The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-18
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ment 10 the sun. may confidently assert
that my octagonal spermaceti are the best
lights ever invented"
Mrs BlackwOOd. the Indiana woman.
whose matrimonial versatility has been
the subject Of public comment from time to
time, Is about to marry her twelfth hus-
band. She lives in Marshall county, in
that state, and IN a matrimonial state
that breaks the record Six OF her hus-
bands have been divorced, four died, and
one was killed.
In Panaria. one OF the smaller islands OF
the Lipari, or AeOlian group Of Islands in
the Mediterranean. says London Tit-Bits.
all the oiilces OF the community lnhabl-
ting the island are united in one person,
Parde Michelangelo, who IS priest. mayor,
harbor master, postmaster. master OF the
marine telegraph, and Ofticial-generaL he
nils the whole Of them TO the entire sat
isfactiOn Of the community, being assisted
in the telegraph department by his Wild
known in this country. At the Revising
Barrister's court held on Sept. 4. 1884, at
the Castle Eden Inn, Castle Eden, in the
county OF Durham II transplred Inat IN
the township Of Nesbitt Mr. George
Brown, farmer, was the only resident, ana
therefore filled all the public offices. He
levies the rates upon himself, and pays
them himself. The township Of Birches,
in the division of KnutsfOrd, Cheshire,
has only one Occupier-a Mr.. John Aol-
land, farmer. He is both guardian and
Overseer. makes his own rates, collects
and pays them, and looks after the com
pilation of the parliamentary reglster.
Another like township is that of Walters
court. where another gentleman, the only
occupier, fulflls the duties of all the pub
lie offices connected with the township. Al
the various revision courts he attends with
his parliamentary voters list, which sim
ply contains his own name
Charles F. Adams of Bridgeport, Conn.
who is employed at general carpenter
work by the Waterbury Brass company,
has just completed a table containing
100000 pieces of wood, says an exchange.
He started in 1891 and has worked on II al
odd times, in all 1884 hours. 1t is yard
square. In the center of the revolving
top is a picture of the white house, Wash
ington. Surrounded by the stars and
stripes. Along the sides are shown WASH
ington's birth place in Virginia, his Ia
miliar Mount Vernon home, the birthplace
of Grant in Ohio, and the house where he
attended school as boy. interviewer with
these are many quaint designs. me sup
port consists of two pieces of oak placed
together in the form of the letter y. On
these oak supports are sixteen panels, on
which are shown trees, birds, ana leaves.
on the lower part are shown the Ameri-
can eagle, with spread wings and cluS-
ter of arrows in its talOns, deer's head a
stork, sparrow, and two ROSTERS, WASH
ington's Valley Forge headquarters, the
birthplace of Lincoln in Kentucky, Ford
theater. where Lincoln was shot, ana the
place nearby where he died; the birth
place of Columbus at Genoa, cloister in
Spain visited by Columbus, the ship Con
stituton, Libby prison, cluster OF dali
sizes, lilies. a Scotch thistle. and twenty
six varieties of leaves win Terms ana
fruits. The Masonic temple at Water
bury is given. as are several private resi-
dences There is nothing in the nature or
dye paint or stain in the whole work.
The various effects are brought out solely
by the natural colors of the different
woods, of which there are seventy-three
varieties in the table.
The mythical sleep legends of early civ
ilization are mysteries that have never
been explained. Every country and every
nation on the globe has or had some myth
concerning an enchanted sleeper or sleep
ers The Roman legend of the Seven
Sleepers'' is perhaps the best known, but
its origin can be traced back to the early
days of semi historical Egypt. In the
early Egyptian version of the myth, Osi-
ris, the lord of the earth. was outWitted
by Typhon, who finally induced the lord
to enter a chest the lid OF which was then
nailed down. Hot pitch was next poured
into all the cracks, so as to exclude both
air and water, and then thrown into the
sea. AS soon as Iris, the wife of Osiris,
heard of this, she dispatched men in all
directions in search of the chest and its
precious burden; they. after many months,
found it on the coast of Babylos. 1t was
taken to Egypt and opened, whereupon
Osiris leaped out alive, having been mi
raculously preserved during the while in
a blissfCl slumber. The Roman legend
referred to in the opening dates from
439, A. D., and is too well known to war
rent its reproduction here. In the Grecian
version the sleeper is EndymiOn, who
slept in a grottO for more than 100 years,
and then awoke bright and youthful. as
though awakening from nap of but
few hours duration. In the Japanese
version a young fisherman visits the god
dess of the sea and returns to earth after
stay of what was to him but three days.
At home he found everything changed,
and the graves of his parents hundreds
of years old. ON leaving the palace of
the sea goddess she had presented him
with a caSket. After visiting his parents
graves he opened the lid of the gift and
from it there arose mist, which instant
ly whitened his hair and reduced his flesh
and bones to dust. In Wales the sleeper
was Tafy ap Sion; in Denmark he was
ltr.v
he was Siegfried, "he of the enchanted
sleeper" Cortez found a similar tradi-
ton among the early Mexicans, who be-
lieved that their ''pale-faced god" Quetz-
alcoatl had gone east for a season of
deep sleep.
The giant of all the oil gushers, says the
st. Louis Republic, was that struck at
depth of only $40 feet at Baku, on the
Apsheron Peninsula, in the Caspian sea.
The oil stratum was suddenly penetrated
and almost instantly the derrick and other
drilling apparatus were blown to pieces by
the rush OF gas. Following close upon the
gas came a terrific blast of oil and sand
the like of which has never before or since
been known. Efforts to check the enor-
made to plug the mouth of the great
artesian well at Belle Plain, Ia, few
years ago. During the sixty days which
followed the tapping of the oil stratum
1t is estimated that not less than 100000 900
gallons of oil and 100000 tons of sand
We're disgorged by the spouting monster
Great lakes and pools of oil covered the
plains in all directions from the well and
three or four creeks and rivers of the
same fluid furnished an outlet into the
sea, and thus prevented a Veritable mum
dation. Within a month the site of the
well looked more like a volcano than any
thing else which it could be conn red
to. The shifting winds had caused the
giant oil jet to first deposit its load of
sand on one side and then on the other
until regular Pompeiian calamity had
overtaken all the building. hosting appa-
ratus, derricks, etc, within d radius of
200 yards. burying the tallest of them
entirely out of sight. This volcano Of
oilmixed sand had regular crater or cen
trail orifice through which the sand and
oil escaped and daily and hourly added to
the mass. Fears of an explosion caused
the authorities to issue edicts command
ing that the people extinguish all fires
within an area of five miles, and provid-
ing heavy fines even for the crime of
lighting a pipe within the "dead-line."
The geyser was struck during the first
week of September and flowed unchecked
until Dec. 3, when an inventor backed by
the Russian government succeeded in con-
trolling it, but not until after il had spent
the greater part of it's fury. During the
first 100 days, the Russian expert esti-
mates, it vomited forth over 500 900 tons