The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


chosen for six years and receives an annual
salary Of $4,000. The French president re-
| ceives salary OF s120 COO a house to live in
and allowances amounting to $4,000 more;
| MS term OF ONCE is seven years, and he may
| De reelected. The president of the Swiss re-
! public Is elected from the seven federal coun-
clllors who serve three years. and serves as
president for one year, receiving a salary of
| SZIOO. He may be reelected after n inter
| val OF one year The president of Mexico is
| paid $40 .s7T each year, and serves four years;
he may be reelected now, Gen. Diaz, the pres
ent president, having had the constitution al
tered to permit him to serve.
In the Japanese capital there Is a gigantic
image OF woman, made of wood and plaster,
and dedicated to Hachiman, the god Of war.
| In hight 1t measures fifty-four feet, The head
| alone, which is reached by a winding stair
| way in the interior OF the figure, being large
/ enough to comfortably hold twenty persons.
| Inc inquire holds huge wooden sword in one
/ hand, the blade of the weapon being twenty
| seven feet long, and ball twelve feet IN diam
! ever IN the other. Internally the model is
/ lifted up with an extraordinary anatomical
i arrangement which is supposed to represent
/ the different portions OF the brain. fine
| view OF the country is obtained by looking
! through one OF the eyes of the figure. The
| admission TO all parts of the structure is 2
cents.
! In the Abajo valley is a small, low piece of
| country, about five miles from Havana, capa-
! bic OF producing tobacco enough to make 30
! 900 cigars annually. Without question. the
| tobacco is the finest grown The result is the
kings ana no0lemen Of England, Russia. Ger
| many, France and other Europern countries
| gobble them up. Every single cigar made of
| Vuelta Abalo tobacco is sold to them at prices
| ranging from 500 to $3.50 hundred These
| cigars are bought and paid for long before
! the crop is ever harvested. Manufacturers
! however, with that remarkable GOODNESS with
which some men are endowed, proceed to call
an QUANTITIES and kinds of Cuban cigars
Havana and Vuelta Abajo, when half of them
never saw cigar Of that growth.
Dueling is now pretty generally recognized
| as relic Of barbarism, but perhaps its most
satisfactory form is that practiced by some
| tribes of western Indians. Quarrels are rare
In tribe. most of the fighting being reserved
| for OF siders, but when feud arises between
two braves of the same tribe all their friends
unite to see far play The duelists are
! stripped, and the seconds toss up piece of
| DARK Inc winner then seizeS piece of hard
| wood seasoned by years of service and
| stained with the blood of former duels. With
this war club he hits his opponent as hard
| blow as his strength will permit The in
| jured man then picks up the club and hits
back, and the blows alternate until one brave
! or the other has had enough and declines to
! pick up the club again. The punishment in
| tilcted by these clubs is frightful, every blow
| bringing blood and causing deep cuts and
| bruises.
! An alleged petrl6ed woman, a relic of the
| Central American mound builders, having
been submitted to the inspection of the ex-
perts Of the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, the scientists proce sded to bore
hole In one Of the lady ound-builder's
! lower limbs, pulled out an undeniable sam
| pie OF Portland cement with the auger, and
! forthwith pronounced the petrihcation to be a
| fraud. The result of tins inquest has recalled
the fact that the San Francisco Examiner, of
a recent date, gave numerous details respect
ing petrifaction factory then in full blast in
tah1ornia. For some understandable reason
the cmnlsoient trainers OF the Mckinley act
while tlapptng a p per cent. tariff on alabaster
: statuary, closed their eyes to the existence of
this promising new infant industry OF plastic
art although the raw material did not es
cape their ministrations. In the sweet by-and-
by in which Candidate Mckinley delights to
dwell, there will not fail to be amendment for
this oversight perhaps.
But how, asks Pittsburg Dispatch writer
is Lieut.. Peary to recognize the pole?
On circle, 900 miles in diameter, Of which
the pole is the center and the magnetic needle
imperative in this entire district how is he
to know by 100 miles where to find this mys-
FERROUS pivotal spot? There is no known
method Of determining the polar point, with
out running series of lines, under almost il
not altogether insuperable difficulties AS "A
pole IS one OF those concerns that has never
been found lying around loose, AMI as the
cyclOpediaS furnish no descriptions and as
the thing Is really sort of physical and geo.
graphical q Straction the chances are, il the
perambulating Peary should stumble over it,
that he will wander on his weary wav not
knowing that he might have punched the pu-
issant polar point. Probably the pole-hunt-
ing Peary pursues this project only for the
purpose OF procuring pence to prevent too
persistent poverty, but pointing pins or a
potent purpose to produce potatoes would
put him on a pedestal of more plentiful
praiseworthiness.
Most curious in origin of all nocturnal in
sect hunters are the leather-winged bats.
which may be regarded practically speaking.
as very tiny monkeys, highly specialized for
the task Of catching nocturnal flies and
mldges. Few people know how nearly they
are related to US. They belong to the self
same division Of the higher mammals as man
and the ape; their skeleton answers to ours.
bone for bone and joint for joint. in an ordi-
nary manner; only the unesSential fact that
they have very long fingers with web be-
tween as an organ of flight prevents us from
instantly and instinctively recognizing them
as remote cousins. once removed from the
gorilla. The female nat In particular is alb
surdly human Most of them feed off insects
alone, but few, like the famous vampire
pats OF south America take mean advan-
tage OF sleeping animals and suck their
blood after the fashion of mosquitoes as thew
lie defenseless in the forest or on the omen
pampas Others like the flying foxes of the |
Malay archipelago, make a frugal meal of
fruits and vegeta bles; but even these are Der-
slstent night flyers, They hang head down
ward from the boughs OF trees during the hot
tropical daytime, but sally forth at night to |
ROB the banana patches and invade the plan-
tain grounds OF the Industrious native. The
pat Is lemur compelled by dire necesity to |
become a flying night bird.
1t Is fact not so well known but that H. |
may be said to be curious, says the Times |
Star, that the letters and are modern ad- |
ditions to our alphabet. The use of the NAV
be SAID to have become general during the |
time OF the commonwealth, say between 16i9 |
and 1893. From 1880 to 1916 its use is exceed |
lngly rare, and have never as vet seen a |
DOCK printed prior to 1925 in which IL an. |
Peared. In the century Immediately preCe- |
dlng the seventeenth 1t became the fashion to |
tail the last when Roman numerals we've |
used, as in the example: viii for s. or xii in |
place OF H. This fashion still fingers |
put only in physicians prescrip- |
lions, l believe. Where the French |
use II has the power of as we used in IN |
the word vision. What nation was first to
use 1t as new letter is an interesting
puG -, perhaps unanSwerable query /
IN IKE manner the printers and language
makers IN the latter part of the siAtsenth
century began to recognize the fact that there
was sound In spoken English which was |
without representative in the shape of an |
alphaoetlcal sign or character as the first
sound int he word wet" Prior to thai time
u haa always been spelled as vet the
V having the long sound of u or two II & To
gether, In order to convey an i6aa % ~ IU
new sound they began to spell such words as
wet weather, T." web etc with tu,o -
and, the Of that date was a typica the tbreo,
words as mentioned above looked like This
wet" 'vvether" web" After n Iii
the tyne founders recOOnizad ~ -. "'A.AO