The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

kukldolo. or a homeless fish. In the heat Of
/ the last elective campaign for the imperial
diet the Nishin Shineishi had used this cpl
| thet, which really does not mean more than
o fellow without character" IN speaking Of
some gentleman Of the other party. 4 libel
suit followed, and the editor Of the Nishin
| ShingiShi was condemned 10 one years penal
servitude
Cows and other Eliminating animals have
| several stomachs. Into the first OF them the
food passes as IL is eaten. When the animal
has finished its search for food 10 forces a
part of the food from the first stomach back
| into the mouth and chews IL leisurely second
time. This portion of the food is the animals
cpd Almost always the cud is vegetable
matter, though when COW has lost her
cud' the artificial cud provided by the owner
contains some animal matter, as a rule.
A Paris restaurantkeeper, recently de-
ceased, left $4,000 francs to two nephews
condition that instead of melancholy mem
cries, that no one would believe, they should
Tor one year each day af1X a copy of one Of
his culinary recipes to his graVeStOne. so that
even after his death he might benefit his fell
low men No less than 365 prescriptions were
round among his paper. Unfortunately the
Paris tombstone commission, which exam
ines ana decides upon the inscriptions to be
placed upon cemeterial monuments, refused
to admit the fulfillment of the culinary phi
lanthropists last wishes. What aggravates
the nephews grief is the unpleasant fact that
the court has now decided that they cannot
get those 100000 francs their uncle left them
under certain conditions.
During the fishing season of 1892 the
United States fish commission which busies
itself solely with the propagation of edible
hsh in the waters all over the country, stock
ing rivers with species new to the region,
distributing eggs and young fish to the lakes
and seacoaSts, and working in a vast number
OF ways to the one end distributed a total of
3O6, $50 432 eggs, fry and yearlings of all kinds
of fish. The largest operations were in shad.
OF this fish $4,000, 600 fry, 1000 900 yearlngs,
and S,OOO,OOO eggs were distributed. Cod is
the hsh most distributed next to shad. and of
whltehsh, lake trout, pike, perch, salmon,
hathsh, and lobster the distribution of eggs,
fry, and yearlings was away up in the mil
lions OF each, every state and territory get
ting share.
census bulletin just issued shows that
there are 1888 055 married persons in Canada,
Of whom 791 ,902 are females and 796, 1853 males,
so that more than 1900 wives are missing,
says the Montreal Star. The census does not
account for them: Nearly every husband in
Ontario has wife in the country, the figures
being 35S,069 husbands and 1852 79S wives. This
discrepancy is still smaller in Quebec prov
lnce, where there are 244 1872 husbands and
PA $50 wives. In all Canada there are 129 obs
widows and 63,777 wtdowers. In Ontario the
number of widows is GO, 289, and Quebec 80 362
or one in about every fifty Of Quebec's popu-
lation and one in about every thirty-fVe of
Ontario's. Toronto returned % 1855 married
men and % 1913 married women. There are
7,2l5 widows in Montreal
An unlucky New Yorker, who has retired
for his summer vacation to quiet place on
the shores Of Long Island sound, writes de-
Spa1ring letter to the Herald, com planning of a
gigantic steam foghorn that the United States
has erected on Exection reef some distance
from his hitherto peaceful abode He says
that this monster" has raved INCREASINGLY
for three successive nights, to the numbering
OF sleep for miles around. 1t is six miles
away from him. he says, but IL sounds in the
night as though dozen mad bulls were hav-
ing II out with one another in the next room,
He thinks that those that go down to the sea
in ships should not be deprived of their pro
lection, but he is confident that some less
demonstrative engine might serve the pur-
pose, and he appeals to the Herald TO inter
vene in behalf of the comfort Of the afflicted
residents OF the neighborhood.
A London correspondent reports that "our
Australian cousins" have hit upon a pretty
device as a substitute for the Objectionable
practice OF throwing rice over a bridal pair
as they leave the church or start for their
honeymoon. At recent marriage the guests
showered rose leaves over the happy couple
when they took their departure for the we'd
ding tour until the bride wE9 literally covered
with the fragrant roseete petals as she sat in
the carriage. This is q more poetic way of
symbolizing ones desire that the union may
be prosperous and fruitful than the more irri-
tating shower of rice that scratches the skin
ruffies the tempers and possibly lodges in the
eyes OF the groom and bride until they "gO on
their way mott rejoicing, " but ready to call
uOWu ndleulCLlOnS OF Ln6lr friends clumsy
wit even II no serious accident mars the
festivities, as more than once has happened.
The belt Of the sword of state of Scotland
has been restored to it's place in the regalia
of Scotland IN Edinburgh castle by the Mar
quis of BreadaTbane, the lord high commits
sioner of the general assemblyof the church
of Scotland. After the battle of Dunbar il
became necessary to place. the regalia of
Scotland in a place of greater safety than
Edinburgh castle, and it was removed to the
strong castle OF Dunnottar, where Sir G.
Og1lYy defended II. He had, however, only
forty men and could not hold out, and he
allowed his wife to remove the regalia from
the castle. 1t was then buried underneath
the stones In Kfnnef church, where it lay for
several years. When 1t was restored, Sir g.
OgilVy, for some cause not explained re
tanned the sword belt. It was discovered in
1880 built into the garden wall of the house of
BarraS, near StonehaVen. and since then il
had been handed down from father to son as
precious relic.
AT a meeting in Shanghai Of the Chinese
branch of the British Asiatic Society, Mr.
Volpicelli, read paper on the game of Wei
Chi the greatest game OF the Chinese. espe-
cially with the literary class, and ranked by
them superior to chess. Like chess this
game rs OF general military and mathemat-
1cal character but is on much more extended
scale, the board containing 261 places and en-
ploying nearly 200 men on a side. All of the
men, however, have the same value and
powers. The object is to command as MANY
Il
done by 1ncloSing empty spaces or surround
ing the enemy S men. Very close calculation
is always essential in order that a loss in one
region may be met by gains in another thus
employing skillful strategy when the contest
ants are evenly matched. The game has come
down from great antiquity, being first men
toned in Chinese writing about 625 B. G. It
was in all probability introduced by the Babv-
lontan astronomers, who were at that time in
structors OF all the east.
Here and there in the highways and bywavs
of the world says the Philadelphia Press.
many legends and superstitions still linger
and continue to retain their ancient PRESTIGE
In Galicia, the province northeast of Hun
gary, the peasants believe that when a star
falls to earth it is at once transformed into a
rarely beautiful woman with long hair. blonde
and glitterfng This splendid creature
miraculously engendered, exercises on ali
who come in contact with her magical in
fiuence Every handsome youth unfortunate
enough to attract her attention becomes her
victim. Thus having allured them to her she
encircles them with her arms in an embrace
that becomes gradually tighter and tighter
until the poor dupes are strangled to death
If certain words are murmured the moment
the star starts to fall they cause her allure
ments to lose their power. From this suner.
stitition springs the custom of wishing while
a star is seen hurrying through the air a wish
said surely to come tf1e il completely form
ulated before the light is extinguished The
Spaniards saw in the falling stars the souls Of
their dead friends, the thread Of whose ex
istence was cut short by destiny. The Arabs
thought these stars to be burning stones