The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-20
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years old. in the town of Greenville, o.
The world is coming to bad and
speedy end. A Vienna professor asserts
that 1t is to collide with comet on 18th
November, 1899. Everything living on
eartn VIII be ehoked with poisonous gases.
Some of the best briar root from which
pipes are made comes from Italy. In the
mountainous districts of this country
roots are dug Up that have grown for
ages, and are sometimes larger than a
mans body, and weighing several hun
dredweight.
On Aug. 8, the village of Buffalo Cen
ter, Mimi, celebrated its third anniversary
and thought that it had a right to cele-
brate in view of the fact that within three
years Of the time a field of grain occupied
the size of the village the people had put
up $4,000 hotel and $4,000 schoolhouse
and the population numbered 1000.
An ingenious German invention to pre-
vent premature burial must make night
walks near cemeteries exciting. On the
slightest movement in the coffin box on
the surface flies open, setting a bell clang-
ing, lighting an electric lamp and shoot
ing out a black flag. Unfortunately the
movement may be started from the out
side by any sudden Jar
Some newspaper reader of Missouri has
compiled a list of odd names of newspa-
pers in that state The list includes the
Rock O. Comfort, Unterrfied Democrat
Hustler, Rustler, Buzz Saw, Silver Hum
mer, Eye-Opener, Cyclone, Blizzard Whiz-
ger and Comet, and then comes down to
the quiet Eye, Optic, Fly, Eli, Quill Bee
and the business-like Cash Book and Fact
The retiring President of the Detroit
board of education in his annual report
makes the novel suggestion that courses
be established for parents as we'll as for
children in the public schools. His idea rs
TO give some of the advantages of school
ing TO grown people who have come to
America from foreign countries where
they have not had the advantage of free
tuition.
The distance from Liverpool to London
is POI miles On eacn side of the railroad,
as far as the eye can reach, the most beau
tiful and most splendidly cultivated farms
present themselves. But not one foot of
the land belongs to those who have thus
brought it to such beauty and perfection.
It all belongs to six men, who own 1t be-
cause they happen to be the Oldest sons of
their fathers.
"A notice has been placed In the
branches of the Boston public library
which states that to. prevent unsuccess-
full applications people are advised that
the works of the following authors are no
longer in the library. Edward E. Ellis,
Charles A. Fosdick, Mary J. Holmes,
Oliver Optic and Ann S. Stephens. Many
people are of opinion that the exclusion of
these authors is unwarranted.
-JezreePs temple, on Chatham Hill, in
England. on which 100000 was spent, has
been sold for $22, 800, and the sale probably
marks the end of the Jezreelites. The sect
was founded by man named White, who
called himself JeZreel and proposed to
gather in the temple 144 families of the
lost tribes of Israel. He had wealthy
hackers, and began the building, which is
124 feet square and has never been COM
pleted, as Jezreel died before he had gath
cred in the lost tribes.
A few weeks ago one of the most ex-
traordinary fish ever known came to light
in Devonshire, says the London Rambler
1t was a club, found in a muddy pool,
and certainly it was as hideous a thing as
one could well imagine. 1t was imprisoned
in a sort of cage formed of the roots of
an elm tree that projected under the wa
ter, and it had evidently wormed it's way
into this prison when quite small Being
unable to find its way out, it had been
forced to grow in the shape of its cage
instead of the natural form that all club
should take. With no room to develop, the
fish's tail had disappeared altogether, save
for a little deformed stump that had wedg-
ed its way between the roots of the tree
The back fin had also vanished, for there
was no room for it to grow in. The whole
body of the luckless club was distorted
and had grown into the gnarled and twist
ed form of the root cage. The scales were
incrusted with mud and arranged in layers,
like roof states. 1t is a puzzle to imagine
how the fish fed and lived during its grow
ing years in that watery prison, and what
il did when times were hard and no food
came by. 1t seemed contented enough and
was certainly healthy and strong, in spite
of its distorted shape.
I'm Sweden and Denmark" so says
Laiterie France), has been created a
new industry that deserves notice. 1t
consists in collecting at a central station
the milk from farms within a given ra-
dius, pasteurzing it at about rs degrees
G. Q67 degrese F), and then freezing it at
the temperature of 10 degrees plus II de-
grees F). The blocks of frozen milk are
placed in stout wooden casks holding
about double the volume of the blocks
and the extra space is filled with sterilized
milk, after which the casks are hermeti-
cally sealed. AS they are perfectly full
and are kept cool by the block of frozen
milk, which melts very slowly the shocks
of transportation are powerless to churn
the milk into butter, and thus it may be
preserved at least twenty days so that
the Danes and Swedes are now sending
successfully to their neighbors, and even
to England, whole cargoes of milk We
shall soon see, doubtless, Norwegian YES
sells unloading casks of milk in our ports.
Here is indicated a means of utilizing
prottably our French milk, of which there
is an excessive supply al certain points and
a lack at others, owing to the expense and
distance of transportation. Translate
for the Literary Digest.
When one considers that 1000 copies
Is fair sale for novel, and 5000 copies
an extraordinary sale,a and that about SEQ
is pretty good honorarium for a novel
ISIS work-after such time as 1t has cost
him twice that sum out of his own pocket
and brought him next to nothing-then one
can realize the folly Of those poor individ
uals who look to a book 10 retrieve the
fortunes of household, says SeIf-Culture.
Ana yet novels pay best of any class of
books, on the whole. AS far as history
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