The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ menJ TO tears is from an irritation in distant
Z nervous center and is removed when the
/ nervous center is either soOthed or ex-
| hausted. The relief comes not from the mere
( escape OF tears, which is only a symptom. but
Z from the cessation Of the storm in the ner-
vous cha n. II the storm be Gained by sOoth-
! ing measureS-as when We sooth child that
7 IS weeping from fear annoyance or injury
/ we quiet the nervous centers, upon which the
. enect ceases. In children the soothing
/ method succeeds, and sometimes 1t succeeds
/ IN adults although in adults the cCs satiOn OF
/ tears IS more commonly due 10 actual eX-
tivity
Uncle, as applied to pawnbrolzer, is a
| wretched pun on the Latin word uncus, a
hook, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Pawnbro-
. 5rS employed hook to lift articles paWned
I 10 upper shelves before spouts were adopted
! Gone to the uncus is exactly tantamOunt to
Z the modern phrase. up the spout. -" The
/ pronoun was inserted to carry out the p IN.
The phlase "a ma tante, does not mean, to
my aunt s. but to the scOundrel s." the
> word tante. in French argOt, being the most
! reproachful word they can use speaking OF
/ man. Gone TO my IN ;le S, IN French,
/ C est chez ma tante,' at the pawnbroker's.
/ In French the concierge de prison Is called
uncle because the prisoners are kept there
/ in pawn by the government. In the seventh
/ century usurer was called my uncle in the
Nauon provinces because OF his near cOnnec-
/ ton with speudthrifts, called in Latin Ne
/ pOtes, nephews.
! From Kew, famous for His Highn ess' Dog
| at Kew the London Daily Graphic has re
| ceived an account of another dog-a terrier
/ who has formed strange attachment for a
| tortoise. A gentleman who has witnessed the
/ friendly conduct of this peculiarly assorted
/ pair, says that the dog flies at any one who
approaches The tortoise with such ferocity
/ that the gardener can only pursue his aVCcl-
! ton when the animal is shut up. Il was much
amused he writes, 'On paying them visit.
/ I he dog kept his two hind legs over the tor
tOise. and turned round and round as I tried
/ to get at it, finally making dart at my feet.
! and showing the greatest rage at my interior
enCe [ noticed, on retreating. the little fell
! low licking or kissing the tortoise with an
amount of affection that seemed incredible"
| 1t does not seem to have occurred to the
| spectator that the terrier was trying to eat
! the tortoise and did not quite know how to
begin.
In the November Century, in the diary of
the voyage of Napoleon to St. Helena, occurs
this description OF a scene in tn, emperor's
! life while awaiting the alteration at Long
wood house. In the evening he generally in
! vited himself into the Gotta ge, and PLAYED
| cards with the family for two or three hours.
| Mr.. Balcombes family consists Of himself IA
! truly good uatured and most hOSpitable, lib
eral man OF plain mar srsl. Mrs. Balcombe
! two Miss Balconies women grown. al
/ though the one is but IS, and other between 10
Neither Mr.. nor Mrs. BaIcombe
understands French but both the Miss Bal
| combes speak it pretty well. and Bonaparte
appeared much delighted in their society
I these young ladies in a few days became per-
fectly familiar and the general seemed highly
| pleased with their naivete, particularly that
! OF the younger n pretty girl and most com
/ plete romp when out Of sight of her father
| tie occasionally so completely laid aside his
| imperial dignity as to romp with these
! young ladies', who, during such diversions as
| blind mans buff" etc called him by the
! familiar aPpellatiOn of ''BOney;' indeed, the
! younger, VINO appeared his fayorite. said any
/ thing and everything to him her H.ely imagt
! nation dictated, asking every possible QueS-
/ ton. and he answering without the slightest
/ apparent reserve.
I Royal assent has been given to the electoral
| bill recently passed by both houses of the
/ New Zealand legislature, thus practically
! giving universal suffrage to every male and
/ female adult in the colony. The upper cham
| Der of the legislature is called the legislative
| council, and consists of forty memOers
nominated for life by the crown. The house
/ of representatives., says the London Queen.
! consists of seventy-four members four of
/ whom are Maories, elected by the natives in
the Maori districts. The members Of the
| house Of representatives are elected for three
| years. The suffrage may be practically re
! garded as almost universal for all those who
! choose to claim it. Every European of II
years of age who has resided in an electoral
| district for six months can register as an
| elector as can every Maori of the same
| age who has placed his name on the rate
| payers roll, so that, previous 20 the PASS
| ing OF the late electoral bill which now
gives the franchise to women, the proportion
| 1870, one to every 81 persons. a proportion
| which, excluding women and minors practic-
ally amounted to universal suffrage. In New
! Zealand in 1891. the last wear to which the
| returns have been made up. the population
excluding the Maores, consisted of $500
, males, and only 293 600 females. giving large
| majority to the males. Among the native
| MaorleS the males are in a still greater ma
lOr1ty there being 22,000 males, as against
$4,000 females. AS a necessary result of this
| disproportiOn of the sexes. q very large pro
I norton OF mt ir,.r fol %o47f
OF every hundred, are unmarried. The dispar-
lty OF males and females is still greater in
| the case OF the Chinese immigrants who come
over TO New Zealand to act as servants and
la5orers. There are considerably over 4
Chinese men, and only p women in the col
| ony.
BY the kindness of my friend, Henry Louis,
the well-known mining engineer who has re-
| Gently returned to England from Singapore. [
nave received fire syringe which he oh
tanned towards the end Of 1890 from part of
the Malay peninsula never previously visited
by a white man, says writer in Sci 3nce. Mr..
Louis obtained the specimen in question from
Malay, who stopped with a party of others
at his camp. on a small stream known as
Aver katlah, one of the tributaries of the
RIVER Iclubah. on the southeast coast of the
Malay peninsula and about 100 miles from the
mouth Of the river. The district is sparseIy
inhabited by Malays, and the party from
| whom the syringe was obtained had cone
| from some of the neighboring Kamponrs
| They sQuasted down and began smoking one
OF the men nghtlnS his cigarette in the most
! matterot-fdct way by m3ans of his
| fire syringe. There is no reason
! to suppose that he was singular or
had imported his apparatus from a distance
| II the rest of the party elected sparks nv
| means of quartz and iron it was thew ad-
| mltted. simply because they preferred this
| method as being less troublesome and more
! trustworthy than that of COMPRISING air
Inc Malay syringe consists of a tuhe OF hard
wood ~ inches long. closed at one end TO-
| wards which the TUBE slightly tapers II is
| surrounded with neatly plated strips o thin
rattan, which, while they ornament the object
| serve also to strengthen it and prevent tba
| Wooo from splitting Iongitudnally in the di-
| rectlon OF the fiber. The piston is made of
similar wood and is Ia ked with string The
! tlnuer was carried in the followed out skin Of
! large bean, like the seed Of Entada In or
! der TO use the instrument a small piece of dry
! finder Is placed in the slightly hof-
! low end OF the piston and pressed down to
/ keep 1t well in place The rlston is then
| inserted in the cylinder. smittCn Sharply win
| the palm Of The hand and very randy with
| drawn, wht the finder eoomes Sufficiently
] heated to slightly smolder and by then
gently blowing II Il bright glow may be o.
tanned. According to Mr.. Louis. the native
never seemed to fail in the use of the syringe
but the knack is not easy to acQuire and those
VINO nave employed sim'llr apparatus for
demonstration at phN Steal lectures know thar
IL is lar from easy. even with a Well-made in
Strument, TO insure success Contrary r.
what might have been expected H. was tbar