The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-24
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the young couples OF West Chester who
/ have been married a year and who have
the conscience 10 swear that not once dur
ing the year have they quarreled or spOk-
en- cross words. The judges Of marital fe-
/ hcity were six bachelors and six spinis-
| Iers.
The people at Palmer. Mass. have
been in the habit Of jumping on the hook
| and ladder whenever it was started for
| d fire No objection was made TO this
| practice because no bad result has ac-
I companied IL. Recently. however. so
/ many persons jumped on the truck that
| their weigh was sufficient TO break the
| rear axle on the wagon before il had
/ gone many rods from the house. and now
none but firemen are allowed to ride on
it.
Mountain climbers will be interested
to read OF the successful experiments Of
! DR.. Berson Of Stassfurt, who, by means
/ OF bottled breath" has been enabled to
/ ascend TO great nights, both on land and
/ in balloon The doctor, when endeav0r-
! ing 10 get further above the level of the
| sea than anyone else has ever climbed or
/ flown, carries along a cylinder of com
| pressed oxygen. Whenever he experiences
/ discomfort on account Of the rarity of me
/ atmosphere a few whiffs from the cylin~
| der suftices TO restore him. DR.. Berson,
| by means of this device, recently ascend
| ed 10 an altitude of 81 800 feet, which Is
| 200 feet higher than the summit or
Mount Everset
In 1911 Sir ]. Throckmartin, a Berk-
| shire baronet says an exchange, offered
/ to lay a wager of 1000 guineas TO the fol-
/ lowing effect: That on a particular even
/ ing at O'Clock, he would sit down to din
ner in a well-woven, well-dyed, well-made
| SUIT, the wool OF which formed the fleece
| on the Sleeps backs at o'clock on that
| same morning. 1t is no wonder that
among class Of persons accustomed to
| Dettlng such a wager should be eagerly
! accepted, seeing that the achievement of
| the challenged result appeared all but i'm
| possible. Mr.. COxetter of Greenham mills
| at NeWbury, was entrusted with the work.
| At in the morning on the 18th of June
/ he caused two down sheep to be shOrn
The wool was washed, carded slubbed.
! roVed, spun and woven; the cloth was
| secured pulled, tented raised, sheared,
| dyed, and dressed; the tailor was at hand
| and made up the finished cloth into gar
/ ments; and at a quarter past in the
\ evening Sir John sat down to dinner at
| the head of his guests in a complete dam
| son-colored suit that had been thus made
/ winning the wager with an hour and
| three-quarters TO spare. OF course, every
| possible preparation was made before
! hand; but still the achievement was sufi-
| GENTLY remarkable. and was long talked
/ OF with pride among the clOthiers.
| Prof. Price. in the Sunday School
Times, says: We are certain that writ
ing was not invented in the time of David
| ana solomon; that ii had been in use
| thousands of years before Joshua inscri5-
| ed the commandments in clay upon the al
| tar at Shechem; that Moses was reared
| in literary court. surrounded by an ed
| ucated priesthood who were in possession
| OF remarkable literary products of an older
| time. that, in the fifteen and sixteenth
centuries, b. c., Asia and Africa carried
| on extensive literary COrresp Ondence by
| means of the cuneform writings of Baby
| lonia. We know also that Egypt has left
| us writings from the fourth dynasty a
| date more than 1000 3. c. The illiterate
| argument has gone to pieces in the face
| of such facts. Literature has fiourished
| in the earth for more than 5000 years
| Writings was not unknown among civil
| lied people after 5000 3. c., Israel not
able to produce such literature as the
| Old Testament contains until very late
| in history! David wrote no psalms be-
| cause that age could not have produced
| such masterpieces as are attributed TO
| him CCheyne). Only a blindfoded critic
| could make such an assertion. >
! The indications are that we must very soon
| reverse the scale and see how far back
| we can locate the composition of the Old
| Testament books rather than how far
down in the Maccabean period.
1t is difficult to realize, says Good
| Roads, that prior to B. c. 200 there We're
no true coins, that ignots or buttons of
| gold and silver were weighed at every
| mercantile transaction. The Lydians
Of Asio Minor are credited with having
| been the first to cast and stamp with an
official device small oval gold ignots of
DEFINITE fixed weight, an invention strange
| ly delayed, but of inestimable importance
| to industry and comemrce. A coin has
been described as "a piece of metal of
nXed weight, stamped by authority of
! government, and employed as a medium
| Of exchange" Medals though struck by
| authority, are only historical records and
nave no currency value The bright
in Fpl1 Of -
| import of the Lydian invention and adopt
| ed 1t quickly, and every Greek state
| nearly every city, island and colony es-
tabllShed a mint, generally at some one
| types are religious in character They
pear symbols of some god, as a pledge of
| good falth. The offerings. tithes and
! rents of the WorShipers We're coined and
| circulated as money Temples thus be-
| come both minis and banks Our word
| money is said to have been derived
from the Roman shrine of Juno ''Moneta, 3"
the earliest Latin mint. The first shape
or these early coins was that of an en-
| Iarged coffeeberry, punched on the round
| ed side with official letters, or sinkings
as they are called.
In dwelling upon the wonderful power
of modern guns, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, Albert Matthews gives ilustra-
tons from the recent Chilean civil war
| showing the effectiveness of the smaller
4
! weighing go pounds from an eight-inch
| gun of Fort Naldivia, in Valparaiso har-
! Dor, struck the cruiser Blanco Encalada
! above the armor belt passed through the
! captains cabin, took the pillow from I'M
| der his head, dropped his head on the mat
tress with thump, but without injuring
| a halr, passed through the open door into
| the mess room, where it struck the floor
! and then glanced to the ceiling. Then it
went through wooden bulkhead an inrb
| thlck INTO room % by AZ feet, where for
| ~ men Were sleeping in hammocks. 1t
| killed six & them outright and wounded
! SIX others, three of whom died after
which It passed through a steel bulkhead
| i've inches thick, and ended its course nv
striking a battery outside. in which 4
made a dent nearly two inches deep. If
| was f1lled with sand. Had it reIea seJ
| deadly gases no one knows what damage
It might have done. A 450-pound missile
from ten-inch gun in the same fori
| struck the same vessel on its eig11f-incb
armor 1t nit squarely on a bolt. The
| shell did not pierce the armor. buf btlrs4
| outside the vessel 1t drove the bolt T-ight
through, and in its flight the bolt strTciS
! an eight-inch gun, completely dfsablinr II
| Such IS the power of the small sized p-7,ns 80