The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-27
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but he told a reporter at Bombay that he
1elt ten years younger than when he sail
ed for the Orient.
The oldest inhabitants OF the state of
Indiana are Alexander Ferguson. and his
sister, of Frankton. He is one hundred
and eight and his sister one hundred and
seven Ferguson worked on his farm un-
I'll he was over a hundred years of age.
He now walks more than two miles every
day He and his sister are both in excel
lent health.
The bicycle, according to the Medical
Times. is a remedy for sleepIessness.
more potent than narcotic or hypnotics,
and followed by no unpleasant after-ef-
fects. A spin on the bicycle in the even
ing or the afternoon will do more TO pro-
mote digestion. regulate the circulation
quiet the brain, and get the whole sys-
TEN into that harmonious condition called
health than any amount of drugs. unless
there should be some positive lesion re-
quiring local or general medication of a
more specific character"
The University Press at oxford is not
only one of the most remarkable printing
establishments in the world, but also one
OF the Oldest, says the Boston Traveller.
1t makes its own type and its own ink
burns its own charcoal for making the
ink, makes its own paper, and so on. The
famous Oxford India paper is a marvel
OF compression and strength. and the Sc
cret of its manufacture is known only to
three persons. From no printing press in
me the world are so many-l,O0O.O00 of each
Bibles and prayer-books issued annually
and types are set uD in 3l9 foreign lam
guages and dialects.
The Dial says: 1.-The following SEN
tencet from Paul Bourgeois new novel.
a Tragic Idyl.' might fairly be describ-
ed as a specimen of rainbow rhetoric She
had come, so beautiful, so slender, all
IN mauVe along her pathway lined with
blue cinerarias, yellow pansies and large
violet anemones. Rose-bushes close at
hand hlled the air with an aroma like the
aroma OF the present. And, both seated
on the white heather under the black
pines with their red trunks, which de-
scend toward little creek of blue water
ana gray rocks. he had laid his head on
the heart of his dear companion "
Figaro tells an amusing story about
NJ. Ricard, the minister of Justice. Some
time ago he bought two launches of kan
CARGO at shop where frozen meats from
Australia are sold. He had them served "a
la sauce poivade:" His guests, who were
curious to try this plat exotique" found
II anything but suited to their taste The
kangaroo had most peculiar flavor NJ
PICARD was naturally much vexed. He
asked him to taste the remains of the
dish 1t was then discovered that the
launches had been cooked in lamp oil in
stead of olive oil, but it is not known
who made this substitution in the minis
ter's cuisine.
yellow pine, according to the Railway
Review, holds nails with peculitr tenacity.
when once nail is driven into yellow
pine board it is held without any show
OF loosenlng, no matter how much the
structure is shaken by wind or the
amount of vibration there is from any
cause. On this account it makes excel
lent material for car-building or box-paii-
ing, IN which resistance to perturbation
shaking, or knocking about are important
requisites. Heart yellow pine reSists de-
cay many years; in fact it can be called
0n-TO a oil Cd 20
yellow pine shingles stay there, because
the wood hugs the nails as tightly as If
they were driven through a leaden plate"
The Worcester Gazette tells this story
on the authority of John E. Russell, whose
father was a manufacturer of cutlery:
Having occasion to travel on the Missis-
Slppl river occasionally, the latter became
very well acquainted with the captain of
one of the steamers. One day the cap
tain asked Mr. Russell if he would make
a knife for him. why yes; what kind
of a knife?" was the answer. II want a
good stout handle with a spring i'm it, so
the blade won give, explained the cap
tain. I'D little rather nave the blade
ground on both edges. And don't want
one of those cross pieces or guards or
whatever they call them. / want a knife
L can stick into man and twist it, and
when | pull it out 1t won't catch on his
blamed gallusses."
Baron Jordis, the principal breeder of
st. Bernard dogs in Austria, publishes
a letter from the prior of st. Bernard
Hospice on the subject of the present
value OF these dogs. You ask me wheth-
er IN the present day our hounds
render the same service to travellers as
are usually aScribed to them writes the
prior. Certainly they do. They in no way
belle their past. In winter they are abso-
lutely indispensable to us. not only be-
cause they stil find wanderers buried in
the snow, but because they are the only
guides who can lead US safely along the
proper track in the wild mountain snow
storms. The only difference is that they
do not now carry a basket or flask fasten-
ed TO their necks; these are borne by one
OF the brothers of the Hospice.
-Casimir Felix Badeni, the present pre-
mier of Austria, is the son of cook His
father, who was the chef of one of the
last kings of Poland was created a count
Then his aunt, the famous German ac-
tress, Anna Wierer, left him the half of
her large fortune. In 1871 he became dis
trict chief of Zolkiew, and two years Ia
ter entered the ministry of the interior
For time he was attached to the ad-
mnlStration of the Statthalter in Galicia
but he retired from his office to care for
a large estate that had been intrusted to
his management upon the. death of his
rather. In 1883 he was made governor of
Galicia, an office he held until he was re-
Gently appointed prime minister of Aus
tria by the Emperor Franz Joseph He is
said to be worth about $500. 600 but his
younger brother, who has succeeded him
as governor of Galicia, has been far more
COHSSINdliNe III MS expenditure, and is
credited with being the possessor of a
much larger income.
AN infinitesimal force manifests it.
self in the spreading of drop of oil over
the surface of WATER saws the Railway,
Review. Jan. Is. "A. film 1870 milliontS
of an inch in thickness produces marked
results, and yet to cover the whole las
acres of painted surface of the Forth
bridge with coat of that thickness
would require less than pint of oil II
would appear inconceivable that such a
membrane could in any way affect the
ocean in a storm, yet when, in the winter
of 1881, Admiral Cuverville's ship, the Nal
ade, was caught in cyclone in the North
Atlantic, and a greasy touch was given
to the waters by rigging out two coal
sacks, each filled with about eleven
pounds of tow and one gallon of COLI.
oil, which latter required renewal only
every six hours, the scientific and trained
observers on board the. French warship
reported the result to be a remarkabie
practical success. the oil taking effect I'M
on the dangerous breakers due to hori-
zontal translation produced by the wind.
but, Of course, leaving the swell unaf-