The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! the ne1ghborhood was sick with SYMPTOMS Of
! aEsShlcaI poisoning, and 1t is doubtful If four
OF them viii recover
There is a pretty legend connected with the
daisy. which is an old world flower Ameri-
| canized. When the early Christians OF
/ Britain were prosecuted and put to death st
| Bruon persuaded his sister. St Ole to fee
with ner maiden companions. After the per
| SecItlon ceased the bishop searched fruit
| Iessly tor MS sister until he noticed that
| there sprung up in his pathway little tufts of
/ mowers with golden hearts and starry rays of
| white. he took them for his guides. and fol-
| lowing their mute reckoning after many
Gays they led him to desert place. where
IN rocky hiding place, he found his sister
An interesting story comes from Soho
says the Leeds (Eng.) Mercury. Some time
ago an old woman named Sarah Edwards
VINO mad lived for some years in humble
| lodgings In Gerard street. Soho. called to
her little girl named Mary Gordon, who
| had performed various kindly offices for her
AFTER asking for and receiving kiss from
the child. the old lady said toher: You have
| been very kind and attentive to me- and 1
| VIII make you present" The little one no
| doubt expected Cd at the least but all she re
| eeiVed was very dirty, greasy bit of paper.
she was somewhat disappointed but placed
| the paper among her other little possessions
| ana thought no more of the matter until the
following morning, when she heard that her
old friend was dead She then bethought her
| OF the peculiar gift. and handed it to her
| 1ather. He. mechanic, working in Long
| EaNIO- ICCOEulLtQ II dS a tsOD DaQk note. but
! owing to its tattered condition, decided to
| consult a solicitor before attempting to cash
! 1t. The solicitor clerk. with some difhcultV
/ ana paste, joined the disunited parts. he
then presented the note at the Bank of
england, where 1t was Immediately cashed
| and the proceeds handed over to the parents
OF the little girl whose attentions to a poor
old woman were thus so strangely rewarded
The oldest mathematical book in the world
which dates some 1900 years back, and was
| vyritfeu in oil 10
! the circle says the Engineers Gazette. The
rule given is to shorten the diameter by
ninth and on the line so obtained to construct
a square; and this, though far from being eX-
| act. is near enough for most practical pur
| poses. Since then the amateur squarer of the
| circle has been thorn in the side of the pro-
| feSSlonal mathematician. Learned societies
at last, in pure self-defense, made a rule that
all solutions Of the problem sent TO them
should without examination, be con
signed to the flames. In the last century
trenchman named Mathulus was
SO sure he had succeeded in squaring the
circle that he offered reward OF 81, O0J TO any
one who proved his solution erroneous. 1t
was shown to be erroneous. if rot to his own
satisfaction, at least to that of the courts
and he had to pay the money. Mathemati-
clans have long been convinced that the So
luton was impossible; but it Is only a few
years since they were able to demonstrate
this. A German professor named Landmann
published in 1882 demonstration. which was
accepted by the scientific world as SatiSfac-
tory; so that would be squares OF the circle
may now rest from their abors, seeing that
| II has been automatically proved that the
| thing cannot be done.
Arnold Pike tells of walrus hunt in BIRD
| Bay, to the north of Spitzbergen, says the
| Philadelphia Press. The bay was full of fast
| ice, but eastward the sea was fairly open and
the hunter was rowing slowly back to the
| sloop, when the harpooner Suddel ally laid aside
his glass and headed the boat for a black
mass which the mirage magnihed into the
| size Of a small house, but which was really a
walrus. The walrus raises his head and we
| are motlonleSS,' says Mr.. Pike. 1t is in
| tensely still, and the scraplng of a piece of
| ice along the boat seems like the roar of
railway train passing overhead on some
| bridge. Down goes the head and we glide for
| ward again. The walrus is uneasy; again
and again he raises his head and looks around
with quick motion but we have the sun
| right at our back and he never notices us At
| last we are within a few feet, and with
shout Of 'voek op, gamling! Wake up, old
| boyD, which breaks the stiffness like shot.
the harpooner is on his feet, his
weapon claspsd in both hands
above his mead. As the walrus
plungeS into the sea the iron is hurled in his
| side, and with quick twist to prevent the
mead from slipping out OF the same slit that it
has cut in the thick hide. the handle is with
drawn and thrown into the boat. No. ,, who.
with tnrn round the forward thwart, has
been paying out the line, now checks 1t, as
stroke and the 'hammelmand, facing for
ward, hang lack on their oars to check the
rush. Dumping and Scraping the ice we are
JOW6u dlOuB LOT dUOuI uVe minutes ana then
stop as the walrus comes to the surface to
breathe. In the old days the lance would
finish the business, but now 1t Is the rife. He
is facing the boat. 1 sight for one of his ewes
and let him have both barrels. without much
effect apparently for away we rush for two or
three minutes more, when he is up again, still
facing the boat. He seems to care no more
for the solid express bullets than if they were
peas. but he is low this time, and as he turns
to dive, exposes the fatal spot at the back of
his head and dies.
The ''cobweb cure for asthma has occa-
stoned great deal of comment throughout
the country, says the New York Advertiser
| The family in Wooster, Ohio who effected
| the cure of daughter by this peculiar rem
edy thought they owed ii to the public to
make the case known, never expecting that
| the publication of the matter would cause
/ them to be deluged with letters inquring
aCout the alleged cure. AT first the family
undertook to answer inquiries, but when the
| letters reached hundreds daily the head of
| the household, who is engaged in other bust
ness, found it would require the entire time
| of himself and family to attend to the large
| correspondence So he had circulars printed
| in which he gave particulars of the method.
and for these he charges a fee, IN order to
limit in some measure the number of In
Quiries. He charges 81 for three "cobveh
pills" and in speaking of the matter said:
Il have TO crawl around garrets and all
sorts Of dirty places TO get the webs / then
have to clean them. All this takes time and
feel If it Is not worth dollar it Is not worth
a cent. Then there is the matter of discern
ing the difference between spiders webs and
cobwebs. l have heard from number of
people who undertook to cure themselves
that they were made very sick through the
poison of spiders webs, which they thought
the same as coowebs. 1t is generally thought
that cobweb is deserted SPIDERS web An
authority says that cobwcb is not a SPIDERS
web Although Webster and the Century
Dictionary have it defined as such the au-
thority claims that both have made mistakes
A cobWeb, says this writer, Is formed in some
manner as yet unex planned by the adhesion
of PARTICLES of impalpable floating dust ap-
parently self-coherent and the result is a
veillike web without any approach to regular
ity of form, therein differing from the true
spiders web. The cobweb is many times
heavier than spider web, and is never Occur
pied by spider or any other insect 1t is most
frequently found IN rooms that have long
been darkened and are slightly damn, and
generally has several flamentious pendants
of varying length II is never fastened across
space from one point to another but is inyar-
iably pendulous. The writer warns people
against the danger OF taking spider S webs
as he says many cases of serious illness have
resulted from swallowing them. While this
authority may be correct, 1t is very dif1cult
to make people believe that the cobweb is NOT
made by spider or some other insect One
man told me that the substance OF the cobweb
is vegetable" The Wooster case of asthma.
which. by the way, is the only case uDon