The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


York phtianthropist bequeaths an entire es-
tate OF IS 10000 10 a multitude of charities.
hospitals and evangelical and educational
Institutions.
Oil has been struck in Wayne county, Ken
lucky, and a gigantic boom has already been
started. Fifteen thousand acres have already
been leased and The sinking for oil and gas is
actively under way.
Five companies put in bids to supply Chi
cago with vaccine p&nts. the prices ranging
from to ~ cents each. The latter price was
paid on p private contract during the hight of
the small-p epidemic.
The disclosure Is made that Boston's
wharVes have been neglected and that they
are standing upon rotted piles. liable to
break away without warning and endanger
ing thousands Of lives and great quantities Of
property.
BY soaking peck of wheat in gallon OF
whisky and scattering it among his broom
corn, Patrick Flynn of Ellicott City Md,
eral hundred sparrows, which they had made
into potpie.
The late p 7. Barnum left Al ODD to the cor
poration of Bridgeport. Conn, for the cree
ton OF statue to Henry Bergh, whom the
old Snowman greatly admired, owing to
Bergh laoors IN behalf of animals. The
statue has never been erected, and the eXecu-
One of the experiments made by those
whose business is to to test the strength of
dynamite, gun cotton and other explosives
Is 10 place fresh plucked leaves between TWO
plates OF panel steel and explode cartridges
on the upper plate. The recoi in such cases
IS so great and sudden that the upper plate Is
driven downward with such force and rapid
ity as to catch exact Impressions of the leaves
before their delicate ribs have time to give
way to the force of the tlow. This novel
method of engraving ~ W. Of he
century.
Orange county, n. Y, is a section where
horses hate to die. Albert Knapp has one
that was foaled in August 1886, and still does
chores about the farm. j. G. and J. H. Nor
rlson nave horse % years old that this sea-
son raked 1C0 loads OF hay. j. NJ Welkin has
33year old horse that does duty daily as a
FAMILY carriage horse. J. T. Coleman drives
horse between his farm and Middleton that
was 81 years old last spring William Nc
Whorter and Selah Mar 7 have each horse
that has passed its thirJ,eth year and does
work daily. w H. Lane did all his moving
with horse that was so years old on the 4th
of July.
Seasickness is pretty wen known to all
those who have trusted themselves to the
treacherous waves; mountain sickness is also
a familiar malady to those whohave mounted
up considerable nights. NJ, Joseph Nallot,
in his 'Meteorologique du Mont B1lc,
which he has assembled great numUer of
able him to indulge in this propensity attrib-
utes this mountain sickness to the want of
oxygen in the atmosphere at great nights,
the proof being that the higher one aseends
the more pronounced is the sensation of sick
ness, which decreases as one descends and to
gel down into the valley is the only remedy
yet known. Some bottled oxygen might be
found valuable as preventive.
The egg question IN hotel that laughs at
expense in the endeavor to secure for it's
\ s7, 49,. -.
Chautauquan, has the closest attention. for
the most part the mlddleman operates here
though the eggs do not lie on his hands long
Among many hotels have failed to dnd one
that uses any but warranted eggs. and even
these are broken by skilled assistants, sonar
ately' before they are used by cook or baker:
Tor one falthless egg can wreck gallons of
soup or cake galore. In the Holland house
this incidental duty means the breaking of
$500 worth OF eggs every month; never less
than 10 dozens are used per day. The Mari
| borough Hotel averages 200 dozen every day.
During the worlds fair the Palmer house
reached the average Of 800 dozen.
According to the technical German paper.
Die Natur Siberia, besides her considerable
production of real gold, is frequently furnish
ing TO the trade false gold which is an ALLOW
or mixture Of lead, zinc and copper. That
mixture is poured IN a LIQUID state into water
or upon the ground with a wet broom The
drops, when solidihed, look pretty much like
the small ''peplteS" or nuggets found in
auriterous sands. These nuggets are sold
lower than the real ones to naive diggers
who fancy they have struck good bargain
because the crafty sellers tell them that the
pepites come from robberies in the neighbor-
ing placerS. Inc inexperienced diggers buy
| the counterfeit product on account OF its
cheapness, aud mix it with the genuine gold
which they extract This explains how there
is so much of that false gold in Russia and
| Germany.
Every now and then nervous householders
ara
turbance by the report of a series of letter
box offerings. ana the announcement of the
invention of d method OF making mail boxes
safe, Will be gladly received. saws the Phlla-
oelphia Press. OF course. electricity is the
agency employed, and the arrangement is
simplicity itself The box is electrically CON
nected with the room, kitchen or any desired
apartment and as The letter carrier raises
the cover of the Slot through which the let
! ters are inserted. the circuit is closed. and
the ringing of a bell tells the owner OF the
box that his mail has been delivered. In or
der that there may not be the slightest mis-
/ take, return signal is provided, and til S
Is sounded by the person who hears
the warning OF the postnlan. That function
airy, hearing the return signal. knows that
there is no further need of his presence and
goes away without waiting for any one to
come to the door. If there is any tamperipg
with the box, or by any means il is opened.
the inside warning bell is Immediately
sounded. A push button is placed near the
center of the box, and when this is pressed
the answering signal comes back within the
box indicating that the bell inside the house
has been rung End heard. A third wire can be
attached to the box and connected with a
burglar alarm system. If necessary. as an ad-
ditional provision against after dark thieves
According to Prof, W. H Clancy. teacher
of astrology and astronomy, the millennium
OF the world, as taught by the Christian relig.
| ion, is a scientific impossibility, saws the
Chicago Tribune The oracle, a venerab BILE ex
ponent who can tell all the chara :teristics
OF person without other knowledge than the
date Of birth, sex, place OF birth. day Of the
month and hour placed his theory before
small circle of hearers Yesterday at the Open
Door Mission. No. 697 West Lake street Bv
the aid OF strange and mystlfying charts the
old man vigorously attacked the Christian
teachings relative to the millennium or the
end of the world, He denied that hell
Is bottomless pit and that the end
OF the world means the end of
the earth. but pointed out the
astronomical circles and paths BY which that
passing away to-day comes forth on another
level and IN different part of the world in
due course OF time. He thought it highly i'm.
probable that the ecliptic and the equinoctfal
should ever meet and that the axis OF the
earth slanting as 1t was when first discov-
cred, should ever become perpendicular and
then fall over again to give the inhabitants
thereof another hundred years or so of life
He described through calculation that il
would require 25 S4S years to complete a reyo.
luton OF the equinoXes and by that time the
conditions would be so changed as to con.