The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-20
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70 hight Of eighteen miles Three OF
Claims S vii 7ra s; PsoperIy SistTTi6g5ed he
70 nve inches within twenty-fOur hours.
al total cost not 10 exceed IS.
In Australia they have a. whale-cure
for rheumatism which is said to be effect
i've, though disagreeable. 1t was dis
covered Dy drunken man. who was stag
ing station at Twofold bay, and who.
seeing dead whale cut Omen fook a
header into the decomposing blubber. IL
look Two hours for him to work his Way
out, put he was then not only sober bur
cured of his rheumatism. Now a hotel
n mas t,6 6een built in the neighboring town
lot the arrival of whale, in order to
take blubber baths.
Charlotte Corday's skull is a grewsome
bit Of bric-a-brac in the possession of
Prince Roland Bonaparte. who lives in
LONDON Georges Duruy, son OF the noted
munster lriI,sa ana historian; gave it to the
prince, VINO is skilled anatomist and
prizes anything in that line. 1t seems that
a connection Of Duruys bought the skull
from uealer IN curiosities, and with it
manuscript stating that it was the skull
OF the slayer of Marat, and was dug from
her grave some time after her execution
II appears mat Y atel, who wrote the biog-
raphy or Charlotte Corday left a note in
his papers stating that her head was Civ
en- by the executiOner to Dr. Demon. a
F Fatds9 OF the institute who gave it to a
unless this skull found by Duruy is gem
uine.
Speaking of the proposed use of dogs
In the German army to give first aid to
to the injured, James Payn in the indie
pendent says: 1T will be curious if these
ANNALS distinguish themselves in this hu-
Inahe employment, as the dogs of ST. Ber-
nard have done in different field They
nave already been taught, il is said. to
81 Sear rf Tor wounded men, either by day
Tl,tt
now do they know they are wounded :?
indeed, as those they have been expert
pretending to be wounded, they must
hitherto have made nothing but mis-
takes. To wounded man who has not
been informed of this canine education
it must be rather alarming to find a
strange dog, with a cold nose taking as
It were. diagnosis of his condition be-
lore applying the latest remedies attach
ed to its collar"
Gentlemen who perfume their breath
with peppermint may be interested in
knowing that the preparation of that aro-
matte oil is almost exclusively an Ameri-
can industry, says the New Orleans Plea
yune. That does not, unfortunately, make
II any less Objectionable as an odor: but
1t may reconcile those who have to sit in
their vicinity, and who are patriotic enough
to wish to encourage home industry The
peppermint is cut while i'm bloom, like hay
dried, and placed in tight watts, where ii
is steamed. The oil cells burst and the
oil passes upward in the steam, which is
condensed and conducted into a receiver
1t takes about $50 pounds of hay to make
a pound OF oil, but a pound of peppermint
Oil is capable of producing a million cubic
yards of smell, more or less. New York and
Michigan produce the greatest yield of
peppermint Peppermint is chiefly con-
sumed by gentlemen who crawl over la
dies at the theater and go out to perfume
themselves between the acts
The Lawrence Scientific school of Har-
ward University has just issued cata-
logue of its graduates from 1851 to 1895.
The scientific school was for many years
after its foundation, for various reasons,
rather a.neglected child of the university
with small classes, and took an altogether
insignificant rank in its work, Within the
last six or seven years, however, there
has been a great growth in it's attendance
a growth that has been accompanied by
a vast increase in the work of the school
and its scope This is reflected in the
class registers, as given in the present
catalogue. The annual enrolment, which
was from fifteen to thrty-fiVe in the
classes of the last fifteen years. has now
increased to over 800. The names of some
of the most prominent men who have been
graduated from Harvard in recent years
are to be found in this catalogue. Among
them are Alexander Agassiz, William NJ
Davis, Joseph lie Conte, Earnest w.
Longfellow, Simon Newcomb Edward G.
John Trowbridge, William r. Ware and
Burt G. Wilder.
The Twenty-eighth district police have
long been engaged in tracing the disap-
pearance of milk from the cans left on
doorsteps early in the morning several
complaints having been received at the
station house, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. If the word of a patrolman detailed
to investigate is worthy of credit the mys-
terry is discovered, and the arrest and
prosecution of the offender would be an
impossibility. family on Twenty-second
street had been Victimized for three sue
cessive mornings, and the policeman re-
solved to keep watch on the house.
The milkman had hardly departed on the
fourth morning, after leaving a quart of
milk, when manipulating yellow cur
that had been following the wagon trot-
ted up the stairs. To the surprise of the
watcher, the dog upset the milk can
lid off and Tapped up the milk as it spread
over the steps. When the step had been
thoroughly cleansed the four footed thier
carried the can lid back to the top step
and set out in pursuit of the milk wagon
And the policeman only wondered why
the intelligent, canine, didn't put the liz
on the can and ring the door-bell
The elaborate carving on the new
building of the New York Clearing House
Association, in Cedar street. neoessitata5
considerable use of the fiddle drill T fee
drill is of peculiar interest, inasmuch as
it Is one of the oldest stone-cutting tools
IN existence, says the New York Herald.
1t is said to antedate Greek sculpture and
1t is in use to-day in about the same form
as it was 1000 years ago. AS its name
implies, its action resembles a fiddle. The
drill is of two pieces. In one hand a car
yer holds the drill-stock, which is like a
carpenters brace, except that it is straigh
instead of having crank. In the other
hand he holds the bow which is strung
with a brass wire, and this is given q
turn around the drill stock. To use the
drill, the carver places the drill-stock
against his breast, holding it with his left
hand, and with his right he draws the
bow back and forth, fiddle-fashion This
imparts rotary motion to the drill-stock
and the drill is ground to cut in either
way 1t turns. The ffddle-drill is used in the
finest work, in crevices where the scuIp
tor could not reach with his chisel and
hammer without endangering the carv-
ing. About the first thing an ingenious
yankee would say on seeing the fiddle
drill work, would be: why couldn't
a power drill of some sort be used for
that kind of work-something like a dem
lists drill?' But caryers say that pneu-
matte drills and various other types of
tools have been tried. but
none found able to supersede the fiddle"