The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-25
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burned his hand, stripped of one shoe and
stocking and left him the worst scared boy IN
the state
Some Englishmen now visiting in this
country have names quite as unique as those
for which Georgia has become famous They
are Sir Ughtred K. Shuttleworth, Sir Geof-
frev Phipps Horribly. Sir Novel; salmon, Sir
Redvers Butler and Sir W. Hunt-Gruboe.
The descendants OF Queen Victoria are
either now in possession of or will in the nat
ural course of events come to occupy seven
thrones-those of the British, German and
Russian empires. the kingdom OF Greece, the
Grand Duchy of HesSe, the Duchies OF SAKE
Coburg -Gotha and SAKE Meiuingen.
The courts in Calcutta were recently asked
to permit l5year old widow to select her
father as her guardian. In the atldavit &C
companying her petition she states that she
is residing with her father her mother, the
stepdaughter OF her bus band S daughter, and
her husband S son-in-law. The only other re-
lations, she says are son, her husband
first cousin, and her husbands fathers
brothers widow-her aunt by marriage, IN
short.
Gambling on the next rain and its duration
has become so great vice in Calcutta that
the government has been called on to sap
press 1t. Clerks on the way TO their otpces
stop at commission houses TO place bets and
the women have been, seized with the mania
so that they do not only pawn their. own and
borrowed Jewels. bpt go further to procure
no money of their own and charge a small
commission for handling the bets.
The Kansas experiment station is fight
ing destructive insects with other bugs.
Having discovered an ef1eient parasite for
| the chinch hug they have been cultivatinS
them, 'lnoculating" the chinch and then set
| ting the latter at liberty to infect their kind.
! Two hundred and fifty packages Of diseased
| bugs are sent out daily to places wherethe
| pests are working destruction. and 1t is be.
4 1uaxre fl,af ,1x- fatrv Of ant If
that kind will be sufficient to annihIlate the
| chinch.
1t is not generally known that the hottest,
most arid desert in the world is in the United
| States, but such is the fact, said r. c. Nc
| Keighan of San Diego to the corridor man OF
| the st. Louis Globe Democrat at the Lindell.
| The Cocapah desert is small. but ii is the
most dangerous of any in the known world.
Standing upon the mountain range to the
| east. looking across the 20 miles of plain TO
| another mountain range in the west, with
| glimpseS of two small lakes midway between,
| it does not appear that it requires any extra
| ordinary feat of danger or endurance to cross
| the plain. And this has caused he loss OF
many lives. The sand of that desert is so hot
that in few miles the shoes will be lite ally
| burned off the traveller feet, beasts will be
| overcome before half the distance is encom-
| passed, and the adventurous traveller dies in
! agony, literally consumed with heat from
| without and thirst within. Many have been
known to attempt the journey, and
but few have been known to return.
These had gone no further than
the first lake, and, finding 1t salt water,
had beaten a retreat. The nearest lake has
| been reached often enough to know that it
GIBBS and flows with the Gulf of California,
and the water is the same, hence it must be
| part of that body, although separated from it
| by sixty or seventy miles of solid earth and a
high range of mountains. III range was
probably at one time an island, and the Coca
pah desert the bottom of tie sea. l once
started across the barren waste 10 investt-
gate, but l had not gone ten miles before be-
coming completely exhausted, the Soles Of my
! feet were bhstered with heat, my brain grew
dizzy, | could get no air, and the breath
seemed to stick in my throat. l turned back
just in time TO save my life and when
| reached the forests Of the mountain once
more was delirious for hours"
A white baboon, declared to be the only one
ever heard of, has arrived in Bedford, Eng
land, from South Africa says an exchange
Two years ago some trek Beers came upon
| this taboon and his mother IN the Murchisa
range, in the district of Johannesberg. After
herce fight the mother was killed and the
young male was led away TO captivity. He
was brought up in Africa and has just been
TAX en- 10 England. He is now fully grown,
being between three and four feet in hight,
and is pure white in color. He is a very
heavy, we'll grown baboon. and ex ,ltes atten-
ton by his ceaseless activity. he has re-
markedly powerful voice, resemb-
ling the bark Of large dog. but
harsher ana farther reached. kest and
quiet are not possible in his neighbor-
white variety of the cnacma family, or pos
sibly case of albnlsm, which is found occa-
slonally In most races OF animals The
chacma, or pig-faCed balloon, is a native Of
South Africa where he is very frequently
found, and is the largest of the baboon fam
| lily. He ordinarily grows to be about as large
as mastin, but is much heavier 1t is the
custom OF MS species to travel about in
troops. These would be very formidable par
ties for men to encounter il the balloons
were not in the habit of running away. When
cd Nv h,,,s
they occasionally attack men and human
dwellings, They are very noisy and
playful and generally not bad tenn
pered. The fur is usually brown in color.
The baboon is not easily domesticated.
but he has been occasionally. There are re-
cords OF famous baboon who used to sit in a
chair at Exeter Change, In London, smoke a
pipe, and drink gin and water. fondness
for alcoholic stlmulants is frequent in the
monkey family. The baboon is among the
! least attractive of monkeys although his
position is closely contested by the orang.
outang, Probably the mandril balloon. whose
swollen cheeks are striped with blue, scar
let and purple, would capture the prize for
! ugliness. In fact, this particular baboon is
| sand to put to flight the tiercest beasts of the
forest by his personal appearance. The ba-
| boon feeds principally upon vegeta bles and
| eggs, OF which he can conceal eight at once in
his capacious cheek pouches. ~
Some one is constantly writing about cd.
dities in business signs, but there are few
odder ones than that which informs the
friends of a New York representative of a
foreign railway whether or not he is in his
office in Broadway says the New York Mail
and Express. Looking in from the sidewalk
If one can see the head. horns and huge hairy
| body OF gigantic beast Of the OK kind stand
ing upright in this railroad man private
ONCE, he knows that that gentleman is in
If the frame Of the OK is covered by a white
| cloth he is out. his animal is the largest
specimen in existence. and the only perfect
one, of the musk OK, the rarest animal in
| North America. The Broadway specimen is
| whole one, and his bulk takes up a big space
| as the stuffed Quadruped is four feet five
inches high at the shoulder and six
feet seven inches long. There are only
four other cases where the compete skin of a
mush OK has been secured for mounCinp
none Of them perfect They are hard to get
| as the musk OK IS never seen south of the
| sixtleth parallel OF north latitude, and lives
| only in the perpetual snow Of the Arctic
! circle De Long, Greedy and Peary have
| met with him in their explorat ons but no
4 white men outside an Arctic exploration
party have ever seen one alive, and he is only
hunted by India and Esquimaux The
skin of the Broadway OK was secured for him
by a friend at Winnepeg, through the agency
! OF the Hudson Bay Company. The beast
was killed by friendly Indian far north in
| the frozen tortresses east OF the Mackenzie
| river and west of the Hudson BAY. After the
animal had been killed and his skin removed
! it was two years before the hide was safely
! landed at the nearest railway station. 1t had
| been sedded at a distance OF 400 miles
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