The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| tioD in Italy show the amounts spent on treat
ing TO aggregate q total Of 100000 lire
| about 50 600 900. In some districts the peas
ants had meat and wine, all they cared for, at
| the candidates expense, for a whole week be-
| fore the election. and one candidate is said to
have spent 100 600 lire for election purposes.
THE Witnesses Protection society. which was
formed In London some time ago ito protect
| witnesses from insult by counsel in courts of
| law" has extended its scope. 1t has added to
| its title land General Legal Reform Union, and
! proposes to endeavor to reduce the costs of
| litigation, to draw public attention to the in
| equality OF sentences and to other anomalies of
| the present legal system and to Rgitate for
| uniform code
| WALES" says a western welshman mas
! given three Presidents to the United States
| Jefferson, Adams and Monroe. Thomas Jeffer-
| son was pure Welsh, too, and the Weshmen Of
| New York are now organizing a movement to
| erect grand monument to him. There are
! 100000 Welsh and their immediate descend
ants in this country, and over 100000 pure
| Welsh and their first descendants. The Welsh.
| Irish and Scotch are, in my opinion, all Off
| shoots of the little band Of AryRns that passed
| over from Little Brittany and settled on what
are now the British Isles
| TITS ASTONISHING, says the New York Tribune.
how many people believe the old story that
| Napoleon Bonaparte put a check for 100. 600
| francs in silver 5franc piece, and that the
| coin is yet in circulation in France. They say
| that the people did not want the 5-franc piece,
| and that In order to create a demand for silver
| money of that denomination the emperor re-
sorted to the device mentioned. The check, or
/ treasury order, was written on asbestos paper,
and made in the coin. 1t would be interesting
TO know, if all this be true, how many 5franc
| pieces have been broken open since the story Of
| the check was first circulated.
| THE strict censorship of the Italian stage
after the fall of Rome is graphically described
| by sslvini. The words God" ''redeemer,"
madonna. "angel," saint. " ''pontiff,' - "pur
pie, y 'monsignor," priest" we're forbidden;
Jesuit" ''Tartuffe," foreigner" patriot"
| were equally in the index. The colors green,
| white and red were prohibited; yellow and
| black and yellow and white were also forbidden.
Flowers thrown on the stage must not show
! any of those colors prominently, and if it
| CHANGED that one actress had white and green
| in her dress, another VINO wore ribbons must
| not come near her.
Two YOUNG FELLOWS who were taxing pedes-
trian tour through the Berkshire hills recently
lost their way after making the ascent of
| Mount Everett, and at nightfall were glad to
seek quarters at a lonely farm house. The
woman in charge got up an excellent supper,
| killing chicken for them gave them clean,
| comfortable beds, and had a savory breakfast
| ready in the morning. When they asked how
much they should pay her she replied in
| deprecating way, that as times were a little
| hard she would have TO charge them more than
| they might like to pay, but 1916 cents apiece
| would be satisfactory. She was astonished
|
this day that she entertained Vanderbilts una
| wares.
| WILLIAM E. HIDDEN Of Newark, the mineral.
| ogist, has been engaged in successful mining
| operations in New Mexico during the last few
| months, says the New York World Mr.. Hidden
| is best known as the dlscoverer Of the valuable
| gem known as hiddenite, which he found in
| North Carolina. In Texas he found five min
| erals previously unknown 10 science, and
twenty-one not included In the catalogue pre-
pared by the state mneraloGist Mr.. Hidden's
| trip to New Mexico was for the specific
! purpose of developing turquois mines
| in the Burro mountains. and he was backed by a
company In which Tiffany, the jeweler, is f1nan-
cially interested The capital stock was g., 0O0,-
| 000 and on this 8 per cent. dividend has been
| declared from the earnings of nine months
| work at tho mines II has been known for many
years that turquois stones could be found in
various parts OF New Mexico, but they were
| supposed to be of poor quality, and the mining
| was left to the Pueblo Indians. Specimens taken
| from an old mine in the Burro mountains were
| sent 70 Tiffany in New YORK, and an examina-
4, ton OF them resulted In the formation of the
company. which has employed Mr.. Hidden as
| superintendent. The mines are old ones and
1 are supposed TO have been worked by the Aztecs
| who took the better stones. The work of Mr.
Hidden and his assistants is said to have resulted
in the discovery of turquois equal to the best
found In Persia. The new company is now the
| leading producer Of turquois in the world as
the output is larger than that OF the Persian
! mines. Most OF the stockholders live in New
| the heaviest.
| TIE INCANTATIoNs Of Apuleius are sense aud
soberness. according to the Hospital, compared
| with those OF his Christian successor Marcellus
| "a. D. 4S0). "If a mans nose bleeds whisper
| in his ear in the same side, 'Socsocam spkyma'
| thrice nine times, and you may still go on say
| ing it." ToothRche, if it occurs on Tuesday
or Thursday and if the moon is waning, may
be cured by repeating seven times, "Argidum
| margidum stargidum." Even his prayers com
pare unfavorably with those OF Apuleius, in
| ophthalmia look out for the first swallow then
run silently to the nearest spring, wash your
eyes and pray God that you may be free from
pass into the swallow" The whole book is full
| of similar abSurdlties, which he defends by
the invariabe empiric argument that patients
have got well after practicinR them. We
| must not. however, suppose that this super
stition was in any way favored by Christi
anity. II was indeed a Christian bishop who
introduced the disastrous doctrine that
the signs Of the zodiac preside over the
various, organs OF the human body, but
the church disapproved both Of the
science and the theology of Priscillian, and he
| was executed as a magician and hereto A. d.
1856. Besides condemnin9 magic the church
further attempted to direct the excessive faith
/ IN the supernatural into higher channels In
| stead Of invoking Juno Lucina and other hea-
then demons, the young mother was encouraged
TO repeat the eighteenth Psalm and to think OF
| the wonderful deliverance Of St Margaret when
| swallowed by Satan in the form OF a dragon
! Did man suffer from toothRche, or collie or
! pains in the back? Let him, instead of decking
himself with pagan amuletS, consider how much
| greater pain OF those various kinds was co
| dured by st. Apollonia when all her teeth were
knocked out; by ST. Erasmus when his bowels
| were torn from his living body, or by st. Law
renee when he was roasting on the gridiron
And in mis- prayers for health he would natu-
rally introduce the names OF those holy martyrs