The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-09
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edcn loot. hand or limb. The horse is the
/ type OF the one-toed creation, the camel
OF the twO-tOed. the rhinOceros of the
snree-lOed and the hippOp Otamus Of the
tour-toed animal life. The elephant ana
hundreds Of other animals belonging 10
I dlnerent orders are of the great five-
/ toed tribe.
"A novelty n the manufacture OF BIZ
| cycle frames mas been brought out by
/ Mr. Thomas Wrigley Of Chicago. He uses
paper nber tubing instead OF steel tub
lhs- ana claims il viii not dent or kink
as me steel does, is more durable and
I AsuleF. He has made a road machine
I Wnlcn weighs only twenty pounds. 1t has
I been tested thoroughly on the bOulevards
/ and in the parks. and has stood we'll the
| test of hard riding. a patent is pending,
/ ana Mr.. Wrigley expects TO be able 10
/ put the new wheel upon the market dur
/ ing the coming summer.
! One of perhaps many little considered
ways in which the forests of the country
| are being eaten up is in supplying timber
/ Tor railway timber work. There are 200
miles OF trestle structure in the United
| states, according 10 an estimate by the
/ forestry division. This trestle work has
/ 10 be replaced entirely every nine years,
/ on an average, and every year timber
| amounting of 250.00OOOO feet board meas
/ use IS used for this purpose. Nearly all
/ the timber is cut from the largest and
/ finest trees. The annual expenditure on
! this work is estimated at about S7,000000
"A rival of the famous derelict. the
/ Fannie Wolston, which drifted about the
! Atlantic for many years. has been found
Dy the naval photographic Office In the
| lumber-laden Boston schooner Alma Cum
| mlngs, which was abandoned and set on
| nre on Feb. II, 1885, off the capes of Del
aware. In the following four months half
/ dozen reports were received of her drift
| with the Gulf stream in the steamer
! tracks OF the Grand Banks, and then
| nothing more was heard of her until
about month ago when the captain
! OF me Brlush steamer OrmstOn passed
| hulk burned TO the waters edge, and
| covered with barnacles, but still capable
! OF Identification, in mid-ocean, between
the Canary Islands and the West Indies.
| she seems to be following the track
! OF the Wolston in the huge circular cur
| rent which repeatedly brought that cele-
| prated menace to navigation back to the
Atlantic coast after 5,OOO-mile voyages.
| M. Henry, a Frenchman, being curious
to see the effect of benzine on wasp
| put some of it under a glass in which
! a, wasp was imprisoned, says the Philadel-
/ phla Record. The wasp Immediately
! showed signs of great annoyance and
/ anger, darling a a piece of paper which
mad introduced the benzine into his cell
/ by ana by, he seems to have given up the
| uequal contest in despair for he lay
| down on his back, and bending up his
aDdomen, planted his sting thrice into
| ms body and then died. NJ. Henry al
/ lowed his scientific interest to overcome
! MS humanity so far as to repeat the ex-
! pertinent with three wasps, only TO find
IS,
| therefore, of the opinion that wasps, I'M
! der desperate circumstances, commit sui
! eide. The Italian scientist, Cesare Lom-
| broso, with his interesting theories of
| crime in relation to animal life could
| doubtless, give in detail the psychic ex-
| periences and morbid reflections of these
irritable insects.
"A patron of the Windsor repeated a
story last evening that was originally re-
lated by DIR. Hayes, the arctic explorer
who died several years ago, says the St
| Louis Post-Dispatch. DR.. Hayes told the
! story as an incident that occurred during
! his voyage to Greenland in search of the
! north pole. According to the narrator
| Or. Hayes used frequently to sit at one
! end o.. his boat, and he sat there read
! ing he-often raised his head, and by look
| ing out through a little glass that was
used TO admit light he could see a small
! village of Eskimos clad in their furs and
! skins and living in their little huts. AL
| though particularly religious man,
| the more Dr. Hayes thought about the
| poor, benighted inhabitants of that dreary
| region, the more he thouSht that some
| thing should be done for them, and that
! they should be told of what Christianity
| was doing FOR the world and what it
| would likewise do for them. So, one day
! he concluded to address them on the sub
! ject, and, going ashore he gathered them
around him. He told them that if they
| were good they would go to heaven, where
| as II they We're bad, and made holes in
| other peoples canoes, or stole their pad
! dies or blubber, or did something else
| equally bad they would go to the other
! place. The natives asked him repeatedly
| what kind of place heaven was, and he
! at last told them it was a place where
| there were golden streets, and where they
could play on their harps or "tom-toms"
| all day. They shook their heads at that
| and then wanted to know what kind of
! place the other one was. oh" said
! the doctor, tits a place where the fire is
! kept burning all the time and where"
! but before he could say anything further
| the freezing natives shouted, That's the
| place for US" The doctor did not attempt
! to do any more missionary work among
! the natives in Greenland.
The Holy Ghost flower, or Flor del
| Espiritu Santo. is found in the region of
| the Isthmus of Panama, says the Pitts
| burg Dispatch. 1t seems to thrive in low
| marshy spots and springs up from de-
| cayed logs or from crevices in the rocks
| The larger and older bulbs frequently send
! up the leaf stalks six or seven feet in
| hight and from these which are Joined
| broad lanceolated leaves are thrown ont
| IN pairs. The plant is an annual and in
| June, July and August the flower stalks
| start up from the base of the bulb devot-
ing all their energies to the formation
| of the buds The buds are arranged on
| the stalks much like those of the hva-
! cinth, the usual number for a Well-groUyn
! stalk to bear being from Y to Is The
| leaves are very pale green in color as
/ though in harmony with the delicate pur-
! ity of the blossom. The blossom is Of
alabaster .whiteness, much like the old
is
strikingly curious, but It fades into in
| significance when one looks into the
! center of that strange blossom, for there.
! nesting in its very heart, is the perfect
image of dove. 1t requires no imagi-
! nation to see it, No one could mistake
it for anything else, for no human skill
could fashion its shape more perfectly. no
! artist could adorn it with more elegant
tints and no perfumer could endow il
| with more delicate fragrance. Right in
| the cup of the blossom, with the snow
! white canopy about it, rests this Won
! drous image, its delicately nodded wings
! dropping, half extended at its side IFS
! gold-tinted head bent slightly forward
and its tiny, crimson tipped bin almost
| touching its snowy breast. An observer
| who saw it in its native home saws: ".Tust
! as the figure of the dove itself is there
beyond dispute, so does an expression
! pervade the image, an expression that
! even the most careless cannot fail to
notice, the incarnation of humility and
| spiritual purity" N
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