The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-27
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built with glass floor. The initial cost Is
considerably over that OF the ordinary
moor nut IN view of the fact that tough
eneu glass Is so much longer lived than
wood, the experiment is likely 10 prove
cheaper in the long run.
"A devil fish, measuring fifteen and one
half feet from the tip OF one of his eight
arms TO the tip Of another and ten feet
from the top OF his head TO the tip OF mis-
longest arm, was killed in the channel al
santa Barbara, Cal, by two boys a few
days ago II was the largest devil FISH
ever caught in those waters
There are not many mothers who would
fancy monkey for nurse for their ba-
b.es; yet the capacity for tenderness in
these creatures-surely Inc least under
stood by US Of all the brute creation
seems alAnost 10 warrant the DarWinian
theory that they have in them human ele-
ments- One OF the most popular passeu-
gers on board a Union steamer that re-
Gently arrived at Southampton from South
AFRICA has large monkey who had been
strumenJal in saving the life of child
After the terrible explosion in Johannes
purS, one OF the many rlIiHed houses was
round 10 contain only one room intact.
IN tH-S was cradle, and in the cradle a
dead baby, killed by some falling debris
Its twin was alive, and was being tenderlV
nurSed in the arms of the great monkey
VINO had evidently snatched ii up out of
tne way OF danger. 1t will be remembered
that a similar service was rendered
by monkey to scion of the ducal house
OF Lelnster-the peril in that case being
from nre-and that the crest of the family
Is borne as a token of their gratitude to
the brave animal. The latest monkey hero
IS evidently passionately fond of children
TOT ne PAID ceaselesS attention to ali the
bables on the boat, and was perfectly hap
py II allowed to nurse them, which ne did
with great skill.
The latest painting of NJ. Munkacsy.
the famous Hungarian artist, one of the
scenes in the life of Christ destined for
the international Exhibition at Budapest,
IS now on view in his studio, Avenue de
Nlliiers, Paris, and is the best and finest
conception of the whole series. "Ecce
Homo" for such is the title, represents
fllate showing our Savior to the crowd,
a1ter his scourging, IN a last effort to
avoid cOndemning him to DEATH Christ
stands on the balcony Of the praetorium,
the ngure barred TO the waist, a wonder
tul expression on his face of combined
majesty and suffering, the crown of thorns
on His head, drops of blood on HIS fore
head, and in His hand the reed given
Him in mockery of his supposed claims
to be King of the Jews. Plate in Ro-
man robes, standing beside Him, bend
ing toward the crowd, with an express
sion of mingled scorn and contempt, which
crowd, reused to rage and hate by the
appearance of its victim, is so lfe-like,
the expression of vengeance on the faces
so unique, that one can almost hear the
words. Cruelty Him. Cruelty Hint pro-
ceeding from It In the background the
mother of Christ has tainted. The cos
tunes, in their vivid colorings, are true to
oriental originals, which have changed
but little in two thousand years. stray
dog, which had got itself mixed up in
the crowd, and palm trees visible over
the side of the court, add to the local col
oring of the picture.
The Amherst Astronomical Expedition
fitted out to take observation in Japan on
the total eclipse of the sun, which oc-
ours Aug. s. has reached the Pacific coast
overland and will soon sail for japan
lanes urhf &c
generously furnished for the expedition.
Another expedition to observe the same
eclipse will go from the Lick observatory
IN California, which will carry a new
Photographic apparatus to obtain pictures
OF the cOronal streamers, which are part
OF the phenomena of a total eclipse. These
streamers have heretofore baftled the
photographers, the difference in bright
ness in those parts near the sun and those
most distant making the picture very diff
nculI 10 obtain with satisfactory clear
ness. Mr.. Buckhalter of the Chabot Uni
versity, Oakland, who will accompany the
LICK observatory party, has invented
rotating diaphgram driven by clock work
and provided with a peculiarly shaped hole
for the passage of the light whereby the
faint outer part of the corona will get
much longer exposure than the brilliant
inner part, thus equalizng the exposure
for all parts, and give a more perfect
picture than any heretofore obtained EX-
posture of sufficient length to obtain the
outer ends of these banners of the sun
has resulted in over exposure for the
brighter portion. and when brief enough
to obtain clear pictures of the brighter
parts the outer ends fail to appear in
the picture. The corona has always in
terested, but bafied the scientists.
Dead mems shoes" is a common ex-
preston, but means much in many parts
of the old world, where the boots of the
dead are accorded much importance, says
the New York World. In Scotland, in the
north of England, in Scandanavla,
saG tzrp az n Hungary nd o1r-
mania, the utmost care is taken among
the lower classes that each corpse is pro-
Vided with a pair of good shoes before
being laid in the ground. If the dead per-
son happens to be a tramp and to have
been found dead barefooted, there will al
ways be some charitable soul to furnish
a pair of good boots for interment along
with the corpse An inspector of police
in Scotland has been known to purchase
of his own account new pair of boots
and to place them in the grave, reOpened
for the purpose, of a murdered stranger,
who had been inadvertently inferred bare
footed the day before. This practice,
which likewise prevails among the Tsi-
agnes, as well as in many parts of Asia,
is attributable to the belief that unless
the dead are well shod when buried their
ghosts come back to haunt the locality
where they breathed their last in search
of pair of boots. The shoes are popular
ly supposed to be needed to pass in COM
fort and safety the broad plains which
the departed soul must traverse before it
can reach paradise. Among some nations
these plains are declared to be covered
with furzes, thorns and morass, while
other races say that they consist of burn
ing sands. These plains of suffering are
popularity credited with forming a sort
of ante-chamber to hell. 1t is for this
reason that the boots of the dead are
called hell shoes" in Norway, Sweden
Finland and Denmark.
Among the packages of money received
at the treasury redemption bureau last
week from the sub-treasury at Chicago
for redemption was a counterfeit note
of the denomination of 800, says the Chi
cago Records Washington letter. 1t was
an old note, of the series of 1872, very
ragged and very dirty. The note had been
in circulation for many years and per-
formed all Of the offices of money with
out its genuineness being suspected ana
was finally accepted at the sub-treasury
at Chicago as good. And yet according
TO the clerk who instantly picked 1t
out of roll of other notes, it was bu.
a very poorly executed counterfeit The
clerk in the sub-treasury who passed II
in counting will have to make up the
amount out of his own pocket. The clerks
in the redemptin division of the treasury
have horror of the money which comes
in for redemption from the sub-treasurv
or the bank at Chicago. They saw il il
the dirtieSt and greasipSt monav Tho,