The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-21
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other day. II had short legs, set far
back, and webbed feet, like a duck II was
shaped like a duck, had beak ike
crow, and was larger than a partridge.
The head and back were black and all
the rest of the body was pure white
A well known bank cashier was talking
the other day about the possibilities of
occasion to remark that a much cleaner
lot Of paper money was now in circulation
than formerly. says the Philadelphia Re
cord. The banks. he said. now send their
sOiled notes to the United States treas
ury 10 be destroyed as soon as a sufficient
quantity accumulates TO justify IT, and
new notes are issued in their place This
has been rendered not only possible, but
advisable, owing TO the increased facilities
for printing banknOtes. One never sees
a soiled banknote in London. They are all
crisp and white and new, simply because
the Bank Of England never lets a note go
out a second time. Although the aver
age life Of a Bank of England note is
said TO be five days, the notes which ind
their way 10 the colonies are kept in cir
culation for years, and these are found
10 be in an even worse condition than our
own greenbackS.
The old whipping post still fiourishes
in the county Jail down at New Castle,
Delaware, and the cat yields a great
moral influence in the community, says
the Philadelphia Record. According TO
a well known Delawarean who was in
town yesterday, ii seems that tobacco is
the only sOlace of the inVeterate law
breakers. who are regularly sentenced to
the post. They claim that ii strengthens
their nerves. and enables them to bear
the strokes of the lash with greater for
utude. Some time ago colored man
was sentenced to twenty-five lashes. He
was one of the regulars" and having
no tobacco, was all of a tremble. HIS
nerve seemed completely gone. He
withered under the first fifteen strokes,
and then yelled: Fob de Lawd 5 sake:
MiEstah Sheriff rim gimme a chaT OF eatin
the request, and went on with his I'M
pleasant task. With a piece of the weed
in his cheek the culprit did not seem to
mind the remaining ten strokes in the
least.
The motion of a steamship on a calm
sea is so smooth and steady that one
hardly realizes the tremendous momen-
tum of the vessel under his feet, says the
Railway Review. A collision, even after
the engines have been slowed down, give
a startling revelation of the energy OF
motion. The time required to arrest the
motion of a ship and bring II TO stand
still can be accurately determined by cal
culations. These calculations have been
recently made for several well known
ships. To stop the, Etruria, whose dis
placement" is $3.50 tons, horse power A.
32l and speed 2OlS Knots an hour, min
utes and AZ seconds are required, and dur
ing the process of stopping the ship Will
forge ahead 2, 464 feet, or nearly one-half
a mile. Inc united OldleS cruiser "OOl-
umbia, with a displacement of 1880 tons,
1881 horse power, and speed OF rs
knots, can be stopped in 2 minutes and
feet. The Cushing, u. S. n, whose dis
placement is only 1O5 tons, and horse
power 17A, with speed of 2. As knots.
feet in 1874 seconds. In each case the yes
sci is supposed to BEGGING at full speed,
and the stoppage produced by reversing
the action of the propeller.
1t has been estimated that a cannon
ball moving with a velocity of 500 miles
an hour and leaving our earth a a GER
tain time and travelling in the direction
of the nearest fixed star, would not reach
it in less than 100000 years, says w.
H. Lancaster in Popular Astronomy and
yet there are stars IN the heavens visible
through telescopes that would require a
cannon ball moving with the same Veloc-
ity at least SOC, OO0,0 600 years to reach them.
1t was said by the elder Herschell that it
would require light travelling at the rate
of $4,000 miles a second 2OO0,OO0 years to
come TO the earth from the remotest
luminous vapors within reach of his 40
foot telescope, and yet, Whatever may
have been the efforts of astronomers to
bring the starry heavens as whole into
view, even with the most powerful re-
Electors, they have so far proved to be
futile. Hence, to the minds of men, the
universe must seem forever to be and to
remain immeasurable incalculable and In
comprehensive. And while we may be
able to weigh and measure suns and
systems within range of our telescopes,
there are others so far away and so far
beyond our powers of vision and our
power of calculation, that even our pres
ent supposed great knowledge of the sid
ereal heavens would dwindle into the
thinnest of mental vapories.
According to writer in the current
number of the Woman at Home, Queen
Victoria has, during recent months, been
busily reading the works of various
poets, beginning with those of Mr.. Hen
ley. The great lady positively delights
in the earlier novels of William Black.
1.-The Princess of Thule was at one
time her favorite book, and she is de-
voted to the works of George Eliot. Al
though the queen in her literary, as
well as musical, tastes is inclined to be
somewhat conservative, it need not be
said that she neglects the work of new
writers. She much likes Mr.. William Wat
sons poems, and has read and re-read his
'Lachrymae MuSarum." So much for
food for the mind. In the same magazine
are given some details as to her majesty s
meals. The queen usually begins her day
likewise brought to her bedside by a maid
but her choice seldom varies. A thin
German ruSk is eaten with the beverage.
At about 80 her majesty partakes of
either soup or an egg beaten up in wine.
Luncheon at O'Clock is always the meal
of the day with her majesty. During the
afternoon she drives or walks and is oc-
cupied in divers ways until tea time IAN
other elaborate meal, as teas go), and then
again until dinner at quarter to O'Clock.
Very few people," says the Scientific
American, ARE aware of the medicinal
qualities of grapes; but these they pos
sess. The pulp is nutritious and the tuice
contains sugar. fannie acid, bitartrate OF
potassium, tartrate of calcium common
salt, and sulDhate of potassium With
out doubt, the woman who cultivates the
habit of eating great deal of fruit is
the gamer of health and appearance The
grape fruit, or shaddock, so-called from
its discoverer, Lieut.. Shaddock, or to mem
ton it's soft Chinese name, pumelo is
highly priced by those who live in ma
larial localities. 1t is a charming rival
to quinine and boneset, and is driving
them from the field. She who eats her
grapefruit with a. spoon from the natural
cup, or relishes it served as a salad, may
gladden. her heart with the reflection that
she is not only pleasing her palate. hui
benefiting her health. Like oranges and
lemons, the grapefruit has great medicinal
virtues. If you are of bilious tempera-
ment, eat grapefruit; if fever threaten
eat grapefruit, but in this latter case. do
so only at the advice of a physician &c
there may be certain tendencies which
the grapefruit would only aggravate. The
complaint is often made that this fruiI
is extremely bitter and unpleasant. It is
only the white inner rind which is So
and this should be carefully removed .