The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-29
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lie. throws considerable light on his ideas
/ OF government At one place a leading bur
/ CHER wanted a compulsory education law.
/ The president simply would not hear Of il.
! NO. no. he CURLY replied that is
/ church question. not a political one"
/ But" urged another burgher. why could
| countries haveg'' yes REPLIED the pres
| ident ignoring the case of England. "edu-
| cation IS compulsory in other countries,
| Dut so IS military service This is a repub-
! lie. and people may keep their children in
! ignorance if they please"
There are. perhaps. half a dozen horses
in New York. says the sun. that have
false tails. The horse 50 provided is gen.
| orally nne animal. perhaps "A fine car
! riage horse II may have been provided by
| nature with a poor tail. or il may have
/ lost its own flowing tail in a fire. 1t is easy
] TO get tail 10 match. A small portion of
/ hide is removed with the TAIL and when
| this has been cured the tail is provided
/ with straps and buckles on the under side
] TO hold u TO the tail of the horse that is
l TO wear II. and the hide attached is stitch
/ ed 10 the crupper of the horses harness.
/ The fact that the tail is false would not be
/ discovered except upon close and careful
/ inspection. The tail Is taken Off with the
| harness. Horses are occasionally provided
/ with false names. in the same general
| manner. and sometimes with false ears.
The famous tiger rug that covered the
/ floor of the council room of the Ameri-
| can Club. which hourished in Greenwich.
] AbllI.r III luE Gays OF I'WeeQ. says the
] New York Journal. is now doing service
/ in a cafe in this city. The rug, which
/ was and is the largest in the world, was
! made by A. T. Stewart. Ii contains 34
| yards, all In one piece, and was woven
! on a loom especially built for the purpose.
/ When the clubs leader fell the organi-
| cation soon went to pieces and its eff
! fects were disposed of al auction. The
| rug was purchased by George J. Kraus
| The body of the rug is cream color, and
| the pattern red, black and brown. At
| each corner and running down the cen
! ter are tigers heads. surrounded by the
| clubs name and scrolls. 1t is practically
] new, as far as wear is concerned, for
/ the council room was rarely used and
| only then by privileged few. The table
! around which Tweed and his followers
/ gathered is also owned by Mr.. Kraus.
Charles Close of Danbury, Conn. has
discovered a new use for the bicycle, says
Hardware. He is a musician and has the
! ability not only to play but make almost
| any sort of musical instrument short
IlIne ago he made an instrument that
| plays ten popular airs better than any
| hand organ heard here. Still the Danbury
! yankee was not satisfied. He found that
| before he had wound or ground one half
| the tunes of his wonderful music-bo, he
| had to stop to rest his aching arm To
| overcome that unpleasant feature he con-
! structed a bicycle with a driving wheel
| in the place of the usual rear wheel. THE
| machine was made stationary by plac-
| ing IT in frame work and elevating the
| ny wheel from the floor fly wheel ON
| the organ, connecting with the bicycle
by a broad belt did the rest. A day or
two ago Mr.. Close and wife celebrated
| the 18th anniversary of their marriage
and on that occasion Mr.. Close entertain
ed hlS guests by mounting the seat of the
! otfcycie ana playing the whole repertoire
| OF music IN his unique machine. The
| guests got away alive
| Twenty millions of meteors. according
to Dr. Murray. fall upon the earth every
! Gay their aggregate weight amounting to
| something like two tons In a hundred
rr1f af
| at most twenty pounds, of cosmis dust
distributed over each square mile of the
earths surface, and yet the organized
search which has been made for cosmic
aust in every quarter of the globe has
| yielded meager results. The best hunt
ing ground has proved to be the bottom
| OF the Pacific ocean, where LOCO miles
| from any land, a red clay is brought nm
| which on examination is shown to CON
| slst of three kinds of particles. A mag
net viii pick out certain microscopic crys-
| lay fragments of titanic or magnetic iron
| leaving behind mixture of blackish and
| DroWn1Sh spherules. the former of which
contain copper. and are seemingly of vol
| canic origin, while the latter Called
chondresD are of radial eccentric struc-
ture, and are judged to be cosmic dust.
The slopes of Ben Nevis also yield traces
OF TINS eXtraneous matter which, con-
siddeering the millions Of years during
earth, is strangely little in evidence.
Australia is really the antipodes of
the remainder of the world in all respects.
says an exchange. Summer time comes
during the time of European winter; the
rising barometer indicates rain, and the
falling the opposite; the swans are all
black and the eagles white; the male lays
| eggs, and has a bill like a duck; the
native dogs never bark; the serpents have
tails like fishes and wings like bats; the
prickly pear grows to be a tall tree, and
the poplars and oaks seldom grow above
five feet in hight the elm has hairs in
place of feathers; the birds are without
song; the sun is in the north az noon;
the chief rivers flow inland; the pear
trees grow a fruit that is beautiful to
look upon, but which, when ripe is as
hard as though fashioned from the wood
of the tree itself; the leaves of the trees
the stone or pit of the cherry is on the
outside, and must be cracked in order
| to get at the meat; the opossums fly like
| bats, the kingfisher never catches fish
but lives on fruits; the peas are poison
| Gus; the oaks bear no acorns; the chest
nuts are without burr, and, in many
bark on the inside
I'm a powerful sketch of the famous
| st. Bernard's monastery on the Alps, a
writer, after telling how he spent the
| night, says: Il arose at dawn. The snow
had ceased to fall. Some instinct drew
| me to a small stone building about the
| size of a workman's cottage, a few PAGES
| from the Hospice. On the apex stood
| cross. About three feet from the ground
| the building was pierced by a window a
couple of feet square, crossed by thick
wooden bars. l peered through the bars.
! 1t was dark, and as bare as a hayIofr
! When my eyes pierced the mystery of the
| gloom l shuddered. 1t contained a score
| or so of dead-men, women and children
| They stood. or reclined, in a semi-circIe
! around the dim chamber. The snow their
| enemy blew past me through the cross
| bars in little drifts. circling playfulIy
| about its harvest of victims. There, froz-
| en- into incorruptibilty, they stand. these
| friendless and forlorn dead, whom no one
! has claimed. AS they looked at that SUI
! preme moment, when their poor mortality
! put on immortality, so look they now-so
| will they always look, till the valleys shall
| be exalted and there shall be no mora
! snow. Frozen into stone which never
| thaws. they have been caught at the last
| instant of their poor lives mother
| presses her baby to her withered breast.
| An old man drags a tattered handker
| chief about his throat. peasant raises
| his head eager for the last curiosity to
| be satisfied or-ended. There easily recog-
nizable, but not easily forgotten, wait
those friendless and forlorn dead till Cod
| calls" Some of the bodies have waited
| there for twenty years, frozen and pre
| served by the intense cold.