Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-19

are enlivened with songs. In this way,
under the name of play, children are
taught all household duties.
A WRITER who has studied the planets,
with view to ascertaining the influence
they have over people, claims that people
never agree in marriage whose horoscopes
are antagonistic, and among the Hindoos
and some other nations, even 10 this Gay,
the aStrOlOger is consulted to determine
whether there is a complete sympathy
between the positions of the sun, moon,
Venus and Mars in the respective natiyI-
ties, and, if their relative positions are
not found to agree, then the projected
match is broken Of. Women VINO nave
the sun or the western angle afflicted by
Uranus, Saturn or Mars at birth, should
never enter wedlock. When they do so
under these conditions, misfortune IS GER
tain 10 result. Venus should be free from
the cross aspects Of the maletlc.
NOTICEABLE at one of the hotels In
Idaho Springs is the tall figure OF an Old
soldierly looking gentleman, whose NIL
tarv career is interesting. 1t is Gen. A.
W. Doniphan, a man seventy years OLD,
who, at the beginning of the Mexican
war, stepped from large practice INTO
the ranks whence ne was at once elecleu
to the Colonelcy of the First Missouri
Regiment of Mounted Volunteers. The
similarity between the names AenOpnOn
and Doniphan has been noted, but the
resemb lance does not stop there. Gen.
Doniphan, like the Greek leader, made
one of the longest marches on record.
Starting at Fort LeayenwOrth. the First
Missouri Volunteers marched TO Mexico,
then around Chihuahua and Del Norte,
conquering New Mexico and other states,
participating in the battles Of Drastic
and Chihuahua, losing but one man In
both, but capturing 800 and killing the
same number of the enemy, and making
circuit of 5000 miles in thirteen mOnIus,
ten of which were spent in the saddle.
A WRITER III London paper thus hints
at dark future for the British Empire
''When / say that the future unity of the
empire is in danger it is not to be inferred
that there is unity now. The fact is that,
under the ldisSez fare or hap-hazard way
in which, colOnially, we have been DRIFT
ing for many years past, all our colonies
stand to us now in the relation OF depend
encies, and not in that Of integral parts OF
the empire. We must not deceive our
Selves therefore. as to our being united
empire in any sense worthy Of the term
in the sense, for instance, in which Amer
lea, or even France and Russia, are en-
pires. Drifting along as we do now, our
children Will wake up some morning 10
find from the kilograms of their day that
some leading colony or group has just so
acted as to remove at last the lingering
disguise. Regrets there may be all ronnd
for what has become the inevitable; but
none the less, the grandest of empires, as
well as the most promising for the worlds
good, will, by our amazing Indifference,
have collapsed in our hands,"
EJACULATION is still practiced by the
Aztecs in Old and New Mexico, in con-
nection with Christian rites and cere-
monies. Those who are compelled to I'M
dergo this vicar ious atonement for their
sins often pay the penalty with their
| lives: nevertheless, the custom is pOpu-
! lar among them. The sacrifice" is thus
described: They strip their bodies to the
waist, and, having provided themselves
with scourges made of the wiry, harsh
| leaves of the plant known as the Spanish
| bayonet braided together, they beat them
! selves and each other over the shoulders
and back with them until the flesh is ter
| ribly lacerated. This is done walking in
| procession, one OF their number yOlun-
! tarily leading and bearing heavy wooden
! cross bound to his back, under which he
| staggers, nearly bent double, his flesh
! lacerated by the scourges Of his followers
! wherever there is a chance to reach it. If
| the victim lives to reach the church the
| cross is suspended therein with the bleed
| ing sufferer still bound to it, where he re-
mains until fainting from the loss of blood
| and complete prOstration. The sacrifice"
/ is completed.