The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ohie has mere counties bearing Indian
names than almost any OF the OLDER west
EN- states. Even Delaware county is said
| TO derive its name from an Indian word
now corrupted beyond recognition. Gosh
| octcn comes from the Indian name Cos
chOckquenk. Geauga is from the Indian
word sheaugu, meaning raCcOon. Hook
ing is from HOck-hocking, Indian for bot
tie river, the name bestowed upon the
Hooking because Of some peculiarly OF
its falls. Mahoning is a corrupted In
dian word for mother, and it closely re
SemDles in sound the word mamma"
Mushinzum means the glare Of the elk's
eye" and seems to perpetuate an inter
esting fact as TO the fauna Of Ohio. OF
tawa means trader" and Sandusky "cooi
water
Superstition has deprived the Thirteenth
ward, Allegheny city, Pa, Of its alder
man. Whether II comes from the number
OF wards or not, il is a fact that this sec
ton Of the city haS became noted for its
suicide and unnatural deaths, and some
people think that blight has fallen uUOn
the ward. In 1880 Joseph Lohnk was alder
man. he died suddenly, and Charles
/ Melty was appointed to succeed him.
Welty shot himself Valentine Cast, e
man IN the prime Of life, then became al
derman. He became i'll last Easter SUNDAY
and died the next day. Gov PattisOn ap-
IoiAJed r. ). Hepp, and he had a good deal
OF trouble getting matters arranged. The
ohClal notIce was addressed with wrong
initials, and the recorder refused to swear
him IN until the matter had been rectifeo
~ the state officers. HeppS wife has
been considering the fate of his predeces-
sulS and the general unlucky air of the
| Thirteenth ward, and has persuaded him
to resign. None of the democrats IN the
ward has yet expressed a wish to succeed
Hepp.
DR. Peabody in the Medical Record. saws
that in all sorts of sickness. and esDe-
cially in feVers attention should be paid
to the appetite and desire OF the patient
ana that If a patient is really hungry,
soma 1000, OF properly selected kind and
IN Juulcious quantities, viii rarely dis
agree with him. DR.. Peabody believes
there Is less danger of doing harm to
an liberated ileum in typhoid fever by
giving finely divided egg, beef, or
| chop, than by giving milk, and
habtually gives his typhoid patients who
| are hungry such food. He believes that
! 1t is a mistake to withhold solid food
merely because patient has fever, and
! mud food, as is commonly the case-the
| simple fact being that milk will always
| remain the most serviceable general food
| in disease, but, where it fails to nourish
| the patient, or where it is not well borne
! or for any reason cannot be taken, it is
! to be considered that efficient adjuncts
! and substitutes are within reach.
1t was on Oct %, 1874, that the Ad-
| XenuSts thought the world would end.
! The Philadelphia Times says that the ex-
| cltment was especially great in Pennsyl-
| Nanla. Men gave away their property
! and bought ascension robes. Some one
/ suggested that people emigrating to
MeW Jersey would be measurahly safe,
as the Lord despised that state too much
| to visit it." While" says The Times
! some repaired to Georges Hill on the
| west side of the SChuylkill, the majority
| camped near Darby. a tent was erected
| in which they were packed like herring
in a barrel, and the night was spent in
! prayer. Next day was gloomy, and to-
| ward night storm arose, with showers
! of Sleety rain and, after a night of horror
| morning broke cold and wet. Some of the
| watchers We're taken away forcibly by
| relatives, but the majority endured an
! other day and night, and then all dis
/ persed. The reaction among the weak
he CT or
| were afflicted in after years with rheu-
| matism caught by the exposure. There
| were many lawsuits over property that
had been given away, but in most cases
it was returned"
Nature is proverbially partial in the ap-
| poruonment Of personal embellishments,
| says the New York World. Masculine
| heads that are the best furnished inside
| arc Obliged TO struggle through life with
out the slightest trace of hirsute adorn-
meht, Whlle the Circassian bearded
| woman has superfluous hair enough to
stun sofa and never miss it. If dame
! nature dallies thus with creatures of
the genus homo it is not surprising that
| she is equally capriciOus in her treatment
OF the genus equus. Horses are not sup
| posed to have mustaches, but a mare
named originally Lady Jane, but now
| struggling along as as No. 1879 Of the car
horses horse owned by the Dry Dock. East
Broadway and Avenue Z. railroad line
has been more favored in this particular.
The anim2l in question is the possessor of
a fine, silky, blond curly mustache fully
| four inches in length, which, as the mare
is gray, gives her very curious appear-
ance. The stable boy in charge Of the
mare occasionally wakes the muStache
which adds more to her singular appear
ance, The mare is years old, about IS
hands nigh, and came originally from the
west she has been in the Company's ser
vice for three years and never has lost a
days work through sickness.
very learned professor has been lately
! Ielllng now children used to play in old
Athens, says the Jewish MESSENGER. The
oaii was a universal plaything. AS the
children grew older there came the hobby
morse, the game with dice (lnade of
knuckle bones of animals cut into square
pleceS), and spinning tops, both in the
mouse and in the open air Toys and go
carts, ana mud pies engaged the infer
set Of Athcnian children as of the children
OF al European nations. Then followed
at somewhat more advanced age a
game which consisted in throwing slant
ngly into the water small smooth stones
ana counting how many leaps they made
before sinking, which we call "skimnin %
or duck and brakes" blndman's buff
trundling hoops and all kinds of games
with the ball walking on stills, leap frog,
kite-hylng, See-saWing on logs, and swing
ing, etc. Girls had dolls made of wax and
clay and painted. Blindman's buff was
PIaye4 thus: The boy with his eyes ban
Gagged moved about calling out. Il will
catch brazen fly" The others answered,
y GU will hunt il, but you won't catch it. -
all the while striking him with whins fin
he managed to catch one of them.
The Island of Madagascar is Just now
attracting a good deal of public attention.
IL is the third largest island in the world.
being thousand miles in length, and
some $50 in its greatest breadth, and CON
ta1ns a native population of some 2 O0G 0nn
They are an ingenious and clever people,
though there are marked tribal differ
ences among them, and as fighters are
not to be despised. The army of the
Hovas, which is the dominant tribe NUM-
bers from 10000 to 10000 men, who have
been organized drilled and ofIicered in
some degree according TO European stan
dards, and is a factor to be estimated in
the commercial and political rivalries of
outside nations, which may have ia he
settled there. The exports of the island
have increased greatly in recent years,
ana IL may have an important industrial
and productive career before il when liz
present complications are adjusted. lis
products are India rubber, spices. gums
coffee, cotton, tobacco, hemp, dyewood
indigo, cattle and hides, and its trade is
so well worthy the attention Of All tho
commercial nations that no one OF them
Will be allowed to monopolize it, 1t is Vet