The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-04
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floating island of hfty acres of floating
hyacinthes up and own stream past Or
ange, Tex for a week.
Thirteen postal ca DIS delivered at one
time to the chief of poAce of Kansas City,
Kan, were found to b the first part OF
a letter. the balance ofwhich, on twelve
more cards, came to hirdin the next mali.
written by some womanE Who thought she
was being imposed upon
The largest oak log ever cut and
hauled in that section wastaken to Pin
neys saw mill in Stockbrise. Mich. re-
Gently. 1t measured A. 100 felt 1t lacked
but few inches of being sill feet across
the butt. 1t was drawn in tour places.
making four good-sized doubleteam loads.
"A circular saw, fifty-four iIches in d.
ameter, at Bucks mill, at jacksonville,
flew into pieces while at full sped and cut
things up in way that shockedthe hands.
says the Philadelphia Press. Sine of the
fragments split their way through the roof,
one piece cut 6x12 timber in twN and an
other bit hurled against a block of steel
was welded by the impact.
Alfred Ayres, one of the editos of the
Standard Dictionary, in a talk on the
Common Errors in the Use of English,
in New York last Thursday evening, told
his audience that to understand th4 gram
mar of the English language thei must
study that of an ancient or some hodern
language. Grammar is the same,in all
languages" said Mr.. Ayres, "buA the
English grammar is too simple G6man
is one of the best modern languages to
study for the grammar. We know fotn-
ing of the dative case before we study
German grammar, and yet we have tho
dative case in English" Mr.. Ayres evi-
IDENTIFY does not object to sentences dos
ing with proposition. He did not men
ton that as an error, and in speaking he
ended every other sentence with to or of.
DIR. Calmette. the director of the Pas
teur Institute at Lille, France, and dis
coverer of the anti-venomous serum treat
ment for snake bites, seems to have DEM
onstrated that in their essential toxicity
all snake venomS are identical, whether
taken from viperine or colubrine snakes
says the New York Tribune. All are
equally destroyed by alkaline hypochlo-
rites and by chloride of gold. And finally
which is, perhaps, most important of all
in practice, the serum of animals inocu-
lated with graduated venom, from a
particularly deadly snake, such as the
cobra, is perfectly antitoxic against the
venom of all other snakes and also of
scorpions. Some indubitable cures of
cobra bites are reported and there is
strong reason to believe that anti-veno-
nous serum obtained through cobra in
EQUATIONS will prove a specific against all
snake bites.
The late Alvin Clark Of Cambridgeport,
Mass, discovered in 1862 that the star
Sirius had far less brilliant companion.
Continued observation for nearly thirty
years proved that this second body revolv-
n1 ~ -
orbit, at distance as nearly as great as
the planet Neptune from the sun. But in
1880 the companion disappeared from view,
having reached point in its track so near
ly in line with Sirius that It's faint light
was overwhelmed by the dazzling efful-
gence of the Dog star. During the last
six years 1t has Travelled far enough to
become visible once more. DR.. T. j. j.
See, of the University of Chicago, tempo
rarily at the Lowell observatory, Flag
staff, Ariz.. rediscovered the satellite on
the other side of its primary few weeks
ago. The period required for one complete
revolution is now estimated to be about
fifty-1ve and one-half years
Baroness Won. Zedlitz, who was a
guest of Nine Adelina Patti at Craig-y-
Nos last summer, has published, in a Ger
man review, an account of her sojourn at
the singers castle. Among other things,
she writes concerning an album contain
ing the autographs, over words of admira-
ton, of many musical celebrities of the
last half century. Among the singers are
Mario, Tamberlik, Niemann and Capoul,
who express thier admiration for the great
soprano in graceful, hattering verses.
Grisi, Alboni and Christine Nilsson. Bars
of music, accompanied by words, have
been written in the album by the eompos-
ers Rossini, Meyerbeer, Auber, Gounod
frrnt -
the three prima donnas who, to his mind,
have best interpreted La Traviata." The
maestro signs his name to the following:
ID abord Adelina, ensuite Adelina, ct en-
core Adelina.' Finally, on a page, almost
yellow with age, in microscopic charac-
tiers, the pen of Hector Berloz once trans
lated these two Latin words, "Oportet
Pati!' which means "One must suffer-"
though the facetious ecclesiastical friends
of Nine. Patti say it means, Bring on the
pate" Her musical friends construe it.
Patti is necessary to US" The mistress
of Craig-y-Nos is said to prize this page
more than all the others.
France is about to honor with a
statue the man who did not invent lucifer
matches, says the Chronicle. In 1880, it
seems. M. Nicolet, professor of chemistry
at Dole, in the Jura, was illustrating be-
chlorate of patash, when it struck one of
his pupils, Charles Sauria by name that
combination of phosphorus with the de-
tonating chemical might furnish a far
more satisfactory means of kindling a
fire than the old flint and steel He set
TO work upon the problem, and his ex-
periments and those OF his friends were
attended with success. A year or two
afterward NJ. Nicolet visited Austria. and
gave the discovery away to German
manufacturers. Without wishing to rob
M. Sauria of the posthumous glory which
appears to be the only reward of his in
genuity, patriotism compels us to claim
the merit of being the real inventor for
one OF our own nation. Mr. Walker of
Stockton, by the use of chlorate of pot
ash and sulphide of antimony, was maxi
ing friction matches as early as 1929
Young Sauria very likely never heard of
his process, but the Germans certainly
did, and 1t was from his original idea
that their trade sprang up and fructihed.
until the composition of cheaper wood and
labor and of improved machinery drove
them out OF the market