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


An Ethiopian IN Abyssinia will tell you
without blush that ne Is necessarily washed
az birth, cleans himself on his marriage
morn and hopes 10 be washed after death:
that once every year he dips himself IN the
river on the festival % st. John the Baptist.
and regularly every morning he vets the end
OF his tOga with the moisture from his mouth
and freshens up his eyes. Whenever he feels
his hide harsh and uncomfortable he anoints
himself with mutton fat.
The theory OF the Moqui snake dance so to
speak is the ability Of snakes OF all sorts 10
carry petitions TO the higher powers in the
system OF aerial divinities, and during the
celebration OF the snake dance. which lasts
nine days, great number of serpents are
captured. prayed to for rain and then turned
loose to carry the prayers OF the Indians to
the big lightning snakes. whose home Is in
the thunder clouds above the submits OF the
mountains, and who IN turn carry the petition
TO the rain god in the heaven above.
The latest usefor aluminium is for street car
tickets, and it must be conceded that the
metal is singularly adapted for the purpose
Michigan street railway has just made its
first issue Of these light and ornamental
tokens which are about the size of a silver
quarter-dOllar, One is round, for the ordinary
fare; the other octagonal for children. The
adults ticket is sold by the railroad company
to the public at the rate OF six for a quarter
and the chtld's ticket at the rate OF ten for
quarter. The company does not allow its en-
ployes, either conductors or motormen, to
sell the tickets to the public, but dlSpoSes OF
them in $40 lots to the several storekeepers
who handle them exclusively.
Hibberts Gore is the one place In Maine
where taxes are unknown. Only six families
reside there-forty persons in all. The gore
comprises 800 acres bounded by Waldo Knox
and Lincoln counties, and by some mistake
was omitted by the engineers when these
counties were laid out. Having no connec-
ton with any county and never having been
organized as town or plantation, the resi-
dents Of the gore neither pay taxes nor vote.
They build their own roads, however, and
send their children to the schools nearest by
BY special provision of the statutes the
paupers OF the gore are cared for by the old
est adjoining town, Palermo, but there have
been only three paupers in the last forty
years.
Search lights have become indispensable to
steamers of all classes, and in military and
naval operations BY their use objects miles
away can be revealed and illumined in the
darkest night, and their powerful beams Of
light can be thrown in any direction. One Of
the earliest applications OF the search light in
marine work was to vessels passing through
Suez canal Formerly the passage could
only be made in daylight, and was very te-
dious and costly; now the electric light is at
the service of every ship as it enters the
canal, and the journey is, in nearly every case
pursued unlnterruptedly. A most excellent
innovation has been made by the Suez canal
be obligatory, after October l, next on all
vessels passing through the canal by light, to
employ an apparatus for dividing the light Of
the protector into two divergent rays. APP
preaching vessels may, by this means, travel
right up to each other without their respect
i've helmsmen being blinded. The diverging
apparatus which is to be used has been devils
ed by one of the agents of the company.
In the official announcement that the Prince
of Wales will hold levee on behalf of her
mo nefTy ut IL L.
1.-THE knights and their several orders are to
appear in their collars" To many well-in-
formed persons, says the Pail Mall Gazette,
this collar" wearing is rather mystery.
The ancient decoration, il IL may be so styled,
was established in the fifteenth century and
only those who had done good service to the
state were privileged to wear It, The collar
OF IS. S. was gilt, and formed of continuous
links of the letters s. S." with a rose pend
ant. Originally 1t was an exclusive mark of
honor to foreign ENJOYS, but later the collar
was worn by the chief justices of the law
courts, military men of high rank heraldS
eSquires and distinguished members of the
royal household. The number of those privi-
legged to wear these badges is now very linn
tied. AS to the origin of the custom there
mas been much warm discussion; some have
it that it was instituted by Henry ", after the
battle Of Agineourt who was the 'Seneschal-
lus, or steward of England, and antiquaries
are inclined to believe that the IS. s. were
taken from the first and last letter of Scenes
challus."
Everybody knows, says St. Louis Repub-
lie writer, that convex lenses of glass have a
wonderful power of concentrating the suns
rays, and yet few ever stop to consider the
enormous amount of heat that is being con-
stantly emitted by the great light-giver of the
solar system. Parker, an English optician
once constructed o tense 8 feet in diameter
the powers of which were so great that it
would melt a solid cube of cast iron in three
seconds. When turned upon piece of granite
hist nc in 1og5
than one minute. Using the above facts as a
basis, we may get some startling deductions
by q few minutes of figuring: If cast iron
will melt in three seconds under the concen-
tratton of square feet of sunshine it would
melt in less than the 1nillionth of a second
under the focus Of single square mile of CON
centrated rays Now, as the earth is con
stantly receiving as much sunshine as would
illuminate 5O,000,000 square miles of fiat sur
face and even this vast quantity is as moth
ing dor the earth only receives the rays with
which 1T comes in contact when they are be-
ing shot out into space), il is clear that , $50 81
OOG,0O0 worlds could be banded around .Old
Sol and yet each receive as much sunshine
to each square mile of exposed surface as we
enjoy to-day.
The devil is well represented in geograph-
ical and biographical nomenclature, says the
Omaha Bee. At Boroughbridge, in York
shire, is group of remarkable prehistoric
monoliths called the DEVILS Arrows The
Devils Bit mountains are in the Country
Ilpperary. near IemplemOre. A remark
able ancient earthwork near Newmarket, in
England, is called the Devils Ditch. An an
Client wall across the stewartry of Kircud-
bright is called the Devils Dyke. Another
Devils Dyke is hill IN the South Downs of
sussex, with remains of prehistoric and
probably Celtic fort. The Devils Glen lake
Is deep valley of the County Wicklow:
Devils Lake is saline lal (and modern city,
of North Dakota. Another Devil's lake is
near Baraboo Wis. The Devils Inkstand is
a deep and wonderfully fine crater lake of
South Australia. The devil lends
his name to form part of
celebrated cavern in Derbyshire, Eng
land. The Devils Punchbowl is an interest
ing mountain tarn of the County Kerry In
the Black Hills country of South Dakota is
the Devils Tower, an enormous natural obe-
lisk of trachyte CPS feet high. One of the
Fuegan islands is called the Devils Island
In the same group is a DEVILS Harbor on
another island There is another Devils Is
land of the coast of Maine: another belongs
to French Guiana. The Devils Peak is high
mountain of Hayti; there is another in South
Africa, and third mount Diablol Is in Cali
fornia. The Devils Bridge is in the canton of
Uri, Switzerland The Devils Bridge in Car
diganshtre is also well known I he Devils
Nose is Canadian Rocky Mountain peak
The Devils Tower is the northeast angle of
the works at Gibraltar. Another Devils lake
is in the coast region of Tillamoolx county Ore
Mount DiablO rises near SANTANA in Santo
Domingo Devil Bosch is q mountain re-
gion of South Africa. Devils Point is very
near Cape Town. Devil River is in Victo-
ria. Australia. The Devils Thumb is on the
west coast of Greenland. There is DEVILS
Den (ominous factl in a cemetery at Law
renee. Mass The DEVILS Raplf (Or 1irobA