The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26
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| Americas cup" that British yachtsmen
| have been trying TO win ever since, IS
still ahoat. AT the present moment she
| at the docks OF the Chelsea Yacht club,
/ New York, housed and covered in. She
/ has had a varied career. Built by. Amer
leans for the cypress purpose OF meeting
| which proudly profess 10 rule the waves,
| vanquishIng them all with the greatest
ease; next purchased BY an. Englls Imam,
i and wearing the union jack Instead OF the
/ stars and stripes; becoming a blockade
Il runner during the war and actually dee
ing from the very sight of the flag, when
she once bore to victory at the Isle OF
/ Wight: sunk to the bottoms OF an OBJ.
| scure southern river to escape a nortn-
/ ern gunbOats raised to become training
/ ship at Annapolis, and at last nnisnins
| her career, as she began it. a yacht dedi-
/ Gated 10 sport and pleasure rather than
/ TO the serious business. of life she was
| built by George Steers, the Herreshom OF
/ his day, and launched in March OF leol-
DO horses weep IS question dis
| cussed by our contemporary, the Admir-
atty and Horse Guards Gazette. 1t tells
as that there is a well authenticated case
/ of horse weeping during the Crmean
war. On the advance to the Nights OF
posed' to the fife OF d. concealed Russian
battery, and in the course of a few min
utes it was nearly destroyed, men and
| horses killed and wounded, guns dismount-
ed, and limbers broken a soil tary horse
which had apparently escaped unhurt,
was observed standing with txed gaze
1 upon an OBJECT Close DcSltlcs ItIfls THIS
turned out to be his late master, quite
dead. The poor ANIMAL when. trooper
was dispatched to recover him, was found
| with copious tears flowing from his eyes;
and it was only by main force that he
could be dragged away from the spot,
and his unearthly cries to get back to
/ his master were heartrending ApropOs
/ of the intense love that cavalry horses
have for music a correspondent OF the
Gazette writes that when the sixth Dra-
/ goonS recently changed their quarters
| a mare belonging to one of the troopers
| was taken so i'll as to be unable to pro-
| coed on the journey the following morn
/ ing. Two days later, another detacn-
ment of the same regiment. accompan-
| led by the band, arrived. The sick mare
| was IN a loose box, but hearing the mar
tial strains. kicked hole through the
| side of her box and making her way
| through the shop of a brakeman, took
| her place in the troop before she was
secured and brought back to the stable.
| But the excitement had proved too
great, and the subsequent exhaustion
/ proved fatal.
Persons who catch catfish are famil-
| lar with the croaking noise they make
| when thrown In the bottom of the boat,
says the Brooklyn Eagle. But they are
credited with sweeter cadences under
| the surface and when they touch the
| water edge by the shore in the night. A
Washington correspondent who had been
! prowling about the Smithsonian institu-
| ton, wrote that to most people the no
| ton that fishes have voices would seem
/ rather absurd. Yet there are many spe-
/ sing. Some familiar ones, like the blue
/ fish, croak when they are pulled out of
| the water. They do likewise in their ma
| tive element and often in concert, pro-
| ducing quite musical effects. A school
| of ''grunters" will furnish an example.
| From vessel anchored in southern wa
ters one frequently hears at night the
slow boom boom" of the Jewish. Crews
! Of ships have been startled on occasions
by extraordinary noises like the beating
/ of many drums in the distance. Like
| wise produced by fishes were sounds
heard by Lieut. White, United States ma
Wy, in 1924, in the mouth of river in
| Cambodia. They suggested a mixture of
/ the bass of the organ, the ringing of
| bells and the tones OF an enormous harp.
| In Chilean waters musical cadences are
| sometimes heard rising from the sea
! and covering four notes resembling the
| tones of harp strings. The maigres are
| famous for their vocal powers, emitting
| loud whistlings and cummings. The way
| in which fish make these sounds is as
| yet a mystery. Fishermen In Eastern
Asia are said to hang little bells on the
| edges of their nets to attract victims.
| The other evening at Brighton Beach a
| German observed that during the prog
ress of the Seidl concert fisherman
| might be very successful outside the
| pavilion, because the music attracts
| myriads of fishes.
| From time out of memory up to with
in the last 25 or 80 years, says the st.
| Louis Republic, the geographers, the hy-
| drographers and the common people
| alike believed in the existence of an
| immense WHIRLPOOL IN the ocean OH the
| coast of Norway. The English of the
| sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
| thought II to be subterranean abyss,
| penetrating the globe in such a manner
| as to communicate with ocean on the
| opposite side of the earth, and the an
| clients of the most European countries
had an idea that it was in some mys-
| terious way connected with the waters
| of the Gulf of Bothnia. According to
the popular accounts published and firms
ly believed down to the. middle of the
l no ma 81 ct " q
| most startling and gigantic of natures
| curiosities. Its mighty whirling current,
it was said, was powerful enough to
| draw within it's influence whatever ap-
| preached within a distance of several
miles of its vortex. Immense trees, lum-
Der RATS, bears, ships, whales, etc, were
| drawn in as though they were. sUaws
and ground to pieces by the whirling,
| seething waters miles beneath the sur
face What has become of this terror of
| the ocean? We never hear 1t mentioned
| nowadays, and the very existence of
even a rough piece of sea in the region
in which the maelstrom was formerly 10
Gated is denied by the very best author
| tiles on ocean tides, currents, etc. Its
| existence was first questioned, l believe,
by Bayard Taylor, in a letter 70 the New
York Tribune, on Oct 8, 1851. A few
/ days before the letter was written Tay-
| lor sailed over the spot where the whirl
was generally located without noticing
| ANYTHING out of the ordinary. During the
same year QS5O w. NJ. Williams, in
| lecture on Norway, delivered in Birming-
| ham, England, declared tnat. no Sucn
| a whirlpool had ever existed. Household
| Words, in an article entitled Fiction
| Smashing Jan. a. 1857. says that the
| maelstrom has been RELOCATED to the
| land of myth. What do readers of Notes
for the Curious know about the great
whirlpool"
| According to DR.. Dupont, physician OF
| Paris, writing in the Annales d'Hygiene
| Publique, a safe and effective method of
| purifying water by chemical action has
| been discovered. DIR. Dupont notes that
| hitherto the methods of purifying drink
| ing water have been by filtration and by
the action of heat. Filtration Is the oldest
| and least effective method. Even
| filtration through porous porcelain,
| the most effective substance known,
cannot always be trusted, especially
| after the apparatus has been
long in use. DR.. Dupont does not assert
! that boiling fails to destroy noxious germs,
| but he says that it often leaves in the
| water organic matter thar might be dan
| gerous to health, and that boiling makes
water less digestible by robbing it of its
| gases. He Instances a case in which
( water from the Seine has found after
| boiling to contain more microbes than be-
fore NJ Girard. director of the Munic.-
| pal Laboratory of Paris, and DR.. Bordas,
| a pupil of Prof. Brouardel, have recently
| presented TO the Academy of Sciences,
| through the chemist Friedel a commune