The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-08
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been discovered by lunaties.
The facilities for inland transporta-
ton are so limited in Brazil that the in
habitants of the ports find it cheaper to
import grain from North America than
from their own farms.
1t is stated that the King of Siam,
who recently visited Europe, has had to
have a special box made to hold all the
insignia of the distinguished orders con-
ferred on him by brother monarchs. !
In the French quarries of st. Triphon
stone is sawed with steel wire cables
moistened with wet sand and passing In
an endless rope over a series of pulleys.
The wire, which runs from LOCO to 1000
feet per minute, is charged it enters
the cut with a jet of water and silicious
sand, which forms the cutting material.
running cable of 500 feet can make a cut
100 feet long.
The King of Wurtemburg may be re-
garded as a hotelkeeper as well as mon
arch. This has long been tradition in
his family, but not until lately was it dis
covered by the rulers of the beautiful lit
tie German kingdom how profitable inn
keeping can become. When Peter the
Great was travelling incognito through Eu-
rope he refused to stop anywhere but at
at inn. To circumvent this whim the then
King of Wurtemburg put d tavern sign
outside one of the royal palaces, and
dressed as an inn-keeper, himself well
coined the Car. This royal persona e' S
descendant now owns two large hotels
from which he is said to derive a revenue
equaling $4,000 year.
-Tarantulas do not dance to the sound
of the violin, but let the people they
bite do the dancing; SCORPIONS however,
enjoy fiddling, according to the Quarterly
Review and lizards go crazy for music
of any kind. As for serpents, the boa
constructor and python are senseless to
melody, but the cobra is fascinated by
the flute and still more by the fiddle. Po-
lar bears enjoy the violin; so do ostriches
wolves Will stop in the chase to listen to
cornet; elephants are fond of the flute
especially the upper notes; tigers while
approaching violin and flute, Cannot stand
the harmonium, while the musical seal
shows no emotion on hearing any instru-
ment, not even the bass drum.
THE word ALLOCATE" says a we'll
known Roman Catholic priest, Seems to
have a weird fascination for the American
press; for, though it has been explained
hundreds of times that the representative
of the Pope in this country is not an
ALLOCATE but an apostolic delegate, which
is a grade higher, at least seven out of
ten papers habitually refer to Archbishop
Martineli as an ALLOCATE. An ablegate
is temporary representative of the Pope
for some special function, while an apos-
tolic delegate is his permanent representa-
tive in a foreign country. The funniest
thing is that some papers use the two
words in the same article to describe
Archbishop Martinelh. It is as though a
writer should refer to Mr.. Mckinley as
President and Vice President"
in the old days of wooden ships the
boring insects which live in wood were
their chief foes. Teakwood acquired it's
reputation as a ship-building material be-
cause of its supposed immunity from
these Vermin. Steel ships suffer from
barnacles, which foul their bottoms much
more rapidly than they do wooden ones
These strange marine grOwths are some
times as big as ones fist and adhere to
the metal plates with tremendous force
and, besides impeding the ship them
selves, they catch sea grass and other
rubbish and drag it through the water
When a dry dock is not available metal
ships have TO have their bottoms cleaned
by divers. When the battleship Massa-
chusetts was recently cleaned barnacles
and grass covered her huh to such an
extent that she could not have made more
than ten and one-half knots an hour.
Citizens of Fargo. N. D.. according to
a correspondent of the Boston Transcript,
says that the divorce business gives them
a chance to become acquainted with some
of the most cultivated and interesting
people of the East and it is a matter of
frequent reference that Mrs. SO-and-So of
Boston spent last winter here, and that
Col. X of the regular army is expected
as soon a S hostilities close. There is evil
dence of considerable contagion in this
divorce habit. One woman, it is related,
came here to visit a brother, who was
serving his three months of residence,
and although she never thought of di-
vorce when she started, concluded that
While here, and since it could be done so
conveniently, she would shake off the
burdensome ties of matr.mony. Many of
the young people of this city, too, have
come to think that they ought to take ad-
vantage of a privilege close at hand, for
which persons from a distance pay so
heavily.
Gen. Crook is credited with having de-
clared that on one occasion he saw an
Apache lope 1900 feet up the side of a
mountain without showing the first signs
of fatigue, there being no perceptble sign
of increase of respiration. Capt. H. L.
Scott of the Seventh Cavalry has related
some astonishing feats performed by the
Chiracahua Apaches forming Troop l. of
his regiment. He tells how nine of these
Indians, after a hard days work, by way
of recreation, pursued a coyote for two
hours, captured the nimble brute and
brought it into camp; how on another oc-
casion, the scouts gave chase to a deer,
ran it down some nine miles from camp,
and fetched it in alive. Old timers in the
Rocky Mountains declare that in the days
before the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
was built the Puma Indians of Arizona
would recover settlers STRAY horses along
the overland trail by walking them down
in the course of two or three days. After
this one may begin to believe that Lying
Jim" Beckwourth, whose remarkable ad-
ventures early in this century are pre-
served in book form, was a much mallgn-
ed man, and that he spoke no more than
the truth when he said he had known in