The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-01
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the Basque Hnkoa, which is a contraction
OF Iangolka- meaning God"
How i'll luck will sometimes follow a
sea captain. says the New York Tribune. is
shown by the wreck Of the schooner Will
lam Wilson, which was run down and
sunk by q barge in tow Of a tug one
night a week or so ago. while she was
at anchor between the Handkerchief and
Shoveiful ShOal lightships, of Nantucket,
although her lights We're burning and she
was not in the regular track of vessels.
II was the first trip Of Capt. Clayton in
the Wilson, he having only a few weeks
DeIOre lost the schooner Nellie Clark on
Grand Manan. at the entrance TO the Bay
Of Fundy. The schooner NJ. J. Chadwick
ran into the sunken vessel on the next
night and tore the masts out of her.
Difficulty has been experienced on the
| Union Pacific telegraph system in work
| ing the wires between Weber and Peter
son, Utah, says the Electric Review. The
/ point Is in Weber Canyon, about fifteen
/ miles from Ogden, and covers about ten
/ miles OF wires. From accounts which have
reached superintendent korty II appears
| tnat on the night of Jan. !, deposit OF
| what has since been found to be salt fell
/ upon the cross arms of the telegraph poles
| ana the wires. Since Jan. ], 1t has been
/ tween about 10 a. m, and 10 p. m. Men
/ We're sent out along the line to knock of
/ the deposit, but on the following day the
/ wires were found in the same condition.
| Torches have been tried. but without eff
/ feet Recently Superintendent Korty in
! structed his men to take an engine out of
| Ogden loaded with water and to play with
/ hose upon the poles and wires. The only
! explanation that Mr.: korty can give for
| the phenomenon is that the salt is raised
| from Salt Lake, forty miles west, in the
| form of mist and is carried east, where
II condenses on the wires.
Though it is generally assumed that
| oak is the wood capable of being put to
the greatest variety of uses. says the New
| York sun, it is known, as matter of fact,
| that the pine is really the most used, on
! account of its great abundance; never
/ theless, the timber of the oak combines
| in itself the essential elements of strength
| and durability, hardness and elasticity, in
/ degree which no other tree can boast
| unrivalled as material for shipbuilding,
| also superior in architecture cabinet max
| ing, carving, mill work, cooperage, anG
| innumerable other purposes, while the
! bark is of great value as furnishing tan
! ana yielding a bitter extract in continual
| demand for medicinal purposes. But of
uses for the pine, details would be we'll
| nigh endless. The timber is invaluable
| in house and ship carpentry; common
| turpentine is extracted from it in vast
quantities, and immense supplies of tar,
| pitch, rosin and lampblack; in the manu-
| facture of lucifer matches and. above
| all, paper pulp, thousands and tens OF
| thousands of acres of pine forests are
| cut down evey year, and, briefly, the tim
| her Of this tree constituting as il does, the
| chief material of English and American
| builders, may be said TO be more used
So closely does the cunning of the
wolves and coyotes keep pace with the
| schemes of the stockmen in the west saws
| the New York Sun. that the prospect of
ever getting thoroughly rid of the pests
| seems as poor as ever, and the stockmen
| are almost in despair. Poisoned bait the
| animals have laughed at for years, and no
| matter how skillfully prepared it rarely
| causes the death of even a baby wolf now
| traps nave proved equally useless. Hunt
| ing with dogs was slightly successful last
| season, but most of the hounds have been
| killed By the wolves Shooting is the only
| sure way of killing the beasts, but it is
| very hard to get near enough for this.
| Roundup hunts are also effective, but are
hard to organize The latest scheme to
| nave success, that doubtless will prove
brief, is to fish for the animals. Stout
fish hook is baited with some tempting
| morse beyond suspicion even by a wolf or
coyote. To the hook is attached strong
copper wire, which is then hidden in the
grass, and to its further end stout an
Choir is fastened. The anchor is not TOO
| heavy for the wolf to move but is TOO
heavy to be hauled far This scheme has
proved very successful. The wolf swal-
lows the bait, and what follows can be
imagined. Next day a cowboy rides over
the range and shoots the anchored ami
mails.
BY far the most remarkable pilgrimage
ever observed among the lower animals
was that witnessed in Norway, not once,
but several times within this century. A
party of fishermen upon one occasion
were encamped upon the borders of a
small ford, and were mending their nets,
Mnen they observed a, NUMBER OF lem
mings-a little animal allied to the beavers
coming out of the wood that skirted the
shore. At first, seeing the men, they ran
back; then others appeared and more.
until hundreds were upon the beach. AS
the day passed the numbers continually
increased, until before night the camp of
the men was alive with the little crea-
lures that now began to take to the water
Thousands came pouring from the woods
in the ensuing few days, followed by hawks
and other predatory animals that feed
upon them. They passed on into the wa
ter, swimming over it, scores being drown
ed during the passage, the rest reaching
the woods, impelled by the strange in
stinct. 1t is said that nothing deters these
pilgrims but a stone wall. which they can
not scale. Piles of grain and fodder they
have been known to tunnel through their.
instinct being to move ahead in a given
line. The fishes make remarkable pilgrim
ages from one shore to another, and in
such vast bodies as to defy description
The Automobile Club of Paris have ar
ranged race, which is to take place in
June, the course being from Paris to Mar
settles and return, says the Scientific
| American One of the conditions laid down
for the race is that the contestants are
| to proceed only in the daytime. The car
| riages are to be divided into two classes
| the first having two to four places and
| the second series is for carriages having
greater passenger accommodation This
club has decided to secure a villa in the
Bots du Boulogne, Paris, as a branch of
the Automobile Club for use during the
summer. A gentleman was recently sum
moned in England for using horseless
carriage without causing a person to pre-
cede it with a flag. 1t was commended for
the defense that the carriage was not a
locomotive, but the presiding magistrate
considered, that the apparatus could be
converted into a locomotive, as it was ca
pable of drawing another vehicle. The
magistrates decided that the motorcycle
was locomotive but as this was the first
fine of one shilling and costs. The LAWYER
for the defendant says that a special act
of parliament will be required to render
the use of such vehicles legal NJ Roger
the inventor and MANUFACTURER of uatomo-
bile carriages, has made application to the
police authorities of Paris for permits to
run a number of horseless carriages on the
streets, for hire at the regular legal rate
of 30 cents drive or 40 cents an hour when
hired on the street; when hired from a