The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| IN LWenty-Iour days danQel wrote 'Ine Mes
siah." DR.. johnson wrote 'Rasselas" in the
nights of a single week. Schubert sometimes
| wrote four or five IMMORTAL songs IN a single
| day. He was born in 1897 ana died in 1925 yet
! he set to music 634 poems by 100 different au-
| thors in addition to writing other musical
| works.
THERE is a woman living In Vienna with a
most remarkable throat. According to the New
| York Sun, "You can pass probes to all parts of
both her throat and larynx without causing
any spasms of the muscles, what in ordinary
language is called gagging. You can place
buttons IN various parts of her larynx and re-
move them again and she will suffer no discom-
fort. Why this should be so nobody knows.
The most eminent throat specialists in the
world have examinedJher and found no reason
for it. Her vocal cords are as pearly white as
those found in typically normal throat She
visits the various clinics OF Vienna, and rents
her throat out for gulden an hour to young
doctors who wish to gain skill in manipulation. "
Frau Keller carries her own instruments in
little bag aud will permit no others to be used.
She is thoroughly versed in the anatomy of
the throat and teaches young doctor all the
parts OF the throat, which he must learn to
touch.
ACCORDING to Nikola Tesla, the electrician
the new discovery Of carborundum will largely
increase the possibilities of electric lighting
Among these possibilities he mentions electric
lamps opera ed without any wires at all, an In
exhauStible store of electrical energy on tap
everywhere without need of either generation
or transmission, and a light at least twenty
times more effective than that now furnished.
In speaking of Mr.. Tesla s article, the Pihsburg
Dispatch says: There are more tangible
though somewhat less magnificent results from
the actual development in Western Pennsyl-
vania industries of the new material carborun-
dun, the qualities of which are enlarged upon
In the same connection. A material that in ad-
dtion to its value for electrical lighting has the
industrial uses set forth in the article is valu-
able addition to our industries. 1t has been an
abstract rather than practical idea in the
progress of science for some ages that dia-
monds might be artificially produced. This dis
covery appears to realize that dream, and even
surpasses it so far as the industrial uses of the
precious stone are concerned. It marks an
other step in the triumphant march of scientific
industry"
81 ONCE found a treasure floating at sea, ;" said
an old whaling captain. at was lump Of am
bergris and weighed thirty seven pounds two
ounces. The stuff was of particularly fine quail
ity and sold for $25 an ounce. was cheated on
the price of il, too. for the dealer to whom l
sold it disposed Of it at the rate of $50 ounce
But, as you see, received SIC, 6S2 tor the chunk
half of which belonged to me according to the
rules which govern such cases of hotsam and
ietsam, the other half being divided among the
crew. Big pieces OF ambergrfs are not in
frequently found floating, am told, and some
times they are thrown up on the shore. Many
a small fortune has been found In such a
shape. The stuff looks more like tree bark
than anything e Sc, but has a waxy appearance
streaked with yellow and black. 1t has a very
peculiar aromatic Sm H. A scientific man in
forms me that it is nothing more or less than a
disease of the liver of the sperm whale and that
chunks of its weighing as much eco pounds
are sometimes found in whales bodies. The
person speak Of told me that ambergris was
used in perfumes not so much because of its
peculiar odor as on account Of its property of
causing other ingredients to throw out their
fragrance. Perfumes made without it smell
of alcohol. He said 1t was very remarkable
thing that the two most precious products of
the seq, ambergris and pearls, should be the re-
suits of disease
ELIJAH and Elias are one name, says London
Spare Moments; 80 are Elisha and Eliseus; also
Isaiah, Isaias Esaias and Esay These changes
are something like our own-as Chomondeley
into Chumley, Gloucester into Gloster, Ciren-
cester into Cister and Cisister, Leicester into
Lester. The most singular transformation is
Jacob into James The I'm" of James seems
| to come from the Italian Giacomo, but the &c"
is dropped. 1t is Jacobus in Latin, Jacob in
Greek, Jaacoy in Hebrew, Jacques in French
and Iago in Spanish. 1T has been asked which
is the proper way of spelling the surname Stew
ard. But this question: it would appear, is not
so easily answered, seeing we have about thirty
different ways on record In English, Gaelic
Latin. French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch as
follows: /, Steward; 2, Stewart: 3, Stewart:
4, Stuart; 5, Stuard; O. Stuarde; z, SteuArd; g.
steuart 9 steuert; 10, stewort; II, S5eort; i2,
Steuohard; Is, Steubhart; ID, Steubhartt; IS
Stiubhart; 10, Steyyard; II, Stiurt; l9, Steward
49, Sturgard; 20, Stwyarde; 81. Styward: 22
Stuardus; %, Seneschallus; d, Estuard; IS, Es-
| tuarrdza &c, Stivard; p, Stivardi In an inge-
NOUS attempt to settle 1.-The right etymoogy Of
the surname Stuart 1t is commended, and with
much pausibility, that is, 'S-dew ard"-the
| lord high. or the high lord-that is, the lord
next to the king in power. There ls another
| name which is not very high sounding-John
| Smth-plain John Smith. 1t does not suggest
| aristocracy; and yet it is a good, strong and
honest name Smith is sometimes transformed
into Smyth and Smythe, and even Smiithe: hut
| transferred into other languages, it seems to
climb the ladder of responsibility, thus: In
| Latin it is Johannes Smthus; the Italians
smooth it off into Giovanni Smith: the
| SpaDiards render it Juan Spithus the Dutch
man adopts it as Hans Schmidt; the French
flatter it into Jean Smeers, and the Russian
| sneezes and barks Jouloff Smittowski When
John Smith gets into the tea trade he becomes
Jahon Shimmit II he chambers about
Mount Hecla, the Icelanders say he is Jaime
Smtnsen if he trades among the Tuscaroras
| he becomes Tom Ga Smitna; in Poland he Is
der among the Welsh mountains they talk Of
Jhom Schmidt; when he goes to Mexico, he il
booked as Jouth F'SnNte; if, of classic turn he
fingers among Greek ruins, he turn to Ion SmiIx-
ton; and In Turkey he is utterly disguised as
You Seef. In Scotland there is remarkable
predominance of certain names in particular
localities. Thus, we have Campbell, Cameron.
Maclean and Kennedy in the west Macdonald
Mackenzie, Robertson and Stewart in the north:
Gordon, Forbes, Grant and Ogilvy in the east:
and Scott, Kerr, Johnston and Maxwell in the
south. In concluding this short paper we must
say that scarcely anything depends on the let.
ter, but everything on Che connection of ideas
Solomon was the wiSest of men, and his name Ia
one OF the nobest in sacred literature vet no
father would give such a name to his child