The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-31
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said to be the oldest Episcopal clergyman in
the United States took part the other day IN
the httleth anniversary exercises OF the Bat
tie Creek, Mich Episcopal church. he IS
clear and resonant
A writer in the Boston Budget says;
I Scarcely week passes in any year that
human lives are not jeopardized by horses
taking fright and running away. In Russia
horse addicted TO the habit OF running away
mas thin cord with running moose around
his neck at the neck strap. and the end is tied
to the dashboard At Rome I saw in the
Corso phaeton with two spirited horses bolt.
1hey were driven by lady. and expected
to see instant destruction. But the lady
coolly grasped thin cord, and within thirty
yards the horses came to full stop
The other morning when I was taking a
walk before breakfast said citizen of New
York. Il saw on the curbstone in front of a
mouse ahead, a box hlled with the ordinary
refuse OF kitchen, but on top OF it was about
quarter OF loaf of bread-the crusty end Of
a square loaf which even from where I was
could see looked all right; it might be stale,
out II looked nice, and 1t seemed a pity 10
waste II. But. dear me, it wasn't wasted.
Even nile was looking at it, man ahead
OF me whom had not noticed particularly
before, and who was now Just passing the
box reached o4t and picked up the quarter
Ioal ana cropped ltlnto his POCKET, all with
out stopping
without risk during this torrid weather is a
question of no small importance A writer in
lne New York Press gives some directions
Whlch may prove practical: Nothing is bet
yer TO hold pieces of ice in the palm of each
maud wrapped In ordinary brown paper. The
ice meIts slowly and the blood in the palms
Is close 10 the surface. Another excellent
tnlhg Is the ice collar, an invention OF my
own Whlcn mas often prevented congestion
OF the brain Take rubber tube an inch in
diameter, I'LL it with cracked ice and Join it
WIN screw nut around the neck. 1t is hid
den oy the collar has little discomfort, is
and clear"
How much should a may eat in week? The
appetite demands of the constitution for
great or small supply of physical strength,
determined by the employment and habits of
the person, will possibly always serve as
the best guide. But it is interesting TO note
the recently printed directions of a dis
tinguised English physician, Sir Lyon Play
fair, who says: The necessary food for
healthy, vigorous person for one week need
be more than three pounds of meat, with one
pound of tat, two ordinary loaves of bread,
one ounce of salt and five pints OF milk or
for the meat five or six pounds of oatmeal
may be substituted" This sounds like
starvation; but the directions come from a
very wise specialist whose judgment may not
be doubted.
The London Daily News says that the
stone marking the grave OF Robert Browning
in Westminster Abbey, will shortly be re-
placed by a beautiful piece of Italian alabas-
! ter. carved with the English rose and the
| Florentine lily lnterlaced Mr. Barrett
| Browning has furnished the design. which is
| being wrought IN Florence. The name Of the
| poet ana the date OF his birth and death will
| be the only inscription on the alabaster.
ASolo, the beautiful city, that is the setting Of
| 'Plppa Passes and which tho first
| Italian town Mr.. Browning visited in his
| youth is now the headquarters of d lace
| manufacture and school started by Mr. Bar.
| rett Browning in memory Of his father. 1t
! had been the dream Of the poet to see ASolo
| once more busy center OF the silk weaving
! industry, as 1t was when he first saw It, A
! large silk factory at a few miles distance
made the realization Of this dream impossi-
| pie, ana 10 bring back the stir of activity in
! the homeSleads of the hamlet among the hills,
! the poet ) son has organized and started this
/ lace manufacture.
| "A funny thing, not intended to be funny
occurred when I was in England, said gen
| tleman, according to the Chicago Record.
| who was the guest of Willis Rice the other
| day. Il had met a number of Americans, and
! as was more familiar with the various ave
nueS OF pleasure than they / became their
! most. Iney were to do whatever l said.
| invited themto coaching party and dinner
! at st. Adams. knowing something about
| English ideas and dinners, ventured to sug-
! gest to d friend that he telegraph the man
! ager OF the house where we were to dine that
! we would be there at a certain hour; that the
! party was purely Uncle sam and out for fun
! and to urge the propriety Of getting up nice
! dinner. My suggestion was followed and at
! the hour named we all sat at table in the old
| English tavern. 1 noticed that there was
! bowl Of cracked ice at each guests plate and
eachguest, must say, made the best and the
! most or IT.. Americans are great people to
| eat cracked ice. But here was surplus and
! there threatened to be a repetition of it, |
| called for the manager and said to him that
| II was all right. but there had evidently been
| a misunderstanding somewhere. The man.
! ager said he had acted literally on orders In
| proof OF his he produced a telegram sent up
| from London, 1t read: Dinner at 6 for ten
! All Americans. Have plenty of ice NV
! London friend had got my idea for a nice
| dinner and the Americans love for ice
| mixed
Some very odd things are come across by
the ornithologists who are engaged in exam
lining the stomachs OF various kinds of birds
for the purpose OF ascertaining what they eat
and how much of the crops they DESTROY In
! the stomach of a crow was found a warbler
/ say. the Boston Transcript The stomach of
| the warbler contained a caterpillar and
! traces OF the vegetation on which the latter
| had fed were clearly diScerned under the mi.
| croscope. Another oddity discovered in the
stomach of crow was a rubber elastic band
which had evidently been picked up by mis-
! take for worm. once in a while bedbug is
| found in the stomach of a woodpecjSer
| Doubtless the IN se3ts are got from pine trees.
! Pine cones aIc often infested by bed bugs
which must have lived on those trees LONG no,
| fore they became human parasites Ticks
| too, which likewise breed on trees, are discov-
/ cred occasionally in birds stomachs. though
| so rarely as to suggest that the feath-
cred creatures are afraid of them
and would avoid them as a rule The
insects in a BIRDS stomach are ordi-
nartly counted by their Jaws. For example
caterptllers have soft bodies which are
| quickly digested. leaving their laws to he
gradually ground up and disposed of in the
glZZard. The jaws OF beetles, caterpillers
and grasshoppers are made of one Of The
most enduring substances in nature being
nearly as hard as the teeth Of mammals
Iney are very Characteristic so that the diff.
ference may readily be told between those of
cricket. a grasshopper, locust. etc The
Jaws found in the stomach of a bird are
counted and divided by two viii IN gives the
number cf insects represented. Cuckoos are
the only birds that eat hairy caterpillegs so
| far as Is known he horny Innings of their piz-
yards are sometimes found so thickly perfor-
ated by the sharp and strong hairs of these
insects as to be actually fuzzy" when dried
Not long ago crow from OREGON was EXAM
ined whose digestive apparatus contained a
beetle of a species so rare that the specimen
would have been worth Sl5 if it mad been in
gooo condition.
In previous installment of Notes for the
Curious says writer in the St. Louis Re.
public undertook the task of giving theo
retical birds eye view of the conditions which
are supposed to exist Seven Hundred Miles
Above Your Head. The study Incident tn
the compilation of such an article naturally