The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-12
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| Turks. They are peculiarly savage in appear
I auce. Their uniform Is fhe tossacN coat itiA
| trousers. scarlet nGorcOat hooked up TO inc
/ meek. Dig boots and as % overcoat they M
a bourka a circular cloak made OF coarse Ielt
| with long, shaggy hair on one sloe OF pc.
2 mis- CLOAK Is big enough 20 cover the rlQtt
| and much Of the horse. The most dlsilncliNe
point In their dress, however. Is the cylinuEl-
| cal hat Of black astrachau which they wear
| at all seasons. The top is Of cloth OF velvet.
| They form part Of the Russian cavalry ana
| live principally on plumber, stealing. during
| their raids into Turkey. ANYTHING they can
find from chicken 20 child
The suppression Of Understanding In
| Madras lately did not seem reasonable or
| necessary TO all thinking Britons, says the
! London Standard But. at least, we took II
/ for granted that the exercise was painful
| Here is a witness. however, responsible
| person. doubtless. since the Pioneer accepts
| his testimOuy-who declares that the business
| Is humbug from end 10 end. French common
| sense has not yet forbidden hook-swinglng,
ana tins correspondent has teeu observing
| the process at leisure in Parana Balasore.
| He finds that swingers are brought up TO the
| profession as to any other means OF earning
| livelihood. Thoughtful parents give them
| n start in youth by piercing hole or tun-
| mel beneath the great muscles OF the back
| Just as good European mother pierces her
| little daughter S ears. And the passage is
| kept open in the same way, by wearing ring
in 1t. Provided thus to edify the public at the
shortest notice, and without Inconvenience,
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The hooks are passed through these holes
and they cause no pain whatever; as for the
swinging doubtless that is practiced like any
other exercise OF the muscles. We may ask,
has u always been so: Were those gruesome
tales of blood and bowling which distressed
| our youth, profeSsedly told by eye-w1tneSSeS,
all hysteric delusion or falsehood? Or is 1t
| that in this age of decaying faith even hook
| swinging has become make believe?
| One of the finest houses at the national cap
| ital. says the New York Press, is that OF Sen
| ator Hale. which was built with the money
| from the estate of Zach Chandler, and which
cost considerably more than S15O,OO0. Both
| Senator Teller and Senator WolcOtt rent
| their houses, and so does Senator Henderson.
! who has fine residence next TO the house OF
| General Sheridan. Senator Voorhees, owns n
| house here which cost him something like
| $4,000 and Senator Washburn lives in the
| prisOn-like mansion of Senator Edmunds at
| the corner of @ street and Massachusetts
| avenue. Ex-senator Bayard owns a house
! here which is worth perhaps $4,000, and for
| which senator Cullom pays a round rent.
! Cush Davis of Minnesota has house on Mas
| SachuSettS avenue just across the street from
| Cullom'S, and q little above this is the big
| house in which Secretary Window was living
! at the time of his death. It cost something
| like $4,000 TO build and il has had For
| Sale sign in front of it for the past year
| The late George Pendleton's house Is also for
| sale. It Is on sixteenth street above scott
! Circle, and is worth $50 900. Next to 1t is
mansion which has just been bought by the
| Episcopal preacher of St Johns church for
100000, and little further up is Bourke
Cockrans Washington home, which was built
by Geo. NJ. Robson and for which he paid
somewhere between $4,000 and 100000
One of the most awful modes for punishment
inflicted by the law-invested barbarians of
olden times was that iocularly referred to by
the old inquisitors as 'Luke's iron crown,
says a writer In the St. Louis Republic can
only find record OF. one country-HungaTy-
where II became the recognized mode Of kill
ing criminals convicted of enormous crimes
land there it was only used on regicides), but
several other governments are known to have
used IL In aggravated cases. This mode of
punishment with an apostolic name consisted
OF placing crown Of red-hot iron upon the
head and leaving 1t there until the sizzling
flesh and bone burned away and allowed the
very brain of the writhing wretch TO be fried
to crisp before life had entirely
left the body. Could even a hoofed
and horned spiketaile devil, fresh
from the infeRnal regions, devise a more in
human method Of inficting the death penal
tyi 1t was almost as barbarous as the NOR
phtne- electrical-chloroform execution at the
Auburn slaughter-house reported in The Re
public of the 2Sth ult The term Luke
iron crown" was applied to this method of le-
gal killing because IL was first used in Kidding
Hungary of rebel named Luke Dosa. Luke
and his brother George headed revolt and
the former allowed himself to be crowned
king by his followers. When finally taken by
the government they made the crown bust
HUBS lUO IlOt lOI MN TN example 10 future
wouldbe kings
AS for revolution centenaries Of general in
terest next to those of the fall of the Bas-
tile and the founding of the republic, Char
lotte Corday has certainly attracted most at
tentton says Paris letter in the London
Times. AS far as new paper supplements
and articles go she has been having a cele-
bratiOn for the last five days though the
centenary of her death was not till to-day. OF
nn1 ii
Marat, but solely in justification OF Charlotte
COrday's adherence of him. Though she
counted on joining BrutuS and other ancients
in the ElySan Fields. she was not Indifferent
to earthly fame, or she would have been less
sOlicitous about her portrait, and the respect
and admiration which are now
6gs sied her Tor her p would Tho have
hotel in which she lodged and the house oc-
cupied by Marat have disappeared. but NJ
Claretie possesses the iron bar of the balco-
MES OF both buildings. Prince Roland Bona
partc claims. moreover, to possess Charlotte
Cordays skull. 1t came to him from M
Duruy who had il from M St. Albn. and the
latter showed il TO Esquiros about 1910. Fx-
perts state that this skull was never buried
and that the ten missing teeth were extracted
after death. he supp1s'tiOn is that Char
lOtte COrday's head was handed over to the
medical school and that the teeth were given
away as relics. Prince Roland processes to
have clear proofs of the Renuineness Of the
skull. 1t may be added that one of the Jury
whose murder in 1917 made great sensation.
and was for time enveioped in mystery.
A study of feet and toes in the casts Of the
museum is uucommonly interesting and in
structive. The Greek statuary, much Of it
dated centuries before Christ, seems to prove
that the Greeks had feet much like those of
modern people. The most beautiful of the
Greek feet are followed out we'll both inside
and out. They have short heels. high insteps,
and long, straight toes slightly spatulate at
the ends This is the type of the most beau
tiful modern foot. 1t is, on the whole foot
not frequently seen in its perfection for often
one or the other element OF beauty is wanting
The rarest point of beauty is the following of
the outside of the foot. II used to he that the
shOemakers' last were made upon Greek
principles, but for several years lastmakers
have been making a hump on the outside OF
the last just above the point where the slight
hollow should be If any one
would convince himself that the hollow
on the outside of the foot is rare let him
watch the prints that seaside hathers leave
when they step on a dry plank walk. Most of
such foot prints show greater or smaller hoI-
low on the inside OF the foot, but nearly every
one shows a straight wet mark on tho outside
The Sandaled feet of the Greek goddesses
in marble are much like the feet of the mod
ern woman-at any rate, of the modern infant
before the feet have been modified by leather
shoes. All the goddesses have the fifth toe
much smaller than the others, and in every
instance this toe shows the Snail-like twist so
often asCribed to modern pointed shoes The
ancient statuary to be seen in this country