The morning news., 1894-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A memorial 70 Thomas a Kempis is TO be
erected in a chur.h at Zolle, Holland. and
two prizes are offered for designs OF a stone
monument in the style OF the Fifteenth cen
tury, not to cost more than - 200.
Willard I. Twombly Of Portland Ne. who
recently built bicycle to be propelled by the
vapor Of ether. has now finished an ether
launch, operated in a similar manner by
mechanism in which the vapor Of ether takes
the place OF steam. As ether is vapOriZed at
Sc degrees, while water requires 213 the saw
ing IN fuel Is said to be important.
A Cincinnati man describes for a reporter
Of the Enquirer Of that city a novel sight he
saw recently at a mill devoted TO making
paper OF pine tree pulp. Il was invited to Sc
lect tree. which 1 did, and it was cut down
Tor me IN the morning. l watched il during
the day undergoing the various processes Of
paper making and at o'clock that evening
the tree was paper. At midnight portion of
II was sufnclently dry to be taken to a print
ing ONCE. and few Of the copies of the ne xt
morning iaper were printed on his product.
From a tree to a printed newspaper in twenty
tour hours is pro-aoly the best time on rec
ord"
An oculist Of long experience in Philadel-
phia' who was recently asked by a Record re-
porter of that city to state the most common
causes OF accidental injuries to the eve. re-
pneo; Among children, throwing stones
ana playing shlnny'-a most dangerous
game Another not infreQuent cause OF acct
dent is allowing children 10 stand about the
Kitchen range when the cook is frying fat that
spuSters and nles apout the room. Among
adults the umbrella tits points when carried
open IN crowd. and tip when carried closed
over the shoulder, is quite common cause
OF injury. and flying cinders another. But
most OF the cases we treat are not due TO &C
cldent, but rather to the prolonged misuse OF
the eyes by close application either in dim or
glarlng light; and often injuries arise from
strictly constitutional disorders"
For centuries it has been the belief of the
common people of Genoa that treasures were
hidden in the bed Of the Polcavera a stream
that runs by the city, says the New York sun
Recently carter, in digging for sand in the
bed OF the dried up torrent. came upon hidden
treasure. OF which so far coin of the face value
OF 6O.O60 francs has heen found, and the sup
ply is not yet exhausted BY the Italian law
nail OF this goes to the state and half TO the
hnder. The value of the coins is far beyond
the sum mentioned: many OF them are rare
ana OF great artistic value: they are chiefly
gold and belong to the period between 1860
and 1850, that is, the reigns of Louis XII,
Charles VIII, Louis XII, and Francis L, and
are all either French or Genoese. The Geno-
ese ducats are specially rare and will fetch
high prices The search for treasure is going
on under police supervision.
One of the rarest diseases to which the
human frame and internal machinery is heir
to" snakes-inthe blood and elephantiasis
not excepted-iS known as "hydatid systs Of
the liver" says the ST. Louis Repu lie This
rare and serious disease is brought about by
the ova or eggs of tapeworms "a kind peculiar
to dogs) entering the human stomach in food
or drinking water and being carried into he
liver by the blood vessels The egg is only
about the one-hundredth of an inch in diane
ter, and never develops live worms in the
human subject AS already noted, they are
taken into the liver by the blood vessels and
Immediately upon their lodgment in that
organ form cysts or little bags around them
selves like the cocoon around the caterpillar
In the stomach OF dog, however. they
rapidly develop into full-fedged hydatfds or
minute canine tapeworms, the maximum
length OF which scarcely ever exceeds one
quarter of an inch. This intinltesimal pest
has head about one sixteenth of an inch in
length provided with several hooks and
suckers. a cure of hydatid cysts Of the liver
Is impossible without surgical operation.
The quaint little Flemish town of Furnes,
situated twelve miles from Dunkirk, has Just
celebrated its annual procession with the
ferYor OF the middle ages, says the New York
Sun. This procession which in reality is a
Passion play, enacted by groups, was lnsti-
tuted many centuries ago, in atonement for
the Sacrilegious act of Two soldiers and has
since undergone nc change. The town be-
comes for this single day in the year the rem
dezvouS for devotees and pilgrims from all
parts Of Belgium. The PROCESSION consists of
forty groups. and the, costumes-many Of
which are provided by the inhabitants OF the
town, who regard it as a privilege to figure
among the actors-are Of the richest descrip-
tlon. The sacrifice Of Abraham, the Proph-
cts, St John leading a lamb. the stable of
Bethlehem with Mary and child, the shep-
herds, the kings of the East the flight in TO
Egypt, and all the episodes of the savior s
life, His entry into Jerusalem with the Apos-
ties, the Last supper, the Garden of Olives
the betrayal by Judas, and the scenes of the
Cruc1hX1on are the groups which constitute
this panorama OF the Passion. Each gloup is
preceded by penitents wearing long robes,
with head and face concealed by a cowl and
1ya hsY-e Y-eFA
play. is over the public houses are besleged
and dancing begins in the numerous booths
set up for the occasion.
Col. Rhodes, who has Just reached England
from the Cape, brings news of highly in
teresting archaeological discovery in Mashona-
land, which seems to point TO a previous oc-
cupation by different race of people proba-
bly, the Arabs says the London Daily
Graphic. Shortly before the outbreak of the
war prospector discovered a sealed cave
similar TO those used by the Mashonas for
burying their dead. On proceeding to examine
the structure he discovered no trace of skele-
tons, but Ut upon large and curiously carved
bowl which he brought away. Shortly after
the prospector went to war and was killed.
Col. Rhodes, hearing of the discovery pur-
the Hon. Cecil Rhodes museum. The officials
OF the museum and a numCer of archaeolo-
glsts and scientists have examined the find
but are quite at loss TO account for
its presence in Mashona sepuI-
cher, and it is sought to
ootain information from archaeologists
In London on the matter. The three photo
graphs of the bowl show clearly its beauti-
full workmanship. One represents the lot
tom of the vessel, another the rim and cen.
ter, while the third gives a general view. IL
is made of peculiar hard wood-entirely un-
known in MashOnaland-and is about a foot
in diameter 1t Will be seen and this is re-
earded as the most peculiar point about it
that the signs OF thes zodiac, about which the
natives know nothing, are beautifully carved
around the brim. he signs have been care
fullyeXamiued by experts and aTe,pronounced
TO be excellent reproductions of the sym bols
One portion OF the bowl has been eaten
away PROBABLY by white ants, otherwise it is
IN perfect state of preservation. The cen
crocodile. The view held in the Cape is that
the discovery would seem to indicate a pre-
vious occupation of the country.
Why should so many persons say sponta-
nightly instead of spontaneeity? says the New
York Advertiser. There is no excuse for saw
ing ap-pricot for apricot, or ecS-Quable for
ec-quable, or ERIN for Erin or asahdity for
aSafeJida. or Ven Zu-ee-la for Ven ecu el a. or
Adonis short o. for Ado mis- dong o. or Dia-
ma long a., or mattron or PATRON and so on
1t is Just as easy TO accent the last syllable as
the first in "pretense. Some persons call
bomb "toom, instead Of bum. because the
spelling seems to warrant it, but when thew
ent warrant. In the west and south the II in
isolate is made long and nearly everywhere
educated persons say truck-u-lent for true Gu
lent, a-men-aDle for a-meeu-aDle leV.yer for
lee-ver, and give the sound of u" in up in
stead OF ~ IN IT in such words as squirrel