The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-31
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tanning Coi.ed springs, which are com
pressed by the weight of the cake 10 move
sliding indicators over the gradua! ATOMS cut
on the cylinders
"A freight train pulled into a station en-
the Boston and Maine recently. and ven
triloquist on the platform thought ne
would nave some sport. so he threw his
voice under the car, saying; Let me out;
let me OUT" The station agent was call
ed, and ne FASTENED 10 unfasten the door
of a car. After working for time, he got
the door open and out walked four tramps,
all of whom disciaimed having asked 10 be
let out. The ventriloquist had builded
better than he knew, and had stepped upon
The ride of the four hoboes, who were left
behind
Vanity Fair believes if the birth of a
third daughter TO the Car and Czarina
may be regarded as something like ca
lamity TO Russia, the event is of still more
serious import TO that eminent physioio-
gist, Prof Schenk. 1t will be remem bered
that he startled the world last year by an
nouncing the discovery of a certain method
for determining beforehand the sex of any
little stranger" A large number of eli
ents i'm quest of heirs male sought the doc
tors advice, and among these were NichO-
las [ and his charming consort. Prof.
Schenk's services were called in too late
TO altar the sex Of the Grand Duchess Ia
tiana. On this occasion his injunctions
were strictly carried out from the first and
Vanity Fair says the result is hardly calcu-
lated 10 inspire confidence in his treatment
Not many people know that the aver
age growth of the finger nails is one thirty
second of an inch a week or little more
than one and a half inches a year. OBJ
served a physician recently according to
the New York Tribune. The growth
1f,vr~g -le
the rate of nutrition, and during sickness
and abstinence from good, nourishinS food
it is retarded. Nails grow faster in sum
mer than in winter, and the growth differs
for different fingers, being usually most
rapid in the middle finger and sloweSt in
the thumb. The average time taken for
each finger nail to grow to its fun length
is about four and a half months and al
this rate a man of 20 years of age would
have renewed his nails 1856 times. Taking
the length of each nail at half an inch, he
would have grown seven feet nine inches
of nail on each finger, and on all his fin
| gers and thumbs an aggregate length OF
! seVenty-seven feet six inches"
The proverbial slowness of Philadelphia
does not apply TO the undertakers of that
city. AS one of the Philadelphia papers
| has pointed out undertakers, like police
men, are wanted badly when they are
wanted al all. The other day an under
| taker of that city received a summons to
which he speedily responded, only TO find
! that an innocent child who had been ad-
| vised to have funeral for a dead hen,
! had taken the first step in the arrange
| ment by calling an undertaken. The Riley
! family live at Thirty-frst and Reed
| streets The youngest hopeful had a hen
| and a brood of chickens When the mother
! died he was incOnsolable until a boarder
advised the funeral The little fellow ran
| to the undertakers, who hurriedly har-
| messed his horse and drove to the Riley
| residence. His coming aroused the neigh
| borhood, who imagined all sorts of fatali-
ties, but when the joke came out even the
| perspiring undertaken laughed.
Prof A. NJ. Leonard Chicago's "apos-
tie of the Mission of the Messenger of
! Truth" has discovered that the odvent of
| the kissing bug presages the end of the
| world. In "a thunderous and sulphuric
| discourse before a large audience in Chi
! cago the other night he pronounced the
| mysterious pcipes TO be the veritable To-
| Gust which the Book of Revelation says
| shall come from the bottomless pit, attack
men with the sting of the scorpion, from
| the effects of whose bit the victim shall
| iinger five months, and which fastens itself
| upon those whose foreheads do not bear
| the seal of the Lord Prof. Leonard read
| extensively from the Book of Revelation
lamities such as the cyclone at St. Louis,
| the sinking of La Bourgogne and the tor
| nado in Wisconsin. When he had fin
| ished his lecture two in the audience an
| nOunced that they believed what he said
| to be true, but Brother Wheeler, a cour-
ageous layman, signified that he did not
accept the professors theory. This was
| the only expression of dissent from the
new explanation of the mission of the
kissing bug
The report of a special committee APP
| pointed under the auspices of the Min
| istry for Commerce and Manufactures of
| Russia TO consider the question of a sys-
| TEN of weights and measures for the en-
| pre- has been drawn up. The committee
| OF which Profs. Mendelejeff and Kanowa-
| loft have been prominent members, recon-
| mend that the metric system be intro
| duced gradually, and in commerce only
! when both parties 10 the transaction agree
| to employ it. Alterations are to be made
| in the measures of area and volume for
| certain articles, and also in the apothe-
| cares weights. Quite an elaborate sys-
| fem 10 supervise The weights and maa-
| sures of the empire is proposed, with a
| main office at ST. Petersburg and control
| Institutes in different cities. These will
! be founded gradually, and by the year
| 1920 il IS proposed that there shall be 100
| of such bureaus An important recommen-
! udtlOI COutdlIlSu III the report is that all
| weights and measures used in commerce
! should be examined every three years
| That the introduction of The metric sys-
| tenn is to be postponed will be a source
| of regret to many who are hoping for its
| universal adoption.
Mr.. Moreton Frewen. who, says the
! New York Times, probably doesn't know
more things about financial matters than
any man alive. and who is marvelously
| industrious and more marvelously sue
| cessful in demonstrating his superiority
| has just achieved a new triumph by dis
covering what, in his opinion, is going to
! put speedy and emphatic END to the COM
mercial prosperity of the United States.
| Writing from Chicago to the London
| Times, he informs that paper, and through
| it the world, that, though we have man.
| aged 10 get hold of a lot of gold, we are
going 10 lose it all in a few minutes, and
| then awful things will happen to us. Mr..
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