The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-04
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| - ne AdteSl EeulScOFery OF a LOST, ola
master TO be reported from Eurd9e is that
of Vaudyke found in a house in the old
part of the city of Trieste 1t is said 10
represent young princess of the ducal
| house of Gonzague, of Mantua II has had
a curious history. In September, 1923, aft
er the death of Duke Vincent II, Mantua
was taken by the German troops. The
| imperial army was composed of deserters,
| who pillaged the city. All objects Of art
sculpture and pictures that the Gonzagues
! had collected We're carried away, including
the Vandyke portrait. After adventures
OF all sorts, the picture was finally brought
to Trieste, and there it has at last been
| recognized as the masters work.
They had an odd way of testing the
| disposition of the lover in Sweden, several
centuries ago. Wisely enough the Swedish
| father thought the best plan to find out
| before marriage what the mans character
might be, rather than that the beloved
daughter should suffer afterward. The
| test was to play chess. Said the father
in the language of CLANS Magnus, "at
| these games their anger, love, peevishness,
| covetousness, dullness, passions and mo-
| tives of their minds, and the forces and
| properties of their fortunes are used to
| be seen; as whether the wooer be rudely
| disposed, that he will indiscreetly rejoice
and suddenly triumph when he wins: or
whether, when he is wronged, he can pa
| tiently endure it and wisely put it off
| What paragons the women must have
| been! There is nothing said of a proba-
| tionary test for them.
The mountain ranges of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania abound in rattlesnakes.
which are turned by the natives to va
rious commercial uses land, though the rep
| tile does not pay very well, his residuary
| substances have some selling value For
| instance. his skin, if large one, is worth
| 81, and IL sold to the summer boarder
| brings on an average about $780, 1t is
made into belts, pocketbooks, slippers and
other articles of like sort, and is of deli
| cate ornate texture, with curious inter-
| lacings and imbrications shaving how fine
| ly the original serpent was jacketed. It's
| oil is very costly and has various uses. and
| its venom, still more costly, is administer
| ed in cases of scarlet fever. The market
! rate per ounce of the rattlesnake venom is
| not precisely given but it is high up on the
| schedule, and that is probably one reason
| why Hiram Skate of Pike county, Penn
! sylvania, wants to organize a rattlesnake
| trust to regulate prices and control out
! put. The scheme is in harmony with cur
rent commercial tendencies, and as we
said of one of the reptiles which had swal-
| lowed frog too large for its constitution,
there may be something I'm it,.
The surgeon of great liner. who has
been 10 years in the North Atlantic trade
| said the other day that the modern big
ship has decreased seasickness tremen-
! dously, says the New York Sun. Not 2 per
| cent. of the cabin passengers on a first
class twin screw are i'll during even the
| toughest winter voyage. Bi1ge keel and
| the great length of the new liners lessen
| to large degree, their tendency to roll
| and pitch. A passenger on a short slow
| going ship of 10 years ago, the surgeon
| said, needed a pretty good stomach to
| stand the mighty shaking up he was sure
| to get in winter storm. There was no in
| fallible remedy for seasickness, he said. 1t
| could be relieved, and even prevented in
persons who were not of a squeamish dis
| position. Persons of different temperament
| required different treatment. What was
| good for bilious patient might not be
| good for one who was not bilious. Acid
and effervescent drinks were remedial and
bandage on the abdomen also helped
But the surgeon finally said, the time was
near when there would be no seasickness,
| when the SO0-foot ship, with lots of beam
| and deep bilge keels would make voyaging
in the most tumultuous weather almost as
| comfortable as staying on shore in your
parlor.
| IA gentleman well known in turf cir
| cles made a curious wager in the year
| 1860. in which he backed himself to smoke
| one pound weight of strong
| foreign regalias within twelve
| hours, says an exchange. The con-
| ditions were that the cigars should be
| smoked one at time to within one inch
| of the end, the hacker of time, as in the
/ Of ,af.r
/ weeds. The match was decided off a
| Thames steamer plying between London
and Chelsea the smoker taking up po-
| sition well forward in the bows where he
| caught the force of all the breeze that
was blowing. The cigars ran a hundred
| TO the pound, so that about eight an hour
| had to be consumed to win the wager A
| start was made at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing and the effair was finished after in
the evening. In the course of nine hours
and twenty minutes eighty-six cigars were
fairly smoked, the greatest number con-
1 summed being in the second hour when the
| smoker disposed of no fewer than sixteen
| AT the eighty-sixth cigar, when fourteen
| only remained TO be smoked, the hacker
| of time gave in, finding that the smoker
was bound to win. and the latter puffed
| the remainder away at his leisure in the
| course of the same evening. The winner
J subsequently declared that he
| had not experienced the slight
| est difficulty or unpleasantness
| during the whole time he was blowing
off the weeds. The only refreshment TAX
en- during the progress of the match was
| a chop at o'clock, the eating of which
occupied twenty minutes, and gill and
half of brandy in cold water at intervals
throughout the day
The ingenious experimental methods
that have proved beyond reasonable
doubt that it is gravitation that causes the
| upright growth of plants are thus describ-
| ed, says the Literary Digest, in a series of
| articles on botany now being published in
| the Pharmaceutical Era. Says that Jour
| nal: THE direction of growth of root
| and stem is not a merely accidental one.
| number of investigators have been at
| work to see what is the cause of this di-
ametrically opposed growth in stem and
root. 1t has been suggested that the &C.
ton of gravitation would take some part
| in the guidance of the roots This is. in
fact, the apparent tendency of the follow
| ing experiments. Beans have been made
to terminate when placed on the circum-
ference of an iron or wooden wheel sur
rounded with moss SO as 10, maintain the
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