The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-21
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war and an express messenger. He re-
Gently declared that he would be perfect
iy happy could he paint but one picture a
year and destroy that it. when finished,
he did not approve OF it.
A san Francisco telegram says: VIII
liam Steel, the banker who died recently
in San Rafael. Cal. leaving an estate OF
100000, often expressed an aversion to
ministers, and his will just filed for pro-
bate proves that he meant just what he
said. The closing paragraph reads: And
l make the special request that my body
be cremated and that not one copper
coin Of the income of my estate be eX-
pended upon or in any chapel or church or
upon the support or encOurag cement, dI-
rectly or indirectly. of any sO-called min
lister of the gospel or on missionaries of
any sect, for the whole of the tribe of
whom l entertain a sincere, well-fOuDdel
and unconquerable aversion, because dur
ing my lifetime I found that both the men
and women preachers did not know about
what they were talking"
We have just been cold that the John
sons stand at the head of the Chicago di-
rectory, says the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal. But the Boston directory came for
ward with the Smiths at the head of the
poll. Singularly enough, however, John
Smith does not lead the Boston Smiths.
He gets no better than third place. WI
liam Smith appears 173 times in the fif-
teen and one-haf pages devoted to the
Smith family. Charles Smith scores 14S
times, while John Smith shows up but
1873 times, closely followed by George with
l3l to his credit Another popularity of
the Boston directory is that the Murphys
occupy fourteen pages, a close second to
the Smiths, and the Sulivans eleven.
while the Browns have only ten and one
half pages. Thus are the cherished tradi-
tons of American life set aside both in the
East and in the region of the lakes.
Much of Kentucy's fame is in liquor.
1t is claimed that the old Hamilton home
stead on Winston Hill. Covington. is the
birthplace of the mint julep" In the
palmy days of the elder John Hamilton
he frequently entertained the leading Dem
ocrats of Kentucky One hot day in mid
summer, when John G.. Carlisle and Jo-
seph c. S. Blackburn We're his guests. he
conceived the idea of bruisiug the frac-
rant mint, of which there are large beds
on the farm, in a glass filled with cracked
ice. The other ingredients of the now ia
nous julep were poured in, the edges of
the glasses were garnished with mint.
slice of orange was addeS to each. and
the straws We're clipped so that the dis
tingulshed guests need not bury their noses
in the mint while slipping the bevera &c.
The drink was an Instantaneous success.
and its fame was not slow in spreading
The stopping of a projectile always re-
suits in the generation of heat. The We
locity and weight of a proiectile being
known, the amount of heat developed by
its stOppage can be calculated. In the
case Of large bodies moving rapidly the
result of the calculation is something as
founding. For example: The earth weighs
5000 million milion-million tons. Its trav-
els in its orbit at the rate of over eighteen
miles a second Should it strike tar
get strong enough to stop its motion the
heat developed by the shock would be SUI
ticient not merely to fuse the earth. but
also 90 reduce a lagre portion of it to
vapor. 1t has been calculated that the
amount of heat generated by a collision so
colossal would equal that obtained from
the burning of fourteen globes of coal
each equal to the earth in size. And
should the earth after this stoppage fail
into the sun, as it certainly would do
the amount of heat developed by its i'm,
pact on the sun would be equal to that
generated by the combustion of 5000 earths
Of solid carbon.
The new hall of records, when built
at the corner of Chambers and Center
streets, New York city at an expense of
from 81 500 600 to $4,000 600 will be a very
elaborate affair. The building is to be
lighted entirely by electricity generated
by a plant in the building. The heating
and ventilation will be on the blower sVs-
TEN, the fresh air being drawn from the
street at the hight of the sidewalks Heat
Will also be supplied by direct radiation
There will be six passenger elevators. four
private elevators and one sidewalk eleVat-
or. The elevators are to be worked on
the hydraulic system. Cold drinking wa
ter of r.
be furnished throughout the building The
steam power is to be furnished by five
boilers. There will be no wooden floors
in the building. The floors of the yestl-
bules, the rotunda and the Corridors are
to be of marble; those of the rooms of mo-
sale. No wood is TO be used in the build
ing except for doors and window frames
The wood of window frames is to be Gov
cred by copper. The ceilings of the first
story vestibules will be finished in marble
mosaic.
"A Pittsburg telegram says: After lit
tie more than a year of welded bliss. the
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage finds himself the
opulent husband of a woman with brand
new check for $l80,000. The check bears
the signature of officials of the big hoop
trust, and represents Mrs Talmage's in
terests in the Lindsay & McCutcheon cot
ton tie mills. Several weeks ago Thomas
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con, active managers of the plant. We're
approached by agents of the hoop conbi-
nation, VINO offered $500 900 for the con.
Germ. Then and there the deal was set
tied. Mrs Talmages part in the trans
action rests upon the fact that she is the
daughter and heiress of James Nc
Cutcheon who was The founder of the old
firm She is a sister of James H. and
Thomas G. McCutcheon. When she mar
ried the well-SnOwn divine she was the
widow of the late Charles Collier The
wedding took place in Allegheny over A
year ago. The Rev w J. Robinson ON
ciated, and it was the social surprise or
the year. Now Mrs Taimage brings to
her clerical husband fortune
The bureau of ordnance has stopped
the manufacture of the rag-Jorgensen
gun of the 1898 modei, there being on
hand an abundance of guns of this type
says Washington dispatch to the New
York Sun. The number ready for use at
the Springfield armory and at the Be