The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-20
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other animate or inanimate objecO weighs
less when the barometer is low, nOtwith-
mlch greater upon his BODY when the
same instrument marks high" 1t is es-
timated that the pressure on an ordinary
sized man is 10 tons, and that fail in the
column of mercury from 81 to % adds
about one ton to his load.
Their is always sympathy for the raisers
OF new plants and fruits, says Meehan's
Monthly. 1t is well understood that they
seldom receive anything near like the
equivalent which other good service to
progressive horticulture seems to require,
but the party who has to make old ac-
quaintance with the new plant is seldom
thought of, and yet, a rule. the first in
PRODUCER TO commerce of the new plant
gets as little for his work as the original
raiser does. Almost any large firm could
give their experience in confirmation of
this point The pOular Japan ivy is a
good illustration. The first nurseryman
probably to offer ii for sale in America
was Mr.. John Charlton of Rochester, N.
advertising it, with very few to respond
Thousands of dollars have since been
made on the sales of this plant, but very
little from this IS represented in Mr.
Charlton's account. That was in 1868. Few
plants have achieved so wide a popularity
it is seen everywhere, in every part of
was recently showing the Japanese com
missioners the sights of the city of Phila-
exclaimed in his newly-acquired English,
and at the same time pointing over the
walls or the Academy OF Natural sciences:
Me feel very much at home
The correspondent of the London Stan
dard in Vienna relates the following in
cident to illustrate the power of anti
Semitic influence in Austria: A Hebrew
non-cOmmisSioned officer, who has served
eighteen years in the army, was refused
one of the shall posts reserved by law
for soldiers of his rank who have served
twelve years or longer He solicited an
audience of the emperor, and, having
proved to him that his Jewish faith was
the only thing against him, succeeded in
obtaining the imperial signature to his
petition. The document had to go to the
war office, whence it came back with the
answer: THE war department mas no in
fuence with other ministries, on which
the mans employment depends" The ap-
| plicant is still in the army, as he has no
other means of livelihood, and the en-
peror's signature was not enough to over
ride the official prejudice. The constitu-
ton of 1867 declares that all subjects have
equal rights. In Vienna the Jews form 10
per cent of the population, and contribute
| to the taxes in at least the same proper
| ton, but there is not a single Hebrew in
the service of the town. The petition of
a medical man to be appointed assistant
veterinary surgeon in the municipal ser
year, was rejected by Dr. PriX, the late
burgOmaster, because the applicant re-
fused to abjure the Hebrew faith.
The achievement of American surgeons
in bold and extraordinary operations have
long been the wonder of the world. But
now from the other side of the Atlantic
comes story which shows that the old
country is waking up bit in the art of
ENGRAVING living human flesh says the
New York World. A young man has put
his finger to his nose, and it remains there
permanently. A few months ago youth
whose nasal organ was missing, as the re-
suit of an accident, called at Charing
Cross hospital, London, with the request
that the surgeons would supply the de-
ticiency, artif1cially or otherwise. He eX-
pressed himself as willing to undergo any
sort of treatment by which his disfigured
face might be made fairly presentable
and not absolutely repuSiVe to his best
Sunday summer girl. Mr.. Bloxam, the SEN
Tor surgeon, took the interesting case in
hand. First the amputated finger of an
other patient was carved and fashioned
to the semblance of nose, and then Sc
curely grated to the face. But it was
found that this mutilated digital append
age had not survived its cutting up. 1t
was dead and failed to take fresh root
| The noseless man, nothing daunted there
upon agreed TO the surgeons suggestion
that one of his own Che patient's) fin
gers should be cut off to furnish q nasal
organ. But in order that the finger should
not be wasted in the event of the opera
| ton being unsuccessful, it was only half
amputated: The patients arm being en-
! caSed in plaster, for four weeks he held
! his own live finger to his face in the hope
| OF It's taking root. This 1t did. The por-
| ton which was still attached to the hand
was then cut through, and soon Joined
| the rest in adhering firmly to the face
! Although minus a finger, the young man
| now has a new nose of his own flesh and
| blood The transferred cartilage has been
IT.
| its original identity is entirely lost, and
| the further process of shaping it is now
! being proceeded with. 1t is not known
! whether the plucky young Briton prefers
! the "nez retrOuSse" or the aquline He
! Will doubtless be in a position to take
| his choice. He is certainly not the sort of
| man to be content with any sort of nose
! that happens to turn up.
| For trip across the Cocopah Desert in
! Southern California, says the st. Louis Re-
! public, you fill your zinc canteens at the
SnTinp do do 1oc Dol, -.
! by a gradual descent down the canon the
! heat notiCeably increasing as YOU de-
! shades of the towering Sierra Madres in
! that veritable valley of Death" If Won
! are inexperienced, a "tender-foot," never
! attempt the trip without a guide, and not
| then between the months of April and Oc-
| tOber An Indian will pilot you across for
! few dollars, or you may fall in with some
| will be with reference to your facilities for
| carrying water. There are no landmarks
! by which to shape your course, so a guide
! is an absolute necessity. Here and there
| about the plain are sand dunes, varying
! in hight from little hillocks to sixty feet
! or more. Lay your course by even the
! tallest of these and you are lost, for in a
! few hours it may have entirely disap-
| peared, only to be rebuilded by the wind
| at right angles to your course several
| miles away. If you are alone, and mex
| perienCed, your only infallble guides will
be the sun and stars; if these are OBJ
SCured, camp and wait until they reap
| pear, II your water supply will permit; if
! not, then push on through that scorching
| sand-and may the Lord take pity on YOU
! If you are experienced, the rocks and the
| cactus bushes will tell you which Is north
/ and which is south. Opinions differ as to
| the length of time man can go without
| water in that desert and retain his reason
! but the maximum limit for one unused to
| desert travel is eight hours. ] know of
! two leather-lunged old prospeCtors who
/ were thirty-siX hours without water. and
! vet had sufficient sense and strength to
| follow their old bell burro. whose animal
/ instinct led them to a water hole hitherto
/ unknown. Personally, 1 have gone twenty
! two hours without water there. and then
| slaked my burning thirst in hot, muddy
] alkal seen water that had collected in a
I bears track. and. although I had to fight
/ with a big, black mountain RATHER for
! the coveted drauCht, il WAS the sweetest I
! ever quaffed. There is gold in the noun
! tains, both in quartz and placers. but
| there is not sufficient water in the entire
| range to supply the domestic necessities
/ of an average camp, to say nothing of a
! stamp mill. There is absolutely no timber
! scarcely enough brushwood for camp
! fires. and shipping the ore is out If the
question. Fadulously rich --ust he the
! ore that will paw for sacking and packing
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