The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The handsomest feather fan on record, says
the Ladies Home Journal is that owned by
| the Countess of Lonsdale. which consists of
] nFe wide white feathers, the longest twenty
! Inc hes. with a handle of amber having her
| monogram in diamonds and costing 81 500
! Pearl, shell ana amber mountings an shorter
| feathers in the lyre-snaped fans cost from S25
10 SlJO Even for so dain one, though
! simple. may be had In the closing fans
! really choice specimen costs from SIS to S25.
| From s. to So come very stylish ones, but
| under that price they have a cheap look,
i, though many are carried in black, light cOlors,
! and the natural mixed gray. The sticks or
| mountlngs have much to do with the price.
| A feather fan is supposed to last life time
! and should always be kept in box. II is
! favortte bridal present and is never out OF
! style, but handsome design OF this kind is
| only suitable for full dress.
1t must have been difficult IN the middle
ages for a man of limited means to take care
| Of his savings, says the Athen8um. There
| were, 1t Is true, the Lombard and GenOeSe
| bankers, who sdeaE with princes. mobiles,
| blshops~a and the abbots Of the greater monas-
| terles. ana as time went on there arose the
| S1eneSe-RomaD firm of Chigi with its hun
| dred branches, which in later times supplied
a Fontln to the ,Holy.Se who bore the name
| OF Alexander VII, but Of what service were
| these great luxury-loving people to the ped
| der the yeoman, or; the small Shopkeeper.
! whose gains came not in Ly pounds, angels,
| or marks, but in penny driblets. with per-
| haps an odd groat OF profit on a very sue ess-
| full venture. How was their money ored?
LII W
| wardens took care of it in the paTi 5h chest,
| though If put to the proof of what we say
we should not be very ready With an answer
| but it IS quite certain that as years rolled on
| and guilds sprang up in every village they
| acted as bankers for the guild men. But
| there must have been many persons who be
| longed TO no guild, some because they were
| OF loose life and such as no guild would
| roll. others because they were not on good
| terms with the aldermen or because they
| were landless folk who had no settled place of
| danger
| the person in those days There were many
| Robin Hoods abroad. who had n D Scruples as
| to robbing the poor as well as the rich. To
| the weak the only course that was open, if
| they could not deposit their coin in the hands
| OF some trustworthy neighbor, was to bury it
| in the earth This is the exploration of the
| numerous boards of coin which have turned
| up from time to time from the thirteenth cen
| tury to the present day. -f-.
Godfrey Drage. in the course Of a report on
Russia addressed to the royal commission on
labor, contributes some interesting details re.
| garding beggars in that country, says the
| London Telegraph. thousands of men, wo-
| men and children, he says. regularly set out
| from their homes with the object of earning
| their livelihood. not by work, but by begging.
| The "Shouvalikt," who have their headquar-
| tiers in the villages Of Shouyallki and Kiln,
are among the most notorious of these beg
| garS. They frequently travel in troops of
| ten or twelve, alleging that they have been
| burned out of their homes and giving
| graphic account of the fire. At other times
/
| ing to be deaf and dumb or insane, with pla-
| cards round their necks testifying to their
| lnhrmity. They travel on foot to the Don and
| frequently return with a cart and one if not
more horses. The district OF the Soudogda,
| which is one of the most unfertile parts of
| European Russia. is another headquarters
| of the beggar army. AS soon as field work
| is over in the autumn whole villages organize
themselves into aTtels and start out TO beg.
The whole population of the village of Mari
min live by means OF begging. CrippleS and
blind persons are in great request and flock
from the surrounding country into the vii
| lagos to join those members Of the beygar
| artel who have no blind persons or cripple, in
their own family. AS soon as the fasting
| season begins they return home with their
| booty, which includes OBJECTS of the most
| varied de 5criptlon, for they never refuse any
| gifts. These they sell at the next fair, and
| live during the spring and summer on the
profits and what they can steal from persons
IN their own neighborhoOd. The example CT
| the Soudogda beggars has been followed
| in other localities, especially in the
governments of KostrOma and Tver In tie
| latter there is group of villages where girls
and women earn their livelihood by begging.
Some of them find their profession
so lucrative that many girls prefer
1t to marriage and remain beggars
during the whole of their lives. The kaiouLi
| travel with horse and cart. and a humber Ct
assistants, and they choose their companions
from among the fee0lest children and Grip
| pies. Blind children are, highly priced, and
they frequently add to the pitiful appearance
| OF these children by taking their eyes out OF
|
often MAIN their hands and wound them
| selves and If enough real or pples cannot be
obtained, they are manufactured by tying up
one arm or leg. The kalouni seldom beg
| themselves, but conhne their attention to the
supervision of their assistants and to selling
the articles obtained by the latter. Some
| times their profits are enormous. A kaloun
| accompanied by two adults and four or five
| children. gets from to 10 rubles week;
many take home as much as 1000 rabies,
| leaving the children and cripples, through
whom they have gained their wealth, to their
fate.
Essential oils are distinguished from the
so-caIled fixed" oils by the fact that the for
mer when subjected to heat will wholly evap-
crate, leaving no trace behind, says the
| washington Star. Anybody may obtain
| these volatile oils by simply soaking the
| leaves or other odoriferous parts OF plant in
! alcohol The lCohol will take up the oil and
| will thus be transformed into home made
| cologne, Nuts and barks, to be distilled for
| their oils, are first crushed, and roots are
! chopped up into little pieces. Woods are re.
| duced prelimlnarily to shavings or sawdust.
For example, cedar oil. which is much used
| by perlumers, is made from the shavngs col
lected in lead pencil factories. 1t is a sort of
| by product of the lead pencil industry. Hard
| seeds. like caraway and anise, are smashed
| preliminartly with rolls. Beside peppermint
| oil, considerable quantities of the OILS of Law
| ender. sassafras and birch are produced in
this country. The tirch oil is from birch
| bark. Sassafras oil is obtained from the
bruised roots of the sassafras tree which is
| North America. Most of 1t is distilled within
sixty miles of Baltimore, which Is the princi-
pal depot for its sale. Isolated squatters in
| New Jersey and elsewhere do q small busi.
ness in the distillaton of sassafras root
| An1se-seed oil Is used in the manufacture Of
liqueurs. Caraway seed oil is employedas a
| scent for cheap toilet soaps and for liaueurs
| Celery seed oil is sometimes utilized as an
aphrodisiac. An oil obtained from the sweet
flag is useful to perfumers and to manufac-
! tUrers of liqueurs Laurel oil and
| ginger oil also contribute favor to
| some ltqueurs as do likewise oil of allsplce
| and the oil distilled from the fowery tops of
the sweet marioram. The same may be said
OF vanilla oil and nutmeg Oil. Laurel oil is
| used to keep off insects, Juniper oil is a
| valuable diuretic. The flowers OF the carno-
| mile plant yeild an oil much used in perfum-
! ing, which has an agreeable odor of fresh
lemons. CaraWayseed oil is added to purEa.
tive medicines to prevent gripping. Oil of
ponnyroyal Is utilized medicinal purposes and
as an adulterant of oil of peppermint An oil
derived from rosewood root serves as a scent
| for so-taued rose soaps A hundredwelght
| of the root yields three ounces of oil. Sandal
| wood oil is highly valued by perfumers and
| physicians Tdrpenune is an essential oil. IL
| is obtained by distlling the crude rosin'
| which exudes from the tree. Oil OF eucalv.
Plus is used to dilute cologne waters II is
also valuable for antse pttc dressings The
eucalyptus 70 ms the greater part Of the