The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-23
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streets less than forty feet broad
Diamonds occur in the United States in
two regions. One extends along the southern
base Of the Allegheny mountains from Vir-
Rinia to Georgia. the other on the western
side Of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges
In Northern California and Southern Oregon.
The thinnest iron sheet in the world has
within the past few weeks been rolled in
Swansea, Wales. 1t is twenty-five cent?
metres long and four; cen wide Its thickness
is exactly .OJ0O mlllmeter zone may get an
idea OF this thickness by comparing 1t to
that of silk paper. which is ordinarily ". mill
meter thick. Some iron manufacturers have
advertised that they make visiting cards of
thin iron plates. The longest steel chip Is
seventy-nine and one half meters long, and
was turned in New York
Lawson TAFT exonorates the human race
from the inputation of being the only crea-
lures that naturally take to drink Wasps
ne says. have the procltvity. Mr.. TAFT has
watched the waSps eagerly attacking over
ripe fruit when the sugar has in some degree
been converted into alcohol. Around such
fruits, especially rotten plumS and grapes,
the wasps may be zen fe h ing and struggling
for precedence, and afterwards. when they
are absolutely drunk with the spirit, they
crawl away in torpid condition and hide
themselves in the grass till they have slept
on the orgle.
There are at least two men living at the
present time who have boards over seven
feet in length, says the London Million. One
IS an EngllShman, Richard Latter, OF London,
who has beard ten feet in length. and the
other Is Lagrand Larow, OF Missouri, whose
heard IS upward OF seven feet long. If his
strength was in proportion to the length of
his hair, Larow would e an exceptionally
strong man. He is, however, unlike samson
in this respect. He is 6 feet high, IT'S pounds
IN weight and enjoys average health and
strength. He has not shaved his face for six
teen years. Some years ago Jewish trades
man at Odessa boosted of a beard eight feet
IN length. Strange to say. his extraordinary
beard caused him on one occasion TO be thrown
INTO prison. At an Oticial supper in st. Peters
burg a French lady told of her amazement
at seeing a Polish Jew with a beard hve
feet long An ex-governor who was present
declared there was Jew in Odessa VINO had
beard eight feet long. General incredulity
was expressed, whereupon the ex-governor at
once wrote to his successor a request, and
got it Endorsed by high oficlals. to send the
Jew at once TO the capital The governor
constituting this as an official order, had the
JoH clapped into irons and sent him to the
central prison for detained suspects" AS
no papers specifying his crime" came with
the unfortunate Jew, the project Of the
prison put him in detention as secret po-
lice suspect, and, as the rules required. he
was shaved clean. The lady had meanwhile
left the city, the eX governor had no interest
In shorn Jew. and at the end of year, no
complaint having been filed. the prisoner
vas released with a warning to behave him
self better in the future.
The conservatism in mans nature is con
spicuous in the face. He carries it about
with him and faunts it in the eyes of the rest
OF the world all his life, says the New York
Herald. WOman-poor. weak creature
changes with the seasons, wearing her hair
down her neck, up on top of her head. in
puHS, coils, curlS or pOmpadOur, as fashion
demands; but man, having passed his
younger days never changes. II side whis-
kers were in at the particular period when
his habits became fixed he sticks TO side
whiskers. If chin whiskers were the rule at
n hpu f- obi ,,r1,i eIye
for the rest of his life If he wore a full
beard at 25 or 30 then it is full beard to the
grave. II he shaved his upper lip or wore an
imperial ne VIII go on shaving his upper lip or
wearing an imperial for the rest of mis- days.
The mustache era IS not mCre plainly
stamped upon society than the chin VIII s
ker era typihed in the traditional Uncle
Sam" The whisker habit becomes fixed
when man is between % and 80 What
ever he wears during that period will in all
probability become part of his subsequent
life. He becomes remembered by his whis.
kers. They are part of his individuality.
Nobody thinks of him save through his
whiskers. Should he attempt to break
down the rule by having his whisBers cut on
or adopt some new fashion he will be re-
membered as he was, not as he is. just
as the newspaper portraits of Senator
voorhees, continue to give him his billy goat
adornment long after the latter has diSap-
peared Who could think of Blaine. Grant.
Harrison, Hayes, etc. and not the beard?
How old would Father lime look shaved
clean and wearing waXed musta .heg rhe
beard habit is just now struggling with the
mustache habit. There will be lots of gray
boards when the middle-aged men of to-day
become old.
Although the monuments and papyri give
us no direct information upon the subject of
the exodus, they do indirectly indicate a Ger
tain period within which it must have taken
place, says writer in Scribners Magazine.
Ihothmes Ill, who was the most powerful
king Of that dynasty tthe eighteenth which
finally drove the hyksos invaders out of
Egypt and reunited the whole country under
one Scepter extended his COnquestS as far as
MeSopOtama oyerruning Pa estin3 on his
way. He left lists of the Conauened nations
but does not mention the Israelites among
them. RameS9s H., of the nineteenth dy-
nasty, the supposed oppressor who
reigned about two hundred years later also
subdued Palestine and left lists of the
conquered peoples, but he again does not
mention the lSraelites among them What
is, perhaps. still more important is that.
while the IsraeIites have left records of in.
vaslOnS ty Mesopotamians Moabltes
Canaanites. Midianites and Phllistines,
they do not mention any invasion by the
Egyptians and the conclusion is that the
Israelites were not settled on the west side
OF Jordan till after the wars wa ged .by
kameses II. at the commencement of his
reign, which began not earlier than 1883
b. C., or, as some now say, 1866 B. C. 1t has
been attempted TO explain this difficulty
away by suggesting that RameSeS Il kept
close to the sea coast on his march throDph
Palestine and did not strike inland till he
was some distance to the north of the Israel
tiles but it is inconceivable that he should
not have secured his long line of communica-
lions by establishing posi- so far inland that
they must have been brought into contact
with the Hebrews if the latter had at that
time been settled in their own country. The
earliest date, therefore, at which the Fgyp-
ttan history will permit the exodus to have
taken place, even when full allowance is
made for the time spent by the Jews in the
wilderness and in conquering Palestine
would seem to be about 1430 B. c.. while
if the shorter chronology be adopted.
1t could not have been much earlier than
1900 B. C.
At special meeting of the Geographical
Society of Washington the other night, saws
the Globe Democrat, Carl Lumholtz delivered
a lecture on The Cliff-Dwellers of Mexico
Ihese natives, he said, are mostly Christians
but during the last few years there has been
a great decline toward barbarism there being
now, out OF the whole 10000 as many as 300
aSans. 1t is the opinion of most people he
SAID. who are not familiar with these people
that their caves are burrowed out of the
cllfS by their own hands, but nature has pro
vlded them with abodes in the sandstone,
winch are their homes in winter, the only arti-
hcla1 addition to these holes being stone walls
which they make themselves. building them
across the opening as barriers against in
vasion by their nelghbors these caves are
the winter residences. small, wooden huts
being used outside in summer A strange
custom OF these people, Mr.. LumhoItz said. Is
their reluctance to visit and their lack of
hospitality. 1t is considered a criminal