The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-03

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black cassocks and white cotters are rather
impressive. while the wearing of the little
cap d.. ~ course. IN accordance with the an
cient tradition that women must not appear
With uncovered heads ia the churches The
strictly correct covering, however. Is the
hand about the forehead, 20 which is fastened
long black veil to be thrown back over the
head.
There are always two kinds OF silk hats,
each Of the best quality on sale in London.
one is the strictly fashionable model. the
latest, or whatever one may choose TO call
II, which is retailed in the west end at from
guinea % to twenty-five shilhngS so he
other Is the style which Immediately preced-
ed II and has 5 one out although the quail
ty Is unchanged. This is usually called the
city hat, and costs a u6 shlllings). The
distinction Is a very peculiar one. Employees
OF large London commercial houses are not
expected to be up TO the hilt In fashion. ana
II they are IL is sure to be resented by their
employers. A London city magnate would
not be seen wearing the same shap hat as one
OF his bOokkeepers. and so the great army Of
salary drawers keep Just shade behind the
bondhOding community
There is a tree.at Tule, state of Oaxaca,
Mexico, which rivals in the extent of ground
covered by its branches some of the famous
monster trees of the orient. says the Houston
Post. A traveller, who saw ii recently. says
that he found resting under its branches de
tachment of troops numbering 500. Most of
them belonged to the neighbOrhOod and their
wives andchildren had come to the rendez-
vous to meet them, and there were under the
| tree beside number of vendors of all sorts of
| eatables and several horses. All these had
| plenty Of room and they were all within the
| wall which surrounds the tree, while its
! branches extend some twenty feet beyond the
! wall on every side affording shade for quite
/ as many more.
"Shekel' has been adopted into modern
| slang and is used to mean money hire, pay
meut and any sort OF currency or coin, but the
! old Jewish shekel is really a religious token.
| One one side 1t bears the pot of mamma on the
| other Aaron S rod budding. The inscriptions
| are "Shekel OF Israel" and Jerusalem the
! Holy 1t was first coined about $50 years be-
/ fore the birth of Christ and was worth in sill
yer about 62% cents. Before the Jewish
| shekel the Babylonians had coin of that
| name. Shekel was also a weight and II is re
corded that when Absalom had his hair cut,
| once year il weighed 200 shekels about fl We
| pounds. Some of these coins are still pre-
! served those believed to be genuine have the
! characters in Samaritan. The coins bearing
| the square Hebrew characters 1t has been de
| cided, are forgeries The shekel of gold was
| worth 1907 and in copper only cents.
The ancient philosophers were of the opin-
Ion that the Internal regions were at an equal
distance away from all parts of the earths
surface which may be the foundation of the
/ modern idea of hell being at the center of the
earth, SAYS the Philadelphia Press. The an
/ cient Jews also located the place of torment
| at the center of our little sphere. According
! to them there were three passages leading to
] H. Tue MllubrDeSS, DIV WnlCl route Iatlan,
/ Koran, and ADRIAN descended the sea. be-
cause it is written that Jonah cried to God
out of the belly Of he'll; the third passage is
! at Jerusalem. because it Is said The fire
! of the Lord is in Zion, and his furnace is in
! jerusalem Mohammed said that hell had
! seven gates-the first for the Mussulmans
/ the second for the Christians, the third for
/ the Jews, the fourth for the Sabeans. the
/ fifth for the Magians, the sixth for the Pa
/ ganS and the seventh for the hypocrites of
! all religions. Winston, the English astrono-
4 hnlfpN-n6 N hall &c tod 90
/ and that one moment the damned will be in
the blistering heat of the sun aud the next in
region of terrible cold. Among Christian
sectS there are two cOntroVerted opinions in
regard to hell; one concerning its locality,
the other the duration of its torments.
People who arefond of rummaging about in
curio shops are no doubt surprised at the
cheapness of Japanese swords, says the New
York Sun. They are cheap because they are
plenty. When the mobiles threw on the native
customs and adopted European ways they
took to European customs also and seemed to
| acquire distaste for many of the things that
had been personal or house belongings. The
! short needle-pointed, razor-edged swords
worn by the damiOS and their retainers
| though of the finest steel and beautifully or
| namented, were discarded for English sabers
| and dress swords and came to this country by
| thousands. In San Francisco dozen wears
| ago they were heaped in boxes and tubs and
| were sold for less than 81 apiece. The price
| has advanced little since then. the values
| running from 80 TO $40 according to the con
| ditton of the blade. the richness of LACQUER on
| the scabbard, the characterization in gold and
| bronze on the handle. But plenty Of good
ones are still to be had. One cranky freak of
| collectors is to break up the weapons pre-
serving only the bronze and iron guards
| which are often decorated with flowers and
| figures of exquisite workmanship in gold and
silver. Che man in New York has dismant-
lea over 800 swords for this purpose and
| wants more.
In the columns of New Orleans paper
there is a grave discussion concerning the
| location of the tree under whose shade Evan
| geline rested with Father Felicien on their
| voyage down the Teche in search of Gabriel
| One enthusiast is sure he has found this
famous tree on the banks Of the Atchafalaya
near Morgan City, and he says It is an oak
| Another, who differs with him points out in
the first place, that LOngfelOw described the
| tree as cedar. He then quotes the lines:
| Not far away to the southwark on the banks
| of the Teche, are the towns of st. Maur and
| 1T. Martin, There the long wandering bride
! snail be given again to her bridegroom, and
| adds: From the quotation given above il is
| evident that EVangelne was north of St
| Martin, and If the map of the state be con
| suited, IL will be found the only place where
| the Teche runs dire 5tly north is this side OF
| ST Martin. Louisiana, at the time of its set
! tlemenI, was divided into districts, these dis
| tr1cts into sections, and the sections into
| townships. All of these old divisions still ex-
| list. and IL Suffces to say that those districts
/ comprising the regions OF Attakapas and One
| lousas, in which St. Martin is situated do not
| tAt6Hu DIS lar as morgan CITY. IN concur
| sion he says (and the remark is very much to
| the point because the journal had previously
| printed picture Of the Evangeline grove):
| OF course the whole tale is most undoubtedly
\ fictitious, and hence it matters little where
| the tree is really situated"
Though the petrol is swift the frigate-bird
| is far swifter says writer in St Nicholas
| Seamen generally believe that the frigate-
| bird can start at daybreak with the trade
winds from the coast of Africa and roost the
| same night upon the American shore.
! Whether this is a fact has not vet been con
| clusivey determined; but it is certain that
| this bird is the swiftesI of winged creatures
and is able 10 fly, under favorable conditions
! 200 miles an hour. The stormy petrol in pro
| portion to its size, has immense wing power.
| for it Is the smallest web-footed bird 1t be-
| longs to every sea, and, though seemingly so
| frall, breasts the utmost fury of the gale
| skimmlng with Incredible velocity the trough
| of the waves and gliding rapidly over their
crestS 1t does not make practice OF alight-
! ing on the water and seldom rises
| higher than eight or oten feet above the
! surface. l have known them to perch an
| night on the extreme end of the fyinR-iib
! boom, keeping up a constant low musical
| whistle, seemingly accompaniment to the
noisy waters foaming and eddying around the
] cutwater Petrels, in f1ockS, sleep upOn the
water at night of the Cape Of Good Hone
| on bright moonlight nights, when the weather
would permit, have seen through a strong
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