The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-01
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persistent that a guard was put over the nc
cumulaiing pieces 81 wood. and the intention
: is 20 distribute them among the various mu-
seums throu Ehout the world The room being
repaired is especially looked after bv the
I lady rege nts representing New York state
young Baltimore lady who visited a MILL
ner's shop two months ago was appalled, on
reaching home after her shopping tour to dis
cover that she had lost one Of her thousand
dollar diamond earrings. There was much
weeping and many advertisements. The 9th
er day a lady residing in Alabama wrote to
the millinery firm that the bonnet which she
had purchased OF them had arrived safely
and that she was particularly well pleased to
lind a diamond entangled in the lace trim
mings. She concluded her letter by saying
she was anxious TO return the diamond to its
owner
The Christian Advocate tells this story:
cat the American chapel at Luzerne a pro
testant Episcopal minister from this country
dow church, read the lesson with such
naturalness OF manner and prOpriety of en-
phasiS as to elicit the admiration of a visitor
who afterward remarked, How delightful to
hear the Scriptures read with such sense and
feeling! She was surprised to hear the sis
ter OF lhlgn church, rector, American also,
eNcIalm 1 can agree with you. / think 1T
almost blasphemous for a man by such stress
and emphasis to impose his own interpreta-
ton on the Word of God. The Scriptures
should should be read in monotone
story teller of half century ago gave an
account of a terrible method which the west
ern Indians used in destroying the buffalo,
and one which mus have been the means of
Snuting out an inCalCulable number of lives
says the Detroit Free Press. The red hunt
ers. he said were wont to lie concealed in the
vicinity OF some high precipices and when
herd OF btsOns came roaming thither in search
of food they would send one or two braves
out among them, concealed in the eff1gy Of
buffalo and covered with it's head. hide and
| horns. The false buffalo being stationed be
| tween the herd and the precipice, the Indians
| would surround the herd, as nearly as posi-
| bic, and then rush from their concealment
shouting like demons. The animals being
| alarmed, and seeing no way open but in the
direction of the false buffalo, would run to-
ward it, and the false buffalo moving quickly
10 the edge OF the clin went over, but by some
| preconceiYed arrangement took refuge in
cave, cleft or shelf The leaders OF the herd
would pause on the brink seeing death be
lore them, but those behind could not see the
abyss, and would press madly forward, so
that those in front were forced TO leap to the
rocky ground hundreds of feet below, while
those behind were goaded forward by the
hunters until they became mad with fear and
followed in to the same end. The Indians
then selected as much meat as they wished
and left the rest to the wolves.
On the shores of Brittany there is mys-
FERROUS relic Of forgotten ages which escapes
the notice of most travellers. says the Million
Far out in the Morbhan sea-across which
legend tells US Arthur sailed with his knights
| in pursuit Of the dragon-rises a little island e.
II Chu Dt IbdCubu III u DOat from the coast
only in calm sea. a Breton shepherd has
solitary hut upon it and feeds a few sheep
| Crossing the grassy slope of which they
| browse the traveller finds himself at the foot
| OF hill, in the face of which has been exca-
| waited great tunnel or cave fioOred. walled,
| and rooted by huge fat rocks Some archasOl-
! ogists say that this cavern was the work of
! the worshipers OF the serpent god OF Hoa-a
! race that has passed into oblivion. The I'M
| learned traveller knows only that the mysteri-
! Gus cavern antedates all history that
! the rocks OF which it is built came from
/ the mainland, distance Of more Vhan 100
/ miles inland. No rocks Ike them make any
! part Of the geological formation of the island.
| Even with our modern engineering knowledge
| and machinery IL would require vast labor
| and skill to bring these enormous blocks of
stone and place them so securely as to defy
! the wear and friction of ages. How we're
| they brought here by men who had, perhaps
| few mechanical applauces-nothing but the
| strength Of their bodies and their faith in a
| strange god? The race who built the temple
| are dust. Even their names ages ago per
| ished from the earth Their religion is van
| ished. These stones are the monuments of
| their indomitable resolution. That defies the
| flight of years.
/ Amatus Lesitanus relates the case of a
monk who " ould faint on seeing a rose and
who never quilted his cell at the monastery
| while that flower was blooming. Orhla a
| less questionable authority, tells us. says the
| Philadelphia Press, how Vincent, the great
| painter would SwOOn upon going suddenly
| into room in which roses were poisoning.
| even though he did not see them. Valtaid
| tells OF an army officer who was frequently
| thrown into violent commissions by coming in
| contact with the little flower known as the
| pink. Orfila, our authority on the case Of
| Vincent, the painter. above related, also tells
| OF the case OF lady 46 years of age, hale and
| hearty, who, if present when linseed was be-
| ing boiled for any purpose, would be seized
! with violent fits Of coughing. swelling of the
| face, and partial loss of reason for the ensu-
| ing twenty four hours. Writing of these
| DepullaT SVmnathlpS and aVPr9innG
| talgue remarks that he has known men of I'M
| doubted courage who would much rather face
shower of cannon balls than to look at an
| apple. In ZlmmermanS writings there is an
account Of lady who could not bear to touch
| either silk or satin and who would almost
| faint If by accident she should happen to
| touch the velvety skin OF q peach Boyle re
| cords the case of a man VINO would faint upon
| hearing the swish" of q broom across the
| floor, and of another with q natural abhor-
| renee for honey. Hippocrates of old tells of
| OF Nicanor who would always swoon at
| hearing the sound of flute. Bacon the
| great EngliShman, could not bear to see a
| lunar eclipse, and always completely col
lapsed p0n such occasions, and Vaughelm,
| the grea. German sportsman, who had killed
/ hundreds of wild bOars, would faint If he but
| got glimpse of roasted pig.
Queer things come into newspaper Offices
| both on legs and on paper, says the Cleveland
Leader. The appended diSQuiSition is sofered
as sample of the latter, 1t came from an
occasional contributor who has more than
once proved that he has a remarkably keen
eye for eccentricities in the animal kingdom
His latest contribution to natural science
which he calls Chicken Hallucinations is
as follows: "A very peculiar phase of chick
en- phenomena was shown me to-day Visited
by request some farms east of Ashland o.
and on approaching the farm barnyard and
poultry house heard a chorus OF chickens
caokling that was composed OF both hens and
ROSTERS, cackling as II they had laid double
yelk eggs apiece, but many had been cackling
so long that they were voicing a dying cackle
and many had died in the continuous effort to
cackle externally, and their ghosts seemed to
cackle, for they we're stiff in death and in a
cacklinR attitude. II seems to be a disease
that is peculiar to chickens and very con
ia yious. They cackle violently ali day
and go to rOost at night still cackling
and then cackle all night long, and so con
tinue the next day as long as they are able to
sepulchral and so modulated by weakness
and death that the dead ones make refrain
that will never leave my ears. They live
from twenty four to thirty six hours, according
to the strength of the chicken and the violence
of its eCStatfc emotions. They appear TO die
in an old fashioned campmeeting trance and
/ expect to see the seemingly dead ones come
to life and oaCkle what they had seen and felt
in their trance, but left before they came
out of their hypnotic state, if II was not
death. Their combs became extremely red
as those of laying hens always do. They new
er seem 10 sing; 1t is always caclle an ov-
empowering hallucination, acting as if thew
had just laid an egg: and. like old hunters
and old soldiers and all lovefeast sisters they
never tire Of telling Of what they have done