The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-25
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living toward its dinner IL cleaves space
at the rate Of 10 miles an hour
IN 1885 no less than 12132 81 bushels Of
buckwheat were raised ground into meal
and made into cakes, 70 be duly served /
with butter.
Enhu Burritt "the learned black
smith knew eighteen langua ses. He /
was self-taught generally needing only a
dictionary and grammar TO master any
language he chose 10 learn
John Fellows b. the t9-year-old tongue
less son OF a farmer near Louisa Ky he
has not even rudlmentary organ IN all ,
other respects the BOY IS perfect he IS
bright splendid athlete. and favorite
To ascertain the time at night. the
Apache Indians employ a gourd on which
the stars Of the heavens are marked AS
the consultations rise in the sky the IN
dian refers 10 his gourd and 1nds out tSe
hour.
"Electricityr saws there is nothing theo-
reticallv inlnroba be in the statement that 4
an Ohio convict has invented a battery I
which converts sound into electric power
10y q device which makes II possible 20
operate an ordinary can bell by simply
clappins the hands m front Of the bat
terry
In the old law books the far-searched-
for reasons TO establish cases was often
editTlng. The famous case reported in 10 I
b Pennsylvania state report easily takes
first prize. Mr. Justice Lewis thus dis
ports himself on the subject OF restraining
n WlloN from marrying. " ne principle
or reproduction he SAYS stands next
in Importance TO its elder-born correla-
tive. self-preserVation and is equally a
fundamental law Of existence. 1t is the
blessing which tempered with mercy the
expulsion from paradise. II was impressed
upon the human creation by benehcent
PROVIDENCE. 10 multiply the images OF him
self, and thus to promote his own glory
and the happiness Of his creatures. From
the lord Of the forest to the monster OF
the deep, from the subtieiy of the serpent
TO the innocence of the dove, from the
elastic embrace Of the mountain kalmia
I to the descending fructihcation of the lily
I Of the plain. all nature bows submissiVely
TO this primevai law. Even the flowers,
! which perfume the air with their fra
GRANGE and decorate the forests and neldS
] with their hues. are but curtains 20 the
I nuptial bed. The principles of morality
the doctrines of the common law, the law
Z of nature, and the law of God unite in
I condemning as void the condition attempt
ed to be imposed upon this widow
/ A Boston literary man. who came 10
Z New York receDfiy spent an entire week
| eDdeavoring TO fnd-the sO-calied Bohemian
! center Of Gotham, says the New York
I Advertiser He wanted Bohemian din
/ ners. Bohemian friends and Bohemian
/ revelry. He did not find j for soMe rea-
I son or other, and went home, declaring
] New York TO be q jay town IS a mat
I ter Of fact. New York Bohemia to-day is
! very like happiness. Many of us are ever
I longing for II. and never recognizing 1t
I when We are there As for those who arc
/ in Vanity Fair, they affect a fOndness for
Bohemia. The fOndEess turns into a cut
/ Just as soon as the real Bohemia shows
J. amy Il AIR us faEEed coat anu ldtteItN
morals. society gives the stage It's ntiln
I and dances a minuet with il. Sometimes
e even dances a skirt dance. The stage
/ Gmirks and behaves like "a bad boy eN-
/ pecting a good dinner But that is not
I bohemia. When pampered pet OF the
I publishers comes 10 dinner ana delivers
/ himself OF a bou-mOt. Vanity Fair thinks
il is seeing Bohemia. But he is nothing Of
I the sort. There is no such thing as The
| modern Bohemian, the Bohemian who
dresses for dinne'. wears pince-nez and a
/ ianguid smile. The real Bohemian Is still
[ the same irresponsible needles "a genius
/ that he always was. He hates Vanity
Fair as cat hates the rain. Vanity
| Fair VIII never see him. He lives be-
/ tween hunger and luxury. He never quite
! realizes that he Is a Bohemian am ne
| utterly refuses to allow the title to any
/ one else.
The winter of 17n was famous through
I out New England as much colder than
1 any which had preceded il, says the Pitts
/ burg Dispatch. Probably no year since
/ could furnish testimony for cold either so
/ intense or so protracted. The snow which
! covered the whole country as early as the
I 18th of November was still found the next
/ April covering the fences. The Boston
! Post Boy of January r. reports a tent
I on the Charles river for the entertain
/ ment of travellers. The Boston News let
| ter for March tells us that people ride
every day from Stratford. Conn. to
Long Island. which is three leagues.
/ Even as far east as New London we are
told that the ice extended into the sound
| as far as could be seen from the town.
/ and that Fishers Island was united to the
| mainland by a solid bed" on March 2S
| the Boston News letter reports that the
/ people living on Thompsons Island had
| crossed over TO Dorchester to church on
/ the ice for the Is preceding Sundays. As
late as the 9th of July letter from New
| London, Conn, reports on the east side Of
| the Connecticut river a body of ice as large
! as two carts can draw. clear and solid.
| and adds very artlessly that Ill might lay
there a month longer were il not that so
| many resort out of curiosity to drink
punch made ont of it." On the 18th of July
snow was still lying in mass in the town
of Ipswich, Mass, nearly four feet thick.
But the most marvellous record of the
/ season is the statement made by Alonzo
Lewis, author of Annals OF Lynn Mass,
that Francis Lewis, the signer OF the Dec
laration of Independence, drove his horse
from New York to Barnstable, the whole
! length of Long Island Sound. on the ice.
The crew of the British steamship Rock
Light had most thrilling experience on
the night of Feb. 1, when the vessel mar
rowly escaped destruction by the bursting
of a meteor The vessel was on her pas
sage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia,
and at the time weathering a gale
which required the presence on deck of
all hands, from Capt. Collier down. 1t
was nearly midnight, when ball of fire
vessel Sizing and leaving behind 1t
trail of sparks. The sailors watched it
in GREATNESS suspense. When a few feet
aStern of the vessel II burst with a terri
nc report, scattering fragments of meteor
ic iron in all directions. The lookout and
the man at the wheel were blinded by the
flash and it was feared for time that
they would let the head Of the vessel
fall off and the ship, by getting into the
trough of the sea, be engulfed by the
mountainous waves. The ocean was
churned up even more violently than by
the storm, and the Rock Light tossed vio-
Iently from side to side. Several of the
crew who had just retired. Were thrown
from their hunks, and, dazed and only
partially clad, they rushed on deck. only
to find their shipmates equally If not
more, afraid. The iron and steel in the
vessel. it is believed, served as a magnet
to draw the meteor out of its course, and
had the ship been at anchor she would
probably have been destroyed. Almost
Immediately hard squat sprung up,
and St. Elmo's light appeared at the ends
Of the yards. For several days the yes
sci was lighted in this weird manner,
| ON FEB. 10 hurricane, accompanied by
n binding snowstorm, struck the vessel,
and for twenty-four hours it was a Sc
1ious question whether vessel or crew
would ever set out of it. After the storm
subsidized the lights disappeared from the
rigging. The report Of the lneteorlc ex-
pI0son and storm has been forwarded to
| Washington.
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