The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dr. Ns1LsoN of Norway states that the fisher
folk of Bergen have for over 800 years inocu-
lated whales with bacteria in order TO kill them.
| The whales enter a firth near the town and are
| driven into narrow. bay. net Is then stretched
| across its mouth and the whales shot with
| poisoned arrows. After a day or two they be-
come sickly and are easily dispatched. The
| arrows inoculste them with disease like sym
| pathetic anthrax" and when pulled out OF the
wound are fit for another hunt.
| In RUSSIA a child 10 years or age cannot go
away from home TO school without passport.
Servants and peasants cannot go away from
| where they live without a passport. A gentle
man residing at st. Petersburg or Moscow can
not receive the visit Of a friend who remains
many hours without notifying the police of his
| arrival, as the case may be- The porters OF all
| houses are compelled to make returns of the
arrival and departure OF strangers. And for
| every one of the above passports a charge is
| made of some kind
| IT IS CUSTOMARY in the town of Quito when
a visitor takes of his hat upon entering room
| to beg him to put It on again; aud in the alb
| sence of permission, leave is generally re-
| quested. This, it is said arises from appre-
| hension that cold will be taken by remaining
| uncovered. The same persons upon going out
of doors take of their hats to flashes of light
ming, no matter whether rain is railing; and,
| when the streets are usy.and lightning is abund-
| ant, a grotesque effect is produced by these
| salutations, which seem to be regarded as duty
| by well-behaved persons, and are performed as
punctiliouslY as the hom mage which is paid to re-
|
The waters of the iulet at this time Of the
year are fairly alive with red herring says the
Vancouver (B. c. Telegram. The general be-
| lief is that shipping will drive these fish from
| any waters, but any one, standing on the deck
of boat lying in the stream can see millions OF
| them now. Saturday afternoon several boys
were observed fishing in the old Indian fashion.
and they secured lotdof fish, The Indian
| method is as follows: Take a slender pole
| about 20 feet long and drive In on one side
| about dozen or two of 10penny nails then,
sitting in the bow Of the boat, propel it by
padding with the pole. The pole, in passing
~ through the water, catches the fish on the nails
- In this way large quantity may be uSht in
aoShort time
sire AN article in a recentissue of we'll known
metropolitan daily says:Io''The red hat
st bestowed upon the cardinals by Leo ~,
the council of Lyons ia the year 1345. 1t is
probable that. inasmuch as red was a royal
color, that color was chosen for the cardinals
oat to show thai he ranked with kings and
C,,s rinces" The facts are, there was no council
=, Lyons In 1915, and Leo ". was pope in the
Tear S47, nearly 800 years before. Bayle,
to acandard authority on the subject, says: sun
MONy is the day of the sun; Rome the city of
- n-days or the Holy City, and the cardinals,
cloe princes of the Roman church, are also
and linces of the sun, ahd wear redi because it is
reeire color OF the sun.
BvS a recent lecture on ''Rain Clouds and
1tning," Henry 2. Curtis explained the ex-
Fifth me blackness and grotesque shape of thuu-
=er clouds as being caused by electrifcation,
nd said that occasionally lightning goes up
- ard from ground to cloud. Lightning con-
NCIinues until the thunder cloud has risen too
high above the subjacent ground for the ten
sion requisite, AS the cloud lifts the light
ling's path becomes more vertical. Thunder
chiheads may be seen 200 miles. Window glass
SUI has been broken by heavy thunder. The Gu
null rise to hight,of some six miles, then
We slop over aud form u haze Thunder hazel
Lightning will fall vertically from the extreme
limit II the haze cloud sometimes. though no
rainis falling. Lightning causes the cloads to
rff lU faH RI fhA p IN oh
itself causes rain.
- TIME-sENsE is very highly developed in do
nestle fowls and many wild BIRDS as well as in
dogs horses and other mammals. which keep
an accurate account OF days of the week ana
hours of the day, and have at least limited
IDEA or numerical succession of logical Sc
quence. A Polish artist residing in Rome had
an exceedingly intelligent and faithful terrier,
which, as he was obliged TO go on journey, he
left with a friend, to whom the dog was warmly
attached. Day nd night the terrier went to
the station to meet every train, carefully OBJ
serving and remembering the time of their
rival, and never missing one. Meanwhile he
became so depressed that he refused to eat, and
would have died of starvation if the friend had
not teiegraphed to his master to return at once
If he wished to find the animal alive. Here we
have striking exhibition of time sense as well
as an example of all-absorbng affection and
elfrenunciat on likely to result in suicide.
"IT would SEEM" says the London CORE
spondent of the New York Recorder, that the
RIG prophecy Is StllI portion or Scotland g
bards. A correspondent writes that at a gather
ing of the clans at Braemer, the Duke of Flies
residence, an old Gael congratulated the
Duchess of Fife and her baby, declaring that
they would both one day cit on the throne of
England. The old seer who perhaps was
descendant of one of the three witches who
promised throne to the ancient foe of the
house OF Macduff, made use Of the Gaelic
i tongue to convey his illomened congratuation
, The Prince of Wales however, heard OF the
matter and was extremely angry with the
dukes guest for predicting woe to his house.
and no less angry with his daughter for not
, rebuking the bard. However the prediction
is already half fulfilled. and was very near
being borne out completely by Prince George s
DANGEROUS illness. 1t remains to be seen
, whether the latter half of the prophecy will
prove true, and the heir of Macduff ascend a
loftier throne than the Thane of Cawdor"
ROYAL TOMB, belonging to the eighteenth
. dynasty, has been discovered in Egypt by NJ
Grebaut at the village of Te-elAmarna on the
right bank OF the Nile, between Assault and
Minieh. 1t is that of Khu-en-Aten a sovereign
who, uneasy at the growing encroachments of
! the priests of Ammon on the political domain
, moved the capital from Thebes, and tried to
shake their power by setting up the worship of
the sun at Tel-elAmarna. On his DEATH how
ever, Thebes again became the capital and the
priests increased in power until they supplanted
i the royal house and founded the
Z twenty-first dynasty Up to now only the
tombs of high court officials have been
l | found In this place, and the discovery of the
| | royal sepulcher is likely to throw fresh light
: on the history of the reign about which little is
| known. The burial place is composed of a
gallery about ffty-four yards in length, from
[ which branch out two corridors one straight
! the other curved, ending in several sepuIchrai
= chambers destined for the wife and daughter
OF the king. The chief gallery ends in a quad.
rangular room sustained by four pillars and
! holding the royal tomb. The sarcophagus ia
in a good state Of preservation. although the
colorinR has disappeared.