The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CARVINGS differ from all other insects in both
their origin and structure; they are hatched
from eggs, like chickens. Naturalists often
port seeing the maternal earwig with her newly
Matched brood crowded under her like chickens
under hen.
IN 1862 a royal decree of Louis XIV. author
lied the establishment of line of ''twopenny-
halfpenny'' omnibuses, or "Carosses a cinq
sous" The company had at its head the Duke
de Roanes and a brace of marquises, and no less
person than the gentle Pascal was among the
shareholders.
WHEN Mrs. Jeffenson Davis was last in Rich
mond she looked at several sites with view to
selecting one for the monument to her husband
to be erected there by the people Of the south.
The one which pleased her best was outside the
city limits. near the soldiers home; but 1t is in
eligible, as the legislature in granting charter
to the monument association prescribed that
the memorial should be inside of Richmond.
Monroe park, among the fashionable residences,
is another favorite spot. A third site, which
had much TO recommend it sentimentally, but is
considered otherwise Instantaneous, is be-
side the house occupied by Mr.. Davis as a resi-
dence during the civil war. The property now
belongs to the city OF Richmond.
TIE first battalion of the Argyll and Suther-
erland Highlanders t91), after seeing thirteen
years Of foreign service, have just come TO
England from Hong Kong. , The regiment is
famous one, having been formed so far back as
1871 at Stirling by Col. Duncan Campbell OF
Lochnell The men were long known as the
Campbell Highlandersr" Among the many
memorable events in its history are the founder
ing of the Birkenheed, forty-four members of
the regiment being among the drowned; and
the fact that it stationed at ST. Helena
when the body of Napoleon l. was removed to
Paris and took part in the disbursement In Il $40
the gallant Ninety-first" were on duty at the
wedding of the Marquis Of Lorne and Princess
Louise of Windsor.
A MAINE PAPER tells Of the queer predica-
ment in which Bddeford man is. He owns
fifty acres of land in the suburbs of Biddeford
which his grandmother left him, hut he can't
find it. The boundary lines haven't been run
for generations. There is some dim record of
the original grant at Alfred, but not clear
enought to enable him to find out just what he
owns He has had survey at work trying to
run the lines but each time he has encroached
on land to which others have clear titles. Now
The property is advertised for taxes and pos
sible solution has presented itself to the owner
He says he is going to let the city sell the land
for taxes bid it in himself, aud let the city find
it for him. The city. he argues, can't sell any
thing it can't deliver, and can't deliver anything
it can't find
CHIEF INSPECTOR BYRNEs Is welcomed by the
New York press as the successor of Supt.
Murray, retired, with a unanimity that
goes out only to a servant having the most
widespread public confidence. AS the head of
New York's detectivs department, Byrnes has
done his CITY service of the most signal kind,
and he stands to-day the best detective OF this
continent. Superintendent Byrnes was born in
ireland in 1912. He enlisted with ex-Superin-
tendent Murray IN the Ellsworth Fire ZOuGves.
retiring from the war in 1858. Since that time
he has been in New York's police depart ment.
One field where Byrnes through his efficient
representatives, has lived an ever present
shadow and menace 70 thieves is Wall street,
and New York's downtown business district.
PRoF. ERNST CURTIUs, the famous Greek
scholar and arch9ologist OF the University of
Berlin announced a few months ago that he
had discovered that the Greek sculptors al
ways made the eyes OF men fuller and rounder
than those of women. The alleged discovery
was considered important, as it was believed
that it would lead to proper classification OF
many Of the unidentified heads o: Greek
statues. The hopes. however, seem to have
been premature, despite the fact that Curtius.
who has been called THE Modern Greek, d"
fathered them. DR.. Greet of Berlin, in re-
cent letter delivered before the Prussan
Academy of Science, declared that Curtius'
conclusions were wrong, as he had found fat,
to Curtius - in the heads of Greek
statues of men. He had also measured plastic
representations of women with large full eyes.
In nature he added. there was no difference be-
tween the eyes OF men and women. He had
examined, recently. In Berlin, the eyes Of
hundred members OF each sex and had found
that they were the same in shape size and
form. He thus upheld the theories of Zinn and
Sommerling that the Greek sculptors who gave
a greater fuIness to the eyes Of men than to
those OF women did not follow the conditions of
nature Prof Curtius, as far as is known, has
not replied to DR.. Greet. His answers awaited
with interest.
THERE are dog hospitals in town and places
at which injured equines may be put in good
order, says the New York AdUe1 tiser, but it 70.
mains for Mrs. George Smith, who dwells upon
Eighth avenue. near Twenty-third street. to
grasp the proud distinction of being the founder
OF the only feline sanitarium in New York She
is a mlddle-aged Englishwoman Of kindly mein
and her fondness for the ordinary house cat of
commerce approaches to a passion. Her studies
upon the physical ills of her pets have been
quite extensive, and IN the majority of cats
diseases she poses as an eminent specialist. The
yard at the back of her house is filed with
number of little kennels, and In these her
patients are secured under lock and key. Thew
represent all classes and conditions of
the feline tribe. Stately Angoras
and Persians from Fifth avenue
mansions are undergoing course
of treatment for chronic indigestion brought on
by high living. Velvet coat maltese beauties
and the plain tiger striped yowler that some
family has picked up and made a pet of occupy
adjoining kennels, while there are a couple of
tortoise shell night disturbers that Mrs. Smith
The highest number of patients that she can
accommodate is twelve, and the hospital is
usually full. The ambulance with which she
answers calls is a silk lined wicker basket and
the patient is taken home again in the same
when cured. Mrs Smith has built up quite a
Mica little business in her odd little line and as
she enjoys grinding monopoly of it there is no
doubt that it will swell to quite imposing pro-
portions in time.