The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-10
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IT IS calculated that there must be at least be-
tween 5000, 900 and lO,OOOOOO kinds of insects in
the world
PRoF. HUXLEY says that an oyster is far
more complicated piece of machinery than the
finest Swiss watch.
IL the little village of Egmanting. in Bavaria
curious nocturnal exhibition has Just taken
place, says the London Net0s. few minutes
after Midnight there suddenly appeared in the
village q party of $50 armed men, mostly
peasant proprietors. driving apparently some
imaginary specters before them. Presently
every man discharged his f1rearm. Many Of
the Inhabitants who were indoors, behind strong
barriers, tremblsd at the thought of the carnage
tnaL must nave ensued. Then a specially ap-
pointed person recited the Record of Deadly
Sins" by way Of exercising the spirits OF evil
supposed 70 be lowering about. AS rule, no
body dared venture out; but one more bold
than his fellows did open his door, and expost-
ulated against such an unwarrantable disturb
ance of the night But the firing party needed
him not. This ceremony of exercising the evil
spirits from the village continued for an hour
And as suddenly the party had arrived so
suddenly did they dispense. There was strong
smell of powder in the air, but not a trace Of
b.imstone.
IL ONE of the older manuals of the common
council of New York there appears an interest
ing directory of that city for the year 1865. re-
| lates the New York Times. Then Uhere were
| exactly twenty streets and population of 251
! (the principal street,. The Battery was Aen de
| Strandt van de n. Revier. Wall street was De
| WAL. Pearl street was De Perel STRAIT. Volts
! hall street was De wiuckel STRAIT William
street was In de Smts Valley Qn the Smiths
| Valley, and Broadway, above Wall street.
| was Buyten de Liant Poort Outside the
| Land Gstel All the residents were of Dutch
| extraction, with the exception of one whose
| name appears in the list as Jacob, the French
man. There were Roosevelts. Beckmans, De
Peysters, De Puys, Van Cortandts and Yer
/ MIA ztrg IVeF a
formed the principal food of the settlers at that
period Occasionally in the spring New York
was visited by such amazing flights Of wild
| pigeons that the sun was hid by their hocks
| from shining on the earth for nsiderable
time; then it was that the natives laid IN great
store Of them against a day OF need
CHINESE TITLES are regarded as a species of
Office, qualifying the holder to draw pay from
the treasury, but requiring from him at the
same time the performance of certain duties
says the CornhiH Magazine. In our own more
| civilized land the psers need DO nothing they
need not throw out the deceased vife's sister
unless they have the good fortune to be
descended from the merrie monarch In
China q title can only be gained by success in
war. No amount of qmbbling at the bar no
breTings, however excellent, of drsught stout
VIII make man peer. The most persuasive
/ of special pleaders this backward peopl a
would, in the fguratlve language of the thi
| emperor of the dynasty, describe as "a bare
| stick" and, if they followed literally his late
majestys advice, soundly drub. Even the
makers Of samshoo, the national land nasty
| drink, are held in no great repute. You must
! If you would be ennobled, either take town
from the rebels, or what is equally eff1cacious
| commit suicide when the rebels are taking It
! from you The Chinese of all nations perhaps
tence-for, as rule, it is the heroic ghost who
| gets the title, his son succeeding him after
! three years or second peer.
| THE ancient Jews considered it the greatest
inc, tbos, -,
| his beard, which may account in part for the
wonderful state of preservation that tradition
has connected with the beard OF the old world
male, says the English Illustrated Ma0uzrae
! 1t was q notion Of the Mohammedans that
though Noah reached his Tooth birthday no
hair OF his blessed beard fell off or became
! white; but the Mohammedans had no more
authority for that than for their belief that e.
! devil has but one solitary long hair for beard
/ 1t was, as some say. in order to distinguish
! themselves from the ancient Israelites that the
| followers of Mohammed cropped the beard; but
| Mohammed, as we know, sanctioned the dye
! ing of the beard and preferred a cane color
| because that was the traditional hue
of Abraham's beard. More than that. have We
! not the common Mohammedan oath, by the
! beard Of the prophet, as we'll as the supplica-
| ton, by your beard, or the life of your
| beard?" And then look at the generation paid
| in Asia to even a single hair of the beard OF
Mohammed. This precious relic is enshrined
| in a monument erected especially for it in 1885,
! 500 years after the prophets death Where il
had reposed during the long interval is as great
a mystery as that connected with the holy coat
OF Treves. But at any rate, there it is now, a
! precious he'll" loom kept In q box Of gold and
crystal, in which small holes have been bored
for tns purpose OF admitting water to feat the
blessed hair, which is done at an snuual festival
when the faithful from all parts are gathered
| together
THE Chinese soldier receives his pay once
month only, and Chinese months, it may be re-
membered, are much larger than those we
nT11a no hr f1a Tt;ro;
| natl Enquirer. On the eve of this pay day the
| captain OF the company, together with his SER
geAnr-major, goes and receives the amount of
money requisite to pay his company from his
| next superior officer. This is not paid to him in
| juggling coins, but in pure silver. which, how
| ever, has been broken into somewhat irregular
| pieces. The whole of the night preceding pay
day is occupied in weighing out for each man
| the required quantity of silver, and this occu-
| patton, as may be imagined, ia a very tedious
| one, and only successfully accomplished by IN
| finite care, for here piece the size of q pins
head has to be clipped on, and there q piece of
larger dimensions has to be added to make I'D
weight and any deviation one way or the other
means the loss OF perhaps days pay or moro
| to some poor defender Of the celestial empire
| When the process OF melting out IS accom-
plshed the silver is carefully wrapped in paper.
upon which is written the name of the intended
recipient. On the following afternoon the COM
pany is mustered and the sergeant major di-
Vldes the money, commencing with the first
! man in the company and going on to the last
When this division is concluded the question is
asked: HAS any one else a claim?' and the
customary mo" having been promptly given,
the men are then dismissed. Each one now re-
pairs to the nearest tradesman 8 shop. where
he exchanges his silver. For one tael he receives
1000 small coins called cash, perforated in the
center so as to allow of being threaded on a
string, and, having received the proper amounC.
turns homeward with a cheerful mein, but
nearly sinking beneath his burden. The private
receives 314 Caels, equal to about 10 shillings,
monthly, out of which he has to provide him
self with clothes and food But &c lives on rice
and his clothes cost but a trile.