The morning news., 1894-10-11
ITEns OF INTEREST.

sists that there is Underlying MiuueapoIis
+ a never-failing river OF pure water. abun-
E city for all time
On the Island OF Tatihon, OF 81. Vast
I Ia Hougue. near CherbCurg. a marine la
ooratory has Just been established, with
accommOdauOns for thirty uaruralists
{ besides the director and his stan.
When the present congress expires
Z Senator Coke Of Texas viii retire for
good. having completed three terms Of
service he lives in Waco, where in 1s5o
he first hung up his attorneys sign.
Mrs Sterling. for years one Of England's
leading actresses. and who lost her hus-
band a few months ago, has found an
other. Sir Charles Gregory. whose age is
Identical with that Of the bride-T7 years.
A great change has come over Dead
wood, y. D, in recent years Its nOto-
rtety as a tough town is no longer de
served, for the good order now preserved
in the community would be crediLable to
New England factory town
They have clambakes nowadays as far
inland and as high above sea level as
Helena. Mont. and the promoter Of them
IS said TO be genuine Rhode Islander.
"a descendant Of Roger Williams, and
the image Of the Dorr rebellion
Search will be renewed for the "a so. coo
Of British guineas alleged TO have been
lost in l7s0 on the warship Hussar, in
Long Island Sound. A powerful sand
pump, working from q tug, kept station
ary regardless Of tides, Will be the agent
( myth or not.
Gas companies in Brooklyn encourage
the use Of gas by Offering a handsome
gas stove to every person that shall con-
sumo in given time SO worth Of gas.
The stove is worth al least twice as much.
Some OF the New York gas companies
! also undertake to supply gas stoves 10
householders and others.
When constructing a quay for the main
| canal at Hanau, an ancient Roman bridge
vr~gar in "a
/ the vicinity a large number OF Roman
] coins were discovered. The money Is one
! unbroken series Of all the enperors from
! Claudlus TO Antoninus Puls ana MS WIG
Faustina, the period covered being from
| A. D. IL to A D. 16l-
| Kaiser Wilhelm carries with him
small. but serViCeable revolver, either in
/ his pocket or his belt when he is in uni
| form. The threats of the anarchists have
( caused him TO have recourse to this meas
/ ure of security. His majesty is extremely
| skillful in the use of the weapon, and the
| chasseur who accompanies him every
/ where has had orders to inspect il every
morning.
! In prosecuting the excavations OF the
! Temple of Jupiter AnvuX, at TerTacina,
| many votive offerings have been disCov-
! cred. Jupiter Anvux was the guardian Of
/ children. Accordingly, among the offer
/ ings are numerous toys. generally made
/ out Of lead. There is miniature service
/ for a dinner many small dishes, with
| fish cast in them, and cooking utensils.
! The leaden toy did not then originate in
/ Nuremberg, but is the pretty legacy Of
/ past ages.
/ In France in the department of the
/ Rhone, some three fet under ground, two
/ remarkably fine marble statues Of the Ro-
/ man period have been discovered. The
! larger figure measures six and One-half
/ feet without the pedestal, and is typical
| of Rome. The head was found near the
| figure, but the arms are missing. At the
| feet of the figure there Is a shield and
! helmet. The other statue was of a head
! less child. The figures were found at the
/ foot of a wall which surrounded the ruins
! of an old palace believed to have been
! the residence of the Roman governors.
Meetings of learned societies are stnl be-
| ing held protesting against the construc-
/ ton of that dam in Egypt which will be
/ certain to destroy the ruins of Philae.
! These ruins, which are among the grand
/ est Egypt possesses, are conspicuous, as
| they stand on an island in the Nile, above
/ the First Cataract. Sir Frederick Leigh
! ton has taken a prominent position in
| protesting against this vandalism. Two
| plans have been proposed. One is to re-
move the ruins and to place them some
/ where else, and the other to raise the
] ruins above the level of the dam. To jack
! up the ruins, Sir Benjamin Baker says,
/ would cost 100000.
! There is a discord in the passenger Of
| fees of some of the Chicago railroads The
| Nickel Plate says that the Erie stole
| train load of soldiers which 1t was TO
/ forward to the east, and the Erie indig-
! naDLly QenleS the CndTge. II says IhaI one
| fine night it found this train in its Chi
! cago yards. The train was not tagged,
! nor way-billed, nor otherwise designated,
| but understanding that it was bound for
! Buffalo and the Erie, rather than let it
/ be delayed, hitched an engine to it, hur-
! ried it on to Buffalo, and promptly fired
! in a bill against the government The
! Erie people say that If anybody is at
/ fault in the matter it must be the Chicago
and Alton, which left the train in its
yard.
DR.. Louis Robinson, in the North
! American Review, studies the evolution
! of the primitive child. If the modern baby
! is fat and descends from an arboreal line
! age, why has it ''rotundity of outline?"
! How could a mother monkey, trying to
! escape from, say python, climb tree
| with a fat little monkey? The supposition
! is that babies are fairly fat in order bet
! ter to withstand loss Of sustenance at the
beginning of their lives. Then, at the
| commencement, when the primitive in
/ FAINT was lanky. there must have been an
/ enormous waste of life. Hence the sur
! Vival of only the chubby babies, and the
| constant elimination, by means of death
! from want, of thousands upon thousands
! of infants of the primitive simian type.
! Prof Mans Guide to Pompeii" Just
! published under the auspices of the Ger
! man Archaeological Institute in Rome,
! furnishes the fullest information regard
/ ing the entombed city Pompeii was first
/ settled by the Oscans, and "Pompe"
! meaning five, is an Oscan word. The city
! was wrested by the Samnites from the
I OSCanS about B. (. 42O. In B. &. 80 IT was
subjected to Roman rule, and became
! colony given over to the veterans of the
/ army. The titular deity was Venus Pom
/ peana. The city was built on a point Of
/ lava running out into the sea, and a cen
/ tury before Christ the sea was only /, 800
/ feet distant. The lava itself was made
| use Of and Pompeii did a thriving busi-
ness in millstones. Attracted by the
| beauty of the situation, aristocratic Ro-
! mans built houses and settled there. Pom
| peii in her most hourshng period, could
n nf ir,1, y
| tants After sleep of many thousands of
| years, suddenly the volcano was awak-
ened IN a. ~ % mere was a premonltory
/ stroyed The traces of this earthquake
| are visible to-day. 1t was the eruption of
| of more than six feet. 1t was shower
/ first of pumice stone, followed by ashes.
/ Prof Man is of the opinion that these
| remains of wood found are not carbon
! lied, but the changes visible are all due