The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ANDREW CARNEGIE has given 100000 to
Pittsburg for public library, but the city
| council will not allow him to have anything to
say about where 1t shall be located.
/ The Royal Italian opera reopened in London
Monday night. The title is somewhat of
misuomer, as five Of the prima donnas are
American, TWO British and two Italian.
AND why shouldn't a live, hustling woman
thrive in Wall street, Folks who imagine that
| femininity can't cope with financial matters are
away behind the age A Mrs Zook Of Kansas
City, who died recently, left $4,000 to distant
relatives andcut her husband of with IS leg
OF himself by spending Il recklessly.
JULIA wHIrECLoUD daughter of JEFF White
cloud, an Iowa Indian, prominent among the
people, ran away Tuesday night in company
with Charley kahloa, an Indian policeman.
kahioa is q worthless fellow, possessed of all
the bad qualities of his tribe. Julia Whitecloud
is fairly well educated, having received a com
plete course OF Instructions from the Sacred
Heart Mission She is good looking, and her
snare of the allotment and sale of tribal lands
VIII give her good competence. The entire
Iowa tribe is hunting for the runaways. A
council was held Wednesday as TO the probable
course of the fugitives and the best way to
catch them. The angry father is after them
armed with his Winchester, and swears ven.
geance upon.Kahioa, who, he says, has wrongly
influenced his 15-year-old daughter.
TIE BAGPIPE is almost universal throughout
Asia, though at present not so much in use as
1t seems to have been in former ages 1t is
used among the Chinese musicians, and is met
with IN Persia, where it appears to have been
more general in former ages than at present.
There is also HindoO bagpipe, and in Egypt it
was used TO some extent but is now rarely met
with In Italy it is common. It is said that the
Italian peasant believes that il is the best be-
loved music of the Virgin Mary; also that it is
the instrument upon which the shepherds ex-
pressed their joy when they visited the Savior.
When the Italian peasant visits Rome on the
anniversary of the birth of our Savior he always
carries his bagppes with him. The Romans
are said to have been acquainted with this
instrument, and most likely the Greeks also In
Scotland it is the national instrument but even
there its use is dying out
OVID tells us that the first temple of vesta at
Rome was constructed Of waited walls and
rooted with thatch like the primitive huts Of
the Inhabitants. 1t was little other than a cir
cular. covered fireplace, and was tended by the
unmarried girls of the infant community It
served as the public hearth of Rome, and on it
glowed, unextinguished throughout the year,
the sacred fire which supposed to have
been brought from Troy, and the continuance
or which was thought to be linked
with the fortunes OF the city. The
name Vssta is believed TO be derived
from the same root as the SansIrit WAS, which
means to dwell. to inhabit," and shows that
she was the goddess of home and home had
the hearth as its focus. A town, a state, is but
large family, and what the domestic hearth
was to the house, that the temple of the perpet-
ual fire became TO the city. Every town had its
Vesta or common hearth and the colonies de-
rived their fire from the mother hearth. Should
vestaI maiden allow the sacred fire to become
extingulshed she was beaten by the grand pom
tiff till her blood flowed, and the new fire was
solemnly rekindled by rubbing together of dry
wood, or by focusing OF the suns rays. It might
not be borrowed The circular form and domed
roof of the Temples of Vesta were survivals of
the prehistoric huts of the aborigines, which
were invariably round
The PoLEcAT, OF foumart, is next to the
marten as regards size and strength but there
Is great difference between them. While the
marten is all life and activity the polecat is
comparatively speaking, SLOW although he
manages to make sure work of it when ne is in
pursuit of any creature he is capable of killing
He kills game and poultry of all kinds and ages;
not even geese and turkeys safe from him.
Soon after sunset he sets forth on his deadly
brands Where a fox will kill one animal the
polecat will kill ten, carrying Off the bodies of
his victims to his haunt in some adjoining
wood. Frogs, mice, rats birds and fish may all
be found in his larder, when his home is in the
"ilds; but be preys on finer and more
valuable creatures when he has his home
near man and his belongings. The name
foumart is evidently corruption of foul mar
ten, given him on account of his off ansive odor
which proceetsfrom fatty substance secreted
| by gland beneath the tail The fur is mostly
| dark brown. nearly black in color. 1t is of
| little value and is sold under the name of fitch
| He often makes his nest in an old rabbit bur
row. The stoat, or ermine, is a bright active
| creature, and handsome, too He is
smaller than the polecat the body being
| scarcely ten inches long apart from the tail
| which is about four and half inches long and
| brownish red, the upper part creamy white
! In spite Of his small size he is the Nimrod of
| the woodlands, and most determined one.
he is equally at home on the ground in the
trees, in the hedge or in the water, and he
| hunts openly, making no secret of what he is
about. II he crosses your path he is not nut
out in the least, but will even stop and look at
you with his bright eyes and then go on with
MS hunting. His victims rabbits rats
mice and birds; but his favorite prey is the
common wild rabbit, which he hunts with the
dash OF a fOXhound, killing quickly and neatly
never weary of watching that Puck of the
stone wall, that weasel, for he surpasses the
whole OF the tribe in agility. His color is
the same as the stoat's excepting that his
tail always matches his upper parts The
smallest OF his kind, his body only measures
about eight and a quarter inches in length,
his tail two inches 1t is fine sight to see
the dlminutlve creature carrying mouse al
most as large as itself retriever fashion,
with all the confidence imaginable. Small as he
ls, he isvery strong and continually on the move
AS he runs along the wall or by. some old fence
30 light is his step that the dead leaves are hut
turned over. Lately one came and deliberately
inspected me, as | stood perfectly still watch.
ing some beautiful admiral butterflies which
were summing their wings on the bTamble SPRAYS
Three times he left. his mouse hunting and
came up so close to me that | could have
touched him with my stick But had no wish
to brighten the small creature; it gave me
pleasure to watch him. After he had seen
enough OF me he ran away again as quietly az
he had come up. The weasel is a very careful
and afectionate parent. If there is danger
near the mother will take her young in her
mouth, just like a cat does and place them in
the first shelter that offers.