The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-04
ITEMS oF INTEREST.

The Register at Stanford University an
nounces that ex-President Harrison will be-
gin his course of lectures on international
law next October when the new school of law
will be opened. Besides general instruction
In law, the course includes training in
branches that will tit students for the public
service.
There is very unhappy pair among the
party of Arabs whom Shelk Hadji Tahar Ben
Mahomet has at the worlds fair. Islia is a
young and beautiful girl from Agadiers,
Her father is man of wealth and prominence
and when he found that his daughter was in
love with Salem Ben Jalijah, good enough
young fellow, but of no particular conse-
quence. he lost his temper and swore by the
beard OF the prophet that she should not
marry him but should go to see the fair in
the land of the intidels in the company of
Sheik Hadji. She started accordingly but
the party had not gone very far from Morocco
when Salem drew near and asked the sheiks
permission to make one of the
party. As he had the needful shekels,
and proposed to pay his own expenses, the
shetk, knowing nothing of the love affair,
consented; and so the lovers came on to Chi
cago together. But no sooner had they ar
rived there than they came before the sheik
and asked him to make them one. In his own
land the sheik has the power to do So but he
is in doubt whether this power may be law
fully exercised in this country, or whether
the marriage would be recognized in his own
country, so he feels compelled to refuse. The
lovers take it very much to heart. Islia
spends her time dissolved in tears and refuses
TO eat, and Salem wanders about the hotel
sad and disconsolate.
In paper recently read before the New
York FOLKLORE Society, Lee j. Vance
narrates some curious facts showing the sir
y1val of the vampire superstition among the
Hungarian miners in Pennsylvania One of
these miners at Antrim, who was suffering
from consumption, conceived the idea that
his sufocatiOn and shortness of breath was
caused by the ghost of former boss, who in
life had terroriZed over him, sitting on his
breast and sucking his ife-blood In Hun
gary ghosts who thus prey on the living are
exercised by burning the hearts which beat
in the bodies they inhabited before death
The proof that a body is that of
fG Of blood W SsFI the f5 rest tfoSe Of q the
corpse may be decayed. When a heart
which is thus proved to be that of vampire
IS burned the live person who has been the
ghost victim RECEIVERS from the effects of
the visitation Believing all this implicitly
the miner, aided by his brother dug up the
corpse OF the dead boss and cut out his heart.
1t was found to be fresh and full of blood as
they expected, and they accordingly burned
1t, with full faith that good results would fol
low to the sufferer from consumption. q The
immediate result was the arrest Of the dis.
turbers of the dead. They were not prose
cuted. however, allowances being made for
their ignorance. In spite Of the burning of
the boss heart the consumptive miner
although he profesSed at first to fell perfectly
well, died not long afterward
To the theological student the frequent re-
currence of the number seven is well ascer-
tanned, or easily ascertainable saws the Ma
tlonal Review. If he is Skeptical. let him con
suit concordance. He finds it in Genesis
and he finds ii in Apocalypse Between those
extremes he Is constantly coming upon new
examples of the same strange preference
Although modern biologists have taught us
to believe that the days" Of the creation were
probably periods of time to he represented bv
nothing short of thousands perhaps millions
of years, they have not hitherto seriously at
tempted to shake our faith in the number of
such periods, hOwSOeVer protracted thew NAV
have been. We are still free to accept the
assurance that they were six and that on
the seventh the Creator rested from his work
Some of us, also are inclined to suppOse
that from the story of the creation has been
deduced the hebdomada1 division Of DAYS into
! weeks Others think that this is due to lunar
observation, which. naturally, they argue led
10 division OF the month into periods of
seven days or four quarters of seven days
each. According to Dion Cassus the Egyp-
tlans were the first to refer those days to the
seven planets, Be this how IL NAV il cannot
be disputed that the first total of which we
read in holy writ is seven. A little further on
in Genesis 7fold vengeance is pronounced
on the slayer of Cain. if such a one should he
found Pharaoh dream of the kline and the
ears OF corn is familiar to the least Biblical
OF readers. BALKAN. again. demands seEen
affairs, and, for victims, seven bullocks and
seven rams. Seven years did Jacob serve for
Rachel, and seven times in his nervous an
prehension, he bows himself before the out
ragged ESau. NebuChadnezZar' furnace was
heated one seven times more than it was
won't to be heated for the faithful three
Seven priests with seven trumpets mare he'd
round the doomed Jericho Seven times did
Elijah servant look, at his master hid
ding, seward For no special reason that
we can detect seven was the chosen number
OF deacons. In the Book of the Revelation
we should expect to find most frequent
reference to.S.hatever is mystic and SYMBOL
cal, numbers included nor are we disap-
pointed. The very first chapter introduces
US to the Seven Churches of Asia. the seven
golden Candlesticks and the seven stars:
and throughout the book the same numerical
! identity is constantly meeting US. The Bible
| in short IN both Old and New Testaments
ana IN Apocrypha to boot, is full of similar
| instances, from the seven of every clean
beast taken into the ark to the slupgsrd
who is wiser in his own conceit than Seven
men that can render reason, from Jethros
is no need to multiply instances