The morning news., 1894-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

see one Of the king wives, and should ne
of one of the sacred creatures he is
forthwith put to death. The law OF that
country allows the king to have 1888
''helpmeets'' and no more. These wives all
live on two long streets in the city of
Coomasie, the Ashantee capital, the quar-
ters occupied by them being locally known
by a word signifying heaven"
Detroit, Mich, has within its limits what
| is believed to be the largest representative
/ of the horse family now in existence. The
animal is a PercherOn-Norman,a and was
/ imported from France before he had at
tained his full growth. As he stands to-day
/ he is strong y hands Cs4 inches in hight
/ and weighs $500 pounds. He is owned by
/ Richard Tregaskis and is said to be able
! TO make mile IN four minutes. The ami
nal is nine years old and has been in De-
/ trOit since 1891.
| Goliath" one of the largest of the
/ famous big trees" of California meas
/ 20l2 feet eight feet higher up. Goliath is
! perfectly healthy and solid throughout. 1t
/ has been estimated that this forest giant,
/ denuded OF his branches, would weigh
| 100000 tons, and that it would saw 2000,
| 900 feet of clear lumber. The branches and
| tops would make not less than 100 cords
| of wood. Heller estimates the weight of
! its leaves alone at 212 tons.
| One of Milwauke ee's big brewers was
a law student in Judge Hubbell's office
| many years ago. Horatio Seymour came
| into the office one day and said to the
| youth as he sat reading: Keep at it,
| my boy; read and study, study and read
| that's the only way to become a lawyer
| I read and studied law seventeen years
before I felt competent to try a case"
| We'll, that settles it," said the youthful
! student. IF it took you seventeen years
| to learn the business, Gov. Seymour, I'll
time" time = 1T -'0"' 'ei0'e ! waste any more
1t was formerly supposed that people of
| pale complexion, especially if the hair was
a PRONOUNCED blonde, fine and thin. were
} disorder. Stat! q les which have re-
Gently been comG.led prove this to be an
Specialists At the Kirkbridge CEnRIandl
asylum, out of total of 265 patients only
one has red hair. and only three either
| light hair or fair complexion. In the New
| York, London and Paris hospitals for the
! insane the same proportion holds good
! Exactly why dark-haired persons are
| more liable to mental diseases than those
! Of other shades of color has not yet been
! explained.
A carrier pigeon allayed a good deal of
| anxiety in Buffalo the other day The pas
| senger steamer State of Ohio left that city
! in the evening and was due in Cleveland
the next morning, The weather was very
a. a. her qbeStlhaIlons bn great Tears were felt
Ior her safety and many
anTi2Gs aTonDd the people fSd were assembled
OF their dear ones on the vessel when a
| carrier pigeon ahghted at the office,
! bearing note, which said that the steam
| er was safely sheltered under Long Point
| and that there were a number of other
| craft there. There is no telegraph within
| MY LllIeS Oh Ine place, ana boats have
! been in refuge there for weeks. which
| their owners, and the families of those
on board, supposed had long ago been
lost.
about the practice of voudou in Washing
! ton city, describes one prtestess of the
art, Spanish mulatto from Puerto Rico,
VINO, IL one-haf that he tells be true,
ought to be taken to the penitentary or
| the galloWs. He says that she under
stands the preparation of loco, the sub
| and dnA6IRGt in
| the world, and sometimes fixes it up for
persons, who have some enemies to be
| taken out of the world. The poison may
be administered in cup of tea, as it has
a slightly aromatic taste, and no i'll results
follow Immediately, but in six weeks time
! the victim is dead. The person who takes
1T suffers no pain, but gradually becomes
| duh, incapable of fixing the mind on any
thing, and soon falls into a sort of cata-
leptic state, until death sUpervenes. In
the West Indies and Central America
evry physician is familiar with the pc
culiar effects, and it is said not to be un-
known in this state. In Mexico it is a
penal offense to sell the drug. In Cuba it
is a capital offense.
A late number or the Chattanooga, Tenn.
Times contains an account of a remarka-
Bile affair that occurred in that state
a few days since. A train carrying a
large number of state prisoners, going to
work on the railroad, ran into land
slide on the Hartman Coal and Iron road,
| near Ruffner'S S mill, Wrecking the train
and wounding a large number of the pas
| sengerS. The guards of the prisoners were
all injured, and so badly as to be help
less. Pinioned beneath the debris of the
wreck and helpless to do anything, they
were expecting the prisoners in their
charge to make a break for liberty.
Among the prisoners were two on long
sentences, one for % and the other for 45
| years These two men were unhurt and
they promptly seized the guns of the in
: jured guards, and gave their fellow pris-
oners to understand that there was to be
no running away, but all who could must
go to work for the rescue of the sufferers.
t The wounded were taken out of the
wreck and their wants ministered to as
[ tenderly as possible. Not one of the con-
victs escaped. The two long=timers who
? behaved so well were both negroes 1t is
not probable that Gov. Turney will over
5 look them, when the circumstances come
to his notice.
Uncle Sam is preparing a standard for
pure gold. 1t will take the form of a bal
weighing fifty ounces. This bar will be
cut into several pieces, one of which will
be given to each of the United States
l mints and assay offices. A slice will also
be sent TO England for comparison with
, the British standard of pure gold. Ii
seems that no absolutely pure gold has
even been produced in this country-at
all events, none of which there can be
certainty The standards now possessed
by the various mnts differ somewhat; not
one of them is surely free from impurity
For the purpose of eXaotness in assay
work it is desired to have a standard that
is, as Caesars wife should be, beyond sus.
picion. The bar that is to be is now a
5 liquid. The fifty ounces of gold are in a
chemical solution at the mint in Phila.
r delphia. The yelloy metal thus dissolved
was extra fine to begin with, having only
one-tenth of per cent. of impurity The
impurity was chiefly silver. This gold
was rolled to very thin sheets and ther
put into a tank of aqua regia and hydro.
chloric acid. The solution of gold made In
this way was diluted with twenty gallons
of distilled water. In that condition il
: now remains, a thin, but precious liquor
| Under the action Of the acid the silver
r falls down to the bottom of the tank in q
white cloud. At the end of a month the
clear liquid will be drawn off carefully
into TASKS, without stirring so as to leave
2 the silver impurty behind. Sulphurous
acid gas will then be passed through the
solution causing 1t to throw down the
pure metallic gold. But many processes
have yet to be gone through before the
gold will be considered chemically pure. II
will be washed with distilled water. boiled
with hydrochloric acid, Dissolved in aqua
regia evaporated almost to dryness, di
| mted with water and precipi-Rted In
| metallic form by oxalic acid. All this will
| then be repeated. rlnallX the gold will ha