The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-11
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LONDON Truth says, in discussing the an
| archist upheaval in Paris, that some years ago
| there was plot to kidnap the Queen of Bal
| moral. carry her off to a port and embark her
| Tor parts unknown. Horses had actually been
| provided along the route, when the facts came
| TO the knowledge of the police and the con-
| spirators were frightened off.
| THE Puritan fathers, who settled in America,
| were greatly addicted TO smoking; indeed, the
| practice became so common that even these
straight-laced observers of time and seasons
| actually smoked in church. This custom soon
/ caused very considerable annoyance, as the
| religious exercises were greatly disturbed by
the climbing of steels and flints and the clouds
| or smoke In church.
| THE present seal OF the city of Chicago was
adopted in June, 1854. 1t consists Of two circles,
| under which the words "City of Chicago,
| Incorporated March 4, 1887" Within the inner
circle is a shield emblazoned with sheaf OF
grain. Over the shield an infant reposes on
| sea she'll. At the left is an Indian with bow
| and arrow and on the right ship in full sail
Beneath is scroll inscribed 'Urbs in Horte"
/ "a city in a garden)
THE budget of the French army illustrates
| the effect of war on succeeding generations of
| conquered nation. In 1923 the young men born
I In 1871. during the Franco German war will be
| obliged to do military service. The number of
conscripts for that year will be 1000 less than
1 for 1899. The CONSUMPTION will not again reach
/ its normal proportions until 1895. This shows
the depression in birth statistics from 1871 to
| 1898, 8EUer the war was over.
! THE Chinese in Australia, though they are
| hated by the Australians, are showing what can
be.done by land culture. The Californians, in
| their large wheat-grow1ng tracts, produce is
| bushels of wheat TO the acre, the Englishman
| n bushels to the acre the Scotchman IS, the
| English allotment holder 45 to &C. the Chinese,
| with his careful use of every available drop of
| manure, and his painstaking care for each clod
| Of ground. would produce about 100 bushels to
1 the acre.
THE English consul at Mozambique mentions
that there exists on the east coast, south of the
Zambesi river, reefs of pearl oysters. The
! greater portion of the reef is WITHIN inclosed
| waters, and, as it has never been regularly
worked the pearls which could be found there
| must be of considerable dimensions. The natives
| in the locality of the pearl reefs occasionally
| find black pearls of great beauty, but their
| value is absolutely destroyed in consequence of
| the method employed in extracting them from
the shell. This method consists in placing the
| oyster in the fire.
STRANGERS in the capital express much sur
prise at the number Of cripples to be seen here,
and offer various explanations of the sight,
says Kate Fields Washington. The majority
of MANNED citlZ9ns are officeholders, who were
| crippled during the late war. The form in
| which they are mostly injured is the loss of an
| arm, oftener left one, as observation shows.
Many have parted with a leg. and the suppliers
OF substitutes in willow, cork or rubber in
| Washington aver that this is of the best
| markets in the country for their profession.
| Besides these njures received through violence,
there are scores Of people in the government
service who are afflicted with natural deformi-
ties. They are to be found particularly In the
| treasury department.
| The INTRODUCTION Of the electric motor In
] farm work will inevitably inaugurate new
| era in western agriculture. bill has been In
PRODUCED in the hGusas legislature to provide
| Tor the establishment of an agricultural power
| experiment station by the government, in
| which an effort will be made to determine the
relative value of the different motors on the
| great grain gro wing farms of the plains. AR-
| ricultural operations have hitherto been carried
| entirely by animal dover. and when the advan-
| tage is offered rot only of facilities for the car
4 riage of agricultural products to market but of
l ample and cheap power for the tilling of the
land and the reaping of crops, the development
to be looked for will Approximate that which
| has followed the application OF electric power
| in all other branches of industry.
THE statues of the twelve apostles are set up
in the court of King BehanzIn. the ruler of
/ Dahomey, who in his annual religious celebra-
1 tions is supposed to sacrifice 1000 human
] victims Tie father of the present king some
| years ago received a number of Catholic priests
| at his court, aud they won favor in his ewes by
l teaching the people the duty of submission TO
the king. They induced the king to destroy
| some of the indecent fetiches In the capital
! When they were about to go away the king
| said to them: II have received you well and
| have even demolished the fetiches you think
| immoral, and in return ! now insist that Won
| show me your God in their place" They extri-
| Gated themselves from this difficulty by send.
4 ing for statues OF the twelve apostles. which
4 were set up in Abomey and are still there
4 THE origin Of the word as well as the exact
date of appearance of the custom of mick
1 naming" is unknown. Such names ara as old
4 at least as the most venerable chronicles for
i upon diving into ancient history, we have no
| trouple at all in proving that Plato was called
| the Attic Bee and Socrates "Old Flat Nose. "
: There isn't the least doubt but that many
of our surnames come from nick
names applied to our ancestors such,
for instance e.1a as 49, "pollarhide," Ok
| shaw, "Redhesd. ''"Longman +" 'LonefelIow."
etc. Julius Caesar was popularity slyled Bald
| head, and even the third Rameses is said to
have been known by an Egyptian name which
| cape the blightng or benign influence of the
| nickname. Kings, queens, philosophers di-
| vines, statesmen, as well many other emf
| nent persons, have been made to prosper or
| suffer by having some appropriate or ridiclIIons
| sobriquet added after their lawful bestowal of
| the Christian" name. Boccaccio was STYLED
| the Prince of Story Tellers," and Crichton en-
| joyed the designation Of Admiral because of
| his extraordinary learning. On one occasion
| every member of the British House OF Com
| mons was either called 1.-The Beast" or
1 1866" owing to the number Of its members
| and TO the fact that 1t is the number of the
| mysterious beast referred to in Revelation
| xiii, Is. Cromwell, of all men, has had per-
haps, most nieknames applied to him. He was
| "His Noseship," "Old Nol" saul" and a
| score of others. Wellington, Napoleon several
| of our American generals, as well as many mill
| tary commanders of ancient times come in for
| their share of nlcknames. 1t would take MANY
| columns to give the nicknames of famous persons
| without word of historical of critical com
knowledged that no one knows the origin of
| the word. One authority says that mick" is TO
| shorten or cut off a name or ANYTHING else.
| another believes that it means "Devl-namer'