The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-13

lance were never Manufactured. anu IL IS
now known that they could not be,
Alexander the Great did not weep for
other worlds 10 conquer. There is reason
20 suspect that his army met with a seri-
Gus reverse in India, a fact that induced
him 10 retrace his steps.
Philip VI after his defeat at Crecy,
when he applied for shelter at the Castle
Blols, did not respond 10 the sentinel, 1T
is the fortune Of France" but 1T is l, the
unfortunate King of France"
The story of the invention of malleable
glass by Roman glass worker in the
time of Tiberius, and of his being pat to
death by the emperor, was sheer fabri-
cation. No such glass was ever invented
Vinegar will not split rocks, so Hanni-
bal could not thus have made his way
through the Alps. Nor will it dissolve
pearls, so that the story of Cleopatra
drinking pearls melted in vinegar must
have been fiction.
''Madcap Harry was not sent TO prison
b7 Sir William GasCoigne, the stern Judge,
nor was the latter reappointed by the
prince when he became king, and the
story did not appear for $50 years after
that time.
Pitt did not use the expression, 1.-THE
TOciOus crime of being young man ,
the words were written by DR.. Johnson,
who was not present, but wrote a report
of the speech from an abstract given him
by nearer.
Worshipers are not crushed by hun
dreds under the wheels of the car of jug
gernaut. The car has not been taken out
of the temple for many years, and such
deaths as formerly occurred were eXcep-
tiOnal or accidental
The French soldiers at Constantinople
in 1904 did not. as stated by VOltaire,
dance in ST Sophia with the women of
al ~ -
where he read the statement, he said:
Nowhere, invented it,
Columbus did not make an egg stand on
end to cOnfute his opponents. The feat
was performed by Bruneleschi. the archi-
tect, 20 silence critics who asked him
how he was going TO support the dome of
the Cathedral of Florence.
The existenceof the Colossus of Rhodes
is considered by some historians ex-
tremely doubtful. There is no evidence
that the ancients were able to cast pieces
of metal of such size as must have entered
into its composition.
The CarthaFenians were not more saw
age than the Romans, and, from all we
can learn of them were, at the time of
their overthrow, even further advanced
in the arts and sciences. Punic faith was
quite as reliable as Roman faith.
The blood of Rizzio, Mary Stuart's
where he was murdered by Darnley and
the other conspirators. What is seen
there is a daub of red paint, annually
renewed for the benefit of gaping tour
lists.
Philip III, of Spain was not roasted to
death by roaring fire because court ETH
quette forbade anyone to go to his assis-
lance He died natural death, and the
same story is told of a dozen different mon
arobc yvbo yUora sticly laYs for caYauoOOU
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon did
not hang, nor were they gardens. They
were terraces supported by arches and
overgrown with trees. They were erect
ed for the amusement of a Babylonian
queen who had come from mountainous
country.
Charles TX. did not fire on the fleeing
Huguenots from the window of the Lou
vre during the massacre of St. Bartholo-
new. On the contrary, he was frighten-
ed almost to death by the reports of the
guns, and spent the time weeping and
wringing his hands. -....
The Pass of Thermopylae was defended
not by 300, but by at least 1000 Greeks,
or, according to some writers, $4,000. The
300 were the Spartan contingent, who
showed no more bravery on that occa-
sion than their companions In arms from
other Greek states,
The siege of Troy was mostly myth
According to Homer's own figures, if
there ever was such man as Homer,
Helen would have been at least GO years of
age when she first met Paris, and, even in
the heroic period of the world, women of
that age were trife passe.
George III. was not the cruel tyrant he
is represented by the Declaration of In
dependence, but was a mild-mannered,
pleasant old gentleman, who loved chill
dren and was fond of asking country peo-
pie where they were going and what they
were going to do when they got there.
Louis XVI. did not behave with over
whelming dignity at his execution. On
the contrary he screamed for help strug-
gled with the executioners and begged
fop mercy. Nor did the attendant priest
say. "Son of st. Louis, ascend to heaven"
the expression was used for him by
Paris evening paper.
Sappho, the poetess, was not wanton
beauty, nor did she throw herself from
the Leucadian cliff TO be cured of an I'M
worthy love. The latest investigations
prove her a respectable married woman
with large family, whom she reared
with as much care as a Greek matron
usually gave her children.
Mary Stuart, of Scotland, was not a
beauty. She had cross-eyes, and to save
the trouble of having her hair dressed
cut it of close to her head and wore a
wig. When, after her death. the execu-
toner lifted her head TO show it to the
people, the wig came off and showed a
close-cropped skull, covered with gray
hair.
Queen Elizabeth was not the angelic
creature represented in the histories and
poems of her own times. Her hair was
red, her temper red-hot She sometimes
drank too much, and at any provocation
would curse like trooper. She fire.
quenty swora at her maids, and some
times struck, kicked and pinched them.
Nero was no monster. His mother,
Agrippina, was not put TO death by his
order, nor did he play upon his harp and
sing The Burning of Troy" while Rome
was on fire. Our knowledge of him is
gained mostly from Tacitus, who hated
him, and from Petronius Arbiter, who
was put to death for cOnspiring against
him.
Hannibal did not send three bushels of
gold rings, plucked from the hands of
Roman knights dead on the field of Can
nae, back to Carthage as evidence of his
victory. The messenger who carried the
news back to the Carthagian senate, on
concluding his report, ''opened his robe
and threw out a number of gold rings
gathered on the field"
Louis XIV. was not gigantic in stature.
as represented by contemporary histori-
ans. When, during the French revolu-
ton, his body was dragged out of the
sarcophagus in the crypt of St. Denis, it