The morning news., 1894-11-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

. 81; he scoops mortar and puts a stone IL
place. The trOwel, generally made of sill
. Yer, is preserved as a precious mementO.
. King ThOtmes III. of the Eighteenth
( Egyptian Dynasty dedicated q temple TO
4 Anon the Glorious" with pretty nearly
the same ceremonies as are in use to-
: day The tools used by ThOtmes III.
/ nave come down TO us-two axes, live
cnlse!s, an adze, and saw. These are
. model specimens of Egyptian work. the
WOODEN handles OF the Implements being
decorated with the royal cartouch.
+ Quite a curiosity is on exhibition at
the cigar stand Of Dawson &, Burch. on
Cedar street, saws the Nashville Ameri-
can. If the curiosity is not q petrifed
egg then nature can give the fowl Crea-
/ tion cards and spades in the art of egg
manufacture. The freak is a perect oval
shape. with both ends very smoothly
clipped off \ farmer living on Paradise
/ Ridge picked it up in a field one day and
started 70 throw it, when its unusual
weight attracted his attention. STOPPING,
4 ne picked up rock and struck the pecu-
4 lar object q sharp blow near the middle.
+ The interior shell cracked and three pieces
Shelleu OF, revealing about half OF a per
iectly rounded object nestled away in the
! remaining portion of the shell This un-
/ usr sphere Is of pinkish hue. and is
/ thing like sandstone The 1rst thing
/ a person would think Of on beholding il
/ would be the yellow of an egg, and the
/ more ne looked the more thoroughly con
! Nlnced he would become that that was
! wnat II was. The cOncave portion Of the
! smell nJS back perfectly uniform. 1t is
] about One-quarter of an inch thick and
! Immediately beneath the granular exter-
| lor Is OF drab color, resembling very
| rock. a close inspection Of the broken
| edges of the shell shows a very thin ex-
terror shell of about the thickness of an
| Sggshei. IN fact the entire effect pro
! duced is the same as that obtained by
| taxing hard-boiled hen egg and crack
| ing the shell, part a section of it with
| the white adhering to it. from the yellow.
| leaving the sphere nestled in the renai in
| ing portion of the shell. The petrified egg
n hot 10 rlr,ru A.-1T
| is-wetghs about half a pound and Is
about the size of large goose egg, per
| haps larger
The biggest tobacco box in the world. or
| What IS tondly believed to be such is
| carefully guarded by the overseers of the
united parishes Of St Margaret and St.
! John the Evangelist. Westminster. Eng.
| !aid. 1t weighs hundred-weght. and it
| is remarkable historical curiosity. 1t is
really not a single box, but an agglomera-
| uon of them, one outside the other like
! a Chinese puzzle, or an onion which
| has been growing for the last 1S1 years.
Inc original Tobacco box, the core, was
decided TO perpetuate his memory in this
! pecullar way. The account of the growth
o. Lne receptacle IS thus recounted by
| barry How i'm the Strand Magazine Ira
| ulJloh hath ii that he purchased the horn
! tobacco box al Horn fair Plumstead for
| the small sum of fourpence and pre-
| Sented the box to society formed of the
/ past and present members Of the parish
Inc original box is only four and one
| To- inItos io iUttS ttS pS tHtee ana three-quar-
| yer lhcheS Vide; one and one-quarter
! inches outside by three-quarter inches
Ii,o ne ~ ~, any M, IL only weighs ten and
Iiebta5 yitb I ne IletnR5Es were SO de
| f6e,r ornarSnrtI - ~ Ii lelloMS VI SUI lhal
LII oI IidulellIru II with silver rim on
,..Ii,,id,,ii. ii@ itaIIle iIle 3W%S engraved II was
/ the senior OVerseer for the time being
| who handed it to his successor with SOME
year tbs b ,, ~ 1' "l lIldIIleIt SO year after
M - Li1, IoA ~ mas crown nlSger and bigger.
tiI hme AN sfLtlCRlen .s VINO followed MOnck in
- ~ ~! % oFtLseeI lhought ut, at the
irie on IN t5n ar .ethl OF service TO chron-
tybicb ~ AZ -, nD@ lens OF Importance
office. similar a - 1"'Iiis ts IleII III term OF
on ,,ns,. ~ aI.uiiar acl mas been carried
nennv tohac.oS I"i, io, euu me original four
! fev,ar nm 'U, oe,,q iGN itSlS Wl.hn no
iS"S' ~ o,l ,nIH SlN massive cases; the last
! shane ana ro,ist+,,,.t,5ii D5iinE pclaSohai IN
/ I[pe IIi!"pe' iIlu eeonslF4cten out of an oak
| ie ei,r,,1C11,I Tiii I w munster abbey. 1t
| ~ ~ 9uitul"unIe4 pE beauufly chased sill
! ~ 80 - ~ uic queen winch cost $50
! icstys wear Of iTbijee iTba 40 co1 ol her ma
] surUallv naesiriy,y yi,li,g. -. ne ceremony OF
."G;llN I199lHS over the box from the
J,r di.i , 20 lhe incoming one is
| srt si,. a. - anu ms u ,usunCty pleas
/ - ~ o. nc Soou ola times Ii
! NJ tba a1',,,,ai Ttf ne customary dinner
/ Nfaud H. I,,I,l..4 l.--s'
/ RostOn Transcript. thus describes F2tbar
! hnclpp $ Cure and the barefoot re0i
| men me- as Gatried out IN the Bavaran hills:
! fat!ef hneipp receives no CONDENSATION
/ for his advice, and rather grnd+es ~
/ ume given TO wen people who only want
( to be better. The poorer and more forIo11
the patient is me better Kneipp III treats eats
! him, which is as it should be. but as ~
rarely is, l waited in the .nte.roC,, @ 't7i+I ~
some fifty other people. nearly All ~ ~
/ Whom looked i'll and Wretched enon@b f.
! insure them friendly reception IRON
| the great man. When my number va
/ called | was admitted with a haIf lo1e,
others into the large consulting room room
! We're seated at a long table A. bi oVtiTLS TirL
sat the prior, his assistant. and ISL ~
able successor. a pale monk vyitbp - ~ ~
face of an enthusiast aud an 6scetir ici Pa5 Eide
/ nina hniepps chair sat his insenarabI bIo
companion a white SpitZ dog gnd 2ISi q uio ~
his mouth was his other inseparabie com. ~
. panton, a small meersch9ln cier,r fCii
( er, containing a big bIarL Ci3 Hotq- oItqq-
wore a rusty black cassock g7iii ne
pie trimmings and a small slHuII nat, deit t ~
his wiry white hair; he is tail bas S3,I[ UYTI
/ built man, with a magnificent head
/ rugged face, whose expreSsion 7 90 - a
describe as fiercely benevolent. The DIV. G9S.
" took my book, read his own n1tes 10 Jus, us
introduced my case to KneiDp / took r7I,
J al MN while he looked at mo with ~