The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-25
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claim the doubtful honor Of being the
greatest mule market in the world. Kan
sas City already ships thousands OF these
hybrids annually to all portions of the
United States, Central America and Mex
leo.
DR.. Ottoiengui European physician,
has been conducting experiments with an
instrument called a faradimeter to deter
mine sensitiveness to pain as between men
and women. He tried it upon 632 women
with remarkable results. He finds that
women are less sensitive to pain than men.
and that this sensitiYeness is less in early
life, increases to the oath year, and lie
creases after that. TIE higher classes
are most sensitive and the degenerate
least. He found the latter class very OBJ
fuse in the sensation of pain.
In Dantizic alone during last year
nearly 100 tons of amber were turned to
the smokers purpose in pipes and cigar
ette-holders says the Sketch. This, of
course, is amber of the familiar yellow va
riety. Sciian amber on the other hand
shows a wonderful variety of tints, from
ruby-red to turquoise-blue, as may best
be seen in the private collection of Arnold
Buffum, an American of fortune, who has
made colored ambers his hobby has writ
ten book about them and has recently
been on a visit to London, CARRYING with
Some idea may be formed of what the
Russian emperor has to go through by the
fact that the ceremonies connected with
his coronation eight months ago have not
yet come to an end, says the London STAN
dard. On Friday his majesty held another
reception in the winter palace to receive
the congratulations of more representa-
tives of his faithful subjects. Several
hundred persons were presented, compris-
ing 165 different Populations, each one with
bread and salt on costly gold and silver
plates or other works of art. Long ia
bles in the palace were again loaded with
these gifts to the car, as at Moscow in
May last, and the ceremony observed was
exactly the same.
This is how Gen. Won Moltke described
the service in an English church in a letter
from England to his wife: "The prayers
last for about an hour in the course of
which the clergyman and congregation al
ternately speak. The consequence is that
one passes about half the time upon ones
knees, which seems an easy task, seeing
that one is provided with a good velvet
cushion and an easy chair at ones back
but in other respects it is really chastse-
ment. After these the chapter of the Old
Testament was read which describes how
Gideon Stays the five Amorite kings, puts
them in cave and hangs them on trees,
and how many towns he had destroyed,
killing the inhabitants to a man, and 9TH
er certainly not very edifying things of the
same character The sermon comes last
Of all, quite as an accessory-a rhetorical
| exercise"
Sir John Brown, the great ironmaster of
| Sheffield, whose death has just occurred.
owed his title to a visit paid by the
| Prince of Wales to Sheffield at the time
| when he held the position of master cutler
| and mayor of that great manufacturing
| city, says a London cable. On that oc-
| casion the prince stayed al Sir Johns
| house, and, while watching a game of
! billiards after dinner, happened to lean
his illustrious head against the wall, on
| which he left quite a large-sized grease
| stain. On Sir Johns attention being
| called to this after the princes departure,
| he cause it to be covered with glass and
| surmounted by a beautiful gold frame,
| while an inscription below related, in u
| tra-loyal language that it was there that
| the head of Engiands future king had
| rested. The room has often been redec-
| GRATED and repapered since, but no one
| has ever been allowed to touch or to re-
move that golden frame or the grease
stain which is borders.
There is scarcely manor in England
where some queer old custom dating back
to the feudal times does not survive, re-
calling the former prestige and glory of
| the lords of the manor" Thus at
Broughton, on each Palm Sunday since
| time immemorial the so-called "gad
| whip immortal service takes place. The
lord of the manor, leaving his pew in the
chancel, advances to the steps thereof
| and cracks a heavy carriage whip three
times, while the rector is reading the first
lesson. At the beginning of the second
lesson ne approaches the parson with the
whip in his hand and purse with gold
pieces tied to the end of the lash. This
he waves thrice in the air and then holds
| the whip so that the purse hangs directly
over the priests head, until the conclusion
| of the chapter, when the priest takes pos
session of the purse and reverently places
it on the altar. Volumes might be written
| about these queer immortal customs, the
origin of most of them being lost in anti
guilty.
| The Kelley motor will not down. A
visitor, described as a scientist from Lon
don, has been to see the motor. and de-
| scribes himself, in the London Globe as
! greatly impressed with it, and of the opin-
ION that Mr.. Kelley has certainly discov-
| cred a new force, which ought eventually
to be of inestimable value in the workshop
| of the world" The motor is now of ines
| Unable value-that being the particular
| thing that seems to all it. The London
| Seuli6Hdu saw MI. heeley Wneel go
| round, and was amazed, as were the other
scientists present. who found no evidence
of the working of any power they know
| of, but yet felt they were in the presence
of something wonderful and beyond their
comprehension. Mr.. Kelley explained,
but did not help matters, his explanations
being "couched in hopelessly obscure Lam
| guage." The most the visitor could make
| out was that the wheel was kept in mo-
ton "by some occult sympathy allied in
a certain way to the elements of music 3"
Mr.. Kelley may never perfect his mystic
rious apparatus, but he has at least so far
| interested the public that If he should
write his autobiography truthfully and in
clear and lively language it might find
readers. The world would be glad to
| know more about his machine, and as he
and his experiences and intellectual pro-
cesses seem a very important part of it, it
might prove ready to acquaint itself with
| them.
The web Of the Madagascar spider is
about to be utilized for the purposes OF
silk manufacturing by a company of
French capitalists. The natives of the
| island where this snidqr thri,yas lrnou