The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LADIES and waiting maids among the ancient
Greeks and Romans wore plain hoops of gold or
silver in their ears, and as they progressed these
became more elaborate. precious gems being
set in them. Many Roman matronS possessed
earrings of the most costly and gorgeous de-
scription. One OF the most fashionable patterns
affected by those of rank an wealth was modelled
in the form of an asp, with golden body
shaded with gems of the first water.
Rev. G. X. FLACK Of Chicago has started what
he calls gospel wagon, with cabinet organ
in one end aud coffee tank in the other The
wagon makes the rounds of the lumber yards at
noon. When the men start out for beer the
music on the organ begins and placard is hung
out over the coffee tank. Coffee is better chan
beer, and you can get it here n nothing" The
men are taking kindly to the coffee and the fgOS-
pei songs, The Rev. Flack says he has seen
men throw away beer in their pals to have
them filled with the coffee If the movement
proves a success other wagons will circulate in
the labor districts.
In LIEU of genuine hunting, which is tenn
porarily at a Istandstill the novel idea of stlrt-
ng off youth on foot, and sending two blood
hounds after him half hour later, has com
mended itself to certain sportsmen residing in
the neighborhood of the Quorn as q capital way
OF killing time, says the london Daily Telegraph
The opening run was great success, for after
striking the line of passing and naturally
very perurbed traveller on the high road the
hounds were with difficulty stopped and trans
ferred to that of the legitimate quarry. Travel
ing at tremendous pace. and with music
almost equal IN volume to the cry Of pack of
toxhounds, they ran all around the Quorn
village the owner, regard of snow drifts
galloping in pursuit aud taxing the fences Just
as they come. TIL end of the run was some
what singular, directly the blood-hounds got
up to tue fugitive they evinced their delight by
springing up to him and trying to lick his face.
HAVE you seen the latest walking stickss"
said Commissioner Jake Hess to a New York
Morning Advertiser reporter in the Hoffman
house. No? Well, its inventor is said to be-
hasN fka#
1t is called the Prince OF Wales crook 1t is
made of English crab generally, without orna-
mentation of any kind, and has an old-faSh-
Toned crook similar to that of the canes carried
by our forsfathers. The reason it is worn by
the prince is that he can hang it in his coat
pocket or on his arm when making notes at a
horse race. All of his valuable information for
chappies' comes from friend who has just re-
turned from England, and says the new cane is
about three months old - While Commissioner
Hess was talking to the reporter tall, smooth
shaven Anglo-maniac could be seen leaning
against the news stand toying with the latest
walking stick. 1t was nearly yellow and per-
fectly plain, with the exception of little silver
hligree near the top.
EVERY school child in the early rart of the
present century was taught to believe that
| there was a terrible and wonderful eddy or
| vortex several miles in diameter on the coast
| OF Norway, into which ships. icsbergs. whales
and AL the monsters OF the deep were indis-
| cTmlDately dragged and buried forever in the
| ocean S awful depths A CORES pondeut says
II have been informed by a European acQuaint-
| ance that the maelstrom has no existence out
| side the Imagination Of sensational writer's. A
| joint commission of Swedish and German nauti-
| cal and scientific men recently went in search
! OF this, the greatest bugbear OF antiquity, and
/ report themselves unable to locate It, and that
| the sea was perfectly smooth where the whirl-
pool should nave b - l." "Ya Curious Man" of
the ST. Louis Republic is of the opinion that the
| above is correct. The latest geographers barely
| aude TO IT. One marks its site upon the map
but does not mention it in his article on Nor
| way. According to our way of viewing the sub
| Ject, the maelstrom romance has been pretty
| etfectually destroyed .,..ts
PRONUNCIATION of the letter u generally indi-
Gates whether articulation has been made the
subject Of study, says the Chicago Herald No
| amount of study will secure rigid classifying
of words in which iJ ought to be sounded like
90 IN mood or like itself in but or like gu in you
| Accent strictly means only stress OF voice ap.
Piled with more force to the vowel in one sylla-
| bic than to the vowel in another in the same
w9-d; popc arly it applies TO az traits Of eEuR-
| cation Thus the KENTUCKY accent is most
! noticeable in words cont aiming the consonant r
! Kentucky accent says Parse for Paris; a GER
tain accent in London calls it Payrs and an
other Psyriss. Kentucky says Moo Yok. Lon
don says Nyou Yawk. Bal Chicago accent
| say Pars for the French capital; places tho
| Of flute aud the double 90 of school in the
| right side Of the 50 and gives them out with
| equal fatness. " hen Mary Anderf on first an
peared on the stage her accent was ludicrous;
1t was nasal; her us were oo's and her RS were
dropped or held in the nose. Hsr tone so
| wanting in dignity music that she created
| laughter when she appealed to tears 1t re-
| CURED long and patient teaching to eliminate
| the faults OF her articulation, but before she
| Quilted the boards she spoke a fairly correct
| English.
SINCE July of last year the old words of
command for altering the helm, viz, STAR
board" or port" have been given up on board
| the ships of the North German I.loyds and the
| Hamburg -American Line, and the order right
| or left substituted, says the London Ndufi-
| cal Magazine. II is difficult to break with old
! customs, and seamen in especial are conservat-
i've; 1t Is, therefore, not matter OF wonder that
| many old sailors look with great
| disfavor upon this latest innovation. On board
| the steamers of the two great lines mentioned
| above, however, the change has been made OBJ
| ligatory, and, according 70 report forwarded
| to the directo s by one of the Oldest captains
| who was himself opposed to the idea has been
attended with the happiest results. AS soon as
the order right is given, the telegraph is
moved to the right the wheel is revolved to the
| right, the ship turns TO the right the rudder
indicator points right, the rudder itself
moves right, and the steerinR-mark on the
| compass as well; and so vice-versa when the
| order left is given. Nothing can be simpler
| and no possibility of mistake can arise The
| objection has been raised that the new words
OF command are not international and are
therefore Illegal: this statement, however will
not hold good. as both English and American
pilots, In whom every one has confidence have
made no difficulties in using the new words OF
command when plotting the ships of the two
aforementioned companies. Sucn special
words OF commands as '.uf" and keep away"
will naturally be retained when ships are under
sail; but otherwise it is pretty certain that be-
fore long in the whole German merchant
service right" and left" will be substituted
for 'starbOard' and port" as has already been
done In the German navy; and men returning
from the latter to the merchant service will no
longer have to unearn what they have been
taught on board man of-war.