The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-06
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has given orders that in future the college
| museum is to be opened on Sunday after
l Moons
/ George Meredith sometimes rewrites
| chapter several times before he is satisfied
/ with it, and then he occasionally decides to
/ use his first draft.
! Figures published in Fire and Water show
! the fire losses during the first four months
| OF the present year TO be less by over $4,000.
! 900 than during the like period last year.
! Electrical bicycles are cropping up in Eng
/ land. The weight OF the batteries when
/ filed with liquid is to be forty-four pounds.
| ana the whole weight OF the machine is to be
! 1855 pounds.
! Tests recently made in Japan OF the hauling
powers Of American and English locomotives
| on the Tokaido railway resulted decidedly in
| favor OF American engines; and preference
| Will be given to them in future.
! Charles johnson, Of Hannibal. No. has in
| vented a patent hens nest. according to an
| exchange. When the hen approaches the
/ nest a wicket door gently opens. and after
| she passed in il closes, and the hen has pri-
| vate apartments all to herself. The egg of
| its own weight opens trap door and rolls
! noiSelessly out of sight. Then when the hen
| arises. puts her hands in her pockets and gets
| ready to walk out, not seeing the egg, thinks
| she has made a mistake and lays another
| This sort of thing is repeated until the heft
! Of the chicken buds in the box below touches
! OF spring and biddy is tired out Of the
| apartments.
The name OF the soldier who pierced Christ's
side with the spear,while he was hanging on
| the cross has been preserved IN the legendary
| lore of the church as Longinus saws the St.
| LOUIS Republic This man was one of the
| soldiers appointed to keep guard at the cross,
| and II is said that he was converted by the
| miracles which attended the crucihxion. The
| legend even goes further, declaring that he
! was one of the company of watchers set to
| guard the sepulcher. and that he was the only
| one who refused to be bribed to say that the
| body OF our Savior had been stolen y the dis
| c1ples. For his tideli to this great truth,
! Plate resolved upon his destruction On
this accoant Longinus left the army to devote
| mis- entire time TO spreading the gospel; but
| he did this without hrst getting per-
| mission from the Governor of Judea. or from
| Rome. He and two fellow soldiers whom he
| had converted retired to Cappadocia. where
| they began to preach the word of God At
| the 1nsttgatiOn of some of the leading Jews,
| however, Plate sent out a detachment of
| soldiers who surprised the deserters at a
| place where they we're holding a Christian
| meeting and where they had three crosses
| set up as an illustration OF the great tragedy
| which had occurred but a short while before
| at Jerusalem. All three were killed and be
| headed, and their heads nailed upon the
! crosses and carried in triumph back to Jeru-
| salem
An apocryphal book we'll known in the
| early Christian church. and generally called
] NJ.
| Louis Republic, that Seth, the son OF Adam
| when 30 years of age, was taken up into
| heaven by the angels While there he was
| told of the crimes which the watchers
| (which are the same as the sons OF God"
| mentioned in the sixth chapter OF Genesis
| would commit. The deluge and the time of
| Its coming was made known to him. as was
| ulso the coming advent OF the Savior of
| the world, When he had returned to
| earth Seth made known to his parents the
| wonderful things he had learned while So
| ~ hA If~h
| lie also told his father and mother how
| death would eventually be melted out to all
| mankind, but this, according to the story
| was hard for them to understand, having
| never known but one death, that of their son,
| Able, which was by the hand of his brother
| When Seth conveyed 10 them the news that
| all were to die they grieVed much. and quite
| naturally looked for Ca to seek their lives
| and that of Seth When Seth had gone
| further with his explanations, however and
! mad told the old folks that Paradise was to
| be regained, they were resigned and happy
| and the remainder of their lives was spent in
| longing for return to Eden
Let me briefly adumbrate the possibilities
indeed, may say the probabllities-of the
| results Of a great battle in the next great war
| which is sure to be short sharD and de-
| clSIVe," say Alexander Forbs in Scribner's
| The lighting has been prolonged and bloody,
| with the result that one side is definitely
| beaten, evacuates its position aud retreats
| more or less preclpltately. leaving on the
| ground It's wounded, none OF whom could be
cared for while the conflict lasted The sue
| cessful commanders ground is Uttered with
| his own wounded; he has them on his hands
| IN thousands, and he has also on his hands
! the thousands of the wounded of the van
| pushed force which has gone away. The con
| QuerOr or the future. II he accepts the old
| time conventional burden OF his adversary
! wounded. will become its victim. He will not
| accept the incubus Is it TO be imagined
| that the victor in such circumstances will
! think twice even about his own wounded let
! alone the wounded of the other side: No He is
| IN the neld. not TO be hospital nurse. but to
| follow up his advantage by hammering on the
| enemy VINO has departed, leaving his own
| wounded behind, and who may come back
! again tomorrow to strike him while clogged
| In the live and dead debris Of yesterdays
| battle. The visitor will hasten away to over
| take or hang on the skirts of the vanquished
| army. leaving the wounded of both sides to
| be dealt with as may be possible by such
/ surgeons as he can afford. in view of future
! contingencies, to leave behind and to the
| mlnlStrat1OnS OF cOsm opolitan amateur NH
! lanthropists OF the Red Cross and kindred
| organizations. For there will be no more
| military bearer companies. In the hunger
| for lighting men the 900 bearers per army
| corps OF the present will have been incorpora-
! ted into strong brigade with arms in their
hands and place in the fighting line
At Wembley Park, which is about six miles
! from the heart OF London, says Harper's
| Young People, there Is in the course of GREG
! ton at the present time a tower the total
| hight Of which will be 115O feet-I75 feet
|
| ter tower, which gaZes down on the houses
| and roofs of the crowded city. the WembJev
| tower crowns an eminence OF the beautiful
| Wembley Park, afOrdng lovely view of the
| surrounding country. 1t will be a strange
| sight to look on the birds flying in the trees
| so far beneath one. for at the foot Of the
! tower is a famous rookery, where the rocks
! gather and chatter from morning till night
and also one of the old UNCOVERED English
! cottages which has stood there for
| over hundred years. A few years AGO
! the building of such towers as these would
! have been impossible. 1t Is only with the
new methods of handling steel and iron grid.
! ers that such structures can be successfully
| put up. Over 1850 men are now emplbved
| fitting pieces of the tower together and il is
| wonderful what rapid progress they make
! She foundations which have to support such
| tremendous weight above them have to he
! laid in place and kept there for long time
allow for the settling In the earth There are to
! four legs at the base, and each leg is com
| posed of four smaller legs, or. better. feet
| These rest on tremendous foundations that
! We're placed in position over two wears ag0
! These foundations are made of stone and con
| crete, upon which are fastened the iron mates
| to which the legs are attached The material
! OF which the tower proper is composed is
| called mild steel There is not such net
! work Of intricate little Orders which we see |
! in the Etne tower; the spaces are more omen
| and the tower appears to be narrower and |
] lighter the air H.