The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-15
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seen there.
Lifeboat stations on the French coast are
Z hereafter to nun Der among their equipment
| trained dogs.
According to the Icelandic legends the first
iron-clad hoated was the Iron Ram" belong
ing TO Hslfdan.
According to the custom Of Korea. all the
Koreans must wear white hat after the
death Of one Of the royal family.
The most extravagant material used for
coat collars is fur. Russian mobiles do not
think ESQ too much to pay for collar.
The harbor of R Janeiro is the finest on
the globe. 1t has fifty miles of anchorage,
sufncient to float the navies of the world.
In Frame a woman may occupy an impor-
tant place in art, business and commerce. but
she cannot possess her own earnings if she
is married.
BY old English law baron was required
to have at least five hides Of land, a church,
kitchen, ell house and borough gate
with seat in IL.
A strange sea monster was recently met
with by the good bark Loongana as she was
drifting about in the vicinity Of he Santa
Cruz group. 1t was a gruesome beast very
lke whale at It's neither end. Its ody was
81 Teet long aud IL feet woe, dark in color
ana spotted with white. vi a head contain
Ing mouth large enough TO take in twelve
men. Alarmed at the advance Of the beast.
the crew had recourse to a Winchester rine.
BUt the monster was lnvulnera0le in the
DodS Its weak spot was the head. After
TWO wasted shots third was Skillfully
planted IN the skull, and with one sweep OF
the Tall the monster turned and disappeared.
The Marine journal relates strange Incl
dent in come ction with the work OF clearing
away Of the debris OF the recently wrecked
bridge at Louisville. Z he Submarine diver
whose duty it is to desCe1d TO the bottom of
the river and fasten chains OF the heavy
lronwork, es des placing dynamite charges
IN spots where the most desira lie rest Its may
be had, remained re emily beneath the sur
lace Tor more tn an hour. there was no
response when 81 nails were made aud there
was uneasiness lelt At last the diver VINO
goes on as relief, reported for duty, and he
was at once 81 MT down 10 aScerta n what was
wrong. In few minutes both men came ~.
The diver was found seated on pile of iron
fast asleep.
''Wh IL was in Brussels few years ago."
said DR.. D. L. Taylor of Boston to a st. Louis
paper, Il witnessed a restoration from ap-
parent drowning in one OF the hospitals that
struck me as rather remarkable A mal had
Deen upset In roWbOat and was only reCOV-
cred after considerable time. An eminent
physician In the city applied all the remedies
ne could think of, nut no sign OF life mani
teSted itself. AS a foriorn hope or last
resort, the doctor proceeded to apply plates
of iron. heated TO white heat, to the upper
parts OF the body, near the more vital organs
After short time, to the utter establishment
Of the assistants, faint signs of breathing
were observed, and in course of half an hour
the man came TO life and was finally restored
the only inconvenience sustained being the re-
suit Of the severe cauterization which his
skin necessarily underwent"
Perhaps the most complete metamor-
phosis Of the character and ASSOCIATIONS con-
nected with any substance in nature said c.
l. Flower OF Boston TO the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat, Us found in the delicate toilet
perfume amberkris NaturaliSts tell us that
this SUBSTANCE is no hing else than the result
OF lit OF Indigestion on the part of the sperm
whale being, IN fact, a kind of Intestinal
calculus, or portion Of the food Of the whale
lmpertectly digeSted Foxes have great
fondness for amUergris, and eongregate on
the sea coast in search Of 1t. they eat il and
return it in exactly the same state as it was
swallowed, in respect to perfume though
changed in color. This is thewhite ambergris
so highly valued. Thus, af er passing through
the digestive organs of two animals, 1t retains
It's delicate and subtle perfume which rivals
that Of the tairest flowers, and also retains
its value for the toilet"
An extraordinary story of a young man
passing as girl all his life until mo tn or
two ago is just related from Tres chatel, in
the Alpine district OF Switzerland H ; was
known by the name of Laura Besnar, and
came of a good family. Why his friends
should have registered the child as a female
and suOsequen -y kept up the deception is a
uldllbl VI luNSl6ty. Int young man IS S&lQ TO
have found the companlonsni1 OF the weaker
sex very pleasant, and would pro ly have
continued q frequent the society Of Young
women as one of their numUer had not he
fallen in love, but in order to WOO ana win the
lady OF his choice he declared his proper sex.
The earlier years of his life were spent in a
convent school, on leaving which he studied
cure Tor Stammerlng and subsequently 4
founded school for that purpose. This was
so successful that in few years
he amassed 10000 francs, and then decided to
Dnnnipina ho
entered as a student at Greno. le School of
Medicine as woman. and to all outward ap
pearances was one. His features were dis
tlnctly feminine, and nothing in the shape Of
a muStache or wliSkerS was to be OF Seryed
In every way he comfo7ted himself as a fe-
male, and seemed quite at ease in the charac-
ter he assumed. The only thing viii III might
have betrayed him perhaps, was a slight
suspicion Of the masculine in his voice his
however, was scarcely sufhcient to attract
special notice. The young man has been mar
ried. and as a hus and he has already become
acquainted with the hardship5 Of the rougher
sex, tor, sad to relate, he is registered for
military service in 1885
Two powerful electric locomotives which
are designed to draw the trains OF the BaIt-
more and Ohio railroad through the Belt Line
tunnel under the city OF Baltimore, are nm
lshed, and 1t is announced that all
u ans plying between Baltimore and
be pulled through the TUNE! by electricity be-
fore Jan. next. says the Philadelphia
Ledger. Inc % ton locomotive which was eX-
htbited at Chicago the first Of the kind con
structed, Is model upon which the above
mentioned motors are quilt. Ihey will be
the first electric locomotives to go into actual
use on railroad whose motive power has
been steam. 1t Is said they are capable of at
tanning a speed of forty miles an hour The
advantage OF these appliances in long tunnels |
is obvious They will eliminate the smoke |
and gas nuisance, which is so annoying to |
passengers. Id will make passengers safer |
But the success of the pending experiment |
has significance much greater than
this. 1t may lead in time to the general isub. |
stitutlon OF electric motors for steam locomo.
tlves. Every invention must pass thro Ugh !
the experimental stage before its general ac. |
ceptance is assured. Nearly all OF our most |
useful practt. al devices were regarded as |
mere TOYS in the beginning. They made their |
way against old methods and the conserva- |
tive spirit which dlscredlts everything not in !
line with Git exper 4elce. There Is every |
promise OF wonderful development Of cleo |
trio power. When the electric locomotive |
can run at speed comparable with our fleet |
steam locomotives the day Of the introduce |
ton Of electricity on the great railway sys. |
TENS OF the country is not Tar distant. When |
electric power has reached such pitch OF |
efficiency the old railroads viii find their |
present roadways, with tneir easy grades and !
immunity from the distinctions which PEE
vent high rates of speed on electric lues laid |
on ordinary roadbeds finely adapted to the /
new order of things.