The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-21
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an output Of ifty-two carloads Of toOthpicks
( annually
A Nebraska man has made arrangements
T to start farm near Raleigh to breed French
| coach horses. A Pennsylvania man has also
I started iarm near the same place for the
purpose OF raising pecans outternuts,
I hlbertS, etc.
J The Oldest Catholic church in New England
1 IS at Damariscotta Mills, Ne, and was built
more than years ago II is still occupied
Tor religious purposes one Sunday in each
month. The interior is said to be decorated
and furnished like d 'awing-rOom.
Every japanese bar .ack has a gymnasium,
and the Japanese soldiers rank among the
best gymnasts IN the world. In haf min
ute they can scale fourteen-tOOt wall
by simply bounding on each others should
ers, one man supporting two or three others.
A cargo of selected girls has been sent
from London to Western Australia, where
there is a great dearth Of material for wives
for farmers and mechanics. The consign-
ment consisted Of fifty young women, sound
morally and physically, and under 20 years
OF age.
twenty-five miles of the Congo Railroad,
forming the first section between Matange
and Kenge, are now completed. The work
mas cost 100000 a mile. Tine line will be
nlnety-three miles long in all and will connect
the immense waterways above the falls with
the sea,
The following appears in a Constantinople
paper: Lady Curry hopes that the guests in
vlted TO her evening reception on the 18th OF
july, which was postponed in consequence of
the earthquake, will give her the pleasure of
taelr company on Tuesday evening, the l4th
OF August
The Russian courts have reversed the as
sumption of the American tribunals that
when a husband and wife are drowned in the
same disaster the wife dies 70
sian doctors have testified unanimously that
the man would be the first to die, because the
woman IS more agile and Keeps herself longer
above water
A goose with remarkable maternal instinct
has been found near Berry in Harrison county,
Kentucky. Her brood was recently drowned,
and an old SOW, with a litter OF pigs. aied
ABOUT the same time. The old mother goose
mas adopted the little orphan pigs and per
sists in her attention toward them. The fam
lily Is doing we'll
Five new statues heve recently been set up
in the parks and squares of New York-the
Columbus, designed by a Spaniard IN Central
park; the Roscoe Conkling, in Madison
square; the Greeley, at the junction of Sixth
avenue and Broadway: the Ericsson in Bat
terry park, and the Nathan Hale, in City Hail
park and among these the last named is the
only one which can be called worthy of its
cost and its place, either as giving pleasure
TO the eye or as likely to inspire initiative
ambitions and patriotic thoughts in the minds
or our fellow citizens.
The officers OF the steamship Westernland
which arrived at New York on Tuesday, wit
messed the eclipse Of the moon Friday morn
Ing, and declare that 1t was the most beauti-
full sight that ever came to their view The
Westernland was sweeping through a silvery
path while overhead there was a Mediter-
ranean sky. Not a cloud was to pc seen in
any direction. A small spot was visible on
the moon near its northen pole That was at
midnight two hours before the eclipse took
place. Shortly afterward there was a bright
hash Of light from the north, followed pv
rays, columns and clouds of light, which
burst up from the horizon from east to west
shooting southwark across the zenith. The
| light took almost every possible form, one Of
the most elaborate being grand arch of
horseshoe shape, raising itself from the hori.
zon. Its hollow was sharply defined against
the heavens, while the line of the outer edge
was constantly broken by rays, flashes and
starlke forms that Shot up toward the
zenith. From the hollow Of the arch rose a
column OF tame which burst into a fountain
of fire which lasted nVe minutes and then
non almost as remarkable if not as
brilliant, was gigantic burst of flame
across the heavens from east-north-east
to west-southwest, taking the form of
d monStrouS feather. There was sharply
defined edge on the north where the shaft of
the feather should have been, while that
which formed the barbs spread downward to
the south in soft feecy clouds The western
edge just touched the moon. The barbs
seemed to move longitudnally. continually
revolving, accompanied by lncesSant changes
in color from the purest white TO O pale blLe
orange and yellow. 1t disappeared after about
ten minutes. When the eclipse occurred the
moon stood west southwest from the West
ernland. The northern surface, or about
one-tfth of 1t, was darkened The eclipse
lasted two hoJrS A curious feature Of il was
that the electrical display was In perfect &C
cord with it, growing strong as the face Of the
moon darkened and passed away as the
shadow disappeared from the silvery disk
When Charles XII. of Sweden became most
uncomfortaDly embarrassed through his
passion for fighting he did not seek the aid of
a monetary congress in Brussels to settle
affairs of finance says the san Francisco
Post. He had a minister of finance. one
Baron GoertZ a Russian, whose ideas 1t
would seem in this exacting age, were re
! treShlnBly original. ana with the aid of this
Baron GOertz Charles took the pull by the
| horns. What the king cid was right 20
when Charles XII. set his regal seal upon
copper halt dollars that weighed one pound
and quarter, his people accepted the inev-
liable and carried the queer coin around
even II they had TO get a horse when il was
necessary to move more than IS or 80 in tae
coin OF the realm. In he history of the
tel C northern wars in which Charles XII
engaged mere is perhaps no belt n evidence
of his remarkable characteristics in exist
ence than this copper half-dollar. One can
scarcely believe il was ever used for money
-pOnderOuS. unWleldly and crude as II is All
it needs is a hole to appear like a safeguard
might have used TO append to keys 50 that
guests could not wander away IN q lit of a9-
stracton with The open sesame one apart
mentS. BY actual measurement it is 81
inches long by AZ wide, with an average depth
Of Is TO Is of an inch. Its correct weight is
20 ounces ayoirdupois The composition IS
copper from the mines Of Sweden, taken in
its purity, and pressed into service without
special efforts at refinement. The we gbt
represents the value Of a silver halt dollar, or
daler. in HI. In shape this extrg ordinary
coin is rectangular. with the corners cut OF
for convenience in handling. # the coin he
taken as a specimen OF the mechanical skill
possessed by King Charles mint, the knoUl-
eCge Of treating metals mechanically in those
days was very crude indeed. Apparently the
coppersmiths took big lnkots Of :hc metal and
hattened them out with heavy sledges upon
anvlls, leaving marks Of the hammer at every
blow, so that ridges and hollows were
formed on the face OF every coin
When this was done and the wei bit
tested, the coiner took silver half
daler stamp and Impressed il upon the center
of the DIT Of copper collier plate. This stamp
has been used only on silver half-dalers. but
when the white meta! disappeared copper was
substituted in p. ooer proportions. The king
SAID, this is silver" and it was silver to an
intents and purposes in the ewes OF his patri
Otto subjects. Then o each Of the four cor
ners was stamped the reverse silver half.
daler sign crown with the letters g n.
$ and the date, III, unde rneath. all en-
bossed with heavy rim. The three letters