The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE strength of some OF the spiders which
build their webs In trees and other places in
and around Santa Ana, CAL, is astonishing,
| says the Globe Democrat. One Of them had in
| captivity In q tree in that town not long ago a
wild canary. The ends Of the wings. tail and
| feet Of the bird were bound together by some
sticky substance, TO which wers attached the
threads of the spider, which was slowly but
surely drawing up the bird by an ingenious
| pully arrangement. The bird hung head down.
ward and was so securely bound with little
threads that ID could not struggle and would
have soon been a prey to its great, ugly captor
| had not an onlooker rescued it.
BED was made in Paris for an Indian prince
| who paid thousands of pounds for 1t, says
| Chambers Journal 1t was constructed partly
OF silver, with large female figures at each cor
| ner, each holding delicate looking fan. The
/ weight of the sleeper's body sets certain ma
chinery in motion which causes the figures to
keep the fans gently in motion-an ingenious
luxury IN hot climate. By touching a spring
large musical box lie made 10 give forth soft
| music as a further incentive to slumber An
other bedstead, made of silver, is said to have
been occupied by the German emperor during
| his visit to the sultan. 1t had oriental curtains
| OF SURPRISING richness, heavily embroidered
with gold. What a contrast this presents to the
| simple iron camp bsds affected by Prince Bis
| marck Moltke and other renowned leaders.
GENUINE AMBER is becoming scarcer every
year, and it will not be long before real amber
cigar holder or pipe stem will be rarity and
armer is a fossil gum, which was
produced in large quantities by
trees having resnous sap, whiah
flowed down the trunks and gathered in masses
| at the roots. 1t is found in the ground Of
marshes and other places where forests -four
lsned in former times and is also secured by
| dredging. The Baltic and Black seas and the
German ocean formerly produced it In con-
siderable quantities, but their supplies are now
pretty much exhausted. There is little salts
| faction, however In knowing that the imitation
"A tha On
count we will still be able to smoke pipes and
| use cigar and cigereLte holders that look and
| taste just as good as genuine amber. Save for
these purposes little amber is used in this
| country, but in India and China large humps of
| the product are in great demand. From some
cause or other amber idol is far more highly
| priced In these countries than ever golden gods
| and as a result the finest pieces of amber 20
to the east to make deities for the pagans
GEORGE GOULD at 9s is the youngest American
who has inherited an estate that gives employ.
ment to 100000 men, says the New York Press
| The three successive Astors have each been
| over 40 before they inherited their fathers
| fortunes William II Vanderbilt was nearly
so. and his sons 70 and 30 when he died
| The Rothschilds are all a long lived race and no
one of them has ever reached the family con-
| troll at so youthful age. The second Roths-
| child was SO when he became head of the house.
Though Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the
English banking house, made his greatest coup
| at SO, he was succeeded by his son at the age OF
2S, the only one Of the family who has had great
| responsibilities before he reached so. Under the
system OF allied branches, however. begun nv
the founder of the house the Rothschild policy
! has always been under the control of men near
so, and this has been the rule IN the two or three
| English ducal fortunes which turn $50 600 OOO
Ten years under Jay Gould and the control of
| 800. 100000 are. however enough to sober any
man and make him old before his time and no
| one looks on George Gould as youthful His in
stincJS are conservative. He will probably leave
| TO jay Gould. Jr., some time a much greater
fortune than he now inherits from Jay Gould
| the first.
ONE of the greatest and most common de-
formities of the day that are laid bare by
| the prevailing styles of mon and women's at
tire is one that, with little care and attention,
can be remedied, says the New York Mail. II
| Is the round-shouldered or STOPPING habit l
say habit, because. as q rule, it results from
habit Look through this car. Even the best
| natural figures show this tendency to stoop
| while in the narrow chested 1t is marked to a
| painful degree And yet, by raising ones self
lelsurely upon the toes in a perpendicular posi-
| ton several times a day, this deformity could
| be easily rectfed. To do this properly one
must De IN perfectly upright position, the
| gether. and the toes forming angle of 49,
| The rise should be made very slowly and from
the balls Of both feet. and the descent should
| be accomplished In the same way, without
| swaying the body out Of It's perpendicular line,
The exercise Ia not an easy one, but may be ac-
complished BY perseverance, and patience. It
| can be modified, too, by standing first on one
| leg. then on the other. Initiating and raising
! the chest at the same time Is a part of the en-.
| erclse and. IL psrsevered 10, will ultimately
| show an increased chest measurement develop
ment OF lung power and q perfectly straight
| aud erect figure.
NERO kicked his wife Pop@a to death Lope
de Vega was twice married and both times hap.
PLY. Tea, dyspepsia and q scolding wife ma de
| Hazlitts life a burden. Fielding, the noyslisr.
married bis maid-servant and was miserable
| The domestic relations of both Thackeray and
Dickens were unhappy. Lessing married
| widow with four children and made them
| good stepfather. Steele was happy in both
| his marriages, ana pays high compliments to
| each wife Goethe married an estimable frau
| who made him quite content with his home
The married life OF the famous Palestrina was
| long and unsullied by domestic clouds.
| Millions wives gave him SO much trouble
| that he wrote treatise advocating divorce
Verdi married young. winning a charming
| Vandyke married lady for her money, and
| was disappointed on finding she had none The
married life of Lord Nelson was made miserable
by his infatuation for Lady Hamilton. Horace
| Vernet the French historical painter was twice
married, and both times happily. Molier, at
the age Of 40, married an actress of IT, and soon
| separated from her. Abraham's married life
wife, Sarah had for Hagar. DR.. Sir
| Hugh Smithson married Percy
heiress for love and became Duke OF Northum-
| berland Leigh Hunt was happy in his mar
| poor housekeeper. The wife of Burns was as
| affectionate as he was inconstant, and readily
| forgave all his shortcomings. Alheri was hap
| ply married to a lady who had been the wife of
| Charles Edward, the young pretender Fausta
| the wife of Constantine the Great, was so bad
| that the emperor had her smothered in a hot
| bath. Correggio married beauty wealth and
! happiness Several Of his madonnss have the
Caesar we're both accustomed to whip their
] wives on the slightest provocation.