The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-07
ITEMS OF interest,".

I Theresa thaler. The new silver coin Is
7 or the same value. and bears on one side
/ the tiara. with me Ieeend ..sTeneIik IL
I King of Kings Of ETHIOPIA" On the
other side side is the figure Of a crowned
I non holding a cross IN his paw, with the
/ Inscription "COnqueriug Lion OF the Tribe
I Of Judah" as Menelik asserts that Abys-
[ sinia is the Sheba Of the Bible, and that
| he himself is descended from King Solo
mon and the Queen Of Sheba on the
rim Of the coin is inscribed, Ethiopia
Lifts Her Hand TO God Alone" The de-
sign was made by Larrange, OF the Paris
mint. There are also two other coins for
small change.
1T catches them every time" said
/ Philadelphia printer the other DAY, who
keeps a COPY of "Burke's Peerage in his
Office. Jones. who. we viii say, keeps
little hat store up on Columbia avenue,
comes in here and wants me to get him up
some tasty design. trademark, that he
can place upon his goods When i snow
him our regular stock Of designs for such
/ d purpose, the chances are that he VIII
turn up his nose at them. Then / take
down 9Burke's Peerage' and turn to the
proud name Of Jones, where all the crests
of that illustrtous family are duly pictured
forth, with their notices and all the
record of their nobility. Jones is fasci-
mated, and Immediately imagines that he
is in some way connected with some fine
old English family. He picks out the
crest that most pleases his eye, and some
time after il rcappears on his hats in Col
umbia avenue. II is great scheme. as
sue gOAAs dilA i treasure NY AfAA nc
/ Peerage' as a really valuable asset"
Most wild animals are much more local
in their habits than We Imagine; this IS.
| they become attached to some especial
small range of country. to which they
connne themselves at certain seasons of
the year. We can see the same thing in
our domestic stock on the range, says
writer in Harpers Weekly. y bunch OF
/ horses viii live for months in some little
set of ravines, feeding over the same
ground day in and day out, until some
change in the weather leads them to move
/ TO another locality. The same Is true OF
/ range cattle, though they wander more
] than horses. Though all species of our
western wild game wholly change their
/ range in spring and autumn, yet after
! they have settled down on their summer or
/ winter ranges, the area that they cover in
/ their daily wanderings is not extensive.
/ AT certain hours of the day they go to
4 water; at a particular time they will be
1 found lying down. usually in the same
/ place, or feeding in the same neighbor-
/ hood. The hunter established in one To-
/ cality, who is fairly ObserVant, who has
/ time TO familiarize himself with particu-
/ lar range of country and its wild nhabi-
1 tdnts, ana who does not wantOnly disturb
/ them, viii learn after a time just where
/ 10 look for small groups of the various
! species. On a horse ranch. where, in the
/ past, have spent much time. / came to
/ know exactly where to go if I wished TO
/ find two or three little companies of mule
/ deer or of antelope. and at last believed
tndt l coulu recognize the different ind1-
Viduals of the various groups. In the same
way l know certain valleys, plateaus or
/ ridges where / can be quite sure of finding
/ a little bunch of mountain sheep, known
/ TO be the same by the number and ages
/ of its members. I have watched for sew.
/ eral successive days the same family of
/ white goats feeding on the mountain sides
/ above my camps, and can 20 to certain
/ rough slopes of slide rock and precipice
/ where these animals are always to be
found. That elk and moose have essen
/ TALLY the same habit I have no doubt, al
ttn0qugh 1 nave not been able to verify my
! belet by observation in the case of these
/ species. Inc caribou is said to be more
] OF a wanderer. In the National Park there
are beheVed to be now about 200 buffalo
/ l0VO TO ZOU0 elk, 500 antelope and an I'M
known number of moose deer mountain
sheep, and bears. But there Is no reason
why there should not be many other such
! preceding centers, where big game should
! be preserved and very greatly Increase.
"Apropos of the Atlantic tidal wave of
/ last Friday said an ancient mariner to
/ Chicago Tribune writer IAN account of
/ one nearer home might be of interest at
ms lme. IL isn't necessary to have an
| ocean OF water to produce one of these
/ waves by long odds Old Lake Michigan
| could get up "A prime article in that line
/ and show Chicago a few things hereto
| fore unthought of. All that would be nee
essary would be an earthquake IN the
| axe and there would be from six to ten
| Ieet OF water here in no time. The story
! that l started to tell you has an earth
/ quake as the prime cause. tidal wave as
! an immediate effect, and ruined town
/ as the result. New Madrid. Mo. was. de-
i stroyed by the Great Shake as it is
! called in the year 1911. The whole Mis-
sisslPpi Valey was atected. The center
| OF violence was at Little Prairie. near
! New Madrid. The vibrations ere felt
| over the Ohio valley as high up as Pitts
! burg. New Madrid suffered more than
| any other town on tba NIiseissiyr,i '' a
| that time Indians were dangerous, an
! the persons engaged in carrying produc
| in boats to New Orleans kept in company
! Tor mutual defense. In the middle of the
| night of Dec. 16 there was a terrible
shock and Earring of the boats. so that
| the crews were all awakened and hur-
! ried on deck, thinking of an Indian at
! tack. The noise and commotion were
DREADFUL but soon stopped In the morn
ing loud roaring and kissing We're heard
and there was tremendous boiling up
| of the waters of the Mississippi in huge
| swells. tossing the boats about so vio-
lently that the men were thrown about
on the decks. The water of the river
| changed to a. reddish hue. then became
! black with mud thrown UP from the bot
| tom, while the surface. dashed by the agi-
| tation of the earth beneath, was COW
| cred with foam, which gathering into
! masses about the size of a barrel fioated
| along on the trembling surface. The
| earth opened in wide assures, and closing
| again. threw the water. sand and mud
in huge jets higher than the tops of the
trees. The atmosphere was filled with
| thick Vapor of gas At New Madrid
several boats We're carried by the great
waves on to the bank of the river just
| above the town, and were left high and
dry a considerable distance from the
water. Many boats were wrecked on the
! snagS, while others were sunk or
| stranded on the sandbars and islands
| The scenes for several days during the
| repeated shocks were horrible. The sui
/ phurated gases discharged tainted the
| air with noXiOus efiluvia, and so strongly
impregnated the water of the river for
/ $50 miles below that it could hardly be
| used for any purpose for many days
| New Madrid, which stood on bluff
twenty feet above the summer floods,
sunk so low that the next rise covered
it to a depth Of five feet. The bottoms of
! several lakes in the vicinity were ele-
waited, and have since been planted with
corn. People lived along the river in
those days more than in the country, so
| the big water disturbance did probably
more damage than the shakes where
there was no water. So you can easily
see how there can be tidal wave with
| out an ocean of water. And that we may
! have one of our own some day. When
| it comes it should be a good one, so
! those eastern people will be satisfied we