The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-05
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Mary wales an ancient Boston spinster
I who died last week left her entire fortune.
amounting 20 about e. 900. 20 her pet Thomas
cat.
PENNSYLVANIA has more timber than all the
other North Atlantic States put together,
/ seven times as much as New York, one-han
3 more than Maine. and more than any other Of
/ the western states short Of those OF the Paci-
&c coast.
The old cemetery Of Barcelona is IN truth
city of the dead" Streets upon streets Of
walls with five or six strories Of inches, into
which the cofnns are TO be placed, give one in
| deed the idea Of a deserted city, This fash
ion obtains all over Spain and in some parts
/ Of Italy.
! Should the earth collide with another world
of equal bulk it is claimed that the heat gen
Grated would be SUFFICIENT to melt, boil and
completely evapOrtze mass Of ice fully 700
! times the bulk of both the colliding worlds
in other words, an ice planet 10000 miles in
! diameter.
! The curious fact was revealed by the test Of
| the torpedo boat Cushing, which attempted
to enter Newport harbor unobserved on Sat
| urday evening that though the boats upper
| works we're painted a dark green, they
| CLEANED in the electric search light as though
| painted white. 1t is thought that the spray
! dried on the paint and left shining deposit.
| Black seemed to be the least noticeable tint
| beneath the electric rays, and it may have to
| be the one finally determined on for the war
| ships.
| There is found on the edge OF Death Valley
| in California a lizard somewhat similar to
| the Gila monster, although more agile, says
! the San Francisco Chronicle II is strictly a
| vegetarian. This fellow is called the chucka-
| walla by the Coahuila Indians, who are said
| to he very fond of his flesh. The meat of this
| cousin of the dreaded monster is very white
| tastes like chicken. and Americans who have
| eaten it are not reported to have turned up
| their noses at it. But doubt very much II a
| Mexican Of the cholo class or anybody else
| here could be induced to try dish in which
| ella monster was the petce de resistance, AS
| for Apaches, 1t is well known that'they hate
| fish and reptiles of all kinds, and never eat
| them even If starving.
| A medical practitioner of long experience
says: Il believe that great many people
who are supposed to die of hydrophobia scare
| themselves to death. They are bitten by a
| dog-perfectly harmless dog, usually-and
| they brood over 1t and worry about it until
| they deAelop all the symptoms of hydropho-
bia l should test every case of alleged
| poisoning by rabies by putting the patient
| under chloroform and watching him during
| the stupor and when he was coming out of it,
| If the commissions continued then the case
/ would be genuine, but If in that interval the
| patient had forgotten what allied him should
| laugh him out of it, Dog bites are the com
| monest of injuries. Even rabid dog may
| bite man without producing any i'll effects. -
The number Of pieces of metal, technically
| known as brake-shoes, which are used in the
course of a year in stopping railway trains is
| really astonishing. The Master Car Builders
| Association, which has just been meeting at
| Lakewood n. Y, discussed the matter and
| IL was found that on the roads represented
| in the ASSOCIATION probably 81 100000 pounds
| of metal were used for this purpose on cars
| and tenders, while IL was estimated that over
| 100 900 900 pounds were used on all the cars,
| locomotives and tenders belonging to the
| roads represented. Approximately two-thirds
| of this metal was worn out in service and the
other third was returned as scraps. Five
| stXths of these shoes were cast-iron and the
others were Of composite character, partly
! hard and partly soft.
Fountain Court temple, the London Daily
Telegraph records, was the scene of tragedy
in natural history a few nights ago.
| In the famous fountain are several fish,
which, in this weather, are better of in the
| tranquil water than the lawyers who are
| closeted in the stuffy rooms of the temple.
| A thirsty sparrow hoped 10 the edge of the
! fountain, and while he was enjoying the cool
| ing effects Of the water one of the fish sud
| denly leaped from the basin and seized IL by
| q leg. The bird sQuealed, chirped, and strug-
| gled, but another fish came to the assistance
Of its brother, and between the two they
| dragged the poor sparrow into the water and
| killed it. They then left 1t, and sported
! themselves in their element as II they had
| performed duty to society
An accident so peculiar that similar one
rarely comes into the scope of q physicians
| practice came to the attention of DR.. Wage
| ner, of Bridgeport, few days ago, says the
! Wheeling Register, Thomas Lowry miner,
| was working entirely alone in coal mine
! owned by Clark Patterson, out the National
| pike short distance. large ledge of soap
stone fell on Mr.. Lowry, breaking his thigh
| and bruising his body most painfully in many
/ places The stone falling on him put out his
| light, leaving him far in the mine in dark
ness. He could not reach the matches to
relight his lamp, but after painful. Intellectual
| efforts the wounded finally hold n
| his drill, which lay at some distance, and
! pried the heavy stone from his broken limb.
| The coal cart was some distance away, but
! he succeeded in lifting his broken leg into it,
and with his we'll limb guided the car to the
mouth of the bank. where he called for help.
| DR.. WAGNER, who dressed the injuries says
| he has seldom known of such an exhibition of
nerve.
In a recent publication Of the Imperial Geo
graphical society of Russia is the surprising
announcement that the Chewsures-a race of
| 1000 people-in the department Of TrOust,
/ government of Titis, know nothing of the
| use of money as medium OF exchange. The
| unit of valuation among the primitive people
| is a COW. A horse is valued at three cows and
| a stallion at six. If n Chewsure becomes en-
ragged and cracks his nelghbor skull he is
| obliged to pay sixteen COWS. If he breaks a
bone of his neghber S arm FIVE COWS will re
hab1litate him in the eyes of society. A
wound in the forehead calls for three calves.
| If one cuts another in the part of the face
usually covered by the beard the punishment
is comparatively severe. The doctor places
as many grains of wheat along the cut as pos
sible For each grain of wheat so used the
criminal must give up COW. Wounds in the
| beardless part of the face call for One-third
as many COWS only. The man who INJURIES a
| neighborS hand surrenders sixteen cows.
| Thirty cows even will pay for the loss of an
! eye. The people are said to be happy and
cOntented. No misers exist among them.
1t seems hard to believe, says the London
! Academy, that during all the long ages which
| passed between the dawn of civilization and
| the Christian era the Romans and the Greeks
lar pet Of our hOme-the common cat. Yet no
fact seems established more clearly than
this: Hahn in his 'Wanderings of Plants
| and Animals insisted upon it. and il has
| since been established ty the united efforts of
| scholars and biologists We know that our
| domestic favOrite-with it's winning coy WAYS
| uneasy when removed from mans society
and yet never completely trusting it, with its
| mysterious old world air-was unknown to
| the chief nations of antiquity till after the
| Christian era. 1t was the patient and gifted
| nation of the Nile valley who built the Hall
| of Columns at Karnak, and who reared
| such colossal statues as that of Ra-
| meses II. at Memphis, not to speak OF the
| pyramids, that first tanned the cat Heredi-
| tary antipathy, as deep as that which reigns
| between the feline race and mankind does
| not die out in a generation. Countless years
and many dynasties must have passed ere the
| widest members of creation became the
| most faithful servants nj mankind IN Ec,,-,+