The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


and amusing mistake when J. C. S. Cox, ed
itor Of the Tablet. London, was presented TO
him Catching Of the words OF Introduction
only the announcement that his visitor was
the editor OF a celebrated English paper, the
pope with radiant smile. said: II Punch "
The pope is pardonable if he doesn't read all
the religious papers sent TO the vatican.
An electrical storm in ST. Louis recently
deprived many aquariums. both inSesidences
and show windows, OF their silver and gold
hsh. Thunder ana lightning is judged By old
nshermen and prOprletorS OF animal stores 70
be the cause OF the death Of the tsh which
are found floating on their backs for several
mornings after an electric storm. st.
Louis electrician gives IL as his opinion that
the conclusion Of the thunder breaks the air
chambers which by compression cause the
hsh TO sink and by expansion to rise to the
surface.
The real name of Rolf Boldrewood, the pop
ular Australian novelist, is T. A. Browne,
and he is in private life police magistrate.
He began to write novels when he was She
is IS now-hnding that he could add $50 TO
his yearly income, and as he never played
cards or billiards he could use his leisure
hours that way. He did his writing every
where, in private houses, tents, snd hotels,
and after riding fifty miles would sit down in
a public house and write TIL midnight with
drinking swearing and talking going on
atout him. He was SO absorbed in his char
acters that tears often rolled down his cheeks.
Philip, Count OF K1rchberg, was so strong
that he could drive nail into the wall with
one Of his fingers, says the St. Louis Repub-
lie. A Spaniard named Pedro, who emf
grated to Naples in 1855, drove nails into the
wall with his forehead. Potowka. a Polish
colonel, mashed horseshoes with his hand,
Valentine Einsledel, Count OF SCnwarZenberg,
and Curtof LuetZow, a MecklenLerg NOT le-
man, did the SINE thing with ease The lat
ter could carry tun of wine and throw silver
coins with such force against an oak tree
that the edge embedded Itself in the bark
n a in rhn 1iyrad i'm
burg in 1858, could lift an aum forty English
gallons) OF wine and drink from the bunghole.
Johann, Count Of Zieg enhain Of Hessia, 1855,
pushed aside six aums OF wine, wagon and
all, which INSTRUCTED the road over which he
was riding. Count Siegmund of Burgstall
carried seven adults on his shoulders and
walked about with them for several minutes.
AS a curative agent the snake, dead or
alive, is thought highly Of says All the Year
Round. In Suffolk they hold that goitre may
be cured in the following manner. Let a
second person hold the common snake by its
head and tail, and dlaw it slowly nine times
across the diseased neck; but after every
third time the creature must be allowed to
crawl about awhile. 1t must afterward be
put alive into bottle, which should be tightly
Corked and ouried-the swelling will waste
with the snake. Some say the snake should
be killed and its skin worn around the neck.
III other parts of Suffolk a snakes avel
skim is worn inside the hat for headache
Mr.. Black, in his Folk Medicine" states
that an old man used to sit on the steps OF
King 5 College chapel at Cambridge, selling
snake sloughs (selfcast skins for the same
| complaint. In some places, he goes on to
say, 1t IS used for extracting thorns but its
virtue is repellent, not attractive. For
instance, q slough bound on the wounded
palm Of the hand would drive the thorn
through to TIE back.
The Romans used the first eight letters of
the alphabet A to H to mark the consecutive
days of their recurring nundical period says
/ - q rly n len ans
adopted the same plan for marking the days
Of the week, dropping the last letter III as
unnecessary. In the church calendar has
always stood for the nrst of January, B for
the second. etc, on down to @ for the seventh
and then the cycle began again with A which
would make 1t return on the 18th, the 22d, and
SO on. Each day OF the year has thus its cal
endar letter, and the letter which falls on the
| first Sunday in the Economical letter OF
the year, Feb. % has always the letter c.
| and March /, the letter d. Feb
%, or leap day" has no letter provided for
! 1t; and this makes change in the Sunday
! letter after February so that in leap years
! there are two domintcal letters. AS the com
! mon year contains hfty-two weeks and one
! day, the dominica letter changes from year
| to year. always going backwards one place
for common year and two places for leap
| years. This mode OF representing the days OF
the week has been uninterruptedly employed
| in the calendar of the church throughout the
Christian world since the earliest dates in
our era.
4uOuRu every SCuOO4DOy presumably KNOWS
| to a nicely where the Cape of Good Hope is
situated, there does undoubtedly prevail in
| less enlightened circles some vagueness Of
| conception as to the exact locality of that eel
| ebrated headland, says the Pittsburg Dis
! patch Even the gentle reader is family
| conscious OF uncertainty, and answers with a
| brlsknesS not born Of conviction: The Cape
! OF Good Hope? Why, of course know where
! it is; down at the end of South Africa. "
| Gentle reader, you are not very far out 50
! or 100 miles perhaps. And as you say, il Is
not OF the slightest consequence from practi-
cal point OF view. The Cape of Good Hope
! lies at considerable distance from the end;
| and is, in fact, the middle of the
! three promonotories, severally in
conspicuous which jointly terml-
| nate slender peninsula, some twenty miles
| in length, forming the barrier between False
! bay and the Atlantic ocean on the west
! These three headlands, lying near together,
| and commonly undivided on a map Of mod
! ern scale are local. designated Cape Point.
| 1t was here that Bartholomew DiaZ first en-
| countered In full force the prevalent south
| easterly gales. and denounced the rugged,
! threatening, three fold promontory under the
| sounding appellation of the Cane of Storms,
| to be afterward rechristened by D Gus trustful
| hearts the Cape Of Good Hope. The Cape Of
| Storms, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Fare
! well. Is there nothing in a name?
There are some people still left who refuse
to believe that base tall can travel out Of
| the straight line between the pitchers box
! and the home plate on its way to the catcher
| says Godeys Magazine. 1t has been proved
| again and again that a hall can be curved"
| by well known experiment. Two stakes
! are set up so that the pitcher standing be-
! hind one cannot hit a mark on the left side of
| the other in a straight line, the ball passing
| to the right of the hrst. Indeed. a short
! while ago a noted college pitcher was offered
| 81 coo by an old gentleman OF his acouaint-
| ance If he could prove to his satisfaction that
! base ball could be pitched in a curve. The
pitcher at once set up two stakes in his back
yard and curved the ball around them in
| fine style. But the old gentleman in
sisted that the whole thing was an
! ptical delusion, and is no more convinced
| than ever. Every boy knows how hard it is
| to bat an 'outcurve' or a drop" and after
/ he has struck out a few times wants no one
to prove to him. there is such a thing as curve
! pitching There is little use in trying to ex-
! plain the theory of this performance here as
many scientific papers have been written on
IL, which, after all, would not help man to
toss tennis ball. The final twist given the
| ball as 1t leaves the hand makes spinning
motion, so that there is more resistance nv
the air on one side or the other, and the bali
| is forced out Of straight line by UNEQUAL
! pressure on one Of its sides.
II was in the workshop of goldbeater in
New York recently for the FIRST time in nv
! life said L. S. Tomlinson of Chicago to the
| st. Louis Globe Democrat. Probably less is
| known OF that interesting trade than any
! other extant. One reason Is that there are SO
! few engaged In it by comparison with other
! industries. / was greatly interested in the