The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-26
INTEMs OF INTEREST.

HSnt, as a result OF which the former had
to be sent 10 a hospital Tor treatment.
The latest Kansas corn yarn is at
trfbuted 10 a Pennsylvania. who is now
visiting relatives in Kansas City, and who
is said 10 have written home follows:
Most of the streets are paved, the grains
of corn being used for cobbiest tones, while
the cobs are followed out and used for
sewer pipe. The husks when taken off
whole and stood on end make nice tent
for the children TO play in. 1t sounds
queer 10 hear the feed man tell the driver
to take dozen grains of horse feed over
60 Jackson's livery stable If il were not
for soft, deep "soil here 1 don't see how.
they ever would harvest the corn, as the
stalks would grow up in the air as high
as Methodist Church steep,e. However
when the ears get too heavy their weight
presses the stalk down in the ground on
an average of ninety-two feet; this brings
the ear near enough 10 the ground to be
chopped off with an ak"
AS 10 what are known as tidal waves
some naturahsts and scientists now hold
that these marvellous upiiftings of the sea
bosom are not tidal waves at all-that they
do not belong TO that normal ebb and flow
OF the ocean that owns the sway of the
moon. If so they would be met with more
frequently than they are at sea, and far
more disasters would be placed at their
account. The contention seems reason
able, because it is well known that lonely
islets, such as St. Helena, Tristan d Acun-
ha and Ascension are visited at ir-
regular intervals by a succession of ap-
palliug waves (rol4ers) that deal havoc
among the smaller shipping, and look as
if they would overwhelm the land. The
suggestion is that these stupendous waves
are due 10 cosmic disturbance, to subma-
lyac had
and causing so vast a displacement of the
ocean that its fluctuations extend for sew
eral thousands of miles.
1t appears that a considerable num-
Der of domestic servants are membeas of
the Salvation Army. and several of them,
says the London Telegraph, have recently
been much troubled in their minds re-
specting their oh igatons to polite society
in the matter of white lies The army
has apparently considered the subjecCdnd
in the official War Cry the following re-
assuring counsel is given: THE expires
sion Not at home is not understood to
mean not in the house, as you understand
it, by worldly society. To the caller it
only means not receiving visitors to-day,
and no doubt your mistress would think
it discourteOus to speak more plainly. To
say she is engaged when she is only I'M
willing or unequal to see visitors would
not be any more true than to say Not
at home OF course, it would be an I'M
truth to say the latter if those who called
on your mistress understood it in the
sense you do; but we think they quite
understand how much or how little it
means. A lie is anything spoken with in
tent to deceive If you have reason to be-
lieve that this is intended, of course you
must not say it. You are only bound to
obey in that which is right
Emperor Francis Joseph, who is 70
years OF age has just returned to Vienna
from hunting expedition in the Syrian
highlands, undertaken in company with
his son-ir-law, Prince Leopold, of Bava
ria 1t is said that during all the exceD-
tona,ly cold weather the aged monarch
was up before daylight every morning,
walking for hours through the deep snow,
climbing the most Inaccessible nights,
risking his life along mountain paths,
where the slightest false step would have
had the effect of precipitating him into
depths hundreds and even thousands of
feet below, the hunt invariably lasting till
or in the afternoon. That the Empe>
ror should be still able to undertake so
arduous a form of sport, and, above all,
to kcenly enjoy il for ten or twelve sue
cessiVe days, speaks volumes for the mar
Vicious manner in which he has retained
at three score years and ten the vigor
en- to riding every day for an hour in the
imperial riding school at Vienna, having
long since given up riding in the Prater
He has taken TO me riding school in or
der to keep in form, because at the last
autuIhn maneuvers n found that through
la, X OF exercise it had, as he believed,
become fatguing for him TO remain IN
the sad0le for more than seven hours at
a stretch
"A. V. Sterling of Pittsburg said, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune: "Tbe
day of natural gas with us is practically
over, and our city is dirter than ever [
went to Pittsburg to live~in 1886, and stay
ed at first with a friend Of mine at Roup,
one of the suburbs At that time natural
gas was everywhere in use, and there
We're open fires in every room Ny friend
warned me to be careful in using it, and
always to lay a lighted match on the
bricks, before turning on the natural gas.
l was used TO ordinary gas fires and so
when had risen to use my fire, and the
gas blew the first match out without ig-
hitting, l leisurely scratched another and
touched her off. The next instant found
me stretched out on the other side of the
room in stunned condition, amid the
wreck of the washstand, against which
l had been hurled. Luckily | escaped with
a few bruises, but ever afterward treat
eu natural gas with PROFOUND re Dect,
There are a lot of people in my town
who would like to know what takes the
place of the gas in the bowels of the
earth, when We extract it, The way ii
rushes out when once tapped shows that
it is pent up in some place at enormous
pressure, which grows gradually less, and
finally ends altogether. Now what takes
its place is what | want TO know, and
why there isn't danger that, this support
having been withdrawn, cave ms may oc-.
cur? Billions and trillions of cubic feet of
natural gas have been taken from the
earth since its first discovery, and for
one, would like to know what Mother Ma
ture has put in its place"
Indian Agent Logan of Browning.
Mont, told a night or two ago of an in
teresting experience he had while out I'm
the Far Northwest, says the New York
Times. His father, Capt. William Logan.
was killed in a fight with the Nez Perces
at Big Hole, twenty-three years ago
When his body was recovered, the little
finger on the left hand had been cut off
at the second joint, and two rings worn
on that finger had bapn rarnovod Tu.o