The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-12

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man. The suction was so great that, try
as they would, they could not move him.
For forty-eight hours he remained at the
bottom of the well and all the time those
above were doing their best to pull him
out. he had been pulled at with rope
and windlass until his joints were so sore
that this had to be abandoned. Finally
box was sunk around him and the sand
and mud We're dipped out of the box.
After several hours more the man was re-
leased and was pulled to the surface. He
was more dead than alive when he reach
ed the top.
The record of having the deepest min
ing shaft in the world now belongs to the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of
Michigan. Their Red Jacket perpendicu-
lar shaft is now down nearly $500 feet and
the miners are still sinking downward
at the rate of nearly hundred feet per
month. The Calumet and Hecla has much
deeper shafts than these, but they are
sunk on an angle of the vein about 3S de-
grees) 10 the west No. shaft is 100 feet
shaft first reached a perpendicular depth
of over 1900 feet when miners struck the
Calumet vein at 4225, but while they were
getting the new hosting engines and
drums for the wire cable in working or
der and the miners were preparing the
shaft for the new cages the Calumet
miners kept on downward and passed the
greatest depth attained by them. 1t will
be the LIST of July before No. 3 Tamarack
will be hosting vein rock
A French genius is credited with the
invention of a curious marine cOnundrum,
a four or eight or ten wheeled cycle, whose
wheels are entirely hollow and air-tight,
and keep the structure floating above
water; these four or ten wheels are loca-
ted by pairs, and between the starboard
and the larboard set a horizontal platform
is suspended, upon which are built cabins,
dining room engine room, etc, intended
simply for passengers, there being no
hull in which to stow a cargo, while the
wheels, instead of sliding across the water
and cutting it, as do common chaft, roll
upon It. The rudder for this new boat is
described as consisting of hollow verti-
cal metallic tube, which dips into the
water and is provided with a lateral
slit through this slit water being forced
by an engine at high pressure, and the
reaction of this water upon the surround
ing medium propelling the craft at the
same time that it steers 1t. The cylinder,
which is i'm the nature of things movable,
turns around Its axis vertically, by which
. means the slit may be placed as it should
be.
Hunters have found in Harlan county,
Ky, lot of skeletons, guns, and cart
ridges, and this is believed to throw some
light upon a missing party of soldiers be-
longing to John Morgan's famous COM
mand, which went into the mountains of
Kentucky to cope with union bushwhack-
ers, says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Several of these counties, including Bell,
Letcher, Perry, and Harlan We're union,
and the confederate sympathiZers were
faring badly at the hands of neighbors
There were a number of bones and but
two comparatively complete skeletons, but
the finders say there must have been as
many as six men in the party. Several
guns were found, besides some cartridge
boxes, on one of which there still remains
the significant lettering, Fourth Ken
lucky, G. S. A These findings were TAX
en- to the Harlan court house, where an
investigation will be made tending to-
wards the discovery of the identity of the
the victims of some mountain feud and
were hidden to cover up the crime. They
were found in cave some distance from
the entrance.
There is no heavier tax upon a man
in English society than the tips which he
is compelled to give servants at the coun-
try houses at which he may happen to
spend few days during the shooting sea-
son, says the New York World. popu-
lar man will pay twenty or thirty visits
during the autumn. remaining a few DAYS
at each house. Everywhere the tips
mount up to prodigious total There is
the head gamekeepers who is far too great
a parsonage to be satisfied with anything
less than a ten-pond note. Then there is
the under-keeper, especially told off, to
look after the visitor The butler expects
almost as big a fee as the gamekeeper
and so does the head coachman. The
groomS, footmen and housemaids all come
in for a share of the spoils Failing in
these tips the guest gets blacklisted
throughout the entire country, so far as
the servants hall is concerned. 1t was
not so very long ago that one of Lord
Northbrook's footmen. during the course
of legal proceedings, admitted that, where
as his wages did not exceed $3.50 a year he
made at least $500 year in tips from Wis
itors who stayed with the earl. And he
was merely one of the under servants
Emperor William was merely acting in
accordance with the English usage when
he left the trifie of 81 600 to be distributed
in tips among the servants of Lord Ions
dale after his four days stay at Lowther
Castle.
The human puzzle struck Washington
the other day, says the Washington News
His name is Nizbeno, or Harry Beno of
Port of Spain, Trinidad, and he is en-
route to New York, where he declares he
has been offered $4,000 and ticket back
to Cuba for letting the doctors amputate
his left arm in the interest of science
The human puzzle is a short, stocky look
ing knight of the road, and his great
speciality is self torture and mutilation.
He sticks pins and needles into any part
of him he can reach. and he is decorated
all over with scars inflicted by the oblig-
ing individuals who at his request have
experimental on him. The puzzle saws
he has no physical sensibilitfes and no
blood in his body. This last is very thor
oughly disproved by a strong healthy
pulse at the wrist. but the former one
might believe, from the fact that he sticks
darning needles through his tongue and
hatpins through both sides of his laws.
while he invites anyone who is interested
and skeptical to run long bonnet pin
through his biceps or his legs or any part
of his body he chooses. He has a hvno-
dermic syringe needle that he has fixed
up for cigarette holder, and this he
thrusts through his windpipe and
smokes a cigarette with his
mouth shut He declares that
he does not mind being burned, and
shows a number of scars which he saws
are from recent electrical experiments,
The puzzle is shy a third finger on his
left hand. This, he says, was amputated
in New Orleans just to show that he
would not bleed. and the proposed ampu-
tation which he says is to take place in
Bellevue hospital in New York wifi be the
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public career. After that the puzzle saws
he will walk hack to New Orleans on
stills for wager and sail for Cuba 10
enjoy in an aff1uent old age the fruits of
his youthful travel and adventure. Beno
says that he is a half caste Spaniard. his
mother being IAN Englshman." but he
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