those of the present day There
! were two ways by which they might account
for the salinity OF the ocean waters from very
! early periods OF geological time. First, by
| suppOsing that the primeval waters were
| saturated with acid gases which were held in
| suspension in the vapor surrounding the in
|
| Unity resulted from process resembling that
| by which salt lakes of the present day had
| been formed He thought that they must CON
| cur with DR.. Sterry Hunt that from some
| cause or other chlorine largely aroundcd in
| the waters of the primeVll ocean. as by far the
! greater proportion of the salts we're chorides
] and chlorine WAS but very slightly represented
! in river waters Of the present day. From the
| examples of closed lakes they could deter
mine the process of salinihcation with the
! utmost certainty. Throughout greater or
| shorter periods these lakes had been receiving
! the waters OF rivers, bringing down both
| mechanically suspended sediments and chem
ically dissolved salts. silicates and cartonateS
| The sediments were preciptated over the
| bottoms of the lakes and the water being
| carried of into the atmosphere in the form Of
Vapor as far as II entered. left behind the dis
| solved ingredients These necessarily aug
mented in quantity, and ultimately the waters
OF the lakes became saturated with salts and
carbOnatCS which were then deposited
| The ocean was a closed lake of enormous mag
nitude, and they were thus brought to the
| conclusion that the sadness of the sea might
| have originated in very much the same way
| as had that of the Dead Sea, Lake Oroomiah
| or the Great Salt Lake of Utah, and many
| Othei 5 which possessed in common the char
| acteristic of having no outlet. When the
| great envelope of VapOr which surrounded
| the incandescent globe began to condense
upon its cooling surface, the resulting waters
though containing, as DR.. Sterry Hunt sup
posed, acid gases, were destitute of saline in
gradients. The process of salnifcation be-
gan with the first streams which entered the
| seas from the bordering uDlandS. and this
| process carried on throughout the long ages
| preceding the Silurian period, brought the
| waters to a condition suited to sustain the
life of forms of inhabitants representative of
! those which inhabited the ocean at the pres
| ent day. These long ages might be supposed
to include not only the arch@n and azoic
| periods, but that during which the first crust