The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-25
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/ eminent mineral commission now there.
] Capt. J. L. Mccormack Of Knoxville.
/ Ia. has maidstone" as large as a mans
hog.
| At CrawfordsviIle, Ind. in the summer
/ OF 1880, there was a shower Of FISH and
eyes and all about two inches long
| Technically. any inhabitant of the
/ United Kingdom is liable to be called
/ upon to undertake the uncongenial task
a retaining fee, and f. after an eXecu-
ton.
The smallest city in the world is the
miniature place known as Steward City,
| Alaska, United States, its three inhab-
itants being respectively, mayor, chair
man of the board of aldermen and pres
ident Of the common council.
The lines of no two human hands are
exactly alike. When a traveller in China
desires a passport the palm of the hand
Is covered with fine oil paint aud an i'm
preston Is taken on thin, damp paper.
This paper, officially signec, - his pass
port.
1t is not generally known that, size
for size, a thread of spider silk is de-
cidedly tougher than a bar of steel.
An ordinary thread will bear weight
of three grains. This is just about 50
per cent stronger than a steel thread
of the same thickness.
Liquors may be- aged artificially by
gradually cooling them, in the case OF
brandy. down to 200 degrees centigrade
below zero and then gradually bringing
them up again to the normal tempera-
ture. The frigOric laboratory in which
the new discovery is to be applied will
shortly be established in Paris.
The observatory on the top of Mount
Blanc whose erection is conducted under
the supervision of the famous French as
tronomer NJ. Jansen, IL is expected, will
be finished in the course of the present
summer The main instrument for obser-
VationS, which has a diameter OF thirty
centimeters, arrived in ChamOunix a few
days ago, and will be carried, in parts,
from there to the summit .'by workfnen and
guides Nj. Maurice de Thierry, who will
be connected with the observatory, is al
ready in ChamOunix, and NJ. Bigourdan
and his assistant NJ. Fayet, are expected
in few days. A few years ago scientists
frowned on the possibility of carrying
this great undertaking to completion. but
Janssen's work ISL about TO be crowned
with success.
Probably few people who have read
the countless stories of the savage shark,
the bandit of the sea-" as he has been
called, know that he is very useful
creature for man. A writer IN the Revue
Scientinque enumerates the uses to which
the different parts of the shark are put as
follows: The liver is found to contain an
oil of a beautiful color, which never be-
comes turbid, and possesses medicinal
qualities of a very valuable character;
the skin, after being dried, takes the polish
and hardness of mother-of-pearl,e and on
being marbled bears a resemblance to
fossil coral, so that ii is employed by jew
ellers for the manufacture of fancy OBJ
| Jects, by binders for making Shagreen,
and by 'cabinet-makers for polishing wood:
the fins, Independent of use by some as an
article of food, are superior for CONVEX
sion into fish glue. competing in this line
with the well known sturgeon glue pre-
pared in Russia, and are used for Clarity
] ing beer. wine and other liquors, also
for the preparation OF English tahetas,
and as regeants in chemistry, etc; the
flesh, too, despite its oily taste, is in some
places eaten as food, and, along with the
bones. is converted into a fertilizer.
The dentists, the ANTAGONISTS and bone
sharps in general tell us that human be-
ings have but two sets of teeth during
are all present by the end of the third
year and the second, or permanent set,
which replace the above some time be-
tween the fifth and twelfth years. Du-
rand says: There is not single excep-
ton to this rule-no authority making
mention of more than two sets of teeth
| during the lifetime of an individual
| the Teeth" concurs with Durand in this
way: There are but two sets of teeth
| the permanent" notwithstanding the
| above assertions, both of which come from
| reputable authors, we will suggest that
| A. d. Flint says that MARY Fursell or
| Acton, England, cut an entire set of new
| teeth at the age of so, and Dean Hamilton
| is authority for the statement that Rev.
| Samuel Croxall, the first English transla-
! tor of Aesop's Fables, died of a fever
| occaslOned Dy cutting new set or teeth
4 at the age of 49," In this country Mrs.
| Eliza Striker of Spottswood N. j., died
| in 1883 from an illness caused by cutting
| her third set of teeth, and four years be-
rien, Conn, who had been toothless for
| thirty years, cut a whole new set of even
white teeth at the ago of go
"A high and rugged eminence near the
| Bavarian village of Oberammergau is To-
cally known as Mount Calvary, and OH
| that rocky knoll every ten years the de-
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| acle Play, IN which Is represented every
| detail of the Passion of the Savior, says
| the st. Louis Republic. The play is per-
! formed, it is said, out of gratitude to
| God for causing a cessation of a desolar-
| ing plague which was breathing its pes
| tilential breath over the surrounding viii
| lagos in the year 1893 the chief men ana
women of the town Yowing that thereaf-
| ter they would carry out the Christ trag-
| edy" at the opening of each decade as a
means of religious instruction. The last
| three performances at Oberammcrgat.
were given in 1870. 1880 and 1880. At the
! performance of the Mysteries in 1880 an
| American lady named Mrs. Oliver T. Ba-
| con was present and picked up two small
| pebbles as mementos of the place. Eight
! years after, while labelling these relics
with the intention of presenting them u
| the museum of the Young Mems Library
at Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Bacon made most
| startling discovery. She accidentally
! turned one of the stones at a certain an
| gle and was dumbfOunded to see a pie
ture upon it, wrought by nature which
curiosity say is an excellent reproduction
| of the general conception OF the face or
! Christ. The owner has given up all idea
of presenting the oddly to the Atlanta
or any other museum, and has been ex-
hibiting it always in the interests of
| some deserving charity in the principal
cities of the eastern states, as well as
| in France, Germany, Norway and Russia
| Hard-headed biologists, who take but lit
! tie stock in supernatural stories of any
| kind, particularly those referring to
| stones. say that there is no mystery what
| ever in this famous "Oberammergau
| Stone other than that shown in the re-
markable resemblance the markings have
to a face. According to their tell, the
! picture is a dentritic production, being
formed by the action of dew and rain on
/ the mineral matter of the stone which
| has trickled into f1ssure and formed a
remarkable example of accidental re-
semblance.". In course of time the stone
| separated at the assure. exposing the pic
! ture, and 1t is believed that if the other
! half of the pebble could be found if WouId
/ exhibit duplicate of the image The
| stone is of lime and ebert ana is abour
| one inch in length.
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