The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-01
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ing establishment at Hochst. near Frank
fort-on-the-M Main. It VIII be much concen-
trated, and 1ve times IS strong as that
hitherto used.
Orders will soon be given by the admir-
atty for the construction of three first
class cruisers for the English navy The
vessels are TO be OF even greater power
and speed than the recently completed
Powerful and Terrible.
The somewhat facetious coinage Of
the verb to dunraVen,' meaning, we arc
adequate grounds for Withdrawing" re-
calls TO the Providence Journal the fact
that the now common verb Ito boycott
originated in the name of fellow cOun-
tryman Of the chief member Of the Nalky-
RE syndicate.
The old Queens Head Tavern, in
Borough High street, LONDON, which is
over 500 years old. and was once owned by
John Harvard, is now to be torn down.
Originally IL was a mansion belonging TO
the Poynings; Henry VIII turned il into
a storehouSe for artillery, and under
queen Elizabeth it became a tavern under
the name at first of the Crossed Keys.
1t is reported that Prof. Stuart of the
University of Sydney, has invented an
artificial larynX, and that il has been tried
Win success upon man VINO mad lost
ms voice. The mechanism can be regu-
lated so as 10 make the voice soprano,
tenor contralto or bass, at will. 1t is
sincerely to be hoped that the managers
Of certain companies on the road viii lay
IN hDeral supply Of these articles for
deavor to sing for the public.
The strange experience of being dry
locked on an iceberg is told of by Capt.
Chester of Pacific coast fishing schOOn-
er. He says that he made fast to big
berg which was stranded off the coast of
Alaska for the purpose of Teplenishing his
stock OF ice, and after getting some thir
~ tons of 1t on board, the berg sudden
ly careened over to the side opposite that
on which the schooner was made fast and
lifted her high and dry out of water, held
fast IN a groove. The men took the boats
and Went to safe distance to watch the
proceedings. The berg gradually settled
more and more, lifting the schooner hign-
er and higher. until her anchor cable
caught the strain. Then as the end of
the berg went uD the anchor held and
pulled the schooner off, bows first and
unframed. The rest of the ice was load
ed by boats, and the schooner kept clear
of the berg.
There is a perpetual fascination about
the stars and the immense distance at
which they lie from one another and from
us. To demonstrate the vast distance Of
Centauri from this planet, a popular
scientist gives the following Illustration
in Answers: We shall suppose that some
wealthy directors, for want of outlet for
their energy and capital, construct a rail-
way to Centauri. We shall neglect for
the present, the engineering difficulties
a mere detail-and suppose them overcome
and the railway open for traffic. We shall
go further, and suppose that the direc-
tors have found the construction of such
and that the proprietors of intersteller
space had not been eXOrbitant in their
terms for right of way. Therefore, with
a view to encourage traffic, the directors
had made the fare exceedingly moderate,
viz, first class at l penny per 100 miles.
Desiring to take advantage of these facil-
himself with small change for the jour
ney, buys up the national debt of Britain
and a few other countries, and, present.
ing himself at the Office, demands a first
class n ffpnf11rr1 or hn an
ders in payment the scrip of the British
national debt, which just covers the cos;
of his ticket, but at this time the national
debt from little wars has been run up to
Il, 100,OOO00O. Having taken his seat, it oc-
ours to him to ask: at what rate do you
travel?' Sixty miles an hour, sir, in
when shall we reach Centauri?' In 49,
$4,000 years, sir!
-Sylvanus Sawyer the inventor of the
rif1ed cannon has just died in Temple
early bOyhOod, says the Springfield Repub-
lican, he showed strong mechanical bent.
In 1850 he invented machine for splitting
rattan. In 1854 he tested the model of his
rified cannon. The test is thus described by
c. H. Kelton, the owner of the shop in
Templeton where he finished the model:
THE trial took place in a meadow short
distance from his home. He had rugged
up a pair of wheels taken from his ia
theirs hay cart and thus had drawn it
down to the meadow About third of
a mile away he had also rugged up a target
composed of heavy oak pianks from four
to six inches thick and about ten feet
square. He got us all down about the gun
and then loaded it with about a pound of
powder; and though confident of his own
invention. he did not dare trust himself
in its immediate neighborhOOd, but attach
ed q fuse several feet long, lighted it.
and then the whole crowd of us ran like
deer for about quarter OF mile But
nothing serious occurred. When the eX-
plosion took place the prOjectile went
straight as a bullet to the mark, ex-
ploded as he had planned that it should,
and tore most OF the target to pieces. Thus
successful was the first rifled cannon ball
ever fired in this or any other country.
A second discharge with the same pre-
cautions was not so successful, II striking
the target askew; for it took later expert
ence to teach that this was the fault of the
proJecule; ana that TO secure the straight
passage through the air it must be of even
thickness and evenly balanced. Later af-
ter many experiments, it was adopted by
the war department as an improvement
of great value"
Have we record of people who mys-
teriously disappear and are never heard
of? said a well known private detective to
a writer for the New York Dispatch Why.
we have many such cases. Sometimes foul
play, or suicide, or accident is the cause
Only yesterday the relatives of a WELL
known gentleman visited us to obtain our
help in the search for their connection,
who had mysteriously vanished one night.
What the total number of people who
vanish from sight in this way every year
police could tell you. AT any rate. we had
at least twenty during the last few
months. Sometimes We are successful in
finding the runaway or missing person:
at other times no trace can be discovered
or al other times no trace can be discov-
cred, or the remains may be found You
see, the means of disappearing are so easy
that the police or private detectives have
frequently no evidence to work upon A
rward of $500 was offered for the recov-
cry of the body of a well known gentle
man, much respected in commercial cir
cles His business was in a satisfactory
condition, his relations and his family
were of the best and altogether he was not
the man TO disappear But he did He
told his family that he was going to Bos-
ton, but so far as we know, he never got
there. Everybody was on the qui vive:
seaports were watched, everything that
could be done was done. but it was of no
avail. The gentleman had vanished com
pletely. Business affairs cause many q
man to disappear mysteriously Bad trade:
a mistake in some commercial transac-
ton; gambling on the stock exchange. ne
cessitating the abstraction of some of his
employers cash, are all possible. MANY
a man who is lost to this country. and in
the minds of his relatives dead is at this
present moment enjoying lll-earned money
in Spain or South America, where extra
dition laws are often of no avail