The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-15
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is the following Inscription: Here lyeth
inferred ye body of Mrs. Hope Chapman,
We wife of Elder John Chapman. aged As
Of January. 1888. -
According TO Stewart CuIin. the curator
OF the Museum OF Archaeology Of the Uni
Versity OF pennsylvania, foot ball origin
ated with those beginners Of everything.
the Chinese. Mr.. Culin is making an eX-
haustiVe study of games, ancient and
modern. and has curious and ancient
craving, showing a parsonage in the dress
OF prime minister, playing foot ball with
a kuge, or noble, and two of their cham
pertains. The time is somewhere in the
tehtn OF eleventh century. but long before
then the game was cultivated as an exer-
else suitable for the training of soldiers
About the eighth century it was introduced
INTO Japan, where it became very popu-
lar From these two countries it spread
over the entire world.
There are few articles of more common
use than sash weights, saws the New York
sun. y few windows are still made to be
held up with catches, just as there are
sun key-winding watches; but, like
watches, their number is prOportionately
so small as to be scarcely appreciable.
Sash weights are made of iron and lead.
me iron weights are comonly made of tin
scrap. Lead, being the heavier metal is
used in places where the weight space at
command is not sufficient for iron coun-
terbalances of the required weight Sash
Welgnts are made in regular sizes rang
ing from two pounds to thirty pounds,
and under two pounds and over thirty
they are made to order. Iron sash weights
OF tine regular sizes are always made
round; in sizes smaller or larger they are
cast square. Lead weights are made both
round and square in sizes. Sash weights
of $50 to 200 pounds are not common, but
they would not be considered remarkable.
Weights are sometimes made 300 pounds
up to 400 pounds. Thus there might be on
single sash window nearly half a ton of
weights, and on a two-sash window
more than three-quarters of ton. SO
perfectly balanced are weights and win
nnWC lowered
easily. Heavy weights are never put in
by guess, nor is 1t necessary to adjust
them after they are in place. The sash
is weighed before the counterbalances are
ordered and the weights are made of pre-
cisely the right proportion. The produc-
ton of sash weights depends upon the de-
gree of activity in building The total an
nual consumption in this country is prob
ably about 10000 tons. Weights are sent
with all sashes exported to South Amer
lea, Africa, or wherever they may go.
The aggregate weight of the counterbal-
ances used in many of the larger modern
buildings may be counted in tons. Thus
in such a building as the produce eX-
! change there are probably from sixty to
eighty tons of sash weights; in the Hotel
| Majestic more than forty tons.
When in Melbourne last year 1 went
carefully over all the dogs in show with
one of the stewards and we found the
spots in all back-and-tan terriers, 1oN-
hounds deer-hounds. collies, lurchers, etc,
but / could get no Information regarding
them from the experts, says a writer in
dogs, as the small black-and-tan terriers,
1 found, on inquiry, that these spots; FOR
merly so very conspicuous, were being
bred out and had nearly disappeared
| Their persistence, through so many strong
Unmarked varieties. except those Of late
date, is singular, for there is fairly good
proof that when first domesticated the
dog was red or bright brown, like the
pariah dingO, etc. AS far as / can see, we
do not find the spots white on a black or
| dark ground: nor vet black or dark on a
white or light ground. My explanation
is that they have arisen as a permanent
marking after the dogs 'sported" to black
under domestcation. and have been pre-
! served and developed through natural Sc
lection. Possibly they are protective and
simulate eyes. One morning at Asam
just at dawn. had occasion to go out into
the garden, and while STOPPING to examine
some flowers near a fence partly covered
with creepers. | suddenly saw an animals
head looking through and what seemed to
be two black and seemingly large eyes
glared at me. Suspecting that black
over, 1 started back, clapped my hands
and shouted To my relief, however, /
saw tail wag, and found that the spec
tator was coolie S dog knew very we'll
and which recognized me. The use of the
tan spots-in this case at least-then Oc-
Cured to me. May it not be that the
spots thus serve a protective purpose and
have often saved the lives of dogs (black
dogs) from their enemies, the smaller
felnes, such the clouded leopard. etc?
Perhaps the matter is not new. but if it is
it seems worth looking into 1 have sew
eral dogs with black bodies and heads
The tan spots, rather pale, are of the size
of a shilling. have shot one keeping the
skin of the head a curiosity.
baldheaded man would hesitate be-
fore following Sir John Mancrieff's ad-
vice to make a lee of the burnt ashes of
doves dung and wash the head we'll" al
there is some consolation in learning that
the same beneficial results would accrue
from using "the ashes of little frogs"
says the Gentlemans Magazine. The hair
according 10 this authority, may be
1I1a ad To int nxrr efr ef,
lotion composed of the ashes
of the Ivy plant Ladies who
sigh for a fair complexion may Sc
washing the face with the distilled water
of snails;" and the application of liver
whole face well coiored. Should the nose
unfortunately bleed, and the familiar rem
edy of thrusting a bunch of keys down
t9e t hack desired 81 the res1 meek tf fail
the assured styptlc is to put into the nos
trils mixture of the hair of hare and
vinegar: Sir John bears testimony: 81
| myself know this to be the best of any
thing known" Blood flowing from a cut
may be instantly stanched by simply hold
cows blood into the wound. The reader
will be apt to remark that neither of these
is handy remedy for such an emergen-
cy. An ointment made of earthworms
will cure paralysis if the affected parts be
anointed with the compound. Sleepless-
ness, so common an ailment in our own
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to ST. John, by applying living
| creatures to the head to dissolve the HUI
NOR" and Sir John narrates that for
measles many keep an eve or wedder in
their chamber or on the bed because
these creatures are easily infected and
draw the venom to themselves by which
| means some ease may happen to the sick
person" In similar manner, if the
trouble be, collie, live duck or frog ap-
piled to the part draws all the evil to
itself and dies" Epilepsy may be pre-
vented by wearing a girdle of VOLTS
skin Should any one have been so neg
ligent as to omit this necessary precaG-
ton, powder of mans bones burnt.
chiefly of the skull that is found in the
EARTH cures the epilepsy; the bones of a
man cure man, the bones of woman
cure woman" Lethargic individuals
should follow the sage Moncrief's advice: |
Burn the whole skin of hare with the
ears and nails the powder thereof. being
| given hot, cures the lethargy perfectly"
Deafness may be removed by pouring a
mixture of onion juice and ants eggs into
the ear and 'the blood of a wild goat
given to 10 drops of carduus water doth
| powerfully discuss the pleurisy"