The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-01
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sengers and crew OF the Tacoma had the
novel treat of two New Year holidays coming
/ together. Both were celebrated in ship fash
! ion.
/ DR.. Zergler, a German scientist, thinks that
/ II may be possible to forecast the weather by
taking photographs of the suns disk. He
/ says that circular or eliptical halos round
J the orb Of day indicate violent storms. espe-
/ eially II the halos are dark in tint or Of a
! large diameter. Lightning and magnetic
/ disturbances may also be expected from these
/ signs
| TheWyoming supreme court has rendered
decision that when water is carried upon
/ land by bitches the bitches and water rights
/ become part OF the lana and pass with the
I land an incident to the land on the
/ ground that the land was Of little value with
/ oct water and the water and bitches were
/ what made the property valuable. Water
rights may be sold separate from the land;
/ sun, deed carries the water right unless 1t
/ is expressly reserved.
| Vast and populous as China is. says the
Edlnburg Review, the experience Of the pres
/ ent century shows that she is weak for ag-
gressIye purposes. She has not the hold on
| territory adjacent to her borders which she
! could claim 100 years ago. European nations
| are pressing on her both on the south and on
| the north. She has been forced to cede
portion OF her territory to England, and she
! has been compelled to avail herself OF the
/ help OF Englishmen both for civil admins
/ Jratlon and for military command All these
| tnluSo SuOW tldL an expansion OF the OulQeSe
race docs not necessarily 1nvolvean extension
| OF Chinese dominion. On the contrary, they
tend to prove that it is the order introduced
1 py European administration which leads to
! the multiplication of these industrious people
| ana there is, therefore, at least as much
| ground Tor saying that, though Borneo.
| Sumatra and Jew Guinea and the great
| Islands OF the great Eastern Archipelago may
| De ultimately peopled by yellow races, they
| Will be governed by the white races. as for
believing that new Chinese empire is in
Of
/ in other words, be developed in these great
| and fertile islands.
1t is not often that one sees a team of TWEEN
ty-four horses, particularly on Sunday, yet
| such sight was presented in San Francisco
the other day, to the surprised gaze of all who
| saw It, on It's Journey through the city from
the corner of Fourth and Townsend streets to
the entrance Of Laurel Hill cemetery on Cen
tral avenue, opposite Bush street. The horses,
h1tched two abreast, made a line more than
half as long as the blocks west of Market
street. Behind them was truck OF the largest
size and strongest make, and upon the truck,
supported by platform OF solid timber and,
4aSheu Dy ropes, huge sandstone Oowlder'
weighing over Is tons. Its contour was much
the same as the big end of an egg, the upper
part being round. At a distance it looked to
Gail reporter like mammoth pumpkin
In fairy tale. The bowlder is about seven
feet high and has a circumference of 90 feet
ana inches. 1t was brought by rail- from
l4lVermore, and Will mark the grave OF the
late Z. ii. Simpkins, California pioneer, IN
| Laurel Hill He had often expressed a wish
Tor monument modelled by nature, not by
marble-cutters, and his executor, Capt.
knowles, after much search, found a suitable
powder, convenient to a railroad. 1t will re-
main IN us natural state, with the exception
OF a small square which will be chiSeled of
for tablet. The weather being wet and the
streets muddy yesterday. ascent of grades
was made with great care and 10 little skill
ana tho contractors were relieved when the
last All IN the cemetery was overcome aad
| the giant bowlder deposited. The cost of
carriage from the depot to the cemetery was
$780,
The disinfection of houses after the occur
renee of infectious disease, says the London
Lancet, Is often matter of great trouble and
| Inconvenience, as well as serious expense,
| and anything which tends to lessen these de-
| serves our consideration. Under present
conditions the room itself has to be fumigated
| with sulphurous acid vapor, the floors and
| woodwork have to be washed with some dis
| injecting solution, the walls have to be
| washed down and repapered, and the bedding
| mas TO be sent to some special disinfect0r or
| chemical purifier. BY the use, however, of
| formalin (which is really a 40 per cent. solu-
ton Of formaldehyde In water) in the form
ture and walls can be thoroughly disinfected
| and rendered perfectly innocuous. The
e0lors OF papers, silks, satins,
fected both by the vapor and spray. and this
| adds very materially to its value while the
| effect is said to be stronger than that of car
/ bO4lC dClN SulpuuTOuS dClu, GQlOTln6 or OrO-
mine. For spraying it may be used in the
| proportion Of two, four or eight drains to the
| gallon Of water. For the fumigation OF mat
| tresses a little Of the pure formalin should be
| placed, say on vaporiLer under the bed and
| to prevent too great diffusion of the vapor the
| lower part Of the bed. e., the legs, should
be thoroughly covered in with paper. When
| one side IS thoroughly done the mattress
| should be turned and the fumigauon re-
| peated. 1 may say that have tried this
| method and have been satisfied with the re-
suits.
A mysterious attempt to murder a doctor
has been made by a woman who was formerly
| an inmate Of the Salpetriere ASYLUM. saws
| the Paris correspondent Of the London Tele-
| graph. She declared that she committed the
act under hypnotic suggestion. The medical
man whose life has teen imperiled by the
| deed of probably insane person is DR.. Giles
de la Tourette, one Of the favorite disciples Of
the late DR.. Charcot. He was sitting in his
| study at his residence, 80 Rue de l'Universite
when well-dressed young woman about 80
years old was ushered into his room by his
valet. He rose to meet her, and after she
had spoken few words she fired three shots
at the doctor from small revolver. The
valet, who had withdrawn, returned on hear
ing the shots, and found his master reclining
in chair groaning. Near him stood the
young woman, with the revolver in her hand
She was calm, self-posseSsed and appa
rently unconscious of what she had done
The valet. assisted by the doorkeeper of the
house, took the revolver from the woman,
who offered no resistance. One OF the men
then watched her while the other went for
doctor. When the latter arrived he found
that his colleague was only slightly injured
One of the bullets had entered the head the
others were lodged in a bookcase of the
room. Later on another doctor arrived and
the bullet being extracted, NJ. Giles de la
Tourette was declared to be out of danger.
The woman was formally arrested by the
police commissary of the district. She said
that she was a Nine. Hamper, living in a
small hotel in the Rue de Clery. INQUIRIES
were made at that place, and the landlord
stated that she was quiet lodger, who led
solitary life, and never received any visitors
He added that she had suddenly left the hotel
on Sunday evening, and had not been seen
there since. Being examined by the doc
tors and the police commissary as to the
motive of her act, she said that she was
acting under suggestion. DIR. Guinon who
was the first called in to attend the injured
man. states that the woman. on entering DR.,
de la Tourette S room, asked him for 50 francs
as she had been the victim OF hypnotizers
like himself. M de la Tourette repiiad that
he would assist her when he had made in
quirtes about her and as he was showing her
out she fired at him. M. de la Tcurette is in
as satisfactory condition as possible and
his complete recovery is only a question of
a few days Nine. Hamper is said to have
regretted that she did not kill NJ. de la Tour
cite as well as three other doctors attached
TO the Salpetriere Asylum, whom she regards
as her mortal enemies. statement made
by DR.. de la Tourette is published. In it he
corroborates the version Of the drama given
by his colleague, and he adds that he had
never seen the woman in the Salpetriere He