The morning news., 1899-12-22


walton being 5,26 feet 1t will be manas-
cd by the Prussian authorities
in London newspaper ingenuity is be
ing exercised in the attempt to discover
word for wireless telegraphy. The sug-
gestions include ''wave-writing, undi-
graphy," "atmography," and 'magnoelec-
typography"
One of the most beautiful natural rock
carvings in the world is the Southern
Cross on the Island of Grand Menan in
the Bay Of Fundy. 1t stands at the head
of a ledge of rocks jutting into the bay
from the foot of one of the immense cliffs
at the southern end of the Grand Manan-
It's shape is that of an almost, perfect
cross.
Miss Saber Rouse of Cherokee county,
Kansas, was run over by a railroad train
fifteen years ago, when she was only
years old, and thereby lost a leg. Now
her father has just brought suit for $3O,-
600. Il may be that the plaintiff is at last
convinced that the leg will not grow again,
but the tardiness in bringing action would
seem TO circumvent the recent ruling OF
. court that DANA ges in any large amount
for injury to child of tender years are
not collectable because of the uncertainty
attending the maturing Of the injured.
In Nice the weather has been so cold
that the proprietor of one of the hotels
there. who has been sending daily reports
of the thermometer readings to the New
York Herald was hard put to it to tell the
truth without hurting the towns reputa-
tion for salubrity, and consequently his
own business. The temperat lures he re-
ported were so much higher than those
received from other sources that man
was sent by the Herald TO investigate and
found the Thermometer hanging against
the stove in the hotel office. 1t was ak
en- out in the sun every day and read be-
fore it had time to cool off.
Hartford, Conn, has had a man with
marble heart. The heart was partially
covered with deposit of calcium salts, of
which marble is composed. 1t felt like
stone, and when struck gave out a sound
as of stone. 1t offered the same resist
auce piece of stone or marble would.
Calcareous deposits about the heart are
common but no case is known here where
so much of the heart was turned into
substance resembling stone. The man
who had this marble heart died in the
Hartford Hospital He would not tell VIII
he was in pain. Little is known of the
history of his case. He was tailor. so
years Old.
A curious lawsuit which grew out of
the purchase of piano has just been ad-
judicated in Providence R. I. The buyer
of the instrument ordered il delivered at
her residence, but when it arrived there
il could not be carried through the door
The window sashes We're then taken out,
but in vain, and it was next decided to
remove the window frame. The piano
! dealers were unwilling to bear the ex-
| pense of that operation, and so was the
purchaser, and as a result the instrument
| was taken back to the piano rooms, and
/ thp demanded fbp n nor
| money. Upon the refusal of the dealers TO
! comply with her request she entered suit
| and the case has been decided against her.
-Megaphones, which have generally
been looked upon as a sort of semi-useful
| plaything for yachtsmen or by aunouncers
| at bicycle races and field sports, are now
| being put TO a thoroughly practical use
| by builders Two of them are in constant
| use by the contractors for the Cathedral
of st. John the Divine. New York. With
| them a man at the top of the arches
| about $50 feet above the street level
! converses with the stonecutters and
! handlers of other materials below. So
useful have these exaggerated speaking
| trumpets become that their general use
| by builders is certain to follow this iuno-
| walton. Megaphones for such purposes
have been found better than the tele.
phone, as they are inexpensive and there
is no danger of their getting out of re-
pair.
| N. P. O'Connor of Tocoma. Wash, in
speaking to a writer for the New York
Tribune, of the recent discovery of gold
| in the sands of the beach at Cape Nome
said THE whole of my part of the West
is gone mad over this discovery, and the
| reports that come from there SAVIOR of the
| miraculous. 1t is safe to say that the
sixty miles or more of beach at Cape Nome
will next season easily have population
of twenty-five thousand or more. Pete
| Daley, the assayer al Tacoma, to my mind
put the finishing touches on the wonder
| full stories of the latest Alaskan gold dis
| covery when he told a friend of mine the
| other day that a vessel had come in from
Cape Nome ballasted with ordinary sand
taken from the open beach; that this sand
had assayed 800 ton, and the entire bal
last had been sold at that price to a Ta-
coma smelter."
There died last month, says the Chi
cago Tribune, a man who had done much
to shake belief in the legend of Jonah.
William Simpson devoted his life to a
study of the narrative, and wrote a book
to prove that the Biblical story is due to
an initiatory ceremony connected with the
religion of the Assayrian fish god, who
was akin to the Dagon of the Philistines
! Recent researches have brought to life
iulhIeNS Vi llleCeS OL ASSyIldn sculpture
containing representa- tionS of human be-
ings draped in fish skin or protruding head
and shoulders from the jaws of the fish.
A man who clad himself in fish skin was
supposed to oe endowed with the attrib-
utes of the deity, and after undergoing the
rite the novice was supposed to be born
again Simpson argued that in course
of time, when the ceremony fell into dis
use and its meaning was forgotten the in
cldents of the rite were deVeloped into a
miraculous story
The Prince of Monaco is so far the
only reigning sovereign who may be said
to have publicly espoused the cause Of
the Transyaal against Great Britain. saws
a corresponds Mt, for he has sent to DR.
Leyds, the Transvaal agent at Paris. a
large subscription for the relief of The
wounded on the Boer side and has al
the same time addressed to him a public
letter expressing his warm sympathy for
those patriotic men, who are fighting in
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