The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-21

curious instruments of torture nsed during tho
uncertain period historically referred to as the
Middle Ages. In that room you can see
thum bscrews of the most approved pattern
closely arranged along shelves filed with liar
helmets and brides for gossiping women One
horrid relic, called the spike wheel, >" is heavy
cylinder. on one side of which stand out two or
more score OF sharp iron spikes. In days
OF old when an offender had been
sentenced TO undergo a rolling" he was
stripped naked and firmly bound on a piank
face down, In this position the spike WHEEL
was slowly dragged up and down his back the
number of times depending upon the gravity Of
the crime and the wording of the sentence In
several instances the poor victims we're prodded
SO full OF holes that they died before they could
be removed ed from the plank When death was
fed, but doubls-length spikes heated red hot,
were put in the surface of the cylinder. This
mode OF carrying out capital punishment was
hardly IS expeditions as the guillotine but it
was equally as certain
MISS NINA CROMWELL OF Detroit, who claims
to be a linesl descendant of the great Oliver
Cromwell, owns a venerable Bible which is
thought 30 be the identical volume which the
protector used. 1t was printed III 1891, by John
Wolfe. for the assigns OF Richard Day, and was
brought to this country In 1850 by BENJAMIN
Cromwell, the greatuncle OF the present owner
who has refused $500 for IL. The edges of the
pages, says the Detroit Tribune. ARE bordered
with columns of references in the style which is
current to-day. The references are not so
numerous, however, as those in a modern Bible.
apocryphal books and at the close of the
New Testament is a subject index Perhaps
the most curious part Of the volums is the
metrical arrangement of the Psalms with which
it closes. The preface TO this part of the work
states that the Psalms were collected into En-
glish meter by Thomas Stern. John Hopkins and
others, conferred with the Elbrew with apt notes
to sing them withall." Ths notes are diamond
shaped aud arranged on a staff of five lines hav-
ing cleft not unlike the modern tenor cleft
Each note is open and the stem when one il
used. nFOCAAdH from of he
AT the annual meeting Of the eastern coun.
ties branch Of the British Dental Assoc alton
held at Cambridge Sir James Crichton Browne
presided and delivered an address on Tooth
Culture" He referred to the alarming in
crease OF decay OF the teeth, especially among
the young, and stated that as the result OF
recent Investigation among 1851 children under
u years of age there were only 10l with nor
NAL or perfect teeth, in need OF neither extrac-
ton nor filling, and only % per cent. Of infants
at years OF age had teeth free from decay In
Leeds 80 per cent. of the teeth of the popula-
ton we're bad, and in England 100000
Sir James ascribed the increase Of den
tai decay TO the pulpiness and soft
ness OF the food in modern times, which OBJ
waited the necessity for mastcaton, which pro-
NOTED the flow Of saliva and scrubbed the teeth
so keeping them clean; to the removal from all
breadstuffs OF the outer husks OF the grains.
which are the chief source of a chemical ele-
Tuent called hourine, which is essential to the
formation of the enamel OF the teeth; to the
nervous tension or modern existence iDterfer-
ing with the growth and nutrition of the teeth,
and to the growth OF large towns in which the
atmosphere is loaded with bacteria Injurious to
the teeth Sir James advocated increased at
tentton TO the state of the teeth and the Pc
, riodical inspection OF all school children, He
Thought that cheap but effective dentistry should
be brought within the reach OF the poorest.
In Arabian legends the cat is traced back as
far as Noah and the Ark. 1t is one of the ami.
mails that came of the Ark, but did not go on.
When the other creatures entered for safety
during the TIM when the doors of heaven
were te be onHH"d and the fountains of the deep
turn I'd zoos ere was no cat among them.
P ISIS origin is accounted for in this way: Dur.
ing the time the Ark was floating about over the
tall mountains, mice and rats became an in
tolerAble nuisance to the people on the great
vessel, and they complained to Noah that every
thing was being literally devoured by ths pesky
Vermin- That august parsonage forthwith
called the male lion to his side and be-
gan 10 stroke his back, whereupon the
great beast sneezed and 10! a full-sized cat
was blown from his nostrils! The ancient
Greeks thought that oil creature except cats
had souls. and that animal lost its soul through
bargain made oetween a bridge architect and
| the devil. The architect had besought the devil
TO get his help In constructing an exceedingly
dangerous bridge structure, and his satanic
ton that the first creature to cross il should lose
its soul. This was agreed upon, the bridge
| finished In due time and the devil sent to the
opposite side TO await his prey. The shrewd
architect took good care to send a cat over be-
fore any human being was allowed
to cross On learning eff the bargain
the cat recrossed the bridge and scratched tho
architects eyes out. The tstelar deity of cats
was Diana; and, according TO Plutarch the cat
was not only sacred to the moon, but was an
emblem OF it. Hence cats were treated with
peculiar consideration in the land OF the
Paraohs, the death OF one being regarded as the
greatest family misfortune. Egyptian cat
funerals were celebrated with the greatest
pomp and ceremony, their late owners showing
respect by shaving of their eyebrows and wear.
Ing sackcoth for nine days In the time of
Moses it was q capital crime to kill a cat. and
we are told by Diodorus how a Roman soldier
who killed one was tried, sentenced and finally
put TO death