The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-17
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Bristol, England, which is built on an
archway. Besides the archway which
runs under it for traffic, there is also a
lesser one for foot passengers. These
formed the Gate of St. Johns, the princi-
pal entrance to the ancient city Of Bris-
toll. The thickness of the wall may be
calculated from the fact that the gate
way Is about seventeen yards long
AT the dedication of Kansas Citys
new public building, the convention hail.
the other day, seven thousand presents
were distributed 10 the holders of lucky
numbers in mammoth prize drawing
The gigantic rattle was gotten up to help
pay for the convention hall, and 10000
tickets had been sold at % cents each.
The prizes ranged in value from a Decent
sheet of music to a $4,000 house and lot
More money was raised by the sale at 81
each of thousands of convention hall but
tons, each of which entitled the holder
to one share of stock in the building COM
pany.
A correspondent of the Spectator thus
tells how a man addicted to the.spitting
habit was cured: THE captain of an At
lantic steamship was at a loss to induce
a passenger to desist from the filthy habit
of splitting on deck. Among the passen-
gers was a gentleman well known in To-
ronto forty years ago, vino undertook to
stop him if a quarteTmaster were placed
his disposal. The captain closed with
the offer and the man was directed to
fetch bucket of water and a mop, and
10 follow the offender UP and down the
deck. The result was completely salts
factory"
Ireland has a Klondike. II has just
been discovered in the county OF Wicklow,
and in the 'Vale of Avoca" made famous
by Thomas Moore's poem. The land be-
longed to the ancestors of Counsellor Gal
lagher of Memphis, but the Saracens came
and despofled them. For some time past
alluvial gold in an appreciate amount has
been found in the neighboring streams and
the government is setting seriously to
work TO investigate. A South African ex-
pert has been sent to explore for the moth
er lode, and biologists believe there is a
chance of finding a rich auriferous VEIN
County Wicklow is noted for it's mineral
deposits. Copper, lead and silver have
been profitdbly worked in the past
"A curious case of complicated relation
ship exists in Oakland, Cal, as a result of
a father and son marrying two sisters AL
limo Tolentino de Figuereda, aged 50. mar
ried May Carmyn, an 1S-year-old girl and
Wilfred a. de Figuereda, aged is, married
Katherine Carmyn, % years old. Thus the
boy will be his fathers brother-in-law: the
two sisters win be sisters-in-law; the faith
er's wife will be a step-mother to her
brotheF-in-law; the sons wife will be the
old gentleman's daughter-in-law, as we'll
as sister-in-law. If children be born to
the wife of the son, the grandfather will
be their uncle, and should there be chill
dren in the fathers home the son will be
uncle and step-brother. The old mans
wife will be aunt and step-grandmother to
her sisters little ones.
During the past year, for the first time
in sixty years, locomotives for use in
Great Britain have been ordered in this
country Several months ago a small en-
CINE for a light railway was delivered in
England by the Baldwin works, and more
recently there have been ordered for the
Midland Railway twenty freight locomo-
tives, of which ten will be built by the
Baldwin works and ten by the Schenectady
Locomotive Works In 18SS-40 the Norris
Company of Philadelphia shipped several
locomotives to England, but until these
recent orders there have been no exports
to that country. The chief reason assign
ed for placing these contracts in America
is that the English works are unable to
complete the engines in a sufficiently brief
interval of time. With shipments of loco
AlONANSS 70 IAuSSid, 0ulud, Japan, EDaln
and the SOudan during the year Just past
it is evident that the United States leads
the world at this particular industry.
The Philadelphia Record says: almost
the first thing a visitor does upon enter
ing the room in which the Declaration of
Independence was signed is TO add his au-
tograph to the vast collection of more than
twenty years! Assistant Superintendent
Reeves, who is the custodian of the book.
a few days ago, in speaking of his expert
ence, said: You wouldn't believe il, but
we have had only two attempts to mutilate
the register or to write anything in it
except names and addresses, and on both
OF those occasions the culprits were wo-
men. There's another strange thing about
the visitors he continued. of the thous-
ands who come mere the only ones we have
any trouble with are the women. We
have a tape stretched across all those
chairs, he said, as he pointed to a long
line of seats of the mighty as it were
chairs of the signers-'to prevent people
from sitting in them. Well, one woman
only yesterday wanted US to cut the tapa
for her, because she claimed she was a
descendant of one of the signers, ond
thought she had right to sit in his chair
and she went away mad when we wouldn't
make an exception in her case
The tides, those mysterious pulsations
OF the sea, have been the theme of curious
speculation ever since man began to ask
the reason of what he saw around him,
says the Scottish American. Many sages
and clever brains in the ages of the past
tried to explain away the periodical ebb
and flow of the ocean, and many plausible
if erroneous, ideas were seized upon and
used to solve the problem, and some of
the curious notions of these old world
philosophers are worthy Of interest. Aris-
tole, who tried to find a logical reason for
everything in nature thought that tides
were caused by the sun, which moves
and whistles the winds about so that they
fall with great violence on the Atlantic,
the only great ocean known to the Greek
which thus swells and causes the tide
Plato accounted for them as being caused
by an animal living in a cavern which,
by means of a huge orifice, created the
ebb and flow. The ancient Arabs believed
that tides were caused by the moon heat
ing the waters and causing thenl~to swell
while others averred that they were