The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-21
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uoeS not ellmo tree or bush by ceiling
around it, bat by holding on with the points
OF It's scales. A snake on a pane OF glass is
almost helpless.
st. Louis papers mention a curious mon
strosity which is now in that city 1t Is a 2
year-old bull with head exactly resembling
that OF monkey. There is no Indication OF
horns, and the mouth presents anything but
round. and about the size of an ordinary
water Iail. The eyes. which are of a sky
oIue, oulge OUT OF their sockets, presenting
quite CHASTITY appearance, The mouth bears
striking resemblance to a monkeys There
are only nine lower teeth in its head and the
Tongue Is not mucn larger than the tongue of
human being.
A Frenchman. named Capt de Place, has
invented an instrument, according to the
London Iron, that il would be well enough for
the government to have to examine with it
the armor plate manufactured by the Carnegie
company. II is said to be able to detect at
once any sort of flaw in any kind Of metal
work and to locate it infallfbly 1t is called
schiseophone.. 1t consists of small pneu-
matte taper. with which the piece OF metal
TO be tested is tapped all over. Connected
with the instrument is micropho1e. which
eXaggerates the sound, and a telephone in an
other apartment, at which an expert listens
70 tne sound OF the tapping AS long as the
SOUND IS normal, he does nothing but listen.
directly false sound. which is very distinct
from normal. Is heard. he instantly signals
Tor the spot to be marked 1t is asserted that
other defects, of which no sign appears on the
surface
An eel whose age of so years is vouehed for
by trustworthy witnesses has been on exhi-
bition at Groton, Conn. 1t died on being
taken out OF well in which it had lived so
many years, and probably would have lived
10 a still greater age had it not been dis
turbed. This eel was caught fifty years ago
] by c. o. Harris. of New London. Conn. and
| by him put in tine family well. There was no
fOr nd cd vNar lxy
content to remain in its walled domicile, In
1870 the well was cleaned and the eel was
observed to he in state of good preservation.
me other day the well was again cleaned and
the eel was brought to the Top in bucket of
water. 1t was then removed and placed in
bucket OF honomoc water. This transition
probably caused its death. for within five
minutes after being placed therein the eel
gave up the ghost. The skin will be pre-
pared and stuffed. In spite OF its age the eel
had not increased much in size, being no
larger thar an average sized one.
The lettuce was deemed by the ancients the
food of the dead says the vegetarian, be-
cause when Adonis, the beloved OF Venus
was mortally wounded by wild boar, the
weeping goddess laid him upon bed of soft
and tender lettuces, whose milky juice pos
sesses soothing and narcotic qualities. Let
tuces were eaten by the ancients at the close
of their repasts, as from their cooling quail
ties they we're considered antidotSs to the
heating effects of wine. The bitter herbs
which the Jews ate at the Passover were
wild lettuce, Succory, tansy. chamomile and
dent-de-lton, and this same race are the in
Ventors OF the salad compounded Of oil. vine
gar. sugar, salt and mustard to render the Bit
ter herbs palatable. The Irish. two centuries
ago, made their salads OF sorrel wood sorrel
ana beet chopped with vinegar. beer and
little sugar, but no oil, salt or mustard Read
ers of classic history will remember how
lettuce caused the cruel death OF Cambyses,
King of Persia and Media, of his consort,
who was also his sister.
remarkable story of miraculous cure"
comes from Holywell, North Wales. The place
is in state Of great excitement over a dumb
woman who has recovered her power OF
speech after bathing In ST. Winefrede'S Well.
she is Preston girl, who in 1892 completely
lost the power of speech. She tried many
doctors and spent over 800 in following their
prescriptions which for mill girl is pretty
large sum. AT the Preston inhrmary she was
treated daily for six weeks with the electric
battery, the current being applied to her face
mouth, tongue and teeth but the treatment
had to be given mp as useless in December.
what the doctor and the battery could not do
&as done lnstantaneously by the water of St.
Wlnefrede'S Well She entered the bath
early one morning, and had been in it but a
rev moments when to an astonished bv-
stander who asked. Where is the drinking
cam the dumb woman answered 1T has
| fallen into the we'll" Her companion saws
she felt tit to fall in her self so great was her
surprise During the remainder of her stay
IN holyweu she talked almost all day
Altogether about 10000 persons die each
year in India from the bites of various snakes.
and it is no exaggeI alton to say that some
| sixty of Queen Vctorias subjects who were
| alive and well yesterday are to-day being
burnt and buried out here as SEQUEL to these
accidents, says Mcclure S Magazine. The same
VIII happen tomorrow and the next day and
at least one death from similar causes NAV
| be expected to occur every half hour between
now and the time that the readers of Nc
CURE s Magazine peruse what have written
| Mortality OF this magnitude is a terrible
| thing, though the fact must be remem bered
| that 1t is distributed among population four
| times as large as that of the United States
and thus passes, TO great extent, unnoticed
Inc casualties are confined almost entirely
| to the poorer and more ignorant natives
who habitually go about with bare feet For,
| although creatures like the hamadryas and
the echis are occasionally spelling for a fight
| as general rule snake is no more anxious
| TO be trodden upon than man is to tread
| upon It, The consequence is that people who
wear boots are hardly ever bitten. This is
| not so much because of the protection of the
| leather as on account of the noise made by a
| boot upon the ground, which warns the snake
| to get out OF the way. The ordinary native in
| bare feet makes hardly any sound, whatever
as he walks along, and is consequently very
| liable to surprise snake in the path. The
white man, on the other hand. in good pair
OF creaky boots, is so safe that it is most ex-
ceptional to hear of an accident where he is
| concerned.
Mr. John H. Wagner, a we'll known New
York brewer, was entertaining party of
friends at Chamberlins yesterday, SAYS the
Washington Post, and in the course of his
| conversation, told of the enormous growth of
the brewing interests OF the United States
1T may surprise you" said he addressing
| his friends, but have quaffed lager beer in
| Jerusalem. Yokohama and Fernambuco
| within the past eighteen months The foamv
| beverage is spreading more and more. wear
after year, all over the globe. We now ex
| port beer from this country to Asia to Span.
| ish America, to the British American pro
vinces. and we expect to work up a profitable
| trade in Africa soon. Breweries are SPRING
| ing up everywhere even in Japan and Brazil
| Lager beer was unknown in this country nm
| til the German immigrants brought it here
| forty years ago, and now the Ameri-
can output is 100000 barrels wear. The
Germans did great thing for the Americans
when they taught them to drink
! beer, they especially lager beer intro
duced one of the great industries of the
United States, at which tens of thousands Of
men are employed and from which heavy
revenues are raised for the public service
The chief beer-producing state in the union
last year was New York. and our own citv is
the center of production. Seven wears AGO
Missouri was far ahead of us and even
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were ahead
but the Empire State has advanced Steadily
since 1887. and its product for last wear fell
very little short of 10000 900 barrels All
this must be set down to the credit Of .he
German revolutionary uprising in 1913 which
started the rush of German imnniOrants 80