The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-13
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tee. fully 50 per cent were suffering from hear,
disease ne form or another. due 70 TIE
I forced physical exertion OF the campeigl: and
athletes Of 70 dey arili be found TTsntT-f svs
years from now. to be victims Of heart disease
engendered by the nusC ular strains that thsy
force themselves TO undergo.
It's RATHER LATE to learn the truth about the
queen of Sheba. Nevertheless. the Academy Of
Inscriptions are greatly exercised about this
subject One OF leir members thinks that be
has discovered that Sheba was in Arabia, and
that the queen was tts mother of a Ben Solo.
mon, who founded a Kingdom in Ethiopia She
| went 70 Jerusalem on conquest bent and would
| have liked 10 stay there. But the wise Hebrayg
king thought she would be too hard to manage
| and more useful q an ally in her own country
BET 6erefore at her back laden with presents
| aud fired with ambitious projects We may
! expect one OF these daysto se- her personat-d
~ Sarah Bernhard in an Old Testament drama
| by Sardou.
| Two wELL-KNowS WOMEN physicians were OBJ
servabe at Sunday evening salon-Dr Mary
Sa1ord Blake Of Boston, aud Dr.. Helen Dens-
more or New YORK. The former is a delicate
| little women with a refined face. and was
| dressed severely aud plainly in black She is a
/ charming conversationalist and exceeding &C
GGotIniplshed, speaking German. French aud
ltallan with equal fu.ncy.. DR. -Deusmo-e. who
Is the mistress OF handsome house on Fifty
nIth street. Is superbly dew, tJpei woman of
tne blonde type, with soft, fluffy fair hair. She
modelled
after Henrietta Rassell's fashion-loose aesthetic
| OF gold plls1 and black laca Dr. Densmore
possesses di 'tary ia i and urges people TO live
upon nuts, fruits, sweets aud cocoa: to reject
! cereals and meats.
ANEW DEVICE, which will be of interest to
dealers of hosiery in the United States. has been
| recently patented in several European countries
ana an application for patent Is on file in the
American patent Office Said device consists OF
a combination stocking and garter made by
. a T-Ilf rofo5 -. i
at the top of the stocking The
| ends of the elastic appear outside of
the welt. and may be arranged to fasten
with button or a fancy CLASP similar to
those used on kid gloves The elastic can he
drawn out and inserted at will, although the
necessity of taking it out does not yet appear as
Is sald the best rubber will satisfactorily stand
tae washing process. When the elastic is in its
place the general appearance of the stocking is
not changed. as the fastening. unless metallic,
Will De OF the same color as the stocking
IN mANIToBA and the western part of British
America, where spent some time this summers
came in contact with very peculiar race of
Indians They belong to no particular tribe
and in fact, to no particular race. having In
dlan scotch and French blood in their veins
| Ihey are the descendants of the old Scotch
agents OF the Hudson Bay Company and their
| indian wives, with dash of French blood from
the Canadian woodsmeH. Their hair is fire.
| quently of a Ii hit brown, and wavy They
| speak bad French, aud all have the broad Scotch
pulL lucy nOIu themselves alOOf from the
full -olooded Indians and the French half bloods
They are the best carriers to be found for no
otner Indians can compare with them as run
ners. Sixty miles a day is no uncommon iour-
ney for them By constant intermarriage thew
nave preserved and strengthened their pecu-
larities. and consider themselves a separate
tribe. They number about 5000.
THERE are a vast number of fne dresses from,
all parts of the world in the national museum.
and the most extraordinary article of this kind
6 a feat IT'LL
the Sandwich Islands, and is made IN of red
ana yellow feathers so fastened together that
they overlap each other and form a smooth
surface. These feathers shine like the finest Of
floss six. and the red feathers are far prettier
tnad the yellow ones. IL is the yellow feathers
however, that are expensive. They are about
an men long, and are worth in the country
IN winch they are found so cents apiece
fhey were in times past taken for taxes by the
Hawaiian kings. Tkey are taken from a little
bird known as the Uno, which are very diff
| cult to capture. Each bird has two OF these
| yellow feathers under his wing. and the birds
| are caught in traps and the feathers are pulled
out and they are then fred. There is a letter
| in the museum from the Prince of the Sand
| wich Islands, who states that it took more
| than 100 years to make this cape, and the az
thorltles OF the museum say that it is worth
more than the finest diamond in the English
| regalia.
| In PLASTIC ART we find that the debt it owes
TO woman is less for work than inspiration:
from is beginning her influence has been the
handspring Of It's development The story is
the the seventh ; century before Christ 1s a pot T.
lowed his art He had beautiful daughter
| n med Kora. Although women were Obliged
to go yelled in the market-place her grace and
bearing won the ardent admiration of a
| employed by the potter es nm assist
ant ana succeeded, still further gaining his
wish by securing a place in the young girls
ia of no for ar do,
lover was an ideal of Grecnn simplicity and
beauty. When the time came for the lovers
| temporary separation they were sad. The last
evening, as they sat together, Kora noticed the
shadow of her friends profile on the wall and
taking piece of charcoal traced the noble out
line The next day her father, seeing the sketch
and recognizing the likeness. filed it in with
clay, so modelling it as to represent the young
man features. Thus we have made the first
portrait medallion.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's dairy is of stone. erected
as the Inscription on the frieze tells as in the
twenty first year of Victoria's reign It is at
tached to the dwelling house Of the dairy
woman, or rather the dwelling house is al
tached to it. The day was oppressively warm
and the transition from the outer air into its
COOL dim precincts was most grateful. The
room is 81 feet long by % wide. 1t is lined
throughout-fioor. walls, and high roof-with
tiles in cool tones bass reliefs on sone'of these
tiles represent the seasons and kindred subjects
Medallion bustS of the royal family ara insartad
in the walls. The dairy was built before tho
marriage of the Prince of Wales, aud of those
who have married into the royal family the only
medallion is That of the late Emperor FREDERICK
On small brackets at one end
stand marble busts of Victoria and
Albert. BY way of added decoration, bits of
precious old CHINA are ranged on shelves in
shallow recesses. Under the tables the floor is
SUCK few inches, and this cavity is filled with
water, while pretty fountain in the center of
the room is constantly playing The recspta-
c.es FOR milk are of white china trimmed with
gut ana the cram TO the eye was delectabla
Inc outter, OF which numerous pats lay upoa
the cool marble, was truly golden though not
more SO than have seen in New Engla d glitch
ems The dairy woman, who was Scotch. said
1t was the buttercups which the COWS ate thai
gave to it its golden hue, DO you think sos';
SAID Certainly" was the reply Butter is
always yellow after buttercups come, And',
that's why they are called
outtercups, because they make the butter vel
lown' '0'
To THE TRAVELLER and tourist no SPOT in East
ern United States is of more interest than Snl
lvan county. New York, whose confines contain
more picturesque beauty than any area of like
dimensions east of the ROCKY mountains It's
shaded wales and abrupt, wooded hills, lofty
ridges of the latter often taking on all The
characteristics of true mountain are the oriei0
nails of many of the fine paintings that grace
the SDaciOlS OarlOrS of Naw M;