The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-01
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the artists have been a good deal disappointed
IN the outcome, as no decision was reacneu
on the critical question. whether water color
palntln IS are Laole to fade. Ruskln mann
talns that properly protected water tolof
will not fade, while other eminent authorl-
ties maintain the contrary. 1t seems that
lady, VINO fought beautiful water colCr lasl
year, allowed a firm Of engFavers TO take Il
Tor reproduction. Il cane back with the COZ
ors destroyed, and she sued them Tor It's
value. A great deal Of interesting testimony
was adduced as to what m ght tnlure the col
ors. II appears that direct Might VIII al
ter some, viii e aid fumes will destroy 9TH
ers and even exposure 10 the air is injurious
10 some. The jury. after listening 10 many
experts, found it IN ossitle to decide how the
picture had Teen injured. but as the injury
was manifest, they gave the owner verdict
for damages.
There are. says the St. Louis Republic,
thirteen known languages and dialects IN
which the name Of the deity is expressed in
TWO letters, viz: he rev, A monian, u;
Chinese. 10; HlndOo Syr. Ie; B yl0nlan, II;
Sanscrit, ia; EgyL tian, Ju: Tamil, 10; Yo-
catanese. hu; Hindoo. ON; ar East He
brew, On; Egyptian, "a; Caaldean. Cr. The
three lettered name is found In twenty-one
languages and provincial dialects, viz: East
Indian, Aom; Hindoo, Aum: Chaldean. Bill;
SclaVonlc, Bog IA contraction Of bali Bog,
meaning white): I.oman, Dea; Grecian. Dec;
EsseQuito, Dia; Hindoo, Div; Chald an,
Emu; English, God; swedish and Danish.
Gud; Persian, HON; Hindoo, Hua; Pht on
lclan- BaDylonian. Iau; Sanscrit. Jah; Pheon-
ician, Jao; Druidlsh-lrish, ooh; Egyptian,
kue; Irish Celtic, Omh; Egyptian.
Pan and Latin, Sol. Taken all
together, there are lT8 LANGUAGES
Nod IS pr ID IN words, but IN none OF
them Is til r. Of overgrown proportions,
the loI 2 st e .ng "JoabuliC n, word VIII Oh
expressed the deity idea a. ,ordlng 10 "a ser
tain sect OF Irish Druids, known as m S lie
toe-ea er5"
VA 1NTr oil in q
case heard this morning by the judges of the
second civil chambers, says the London ele-
graph. Mile. Maquet put in : claim for
&6,OOO, the amount of a legacy bequeathed her
by NJ. Pon,ault who reCeitly died IN Amer
lea. Poncaults career was a strange one.
Thirty years ago he was a simple shoe black
on the QuayS of Havre. Disguised with his
humble and lll-pald calling, he went on board
ship bound for South America and hid him
self as stowaway. When we'll on the Atlantic
he was dlscoy cred and pulled out OF his hole
by order OF the capita II. Luckily for himself
he was aple to make himself useful as a
rouStabout and no proceedings were taken
against him when the ship arrived in port.
once on transatlantic soil. Poncault who had
EN- arked at Havre without penny in his
pocket, set to work with Will. de was
everything by turns and nothing long. he
roughed it for some time. and was lost to his
friends In France until few years since, when
he returned home a wealthy man. He died
leaving solid fortune of 1900 O0O francs. or
E2UO,OOl. Or this sum he beQueathed 5000 to
Mile. Maquet, but she was only TO receive it
on the day OF her marriage Mile. Maquet,
however, does not appear to be in a hurry to
take husband, for she asked the court to
allow her to receive the money as a single
woman. The Judges were ineXorable, ana
pointed grimly to the clause OF M Foncault'S
WILL IN which the MARI age prOViSo was in.
serted. The applicant will accordingly have
10 look out for a husband ii she wants to
benefit by the bequest of the ex shoeblack.
Skaptar JokuL an Icelandic volcano, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, on one occasion
belched forth thirteen cubic miles OF sold
matter together with an immense but uuesti-
mated volume OF volatile subs lance Mount
X erakatoa, OF the straits of Sunda in Oc-
toDer 1888, discharged solid column of vol
canic gas three miles IN diameter TO a hight
OF SIX miles, and continued thus for seventy
two hours. The earth Quivered for b. ndreds
miles around, and tao vapor, reac hing high
attitudes, at one time covered fOur-nfths of
the glo~e. The noise exceeded that of all the
combined artillery duels that ever took place
and the roar was heard over go miles he
group known as the Sandwich ISlaU6s of
which Hawaii is the principal, lie in the
South Pacific ocean, where the water has a
depth OF $4,000 feet and a vol aulc peak on
one OF the Islands extends 1900 feet Dove
the ocean level The ba~es of these islands
are continent Hawaii alone has diameter
of over sixty miles, ard yet every cubic loot Of
this immense mass is volcanic and has Teen
emitted from the earth'S interior. This is
only one OF thousands of similar illustrations
Along the eastern slope of the Rocky noun
'tains, as the chain extends through the United
States and the dominion of Canada, are vast
areas OF volcanic matter that in far-tack ages
came forth in cataral is of molten material
and there is hardly region on the gloue that
a. some time has not been the theater of such
eruption. What was once surface is now in
many instances, covered with thousands of
feet OF rock formations hiding the ancient
contour entirely from sight. Certainly the
earth's cooled outer shell would settle and
follow this decreasing interior, and the
mountains are the approximate measure Of
this shrinkage. inevitably. as this gradual
settling took place, a wrinkling action had to
follow. and this pros ess is in operati n vet
and will continue so long as the interior
yields any OF its substance,
The colony of Natal. South Africa, abounds
in boa constructors and pythons, says an ex-
change While they do not attack men they
are especially destructive of cattle. sheep aad
oxen and for this reas GA parties a re formed
by hIuterS I'd natives to burn the
bush and fore in order to exterminate the
pests. Some OF the so ders at Piet rmarItz-
bul were recently informed by a D lrty of
neignborng Zulus Of the Whereabouts of a
huge python that had been destroying their
oxen. The soldiers. with 200 natives, started
of to capture the snake and having located it,
the forest was Il ed fer about mile rou1 d
ABOUT, an enormous pit having been prevl-
ouSly dug in toward the center of the inclosed
space What with the burning brush and the
shouts OF excited hrs they soon drove the
reptile toWald the pit where, closing in VI on
him, they forced him into it. The python
proved to be of enormous size, being 20 feet
long and Al inches in circumference. 1t ap-
peared 10 be quite stupid or dazed, having
just eaten a young OK that had been let into
the 1ncloSure. An enormous cage with iron
bars half way down the front having Eeen con
structed the snake was got out OF the
pit and taken into Marritzburg in the cage
Here it is kept on exhibition al the barracks,
and is fed twice week, two Kaftiir goats at
each meal 1t will not eat anything that has
been already killed for it. preferring to Kill
| its food Itself The goats are
end of the cage alive. when, liking
its great eyes upon the m, the snake suddenly
| lunges forward and crusnes them in its pow.
! erfui folds. After covering the m with thick
slime about an inch deep, before swallowing,
IL nattens them out hv squeezing them, ana
then dcvours them almost at a gulp. After
this the python goes 10 Size and does not
wake until it is time to reed again
gentleman in MuritsbuIg owns python that
has been confined in a cage for over thirteen
m Onths. During this neriod the snake has
not eaten mouthtu OF food OF any kind
though every conceiVa lie de icacy OF likely
snake diet, such as frogs, If Is. rats and
meat, has been set to tempt its appetite its
last seems not to BE- lroken and the owner
La AT last a andoned the idea VI Goa ing the
colly prisoner with food, IL drinks a very
small qua nifty of water In dormant state
this fasting would be better understood tor
in this state reptiles OF this des rlption have
been known to exist Tor periods of ghteen
months, or even three years.
Bkk Nc POWDER.