The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-23
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ty-four books that Dickens wrote.
"A grasshopper can spring more than
two hundred timessits own length.
1T rains on an average EOS days in the
year in ireland. about $50 in England. at
Kozan about 80 days and in Siberia only
60 days.
Some time ago New England clergy
man declined the degree of doctor of di-
vinity on the ground that the letters D. D.
after his name would not improve it.
-Cairo's new museum of Egyptian an
tiquities, which will cover 1900 square
meters and cost $780, 900. has been begun.
the young khedive laying the corner stone.
Two windows in St. Pauls church.
yard for the day of the queens visit to
the cathedral on diamond jubilee day.
each less than four feet wide, have been
let. one for $1,000 and the other for 81 500.
History is full of instances of civilized
men eating horsefesh. When Wurmser,
after Castiglione and Basano, shut him
self up in Mantua, with 14000 troops, half
of which were cavalry he, in orded to in
crease the provisions, had 1000 horses of
the latter killed and sailed.
second time admitted to a reporter that
all through the service she saw the ghost
of her first husband standing beside her,
and shaking his fist so vigorously that
she was surprised that others in the room
didn't hear the bones rattle
The name of the heliotrope comes from
two Greek words signifying turning to-
wards the SUM-" 1t has long been a be-
lief that the flower of the heliotrope turns
with the advancing day, to face the sun.
In some species of this plant this curious
phenomenon does really occur.
Underground vaults may now be thor
oughly lighted by refraction from a Sc
ries of prisms or prismatic tiles so ar
ranged as to reflect the light and direct it
against a window in the basement, which
receives and refracts it in a line some
what parallel with the length of the base
ment.
Telephones are in common use on
Swedish farms, and even in Finland. A
traveller calls at a farm house, and if his
language is not understood he rings up an
interpreter. In Augusta county Virginia,
a complete system of cheap telephones has
been introduced. reaching to farms as we'll
as villages.
Sam Stevenson of Mcpherson county,
Kan, went away to Cuba and joined the
insurgents. He was captured by the Span
ish, and, after remaining in prison for
some time, was given the choice of being
shot or swearing allegiance to Spain. He
naively wrote to his friends in Mcpherson
that, while l was a patriot, L was not
a d-n fool"
Queen Victoria's special trains from
Cherbourg to Nice and back cost about
$4,000; and her majesty has also to pay
for the specials from Boulogne to Nice
and back, which convey the servants.
horses, carriages and heavy luggage The
average total cost to the privy purse of
the queens annual continental trip is
about $4,000.
England has several grand old women
who were born before Victoria, and carry
their years well. Mrs. Gladstone is six
months older than the queen, the Baron
ess Burdett Coutts is five years older and
Lady Louisa Tighe, who was present at
the ball on the eve of Waterloo, and is
still hale and lively. was girl of Is when
Victoria was born.
The demand for organ music in this
country outside of churches seems to be
quite limited. Boston's great organ, once
regarded as a wonder, has been stored in
a shed for thirteen years, and will soon
be sold at auction. 1t was built in Ger
many at a cost of 100000 One trouble
about a great organ is that it is not easy
to keep it supplied with a great organist.
Prof. Law of Cornell University is very
hopeful concerning the eventual victory
over tuberculosis. He says: 1T may not
be accomplished in our day, it may not
even be attempted along the lines that
would warrant an expectation of speedy
success, but as surely as humanity is ad-
vancing to a higher and better future, so
surely will this white plague tubercu-
losis, be eradicated from our herds and
finally from our homes"
"A London paper prints the disturbing
statement that noted teetotaller has Just
died in England from delrium tremens.
1t is said by a prominent English physi-
clan that scores of patented tonics and
specifics are essentially alcoholic liquor,
and the poorest grade of spirits at that
st. Bartholomew the Greats parish
in Smithfield raised $500 during Lent by
the sale of pods of clover called Calvary
clover, says the New York Sun. The
leaves have on them a blotch like a spot
of blood, and the pod when unwound
looks like crown of thorns.
Since the buttons bearing photographs
of actresses have come upon the market
many persons have wondered Just how
they are made The picture Is copied with
the camera at considerable distance from
IL, so that II is reduced in size sufficient
to fit the button. If done on a large scale
the stamp portrait camera should be used
so that a parge number of pictures can be
made on one palte. Prints are made on
aristo paper and mounted, face down, on
thin, transparent celluloid, with gelatine
Then they are cut out and mounted upon
the buttons by means of a machine used
for that purpose in button-making.
The new naval experiment tank at the
Washington yard, in which miniature war
ships will be tested, will be 500 feet long
and so feet across, and inside the water
space will be 475 by 90 feet, says the Phil
adelphia Record. Its depth will be four
teen feet. Running across, close to the
water will be a carriage upon which there
will be attached a dynamometer TO regis
ter the resistance due to towing a model
through the basin. Models, varying in
size from ten to twenty feet OF every new
ship to be built will be attached TO this
machinery and drawn through the water
The wave motion will he observed and