The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
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covered large and beautiful deserted CITY.
lie states that the wonderful city is situated
about eighty miles west of Lake Colorado, in
the very recesses of the Sierra Madres It
occupies basin abont ten miles long by
eight miles wide. Perpendicular cliffs sur
round the basin on all sides rising to a height
OF hundreds OF feet, The only entrance to
the city Is through a deep canon, which has a
width OF about thirty feet.
There is a farmer not far from South
I Bend, Ind, who formerly lived in the noun
tain region Of North Carolina. He noticed
not long ago a peculiar and familiar odor in
the air when the wind set from a certain
quarter. He Snlne1i it two or three times
and remarked that there was certainly a still
not TAR OF. as he could not be mistaken in
mat scent. After catching the perfume two
| or three times he resolved to follow it up
ana set on TO follow his nose The odOr grew
stronger as he proceeded and after following
II Tor some three miles. he came to a farm
| house. where, peering through window, he
| discovered still in full operation. He re-
ported the matter to the revenue officers
who went 10 the place and seized the still. 1t
was on the farm of man who has hitherto
norne an unblemished reputation. 1t is
! thought that the whiskey was sold through
some saloon in the neighUorhood.
A Scotchman who is evidently as patient
as he is ingenious, has trained two little mice
to spin thread with an apparatus Of which he
/ is the inventor. says the st. Louis Post Dis
patch. The mechanical principle OF the con
! trlVance Is small mill, which is CD rated Uy
Inc paws OF the mice. They can each wind
on and OF per day from 100 to 100 pieces OF
| thread, and to do this they must supply mo
| tor power by which a course of ten and one
| nan miles could be traversed. Although the
Two mice are quite small they perform this
| task every day without apparent fatigue A
cent worth of -four furnishes them food
enough for five weeks. During that time the
little animals have spun in the neighborhood
OF $500 threads, each about one and one half
yards long At this this rate each mice earns
not quite q cent per day, or the muntficent
sum OF about s. per year. The ingenious in
Venlof proposes to build a house 90 feet long
| 10 feet wide ana AZ feet high which he ex-
poets TO equip on large scale with thread
mlIIs operated by mice. He says he can pat
IN out 10000 mills.
Upwards of 2,0OG Chinese have registered
under the provisions of the Geary law in
Portland, Ore. says the New York Post. A
trick which has lately cen discovered pro,n.
lses TO tause much trouble and confusion
III turns on the rasem lance of so many
Cinnamon. which has always puzzled the in.
ternairevenue officers The applicant for
cettlncatlon cOntrlVeS by change OF dress
to secure two or more papers The second
one can be utilized in more ways than one
being worth considerable sum to those en-
gagged in the business of smuggling Cinnamon
INTO the country. The extra certificate for
instance, VIII be very handy to any Chnaman
who has not registered and processes his
Willingness to deported After obtaining
TO return by exhibiting the certificate AS
pictures of the holders must be annexed to
certificates, Chinamen on the Pacid tic coast are
setting up as photographers and are roaming.
handsome profits since their csuntrymen
patronlZe them in preference to seeking the
services of Americans. san Francisco
paper draws attention to a serious defect in
the law. ANY Chinese person" it saws
may he registered and get a certificate in
every county in the state, and can also register
outside the state, if he cares to travel such
certlheates, owing TO the resemblance which
exists among all Chinese. at least to the eau
caSlan eye, could be made the means of
evading and defeating the exclusion and re-
strlctlon acts. and might result in flooding
the country with Chinese. All that would be
necessary wOul1 be to send the PHOTOGRAPHIC
certificates to China and find coolies who
bore resem0 ance to the original, and the
rest would be easy"
do not know that it will add very much to
the readers happiness, says an English
writer, to be told that daddy long-IeEs is a
terrlcolc belonging to the family of dlpterous
insects tlpulide, only it is perhaps lust as
well to be exact in these little matters |
have known daddy long-legs now for large
num0er of years, but don't see anything In
him, He pays us his annual visit in August
and stays throughout September. In low
sandy meadows. near the sea, he is seen in
greatest abundance, In Syke have walked
through clouds OF them. That is not very
pleasant, because two or three at time get
astrlde of one nose, and there is no keeping
them off. When in camp at Deal three years
ago, found the daddies in great force ali
aGoNt Inc camp. The swiftS lived on them
When the swifts went to bed the bats
they had da dS d for sd a3ST !h nat
ma es are as p' listio as stag beetles
and TWO of them wlI tight to the Death. q
course, there is always a lady in the case
There are three of these daddies cruising
round my lamp now as write | can't save
having legs Of that length A daddy loses a
leg without troubling much. ~ here are ave
more as good. he SAYS and'fics merrily OF
NY pet spiders in my wigwam are very fond
OF daGdtes, and leave their webs to stalk with
them. There isn't much picking on a
daddy, a spider told mo to mig ut, put what
there IS wondrous sweet SIR So q sDiuer
must look upon daddles in Inu n the same
light we human beings regard the craydsh
One OF my spiders has Just seized a DADDY
and the spTawly insect has es.a pad. leaving
the Willy arat hnoid leg This. after inspect
ing it for moment, he filings disfainfuliy
away, and retires to watch for a better OBJ
poftunlty.
Cases in which man has been convicted OF
crime on purely circumstGntial evidence are
OF frequent occurrence, but in the majority of
instances it would not be difficult to point to
at least one weak link in the chain OF guilt.
The New York Recorder recalls a striking
case In which prisoner was found guilty on
testimony that left no room for even the
shadow of doubt. One night an assassfo
entered droYerS house in Ohio. killed the
inmates and secured a sealed package con.
tanning 81 800 in bank notes In order to con
teal his crime he set ire 20 the house before
leaving 1t. The building burned slowly, and
the nelghhors were enabled to extinguish the
flames and to discover the murderous work
which had been done The assassin, re-
fore leaping over The fence. had torn
open the wrapper of the pack
age and flung it on the ground
This was picked up by the police and marks
OF blood were found upon 1t, 1t was the only
clew In their possession. After twenty-four
hours the murderer returned to the town.
The police suspected him. because he had
been mysterlousIv absent and was known to
have been intimate with the drover They
did not arrest him, but constantly watched
him for four months. He had been poor, but
now seemed to have money. In the course of
week he married and went away on a wed.
ding tour. Two detectives followed him.
Whenever he paid hotel bill or offered
money for any purpose they secured the hank
notes which had been in his possession sub
seluently he made several journeys
with the detectives behind him. and
finally went to Minnesota. There he
paid out a $50 bill with a red thumb
mark on one corner. q he police arrested him
as soon as they examined it, On the trial the
torn wrapper with its blood mark was identi.
fed as having been in the drovers possession.
The bank notes, which had cen traced 10 the
assassin. were put in, with the last one paid
out by him on top. The smear of blood on
the wrapper correspondent precisely with the
marks OF the bank notes underneath. Tho
specialists magntfying glass revealed uuer-
rlnSly how the murderers thumb, in tearing