The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-29
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will stand on a pedestal rising from the basin
in front of the administration building, at the
worlds fair, Chicago, is being modelled in Paris
by Daniel C. French the New York sculptor. 10
will be female figure seventy-ive feet high.
For the past forty years it has been the law
that all men. citizens Of Chile, between the ages
Of q and 40 years. shall meet and drill each
Sunday during the whole year, between the
hours or 10 a. m. and p. m. Each drilled
soldier receives 20 cents for his Sunday attend
ance from the Chilean government
A WILMINGTON (Del.) man carries in his vest
pocket piece of skin that was taken from g
mans neck and then tanned He-the Will
mington man. not the other man-claims that
the possession OF that piece of tanned skin will
keep him from slipping on the ice, The boys in
the neighborhood are watching him now to see
what virtue there is in the odd charm. The
owner of the piece of skin argues that If its
possession does not prevent him from falling it
WILL at least, not cause him to fall.
IT Is curious fact, and one scarcely known
outside of Russia land there hardly ever men
toned, that the famous Orof diamond was
once the right eye Of the great idol Serring-
ham in the temple of Brahma. This precious
gem was stolen at about the beginning of
the eighteenth century by French
soldier, who had made pretense of being con-
verified to the Hindoo religion in order to
gain the confdence'of the priests and admission
TO the temple. The Frenchman first sold the
diamond TO a Jew for &200 On the next turn
It was bought by a banker of Constantinople for
&l2,O 900. The banker kept IL until IVA and then
sold 1t to the Russian empress for &90, 900 and
life pension. The gem has been in the Russian
royai family ever since. AS it is now set In the
imperial scepter Of Russia it presents f1attened,
rosec cut surface and weighs exactly 1941& car
ats.
THE MODEL Of a decapitated head in the
museum of the University of Pennsylvania has
an interesting history. In the year 1889 Count
Okuma the Japanese minister of foreign affairs,
was attacked by young fanatic while in bis
carriage in the streets of Toxic. A bomb was
thrown into the carriage, which exploded and
injured the right leg of the minister 80 that
amputatlon was necessary. The man then at
tempted to kill himself. but was prevented by
the police and taken TO prison, where he was
executed by decapitation At the time Of his
arrest an officer struck the man on the head with
bis saber. An ingenious and expert wood car
YER, Hennenuma, saw che head and studied It so
faithfully that he produced this copy. The COW
eriIg Is q species of lacquer. and each separate
hair of the head IL inserted in a cavity made for
u with small drill The head was purchased
from the artist by DR.. Edward H. williams,
and by him presented to the museum. The
beautiful model of jinricksha man, exhibited
by Dr.. Williams in his collection OF Japanese
art displayed last winter in the Academy of
Fine Arts was the work OF the same artist
The late Richard A. Proctor. in his Mystery
Of Colors," says: THE colors of flowers have
Fritz, Hermann, Miller, Darwin, Lubbock and
Wallace to be necessary Tor, rather, to have be-
come necessary for tho attraction of certain
species OF insects by which the pollen may be
transfer red from the sta mems OF one flower TO
the pStils OF another and Decentralization eff
fected. Grant Allen, in his charming little
book on the Color Of Flowers mas advanced
and supported by very striking evidence the in
terestinR theory that the colors of flowers range
In order OF Development o. from waite
found in flowers which lay themselves open for
fertilization by miscellaneous small flies (2) to
yellow found in flowers which depend on small
beetles, and (3) to red. purple, lilac and blue
found in flowers which specially bid for the
favor Of bees and butterflies. Blue seems to be
the highest development Of all, but in cases of
retrogression we find the direction of change
altered. In other cases; where nature intends
that nlght-t1ying insects are to do the work OF
fertilization we find white colors mainly :;
this does not oetoken inferiority or de-
generation geinn Sdo put is the most suitable
ers fortunately few in number have a nvfd
red color, resembling that of dead meat, by
which land by their unpleasant odor) they at
tract the admiring attention Of flesh flies
Luckily, as Sir John Lubbock has noted and
proved. the tastes of bees and butterflies the
most important OF all fertilizing insects, are
AKIN to the tastes of the human species; and not
only to odor and tastes, but to their prefer
ence for lively colors, otherwise We may be sure
flowers would neither smell SO sweetly nor be so
beautifully colored as most Of them are, nor
1 SAW on the street the other day that mar
velous little woman Charlotte Crabtree. known
professionally as Lolita, writes John A. Cocker
i'll in New York letter She is resting this sea-
son. Her permanent residence is at Lake Hon
ateong, and her home there is a marvel of ele-
gance. She comes to town occasionally to visit
her friend, Mrs. Doremus. Lolita must be some
We're near as years of age. She was a brilliant
little dramatic star in California before the war
Barring a few wrinkles about her eyes which
are only revealed on close inspection she looks
as fresh as she did twenty years ago Spe is
just as vivacious and fully as mag
netic. Lolita is not given to boas ing
about her wealth. She told an int innate friend
not long ago that her fortune WAS not a nennv
less than 81, 100000 This makes her the richest
actress, undoubtedly, In the world She owns
several apartment houses in this city, the Park
theater III Boston and real estate in nearly every
large city In the country Her mother, who
business sagacity. She has an eye open for a
| bargain always. Lolita, who is absolutely de-
voted to the old LADY says that but for her great
tact and Judgment she would not to-day be
worth S5,OuO 1t Is not at all likely that Lolita
VIII DO much more stage work, though she SAYS
that her profits last season were as great as
they have been Of late years. In other words
her drawing capacity is still coed Lolita
is domestic In her tastes. She cares little for
social lie IN q gay sense. She is attached to a
rev friends. She is religiously inclined She Is
bright conversationalst and she enjoys good
stories. Her favorite jewel Is turduois saw
her one night at little dinner given to Billy
Florence IN the st. James hotel when aha m 1,et
have had $4,000 worth of these gems on her p4ar-
son. She gathers them from all parts OF the
world. Lolita has had several narrow escaDes
from matrimony, but there is little probability
now that she will ever enter the divine STATE 1rha
man whom she truly loved died several wears
ago, and her attachment to her mother Is arch
that she is not likely TO allow her affections to