The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-23
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| covered IN the reckOnings in the altitude
/ Of that locality. The original elevations
I were taken from the old Kansas Pacine
I survey IN 1853. and IL seems probable that
there was an error. The railroad people
Z are interested in the matter and have been
stirring up the government A party OF
the geOdetic survey, which has been at
work for seventeen years, is now working
/ that way, and will soon settle the ques-
ton If the error is corrected the att
Z tude Of Pixies Peak will be announced as
! l56iI5e feet, a gain of l 100 feet.
An Ohio revivalist, named Jonas, ap-
pears TO have gone into the business of
revlving as a profession, says the New
York Tribune. His "ad' in the paper de-
clares that "he has a strong voice, and
IS able TO speak 10 the largest audiences
al grove meetings. He Is not backward
about speaking twice a day where oppOr-
trinity is afforded. His heart is full of
the work. and he is anxious to reach
people with his message of deliverance.
he can preach on Sundays as well as talk
politics on week days. He is a very efh-
cient reVivalist. He has a wonderful IA
culty OF entertaining, holding and con-
vincing audiences, and can speak in the
same place night after night with con-
tinually increasing attendance"
A baby girl has just arrived in the
little town of Southwest City, Mo, who
will be the biggest woman on earth If
she lives. The very day she made her ap-
pearance in the world the mammOuth
youngster tipped the scales at sixty-three
pounds. She is now, says the New York
Recorder, more than siXty-eight pounds
in weight and measures thirty inches
around the waist. Her arms are ten
inches in circumference and her hands
and feet are as large as a mans. This
champion fat baby is the daughter of -
j. Matthews, a farmer who lives in the
Cherokee nation. He Is a small man;
so is the little girls mother. If the far
girl keeps on growing as rapidly as she
has since her birth she will soon weigh
more than the combined weight of her
papa and mamma. Just the same she is
as happy as she is big.
What is fireproof? asks a writer in the
New York Recorder Iron isn't, because
II melts in fierce heat, and in less heat
expands Thus an iron beam between
two walls may expand so much as to
throw ono of them down. Stone isn't, be-
cause IN nerCe heat 1t crumbles away to
dust. The materials which is most nearly
hreprOof Is good brick The more it's
baked, the harder it gets. So the best fire.
walls floors of hollow brick, and doors
ana castings only of wood. Even then a
nreproof builing will burn If a very hot
nre attacks II from the outside. But a
ire starting in one of the rooms only burns
that room and stops. 1t never gets very
hot In such a fire as that in Chicago
anu Boston the best of buildings would
be damaged greatly, even if they did not
IAN. Wood, when il is thin burns very
rapidly, but in big beams il doesn't catch
nre 50 readily. So, in ordinary wooden
buildings, 1t is the hollow spaces between
the lath and the walls and floors that car
ry the fire out of sight like so many Chin
M
| These hollow floors are one of the great
est dangers in fire. The stairway with its
wooden stairs and the elevator shaft, if
| mere is one, are the points of greatest
danger because they draw the fire up like
chlmneys. That is why, in case of fire
pretty well started il is always better
to go out by the fire escape instead of the
/ stairs.
Racing between dogs of the "whip-
pet breed have become a feature of the
T h',1I sailnIneht afforded at the London
coi,Itp 51, says an exchange. A fun
course ZD yards cannot be provided
there, but one OF the galleries has been
utilized, which gives a straight line of 2iO
feet, and this is ample to show the amaz-
ing speed at which the whippets can 90
Properly. the racing should take place
on cinder path-not grass-but at the
aquarium mating has to serve instead
Inc dogs are held in by slippers by the
neck and tail, and they are given as much
impetus as possible by means of a push
OH when pistol is fired. The dogs speed
/ straight to the "runners-up" who stand
behind the winning mark, waving towels
ana encouraging the competitors by
shouts; and II is amusing to see the
glossy, graceful animals worrying these
! towels when they have finished their
meats The weight of whippets varies
| from Az TO pounds, and they are pen
allied for weight 1t is no Joke TO train
/ these animals properly. A whippet Should
De taken Tor twenty minutes walk at
Z a; m, be given breakfast at s O'Clock
anu aHoWed 10 rest for an hour, then
! taken for four or five mile walk, nut
| TO bed, given dinner at 1870 taken for a
/ stroll, and allowed an afternoon nan
! taken for another four or five mile walk
/ at $50 p. m, and at p. m. given supper
ana sent to bed Their diet consists of
Dread soaked in tea or beef tea or calf's
! foot jelly, beef or mutton from the grin
/ boiled fish and mutton broth-almost as
good as fighting cocks.
considerable interest is manifested in
inns city, says a Creston, Ia, dispatch,
! over the wonderful proclivities for learn
/ ing of little Dole Slough the 6-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Slough lit
tIe Dole's retentive memory and his capa-
| DltleS Tor learning are extraordinary ETe
hrst began to develop these powers Of
tne age of years, when his father bought
MN a set of alphabet blocks. These he
! learned rapidly, and upon some of them
belng lost, told what blocks were missing
! ana the letters upon each He started
| 70 school last September, and his rapid
| advancement was a source of considerable
! worry to his instructors. Promotion fol-
| lowed promotion in quick succession. and
| some OF the teachers finally went to the
parents and complained that he out
striped the balance of his classmates so
quickly That II was almost impossible to
be hm pcad Dole 1 Is at Present reading
! home. He will lock horns with almost
anyone, and excel, too in a spelling con-
TEST; rake the first reader, in which his
carrier studies were, and pronounce words
| at random, and he will tell you the page
! and lesson where the word is found, and
! If you should introduce a strange word
| to entrap him he. will refuse to. be en-
trapped. Mr.. slough, his father. is a rail-
| road man, and his time table is of great
| interest to Dole. Early in the morning..
| before his parents are awake, he will be
| sitting up in bed trying to decipher the
meaning of the intricate columns of fig
! ures. Some time ago Mr.. Slough hap
/ pened to allude to the date the pay car
would arrive month or two in advance,
! and named certain date he figured it
! would arrive. Dole instantly denied If
| and said it would be Sunday, and, upon
! looking, it was found to be true Since
| then he has been studying the calendar
! The writer was asked to tell Dole the
| date of his birth, and he would tell him
! the day of the week. Without hesitation.
he answered, Sunday" which was true,
! and followed this up with the assertion
there We're five Sundays in that month.
1 OF this l was not sure. but examination
! proved it to be true. Little Dole. physi-
! cally, is puny and very pale his ewes are
| large and lustrious and he is very nervous
| His parents are considerably worried
! about him, and try in every way to divert
| his mind to childish plays but his inordi-
nate desire for knowledge is such that
| they can do nothing with him.