The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20
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ton then at 100000 and assuming that it
would double Itself every twenty-five years,
the writer estimated that in the year 1890
the number would have increased to Ga
100000. This may be taken as a most re-
markable prophecy, inasmuch as the cen
sus of 1880 fixes the total population at g.. =
622, $50.
james Blair, farmer living at College
Corner, o., is owner of a dun mare aged
q years, which a few days ago foaled a
hne, well-developed colt having five legs.
The extra appendage is an outgrowth
from the pastern joint on the right front
leg. The foot proper is turned half
around, and possesses but little strength.
When the colt moves around it goes with
a kind of hop-step-and-jump gait. Mr.
Blair will endeavor to raise the little
questrian curiosity
George Herold, the original boy tramp.
left st. Louis nine years and eight months
ago on a wager of 5000 that he could walk
5000 miles in ten years and earn 5000
on his travels He has two months left
to complete his journey and has earned
1888 He has credentials from nearly all
the cities he has visited and carries vouch-
ers for al the money he has earned. Dur
ing his travels he has visited forty-four
states and one territory. On the compile
ton of his journey he will engage in bust
ness in st. Louis with the money he has
saved.
Few people have any idea of the
number of assertions from warships when
they enter port" remarked a well known
naval officer, who is stationed in this city
says the Philadelphia Record Some
times as high as twenty or thirty men
take. French leave, and despite the offer
of $40 reward for the arrest of each man.
they are seldom apprehended. There does
not exist dissatisfaction on board any of
the ships, and the fault lies in the fact
that men Of foreign BIRTH without recon-
mendation, have been allowed to enter the
navy. When these men receive month S
pay, they are granted shore leave. and
are not seen again. This is only the lower
class, as some of the best officers and
bluejackets in Uncle Sans navy are for
eigners."
State Irrigation Commissioner Cock
rane has just returned from Edmunds
county, Dakota, where he has
been directing measures to de-
stroy grasshoppers, which have
alarmed settlers there and in Brown coun-
ty, says a dispatch to the New York Post
Prof. Saunders of the state AGRICULTURAL
college is on the ground experimenting the
work. Fourteen hopper dosers are in use.
Crude petroleum is shipped in by the rail-
ways free and used in the work. One can
gather about bushel of hoppers in twen-
ty minutes. They move across the road
like big gray blanket, and have already
done much damage. The commissioners
will offer a bounty of 50 cents bushel
for the hoppers. Prof. Saunders declares
that II the hoppers are permitted to reach
the period of wings they will deposit mil
lions of eggs for next years crop. The
county has set men at work burning off
stubble and grass on unused fields.
The following results of analyses of
WHISTLES of varying ages are interesting
in illustrating to some extent the infiu-
ences of keeping upon the composition
of spirits, says the Lancet. Whisky six
years old gave the following results AL
cohol by weight, 42.O5 per cent; by vol
ume, 1855 per cent; equal to proof spirit,
1854 per cent; acidity reckoned as acetic
acid, OOS6 per cent; eXtractives, 0.65 per
cent; mineral matters, nil Whisky, ten
years old: Alcohol by weight, 42.O5 per
cent: by volume, 49. IS per cent; equal to
proof spirit, 1854 per cent; acidity, G. 1916 per
cent; extractives, 06S5 per cent; mineral
matter, nil. Whisky, fifteen years old. Al
cohol by weight, 1880 per cent. by vol
ume, 47.1S per cent; equal to proof spirit.
1888 per cent; acidity, 0036 per cent. ex
tractives, OS15 per cent; mineral mat.
ter, nil. 1t will be seen from these
results that with increasing age, as might
be anticipated, the amount of extractives
increases. This is, of course, derived from
storage in sherry casks which contain
more or less resinous matter. There is
practically no difference in the alcoholic
strength between the 5-year and l0-year
old samples but in the 15-year-old sam
pie the spurious strength is decidedly
lower, owing, doubtless, to the evapora-
ton of spirit during storage in wood To
the taste all were satisfactorily mellow.
the Oldest sample being particularly mild
and soft.
The London Times describes an inter-
esting piece of rapid structural engineer
ing work which was accomplished recently
on the Great Eastern railway system. The
railway bridge over the River Ouse, on
the London and Norwich Main Line near
Ely, was completely removed, and new
wrought-iron bridge of one span, of some
800 tons dead weight and $50 feet long. erect
ed in its place. The night was extremely
dark and the work was rendered some
what difficult by the prevailing high wind
and heavy gusts of rain. About 80 a. m
operations We're begun by removing the
rails and upper cross timbers. Half an
hour later the first of the iron Orders.
which number twenty in all and weigh
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powerful steam cranes and shuuted on TO
trucks. The work was completed by 1880
a. IN. Preparations We're then made for
placing the new bridge, which had been
previously erected on staging alongside
the old bridge, into position. This was
effected by slowly hauling the entire
structure by means Of powerful winches
fixed on both river banks. The bridge it.
self rested on trolleys running on rails
laid along the abutments. The next bus
mess was 10 relieve the trotleys Of their
300 tons Of dead weight and to lower the
bridge by powerful hydraulic Jacks on to
its permanent supports. This done. rails
were laid, the permanent way was made
good, and the main line connections com
pletely restored, with a delay to only one
train OF the ordinary Sunday service.
1t it remarkable that the toad. loving
water as ii does, should wander away from
watery regions to dry ground where It can
never see a drop Of water except at rain
time, and leave its water rights TO the
undisputed possession OF its ranal neigh
Dor the frog, says Meehan's Monthly How.
the toad loves water must be known 10
every garden lover Whenever there h
a shower, the creature leaves its cool re
treat under the DiaZZn or ated ana .4..a.