The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
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The Bell Telephone Com 1any OF Cincinnati
have mounted thirty inspec ors on bicycles,
thereby d1splaclng thirty horses and as many
buggies-
Mustata Bey. former private physician TO
the Sultan Of Morocco, has written an article
for the German periodical Globus. 90. g.
ls94), on the gradual emaucipa tlOn Of Egyp-
tan Processes from Oriental customs. No
hammedan pre- udlceS having yieldedto Euro
p6an influences more promptly than IN any
other eastern country. The Egyptian prin-
ceSses began to wear Partisan costumes more
than thirty years ago. and close wells so trans
parent that the features were no longer con-
cealed. At a later period they made mutual
agreement so insist on their marriage that
their husbands could have no other WIFE
The late Khedive had only one wife, and the
present one is still unmarried. More recently
young princess who was unhappIly married
to pasha three times her age, succeeded in
getting divorce, ana married her physician.
A Paris journal. Annales d'Hygiene Pub
hque, has lately printed an article on the loss
OF life in France caused by wars in the course
OF century. At tae beginning of The revolu'
ton IN l7e9. the standing army numbered
about $4,000 men. In the course of the year
l7.3, the footing was increased to 100000 Of
whom about l.20J000 marched oil to the
various battle helds. In 1875 there was
hardly one-third Of this legion alive. Ten
years later, that Is, after the wars in Belgium,
along the kline, IN + gypt and the Nendee,
there were 617.'iSS soldiers in the French army.
lnithe period Cetween lS0) and 1915 the wars Of
the consulate and the EN- Dire cost the country,
according to Theirs, ,O0O.OL0 men. and accord
Ing to Charles Richet, 3L0J.UU0. The years Of
the restoration and of the July government
were comparatlN ely peaceful Tor France.
Under the second empire. France had again
heaVy losses by the Crimean war, the Italian
campaign, the campaigns in China and Mex
leo and, finally, in the Franco PrusSlan war
OF 1901. IN the Oriental campaign OF 1884
10 1896 6l5 of the 300 0J0 soldiers who took
part in it, were buried in foreign lands. The
Italian campaign cost the country 10000 men,
and 1000 of the 5000 sent TO China in 1850
never returned. There are no trustworthy
reports as to the losses in Mexico, but in the
t'raneo-Prussian war, 49,, 900 Frenchmen were
killed and las, 900 wounded.
The first reference to Highland costume,
says writer in the Scottish Review, occurs
in the Saga Of Magnus Barefoot King of Nor
way lO93-llO3, written by Snorro Sturleson,
who was reared with the children of that
monarch daughter. Here it is stated that
Magnus and his men, on their return from a
maraudlng expedition to the west of Scot
land, brought with them great deal of the
haolts and fashions Of clothing OF these
western parts They went Jout the streets
with bare legs, and had short klrtles and
overcloakS, and therefore his men called him
Magnus Barefoot or Bareleg." In the
thirteenth century we seem to have some
thing like first reference TO actual
tartans in the statutes Of the Church of AGer-
deem, which provides that all eccleSias6ios
are to be suitably appareled, avoiding red,
green and striped clothing, and their gar
ments shall not be shorter than the middle OF
the leg But it should lie noticed that the
word tartar which occurs in the fifteenth
century, in the accounts Of the lord high
treasurer Of Scotland, which was regarded by
both Borthwick and Pinkerton as meaning
tartan. really indicates, as pointed out by Or.
Dickson, fabric Of eastern origin, frequently
variant or Shot the warp and wool being
of contrasting eolors, We md a true refer
ence to tartan in the same accounts in the
following century.
War department officials OF the ordnance
bureau are giving attention to the properties
of aluminium, says a Washington dispatch.
Inc German armies nave adopted alum 1aum
for variety Of uses. The war department is
in o measure following the lead of the navy.
L ne aluminium boats used by Walter Well
man in the Arctic regions with the greatest
success and which promises to become an In
d1spenSable factor OF arctic exploration, were
adopted on the suggestion of an employee of
the navy department Experiments have
been under way for some time wi n view to
the construction Of aluminium life boats; lie
preservers of the material are Considered
practicable and it is probable that ali the
small boats OF the navy hereafter built will
be equipped with alright aluminium tanks in
bow and stern to keep them afOat if over.
turned. In the line of SIN Il equipments the
army is expected to utilize the metal Sam
pies are IN the Ordnance Bureau of aluminium
cups, belt buckles, hooks and horse shoes.
Lieut.. w. G. brown, of the First Cavalry, re-
ports that the horseshoes are hardly dura-
tie enough for general use, but the idea of
manufacturing them will not be given Up, as
IL is thought that some new alloy may be en-
ployed which Will give the wanting property
/ he substitution of aluminium cups for tin
seems practi~ a ole. The regulation tin cup
weighs but three and three-fourths Any eco
nomy which can be devised in the weight
necessary Gy}a,t to he carried by a march
however triding it NAV seem. It is
hoped that it will be found practicable to use
the light metal for bayOlet sea bbards and
FafaWlN eaWaTe 7 % VNsfVrs
one of the artillery companies stationed at
Fort McHenry, the department is indebted
for the design OF new implement which
may prove serVicea bic IN campaigning. 1t is
a combination of shovel and pick ak not more
than foot in length. which may be carried
at the belt and used in digging entrench-
ments. BY its use The soldiers might, if hard
pressed, hurriedly dig up earthworks or en-
trenchments for their own shelter.
Marion Crawford, writing Of the wonderful
italian coast between Sorrento and Amald,
in the July number Of the Century saws
The gent loci Of the ancients is not alto
gether myth. A truer mysticism than their
mythology teaches US that places retain tor
have been lived in them, an echo
of the voices that have made them
musical, teeting shadow of the men
and women who found ia them their happi-
ness and their sorrow. Those who have
spent much time in secluded spots learn TO
feel that lonely places have souls and the so il
q
| spirit, its peculiar essence, as reGI thing as
| the scent of rose or the smell Of the sea
| There are rose gardens in the East that
are fair with the accumulated happiness of
| past generations. here are shady lex
groves in Italy wherein still dwells the silent
spirit of contemplation; perhaps the phant-
asms of tragic loves sigh out their little day
beneath the ance eat trees In Italy. in Greece
in Asia, in distant Indian glens dim temples
stand to this day, haunted or blest. perhaps
by the presence of the mystic spirit which
outlasts all ages. and the market place has
its familiar genius also the busy center of the
crowded city, the broad thoroug hfsre OF the
great metropolis, silent for few hours under
the summer moonlight or the winter rain
Old castles, too, deserted villages unin-
habited homes OF dead populations
all have wraiths. the ghosts of what they
have been. silent to the many, but more
eloquent TO the few than any human
speech can ever be. And besides all these
there are spots where nature has never cen
nodded by man, where she is sovereign and
he is subiect-loney places by the sea, great
sunlt silenceS where man has not dared to
dwell because nature there would give him
nothing, nor was he able to take ANYTHING
from her. And the spirit OF those places is
more lonely and grander and mightier than
the genius loci OF the market place or of the
deserted Italian villa, where the red dog
star cracks the spe echless statues, or even
of the shady closer or of the wind swept
temples Of banished gods. The song of songs
is still unwritten. though nature music
makes man S grandeSt symphonies ridiculous
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