The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-30
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Senator Chandler, who spends the en-
tire summer riding bicycle in New
Hampshire, has nearly 5000 miles to his
credit.
The physicians at the city dispensary
are puzzled over a new form Of poisonous
| disease says the St. Louis Republic. DR..
| Newcomb. assistant dispensary physician,
| has handled fourteen scases, and the pa
tients still continue to come. The trouble
| consists in an abnormal swelling of the
| face hands feet, and body, the effect,
apparently, of insect bites "Those who
| have applied to the dispensary all tell the
same tale" said DR. NeTcomb. They
| say that during these hot nights they go
| TO bed and sleep without covering, and
| when they wake up in the morning their
| faces are frightfully swollen. Their hands
| too, are affected, and sometimes thei;
feet. We prescribe hot applications, which
generally have the effect of reducing the
swelling. We are a a loss what to call
the malady, and this seems to be the first
year it has appeared. 1t is doubtless the
| result of a new hot-weather bugs opera
| tons"
The appearance of myriads of German
carp, varying in size from one to four
pounds, lying dead with lacerated bodies,
for miles along the bank of the Kankakee
river and covering the surface of the wa
ter, called thither State Fish Commits
sioner Cohen of Champaign and s. Bart
lett, superintendent of fisheries, at Quin-
cy, ILL., to inquire into the cause, says
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat. They
found that several schools of carp had
attempted to pass through a millrace at
Waldron, and had been ground to pieces
in the turbine waterwheel. Although the
rw,Tr ~ hae ha, a nd
pickerel streams in Illinois, not until this
year have any carp been caught from its
waters. The attempt to stock 1t with Ger
man carp five years ago was apparently
failure, until within the past two weeks,
when myriads of that species suddenly
appeared. They were caught by the bag
full, but are now moving down stream in
large schools, searching cooler waters.
Commissioner Cohen cannot explain the
sudden appearance of the carp at that
point this year.
One of the queerest features of court
life in Europe is the marriage by proxy
of royal personages, says the Argonaut.
| There are at the present moment no less
than three royal ladies who have been thus
| wedded-the Queen Regent of Spain, the
dowager queen of Portugal and the ex-
Queen of Naples. Kings and reigning
sovereigns are held to be too important
| personages to be married anywhere else
| than in their own domnions. On the 9TH
| er hand, it is held to be mira dignitate for
| a spinster princess of the blood, who is
about to blossom forth into a full-fiedged
| queen or empress, to travel abroad in
| quest of a consort. In order to meet this
difficulty, the royal or imperial bridegroom
| delegates one of the principal mobiles of
| the realm, who goes through the religious
and civil portions of the wedding ceremony
in the capital of the brides country on be-
| half of his master, making the responses
| for him, and rendering his hand, as well
| as the ring, at the prescribed points of
| the ceremony. He then accompanies her
| to his masters dominions, acting as her
| chief escort. According to the ideas of
the Roman Catholic church, a ceremony
of this kind is sufficiently binding upon
| the bride and upon the royal bridegroom
| to render any further ceremony, ecclesias-
| teal or civil superfiuous, and when any
| additional religious function takes place
| it usually assumes the form of a "Te
| Deum" and a solemn benediction, attend
| ed by both husband and wife Immediately
on the arrival of the latter in the capital
of her adopted country.
In mining for gold in Siberia the
ground is kept clear of snow, so as to
| permit the cold to penetrate as deeply as
| possible, after which the surface is thaw-
d
! can be removed, says the Engineering
Magazine. The freezing is then allowed
| to proceed, and the thawing opera ton re-
| peated and this is continued as long as
| the cold weather lasts. In this way
| through the long Siberian winters, open
| excavations are made on the gold-bearing
rocks, the depth attained being from
twenty-five to seventy-five feet, according
to the duration of the cold season. Arti-
| fetal cold for purposes of excavation was
used first by Poetsch in 1888; by his we'll
known process of the circulation of cold
brine through series of buried pipes the
most difficult quicksand may be made
| hard enough to be excavated like rock. In
the article under consideration are given
| general illustrations and details of the APP
| paratus used in sinking the shaft at the
| Courrieres mine, together with formulas
| enabling the safe thickness of frozen wall
| to be computed for round or square shafts
| of any given dimensions. Among the inn
portant applications of the freezing pro-
| cess are noted the sinking of the shafts
| for the cylinders of the hydraulic eieva-
| tor for the canal lift at Les Fontinettes,
and the construction of a tunnel at Stock
holm. The latter work was executed en-
| tirely by the Introduction of cold air into
the working chamber at the head of the
tunnel, the cold preventing the infiltration
| Of water until the beton lining was built,
| and the work of excavating and lining be-
ing carried on at temperatures ranging
between no degrees and twenty-five de-
| grees f.
The Empress of Russia has presented
the car with another daughter, says the
London Daily News. The car is said to be
elate as a father, but to be disappointed as
a sovereign. This is but a way of saying
| that his next brother, the Grand Duke
George, as still heir to the throne The
grand duke is probably no less disappoint-
ed than the head of his house. His health
is very delicate. and he has TO pass the
most of his time on the Mediterranean.
The two infant daughters have but ex-
tremely remote chances Of the succession.
They are not wholly excluded, but all pos
sible male heirs take precedence of them;
that sis to say, in the present instance the
cars two brothers. and any male chill
dren or childrens children they may have
to say nothing Of the possible heirs male
OF the car. At present, however, neither
of these princes is married. On the ex-
tinction Of the last male line. the throne
passes into the female lines according to
their degrees of proximity to the emperor
who reigned last This was the evstep, ~