The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-27
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In ancient times beds were simply rugs skins
or thin mattresses, which could be rolled up and
| carried away in the morning At night they
were spread on the floor, which, in the better
class OF houses, was q tile or plaster, and, as
shoes wore not worn in the house and the feet
were washed before entering room, the floors
were cleaner than ours.
THE massive gold-enameled goblet presented
by the Gear of Russia to Capt. Sargent of the
steamship Indiana, says the Philadelphia Press
I'm remembrance of the part which the latter
took in bearing the cargo of gifs flour TO the
famine tricken Russian peasants, symbolizes
vastly more than personal or imperial graft
tude. 1t is 10 effect loving cup passed from
one great nation to another; and the gracious
ness Of the gift lies in the recognition of hu-
manty which it bespeaks."
IT doesn't require an expert to tell whether a
diamond is genuine or not. The test is very
simple aud can be made in any place and in a
moment All you need is piece of paper and
lead pencil. With the latter make a small
dot on the paper then look at it through the
depend upon it that the stone Is genuine, but if
the mark is scattered, or shows moro than one,
you VIII be perfectly safe in refusing to pay 10
cents for a stone that may be offered you at
$500.
EVERY now and then. says the New York
Times Sing Sing prison furnishes a romance,
aud case in point is the story told about
Alfred Sheridan, who Ia serving a term for
forgery. He was engaged to be married in the
week he was arrested for his crime, and so de
voted was his fiancee that she expressed a will
ingness to marry him even behind tho prison
bars; but this he would not allow She often
goes to visit him, and, as they are both fond of
music, they sing together to the delight of the
prisoners. She has written several pretty songs
and sent them TO Sheridan. He has also com
posed several songs in his prison cell. One of
his compositions, entitled Sweet Little Mary
Ann" was written by iotting down the notes
a niece of cardboard ba WbiStlad al
He has sold it to a New York music publisher
for S25 and 900 copies. With the cash and what
he expects to realiz4 from his 1000 copies he has
engaged lawyer to present his case TO the
governor for a pardon, and, es a preliminary
his sweetheart is soicitig 81 :; ers to petition
TO DO presented 10 the governor at the same
time.
ST. COLUMBIA left ireland in the year 663 with
dozen companions, says the st. Louis Repub-
Tic, and the evening of Whitmonday, 1871 years
ago, and landed on the Isle Of Iona, one of the
HebrideS, which is remarkable for two reasons
i. g., from the feot that st. COLUMBIA banished
COWS and women from its sacred confines, and
also because OF the different ways the name of
the island has been spelled. Turing the LOCO
years following the closing of the sixth century
the name was var ously rendered as 1, ii, la,
10, Eo, Fly, HI, ii, Ne, Hio. Hu, Heu, Huy,
Hiu Y. au Vi. Il l; 81 o known as IcomkilI
I-columb kille, and Hiicolumb kille, besides
Iona. whi "a is believed To be a misnomer ii be.
ing thought that the IN" should really be
u. when Column pa landed on this PAL L1cular
Hebride he gave orders that no COW or wonlao
should De admitted. Because" he argued,
wherever there is a COW there will be
woman, and where there is q woman there will
be mischief" To this day the chief reasons
why the tourists visit Iona in such numbers is
because it is known 10 tradition as the cow
less and womanless isle
A WRITER 10 the st. Louis Globe Democrat
furnishes the following tips to imbibers "If
before returning home to the wife OF your
bosom or Eoing TO call on your best girl, your
breath smells like q whisky tub aud you want to
disgu it, just rinse your mouth witt a CUP of
diluted camphor, and the most delicate or
suspiciouSly olfactorv nerve cannot detect the
odor Of the enemy you have put i'll -FOUR stomach
to steal away your brains my dear boy" said
George Poindexter of ST. Paul AZ the Southern
81 have tried and found 1t to work like a charm
Don't drink the camphor; just wash your mouth
with it, use your toothbrush vigorously and
the job is done. Then if you have staid with
the boys SO long that your legs get shaky and
the earth is whirling around like top have
another prescription that will fix you o. X. in
five minutes. Have the nearest druggist put a
drop or two of ammonia in q half pint of water
or SO much water as may be necessary to take
the burn out OF the ammonia, and then you gulp
down the dose without taking the glass from
your lips. In five minutes you will b. so sober
that you'll wonder how you managed to get so
drunk in such short time. But be CAREFUL not
to drink any more that evening; if you do you'll
think your whole stomach diaphragm and ALL
is leaving its crapulous home through your
throat for the outside world"
THE word kiss" is Anglo.Saxon, saws Good
Words and may, indeed. be taken as an in
stance Of how pleasant Anglo-Saxon can be.
The philologis assures us that IL ia allied 60 the
Gothic kLstlts, proof or test and to the attn
0usttts, taste; which suggests the old saving
that "the proof of the pudding Is the priein
OF" That same Gothic kustlls comes from the
word kiuSdn, to choose, from which one would
imagine that among the Goths kissing went bv
favor. According to Prot. Skeat writing with
all the austerity and scholarship of an expert
a kiss is "a gust, a taste. a something choice u
Rowena the beautiful daughter of the Saxon
Hengist, Is credited with having introduced
kissing into these fortunate islands: but II
seems to me that had the natives been 40 Mt
terly unenhghted, the Romans could hardly
have failed TO anticipate her. The Romans had
a really delightful word for a klss-osculum
which came from os the mouth and meant a
little mouth, sweet mouth. Give me sweet
little mouth" would be the phrase used when
"a good little Roman boy osked his mother for
a kiss. Our English word occurs pretty nearly
in 1t present form in Anglo-Saxon, Dutch. Ice
landic, Danish Swedish. aud German And
this is worthy of note, because, natural as Kiss
ing may seem to be, ito many Of u.s. it ia a
practice unknown to the Australians to the
Maori of New Zealand, the Papuans of New
Guinea. the people of Tahiti thefnegroes Of
Central and Southern Africa, the Botocudos NJ
Brazil the savages Of Terra del Fuego. the Ian
landers, and the Eskimo. Most Of these be-
nighted mortals have not got beyond the low
stage Of rubbing noses together