The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Roer; hut IN country where there is neither
fence hedge ditch nor other division Of the
nelds. one can scarcely expect horse 20
Jump says writer in Harper Magazine.
f&eFS IS however 9 fuFnp recorded 70 have
been taken by one Ragh-Ap Tor Amin Beyi az
the Time Of the massacre 81 the Mamcluses,
which Ia these DAYS OF prizeJumping Is Ger
tainly worth notice. whether credited or
not. In order 70 escape from the massacre.
this man headed his Arabian for the edge OF
the cliff, where now stands the Citadel OF Cal
TO. The noble animal never paused. but, con
scious OF his masters peril, took the leap,
most pr0digious one, and landed-the fact Is
well authenticated by the footprints in the
stone shown nv pious and h0rse-lOVing Mos
lens to-day eighty feet below and something
over quarter Of mile distant. What, after
that, becomes Of our paltry seven feet three
OF horse, show timber?
Man lived on,this continent earlier than or
at least as early as he lived on the European
continent but 1t is not believed that the In
dams are descended from such early R Pee.
pie. says the st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat. The
latest theory seems to be that the sO-called
American Indians are desct nded from Chinese,
who IN some way reached the western coast
thousands Of years ago. The parallel
between the customs of the Chinese and the
ancient Peruvians are often very striking
the systems. OF government OF the two peoples
were similar; the emperor and the inca both
claimed descent from heaven; 9th countries
had irrigating canals, and in both countries
taxes were paid in kind and stored in public
warehouses; both countries maintained
public roads, disposed of their dead with the
same ceremonies and built houses in much
the same style Humboldt found in the Mex
lean calendar strong resemblances to the an
clent calendar used in Tartary, India and
| Thibet The skull of the American, except in
its greater length, greatly resembles that Of
the Chinese.
Speking of a dwelling house in India wri-
ter in the September Century says: Fancy
an enormous house rambling out into a series
| OF immense rooms, all on one floor ptaZzas
| twenty feet deep immense chambers lin the
/ middle of which stand the beds), doors and
windows wide open, the grounds filled with
palms, bananas, and all sorts of tropical
trees. the song of birds the chirp of insects
| everywhere. and a dazzling sun blazing down
| on the Indian ocean in front. A dozen or
more dusky Hindu servants, barefooted.
| dressed in white, with bright sashes around
| their waists, and bright turbans on their
heads, are moving about everywhere. as still
as cats, and with no end of devotion TO their
little duties. One of them seems to have
nothing to do but to look after me; he has
worked over my limited wardrobe till he
knows every shirt and collar better than do
| myself. He is now brushing my hat for the
twelfth time this morning The life Is lux,
urtous. Quantities Of delightful fruit cool
| lounging- places with luxurious chairs, a
| sumptuous breakfast, (or "tiffin," as we call
| 1t here and dinner table, and no end of kind
attention. / am writing in my room on the
! day before Christmas, as if it were a rather
| hot August morning at home.
AS to their condition during the winter sea-
| son frogs pass the time in a comfortable way
in state of torpor called Information, says
writer in the September st, Nicholas The
place selected seems anything but comfort
able-a tomb IN the mud in the margin or bot
tom Of pond. Information is state of entire
or partial torpor. 1t seems like sleep, but is
proved to be not really the same. In torpor,
the breathing, circuls ton of the blood. diges-
ton, are almost entirely stopped; but in sleep
these all An animal is awakened from
sleep by a mere jostling; while in complete
torpor 1t will not be reused, even if subjected
| 10 treatment usually fatal The frog is sus
ta1ued, when he ceases to eat by lobes of fat
stored inside his body for that purpose.
| This is another method of meeting
privation which our amphibious friends share
with the camel, whose humps are little else
but stores OF fat AS to diet the general rule
is that frogs eat or are eaten by almost ev-
erything Slug6, water bugs, graSShopperS,
and other insects are specially relished.
There Is peculiar arrangement for catching
insects. The tongue is hung by the outer in
stead OF the inner end, so as to flap forward
and back like a fash, and entrap its prey. 1t
happens that insects, curiously enough. dis
appear for the winter and reappear in the
spring at just the times when the frogs hi
, bernate and come out again. Bullfrogs in
dulge also in small fish. tield-mice and duck
hngs. They will often eat their own tadpoles.
While In captivity they will learn to eat al
most any food given them.
A famous anti-slaverv orator once publicly
| thanked God that Daniel Webster was not
| born in Massachusetts, and this was received
with acclaiming shouts by the audience says
Millen Chamberlain in the September Cen
fury. Nor did they appear to notice any in
congrutty when the orator proceeded to OBJ
| jurgate Webster, just as though he had been
born in Boston. and were recreant descend
ant of Thomas Dudley. This is the common
mlstake-to judge Webster as a Puritan in
origin, descent, inherited principles, educa-
ton and consequent response Utilities He was
no Puritan nor did he ever pretend to be one.
| The Massachusetts Puritans who came to
Boston Bay IN lO3O, were east OF England peO-
| pie. Daniel Webster's ancestors were from
the north Of England, and, coming six years
later, entered New Hampshire by the Pisca-
taqua. and for generations were dispersed
along the Skirmish- line Of civilization remote
from the Puritans of the Bay, and shared nei-
Their in their glory nor in their shame. In
Webster was no admixtnre of ma
tionality, no crossing Of plebeian
with patrician blood. lie was genu-
inc son of the soil. though not, like Burns. of
soil alive with hundred generations of
the dead nor OF a soil like that about Bos-
| ton, every sod OF which was quckened
with associations touching the hearts and
| molding the characters of those born on it:
but OF a soil which his fathers football
was the first OF civilized man ever heard IN
| that silent wilderness. He was rustic vet
| with the marks of gentle blood in his shapely
hands and feet, his wellproportioned limbs,
| and his high-bred face OF no known type I'M
| like even his own brother, who was of Grecian
| form and face OF the Puritans neither hy
| birth nor by circumstances, he possessed few
| OF their virtues, and none of their defects
and least of all their indomitable provincial
| ity OF Thought and conduct. In this he stands
| quite alone among the public men of his day
in New England. His spirit of nationality
| appeared so early in life that 1t indicated
| character rather than education And the
| depth OF the sentiment appears from this
| that though born federalfst and from early
manhood associated professionally and So
| cially with some of the very able men proIni-
| nent in the "ESSX JuntOn and in the Hartford
| convention, he neither accepted their princi-
PIES nor initiated their conduct. At no time
was he a southern man or a northern man,
but to the end of his life national federallst
| after the fashion Of Washington.
In the Midway Plaisance of the world S fair.
says writer in the Septem Der Century, is
probably the greatest collection of fakes"
the world has ever seen. The proprietors
| thereof rejoice, however, in the proud title of
"ConcesStonaireS.S Whenever l grew tired
OF formal sightseeing would stroll down the
Pla1Sance (Which was so popular that every
body soon got the knack of pronouncing 1t
correctly to the Egyptian temple. Here was
the greatest fakir of them all am proud to
say he was an American. In Egyptian raj
ment he squatted in front of the temple and
delivered his speech as follows: This la
dies and gentlemen, is the temple of Luxor
the tomb OF Rameses II. You will find his
mummy about "a most delicious infection of
the voice on this word) the fifth one on the
right On the left the mummy Of King Solo