The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-28
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Figaro. 81 is a fact that 10 one % the store
rooms of the museum az the Louvre there is
90 old dusty boz flied with homes that re-
lQnCed 20 the kings Of France. he bones
are pitched there la confusion, and every
time that the box is moved they are neces-
sarily tossed about and mixed together.
AGlasgow paper says that ia parish
church near the city baptism was TO take
place on the firsf Sunday of the month. but
no water could be got for the font. as IL had
been cut on. what shall we do, john
said the minister. 'Jist put your hand ia the
font and lat on there's water int said the
beadle, AN I'm sure the weans'n no ken ony
odds"
In the Fortnightly Review Sir Richard
Hall argues that space is not boundless, but
finite. 1t can be demonstrated" he says,
that all known facts about space are recon
cilable, with the superstition that II one fol
lows a straight line through space, using for
the word straight the definition which science
has shown properly to belong to it-that
then after a Journey which is not infinite in
length, we shall find ourselves back at the
point from which we started"
The custom OF Cinnamon wearing pigtails is
not so very ancient. 1t dates from 1923, when
the Manchus, who then commenced the con
quest of the Celestial Empire, enforced this
fashion Of doing the hair sign of degra-
dalton. The average queue Is three feet long.
There are 200 10000 adult Cinnamon, so that
their united pigtails measure ,636 miles, a
SUFFICIENT quantity to go four and a half times
round the earth, and with enough over to hang
all the murderers in the world for the next
hfty years, using couple Of yards of material
for each operation
The "Alcestis' of Eurfpides is to be per-
formed in the original Greek by the students
Of the University of the South at Sewanee
Tenn, during July. This will be the first
representation of the Athenian drama in the
south, and one OF the few in the entire ma
ton Since Harvard gaveSus "1FSdipus' if
teen years ago, Vassar, Smith college and
the University of Pennsylvania have at
tempted other Greek plays, and New York
ers have seen two OF them on the professional
stage. But a Greek play is an acquired taste
for modern theater-gOers. and II does not
thrive on the American stage.
1t is the opinion OF men familiar with the
character of the Navajo Indians, saysthe San
Francisco Argonant, that a war with them
will prove to be serious business for the
government. The tribr numbers about 80 600,
Of whom 5000 are fighting warriors The
reservation where they are intrenched is rough
and difficult, and contains many passes where
according to one authority. two Indians can
hold their ground against the entire United
States army" The Oava1oes have trained
their ponies to go without water for two days,
If necessary, The whole tribe is armed with
the most approved repeater rifles, and the
bucks have been storing ammunition for
years in anticipa tion of trouble. The Nava-
joes have a perfect system of signals and
vannee Of the movements Of troops sent
against them.
There was landed recently at Stromness,
Orkney, q halibut of extraordinary dimen-
sions, measuring six feet ten inches in length
and weighing no less than PAS pounds, saws
the London Field. The fish was discovered
by two lads. 1t was observed on the sand ap-
parently asleep, and as they had no appliances
with them with which to attempt a capture
they returned home to acquaiht their father.
nod dnfh sa~y ,T.r
was attached, they went back to the place and
found the huge Il sh had not moved. Carefully
watching an opportunity, the father succeeded
in planting the harpcon in the back Of the
haltbut. The weapon entered the spine and
rendered the fish powerless, but on account of
It's size and weight it was only after consider
able difficulty that II was got on board. 1t
proved splendid specimen OF the hallbut and
was in frst-rate condition. In its stomach
was found variety Of small fish which
weighed upward Of six pounds. II was at
once carefully packed and dispatched by
steamer and rail to the London market.
Somebody has found out according to the
Philadelphia Record, that Marie Antoinette's
famous speech to the effect that rather than
starve she would eat pie-crust, which has
been variously perverted into pastry or
go to the pastry cook" and the like, was,
not such a senseless one as history has Ac-
credited 1t with being. II was the practice it
seems, OF some OF the French peasantry to
bake their meat pies in a sort of crust or
shell u1dCe OF SdWQuSG ana water. This was
discarded when the dish was done, bnt had
some nutrition from the juices which it alb
sorbed. 1t was this "pie-crust," usually re-
garded as an UNBEATABLE, to which she re-
ferred. And IL may be added that the food
scientists Of the present day are discovering
that the cellulose or woody fibre, practically
sawdust, which is present in some food sub
stances. and which Is supposed to have been
WORTHLESS food matter, has an office to
perform in digestion which is not unimpor-
tant-a fact that reflects ad additional luster
OF wisdom on the heretofore additionally silly
utterances OF the French Queen.
Although porcelain was known to both the
Chinese and Japanese for ages. says the San
Francisco Cali, it was not introduced into
Europe until the beginning of the eighteenth
century, when John BOttcher, a native OF
Schlaiz in Voightand, was the first to make
1t. This man was apprentice to a Berlin
apothecary, named Zorn, in whose shop he
conferred some favor upon a protested al
chemist, who, in return, promised TO teach
him the art OF transmitting the baser metals
into gold Bottcher, after studying under his
new master for time, imagined that his for
tune was made, and in 1900 he ran away. He
was pursued, but found protection among
friends, who demanded to witness an exhibi-
tion of his pretended skill, and the poor fell
low eventually had to acknowledge that he
had been imposed upon. But he Dersevered
IN ms la6ors, and on one occasion, haying
made a mixture of various finely organized
earth for the purpose OF making strong cruel
bles, he discovered after he had taken the
compound mass from the oven that he had
gained kind of pottery more beautiful than
any he had ever seen. The transmutation il
may therefore be said, took place not in the
metals indeed but in his own person. but
Bottcher was suddenly changed from an al
chemist to potter. In 1905 the first porce-
lain was thus manufactured in Dresden
Being made of colored clay it presented a
light brownish red hue but as early as 1909 n
beautiful white porcelain was obtained, and
its manufacture was fully established during
the following years,
Among the new devices for making money
at church fairs and other charitable enter
tainments is one which its originators term
The Living Library says Harper's Young
People. certain number Of books are
chosen beforehand, and each one is repre-
Sented by some young woman who is dressed
appropriately to represent either the title of
the book or some leading character therein
Each 1mperSonator must also be thoroughly
acquainted with the volume She represents
and her actions and behavior must be in ac-
cord with the character chosen. A cata.
logue is prepared and furnished on applica-
ton, and whenever book is called for a
curtain is drawn aside and the living COW
stands revealed. The regulations usually
governing The Living Library" are that
First, all books must be secured from the
llbrarian; second, the fee for each book
shall be 10 cents for ten minutes use pava-
BILE in advance; third, books cannot,be called
for twice in succession: forth persons hav-
ing called for and obtained the books must
relinquish them upon notice from the libra
rian that the time paid for has reached its
limit, or. failing to do so, shall paw at the
rate of cents minute for overtime. apd