The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LAST SUMNER . German named Cremsr. who
made journey to Spitzbergen, discovered
thick beds of coal there and at Bear Island His
trip lasted only six weeks, but It was long
enough Tor Cremer TO ascertain that Goa min
ing Is quite possible there. although perhaps
owing to the climate not always in q regular
manner. The thickest beds OF coal are on the
east coast OF Bear Island, and are about 500 feet
thick
In ANY country where Arabs are numerous
you will see the word "Faraun" here and there
on the maps. Thus the name Quar- -Faraun"
Is found in Arabia and In Morocco. Faraun ia
another way of spelling Pharoah, by which
name the Arabs understand some great prince
VINO has built important works like the pyra-
mids, which they believe to be beyond the power
OF merely human skill and to be partly the re-
suit OF SupeThuman agency.
BOOSTERS and hens among the Rucuyenne
tribe OF Indians, in the western part Of French
Guinea, are perfectly white. Not a colored
feather can be found among them. The ma
tives have no tradition of time when their
ancestors had fowls OF other colors, but the
white chickens are probably explained by the
fact that white feathers are the choicest orna-
ments among this people, and they will not
wear feathers OF any other color.
THREE MEN from Carson, New. took whisky
to Washoe Lake, and with It saturated guam
tity of wheat which they spread out for wild
ducks, thinking the birds could be caught easily
after becoming intoxicated. The hunters hid
themselves, the game came. ate the grain and
became exceedingly noisy, but all few away to
the Carson Sink. where many we're found after
ward in a booty condition. The hunters reaped
no profit
THE Parthians and Modes entertained the
notion that persons devoured by wild animals
would not be entirely dead but would enjoy At
least partial sort OF life in the creatures which
ate them. Probably it was for this reason that
the Bactrians AMI Hrcanians trained dogs for
the same purpose. called 'sepulchral dogs"
which received the greatest care and attention
because it was deemed proper that the souls OK
the deceased should have strong and healthy
frames to dwell in.
HERE is a list that ought to be in your scrap
book. 1t tells you how many years certain ami
mas live under ordinary conditions: Elephants
live 100 years and upward. rhinoceros 90 camel
IOO, lion 20 to 80. tigers, leopards. 1aguars and
hyenas I'm confinemenO about %, beaver So
deer ~, wolf 20, fox IA to IS, llamas 49, chamois
70, monkeys and balloons 10 to 10, hare S. SOUR
rel z rabbit z, swine IS, stag under 80. horse 80
ass 81, sheep under 10. cow 90. OK 80, swans.
parrots and ravens 200, eagle 100 geese 80 hens
and pigeons 10 to 16. hawks so to 40, crane a.
Diacko rd 10 to IL, peacock 20, pelican 20 to so,
thrush to 10, wren to g. nightingale Is, black
cap TO- ilnnet ID to %. goldfnch 20 to "a. red
breast 10 to u, skylark 10 to 30 titlark S to 8,
chadinch 20 to "a, starting 70 to l2 carp 20 TO
!3O, PIKE 30 TO 40, salmon i6. goldfish IL to H. eel
III, crocodile 100, tortoise 100 to 200 whale esri
mated, 1000; queen bees live years, drones 4
months, worker bees 6months.
THERE was not If early historians, mission
aries and theologiaDs are to be believed. q
single tribe of American Indians who had. at
the time of the white mans advent in the West
ern hemisphere, the least smatterng of tradi-
tion concerning the life, ministry and sufferings
OF Jesus: But this does not hold good In
regard 70 the story of creation, the
Tower of Babel and the food many OF
them having traditional history which
almost exactly corresponds with the stories Of
thRQA nj rala "a IN h.
day Maj. Davenport, the government agent for
the Musquakies, was telling some chiefs about
Moan, the food and tha ark when one of them
interrupted him with; "Humph We
know that long time. We was In canoes
all tied together. We float on
heap water We send muskrat down one two
many times. lie dive. come up Last he 90
down and come up with mud in his claw. We
know water going down" This was all the in
formation Mr.. Davenport could elicit from the
dusky seer
THE custom of permitting the fair sex to as
sumo the rights and prerogatives appertaining
to their brothers once every four years is a
very ancient one. and when It originated is not
definitely known. The first statutory recooni-
ton of the custom, however, was a law passed
by the Scottish parliament in the year 1888. Goa
years ago. which statute provided as follows:
IL is statut and ordaint that during the rein of
MIR mast blissit meRestie, ilk forthe yeare
EnoWn as Leap Year, ilk Maiden ladye of bath
highe and lowe estait shall hae Ilberte to he
speak ye Ike s, a. bolJ. gif be refuses to talk
mir to be his lawful wedit wife, he shall he
mulcted whatever that may bel in We summe
OF ane dundis or less, as his estait mott be- ex-
cept an avis gif he can make it appears that he
is betrothit ane ther woman, that he then shall
be free In 1881 France enacted similar laws
and before Columbus set OUT on his voyage OF
discovery Genoese and Florentine maidens ''of
path higbe and lowe estait'' had all the privi-
leZes in that line which their Scottish and Eng
hsh sisters enjoyed.
ONE OF the most remarkable as well as the
most interesting relics of prehistoric man ever
found in America was discovered by James
Cormack and Daniel Rees 200 feet beneath the
surface OF the ground, at Angus, Dallas county
Iowa, when the famous Coal Town shaft was
DelnR sunk. The relic in question was a perfect
human race, composed Of indurated CLAW IL
was something more than half the usual size of
tne human face, with a nose and forehead of
the genera contour known to the anthropolo-
glst as the Aztec type" Everything, even to
al tne side of the nose. goes to prove that the
ma was not simply baked clay image but
tnat 1t had been fashioned from a plaster
cast or death mask Of some human being that
nad once lived and brea he'd Mr. Rees one Of
tue uscoverers or the curiosity, was superin.
tenong the opening OF the mines at the time
he IS an honorable gentleman, and his word Is
considered good wherever he is known He
says that the mysterious specimen was found
lmoedded in stratum of clay or shale lust
eDove the coal, which in that part of Iowa lies
altogether, il is believed 70 be the earliest trace
OF prehistoric man yet found In Americs. The
discovery is enough 70 make ones flesh tingle
Win mystery when he asks himsalf the o,,as