The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-31
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I In Europe they are circumventing the
4 smoke and SCOT nuisance With oddly con-
I structed chime which resemble glgan-
l Tic letter y The invention Is credited 10 a
I Prof or Col Duller Of the Belgian engi-
I neers, and is pronounced an~eminent sue
u cess The smoke Is made 10 enter this n
shaped chimney AT the bottom OF the left
stem OF the huge masonry letter, ana Is
u nrst met with a jet of steam. At the top
I Of the same stem spray OF water drives
the SCOT and foul gases Gown, allowing
only almost pure vapOr TO escape up the
l last OF right-hand stem Of the y. Half Of
the smoke acids and upward OF g per cent
7 OF the SCOT are thus removed Such a
I $3.50. s-N
! Scotland. from is30 to about 1870. had the
I most wonderful menlorys. Of which any
account has ever been recorded He was
Z taml1arlE kBowneas The Complete Con
| cordance," on account ofthe fact that he
knew bY heart the entire Old and New
I Iestaments. He was tested a half dozen
I or more different times before the Scot
/ fish Society OF Advanced Learning, anc
always succeeded in Convincing the pro-
/ fessOrs that he was all that had been
/ claimed for him. If any sentence in the
| entire Bible was repeated.ro him, he 'would
lnsJantlys name chapter ana verse, or II
I the book chapter and verse were named
I he could give the exact words Of the quo
/ tatiOn.
There is one sum expressed by the Ar
/ able numerals upon which the American
and the English mathematicians have
never been able to agree-the exact num-
| Der OF naughts TO be used in expressing
tho sum of one billion. In this country,
as well as in France and several other
european nations. one billion is a thou
sand million, and is expressed with
nsUre and nine naughtS, thus, l,UB,OOo,-
ODU. In England, however. they speak of
billion as being "a million Million" and
IN writing it with Arabic characters al
re Hrrnu nrnI ali ranHHe D fe-
thus. 100000, 10000. Webster appears 20
take the English view of the matter and
very plainly says that "a billion is mil
lion of millions. as many millions as there
are units in million"
Amateur musicians" saws a music
teacher, in the Philadelphia Record, are
often somewhat embarrassed by the I'M
expected query as to what key piece of
music is in when playing in company.
They can tell on a little reflection, but an
array of four or five sharps or fats Is
apt TO temporarily confuse the best of
them. Here is a simple little guide or re-
minder which. If rehearsed a few times,
viii always keep them right and ready to
make a quick response to such a question.
In connection with the major scale just
Jot down this sentence. the capital let
ter beginning each word representing an
additional sharp from l to g. God De-
luged All Earth BY Flood In the minor
Key the same rule obtains in connection
with this amusing line, which was made
Up to accommodate the flats: Fat Baker
A universal language has for nearly
three centuries been the dream of scien-
tific men, says Chambers Journal, and
some think that the wonderful strength
and vitality Of our English tongue points
TO Its general adoption in the courts OF
time. II is the language which has made
the greatest progress in respect to the
numbers speaking it within this century
In the year 1900 1t was said to be used by
R,O0OO0 of people, and il is now spoken by
much more than l00,00,CO0; while the num-
bers speaking Russian rose in the same
time from 3O,O00g TO IG,OO,UOO or oOOJ1,-
600, all the other European langua ges be-
ing left lar behind. English is the Ian
guage of the greatest colonzing race In
history, the race which still holds the
commercial supremacy of the world. 1t
is the language of the great American ma
ton; and from the United Kingdom and
the United states, from Canada, Austria
liza, New Zealand the Cape and India, il
is pushing its influence further into ev-
cry corner of the habitable globe. 1t is
not then, a perfectly foolish expectation
that our language may eventually become
the accepted tongue of the civilized world.
The only known race of human beings
which have their bodies entirely covered
with hair of varying lengths is the So
called Dog Men or Hairy Anus of the
Nezo group of islands, the most northerly
possessions of the empire of Japan, says
the St. Louis Republic. The whole Ainu
pOpula ton, according to the very latest
Japanese census, is composed of about 49,
coo people, less than half of whom are
pure-bred. They are dwarfs in stature the
average man measuring only about four
feet nine inches, and the woman about
four feet, two inches Their heads are
small and slope sharply backward; they
have very large mouths and thick, full lips
The upper lip is extremely long and the
chin round and short. They are all-round
oddities of the oldest sort, but their most
marked popularity lies in the hairy cover
ing of their bodies, arms and legs. In the
majority of the adults, female as well as
males, the hair is thick, black and wavy,
and inclined to arrange itself in tufts or
bunch curls The hair is sufficiently thick
to conceal the skin over the entire body,
but is heaviest on the back, breast thighs
and forearms. The black color predomi-
mates, but DR.. Lander Savage mentions
seeing few men and women with reddish
hair and beard.
Two weeks ago, says the st. Louis Re
public, we gave a mote" under the head
ing: Initiative Forms in Vegetable Life"
and there alluded to other articles which
ing fancied resemblances noted by imagi-
native observers in several other branches
of natural history In this we shall briefly
mention some historic SKY emblemS' and
fantastic shaped clouds which have been
observed in both ancient and modern
times. We do not attempt to explain such
phenomena, but simply give the accounts
they are to be found in the chronicle of
things out-of-the-ordinary. In the year
1888, when the siege of Vienna was relieved
by John Sobrieski of Poland, and the
Turks were so effeCtually checked from
making further Entertainments on
European territory, a gigantic
sword and a reversed crescent
were plainly outlined on the sky
1t is also related that on the battle of
Culloden the English king and his family,
who were at Windsor, plainly beheld fig
ures of Scotiands thistles in the clouds.
They also saw one gigantic vapor outline
which strangely resembled a Highlander
armed with claymore and large, falling
backward. Another famous cloud emblem
is that of the Emperor Constantine, who
when the sun was standing at meridian
plainly saw vapor outline of the cross in
the sky. Some authorities claim that this
cross of clouds was inscribed with the
words: by this conquer" Josephus re
lates the following: IA few DAYS after
the feast of the passover, on the 9th ~
May, a prodigious and incredible phenoue
non appeared, in which chariots
and troops of soldiers in their arrnor were
seen running about among the clouds. .
John Lathrop Motley, the great historian
also tells of mimic in the sky which wa
witnessed by five soldiers al Utrecht a. few
weeks before the battle of Monk HEATH
As late as 1887 an English paper cailed
the st. Stephens Review, gave a sketch of |
cloud phenomenon witnessed AT Dor
wick, Scotland, short time previous. In
this, the clouds assumed the form of tho
British Lion, which appeared to have