The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-16

agitation AGAINST the cruel custom of foot
binding. At a gathering in the Central NJ.
z church. Shanghai, numbering 60 per
sons. committee was appointed for an
active crusade
There is a Spanish prOverb which says
that an ounce Of mother Is worth pound
OF clergy" The home let IL be always re-
membered is the first church. the hearth
stone the first altar. and father and moth
er the irst teachers
The following are among the brief and
curious epitaphs seen in European Gene
teries- At Worcester. England. the slab
erected over a departed auctiOneer IS in
scribed with a single word, Gone At
Sussex the initials and date of the death
OF the deceased are followed by two words,
lie Was" on the monument Of Charles
the Great OF Germany the brief inscription
Is "Caralo Masno-" The most remarkable
Is at Cane Hill cemetery. Belfast, Ireland,
called for.
Electric lights are playing sad havoc
with shade trees in towns and villages"
says philosopher. The effect is to
make the leaves appear as though they
had been subject 10 a blighting breath.
Aroorlculturlsts say that the light keeps
the trees awake. and, consequently, they
are tired 10 death. Trees need sleep and
resi- As well as any other thing in nature,
ana the lack Of this rest causes the leaves
70 droop. This solution is probably cor
rect, as II has been noted that similar
Srees n the neighborhOOd Of those af-
lecte1. but removed from the exposure OF
the Illumination. retain their strength
and color" This should be looked into.
SAYS the New Orleans Picayune. If a
remedy IS not provided for before another
spring, the trees near electric lights will
An enthusiastic cyclist thus discusses
ne a9vantages Of the wheel to the
New York Press: THE trail of the BIZ
cycle is over us all. The japanese used BIZ
cycles and beat the Chinese, who regard
them with superstitious dread. Sar-
ooN IS writing a play around a bicycle.
some NDUN n England has invented a
oicycle cab, which two men propel and
balance. Thousands of men and as many
thought it dignihed and they are learning
70 think more of il every day. Look at
ne sort OF people who don't ride bicycles,
You never meet a tramp on a lonely road
on bicycle. and they're unknown to burg
lars Men and women have taken wedding
journeys on bicycles built for two. The
on horseback carried off the lady behind
MN on pillion. You've got to get abreast
OF the times, my dear boy, don't you
II has always been a wonder to the
honest miner where the gold comes from
that he finds in the grass roots at the
tops OF mountains far away from lodges
OF gold-bearing quartz, says the Chicago
Record. Out at Cripple Greek last sum
mer TINS phenomenon was pointed out.
and one ingenious explanation which is
generally accepted by the ignorant miners,
was that the little particles of gold
cropped from the SCOT that was thrown
out by the volcanoes that are said to have
ornamented that section away back in the
mysterious past. But Prof Walcott the
director of the geological survey says
tnat Is not so. He thinks that the tons
OF the mountains there where the gold
uusl IS now found were once covered with
crags OF quartz which decayed and crum-
pea years ago. Their dust has mostly
blown away, but the kernels of gold.
Delng heavier, have hidden in the soil and
remained. Hundreds of thousands of tons
o. ulrt nave been Carted from the noun
tam tops TO the creeks in the valleys where
there was water to wash il out. That is
what they call mining the scenery"
ne procession of law is as ancient as
society, and the more enlightened the So
clety the more necessary and honorable
me profession, says the Chicago Tribune
when Dean Swift called the law a bottom
less PIT, cormorant, a harpy that de-
YOURS everything, he was more witty than
wise Society would be bottomless pit
ana the harpy OF anarchy would devour
everything without it, We are in the
nablt OF pointing back to the thirteenth
century or 10 the time of Edward | as the
age when the profession first appeared
Inc advocate was known in Roman juris-
prudence The eloquent Cicero won his
nrSt renoWn as an orator in the defense
OF Roscius, the great tragedian. against
oylI1, tne dictator of Rome. Here Cicero
met such famous advocates as Gotta and
the bar. Far back of this time. however.
even 400 3. c. Eschines and Demosthenes
We're advocates and pleaders at the Ia r
of Athens Before this golden age of
Attic eloquence mention is made in Daniel
% 81 lhe BaoyIohlan governors, judges sher-
ms and counsellOrs, and 900 81 c. the
profession Of counsellor was known
On May ., 1891, says a writer in the st.
LOUIS Republic, l gave a description of a
confederate silver half dollar -hfch wa :
at that time in the possession of Mesers
ROBERTS Collins at Gainesville, Ga. The
specimen referred to is one of four. ali
mar ., were eyer struck from the confeder-
ave ole Tor that denomination of coins and
Is now reckoned as being one of the rarest
OF American pieces, the dollar of 1904 not
SS ~. l Inc confederate silver half dol
lar pears the date of 1861, and was struck
az the mint at New Orleans lust before
In6t institution was closed by the federals
II mas the Goddess Of Liberty on one side
anu stalk each of cane and cotton and
the stars and bars of the confederacv in
q coat OF arms on the other. In 1891 the
1 ee OF the last information I have on
me SUBJECT the four known specimens of
TINS rare com were located as follows: One
IN Meriweather county, Georgia one in
louisiana; the Roberts-Collins piece de-
ScrDed above and one belonging to a
New YORK collector, who purchased the
SSpeeIIhen IN 1880. giving $500 in United
states gold therefor. The die which gave
press was for years the property of Barry
500 - q New FORK city, who sold it in
tSsS TO Henry Chapman of Philadelphia
1or S51 The account says that several rem
reSentatives of southern historical soci-
et.es 6.d on ii, but the highest price offered
was so. They surely didn't want it very
1 believe it was Mark Twain who con-
yinced the timid old lady that it was more
dangerous to remain at home than II was
70 travel, because a larger number of peo-
pie d1ed in bed than were killed on the
railway cars, save writer in the Chicago
record. And it is another fnterestff7e,
TACT that, according to the statistics IF
IS SAFER TO travel on a steamer than on
train. OF the 100000 persons who
We're carried on steamboats, last wear only
70 were lost, while of the 593. $50 go who
travelled by rail 299 were killed. which nv
the way, IS a very small percentaee-onlyy
one IN ], S83,l53. OF the 299 passen gers killad
by railway accidents during the wear
covered by the report, sixty eight were on
account OF collisions; twenty-five on ac-
count OF derailments, ten on account of
other accidents to trains than those
named, two at highway CROSSINGS. sixty
hVe al stations and 1872 from other causes
not classified. The total of persons Other
imam employees and passengers killed dur
ing the year was 1870, of which 647 only
are reported by the carriers as not Tres
passing There is in this country no
ofncial tribunal to decide in case of a cas-
uaIty whether the carrier or the person
Is responsible so that no great degree az
conhdence can be put in this statement
Ihis subject of railway accidents is.one
or such great Importance that it is he
heved that congress might wisely make
a definite appropriation for extending the
inquiry. One in every $40 employees was