The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
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A PAIR Of infants has been presented to Har-
rison Breedlove, who is 70 years old, by his wife
who is 63, who live at Carson, New. They are
believed TO be the oldest couple on record who
have been favored In this way. 1t is proposed
to send the father, mother and children to the
worlds fair as samples of what it is possible to
do in the far west.
THE CUSTOM OF placing Grape on the door OF a
house where there has been q recent death had
its origin in the ancient English heraldic Gus
toms, aud dates far back at least, as the
year 100 A. d. at that period Indictments or
armorlal enslgns were placed in front OF houses
when the nobility and gentry died. These
Indictments were OF diamond shape and con-
tanned the family arms 1uartered and covered
with sable,
THE MoHAvEs believe that all who die and are
not cremated are turned into OWLS and when
they hear owl hootin2 at night they think it
is the spirit of some dead Mohave returned.
After any one dies they do not eat salt or wash
themselves for four days. Tney hal formerly
an annual burning of property, and all would
contribute something to The flames in expecta-
ton of it's going up o their departed friends in
heaven or white Mountain" as they call it.
WHEN the queen opens parliament in person
she proceeds in state to the House of Lords and
commands Black Rod to let the commons know
that it is her majesty's pleasure that they at
tend her Immediately in this house" Black Rod
proceeds to the House of Commons and form
ally commands their presence, on which the
speaker and the commons go up to the bar of
the House of Lords and the queen delivers her
speech, which is read by the lord chancellor
kneeling on one knee.
THE empire of China. according TO the costa
siatischer Lloyd" covering an area Of 100000
square kilometers. now has q population of
300 900, or about So inhabitants to the square
kilOmeteP, Ho-Nan. it declares, is the most
thickly populated province Of the country.
having about 2l0 persons to the square kilome-
ter. Shsn-Tung follows Holman. with 172 to
ECuare EilOmatpr The bOunQAFV teFriE n
Thibet numbers the least people OF any district
of the empire, there being only three persons to
the square kilometer.
A CURIOUS PRESENT recently given to Prince
Bismarck is a gigantic bouquet of flowers three
feet in hight. But they were not real flowers
with the perfume Of the garden and field upon
them; the thousands OF little leaves and bios
SONS, sprays and grasses were made of the fin
est sheet iron, as fine and thin as letter paper
1t had been rolled IN the Bismarck foundry in
Upper Silesia and formed into flowers, leaves
and garauds in the factory Of Christian Jauch
in Breslau Not one unnatural line dsturbs tue
eye; the oak leaves aud laurel branches, the
roses, pinks and all are as natural as you please
The IMAGES of the gods in India are not made
by a separate caste, but the carpenters and
mssons respectively make the iargs wooden
and stone idols set up in the temples, the pot
tiers the clay idols consumed in daily worship,
and the braZers copperSmiths and goldSmths
the little images in brass, copper, mixed metal
and gold and silver that are always kept in pri-
yate homes The East Indians regard an alloy
of brass, with SIX other metals, gold silver
iron, tim lead, making with the copper and
zinc of the brass, mixture OF light metals, as
very perfect alloy, and this highly priced as
material for sacred images.
For practical purposes the Mediterranean
may be accepted being what is popularity
supposed to be, Uideess sea, but it is not so in
realty. In many places there is distinct rise
ana fall, though this is more frequently due to
winds and than l1nar al fra Ctio
At Venice there is rise OF from one 10 two feet
in spring tides, according TO the prevalence of
winds up or down the Adriatic In many straits
and narrow arms of the sea there is a period
ical hux and re1ux but the only place where
the tidal influence, properly SO called, is unmis-
takably observed is in the Gulf of Gabes. where
the tide runs at the rate OF two or three knots
an hour and the rise and fall varies from three
to eight feet.
THE remarkable stone houses Of Easter Is
land we're thoroughly explored by an expedi.
tion from the United States steamer Mohican.
| and have been described in the report of the
United States National Museum for 1889. These
houses are built against terrace of earth or
rock, which in some cases forms the back wall
of the dwelling. They are built OF small slabs
of strated basaltic rock, piled together with
out cement. Noregularity of plan is shown In
the construction of majority of them. The
average measurement is follows: Hight
from floor to ceiling, feet 6 inches; thickness
of walls, feet to 10 inches; width of rooms, 4
feet inches; length Of rooms, I2 feet inches:
average size of doorways. hight, 20 inches
width, 10 inches.
THE great fire OF Boston, which occurred
Nov. 9, 1872 started at the corner of Summer
and Kingston streets and spread over sixty
| three acres of the business part of the CITY
leaving the entire district bounded by Summer
Washington, Milk and Broad streets a heap of
smoking ruins, and destroying over 500 600 oOJ
worth of property, says the Boston Commercial
Bulletin. Many of the buildings, although of
solid granite. seemed to be no barrier to the
spread of the conflagration. Boston recovered
with marvellous speed from the terrible blow,
and the burned district relaid out in greater
regularity and the buildings erected were of
much more substantial character and under
strict regulations with regard TO greater safety
from similar disaster. Indeed, the beauty of
the great avenues of warehouses in this Quarter
of the city is now frequently commented on by
strangers.
A GERMAN srATIsTIcIAN recently published
the results of his investigation of the relative
ages of husband and wives In the various capt.
tails of Europe He found that the conditions
in Berlin, where the bureau of statistics does
/ excellent work, corresponded, upon the whole
with those in other cities. He discovered that
marriages are most frequent where the hus-
band Is or years older than the wife.
Women under 20 years OF age, however usually
take unto themselves husbands or wears
older than themselves The cases in which the
man was year younger than the woman
were almost as numerous as those in
which he was 8 or years older. The first
condition was true Of 81 per cent of all
married couples, and the latter condition of 6
per cent. The cases where the husband was G
or years younger than the wife were also lust
as numerous those where he was 10 or Ii
years older. Only two cases were discovered
where the husband was IS years the senior one
case where he was d years older, and one case
where he was the older by as years One case
was discovered where the wife was "a wears
older than the husband. Twelve and three
tenths per cent. of all men who marry women
under 20 years of age, according to the Stats
tician, are between rs and q years old
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