The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21
EMS OF INTEREST.

men Whdve in the foothills of all the !
mountai1an ges TO scour the hills for
them anlship them hence. Cubs are
taken ALI, kept in pits and fed until
they att several hundred pounds in
weight len they are marketable. The
carcasse usually displayed by butchers
during ii holiday season are of domestl'
Gated bee, as the wild bears at that sea-
son are bernating. A Stalled bear de-
signed II the market is treated in about
the SAN way as a hog. He will eat the
same I'd a hog will eat, and about the
same entity, and his flesh tastes very
much lii pork, except for a gamey flavor
which possesses. Aside from this, the
bears Hbber makes the finest lard, his
hindquders furnish superior hams, and
his rib3ield the best of bacon.
in d year 1918. trial by combat was
last nd to be legal in England. The
case Vi that of Ashford VS.. Thornton,
and til facts were as follows: A man
namedkbraham Thornton had been ac-
cused / numbering young lady-Ma.y
AshfoE had been acquitted, where
upon lie brother of the deceased insti-
tuted prosecution against Thornton by
an apial of murder. Upon the case com
ing d for trial. Thornton pleaded mot
guilty and / am ready to defend the
samdith my body" and thereupon, TAX
Ing = glove OIL, ne luTGW II upon Suc
foorf the court, in accordance with the
ancidt practice in such cases. This dra-
matt scene excited a great sensations; the
pros utor declined under legal advice to
takeb p the glove, and the case was car
ried b the kings bench. The court fin
ally iecided that trial by battle was in
forcd no net of repeal ever having been
passd The duel however, was never
tough, AID in the next year, 1919, the
y g jnaf 10 md hn rio - Aol
were both made illegal by act of parlia-
ment.
-Eltctrcally propelled street cars all
over the country are rapidly adopting
electric eaters. even though heating In
this malner costs more than heating by
coal another hydrocarbon fuel, says the
Chattanooga Tradesman. The cost of
heating cars in this climate by the
electric current is said to be about "a
cents pr hour or 40 cents a day of thir-
teen burs. This increased cost is com
pensatd for by the greater cleanliness of
the cEs, the fact that electrical heaters
do no occupy useful space, and that the
heat more uniformly distributed in the
car, bar the floor, where the warmth is
most agreeable. The West End cars in
Bosto and the cars of other lines have
been made very comfortable the past win
give he best kind of heating, namely, by
indirect radiation. The admitted air is
warned in passing over plates of metal
Of high resistance. If the conductors
couldbe instructed In the matter of keep
ing the roof ventilating windows in the
rear and leeward of the car open, much
more satisfactory result would be Sc
cured. With such an arrangement ride
in the electric cars in cold weather would
not only be tolerable, but agreeable, and
passengers entering would not be dis
gusted, as of old, with the fetid air which
pervaded thecars.
La Manara, a daily paper published in
Corunt. Span, relates a peculiar occur
renee, whichis vouched for by the local
authorities o the village of Bens, not fan
from there. Some time ago the German
steamer Salf, from Bremen, foundereo
off that coas, and from time to time bod
les of some of the victims of the disaster
were washa ashore. An inhabitant OF
| the village ecently saw a body brought II
by the tide. and by means of hook drew
the body VI on dry land. The first thing
he did after landing the body was to seel
in the poelets of the drowned sailor fol
| the valuabhs he thought he mighS find
| The right arm of the corpse was theT
stretched oft stiffly and as the villagei
| searched The vest pockets of the deceased
| he must haze exerted some pressure upor
| the muscles of the breast, for as he did 81
the arm ofthe dead man suddenly SWUNG
| back and hit him squarely in the face. Thu
| fellow jumIed up, scared to death, and RAJ
home as fast as his legs could carry him
He went tobed in the greatest excitement
| and, after ,onfessing to priest, who wa
| quickly called, that he had attempted t
rob a corps and had been struck blow
| by the same he died the same day. Thi
story is given by the Spanish paper as alb
| solutely tru,, excepting only the natura
| explanation Of how the arm of the corps
| could have swung around when the breas
was compressed.
| Bernard ?alisey, the discoverer of tn
white enamd, out of whose enterpris
| grew the graf factories of Sevres an
| Dresden, spelt sixteen years in discover
/ ing his secrel-years of privation, perse
cution and hunger, which eliminated Il
| that well-known episode of maintainin
the furnace file at the cost of sacrificin
| all the furniture of his humble home. II
| succeeded in his quest, but, after som
| years of comparative prosperity, died 4
the Bastile. John Frederick Bottghel
who invented hard porcelain, was original
| ly an alchemi4t, who, while employed q
| the transmutaiion of metals by the cleo
| tor of SaXony, discovered red porcelain
and later by strange accident, whit
or true porcelain. For one day chancin
| to notice that his perruque was unusual
| ly heavy, he inquired into the cause anC
| finding that 1t was owing to the powde
with which the wig was dressed, exper
mented, with the result that he discoy
| cred 1.-The principal ingredient of the hail
| powder to be kaolin, the want of whic
had so long formed an insuperable diff
Guilty in the way of his inquiries" Whe
the brothers Elers set up a factory q
Burslem, they, TO keep their secret, en-
ployed none but the most stupid work
men. But Samuel Astbury resolved
| Iatnom their metnod, ana, by auecun
utter ignorance and Incompetence, wa
by degrees allowed to watch their move
ments, till he became a master IN the
art, and was able to set up riva: 6
adjustment of his own.
Electric storms are far less dangerou
than the majority OF people imagine. say
the Pittsburg Dispatch. That a sever
lightning storm is terrifying admits of n
question, and will sometimes bring gref
uneasiness to the heart of the stronge:
man. But the real danger is slight tn
chance of lightning striking a house, fC
example, Is not one in a million. Particl
| larly is this true in cities, strung as mo.
OF them are with electric wires The gres
| danger from electric storms Is in III