The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Presbyterian church at Birmingham, Ala,
Is to be invited to the pulpit Of the Central
! Presbyterian church OF Baltimore, made
/ vacant by the resignation Of Rev. Joseph L.
I Smith.
Two members OF the family Of Alice and
Phoebe Cary are still living on the old Clio
vernOok farm, about nine miles from Cincin
| natl. They are TWO brothers Of the poeteSseS,
Asa and Warren, who are respectfully y and
/ 6o years of age.
! A German computation of the Jewish popu-
lation makes the number Of Hebrews on the
face Of the globe 100000, of whom 6sO0000
4 are found in Europe. There are stil 360000O
1 In Russia and $50 900 in Austria. The Jewish
/ population OF Turkey, including Syria, Is only
Recent statistics show that while mission
| airy societies in this country have 300 mis-
sionaries, II ,256 native helpers, and 1885,
/ communicates. the societies OF Great Britain
] have 4 252 missionaries, q, 600 native helpers,
1 ana 34yl communicates, and that the IN
] come OF the former is 81 ,9S35l6, and OF the
/ latter s. 9O4,152.
| At Hartford young couple, evidently
| newly married, boarded train, the motion Of
/ which made the man, who had been drinking
| heavily. quite sick. When he had settled into
| a sleep the disguised bride took an envelope
/ from ms coat pocket, wrote brief note on
! the blank side Of an old letter. drew ring
| fIom her finger and inclosed it in the note,
| and then left the train.
! The Orthodox church of Russia possesses
enormous wealth. 1t is claimed that it could
easily pay the 81 900 100000 which constitute
! the national debt Of Russia, and yet not i'm
pUverish itself. One of its sources of income
| Is the sale Of consecrated candles. The cathe-
| oral of kasan in St. Petersburg has sold as
many as 93,U92 consecrated wax candles at
! prices ranging from three kopecks to a ruble
! apiece
Col Albert A. Pope, Of Boston, will soon is
sue volume containing list of all the errors
| in school books to which attention has been
| called through the publicity invited by Col
J Pope. They number thousands. and it is said
| that some Of the publishers who are hardest
/ hit are fighting hard to prevent any further
| publication of the facts. The list of errors
! which have been transmitted to. one school
book publishing house aggregates over LOO.
A. Conan Doyle in letter to the London
Chronicle in which he defends prize-hghting,
! recalls several cases of heroism displayed by
| p gtlists. One of the most striking is that of
| shaw, the Life Guardsman on the battlefield
OF Waterloo The Homeric combat IN which
Shaw and Col. Kelly fought back to back is
| now matter of history, and it is said that
| ten llncers and cuirassiers were cut down by
| him before he was shot. Had he lived he
| would no doubt have held the champion belt
| of England,
A sixteenth amendment to the national
constitution is proposed and will come before
this congress. 1t reads as follows: NO state
| shall pass any law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer-
else thereof, or use its property or credit, or
any money raised by taxation, or authorize
either to be used for the purpose of founding,
maintaining or aiding, by appropriation, pay
ment for services, expenses. or otherwise, any
church, religious denomination, or religious
society. or any institution, society, or under
taking which is wholly, or in part, under sec
tartan or ecclesiastical control
Although julius Caesar is still highly re-
spected in New England, his Common
taries," as means of teaching boys Latin,
are now treated with SCant respect by MANY
| prominent New England teachers. The
Gallo War" it is declared, is a military
history and nothing observation-disclosures,
| wanting in literary charm. and, after a time
| dreadtully wearisOm. One Of these teachers.
Mr.. David Y. Comstock, thinks it a ser o IS
objection to the first four books of the cal
| lie War" and the four "Orations against Gait
line that there are but two sentences in all
the four books and four oratiOns viii h have
| in them anything that savors of a Joke or a
pun. or anything humorous or anything that
would appeal 10 boy S sense Of fun or wake
him up.
The style Of dogs has changed, says the
New York Press The King Charles spaniel
which took the place of the despised pug
was in turn supplanted by the bull terrier
and for long time the bullet heads and beet
| ling Jaws OF these canine marauders were dan
| gerously conspicuous. Now the Chihuahua
dog has glided caressingly into the affections
OF the modlsh young woman, and is to be seen
on pleasant mornings. muf1ed in fur lined
blankets gamboling blithly toward the park
This new species of canine has a head like a
| deer, Its limbs are fragile and graceful and
| its movements incredibly swift. 1t is verv in
tellgent and affectionate, but so sensitive to
cold as to make it an object of constant soil
| tude. girl VINO can keen Chihuahua dog
alive for two seasons could conduct with per
feet success private sanitarium for INDECENT
| husbands.
The superstitious is the natural" said
Dwight Wilkinson, of New York, to the cor
ridO Of Tl,a
St. Louis Globe Democrat. In a state of an
solute nature, man is governed almost en-
t1rely by his superstitions, and il is only when
| culture diSplaceS this with another form of
superstition called reason that it is lessened
while no amount of education will cause it to
disappear entirely. although it may cause the
individual to deny its existence. AS knowl.
edge Is bounded by very narrow mental
| horizon the most familiar objects such as the
life we live, the death we die, the air we
breathe and the water we drink being mvste-
rious, and their source, their true
nature and their ultimate end being
unknowable, superstition must begin
fable, dignihed by the. name Of metaphysics
or philosophy what we lack in understanding.
A man may laugh at the dropping of a dish
rag, the sUilling of salt. the settling of coffee
grounds, the boot Of the owl or the cbirDino
of the cricket, which all bear omens to others;
he may have no objection to wearing a tOpaz
or beginning journey on Friday he NAV
view the moon over his left shoulder with the
utmost equanlInity; the numbers Z and IL
may bear no more significance than anv
others to his mind-but down deep in his heart
there are superstitions. He may try to CON
vince himself that there are reasons but il
requires an important element Of superstition
to make realities reasonable"
Psychologists and lovers of athletics NAV
be interested in recent experiments and re-.
searches Of n French artillery captain. M de
Raoul who, some fifteen years ago. began to
| try and ind out the most economical and
| least trying way of walking. There are MANY
manners Of walking says the Popular Science
| News, some OF which are much devoid of
grace. but 1t may be supposed that as far as
| efficiency Is concerned one must be better
than the others. NJ de Raoul has come to the
conclusion that, as far as fast walking is con.
| cerned. the best method is that which he calls
marche enfexion. The principle is to RIM
! without leaplng, to raise the body above
ground as little as possible, to keen the knees
bent, the upper part of the tody inclined for
ward, so that practically you are always run
ming after your center of gravity The feet
must be raised only very slightly M
de RaOul who has now some wears Of
experience, says that he can now take any
man between 20 and 60 and teach him to RIM
as long as his legs can carry him without get
ting out of breath Some men can. on The
very first trial Of the method. run seven or
eight miles without stopping, while with the
ordinary tactics, they could not have run over
one mile. The first kilometer IA kilometer il
| tiVe-elghtS of mile) is usually oo,-oro5