The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A UNIQUE WILL has been admitted TO probate
at Doylestown, Pa. 1t is 8 leaf torn from q
"Gentleman's Letter Writer" which gives
various forms of wills. Thomas curly Of Hill
town owned the book and wishing to leave his
property to his wife merely signed his name
without any date to the form headed Property
Left to Wife Only" The widow certified tc
the signature and she will get all the estate.
TIE great Casey family in the United States
must be interested in the ref scton that their
name was Cathasaigh 800 years ago, says the
New York World. Nearly 800 years have
elapsed since the first Casey settled in Rhode
Island, and some years since the publication of
the famous song about the Caseys, the MUIR
phys" and 1.-THE Elegant bould MoIntyres." 1t
is said to be the cherished belief of some of the
Caseys that Gen. Casey secretly intended the
Washington monument to be family memorial
as well.
JACQUES INAUDI, ''the calculating man." is
still astonishing Paris. He developed his mar
velous power of instantaneousy solving the
most difficult arithmetical sums" before he
could either read or write. It Is sound entirely
that guides his mind he says, in its processes,
and not the memory OF or Imagination how
figures look To multiply s3i by &c, for ex-
ample, he multiplies mentally SOC by 81, 800 by
6, 80 by so and SO by 4. adding up the totals in
four or five seconds from the time the problem
is called out 20 him.
RECENTLY young man In Denver. Col, who
had doubts about the divinity of Christ, told
bis pastor that if Mr.. Gladstone affirmed his be
lief in that doctrine he would accept it. Ac-
cordinRly note was sent to Mr.. Gladstone;
and though IL reached him in the midst of the
election excitement he found time to send the
following in his own handwriting on q postal
card: "All write, and all think, and ell
hope, is based upon the divinity Of our Lord,
the one central hope Of our poor. way ward race
w. Il. GLADSTONE"
TIE PEOPLE OF all serpent~ridden countries
have many charms, spells and nominations,
which they repeat or perform for the purpose
of exercising such obnoxious visitors, says the
st. Louis Republic. In Turkey every body from
the sultan to the gammin appeals 20 the serpent
kinR-Chah Miriam Wien they come in con-
tact with serpent the first exclamation is: I'm
the name OF ChahMr go away and hide thy
self. OF course, Chah-MIran mas ben dead
for centuries, but the Turk argues that the ser
penis do not know this If they knew that they
were no longer under his influence they would
destroy the whole human race.
"TEENYsoN insists that fifty years Of Europe
is better than a cycle Of Cathay. and think il
he had spent a year or two in the Orient he
would have drawn the contrast still stronger e"
says Otto Won Boeckman in the st. Louis GLOBE
DemocTG'. II wera cnmpells 20 live 10 China
would desire to he IA Ok and stray 'yaller'
dog at tnut. ClansuIan can wish ne better
luck than 10 have q stray dog come to his house
Especially is this true of Pekin. win stray
dO,s are taken in and cared for with a tender
ness seldom bestowed upon babies. So strong
-
luck that no pains are spared to induce it to re-
main permanently"
On OF vITRIoL is not an oil, says the Bulletin
of Pharmacy. Copperas is an iron salt and
contains no copper. Salts Of lemon has not =
ing to do with lemon but is q salt OF tn es-
tremely poisonous oXalic acid. Soda wafer
contains no soda. Sulpbnrtc ether contains no
sulphur. Sugar Of lead has nothing to do with
sugar, nor has cream OF tartar ANYTHING to do
with cream. Oxygen means 'the acid genor-
ator," but hydrogen is really the essential ele.
ment and many acids contain no oxygen. Ger
man silver contains no silver and black lead
contains no lead. Berberiue is usually made
from hydrastic canadens HUrmseed is unex-
banded flower buds. Milk Of lime has no milk,
Quicksilver il pure mercury. Oil Of origanum
is made from thyme anu not from origauum.
THE signs OF an approaching stampede, -
says cattle man, "are familiar TO every man
who has been much on the trail. First a few
cattle viii begin to low or rather to utter a sort
Of roar All through the herd single animals
will get up and begin 70 move around The
others become restless, and IL something Is not
done to check them the whole herd will in a
short time, be rushing headlong over the plain
The most soothing influence that can be exerted
Is the human voice, and when the ominous NUT
terings are heard every one on night watch
begins to sing. 1t may well DO imagined that
cowboy music would have anything but a quiet
ing effect upon musical ears, but it amply sat
isles the cattle AS soon as songs are heard the
nervous animals become quiet. One by one
they lie down, and soon all are at rest fairly
sung to sleep. A peculiar feature of the sing
ing is that every cowboy. no matter how rough
and lawless. knows variety OF hymns and il
is with church music that the stampede is pre-
vented"
TERESA URREA, the so-called Saint OF Cabora
who was some time since elected from Mexico
by the authorities, is now living in a village on
the frontier OF Arizona, where many afflicted
people from both sides OF the frontier resort to
her for the benefit OF her supposed healing
powers. A Mexican paper, La Pdtrtd, refers
to this as a sad commentary upon the civflIza-
ton of the United States. The T1Do RepubEtcs
takes up the cudgels for this country and saws:
Miss Urrea's supposed miraculous powers first
attracted attention while she resided near
Guaymss where she became an object of ven
Grafton by the people. who hocked to her
from long distances. asking her as
sistance. Since she has been living
in NoRales which ts on the Sonora line, she has
continued 20 be visited by people living in
Mexico as well as others residing 10 the United
States, IL being stated very clearly that the ma
Jority Of her visitors are Mexieans or persons
OF Mexican origin. II is claimed by serious
people that Miss Urea possesses some knowl.
edge or power which enables her TO effect cures
10 certain cases. and as she makes no charge
for her service It is not strange that she should
be much sought by poor people, and as she Is
possessed Of no medical education Il is not sur
Drisiups that auparstitiOus faaonla ahouId