The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-28
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CO uA Alr rNLA omen dLfdcleu 10 this kind
OF ring one Jeweler said Tuesday that
more than dozen persons had been 10
see MIN within the last week. All had
/ opal rings and wanted TO exchange them,
saying they We're afraid 10 wear them
since Pearl Bryan met such an unfOrtu-
nate end.
Mr. James Ellsworth of Chicago. an
intimate friend Of Paderewski, gave him
dinner a short time ago says the San
FRANCISCO ArgOnaut. and each person who
came was Obliged 10 perform some feat
ny which he could earn his living provid-
ed his usual resources were taken away.
Eaderewski had many card tricks handy.
theodore Thomas, with his hands tied
behind his back by some miraculous man
agement unbuttOned his Waistcoat and
TOOK IL on with his hands still tightly fas-
tened The guests then asked for auto
graphs, and Mr.. Ellsworth remarked: Il
nave Faderewskis autograph, which he
wrote on my shirt front some time ago"
ana tnereupon the valet brought the gar
ment into the room. and, behOldi the shirt
bosom bore the signature of the maestro
written across the front. At once each
manly chest was presented to PadereWski,
VINO, with pencil in hand, signed his name
on the starched linen. As a result, eleven
snlrtS nave been permanently retired from
circulation, so to speak.
Every one knows how proud the pea
cock is of his handsome feathers and
how he. VIII parade himself in the sun
snlne. When his feathers drop out he
sinks away and acts ashamed He is
not the only feathered product that Is
vain. 4 small boy saw a colony of spar
rows building their nests, and observing
one bird enter a hole in the wall, put his
nand over the entrance and caught the
pro- wishing 10 be able to recognize ii
n Jae future, he cut OF a small piece
OF It's tail and then let ii go. week or
so later he caught another sparrow al
the same place and marked il in a SINH
lar manner The other sparrOWs contin-
ued to build nests, but these two marked
Dllls We're not seen again in that neigh
9orhood- Months afterward, while wan
derlng oVec the hills the boy came to
an old ruin and was amazed to see these
JWC marked birds. Not another bird was
TO be seen, and they hoped from hole
70 hole in the ruins as silent and misera-
bic as though disgraced. Evidently they
mad been heartbrOken over their mutilat-
eq feathers, and, seeking each others So
clety, had retired from bird society for
the summer.
The zerograph, an instrument. in APP
pearance like an ordinary typewriter, is
being used in England. il is said, for
transmitting or receiving telegraph mes
sases. One machine is employed at each
end OF the line. In sending a Geographic
message no special training is required.
Inc operator depresses in turn the keys
VI what appears 10 be an ordinary type
WEiter keyboard, with the usual arrange
lnent for the letters The depression Of a
key closes the connection of a local bat
terry OF from five to ten small accumula-
tor cells, which causes a current to flow
not only actuating the printing and linking
AltCAdllSlu OF the transmitting 1nStru-
ment, but also closing the line circuit,
which in its turn completes the local cir
cunt OF the receiving instrument. The two
machines are thus simultaneously actua-
ted, and as the operator presses the kew
he not only prints the message on his own
instrument, but makes an exact reproduce
tlon upon the receiving instrument. AS
soon as the end of a line is reached the
machine automatically moves the paper
forward, and, releasing a spring, causes
tne paper roller TO move along ready for
the first letter TO strike at the commence
ment of new line. The machine is thus
perfectly automatic in its action and NAV
De safely left TO take care of itself at the
receiving end, the message S received be-
ing printed on the roll of paper without
any attention being required.
"A system of rapid transit transporta-
ton is in use in California which for
cheapness of operating expense. is prob
ably the lowest in the country, DESPITE
the fact that the cost of construction was
very high A lumber company in Fresno
| county, California, has built a lumber
fiume fifty-two miles long, which in
places, has a grade of % per cent, and
which crosses the King river on a sus-
| pension bridge, 45l feet long. This bridge
! Is bullt Of Roebling cables, something on
the plan of the great suspension bridges
across the Niagara gorge. The flume is
N-Shaped, and, strange to say in addi-
| ton to carrying lumber is utilized for the
| transportation of passengers-one way
| Tor ike the road TO ruin in old temper
| ance books, the line only runs one. way,
| and that down. The boat in which the
| passengers travel, or perhaps, it would
| be better to say shoot, is a V-shaped box
| about sixteen feet long, and which is
roughly knocked together with boards
since il is good for one trip only" The
| front end of this strange craft is left off
| as the velocity Of the water is so great
| that, despite the speed of the boat ii does
not run back pack into IT, Preparatory, 70 the
| TRIP, a plank IS placed along the bottom,
| on which the passengers rest their feet
| while sitting single file on cross seats.
! When all is ready the spikes by which the
boat is held while loading are pulled
! out and away it goes on its fifty-two-m.le
! journey, in some cases attaining the ter
| rife velocity of seventy miles per hour
| For a ROAD which has a long steep HILL
with plenty of water at the top and bot
TOM TINS III KIND Of chute would make
| love excitement.
-Polyandry, or polyandria, is the oppo-
site Of polygamy; or, in other words, in
countries where polyandry is practiced
the woman take a half dozen or more
husbands in just the same manner that the
| polygamists take plurality of wives"
| In ancient times the area over which pol
| yandry extended or was practiced was
| very extensive. In Media according to
SrabO), the women were allowed num-
! Der of husbands. Indeed it is said that a
woman who had less than five was looked
! upon as being next to worthless, says the
! St. Louis Republic. Polyandry is an
| oriental institution almost wholly how
| ever. Caesar tell US that at one time it
! was common enough in Britain. The GUS
| tom does not appear to have ever been
! known in the new world, or any of it's adj
| Joining Islands, nor in the islands of the
| Pacific, Atlantic or Indian oceans. Some
| Arctic travellers report isolated tribes of
EsqulmauX who practice polyandry on a
| limited scale, but in no tribe does ii an
| pear TO be anything like a national insti-
! tuition At the present day, so far as the
! editor of Notes for the Curious" has
been able to learn there is but one coun-
| try now known in which polyandry is the
| national custom. In Thibet in the Hima-
| iayan and b-Himalayan region adioin-
| ing, there are numerous districts in which
! polyandry is the rule rather than the ex-
! ception In those countries (Thibet and its
| dependenciesg, a wife is commonly the
| wife of whole family of brothers the
/ elder brother being chief husband" The
origin Of this curious custom is believed
| TO be connected with the want of balance
| between the number of the sexes die ~
! the practice of female infanticide which
! latter is almost invariably an accompa-
niment of this peculiar form of marriaga
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