The morning news., 1894-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The best and sweetest cheese is made in
the month Of May.
Capital punishment has been restored to
the statute books in Switzerland. For twenty
years it had been abolished. and il was found
that murders had increased.
A deer was shot through the heart in the
woods Of Northern Maine last week, and tray-
eed for three-quarters of a mile after the
shot was fired before he fell dead.
A Cincinnati mans will, Just made public,
bequeaths the sum of 81. 900 to be used in seek
ing method whereby mosquitoes may be de-
stroyed. He had suffered for years from
large bite on the nose.
Mrs Myra Gaddings, of Liverpool, has in
vented a reversible bonnet. 1t is so con
structed that It can be changed IN two min
uteS from a Gainsborough daring br1m to a
dainty toque or widows cap.
A total eclipse of the sun will occur Sept.
2s, 1894. 1t will be invisible in America. The
path of totalIty passes across the Indian
ocean. The eclipse will be partil in Africa,
Hindostan and Southern Australia.
1t is said that so much farm land in England
has lately been allowed TO lapse from cultiva-
tion that wild animals, which ten years ago
were in danger of extinction. are now -four
ishing and increasing. The badger and the
otter, for instance, are reported to be thriv
ing greatly on agricultural depression
The custodian of the alleged tomb of Romeo
and Juliet at Verona the other day locked up
up party of tourists who refused his demand
tor francs and gave him only four. The
intervention of the mayor was needed to Sc
cure their release, and now the tourists have
put the matter in the hands of the courts.
From excavations in the cemetery of St.
Emilien, at NAMES, where a number of early
stone cofans, some of which are highly deco
rated, have been found. il is believed that a
temple stood on this site before it was con
Verted to Christian uses. Traces Of the
foundations have been brought to lght,
he temple was probably destroyed in 270
A. ID.
Spain has three classes of sensators. Kings
sons over 81 years of age; ''grandees" having
an income OF $1,000 peSetas (sI201J captains
generals, admirals ETC.; about hundred SEN
atocS nominated by the crown, not TO exceed
leo, when included with the first class and
$50 senator's, elected by the states, the church,
universit. eS and learned bodies of the nation
for term Of five years.
| To attract custom a London restaurant
| presents novel attraction. Every customer
who eats a shilllng's worth or more is pre-
sented with a small key. On the cashiers
| desk is a casket which contains Is note At
| ter the check is paid the customer is per-
mltted to try the key in the lock. If he holds
| the right one he gets the prize. One key is
given out each day which will unlock the
| caSKet.
| Il AOIl AudIkOf. III INuSSld, COMES Il SlOTy OF
a new cure for consumption by the inhalation
of aneline, discovered by DR.. KremIansl1y.
! professor in the university. girl Of l3, in the
| last stages of rapid consumption, was brought
| him last February she was treated with
| three preparations used simultaneously, pure
| white analine, a preparation of auiline and
| thenoI, and one an1llne and essence OF pine,
| which she was made to inhaie deeply and
| slowly. At first only ten to to twenty inhala-
| tions day were administered, but gradually
| they were increased to 200. Under TINS tire At
ment and special diet the child is said TO be
now in perfect health.
There are no public schools in Nepaul The
| sons and princes and nobles-even our young
| king, while he is yet only a boy-are taught
| at home by the guru. or household priest
who is supposed to be also pundit, or very
| learned man, says Il contributor to st. Nicho-
las. Later, the young men OF rank are sent
| to Patna, Benares or Calcutta. where they
learn 10 speak English and wear English
clothes, and to tell the time of day by an
knghsh clock; for in Nepaul time is meas
ured by means OF copper vessel, with a
small hole i'll the bottom, set at1oat on a talk
or pool. Sixty times day this kettle nils
and sinks, and every time it sinks a eolg is
struck; so that the day is divided up into
! sixty "gongs" or bells" as sailors reckon
time aboard ship The poor Bhootiya shep-
herds or the Newer women who make pottery
| in the fields say that the day is begun when
they can count the tiles on the roof of a house,
| or when they can see the hairs on the back of
| mans hand by holding 1t up against the
light.
The inhabitants of ancient Egypt are be-
lieved to have been the first people to at
tempt to domesticate the wild species of
felinae now represented by the common house
cat says the 81 Louis Republic. This belief
| is based upon the fact that sculptured repre-,
sentations of such animals are found upon
| their monuments Of the year 20J0, b. c.. more
| than ]. 200 years before they appear on Euro
pean monuments. An Egyptian tomb of the
year 1860, b. c.. is the first to show sculp-
tuTed representation of the cat as a domeSii-
Gated animal. those OF the greater age fist
mentioned probably repr6S 9nting the crea-
ture i'll its wild state. In tue relief sketch of
the date last mentioned 1890, b. c.. it is un-
mtstakably pet, being shown as seated be
meath a chair. The Egyptians of that
age mummlhed their dead catsiust as they did
human beings, and in many instances en-
tombed hundred of thousands of them in a
single pyramid or pit. BuDastiS was the
Egyptian cat goddess, and was always repre-
sented as having cats head Among that
queer people puss was regarded as an en-
! blem of the sun. is eyes icing supposed to
vary in color and in the size OF their pupils
with the progress OF that luminary across the
heavens. HerodOtus tells us that when an
Egyptian cat died a natural death its owners
went into mourning and shaved OF his eye
Drows.
So much is heard of the scholarship of the
Chinese, says the Youths Comr anion, that
one is surprised to be assured that they are
very poor arithmeCicians ano have N ore
trouble with the rules or addition. SubtraC-
ton multiplication and division than even
our poorest aud most ignorant people do.
Many people are aware that the hinese VINO
work in the laundries in this country are uu-
ntle to make change in Anne money,
even with the aid of the abacus or reckoning
machine, which is found in almost every
laundry. If the washing bill is for instance
- cents, and the customer gives in payment
a quarter of dollar and aNdime, the ordi-
nary Chinese laundryman appears to be at a
| loss what to do; and after manipulating his
swau-pan or arbacus for some time is very
likely to give the wrong change. The art Of
reckoning is very seldom taught in the
Chinese schools, except IN an extremely
rudimentary way. The abacus is
slow and clumsy device
compared with written Arabic numerals and
yet the Chinese must employ it for even the
| simple processes which Americans ordinarily
perform IN their heads. Inc Chinese are be
coming conscious of their deficiencies in this
respec., and are attempting to introduce
arithmetc C into their system of education. A
Shanghai newspaper says that during the
present year for the first time, arithmetical
problems were included IN the triennial gov.
ernment examinations for the hsin ts'ai or
lower mandarin grade of scholarship One OF
these problems was the following If 8 OO0
picols of rice, worth i3 taels prol are sent
as freight, and the tolls are paid in rice at
the rate OF two taels picol. now much rice
will be taken to pay the cost of transporta-
| fiOuS" is said that Il the N 00O -,