The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Kaiser Wilhelm sits for his photograph
about once a week.

Kaiser Wilhelm SITS Tor MS plOLusIdpA
about once week.
Ask the average person how. many stripes
there are in the fog, and he VIII answer read
, ily enough thirteen. says the Philadelphia
Press. But ask him how many are red and
how many white ana he Will hesitate IN such
a way CtO make il clear that at the best
he is only guessing. Well. as matter OF
fact. the red stripes number seven and the
white numoer six. Neatly all the details or
the Oficial flag are really fixed by law. Be
sides the designation as to the number and
color OF the stripes, 1t is deoreed that the
flag shall be three times as long as ii is wide,
and that the union shall be level with the
sixth stripe and shall he One-third the length
of the flag. There shall be a star In the union
for every state. The position thai the stars
shall take has never been determined by law.
The ordinary position in which oae sees them,
that is to say, series of rows, is the war de-
partment arrangement.
Did you ever hear OF a squatting mule?''
asked a prominent coal operator, of the Pitts
burg Dispatch. Well don't lame you for
not knowing what I mean for, after fifteen
years experience in the business. L did not
know OF such mule until yesterday. one OF
our men sent me word that on one of the
workings there was steepincline over which
II was difficult for the men to push the carts
L told MIN 10 try mule, and in reply he
stated he had purchased a -sQuatting mule.
In mines il means good deal of money to
get mule That can do the work and at the
same time small enough to walk through the
low workings Of the mine. Sometimes for
hundreds of feet the tunnels will be high
enough to allow mule to walk through them;
then at some points the ceiling may get so
low that the mule cannot crawl under it. Now
to make the paSsa geway high, enough for the
mule would entail a great expense, yet we
often have to do this. But 'sQuattng mule
obviates this.by crouching down when it gets
to the low places, adapting itself to the
hight OF the tunnel as much as possible. So
sgt atting mule to miners is much more
expensive than one that is not so trained"
bara Is a broad % bo,,a,- haae ora- i,yt
town of Wayne that have no stingers' SAID
Naturalist Packy Griswold of Hammondport
to a New York Sun man. They are very
handy to have. because a child can run a
| whole yard full Of such hives Of bees. 1t is
| interesting to me, at least, the way that
| breed of bees originated. 1t shows how read
! lily nature VIII adapt herself to the fitness Of
| things, and also is a perpetual mCnumentto
| the wonderful skill of an uncle OF mine as d
! rife shot. My uncle was great bee hunter
| and one day he was in the woods over in the
! town of Wayne looking things over when he
! ran onto a bee tree. Hedhought he would tap
! the tree to find out how high up in it the
| bees had stored their honey. he sent a rifle
| ball into the side Of the tree way up toward
| the top. AS soon as he fired he saw that he
| had made mistake for he had tapped the
| honey hollow right at the lower edge, and the
| honey came Squirting out in a regular stream.
! He was good way from home, and he knew
! that before he could get there and back again
| with pals and things the most OF the honey
would have run out of the tree and been lost.
! Something had to be done to save that honey
! for II was worth a shilling pound. But my
uncle WASH I a man to let anything get the
| best of him and he whitfield out pine plug
| loaded IL into his rife, bred IL into the bullet
hole he had shot in the tree and
! plugged the hole up as tight as II there had
| never been one there That saved the
| honey. But although my. uncle was a bee
| hunter he was mortal shy OF bees, for they
| would sting him on sight, and every sting
| swelled up on him as big a rutabaga So
he thought he might as we'll make things safe
| and pleasant right there and then. He didn't
want to kill the bees, for he was a kind and
| tender hearted man, so he stood still in his
| tracks, and, as the ices came buzzing out of
| the tres he shot their stingers off, one by one,
! and by and by had EN- all fixed, so that he
| could gather the honey and ask no odds of
| EN-. Not dlnged odd. He afterward lined
the bees and took EN- home. It's their de-
! Scendants that are the stingleSS bees of the
! town of Wayne to-day and l don't 'spose
| there are seven people in the whole town that
! know how much they are indebted to my uncle
! Tot starting that breed
The latest thing in neurotics is paranoia,
says Ebert Hubbard, writing in the Arena.
No doubt it has always existed, but until a
disease becomes popularized, so to speak it
cannot consistently lay claim to technical
name. The distinguishing symptom of this
malady is fear The victim Is very sure that
some one is plotting against him He knows
| II. For many months this fear may be upon
him, and his intim ate friends see nothing
wrong in his manner. But he is alert, vigil
! liant. and on the lookout. Suddenly some day
/ he sees his wife sprinkle a white powder in
his soup. 1t is salt, but you could never con-
! vince him Of that fact. He refuses the SOUP
| and his life for the time is spared. Next day he
| Slyly exchanges his cup OF coffee for hers. She
does not drink all Of her coTee-he knows
! why, but Keeps the information to himself
! Certain conspirators come to his house
| in the disguise OF rag peddlers milk
| men, etc; he sees them and mentally makes
| note. He observes these men afterward on
| the street, but they pretend not to see him;
they turn their backs and walk away. He
confronts them, they are astonished. and pro
test their lnnocent e-''luSt as the guilty al
| ways do" The ropes are being drawn tighter
around the helpless victim. He sees his chill
dren are cycling him-yes, even they have
| Joined the enemy. neiChbor comes in and
| assumes afrlendliness that he does not feel: in
can be seen in his eye Relentless hate is on
the poor fellows tracks-ruin, disaster. dis
grace, death. Sleepless nights follow days of
/ not anxiety, and one of two things happens
The unhappy wretch in frenzy strikes down
| MS wife, or son, or nelghtor, who he iniagines
| is about to wrong him, or he flies to a distant
| city to elude his pursuers Arriving there he
detects still Other Villains on his track;
GREATNESS, with bloodshot eyes and
6lanched face, the cold sweat standing
| in heads on his forehead, he rushes into
polce station and demands protection He
gets 1t. for every police captain has seen
more than one Just such case 1t is well
! known TACT that when n man is in a condition
/ ripe for suggestion he accepts the thought of
another SO paranoia is often known to have
/ us BEGINNING IN the suggested hate of some
one else. IL IS possible for a whole family to
| become Injected with the same halucination
| An insane idea may run through an entire com
| munlty, as the halluclnation of wltchcraft did
in Salem in 1892 when nineteen innocent per
| sons we're hanged on testimony that was
| deemed unimpeachable. The witcbcraft fear
! found root in soil already fun of apprehen-
sion. there are now strong syrnpt9nos of a
! social paranofa to be seen in certain parts of
| our country II the antidote is not given il
may become scOurge that will hold our fair
name up as byword and kissing before the
! civilized world. The disease has found a
/ favorable soil in many sections, especially in
/ the rural districts of the west. The wide
! spread financial depression has hit the farm
/ er hard. he rustic of the mortgage has
sung IN his ears night and day, and visions of
gigantic summons and complaint backed up
with wrlts of ejectment have haunted his
dreams. The result has been that a copdi-
tlon favorable to the suggestion Of hate and
fear has teen prepared, and the suggestion
has come.