The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Nearly all the residences in Thompsonville
Conn, bear fanciful names, such as Doves
Retreat " The Bats Den. - 'Cuckoos Nest
Jim Hickey ROost" and Apple Blossoms. 81
one prominent man in the town. whose house
oVerlooks dam. threatens to follow the fac
Dy calling his place The Dam Site
Did you ever hear of wood being used fol
food:' inquired Amion L. Vandervate. Of
Pensacola, Fla. last evening. y Travelled
| rather extensively through Siberia a few
years ago, and found that among the natives
along the northern coast wood in a certain
form Is most common and constant article
OF diet The natives eat it because they like
IT, Even when FISH are plentiful it usually
forms part OF the evening meal as many
| cleanly stripped larch logs near every hut
testify These people know by experience
that the fact of their eating wood arouses the
| sympathy OF strangers, and shrewdly use IL
10 excite pity and to obtain gift OF tea and
toDacco they scrape OF the thick lay
ers Immediately under the bark Of the log
ano cnopplng 1t fine, mix il with snow. It IS
tnen boiled In kettle. Sometimes little
| nsh roe, milk or butter is mixed with it,
The waters of Cape Horn have never been
unvisited by storms for more than a week or
| two at a stretch within the memory Of man.
says Pearsons Weekly. Standing on the
outpost Of the world, Cape Horn is the meet
| ing place OF ocean currents of very different
| temperatures, from the icy cold waters Of the
| AnJarctlc drift to the warmth of the Brazil
Ian and Peruvian return currents The pre-.
| vailing winds are from the northwest and
| west, and these, coming from the warm re-
glonS OF the Pacific, condenSe into fog ),
which the sailors call Cape Horn blankets, -
and which are the sure forerunners of storms
| The extremely low level to which the glaciers
| OF TERRA del Fuego descend. the perpetual
congelatton Of the Subsoil, the meeting of con
ticting winds at very different temperatures,
are all direct or indirect causes combining to
m AXE this the most constantly stormy re-
glon in the world.
/ A ia
ance in Russia He is now at Moscow. where
he has been creating intense excitement. He
calls himself Anthony the Wanderer," and
has with him female devOtee, said to be a
noble lady He is an elderly man, a native OF
| TobolSk. and was a prosperous tradesrnan
there till thirty years ago when he suddenly
| gave all his clothes to beggar and started
on his pilgrimage barefooted. He has never
been shod since, and to make the thing more
| blndlng he has had an iron collar of fifty
| POUNDS weight fastened with a book on his
| shoulders and belt of thirty pounds on his
| waist, and threw the keys OF both into the Arc
| tic ocean. He has borne these burdens ever
! since. He has been getting prodiglous rep
| utatlon in Siberia and Eastern Russia all
| these years, which preceded him to Nose ow.
| His mission is to raise money. which he pur-
| poses to devote to putting bells in churches
| and building church editices and so forth.
| The peasantry swarm, wherever he goes with
| copper offerings, while the BETTER class give
| him tens of thousands of roubles
i IL saw d NOlS sing uldI wager SbLGl6u Wull6
at Hot Springs recently" said Edwin L.
| Cummings, TO a st. Louis Globe Democrat
| writer. several of US were IN the warm
| room after bath. and some one remarked
| mppantIy that 1t must be very handy living
| at Hot Springs, because a kettle could Re
| boiled in a few seconds by aid of the water,
| which is often as hot as 1902 at the springs
| One OF the attendants, who had evidently
tried the experiment, offered to bet 81 that
| cold water taken from the river would boil
| sooner than water from a faucet directly over
/ a hot spring. He had half dozen takers at
| once and the wager was decided then and
| there. Two tin mugs of equal size were OBJ
| tanned and boy sent out to fill one at the
| river. The other was filed from the hot
| water faucet, and the two cups put on the
| stove side by side. The attendant won with
| twenty or thirty seconds to spare. There are
| certain chemical ingredients in the water
| from the hot springs which make it very
| dlmcult to be boiled. and although this fact is
| well known TO local doctors and scientists it
| seems to be absurd on the face of it that al
| most any visitor can be caught in the way
| have mentioned"
| No compoSitor could set David Dudley
| Fields copy" says the New York Tribune
They tried it in several of the large law
| printing offices of the city. but invariably Mr..
| Field s manuscript was returned to him for
| Interpretation. HIS chirography was some
| thing wretched. Compared with it Horace
| Greeley ScreedS were. copper plate. In the
| line OF unlntelligible "curlycues the great
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| spades" Mr.. Field never wrote at a desk
| while in his ONCE. He had a green baize-
| covered little slab screwed to the arm of
| his revolving chair. and on this he would
write for hours at a time. he turned out
| copy" quickly, but days often elapsed be-
| fore his writings could be put in the hands
of the printer. They had to De copied and all
| hands in the office took turns at helping to
| decipher them. Often copies of Mr. Fields
| briefs had to be returned to him with spaces
| left for words, and sometimes whole sen
| 70 a IN, ,, cole
| would wax wroth and declare his writing was
| as plain as day, Especially when working
| on his hobby, codifcation, Mr.. Fields ideas
came too fast for legible transmission to
! paper and the result was a Chaotic-appear.
| ing mass Of characters most beWildering to
| the unfortunate copyist.
In Hindoostan there is a choice of secret
arms, says the Saturday Review. The gupti
or sword stick, may be bought in every bazar.
| and is said to have been used in the DAYS of
Akbar Q543 1605l; but it is doubtful whether
the phrase in the 'tAin-iAkbari" of Abul Fazi
! does not rather refer to the Arab dagger with
| its deep sheath. containing both blade and
| haft If the traveller prefer it. he NAV buy a
| sword, thin and flexible as the Toledo coiled
| blades to wind round his waist in his cuu1-
! meround. If he be a fakir. the ornamental
crutch which upholdS his arm while he edifes
| the faithful by silent reflections upon the
syuaDel ON, Will contain sharp-pointed.
quadrangular blade for the confusion of the
unbeliever. Even lovely woman in the harem
| carries miniature katar. with H-shaped grin,
or diminutive peskobz- -doublecuryed, sin
gle edged, atrocious In Mysore and Myder.
bad the bich hwa (scorpion)-the double
curved misercord of the east-is carried nv
the lower classes hidden up the
sleeve, and is made right or
left-handed, to suit all tastes 1t is favorite
and efectual weapon of ASSASSINATION being
driven downward from behind inside the col.
lar bone, and is sometimes double bladed and
poisoned, the poison being carried in a suita-
bic hollow in the hilt. The double curve OF
the blade, derived from that of a cow s horn
and resembling that of scorpions sting, re-
ours in the khanjar and chianum and through.
out Afghanistan With a variety of this wen
pom Lieut. Willis was killed in the battle at
Candahar The strangest OF secret arms is
perhaps, the bagh nabh or tiger claw of the
Mahrattas, with its two rings for the first and
fourth fingers. and the three to five curved
steel claws, destined to protrude from the
closed hand between the fingers and to rim
open or mangle the victim. The hand half
open shows only two bright rings around
the fingers; the clenched fist becomes the
armed paw of the human tiger. Mr. Egerton
tells us how the Mahrattas leader, Sivaii
murdered his enemy Afzal Khan after invit
Ing him to conference in which each should
come with one attendant only. Sivaii wore
mail cap and coat under his turban and cot
ton gown, had bich hwa in his right sleeve
and bagh nakh on his left hand. The Khan
had only his sword, and sent away his fol
lower to reassure SivaH who was of small
stature and Counterfeited timidity In the
midst OF the customary EN- brace Swat struclr