The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-28
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chased and inclosed in huge ebony chest
There are about thirty pieces. each of which
monds, OF which stones more than Il, 600 have
been used in adorning the service.
a census of carrier pigeons is beng taken
in France. When completed it is believed
that the returns will be about 1900 In 1873
essays were begun with APO. NJ. Theirs did
not believe in pigeons. and when 1t was sought
TO demonstrate to him what valuable aid to
national defense these graceful messengers
would be, he exclaimed that the idea was
ehlmerlcal, and the experiment child play.
The proverbs Of savsges are shrewd and
pithy, says the Westminster Review. The
Basutos say, 1.-THE thief catches HIMSELF
the Yorubos He who INJURIES another in
others heal yourself" In Accra they saw
Nobody is twice a fool" among the Oil,
The moon does not grow full in day The
poor man has no friends" Pashto prov
erb says, "A feather does not stick without
gum" Others are "A crab does not bring
forth bird, "A razor cannot shave itself, ."
ollie, Truth is only spoken by strong man
or fool, -" Perseverance always tEiumphs. -
Thread follows the needle" Preparation is
better than afterthought."
A trial took place last week in the Russian
capital with closed doors, says the London
Standard A banker and his niece were
charged with belonging to the sect Of SkoptZi,
or selfmutiators. BY Russian law Inutila-
tiOn is only punishable il committed from re-
llgious motives. In order toconvict, an eccle-
siastical expert was summoned to examine
the papers of the prisoners, among which
were found, written by the girl, the two
phrases, perfectly meaningless to the Enini
tiated, we shall triumph" and "A great
ship must make a great voyage" The eX-
pert however. recognized in them reference
TO the symbols of the Skoptzi, and the jury
convicted both prisoners. The banker, a man
of sixty, was condemned to fifteen years hard
labor for self-mutilation and for having tat
tooed cross on the girl breast and the girl
to ten years for having submitted and con-
nived at the offense.
The already long list of jubilees and family
celebrations has recently been enriched by
novelty in the line of wedding festivities, SAYS
the Paris American Register. The family
and friends of rich manufacturer living in
the neighborhood of Berlin deemed the inter
val between the silver and gold wedding TO be
altogether too long, and, halving it,. intro
duced last week an aluminium wedding by
Offering the happy couple on the occasion of
the completion of thlrty-seven and a half
years of welded life a choice variety OF pres
ents made Of ALUMINIUM. II this novel idea
should take, the aluminium industry has
great future before it. TIE Pruss'an capital
OF all German cities the one most given to
societies and fetes Of every possible name
and description. has since gone even lone
better by celebrating a seven-year wedding
which the friends OF the parties, with true
Berlin humor chriStened the jubilee OF the
seven years war
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
says Chambers Journal, various sculptors in
ivory were engaged in carving portions of
tusks with classical and other SUBJECTS which
were afterward mounted in Silver or silver
gilt by some of the finest Augsburg and Nj
remburg workers and formed vases and tank
ards. In the eighteenth century various cary
ingS in ivory were made, chiefly statuettes
and small plaques. but none attain to the ex-
cellence of the earlier carvings. In mOdern
times the carvings NJ India bec
noted for their minute and delicate work. In
China and Japan ivory has been carved, the
ivory balls inclosed inside one another being
specially noted Many theories have been
formed as to how these balls have been cut.
Perhaps probable one is that ball of ivory
was taken, around the upper and lower ends
OF which four small holes were carved out,
gradually diminishing in size toward the
center until the axis of the one hole met the
axis of the other or lower one at right angles
in the center OF the ball, and that then small
tools were inserted and thin layer OF ivory,
forming a part of a circle from one hole to
its lower corresponding one, was cut and
loosened from the whole mass. So. gradually
cutting from one hole to the next one, com
plete inner circle was eventually loosened. the
circles themselves afterward being cut into
the required pattern.
An Italian paper relates the following Gu
rious instance of emi-permanent impress.
sion made on the rebina Of the eye, a physi-
cal fact which several novellsts have lately
utilized in the construction Of their tales: On
the morning of July 3. after q railway Jour
ney in bright sun and two days walk in a
suffocating heat, Prof. L. Vignoli happened
TO be in a room with several other persons
and during conversation looked al a balcony
bathed in bright sunlight but without any
special interest in 1t. The balcony was deco.
rated with trellis work and ivy FIowerlng
creeperS were arranged in vertical columns,
each column being crossed below the iron
bars of the balcony, and above by sticks
supporting the plants A cage with
birds hung up in the middle. Two
days afterward very early in the
morning the professor was in bed, but per,
fectly awake and in ordinary health. when
TO his establishment he saw on the ceiling
by the light coming through the Venetian
blinds OF the two large windows, an exact re
production in all the colors and details of
lasted long enough to permit some detailed
investigation. On closing the eyes the image
disappeared, to appear again when they
were opened. 1t was unaffected by regarding
1t with each eye alternately. A finger placed
between the eye and the image in tercepted it
in the same manner as it would any ordinary
object in short, the phenomenon obeyed all
the optical laws of vision. And not only was
the cage of birds reproduced. but also its
swinging motion noticed before.
The art Of poisoning in these days is not
cultivated with zest or skill. Even IN mod.
ern romantic and melodramatic literature
the poisoner works in what the Boston Hour
nal calls a crude fashion; his one idea is to
get the poison into the stomach of the vic
tim. Detection Is almost inevitable and MN
ishment follows Italians of the fifteenth
sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth
century showed most surprising skill Ital-
ian remoVers of enemies were welcome at
many foreign court for they were subtle
sure and. at the same time, we'll bred There
was the attempt 10 kill Louis XII. by rubbing
an ointment on the corner of the altar stem
on which ne went to kneel. Gloves and bou-
QuetS removed mighty men and delicate
women. Wallets pricked their masters as
they served them in their toilet Nails
stepped in aconite put an end to petty Quar-
rels. Henry of CASTLE wore boots one dav
and never took them of again. A king of
Grenada should have refused the adornment
of variegated royal Jacket. There was a
jealous woman who smiled as she saw her
rival eat the half of a delicious bird that
had touched the poisoned side
of the knife used by kissa
BILE hand. torch borne before a cardinal
lighted him to dusty death Perfumed ducats
slew creditor before he could sign the re-
ceipt. There was poison in the pommel of
the saddle that bore powerful queen 1t is
said that henry the Emperor and Pope Glenn
holy eucharist. There were still more subtle
devices, too horrible to tell; but searchers
into the dark yet splendid history of the re-
Nuisance and students OF the Elizabeth
drama may find therein many a sbudder
Yet there is subtle poisoning even In these
degenerate days. The careless plumber or
the greedy landlord is in his way a Iessener
of the race. There are wall papers as ef1na-
cious as the deathly books told of in the
Arabian knights" or by Dumas the elder
There are Oublic rooms who're fo,1 a Il, 49,