The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-09
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rotary at the meetings of the municipal
council. Some of the councillors objected
on the ground that all their little defects
of oratory would be registered by the
apparatus, but the majority voted for a
trial of it.
The machine-made American file has
come into such sharp competition with
the European handmade implement that
legislation against the American produc-
ton may soon be expected. One Indiana
firm recently shipped in a single order to
an English cycle manufacturing company
648 dozen files. The same concern ships
largely 10 France, Germany, Russia, Aus
tria, Norway and Denmark.
If newspaper reports are true, Paris
physician has made a discovery that will
be of undoubted value to electrical men
who are so unfortunate as to be burned
by the electric current The Paris doctor
says that q solution of one part picric
acid and seventy-fve parts of water will
cure quickly the most serious burns The
pain is instantly removed without bis
tering or irritation, and the wound heals
in four or five days. A yellow tint is left
on the skin, which may be removed by a
solution of boric acid.
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ton, the best Russian caviar is the
'hardroe" of the female sturgeon. The
eggs of the male sturgeon yield an Inferior
quality. The acid taste of caviar stur-
geons from which it is taken were fshed
in deep water. The name of Caviar is
given to the roe of other fishes. The Jews
OF the seventeenth century, believing
that sturgeon roe brought leprosy, substi-
tuted the roe of carp. The Morse dry the
roe of the makerel and pickle it. That of
the red mullet is employed in making
curry" and in the ''botargo" of the
Italians. Even lobster eggs are used in
iieu Oh caviar in the province of Astrak-
han.
There are two mountains in New
Hampshire bearing the name Kearsaree.
says the Boston Transcript. One of these
IS in Warner, in Merrimac county; the
other near North Conway. There is "A
fanciful tradition that the Warner noun
tain got its name from hunter Hezekiah
Sargent, who is said to have been the
first man to discover it. Sweetser doubts
the existence of any such hunter, and
traced the name back to 1725. a period pre-
ceding the alleged appearance of Mr. Sar-
gent on the scene. G. V. Fox, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy during the civil
war, and the best possible authority on
the subject. wrote years ago: when we
selected the name for the Kearsarge
sloop-of-war, in which the gallant Wins
low sunk the Alabama, we had no thought
whatever of the Kearsarge in Merrimac
county"
#. G. Maardt. a Danish engineer, rec
ognizing the advantage of supplying con-
sumers with fresh fish, has patented an
apparatus by which the creatures can be
conveyed by rail for any reasonable dis
lance in live state. This apparatus is
| fitted to an ordinary railway truck, and
consists of tank of seawater divided by
that the water, actuated and
aerated by pumps, is kept in constant
circulation The fish contained in the
tank cannot rest but have to stem the
strong current in the tank, the pumps
being worked by small steam engine. In
a tank capable of holding two thousand
pounds of fish, the water will pass
through five times In the course of an
hour; and, although it is stated that the
water is reoxygenized in the process, the
means whereby this is done are not de-
tailed. AT a recent trial of the apparatus
sixteen hundred pounds of fish were kent
alive for eight days, although previously
they had been kept for three DAYS in or
binary salt water boxes in the harbor of
| Frederikshavn. The cost of preserving
| hsh in this manner is said to come to less
| than one-half cent per pound for each
day during which the apparatus is at
work.
DIR. Kenneth Canbell, Oban, has been
telling the story of the last living Great
AUX, says the Westminster Gazette. II
| seems ABOUT 500 years ago a strange bird
was seen one day on St Kilda. It was
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had an enormous beak, 1t seemed to have
very small wings Several of the natives
who were adopts at bird-stalking managed
| to capture it alive. When the huge bird
| was taken to the township "The Island
Parliament" was assembled to deliberate
on the strange visitor, and it was agreed
| to tie Its legs securely with strong cords
| ana 10 tether it for the night to stout
pm liked in the ground near the houses
and 10 decide its fate next day. On the
! morning the Parliament was called very
early, as the bird had made such hideous
noises during the night that hardly any,
body could sleep. The bird was undoubt
| edly considered an evil emissary After
| serious consideration the verdict was Civ
en- to have the vile bird stoned to death
and the sentence was at once carried out
Months after this, when communications
| were again opened with st. Kilda. and the
| natives Hihutely detailed the points of
this awesome bird to visitor thew were
Informed that If they had kept even the
carcass 1T would have brought them 600
or t40O Then their chagrin was beyond
expression, and some of them began 10
search for some of the bones of the inno-
| cent and valuable victim.
The earth is richer than mas heretofore
been supposed, says the Springfield Re
publican. 1t has two satellites instead
of one. The second moon of the earth. long
suspected by astronomers has been an
nounced by DR.. George Waltemath of
Hamburg, and the Martians have less rea-
son to crow over us than they have had
with their four moons 1t is a very small
moon that the German professor has dis
covered, a little more than ninetv-four
miles in diameter, LIB of the big moon
in volume, $50 in mass-weighing. in fact
about 1O406, 80 COO, 600 O09000 tons. II re-
wolves around the earth at about 2.7 times
the distance, of our old moon in an aver
age of III days Now that it has beon
fixed, 1t can be observed even bv me
naked eye, il is said. II has been the
cause of certain disturbances and accelora-
tons of the moons motion which have
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