The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-07
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memoration OF the China-Japanese war.
and the new issue will appear in June
next
As showing how diseases IS spread in
India, recently at Howrah railway sta
ton an Indian named Singh was arrested.
having brought his child. aged 8 years,
sluerlng with smallpox, for the purpose
OF proceeding by train 10 his native WI
LACE The offender was taken before the
civil surgeon, who had the child removed
TO the hospital
in the NAL delivered at his West Phil
adelphia residence the other day. says the
Philadelphia Ledger William May. the
well known ship chandler, discovered a
most remarkable document. II was an in
vitation 10 his own wedding, which oc-
CURED in 1867, and where the missive has
been during the intervening tWenty-nine
years a matter of no little mystery II
was address to a friend of former years,
VINO then resided at No 333 Wharton
street Considering its age the envelope
is in a very good state of preservation,
although completely covered with hero
invitation card, while yellow with age.
gives little evidence of its twenty-nine
years of strange existence
When a cross-cut saw is operated by
hand, says the New York Tribune, it is
customary TO put a man at each end, and
they pull on il alternately. But when one
man tries TO manage is alone he has trou-
BILE The farther end sWayS incOnVenient-
ly. There isn't quite enough downward
pressure 10 make a good cut And when
the blade is pushed away from the opera
tor II is liable 10 bend, or buckle" Bus
y. Bliss of Sorrento Fla, claims that he
has found a way of overcoming these diff
cultles. On the further side of the log
which is 10 be cut he says, he drives a
stake into the ground, and attaches there
to a stout cord and a coil spring. This
takes the place of the other man and pulls
tine saw back every time. Mr.. Bliss does
not say how long a spring is necessary to
give a play for four or five feet, but he
says that he allows for "a tension of
about flVe pounds, and an elongation equal
70 the length of the stroke" AS the core
Whlch holds the spring is fastened TO
the stake close to the ground there IL
slight downward strain on that end Of
the saw.
"A baggage car exclusively for bicy-
cles is a novelty of the near future,
believe" remarked H. r. Alvord, a trav-
cling salesman of New York. to the Wash
ington Times. 1t is going to be a neces-
SHY Tor every road running suburban
trains from the great cities. Though the
courts have declared that bicycles are
vehicles, the legislature of our own and
some other states have already passed a
law compelling the railroads to check them
and carry them free. as baggage. The
most important question to the wheel
man. for few Of them would mind pay
ing a small fee to have their wheels trans
ported, is whether the company will as
sumo the responsibility for the safety of
the wheels and deliver them IN the same
condition they were in when put on the
car This has never been fully determin-
ed. II is hard TO prevent an occasional
injury under the present arrangement.
and, as ] said before, a special car Will
have to be built very soon. They have
them i'm France, where the wheels are
hung on racks about the car. and are
thus protected, and space is also econo-
mixed"
The numerous rollers now used in
printing calicos and Wallpapers are like
" to be rendered superfiuous by a new
system introduced in England whereby
the work Is apparently done with one CYL
inder, no matter how many tints are en-
ployed. IL seems probable that a different
class or pigments are used, in order to
Keep one color from running into another
But the especially novel feature of the
plan is the method of preparing the cyl
inder. In the old system this is of metal
ana mas the pattern in relief. and the
mordant Cor COLOR is applied to it by a
roller, parallel and in contact with it,
This second roller derives a coating OF
thick, pasty dyestuff from a suitable
trough in which il is partially immersed
very much after the manner of taking
INK IN newspaper press. But in the new
English process, which was invented by
w. G.. White, the printing cylinder, at
least its outermost layer, is composed
of soft, WaXy material. and the color
IS put on to it in a very different way.
Inc process is said to be somewhat eX-
pcnsiVe, but it may work q great change
in several industries.
The St Petersburg Gazette says Rus
STA has the Oldest man on earth. Its
Moscow correspondent tells of him thus
There appeared this week in the office
of the police surgeon an aged man who
wished TO have his injured hand bandaged
The surgeon bound up the wound and
He
learned eventually. from documentary evil
dence, that the man was born in 1851 dur
ing the reign of the Empress Elizabeth
and therefore is 139 years old. The old
man, whose name is Kusmin, said he was
a native of Moscow, and from his TWEEN
tieth TO his eighty-siXth year, had been a
c0achman. In his eighty-siXth year how
ever, he had upset his master a count
and the counts brother, had hurt both
seriously and had been sent to Siberia
where he had lived until 1898 In That wear
he decided to return home and arrived in
Moscow in 1894 He at once started for
kief on pilgrimage from which he had
just come back. He was much grieyed
to f1nd that all the friends of his youth
were dead. Kusmin's eyesight is I'M
dimmed, his hearing is good, and he is a
shown Up to his 18th year he has never
tasted whisky, but now he allows himself
an occasional drink
The Emperor of Germany has received
recently so many letters from children
begging Tor presents OF various kinds that
he has issued. through the minister of
instruction, an order TO the public school
teachers to discourage the writing of
such letters by pupils, except in cases
of necessity, says the New York Tribune
In one mail a few days ago. his majesty
received four letters from Berlin school
children. One wished a new violin to take
the place of her old one, two desired
sewing machines and a fourth asked
the dear Herr Kaiser" to give her 20 cents
to buy coal. His majesty sent one of his
officers TO see the various families before
answering the requests. The child who
wished money for coal was found to be
the daughter of a widow who had little
or nothing. A large load of coal was
sent to her, as well as a present in
money. The musical child was ordered
to professor who was to give her les
sons. and, if she showed talent, she was
to receive the new violin. One of the
children who asked for the sewing ma
chine was found to belong TO a well-to-do
family. She was told not to repeat her
offense. The other little one, however. re-
ceived promise of a sewing machine on
condition that, when she finished her
schooling, her record proved her to be
deserving of present from her emperor.
William II might deplete his purse if he
undertook to reward all petitioners as Ilb-
orally as these three.