The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-04
ITEMS OF INTsRES

IT Is said, according to the Indianapolis
journal, that the health Of the brunette type
of eyes is, as a rule superior to that of blonde
type Black eyes usually indicate good powers OF
physical endurance. Dark blue eyes are most
common in persons of delicate, refined or
eliminate nature and generally show weak
health, Light blue, and, mucn more, gray
eyes are most common in the hardy and active.
With regard to diseases Of the eye, brown or
dark colored are weaker or more susceptible of
injury, from various causes, than gray or blue
eyes. Light blue eyes are generally the most
powerful, and next to those are gray. The
nRhter the pupil the greater and longer con-
tinued is the degree OF tension the eye can sus-
tain. The majority OF first-class shots are
men whose eyes are either blue or gray in
color.
THE number of makeshifts employed by men
and women to make living is greater than one
could possibly size up" said Chicago man
about town Perhaps l shouldn't have said
makeshifts, after all. Don't you remember the
rag picker in Paris referred to her employment
as profession? Well, l suppose these follow
ers OF curious modes Of livelihood, each one Of
them. regard theirs in the same light. There's
an ex -Janitor on Monroe street who is coming
money making these stringed mops for scrub
bling. know young woman on the West Side
who supports her mother and herself by
making, repairing and altering dolls clothes
young fellow on the south side makes a
speciality or repairing pocket knives, and
another one OF mending valuable china
ware. There's quaint old chap over near
West Madison, on Desplaines street, who makes
a single toy simplest automatic, which is
peddled on the streets young woman Of my
acquaintance Is doing very well making quaint
little penny designs from cloth, chenille etc
She picked itup herself and shows great in
Renuity and variety in design. A south aide
widow, after endurance Of much privation, be-
thought herself Of single gift and brought it
into exercise. She makes delicious preserves,
which she sells readily to well-to-do people
without recourse to middlemen. Another one
mas laid for inlnaFttncr tO other
women the secret of making excellent, sweet
white bread, thereby bringing blessings upon
her bead from many grateful husbands.
number of poor people exc out their existence
by cracking nuts for confsctioners and others,
doing 1t after most primitive methods. Besides,
we have the gatherer of wild mushrooms and
dandeiions, the vendors of bait for fishermen,
and thousand and one others. Indeed, it
would seem that in great city like this one m ay
turn his hand to almost anything and by stick
ing to IL get living cut of it."
THE most picturesque feature Of the census
picture books, says a writer in the Washington
Star. will be that portion which relates to the
natives OF ALASKA. In the region drained by
the Kuskakwim river and its tributaries numer-
GUS villages exist in purely aboriginal condl-
ton, ana thousands OF people heheld in the
official enumerator the first white man they
| had ever seen. That official, while ASCENDING
| the KuskGkwim river, subsisted chiefly on the
! eggs OF wild fowl, which he purchased with
| needles. Needles are q negotiable medium in
| Lnrb country, anu ne carried MS 6uDDIy OF them
In his waistcoat pocket. On one occasion,
while passing through q swamp, the natives
who padded his boat robbed the nest OF NAL
lard duck OF its eggs. For joke the enumer-
ator dropped three needles into the nest as if in
payment. Taking the matter quito seriously
! the natives spread through all that district the
| report that there was man so anxious to trade
, that he paid ducks for their eggs,
hundreds Of miles. clusing the eensIIs
agent good d al Of trouble and annoyance,
| These Eskimo of the Kuskakwim are extrava-
gRntly fond OF tobacco, in the use of which they
| are obliged to exercise a remarkable economy
! owing to Its rarity with them. On this account
the tobacco is mixed with large proportion of
wood ashes, and the quid for chewing is passed
| from mouth to mouth in a social way When
| not in use the Quid is usually placed behind tbs
| owners ear. Tobacco In so pure a condition as
| this is considered too good for the women and
| they are only too happy to receive the used-up
| guilds. These they dry, powdernR them and
mixing them with wood ashes, so as to make
| snuff, to the use of which they are greatly ad-
| dicted. The men will cheerfully exchange the
| proceeds of weeks Of labor and hardship for a
| few leaves Of tobacco. The census agent speaks
of having seen person work for hours, care
fully taking to pieces all the pipes of the house,
| hold and scraping the inside of the tubes, only
| to consume in three or four whffs the result.-a
| tine dust OF wood impregnated with nicotine.
| OF Prussian minister of finances q member
| of the opposition in the German diet once re-
marked that he considered him the greatest dis
coverer Of the age, from his unsurpassed talent
| Of discovering new sources Of revenue But it
| Is not only under monarchical Administrations
| that such inventiveness is unprecedented Our
nearest neghbors are at present looking around
| for corresponding suggestions, which, after
| q while, may appear acceptable even in our own
| great republic. A paper OF Mexico CITY men
lions the serious proposal of levying tax of 80
per annum on mustaches, "a tax easily col
lected,' says its promoter. because the
wearer of these hirsute adornments cannot pos
| sibly hide them from the revenue officers >" In
! the United States this Mexican precedent would
seem to deserve careful consideration The
| success or such measure would be unuues-
! tionable both for patriotic and esthetic rea-
sons. A foreign diplomat attributes the gen
eral custom OF wearing mustaches among
| American representatives and politicians
not to "apng European fashions, as Ia
| usually supposed, but to the fact that the
| greatest statesman and future President of the
| republic is adorned with this ornamental ap-
| pendage." Herr Vischer, the German estheti-
clan, called the dogs tail a "psychographic APP
| pendage," from its capacity for emotional ex-
preston An American writer on esthetics
| wittily observes: ''Mustaches are double and
| therefore, equal to two photographic append
| ages" He advises young men to Guild 7ate the
| depressor dtde 1ldst, the muscle on which the
| movements or the mustache are dependent.
"Mustaches. he says, ARE much more common.
| now, AMI it is barely possible that they NAV
| escape esthetic condemnation and survive to
| the millennium. Young men may make the
mustache permanent ornament to the human
| race and by cultivating this muscle render its
movements subject to voluntary control" A
tax OF 81 on each OF these photographic ap-
pendages would produce millions OF revenue
And what a vista Of evolution is implied in that
single suggestionl The author of Romantic
Love aud Personal Beauty" thinks that it is
not improbable that by and by, when young
men will have properly trained their depressof
aae nasi they will look upon the making of
| eyes as feminine attribute. and instead of
| winklnR at heir sweethearts will express their
admiration by some subtle and graceful move
! ment OF their mustaches." Who would not
! willingly be taxed for such accomplishments