The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-02
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ITEMS OF I'M jREST.
TIE royal crown of Great Britain is composed
salmost entirely OF diamonds, pearls and rubies,
weighs 80 ounces and pennyweights
troy, and is valued at 100000 When the
koninoor was first brought TO Europe it weighed
lo6 carats, but by cutting has been reduced to
l02.
GREAT BRITAIN is now far in advance Of Rus
STA as far as regards extent of possessions. Tie
recent partition of Africa has added 1000, COO
square miles (nominally at leRst) to the British
possessions. At the end of 1892 the British en-
ptre, Including protectorates, spread over 12,-
e,5O5 square miles, while Russia, the next
largest country, included only {, 457, 2s9 square
miles. 1t may be remarked that nearly one
fourth OF the immense area Of the British en-
pre- has been added within the asst five years
The Salisbury government appropriated more
land than the whole area Of the United States
TIE MOON and its phases have always been
suspected 10y starRnzers and others to have a
great deal TO do with the fortunes and affairs of
She people of the earth. Now, however, IL is
proposed to add to their importance by holding
then responsible for the eppetites of the fishes
of the sea. According to a veteran continental
angler who has recently given to the world the
results of his observations fishes bite most
freely during the four or five days after the
moon & first quarter, while from the third day
after the last quarter to the second day before
the new moon the sport is at its worst.
The first half of the name Ferdinand" is
icorh, youth" or life; the second half is a
little uncertain, but may be coniectursd to be
probably nauth, daring" 1t was the Spanish
Goths who gave it its earliest vogue in the PENN
sua as Fernando or Fernan. San Fernando,
king of CASTLE, sent 1t on to Aragon and thence
TO Naples, where it became Ferdinando and
figures in THE Tempest" accordingly as Fer
dinand. With Ferdinand and Isabella its fame
grew worldwide. Again, in Spsin itself it be-
came fernando and Hernan, in which last shape
1t was immortelized by Cortez. Who would
have suspected the conqueror of Mexico OF
bearing name which on analysis turns out TO
be pure AnRlo-Saxonf
A WRITER in the March Atlantic gives this
as the origin of the slang word 'socdollager,"
which was current some time ago. ''Socdolla-
ger" was the uneducated mans transpositfon
of 'doxologer," which was the familiar New
England rendering of "doXology. -" This was
the puritan term for the verse OF ascription
used at the conclusion of every hymn, like the
"GlorIa" at the end OF chRnted psalm. On
doctrtnal grounds it was proper for the whole
congregation to JON in the singing, that it
became triumphant winding up OF TIE whole
act OF worship. Thus 1t happened that soc
dolager" became the term for anything which
left nothing else to follow; a decisive over
whelming finish, TO which no reply was possible.
PERHAPS you think you know what recogni-
ton is; but you don't until you have read the
following from the PhfIosophicdl ReUietc: Ere
coRnition by other consciousness, it may be
freely admitted, Is an all important test of
transsubjective reality. That which Is recoR
nized by others ceTtides itself to me as an OBJ
iective or trans subjective fact, not a subjective
fancy. The recognition Is a decisive ratio cog
noscendi of its independent existence, but, con
versely, 1t is the existence of a transsubjectve
reality that is the ratio essendi Of the recog-
milton. That, at any, ia the only hypothesis
which can be got to work with more than super
fetal plausibility. Because an independent fact
exists. everybol ~ recognizes it; but no multi
plicAtiOn of subjective recognitions eau in them
selves manufacture a real object in any other
than Berkleian sense"
THERE is no doubt that half the pleasant flavor
OF the orange is destroyed by the difficulty of
eating It gracefully, although that is q feat of
which, Ike building an open fire, every one inn
AGNES his method Is the best. So great a ter
rOr docs an orange inspire in a woman at
luncheon. with the fatal example which has so
often been told hanging over her Of the man
who broke an engagement wien he saw his
sweetheart hacking at one, that this delightful
food is generally tabooed. One feels tempted
to follow the example Of the dear old lady who
was in the habit of retiring to her room with
an orange and locking the door after her. But
the mystery was lately solved at a luncheon,
and the solution will be hailed with delight by
housekeepers. The oranges were peeled and
sliced and brought on the table cut up fiLe in
punch glasses in which there was great deal
of Juice. In each glass there was cracked ice
aud sugar, and this delicious combination,
which embodles all the delights OF the fruit,
with none of its disadvantages, is eaten with
spoon.
had before, but it Is only few years till one
generation passes away and II is followed by
another, says the San Francisco Examiner.
Probably che average duration Of life, taking
the world over, is not above thirty years. The
increase of the world s population in this cen
fury has been rapid, but the total is yet under
1900 0000U0. In 1904 1t was put by Matte Brun at
U40,l o. COO and very few of the $4,000 OCO are
now alive. Probably treble that number have
been born and died since that date. The deaths
in the present century undoubtedly exceed the
number of persons now living. As we 90 back
in history we find q smaller population, but
with smaller and smaller data to 20 on Tho
only fair basis we have for an estimate at the
beginning of the Christian era is the population
of tho Roman empire This included the most
civilized races OF mankind, and was the most
extensive and powerful nation the world had
ever seen. Yet the Roman empire, from the
best obtainable data that has come down to u.s.
did not at the death of Augustus, ID
B. O., exceed 63,CoO.Co0 people.
India and China were the only
pOpulous part OF the earth beyond the limits
and 1t is not probable that the total population
of the world ran above 200, 600, 90 at that date
\ et II we allow forty years as the average of
life at that era this population, if stationary,
would take only 300 years to show as many
deaths as there are now living people. Egypt
the country OF which we have the most ancient
records, has now 6S00,Q00 Inhabitants -Four
Thousand years ago IL had probably about
1000, 900, and was then O strong and civilized
nation. The population of the Nile valley has
remained almost constant under all CHI uges
If we put it at an average ef 100000 and allow
each inhabitant forty years OF life the land OF
Egypt alone in the {. 600 years since the earliest
history opens on the full-g grown nation has fur
nished 750 0O0,0O0 dead, or half as many Us the
living of to-day, and back of the recorded his
tory there are hundreds OF countries through
which nan was developing up TO the point
where he could form government or make a