The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07
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bath high and low estait, schall have
hbertte to speak ye man she likes. Gift he
refuses to take hir to be his wye he
schal be mulct in the sum of air hundrith
| pundis or less as his esIait may be, and,
| awais gif he make 1t appear ITO be
| true that he Is betrothit TO another wo-
| man then hes chal be free" 1t is claimed
| that the custom, which began with this
crude attempt at law-making, was so
| much followed that fifty years later an
| other act was passed giving to the mem
! bers of the fair sex one year in four In
| which they were allowed TO sue for the
! hand of a man. The custom has come
! down to US of the present day to a GER
tain extent. but it is only in fiction and
mother-in-law jokes that the custom is
now observed.
| "A novel pioneer tool is being adopted
in the Austrian army. The new tool is of
| the nature of pickax and is adapted for
work both in wood and mineral sub
! stances. Its length Is a little over II inch
es; its greatest width about 10 inches, and
| its weight just over two pounds. 1t is to
| be carried generally fixed to the side of the
| knapsack, but may be hung to the belt
| behind the bayonet. With. this tool trunks
and branches Of trees up to Az inches in
| thickness can be removed in three minutes,
and those six inches thick in five min
utes, while trunks II inches thick can be
| cut through in a quarter of an hour or 20
| minutes With one of the axes hole has
| been cut through a 12-inch wall in 10 min
utes. The tool however, is not intended
! for purposes of demolition, but for work
| in camp, such as the setting up of field
ovens, wood-cutting and the clearing of
| spaces from brushwood.
On the 18th instant the Bethlehem Iron
| Company made the heaviest open hearth
gun ingot which has ever been cast, says
| the Age of Steel. 1t required metal from
| three furnaces to fill the mold. The ingot
| weighed 1880 pounds, or nearly 100 gross
| tons. 1t was octagonal in shape, the
length was 16 feet 10 inches and the diam
eter "A inches This ingot will be forged
| into a tube for a 16-inch experimental
nickel steel gun, which the company is to
make for the United States army. The
forged tube will be So calibres, or 46.6 feet
| in length. The jacket of this gun will re-
quire an octagonal ingot of even greater
weight namely, 24S,O00 pounds or 10S tons.
| Even these large masses of steel have been
| exceeded in the rectangular ingots cast by
| this company for armor plate. The 17-inch
| port plates for the two turrets for the 12-
| inch guns of the battleship Iowa required
nickel steel ingots weighing ~, $50 pounds,
or 1921 gross tons
Dutch suppers, pink teas and Russian
| lunches have often been given in Louis
Vile, says the Courier-Journal, but the
| first cat supper that has been at
| tempted here was pulled off, recently
by George Marilla at George SchlegeTs
| saloon, at Franklin and Pope avenues NJ.
| Marilla is native of France, and has often
told his associates in Butchertown how he
| used to eat cats In the days of siege in his
! fatherland One night a crowd of his
| friends were gathered in SchlegeFs sa-
loon, and M. Marilla told so many stories
| Of how sweet and juicy was the meat of
cat that all the mouths of his friends
began to water, and 1t was decided to fur
nish cat supper. Albert Stoll heard of the
| proposed supper and agreed to furnish the
! cats. He kept his word and delivered two
nice young Toms to M Marilla. The cats
| were killed and dressed by Mike Brandt
and Nick Kipp. The butchered felines
were then put in salt vinegar and spices
and placed In cold storage, where they re-
manned for twenty-four hours. j. c.
| Frantz, who processes to be a French
cook, prepared the cats in German fash
ion. A crowd had assembled in the saloon
by o'clock, and at $50 the feast was
| spread. Jake Schultz was the first man to
| tackle piece of the cat and as soon as
| he tasted it he asked for more, with the
| remark that 1t was good. The whole crowd
| then followed his example, and in less
! than ten minutes there was nothing left of
the two cats but bones. All the men who
| partook of the feast said that the cats
| tasted a great deal like rabbits only they
were better favored.
| While as a general rule, vegetation and
other incidents of nature are different in
| various parts of the world, says Meehan's
Monthly, yet there are instances where
| the plants, animals and other elements
| of one country find themselves so we'll
suited in others that the new locality be.
| comes a second and improved edition of
| the old The writer of this paragraph was
| oh ctrt xrriE1, + &c So
| years ago on a visit to British Column
bia, on the Pacific. In the vicinity of
| the city of Victoria, the wild English daisy
so well known throughout Burns beauti-
| full poem to the daisy which he turned
down with his plow, was abundant in a
| wild state, and just as happy as if it were
growing in its original Scotch or English
| home The English ivy throve in it's orig
| lnal luxuriance, and the China roses grew
| around the houses of the settlers lust as
| freely as they are famed to do around
| English cottage homes In many other
| ways the visitor to Victoria would see a
| repetition of scenes familiar to a Journey
| through English 1t is said that Just the
| same experience meets the traveller in por-
tons of New Zealand The trees which
thrive so well in England, of the various
| species of oak, elm, larch. beech. willows
and poplars have been introduced there.
| and even the dog rose and the hawthorn
| give an interest to the hedges Just as
they do in the old country. 1t is also said
that the English settlers there have
| brought with them their customs as well
as their trees, and the roads, parks gar
dens and buildings generally would sug-
gest to an unsuspecting traveller that he
was still among the green fields and lawns
OF old England. All he has to do is to for
get that the ivy-colored ruins are not to
| be found.
AT the natural history museum in
South Kensington, says the London Mail
there is a section Of polished Douglas nine
| large enough, say, to make round tabIe
TO seat dozen persons. Instead of max
ing 1t an object lesson in botany, the mu-
| scum authorities have ingeniously chosen
1t as medium for the teaching Of history
| The tree was cut down in 1885, and as the
age of tree can be inferred from tbe
number of rings which its cross section
dlscloses, this one must have been 58S
years old. In other words, 1t was born in
1852, and it lived through the most inter
esting part of English history, from Ed
| ward III to Victoria 1t is, therefore. a
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