The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-06
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/ peake is exciting sport. 4 small boat is
I used and a hight is placed in the stern.
/ When a school of the hsh is sighted near
1 shore the boat is rapidly roWed toward
| them until they are driven ashore. once
I they feel the land beneath them they be-
gin to leap toward the light. Then the
/ boat is depressed on the shoreward side,
/ 50 as to bring the other side high above
! the water The consequence is that many
/ Of the fish leap into the boat and are thus
/ taken.
1T may almost be claimed" says Prof.
/ Warren P. Laird Of the University OF
| pennsylvania, that Philadelphia is at
! once the most curious, the most typical
/ and the most instructive of American
/ Elues-Curious because of the strange
I meqIey OF It's more pretentious buildings
I ana Jnelr slngularly eccentric individual
/ ism; typical of American practice in its
/ o OF aspect, because Of the absence
OF restraint and defiance Of precedent
| SHOWN by the great majority of Its archi-
/ tectSi ana instructive because Of its con-
/ IraSt, Tor no other American CITY has. so
/ wide field of architectural error to offer
/ IN contrast to its works or real merit
| me sun has three known motions: l.
! An aXial rotation, which is plainly shown
/ by the appearance and disappearance of
well known spots upon his surface. The
/ mean period of this aXial motion is p l-3
J OF our days. ,. motion around the cen
| ter OF gravity of the whole solar system
| motion which can only be ascertained
1 by the use of very delicate instruments
on account of his great mass, which is
! greater than the total of all the other
! bodies of the system combined. 8. A
! progressive motion through space in the
| direction of the constellation of Hercules.
| The rate of speed Of this last named mo-
| ton is not known, but is estimated to be
| 100000 miles per year, and some inves-
| ugators think it possible that the rate
| Will exceed the above estimate by at
/ least half.
Along the watershed Of Northern Iowa
| there IS a series of small, clear lakes
| varying from few rods to four miles in
| diameter, says the s.. Louis Republic.
| One of these, in Wright county, and an
| other in Sac county, have each received
the names of Walled Lake" on account
of the stone entertainments which com
| pletely surround them. 1t has been gem
| orally supposed that these walls were
built by the prehistoric Hawkeyes, but
careful scientific investigation faVorS the
| idea that the entertainments are results OF
natural causes, only; that they We're
erected by the periodic action or the
ice, aided by the force of the waves and
wind. The wall around the Wright coun-
| ty wonder is from to. Il feet in hight,
and of width averaging Is feet, ana Is
| composed principally OF granite poWlders
of the size and shape peculiar 10 the
drift period" Those who ascribe the
walls to natural causes argue after this
fashion: The lakes are very shallow and
in winter especially if it be a winter OF
unusual cold, freeze solid TO the BOTTOM
( The ice freezes fast to the powders, pep
les and earth beneath, and, in its eNpan-
sion, acts in all directions from center to
| circumference. Every year a certain por-
ton of the deposits at the lakes bottom
are pushed toward the shore. This going
On from year to year, and from century
to century, has caused the wonderful
walls which have so frequently been as
cribed to the prehistoric inhabitants.
The vegetable world, important to man
as food-giving, useful in medicine, famed
as powerful in witchcraft alchemy ano
sorcery, has borne its share in legend
| and tradition. Our common vegetables
have, perhaps, less repu alton in popular
/ tradition than many other plants. Yet
there are many interesting legends in
! which thew hear n mart The DOtarOe
| misnamod Irish, although q modern dis
covery is not without mention in popular
lore. The unreasonable man is sometimes
asked: would you have potatoes grown
/ by the potside?' 1t seems a widespread
remedy for rheumatism, being prescribed
as a sort of charm, to be kept in the
| pocket in England, France and in this
country 1t is here said that, as it dries
up, the complaint will cease tOrnenting
The Dutch prescribe potato begged, OF
stolen, as a preventative against rheuma.
tism. There is the following curious pas
sage in an old English work: The sub.
stance called shot stars is nothing else
than frosted potatoes. a night of hoal
frost in the mild autumn, in which those
meteors called falling stars are seen, re
duces the potato to the consistence Of &
jelly or soft pulp. having no resemblance
to potato, except when part of the Skin
Of the potato remains here undissolved
This potato remains soft when all tn ngs
else are consolidated by heat for which
reason it is greedily taken up by the
crows and other birds when no other
often found by man in the above circum
stances of having fallen from above
Those assemblages of housewives a
which culinary methods are discussed
over cup of tea, irreverently named
tea fights" are called in Germany, where
. 'kartonel salad is a favorite dish, "po
tato talks"
The Nile river exploring expedition. san-
5 out in the spring by the London Anthro
/ pologican Society, report some wonderful
9nds' among the old deserted tombs
of the PharaOhs. Near Carnac and also
at Hevleh, they found dozens Of curious
carvings on gold, which were perfect rep
t presentations of the human eye. Some o.
these queer plates represented the Ief
: eye, but the majority seem to have beer
, intended for the right optic. The worl
IS beautifully executed, the brows, lid.
and pupils being deeply carved on retain
gular plates Of hammered gold. EacY
plate seems to have originally been pro
vided with either a notch or tongue, tn.
idea being perhaps to fit together in pairs
i, each right to it's proper left. What they
could have ever been used for is only
matter Of conjecture, opinions on tina
score widely differing.
. Locomotives with electricity as til;
: power promise to be built N Boston
which i, will meet all requirements fol
idly nearing completion is an eght-horse
/ power machine and is UNIQUE The die
tlnctive feature of the invention, saws tn,
Boston Transcript, is the substitution
of piston and cylinder in place of III.
usual rotary power: The cylinder /!
! HuCn longer LndQ Tor steam puTDOSPS
and has in its interior a series of magnets
I The piston passes entirely through tn,
! cylinder with crossheads at either end
on the piston within the cylinder is {
! series of armatures of peculiar construc
l ton. On the axle of the driving wheel
z are commutators whose function is Il
: apply and cut off the electric current
! just as the eccentrics control the steam
or 2 steam engine. The principle of tn
! | machine is the admission of the curren
to the magnets in the cylinder which ar,
in advance of the piston rod, and bv thei
action on the armatures the piston rod i
moved forward. AS the stroke is endet
. | the current is cut off from the magnet
; first changed and applied to those at tn,
! 4 rear OF the piston, giving a reverse mo
, ton, thus maintaining a strong regule,
motion. There is absolutely no hacI
: pressure from the electric current, Will,
3 In a rotary motor this is estimated at 2
/ per cent. of the force applied. II /,
| practicable to run the machine at 9G
revolutions of the axle per minute, and
with driving wheel eight and one-haIr
feet in diameter and the crank pin tnre'
b. feet from the center. there would be- 5
siX-foot stroke under full head of power
electric current either by q trolley wira
+ a third rail in the track or from a stors o.