The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

niagara rails, the \ Yellowstone park anu lHt
valley of the Yosemite. Most Engl1shmen
fancy these places are rather near together,
and, though somewhat surprised at learning
OF the distances between them, nevertheless
conscientiously determine to take them all In
before they return. There must have been an
immense amount of stun written on the other
side about the great wonders OF nature TO
make all Engllshmen anxious to see them"
1t is strange indeed, if true, says the New
York Sun, that one of the most popular of
humorous entertainments is modelled on the
oddities OF a people VINO are deficient In the
sense of humor. Yet manager who has been
| associated with minstrel troupe of real ne
groeS says that the greatest trouble eXpe-
rienced by him was in trying to get them to
be funny. All the songs and jokes and comic
acting that really made the audience laugh
were inventions of white men. The acting OF
the negroes was full of purposeless antics and
indicated high spirits, but that were not
amusing, and while they were always ready
to laugh at Jokes, they did not make any OF
their own. They excelled as singers, how
ever, for their voices were rich and melodious
and the basses especially deep.
Says a French paper: In the United
States the idea was recently suggested of
manufacturing pure tobacco smoke like gas,
and laying il on like gas in buildings of vari-
Gus sorts. II this idea were carried out, the
air of hospitals, theaters, churches. law
courts, sick rooms would cease to be poison
Gus, and would become fragrant and ex
| hilarating. The tobacco scent bottle and the
| tobacco meter would, between them, revolu-
| tiOniZe everything connected with smoking
| Filth, poisons and disease would be replaced
| by purity, cordials and health. Cigarettes,
| cigars and pipes would disappear. Smoke
| would supersede scent in Romish chapels and
| STIFFNESS in Protestant churches. Indignant
| ladies might even be found complaining that
| the pew the opera box or the railway car
| rage was not pervaded enough by the deodor-
| iZer."
A parsonage cat whose favorite seat is on
the study table has found a new use for him
self says st. Nicholas. He watches his mas
| ters pen and occasionally when the writer
| is tired takes the holder in his mouth. But
his real usefulness is to act as paper weight.
When a sheet is finished and laid aside the cat
walks gravely to IL and takes his seat on the
paper. AS soon as another is laid aside he
| leaves the first and sits on the second. Some
times, to try him, his master lays down on
different parts of the table sheets in rapid sue
| cession. But Powhattan, the cat, remains
seated, shrewdly supposing that to be fun, not
| business When work begins anew the cat
seats himself on the last paper laid down and
| waits for another. Thus he shows that he
watches his masters work, and perhaps
thinks sit his duty to keep the paper from
| blowing away
A very funny occurrence took place re-
Gently in Southwestern Oregon, near the Del
Norte county line, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. The Crescent City Record pub
fishes each week a batch of items taken
| from its files of thirty-eight years ago. A
short time since the story Of the famous In
river was recounted. A subscriber to the
| Record living at Gold Beach, Ore, read the
| blood curdling story, but neglected to notice
| that il was an event that occurred almost
| forty years ago. Fancying that the massacre
| had but Just taken place and there was danger
| Of a general outbreak he at once proceeded to
rouse the neighborhood. Notices were posted,
public meeting called and a company of
volunteers organized TO proceed at once to
take the field against the blood-thtrsty In
dams Finally the idea struck some one that
/ ha yvpIl 70 nTIpiR Wit
| cent City and ascertain the exact state of
| affairs. The fact was then developed that
the originator Of the movement was nearly
| four decades behind in his history.
Prof. Max Muller, the highest authority in
England on Oriental languages and literature,
| throws down a gauntlet in the Nineteenth
Century to theosophists, and it will take a
| very powerful champion to pick it up. Prof.
! Muller says that the esOteric Buddhism
! preached by Nine. BlaVatsky never existed in
| India and that the lamented high priestess of
| theosophy, ignorant as she was of the two
! languages in which the canonical books of
| Buddhism are written, fell under the infiu-
ence OF designing Hindoos who played upon
| her credulity AS for the existence of mahat-
| mas and the belief of theosophists that living
| beings can hold communication with unseen
spirits it is pointed out that in all the history
| OF theosophy no independent witness has ever
| been present to test these miraculous per
| formances in soul communion. IconoclastS
! are not always high in public favor. but an eX-
1 ceptiOn must be made even by theosophists in
| the case of frof. Muller who can speak with
! authority on every matter concerning the
I mental life of the orient and whose judgments
on such subjects are ex cathedra.
A feminine member of the former 400 of
| this city s-ys the New York Herald. has
| originated very pretty but expensive idea
| which, if generally adopted, threatens to
| cause the fathers of other young ladies many
| deep groans af anguish. This reckless young
woman has designed and had made twelve hat
| pins, one for each month of the year The
stones used in each pin symbolic the chief
| characteristic of the monrh. The pure white
pearl represents the snow of January, aqua
marine for slushy February, March has the
crocus Colored amethyst the daffodil colored
topaz for April and the emerald portrays the
! green of May and the pink pearls the roses of
/ June. The clear bright skies of July are Dor
trayed in the diamonds pure white light
while the dark blue sapphires typify the
! cloudlesS skies and calm seas of August The
! tickle and feminine-like changes of Septem-
| Der are well shown by the cat s-eye. Garnets
struggle for supremacy with the hues of Oc-
| tober'S dying leaves, and the cold red sun
! sets of November find their counterpart in
| the opal's ever-changing colors. December
| with its CHEEKY, glowing fires and hospital
/ ity Of Christmas joys, has the warmth of
the ruby's light TO give comfort to the dying
year.
| M. Berthelot, the well-known French tech
nicist, in a recent communication to the
Academic des Sciences states his belief in
the sometime existence of an age Of copper
| IN aQdltlon 70 the three recognized archRolo-
gical cons OF stone. bronze "copper" and TIM
and iron. He bases his opinion chiefly upon
an analysis Of piece of copper which had
| been found by NJ. de SarZce in the course Of
| antiquarian investigation in Mesopotamia or
, AL JeZira, as the Arabs designate the famous
| stretch OF country between the Euphrates and
| the Tigris. The fragment thus mechanically
determined proves to have neither tin nor
| zinc entering into its composition there be-
ing simply traces Of lead and arsenic. Water
and the atmosphere had made ravages into
I the specimen, which was practically suboxid
| or compound Of protoXid and metallic cop
| per. AS the ruins from which the piece OF
| metal was taken are authortativeiy CON
| sidered TO be more ancient than even those of
| Babylon NJ. Berthelot does not hesitate to
promulgate the theory that an age of copper
| preceded the bronze and iron periods. es-
pecially as the examination OF the component
parts OF portion of metallic scepter, which
1t is alleged belonged to a Pharaoh who
reigned in Egypt some $500 years b. O..
showed no signs of the presence of tin.