The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-30
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The will of the late David Wallach. Of Chi
cago, which distributes about 100000 worth
Of property. gives, with other public requests,
S2oOO TO Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, for
a David Wallaeh bed"
The paper for Bank OF England notes is al
ways made from new white linen-never from
rags or anything that has been used before
80 carefully is the paper prepared that even
the number OF dips into the pulp made by
dial.
The capitalized wealth Of Great Britain
was estimated by the statistician of the board
OF trade to amount in 1895 to eIO. O37 4ss OO0 or
ABOUT Soe lS1, $4,000. There Is no official esti-
mote OF the wealth OF this country, but re-
cent unofficial estimate places il at about 500
100000. 000
The oldest Of all birds nests is the one
built by the tontobane, a South African song
ster. 1t is built of cotton. and always upon
the tree producing the material In con
structing the domicile, the female works in
side and the male outside. where he builds a
sentinel box for his own special use. He sits
IN IN, me box and keeps watch or sings nearly
al the time, and when danger comes in the
form OF a hawk or snake he warns the fam
lily, but never enters the main nest.
Two years ago Sam Taylor, a Lexington,
KY, farmer in the keat Of quarrel with a
neighbor, who had struck him fired a fatal
shot at his antagonist. He was convicted and
sent to jail on three years sentence Mean
while all his family, except sister. who has
labored in vain for his pardon have died
The other day Kentucky girl visiting the
pen saw the broken down old man, and pitied
hlm She investigated the case, sought Gov.
Brown, secured pardon and took it to the
prison. When the old man realized what she
had done he gasped thanks and fell over dead.
The Pail Mall Gazette has been publishing
opinions as to the worst railway in Eng
land The following letter may be recon-
mended as an admirable model: "Sir-The
Southeastern railway is the very worst rail.
way in the world Its engines are asthmatic
its lamps are trimmed by foolish virgins; its
fares are excessive; its carriages let in the
snow in winter, and are furnaces in summer;
its motto is unpunctuality: its principal sta
ton is approached through the neck OF bot
tie 1t ruins the temper. destroys the diges-
ton and enables one to realize the horrors of
Dantes Inferno 1 am sir, yours obediently
The Worm Who Turns"
The employees of a telephone company were
stretching wires along the road which skirts
the property of George w. Hawkins, near
Newourg n. Y, and in so doing they dis
inquired half dozen spruce trees which had
oeen planted by his father by cutting of the
branches. No consent to this mutilation had
been given by the owner Of the trees, and the
l1nemen, as usual, had used their saws and
axes without mercy. Mr. Hawkins sued the
company for $780, estimating the damage at
500 tree. The jury gave verdict of $500
Under provisions of the code in this state
Mr.. Hawkins lawyers then moved that a
triple Judgment be made, and the court
astounded the defendants by granting this
and increased the Judgment to 1880
DR.. S. B. Ward, of Albany, N. Y. was
asked to explain the alleged sudden increase
in the number OF cases of appendicitis: and
in his reply. among other things, he said:
pendlx. 1t is not known what causes
1t There are two proofs that append
cttis is not due to the Judgment of seeds. TIE
first is that in almost every instance where
an operation has been performed the ap-
pend1x has been found empty, though in
tanned. The second is that in operations
after death, when death has been due to
other causes. substances have often been
found in the appendix, and yet that organ
was not intiamed. AS to the impression that
operations are necessarily fatal, that too, is
wrong. as no more difficulty is liable to fol
low than may follow the most simple opera
ton. All that is necessary is to cut through
and pull out the appendix. so as to tie it and
cut 1t on 1t IS part Of the anatomy that is
not necessary"
The resistance of different trees to the cleo
trio spark has been studied by NJ. Jonesco
Dimitrie, who placed pieces of sapwood of
beech and oak in the way of the spark Of a
Holtz electrical machine. The spark passed
through the oak after one or two revolutions
of the machine, while twelve or twenty revo-
buttons were required to give it force enough
to pass through the beech. Five revolutions
were sufficient with black poplar and willow.
Similar results were obtained with heart
wood. The presence OF water had no in
huence on the resistance, but richness in fat
was an important factor. "Starehy trees"
poor In fat, like the oak, poplar, willow,
maple, elm and ash, opposed much less resis-
lance to the spark than fatty" trees like
the beech, chestnut, linden and birch
The pine, which is rich in oil
in winter and poor in il in
summer, shows CORRESPONDING difference in
behavior toward the spark at those two sea-
sons. In the ''starchy trees the living wood
was harder to strike with the spark than the
dead wood. The bark and foliage are poor
conductors in all the trees. but this is of lit
tie importance as compared with the conduct
ing power Of the tree itself. These results
are In harmony with what has been observed
as to the relative frequency with which trees
of these several species are struck by light
ming. The author found also that station and
soil affect the liability Of trees to be struck.
The vicinity OF water augments the danger.
Isolated trees seem more liable than those
which are masSed. All species OF trees NAV
be struck when the electric tension is high.
The most elaborate piece of bronze work in
this country, says the New York Tribune.
and one which, for beauty and artistic merit,
is pronounced by competent judges to be
among the best in the world has lust been
completed and was shown yesterday by the
Henry Bonnard Bronze Company, No. ,430
West Sixteenth street, where it was cast and
finished, The work is the Astor memorial
doors, which will be placed at the main en-
trance of Trinity church. The doors, which
are about fourteen feet in hight. are the work
of Richard M. Hunt architect. and Karl Bit
ter, sculptor, who have been engaged on them
for over three years. When completed and
in place the doors will cost about S160 600
The frleze and tympanum which surmount
the doors are of stone. and this part is essen
tial to the scheme of the designer
The frieze represents full-length figures
of the apostles, and over these is
the tympanum, four feet high, in which the
central inquire is Christ, surrounded by an
gels, symbolizing the Kingdom of Heaven.
The doors proper, which weigh 1900 pounds
each. are divided into six panels. and around
these, in inches and brass, are set the tigures
of saints. The panels are in full relief, some
of the figures being seven inches high and are
the main features of the work They REPRE-
sent six scenes from the Bible. The hrst
panel, the one at the bottom of the left-hand
door, represents the expulsion from Paradise;
the second, the lower panel on the right-hapd
door, represents the dream of Jacob The
next is the annunciation; this panel though
there are only two figures and IL is severely
simple, has been pronounced by some the
best OF the six though each has its peculiar
charm. The fourth panel is the resur
rection the fifth represents the twenty-four
elders praising the Lord, and the sixth
is the end of the world, but the group above
Christ and the surrounding figures which is
over all is to show that there is life beyond
this. The remarkable feature about these
doors is that they were cast each In one
piece. When the larger and intricate pic
lures are considered, this is a remarkable
foundry achievement, Artists who have seen
the bronze doors churches of Florence Paris
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