The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-07
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elegant. ana men prided themselves on
| straight legs, or wore bosts with tops,
| which Permitted no swell sf the calf
/ Of the time of Columbus tell Of the CARDS
! who swathed the legs of their little ones
| just above the calves. Was this to in
! crease the size Of the calf? In the Ba-
/ hamas, wsSden figures have been found
| in the Eat caves with the legs ana arms
| so bouns UP. The explanation Of It is
! net yet clear.
Electricity cut re figure in the conpeti-
| ten for the prize offered by the Paris
/ Petit Journal for the best road carriage
| to run without horses. There were 10
! competitors, and emily two of them sub
mitted designs calling for electricity. The
/ nrst prize of $1,000 was divided between
| the Pengeot Bros. and Panhard &, Lavas-
| sort for their gasoline carriages. The
second, Of $500, was given for q steam en-
! CINE, the third, Of $500, for steam engine
with Serpoloet generators. the fourth prize
Of 800 and the fifth of 500 went to petro-
leum motors. y prize of encoura cement
made practical, but the weight of the
storage battery is a serious obstacle.
A high wind has often to be reckoned
railway travel, and it has occurred to
most persons that the present blunt END
of locomotive in opposing such broad
surface to the air must, TO great extent
diminish speed and cause unnecessary
| consumption of fuel, says Chambers
| Journal Nature has constructed bird as
| well as fishes of such form that their
| bodies offer the least possible resistance to
| the media in which they move, and mar
| has acknowledged the correctness of the
| design in the construction Of boats. The
| Paris Lyons and Mediterranean railway
| has determined to test the value Of the
| same principle for vehicles which draw
| the air at the speed of birds, and they have
| ordered to be built forty engines with
metal Prov in front which shall inclose
! funnel dome and fire box.
Many of the newspapers give a column
! to shipping news, says the Pittsburg Dis
| patch. One of the most frequent announce
| ments is to the effect that a ship named
| was spoken" on a given day, in certain
| latitude and longitude. The meaning OF
| the term cannot be mistaken, but how
| communication was held may not be SO
! easily understood. Of course, the express
| sion Spoken at sea-. came into use when
| it was the custom for two vessels whose
| courses almost crossed to hail each other
| The speaking trumpet was used for this
| purpose. By this means news was re
ceived and sent. But this occasioned loss
! of time, if it did not neCessitate q change
! of course. In later usage the spy glass
! has taken the place Of the speaking trum-
| pet, except in cases where the vessels are
! coming near together in their regular
! course. Communication is now made by
| signalling, and the code is very simple.
! Every merchant vessel in foreign trade
! has n registered number by which it can
7 be identified in any part of the world.
| Two vessels exchange numbers by signal
/ and that one which first arrives at any
| port connected with the rest of the globe
| by cable, reports having spoken" the
! ldL4tuCe
! tude. "all we'll" The report is made pub
/ lie through the shipping newspapers. OF
| course. the correct form of statement at
/ the present day would be, in majority
! of instances seen" rather than Spoken"
| but nautical terms are not easily changed.
| A carcass of beef is cut into nineteen
| pieces. All the pieces and the names are
! in the dictionary, says the New York Adj
/ vertiser. Look at the list and you viii
/ find the names "tenderloin" and ''pOr-
| terhouse''-two names that the inexperi-
] anrR1
/ pOrterhCuse is a delusion, and a snare in
/ vast majority of cases. The tenderloin
! is the thick part of the siTlOin after few
! round bone steaks have been cut off, and
/ is called the fliet de bOeuf. 1t makes q
| choice piece for roasting, but if not sold
| in lump is cut into sirlOin steaks of
| three grades. The first and second grades
are technically hip sirlOin steak and
! flat bone sirloin steak" These are the
/ steaks that the young housewife pays
/ extra for. There are not over six of each
| kind in one carcass, so the chances are
cut, or round bone. sirlon," which is in
house steaks are cut from the
contains but a few of them Ingenious
| butchers understand the knack of cutting
/ the small end sirloin so as to include other
! portions of the beef, thus enabling them
| to sell both at porterhouse prices. Good
| beef has juicy or sappy appearance, with
| a fine, smooth grain, which is easily no
| ticed. The fat, both outside and through
! the muscles, presents a clear, straw-cOl-
| ored appearance. The flesh should be
! cherry red When the meat rises quickly
after being pressed it may be considered
| prime. When the dent made by pressing
! rises slowly or not at all, depend upon it.
| the beef is poor.
Fetish worship is not confined to the
| ignorant as exclusively as most people
imagine" said Walter Carlton of Atlanta
| to the Washington Star. For several
| years have made more or less steady in
| CURRY into the superstitions cherished by
| intelligent, cultured people, and you can
| scarcely believe how widespread is the
| belief in charms and talismans At the
| ter / met young woman from away uD
| in the frozen north. She was one Of
! OF things and her learning was really
| something wonderful. She invariably
| wore queer-looking loclIet at her neck
| and one day 1 asked her why she kent
| on such an homogeneous thing when
| dressed in evening costume She coolly
! told me that it contained a charm that
/ had preserved her from impending dan
| ger number Of times and recited several
| hairbreadth escapes she has made JTpon
! my inquiring what the charm was she
| told me II was an African moo1a stone
| that her grandfather, who was seafar-
| ing man, had brought home from one OF
! his voyages, and that it had exerted
| protecting influence on her mothers life
as it had on her own. That woman was
| one of the few really thoroughly educat-
| ed women / have ever known, and yet
she firmly believed in the supernatural
! properties of that pebble she wore in a
| lOcket around her neck There are hun
/ dreds of men all over the country. col
| lege men. too, who would as soon leave
! their collars and cravats at home as to
/ go out without a rabbit foot in their
pockets, and who win not talk over a
| business proposition without touching
/ their precious talismans. And speaking
/ of rabbits feet I have been credibly in
( formed that the great Henry Irving once
/ changed the bill from Hamlet to The
/ Bells because the rabbit foot he has
/ always used in making up for the part
/ Of the melancholy Dane was misiaid,
and he felt presentment that something
dreadful would happen to him if he used
anything else TO give the proper lines to
! his stage complexion. I'll bet there are
a dozen otherwise sensible men in this
/ hotel this minute who would wear their
/ stockings inside out all day if they acct
| dentaily happened to get them on that
| way in the morning. The more / look
| into the interesting matter the more l dis
! cover to prove that superstition Is as
strong among the educated as ii is
! among the ignorant"
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