The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17
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ton. y. H, killed a brown adder snake
that had two distinct and perfect heads
The see Of st. Louis, in which Arch
bishop Kahn has succeeded the EeneIable
I Archbishop Kenrick. has had but two &C.
+ cupants before in 100 years
in one translation Of the Bible the word
! rendered apron" in the common version
Z is translated ''breeches-" And they
sewed fig leaves together and made them
] selves breeches."
in experimenting TO find the effect OF
! sunlight on disease germs II has Deea
I discovered, that such spores are killed
by the blue and violet rays Of sunligh,
/ in few hours.
/ in the east it is customary to cut the
| lashes Of female children while they are
sleeping, so that art. as well as nature,
/ has something to do with the dropping eye
/ iashes of Oriental beauty.
1t was during the crusades that crests
| were introduced in England. Richard 1.
adopted three lions passant-that is, pass
4 ing or going by, which are still emblazoned
/ on the royal shield Of England.
The two most widely separated post
4 Offices in the United States are those in
/ Key West, Fla, and Ounalaska, Alaska,
/ 6.27l miles apart. Two cents VIII insure
the carriage of a letter between those dis
tant points.
Two Ocean Pass in the Rocky noun
tains is so called because there is a
1 marshy lake in it from which flow two
into the Missouri and through the Gulf
of Mexico into the Atlantic. The pass
is just south of Yellowstone park.
No colony or dependency of the Brit
| ism empire now pays tribute 10 the IN
/ perial treasury. Since the levy of the
| American stamp tax England has learn
4 ed that where a penny can be collect
/ ed by means of tax pound can more
/ easily be realized by imperial control OF
/ colonial trade and finance.
A German exchange gives an account
"a oil u frh
would do credit to the sharpest of yankee
/ Indicators. The Russian government
/ knew that counterfeit paper money was
/ being brought into the country, crossing
i the frontier at a certain place, but for a
/ long time could not ascertain how Ii got
/ in. At last the scheme was revealed by
/ an accident. The money was rolled tight
/ ~ into the holes in the center of lead PEN
ellis, the ends of which were filled with
4 graphite. as usual. A case of pencils fell
4 from a wagon as it was being inspected;
! the inspector put a pencil in his pocket,
and after time sharpened ii and used il.
/ Presently, of course, he came to the hol-
/ low and pulled out a counterfeit bank bill.
One does not have to turn to Stanley
j. Weyman or Anthony Hope for thrilling
! stories of adventure SAYS the New York
l Tribune. The newspaper accounts of the
/ experiences of the survivors OF the Colima
satisfy the ordinary taste for romantic
horror one Mexican who reached a raft
/ went crazy from drinking salt water.
I Three men found themselves afoat on a
part of the cabin roof, and managed to
/ drag on it a keg of claret which drifted
/ near them. After long effort the key was
opened, and two of the shipwrecked men
drank of its contents until they were bru-
! tally drunk. One went to sleep, but the
other quarrelled and finally fought with
| his sober companion. They struggled there
until the intoxicated man was knocked
! overheard. His antagonist pulled him
back to the rude raft The combatiVeness
was Knocked out of him by his cold plunge,
but he continued TO drink the wine until
/ he fell into the sea. This time there was
no help for him. and he was drowned
] When the other drunken man awoke he
needed the warning of the wretch's eX-
ample and drank only sparingly. The two
| were at last rescued. There is much fic-
ton far less exciting than this narrative.
The most expensive diamond mines
in the world are those of Kimberley,
South Africa. In and around these i'm
| mense mines are over 200 miles of tram
| ways and rs miles of elevated or aerial
railways. There are daily employed in the
| works 2.5O0 horses, mules and oxen, be-
sides So steam engines, with capacity
\ equal to 5000 horse power. The eXpendit-
ures for labor, fuel, etc, was over Sll-
the various companies which now work
| the different "diggin's" is $90004000 Over
10000 natives, besides $500 European over
seers and bosses are now in the employ OF
/ the Consolidated Mining Company a 81
! gantic trust, which now works the four
! great Kimberley mines.
black who has four perfect rows of teeth
i three in the upper jaw and one in the
! lower. W. A. Watt, a grain dealer or
Hemying, Ida, has but four teeth, two
| in the upper and two in the lower Jaw
! lie is only % years of age, and these are
| the first and only teeth he ever had. Each
| tooth rartakes of the nature Of a tusK,
| being round and conical, and almost twice
the length of ordinary teeth. A citizen
| of San Francisco has no teeth in the up
per Jaw, nor ever had, although the lower
II ffiax MT !, rrTa
| Bailiffe family, formerly of Fairfield, o.
was composed of nine boys and six girls.
| all of whom had double or molar teeth
in front as well as in the back of the
jaw.
Grief does not kill, and it Is. indeed
! very seldom that heavy sorrow causes
/ death to any one when in a healthy con-
| dition, says the Buffalo Times 1t is how
ever. very often the indirect cause of a
death, either by bringing disease to a
climax or by rendering the sufferer more
| liable to its attack. If man is convinced
that his grief is more than he can bear
| those who have studied the matter agree
| that through the force of his own imagi-
nation the man will actually die Of a
broken heart" The great Napoleon was
| killed by an internal disease, but il is SIM
| posed that Il would not have been fatal
| had not his spirits been so depressed
/ through exile and defeat. William Pitt
the orator is said to have died of a bro
! ken heart" caused by his great grief at
the failure of his cherished hopes and
| plans And there have been many other
such instances in the history Of this coun-
| try When plaques are raging in a town
! statistics show that as many die from
| fright and imaginary causes as from the
| real epidemic, so great a hold has the fear
of death on some people. If a man is con-
demned to be shot it has often occurred
/ that on the word fire" he has dropped
| ifeless, although, through accident or de-
| sign, no bullet has in reality left the gun
! There Is a queer case on record concern
! ing the daughter of a celebrated French
novelist, who was deeply interested in
/ one of her fathers stories. 1t appeared in
| installments, and the heroine was suffering
| from consumption. AS the girl brooded
| over the sad fate of the heroine she. too
/ suddenly manifested the same symptoms
! physician recommended her father 10
| restore the heroine to health which he
aid few chapters on, and at the same
! time as the girl in the novel recovered SO
| also did his too-sentimental daughter
| We have heard of the language of mon
keys and of the language of hens and of
/ the language of crows, and even of ants
| but it will be a new idea to most peonle
! probably, that fishes have a language al
| their own. An English fisherman. Mr.
1 Basil Field, has been making some inves.
I LEGATIONS which led him to suppose that
| fishes have some way of communicating
notion of their experience to other fishes
Mr.. Field carried on his experiments in the
hsh ponds of Mr.. Andrew at Guildford