The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A sharp advertiser who offered for a
/ small sum to supply women with cheap
! substitutes for hat pins has been arrested
| in Boston for misusing the mails. He sent
/ two rubber bands to each inquirer, with
/ the advice. Sew one end to the hat and
| fasten the other behind one of your ears"
John D. Losekamp of Billings. Mon,
/ practically holds the elk-tooth stock of
the entire country, and to his already
| enormous supply he is constantly adding,
tne INDIANS and hunters bringing teeth to
MIN from all over the country, says the
torest and Stream. Not every one knows
/ that the elk teeth, or rather the tusks of
/ which two only are found in the mouth of
/ the adult elk, have a practical commercial
| value. The teeth are used as jewelry,
/ mostly as pendants on watch guards, or
| as insignia OF the secret society known
/ as the Elks. The value of a tooth ranges
| from 80 cents to $3.50 according to its
size color ana marking. Mr.. Losekamp
has now over 5000 elk teeth deposited in
/ safety vaults. Many of the old Indian
! dresses were highly Ornamented with elk
! teeth, some of them being fairly covered
! with the teeth. Mr. LOsekamp has lived
| on the frontier all his mature life, and
| understands Indian trading perfectly. yet
| ne mas sometimes paid over 500 for a sin
! gle garment thus ornamental caring of
| course, for nothing but the teeth. The In
| dams drill the teeth to fasten them on
| their dresses. and this does not injure the
! value of the tooth, but they have a much
| worse habit Of sometimes staining the
| teeth a bright red. This dye cannot be
extracted, and depreciates the value of the
| elk tooth for a white customer. The In
teeth much
| since they have learned they can sell
| them Tor more in their natural state.
Prior to the year 646 a. D., says the
| 81. Louis Republic, the japanese had one
| Oh the most horrible burial customs that
| can be tmagined-that of burying all the
! immediate friends and retainers of a
| prince or other person of note in stand
ing poSltlon around the pOtentates grave
| and leaving them in the earth up to their
necks to perish of thirst and hunger. The
custom cannot be said to have been gen
I as 10 Ia a oiNr f0T- fba
| japanese records prove that in the time
OF the emperor SUNNI (97-30 B.CO, the
| burial rites of royal personages were so
! modlned as to partially abolish former
| cruelties. Speaking of a young brother
| OF SUNNI, who died and had his retinue
| buried standing around his grave, the old
record says: For many days they died
| not, but wept and cried aloud. At last
they died. Dogs, and crows assembled
ana ate Off their heads. The emperor's
! compassion was aroused, and he desired
| 70 change the manner of burial. When
the empress died, soon after the ,mikaddo
! inquired of his officers if something III
| the way of change could not be sug-
| gested' and one proposed to make clay
| hgures of men and bury them as Substi-
| tutes" That this did not entirely do
| away with the former custom is proven
| by an edict issued in the year GAG A. D.
| (the date given first above), which forbid
| the burial of living persons around the
| graves of noted persons and provides a
| awful rite.
A curiosity which has just been ex-
| hibited before the Austrian Horticultural
| and Agricultural Society at Vienna, and
| which has attracted great attention from
! Scienthc men, is a hive of bees that has
| two queens. Heretofore it has been looked
| upon as an established TACT, which could
| no. be called in question by the most
| skeptcal, that each community of bees
| was distinguished by it's ultra-monarch-
ical principles and its loyalty to one queen.
! The members of the hive would never
| hear of a pretender, still less a dwumvi-
| rate or tr1umvirate, and any attempt to
| bring about such a change in their po-
| 1itical system would have produced a
| revolution. But the lawful queen herself
| would not allow things to go to any such
! ext remes. The moment a rival presented
| herself she would, speaking figuratively,
! attack her tooth and nail, and the duel
| would end only in the death of one or
| both. In this Austrian hive, however,
| the TWO queens get along together in
| perfect accord. One of the greatest au-
| thorlues on agriculture, DR.. DZlerzon,
whose name is favorably known through
! out the world in connection with several
! ingenious inventions for the comfort of
bees, sat for hours at a stretch observing
| the conduct of the two queens. They
! approached each other from time to time
| without the slightest antpathy, and on
two or three occasions actually caressed
each other most tenderly, and then sep
| arated quietly and peacefully, followed
By their devoted suite.
An interesting bit of treasure trove has
| been unearthed at Hackney, says the Lon
| don Telegraph. While some laborers were
digging in plot of land in Daubeny
| Road Hackney, one of them turned up
with his pick glittering ring, which he
took to pawnbrOker's in ChatSworth
Road, for the purpose of converting it
into honest coin of the realm The as
slstant saw that 1t was an article of great
value and sent for a constable, to whom
the laborer told the story of how he found
! IT. AS his narrative was found to be true
IN every detail nothing more was said to
him, but the ring was retained; and in or
der. to ascertain its historical value the
article was submitted to Mr.. Reed, as
sistant curator of the British museum
! who, having carefully examined it
thought it was probably one of the six
teen rings which Sir Edward Shaw. gold
smith and alderman of the city of London
directed in his will in 1887 to be made as
amuletS, or charms against diseases
chiefly cramD. Mr., Reed added that the
ring was similar in almost every respect
to a much larger one in the museum
which was discovered at Coventry in
1902. The figures on the outside represented
The CrucihXion, the Virgin and Child"
and probably) st. John" An inscrip-
ton, also on the outside runs 1.-THE Wen
of Pity the Well of Mercy. the Well of
| Comfort, the Well of Grace, and the
Well of Everlasting Life" The treasury
authorities nave been communicated with,
and probably the ring will find a perma-
nent resting place at the British museum.
A new sport has been discovered at
Catalina Island that promises to become
extremely popular, says the Los An
geles Herald. Yesterday Mr.. Hancock
Banning took a party of friends among
whom were Mr.. Melus, Mr.. Smurr and
several others, the object being to shoot
flying fish on the wing, which was sup
posed to be an extremely difficult thing
to do. The launch Linda carried the
party, and as she rounded Sugar Loaf
Rock Mr.. Mellus sat on the forward deck
with hammerless shotgun and with n
lot of cartridges filled with No. shot,
supposed to be the right thing for the
new game The little steamer rushed
along down the coast and when off the
sec ond canon up flew big flying fish its
wings scintillating in the sunlight lis
blue body flashing looking for ali the
world like, an enormous dragon fly. 1t
dashed ahead for twenty feet then
turned, exposing its side, when the shot
gun spoke, and the flying fish seemed to
rise into the air and was bowled over
as neatly as a quail on the wing Hardly
had the report died away when another
arose and dashed straight ahead, but Mr.
Mellus took it skllfully, dropping il at
long range with the other barrel Be
tween here and Whites landing twelve
flying fish We're flushed" by the boat ten
of which We're shot on the wing makin1r
most exciting sport, as the fish were
dashing through the air with all the We
Of a ph ba