The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-15
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THAT Paris is favored as a medical center s
evidenced in the statistics of last year, showing
the Faculte de Paris to have had 9.2l5 students
in attendance as compared with 6 ,220 at Vienna
and ,527 at Berlin; and OF those at Paris more
than three-fftns were of foreign birth The
foreign student or practitioner going TO
Paris to supplement or complete his studies
generally seeks some specially. either Of medi-
cine, surgery, acceuchment or some depart
ment of laboratory work The whole resources
OF the Faculte De Paris. the hospitals and the
numerous laboratories. and those of the Sor-
bonnie, the museum and the College of France
are open to him free of any and all charges
even tor material consumed.
EVERY oNE has noticed, says the Cincinnati
Commercial. that when q spiders web is
touched the insect will violently shake the web
up and down, but few probably aware OF
the reason for this curious action. The spider is
well provided with eyeS, but its sight is very
limited. so much so, in fact, that II fly is
caught in the web and lies perfectly still the
spider will often be unable to find it for a con
siderable time. When in doubt as to what quar-
ter of the web the prey had lodged on the spider
Away shakes the weO and determines by the
resistance the whereabouts Of the game It
does SO, too with almost infallibe accuracy as
any one who has the curiosity to make the eX-
pertinent can determine, for in the great ma
lority of cases, after the spider has given its
web a good shaking, it will start Off on a run
directly to the point where the intruder is
lodged
BoNAPARTE having on his departure for the
island of Elba promised his confidential friends
to return in the violet season, his adherents
adopted the above simple flower as a r0llying
signal, says an old English paper. Corporal
Violet became their favorlte toast, and each
was distinguished by gold ring with violet
in enamel and the motto Ellie reparaltra au
prtntems.' 1t will appear again in spring.
AS soon as it became generally known that he
had landed at Freius a multitude of the
women of Paris were seen with baskets full of
these flowers, which were purchased and worn
by his friends without exciting the least sus-
picon- IL was customary on MEETING any
thus decorated to ask "Aimes vous la Violette?'
do you like the violetJ when, if they answered
"Oui," ives, it was certain the party was no5 a
confederate But if the reply was "Eh bien."
twell,) they recognized an adher mt and com
pleted the sentence, Ellie reparaitra au prin-
tems,'
IT used to be an amusement and also a duty
to me to try and show the animals to native
gentlemen when t. ey came from their country
seats to visit Calcutta, aud | invariably invited
them TO come with me to see the Zoo, saws q
writer In LongtnGn's Maddztne. l think that
the glratfeS puzzled them most. One fine old
Hindu nObleman, with whom | have many
time been out tiger shooting on his own prop
erUy, suggested that the giraffe wa a new sort
OF tiger, but he was comforted and convinced
when he saw them eat the branch of a tree
from my hands. wish that he could have been
present to witness a performance by this
pair OF Riraffes, which ! did not see myself,
| ford saw it and told me of it. On the morning
| Of the queens birthday Beresford was riding
| past the giraffe inclOsure when a feu de ioie
was fired by the soldiers OF native infantry re-
| glment. whose quarters arc not far distant from
| the Zoo. At the first round of the firing the
CRATES were startled. When the second round
| came they took to their heels ami jumped
clean over the fence Of upright gurran or water
! sticks about ten feet high, that surrounded
| their Enclosure. When the third round came the
! graties were SO puzzled that they turned round
arafu
| refuge III the house in which they wer8 | dyed
! at night. 1t is great pity that a sportsman
! and rider ike Lord William Beresford, who saw
| this strange sight, had not mount on one Of
| the Siraffes.
CURIOUS TEST has bsen made at the Erie
basin breakwster says the Brooklyn EdOIe.
to discover the body of Second Engineer John
| Tweedell, who is supposed to have been drowned
| late on Wednesday night while crossing the
! gangplank from the British ship Avon TO the
string piece. The test sayors strongly of the
! days OF Wltchcraft and the middle ages and
although it produced queer results, the body
| has not been recovered 50 far. A portion OF a
! loaf OF bread was cut out In plug form and
some quicksilver poured into the cavity the cir.
cular plug replaced and the loaf thrown into the
water. fierce wind was blowing and the tide
was running out strongly at the time but
neither seemed to affect the loaf, which
Ryrated and finally settled over tho
| place where the missing man is said to have
! fallen In. The loaf remained station
| airy until the action of the water melted it and
! the quicksilver fell out, when it drifted away
Although some seafAring men believe firmly in
the test, it did not work successfully In this
case, but the action of the loaf in remaining in
one place despite wind and tide was very re.
msrkable. The quicksilver test is said to be
! good one and is supposed to be governed by
1 electric or magnetic action, and the Mon who
saw the trial in this case claim that the bread
moved against both wind and tide. When the
| carpenters Of the Red D steamship Valen-
! cha was drowned in the basin last summer this
test was successfully used to find out the Ioca-
ton of the body.
| BIARNEY castle was founded about 1850. A.
-! D., by Cormaok MacCarthy, surnamed the
Strong the lord OF Muskerry and chief of a
younger branch o ( that great MacCarthy fam
lily who once ruled all Cork and for many years
waged fierce, but according to the Pittsburg
Dispatch, not always successful contest for its
possession with the Saxon invader. In the
struggle the lords Of Muskerry took an active
part and shared both the triumphs and defeats
of their illustrious kindred, their stronghold
or Barney being several times lost and regained
by them. It was captured in 1902 bv Queen
| F5lizao eth's troops, but restored to its
owner, MacCarthy, who was created Viscount
MuskerTy. In l0i2the Earl of Orrery captured
and retained It until 1858, when the then
Lord MusEerry, who had been made Earl
OF Clancarty, received it back. The la I
Earl Of Clancarty espousod the caus3 OF the
Stuerts, took up arms in behalf OF James H.
and followed that unhappy prince iuto exile,
after his defeat. The possessions being for
feited, William of Orange granted the estate of
Barney to Sir George Jefereyes, In whose
family It still remains. AS stated previously,
the castle was erected in 1850, the date being
inscribed upon q stone in the wall of the tower
near its summit The stone also bears the
name Of Cormack macCa rthy, the founder Of
the fortress. This is the stone kno8 to fame
as the "BlarneY stone" its SUI posed power
of parting the gift of persuasion and facility
Of LANGUAGE to any person who shall kits II, has
been often described and extoued in prose and
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