The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HELGoLAND is to be made harbor Of refuge
for fishing vessels, and is being fortified heavily
The island is to be a scientific station. the Ger
man government having erected laboratories
there for the study of marine zoology. and es-
pecially OF the economic history of food fishes.
In HINDosTAN the marriage ceremony is short
and simple, and no counting precedes it. The
arrangements are all made by the friends or
relatives of the principals. When the bride and
groom are brought together, in many cases
they see each other for the first time. The
bride pavfully skins toward him and seats her.
self beside him. The priest ties a corner Of the
brld 8 veil 20 the groom's shawl and they are
man aud wife.
A DISPATCH to the Indianapolis NeWs relates
that j. c. st. John of Greensburg Ind, is the
owner of dog of the terrier species which has
voluntarily taken upon himself the task of rear
ing four motherless chicks The dog is their
constant attendant, and when harm seems to
threaten he PUSHES frantically to the rescue.
briStlng for fight, and the chicks hu1dle
about him seemingly in perfect confidence of
his ability to protect them.
REPRESENTATIVE w. c. OATES of Alabama
has received sample of the first cotton ever
ginDed by electricity anywhere in the world
This was done by the department OF electrical
enyineerlng OF the Agricultural and Mechanical
college at Auburn, Ala, POLYTECHNIC institution
of high rank 1t is thou 2ht that if this method
of ginning cotton can be done cheapy enough
1t will revolutionize the cotton business and
A NOTEWORTHY stained glass window that will
be seen at the worlds fair has just been made
in New York for the new alumn@ hall at the
Western Female Seminary, Oxford, o. It will
be presented to the school by the class Of 1866
of which Mrs Calvin Brice was member. The
artist was Miss Mary Tillinghast. The window,
17l6 feet high by wide has for its main feature
a maiden bearing folio In one hand and
lighted torch in the other A lamp burns on
pedestal beside her. The original Of the figure
was Senator Brice's daughter Helen.
There is a custom in Russia, touching and
characteristic. which is called the practice OF
''sectet charity" A family is known to be in
want, but is too proud to beg. Then the neigh
bors determine to help it without offending the
feelings of It's members. After shutdown a tap
is heard at the destitute family's window. and
the simple words For Cbrist's sake are borne
In to them. The peasant runs out to see who is
there, but he finds no one. No trace of a visitor
is left excepting few footprints in the snow
and a piece Of bread on the window ledge.
IT has been a mystery to some people how
italy, country without gold mines, could OBJ
tain the gold with which to pay the 900
or so year due to foreign holders of her bonds.
The mystery is explained away by Mr.. DeTinP,
secretary OF the British embassy in Rome, who
declar s that American travellers alone spend
S35, 10000 year in gold in Italy while other
foreign travellers expend fully double that
amount. This is irrespective of the money
brought into the country in the form OF dona-
tons to the holy see by the $4,000 RELIGIOUS pill
grims who annually visit the Eternal City.
Mr.. BLANFoRD, in his book on Abyssnla, says
that neither the doreas. nor Benefits gazelle
two allied species) ever drink. Darwin states
in his Voyage OF a Naturalist" that unless
the huanacoes, or wild Ilamas Of Patagonia,
drink sat water. in many localities they must
drink noue at all. L q large and interesting
group OF slotbs are alike in never drinking A
parrot is said to have lived in the Geological
Gardens r gents park, for SO years without
drop of water. 1t is often said that rabbits in
a wild state never drink The late Rev. J, G.
| Wood doubted whether this idea was correct,
and recorded the fact that they feed on the her.
baSe when it is heavy with dew, and therefore
practically drink when eating. In the autumn
and winter, when sheep are feeding on turnlps,
| they require little or no water.
PHILADELPHIA will draw on Independence
Hall for some of the exhibits which are to rep
resent the state at the worlds fair. 1t has been
decided by the committee in charge that the
articles that were used by the Continental
congress, aud which are now in the east room
of the hail including the desks. chairs and pic
lures OF the siguerS of the declaration OF indie
paudeuce. shall be sent to Chicago. Tue COM
mttee also wants to borrow the statue of
William Penn, in order to set it up in front of
the state building. Citizens of Philadelphia
are offering some of their pictures for the art
gallery Among these is Giacomel's fine
Iainting, THE Festival of the Brides OF Ven
ice" and the mosaic picture known as The
Discovery of the Remains of st. Marcus 1t
contains over 100000 pieces. and seven years
were sIent IN the composition.
WOMAN, art student, went to an ocuiist
in New York city, says the Times, complaining
that for several months she had been steadily
losing her power to see well The oculist after
careful exa nination, discovered in the young
woman's nose pointed bit of cartilage, which
pressing out against the side of the nose was
producing irritation. He applied cocaine to the
spot and Immediately the patient could read
diamond finest" with perfect ease. The effect
of the cocaine being very quickly spent, there
was return of the inability to see we'll Then
the ocust took little saw and sawed off the
bit OF cartilage, and, as soon as the operation
was cOmpeted. vision was normal again The
doctor learned by inquiry that years before the
young woman had broken her nose, and his
diagnosis was that In healing the hit of CARTILAGE
had formed, which, gradually hardening, had
produced the effect already described.
ALL the world laughs, though the nations
have different ways of showing mirth. The
Chinese laugh as hearty as expressive as the
Eoropean or American. Its oftener a tttser
than genuine outburst OF merriment. Tn "a
is little character or force in it. AS for the
Arabian laugh. we hear little of its hilarious
ring through the ages OF mirth in the old world
The Arab is generally q stofid fellow who must
either see good reason for a laugh or be sur
prised into IL. In Persia man who laughs ia
considered effeninate, but free license is
given to female merrment. One
reads reads T Of the ,, grave Turk" and the
they have never moments Of mirth, when the
fez oobs of the veil shakes under the pressure Of
some particularly good ing" In Mahomet
himself, Christian writers have noted cor1ialitv
and jocoseness, and they say there is a good
ringing laugl in the prophet with all his seri-
BUSINESS. An American traveller IN Europe re-
MARKS the Italian laugh as languid but musical,
the German as deliberate, the French as snas
modic and uncertain. the upper class EngIish
as guarded and not always genuine, the lower
C ass English as explosive, the Scotch of ali
classes as hearty, and the Irish as rollicking.