The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-25
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pleasure. Now he has a park Of fifty-five
acres, and ships quantities OF deer and elk
10 al parts OF the United States and Eu-
rope.
Owing to the Increase Of cholera in
Egypt the prefecture Of STEAMBOAT has or
dered that all the khans. inns. and other
establishments in which pilgrims return
porariiy lodged, be disinfected and kept
in proper state of cleanliness. Moreover,
arrangements have been made TO prevent
overcroWding in these places.
"A good joke is going the rounds in
England concerning the EisteddfOd .n
the Rhondda Valley last week. The con-
test was for the best singing by men Of
over 60 Of a Welsh hymn; and the judge.
hndlng three competitors practically
equal directed that the prize should be
divided. II was then discovered that the
prize offered was new pair of trousers.
In the scutfie the garment might have
been parted among them had not the
manufacture, doubtless grieved that
work OF art should be thus treated, pur-
chased back his goods for sovereign
Says revenue agent, according TO the
New York Post: There is a great popu-
lar misunderstanding about moonshine
whisky. II is nothing but raw highwine
the crudest kind of whisky-and most of
IL IS made right in the big cities. You
take barrel of molasses, some yeast and
a still, such as many people uses for dis
filling water, or even less than that, you
can let the Vapor pass through a glass
pipe covered with cold water, and you
can make all the mOonsh,ne you want.
The foreigners in New York city make
thousands of gallons of II for private use
in this way. All whisky is white as
water when il is first made If kept in
glass 1t remains white for years, as you
see in the case of Irish and Scotch
whisky. Put into wood It will in time
uarken. a 10 al l.
Moonshine is usually white, because not
kept long enough to darken, or, If kept,
being usually stored in bottles or jugs"
in the management of rapidly moving
machinery, says an exchange, a musical
ear, which quickly detects variation of
pitch, and, therefore, of speed-for the
pitch Of the sound depends on the speed
is of considerable use. A farmer with a
good ear can detect at once If the thrash
ing machine is improperly fed" for its
speed increases and the sound II emits is
Of higher pitch when an insufficient
amount of corn is supplied and in the
same way the electrician can tell if an
electric motor is running al it's due speed.
With musical ear the physician more
readily interprets the sounds elected by
percussing the chest, and the potter more
easily separates the sound from the un-
sound. 1t is a moot point whether the
musical are naturally the better readers
and speakers, but there is no doubt that
elocutiCn, for they can appreciate the
pitch OF their own voices and SO correct
Their errors. a good ear includes an acute
appreciation of time and rythm.
Probably the oldest restaurant in Lon
don, says the Home Journal, is Crosby
hail, in Bishopgate street, in the city.
This was built more than 800 years ago,
was once the palace of Richard III, and
afterward the residence of Sir Thomas
More. 1t was in this building that
Shakespeare laid the scene of Richards
plots for the murder of the young princes.
The structure was injured by fire, fell
into decay and in 1888 was restored.
one tumbles up the narrow winding
stairs, having below the modern restau-
rant, passes through low doorWays that
show walls three feet in thickness ana
enters the hall-a great room lighted by
high windows and n beautiful Oriel. In
the restoration the old features have been
retained, and at one end is the minstrel 8
| gallery, looking down on more prosaic
| scenes than it once witnessed. The
| white-capped cook stands at the hugh
| fire piece, now converted into a grill,
and the chops and potatoes come smoking
| to your table Pretty Mattresses wish
| to know if you don't want pint Of the
| famous "'arf and 'arf," and the way
| farer is wise if he accepts the hint. his
| would-seem a fitting place to sit and muse
| in a Johnsonian fashion on the variety
| of human life; but there is little seclusion
/ about the spot to-day, for bankers from
| cussing trade and securities in this room,
| which has known the presence of Sir
| Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson; a room
| where II requires no vivid imagination to
| fancy the Countess of Pembroke reading
| the. famous sonnet that Spencer wrote
| in her honor.
| Tho first authentic instance Of a man
| flying, says the Chicago Record, seems to
be that Of a Saracen, whose name has not
been handed down, who, in the presence
| of large assembly at Constantipople, in
! IT'S, took short aerial journey in a ma
| chine, but ended by falling and receiving.
! severe injuries. Toward the end of the
| fourteenth century mathematician bedr
| ing the name of Dante succeeded in soar
| ing over Lake Trasimene, but on a sub
| sequent occasion fell in the public square
| of Perugia and broke his leg. Paul Gut
| dotti, an artist, born in 1859 constructed
/ a pair of artificial wings which enabled
| him to soar with some success, but ulti-
| mately he also fell and broke his leg. In
| 1868 a Spanish peasant named Orujo in
vented an apparatus with wings which
| carried him along in a gale of wind, like
| a huge grasshopper, with considerable
velocity. In 1867 Capt. LIE Bris, a French
| sailor, obtained a certain success with
| flying apparatus, but, like all his prede-
| cessors, he finished up by injuring him
| self. At the present moment there are a
number of enthusiastic aeronauts quietly
| fiying in various parts of the world-Eng-
! land, Germany, France and the United
oldleS. IN france experts are occupied
| mainly with the problem of navigable
| balloons and il is to Germany we must
! go to find the best example of a natural
| flyer. This is the famous Herr Lilienthal
| a manufacturer of steam engines in Ber-
4 lin, who has betaken himself to his hob
| by of flying with true Teutonic thorough
ness. Herr Lilienthal initiates the butter
| fly His wings are genuine wings, made
! by stretching a kind of light calico over
| bamboo framework. His arms are in
| serted into a couple of leather collars and
| he grasps a horizontal bamboo stick on
| the frame with his hands. His legs hang
| and he moves them slowly and gracefully
! to secure a proper balance. An enthusi-
! astic flyer in England has wings curved
| like those of locust. They are made of
light calico stretched over a light wooden
! framework and guyed and held with
| piano-Wires. This experimenter is especi-
| ally fond of smooth, grassy hill near his
| home, where, after a little run from the
| summit, he spreads his sails and floats the
! rest of the way down. One great source
| of trouble to him is the inclination of his
| eighty-pound machine to fly close to the
ground, which necessitates his running
rapidly at times to keep up with his wings.