The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-06
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I'm some parts Of Spain the marriage
ceremony has some feature peculiar to
itself, that OF the velacione. During the
mass said after the marriage ceremony
the couple, with their godfather and god
mother, kneel at the foot of the altar;
silken cord is thrown around the neck OF
the bride, and the bridegroom holds the
ends of it, then long strip of silk cloth
Is thrown over the heads of the newly
married pair, and four lighted wax can
dies are handed, None to the BRIDE one TO
the groom, one to the godfather and one
10 the godmother, who stand to the couple
in much the same relation that best man
and maid of honor do with US under the
same circumstances. Then the priest
sprinkles all four with holy water, blesses
them, and the ceremony is over. A Span
ish woman does not consider herself thor
oughly married without velacione.
THE estate of Mary Pratt" says the
Philadelphia Record, will probably 90
down upon the records of the Orphans
Court as the smallest ever disposed of
there. The account of the administrator
of the estate was adjudicated recently
in the Orphans Court by Judge Hanna,
with all the formality and circumstance
that usually accompany such procedures.
The decedent, who departed this life in
April, 1897, left behind her the princely
sum of $3.50. OF this amount a brother
was awarded 81 cents and a sister s. cents.
Then there were a half-dozen nephews
and nieces, who clamored for their share.
They got IA cents each. Another niece,
more favored than the Others received
the munificent heritage of 43 cents to keep
the gaunt wolf of poverty from the porte
cochere. A like sum went to a niece
through her guardian, who viii have 10
make his formal report back to the court
h
upon him"
Two hundred portable protective
shields for use by the invading army of
the United States in Cuba for raiding rifle
pits have been manufac tured in this city,
says the Washington Star. The ''porta Bile
breastworks," as the affairs are dubbed
by the workmen, engaged on them, con-
sist of two large wooden wheels at either
end of a wooden axle about seven feet
long. To this axle is attached a twenty
foot ladder, the ladder being fastened
about eighteen inches from one of its ends.
The ladder is used as a leved for the
shield which is fastened to the Short
protruding end, while the longer portion
of the climbing apparatus is used as the
means of pushing the affair along. With
the steel plate in front of them, proof
against all infantry bullets it is believed
that a small detachment of soldiers will
be enabled to take rifie-pit filled with
men, 1t is to avoid the raking fire of the
sharpshooters that the shield is designed
and is to be used. Once adjacent to the
pit works the ladder is let go. The
shield swings down in a vertical position,
between the wheels and beneath the axle
while the latter is brought to perpendic-
ular position. 1t may now be used for
scaling purposes.
NJ. Duchesne, a retired officer of the
merchant service, living in the Rue
q Alesia Paris, brought nome an ourang-
Outang with him from Borneo some two
years ago, says a Paris correspondent.
The brute has since grown to its fun size,
and is a terror to the neighbors. It's mas
ter refuses to chain it up, contenting him
self with shutting the animal in his bed
room before going out. NJ. Duchesne did
this as usual on Saturday, which was the
day selected by burglar to make a pro
fessional call at mis- apartments. Nicolas
BargrOve, alias 1.-THE Devourer," had only
completed his ninth term of Imprisonment
three days ago, and was, consequently, TN
aware that NJ. Duchesne kept a pet. How
ever, when he broke into the bedroom
the burglar found himself grasped by two
hairy paws. The ourang -outang bit him
horribly an the face, and was trying to
strangle the captive when the burglars
screams brought help. The ape retreated
to a corner, showing it's teeth, and threat
ening to spring on his new arrivals. Bar
grove was drawn out of the room by his
feet, and after having been medically at
tended to, was conveyed to the depot in
Urinary. He had gone mad. The burglar
now imagines himself to have been chang
ed into an ape.
Prof. Koch's discovery of the active
agency of the mosquito in the propaga-
ton of malaria may lead to important
changes in the administration of qunine
for malarial affections, says the St. Louis
Globe Democrat. The discovery was made
almost accidentally. Prof. Koch was
studying Texas fever in cattle, which he
found was transferred from one herd to
another solely by the bite of a tick. He
infected sound cattle with ticks from dis
eased ones and succeeded in immunzng
cattle inocula ted with the ova of ticks
from cattle suffering from the disease.
Extending his investigation to malaria, he
arrived at the conclusion that in the case
of the human disease mosquitoes play the
part which ticks play in the cattle dis
ease. It was found that wherever there
are mosquitoes there is malaria. Con-
Versely, where there are no mosquitoes
there is no malaria. Treating cases with
out quinine, Prof Koch ,ascertained that
in malaria, as in other fevers, the tenn
perature follows q. definite course. BY
examining the blood of a patient under
the microscope he was able to tell from
the nature of the microbes the precise
stage of the development of the disease.
This ability is of the greatest importance
in determining the most advantageous
time at which to administer quinine DR..
Koch believes that ultimately it will be
possible to administer quinine in such a
rational and scientific manner as to avoid
the injurious consequences of the quinine
treatment. This and the establishment
of health resorts in the mountains will
rob tropical fever of many of its terrors.
There are spots in the ocean where
the water is five miles deep, says the Chi
cago Chronicle If it is true that the pres
sure of the water on any body in the
water is one pound to the square inch
for every two feet of the depth anything
at the bottom of one of the "fve-nnile