The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-07
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olivia lump; the Charles IL lump is
nice and choking; the Beckett lump may
be recommended to families with a slight
~ ecclesiastical turn; the return-of-the-
solder lump, as in the famous case OF
George D.AirOy, is warranted 10 cause sur
location. Then there is the impulSiVe gen
observation-disclosures unexpected quarter
lump l cannot even think Of this specl-
mon without an immediate access OF
thrOaty sentiment which calls 10 mind
HaWkshaw, the detective. When he con-
fronts Briefly, the poor devil who deserves
another chance, there is a pause, ana the
pit holds its breath. Il never saw him be-
fore" says the detective, and the lump
does not choke some hundreds OF cltl-
zens, only because they clear their throats
with cheers. Hawkshaw is guilty or most
unprofessional weakness but he makes
the biggest lump in my museum.
What is probably the most remarkable
tree on earth was lately discovered on the
promontory of kinsembO, south or the
mouth of the Congo says the New York
orld. It has not even the Vesuge OF
trunk, but spreads its immense branches
directly upon the ground Naturalists say
that this curio from natures workshop
is a relative of the bOabab, the well known
giant tree growing on the prairies IN
many portions of the Dark Continent
which has a trunk measuring sometimes
nearly nifty feet in diameter. while the
branches often extend Seventy-nVe feet
and more, their ends touching the ground,
so that the tree forms a hugh skeleton
tent. For a short time every year the
bOabab shows a Scant display OF meager
Raves Dul generally the tree Is DdIt t2-
cept for the large melon-shaped fruit. The
she'll of the fruit incloses dry. white
substance which can readily be reduced TO
a powder and in that form serves as
specific against fever. In some districts
the negroes eat the leaves. The trunk of
the common boabab is often hollow; such
hollow trees are used as the burial places
for the "sOrcerers" of some tribes, that
the earth may not be polluted by their
evil remains. Adamson pretends to know
that one of these trees, which he had
M
$3.50 years old, while the untutored saw
ages still look upon the boabab as puz-
zle old and big enough for worship.
Archibald Clarke, farmer living near
Grump, KY, is without doubt the most
remarkable somnambulist in Kentucky,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. He has
actually, during the past summer, cult
waited four acres of land while asleep.
For a long time Mr.. Clarke suspected
his neighborS of stealing into his truck
patches after night and doing the work,
but finally one night while mailing some
boards on his back yard fence he struck
his thumb with a Ratchet and awoke,
thus realizing for the first time that he
had been working in his sleep. Among
other things that he has done while in
the somnambulistic state was to lay
worm fence for a distance of 200 yards.
one night he fell asleep thinking he
would rise early on the following day
and cut small ditch to drain pond,
but great was his surprise when the next
morning he found that the pond had
been ditched during the night. on one
occasion he got up shortly after he had
fallen asleep, ana putting several pounds
of butter in a basket took it TO a nearby
grocery store and traded it for coffee and
sugar. For long time he was at a loss
to account for the missing butter. Neither
did he know whence came the coffee and
the sugar. However, since realizing that
he is a confirmed somnambulist. he has
questioned the grocer, who recQllected
the occurrence of Mr.. Clarke's strange
conduct at the time Mr.. Clarke lived
alone, but since he has discovered his
s4Fr.
young negro who takes care that his en-
ployer does not get out of the house dur
ing his sleep.
That projected trolley line to the sum
init of the Jungfrau, says a writer in lie
Correspondent will be finished in time TO
be opened to the public on June /, 1900.
The cost of the enterprise will bee about
S,60OO0O. There is already a railway to
the Scheidegg, at hight of about $500
feet. This viii be utilized in the trolley
ascent of the Jungfrau, and the entire
length of the line will be about seven
miles, of which more than six miles will
be by tunnel, in order that the route may
be safe from avalanches. From the Schei-
degg the line Will make for the flank of
Mt. Eiger. Within the bowels of the lat
ter the route will turn and make toward
the neighboring Mt. Moech. The first sta
ton Will be l0,56 feet above sea level.
The station on Mt. Moech will be at a
hight of 1850 feet, and will command a
splendid panorama of the Lauterbrunnen
valley. me terminal station will be I'M
der ground and at a hight of Is, 754 feet.
Here will be restaurant and hotel for
travellers. The station will be 200 feet be-
low the actual summit of the Jungfrau.
The remaining distance will be accom-
piished in an elevator. There will be a
pavilion on top, whence the tourist may
view In comfort the vast stretch of noun
tain and valley below. Passengers will
be able to learn from carefully gradu-
ated little barometers the actual hight
above sea level at any point of the journey.
The hight of the Scheidegg, at which the
actual ascent of the Jungfrau by trolley
will begin, is about $3.50 feet. and the
journey thence to the summit of the
mountain will be made in somewhat more
than an hour. Only one car will be de-
spatched at time. The electric current
Will be generated by the aid of water
fall and an electric plant to be run by this
fall will be set up next summer to aid in
boring the tunnels of the proposed line.
DR.. Schneider-P reiswerk, in Basic. has
discovered a novel means of saving life in
marine accidents, which, if generally used,
will probably lessen greatly the number
OF lives lost by such accidents, SAYS the
Philadelphia Record. His Invention has
been pronounced very important bv Toe
French Academy of Sciences. which at
one of their last meetings listened very
attentlvely TO a lecture by Dr. LaVeraux
upon the new invention The inventor
does away with all artificial belts and
other floating appliances; he proposes to
initiate the cellular texture beneath the
human skin on the breast which, If filled
with air, forms natural pneumatic belt
by the aid Of which one may not only
noat himself but even support another
body. The idea is said to be perfectly
practicable. 1t has been proved that a
man weighing $50 pounds, whose specific
weight is between LOS and 1.10 whose head
may weigh seven pounds needs only about
ECO cubic inches of air within his body in
order to float with his head out of the
water. This amount of air is easlv in
serted into this hollow space beneath the
skin with DR.. Schneider's aseptic syringes
which VIII in one injection initiate from
20 to IS cubic inches of air. The intro
duction of the point, which is only two
Such a pump is not even necessary. #
is much simpler to use a little apparatus
which consists of a hollow needle. a thin
rubber hose Is inches long into which
this needle is inserted. A little aseptic
cotton placed in the open end of the rub
Der hose is all that is necessary. The
skin is simply raised, the hollow needle
introduced into it and then the other end
of the rubber hose is taken into The