The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-03
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JtC--ADA LfO VI bL4Lbt quarts uIoIc IA4lh Ll1u
usual Jaoez puts all the other cows out
now when a thunder storm comes up, in hope
that their milk production may be similarly
Increased.
Some months ago Mayor Pingree Of De-
trOit conceived the idea that it would be a
good plan to plant the unimproved property
IN the suburbs OF that city with potatoes Tor
the benefit Of the poor the coming winter.
Inc consent Of the owners of the property
was readily obtained, and a subscription
raised for Duyiny the seed and the expenses
OF planting and cultivation. The exper1-
ment cost 5000, and the crop. now about to
be gathered, Is estimated at not less than 49,
OCO bushels Of potatoes worth 80 O0O The
plan worked admirably, except that the sub
ScrlptlOn raised was not sufficient to cover
the expenses. The mayor, however. is a man
OF resources, and has hit on the plan Of as
SeSslng the deECit against the salaries Of the
city officials. They all paw cheerfully, and
the pore so, as the most OF them hold once at
the mayors pleasure. The success Of the plan
mas set the people of the city dis
cusslng similar one, which is to Purchase d
large tract OF land close 10 the city, and altot
small patches of it to the INDECENT citizens.
that they may raise their own potatoes. 1t
is capital scheme, provided the INDECENT
cltlZens can be pursuaded TO work their
gardens which, IN many cases would be
found hard to do Most people who get down
FAR enough to be helped commonly prefer
that to helping themselves
In an interesting article by DR.. William w
Ireland Of Edinburgh. in the Neurologist, on
the subject Of insanity, he holds that persons
accustomed to mental cultivation and disc-
pine have great advantages in escaping from
the taints of insanity. He thinks that mathe-
matlcs is very healthtul exercise of a as
turbed mind. de quotes Bacon, who says,
III a man wits do wander let him study
mathematics, for IN demonstrations, If his wits
De called away ever so little, he must begin
again" The learning of new language DR.
ireland says has been found by experience
to engage the mind without fatiguing or
harassing il. The study OF animated nature
zoology and botany, with its illimitable helds
and Its cultivation OF the inceptive and re
ceptlve faculties alike, and the opportunity it
gives for outdoor exercise, is valuable
means of diversion tor mind uuhinged or
liable to become so. But we must not forget
that all men are not studious; the great ma
lorlty OF men rather prefer pursuits which
bring them in direct contact and dealing with
the outer world. He who wishes to escape
the morbid current Of his thoughts and fears
should select some one pursuit and involve
himself IN action concerning it. OF all such
occupations known to US, gardening is the
most wholesome and expressing Gardening
gives exercise to the body and mind alike,
and though mainly an out of door pursuit it
also gives some employment under cover.
A recent dispatch, says The Republic, CON
tains synopsis of an account of battle be.
tween the two contending Oriental countries
as 1t appeared in the king-Pau. That same
king-t au (meaning Capital Sheet") is the
Oldest newspaper published in the world.
us uISJ ISSUE dDDbaTeQ IN the year Jll A. D..
and 1t continued to he issued at regular
intervals for nearly 100 years. In the year
lOJ6 1t was discontinued and did not again
come before the reading public OF the
almOnd-eyed kingdom until the year 1851.
since which time 1t has been printed weekly
and on rice paper Of uniform size. During
the whole of the present century it has
regularly issued daily edition published
at noon. and selling for > 'kesh" Up to
June, 1882 Its contents consisted wholly of
! court news and council orders. When the
company was recognized on the date given
arrangements were made to issue three
editions each day, besides the weekly. The
early morning issue is called Hsing Pau
business sheet, and contains
trade items, exchange quotations and all
manner of commercial intelligence
| The second tissue, the Shuen-Eau 10 hcial
sheet, appt arS near noon tprinted on yellow
paper same as the morning edition. ana CON
talns official announcements. fashionable Cos
sip. personal and general news tie evening
edition printed on red paper) is called the
Ittani-Pau country sheet. 1t consists mainly
OF extracts nom the two earlier editions. and
is SAID to have u host Of subscribers who live
as much as 1000 miles from the place Of pub
ucauon, as well as thousands in the country
provinces adjoining Pekin. All these issues
of the King -Pau-for each edition bears the
original name in addition to its own special
tltle-are edited by six members of the ma
tiOnal Academy of Sciences who are an.
pointed by the Chinese government and paid
out OF the public treasury. The total number
OF copies of the klngPau printed daily varies
from l3JOOO 10 l4UUUl
In a rookery near Bristol it was noticed
that particular pair of old birds continued
to visit their nests long after all other broods
had flown, says the London News. A man
climbed the tall elm and found fullgrown
rock so firmly held by some string in the lin
ing OF the nest that 1t had no hope of escape.
Lowell reckoned among his immortal Gar.
den Acquaintance two blue JAYS which his
knife delivered from similar captivity
The third, in its struggle to escape, had so
much harmed itself that 1 thought it hui
name. he says, Ito put an end to its misery
Sadder still is the fate that sometimes Oefalls
a whole LroOd of swallows or martins Matched
so late in the year that, when their parents
90, they are left behind to perish miSerably
in the fOrsaken nest. IL is comforting to
reflect that their trail bodies could not long
hold out against the keen air of Novem Der
| BY most birds the nest is occupied only
| for brief space in the year. 1t is more
| of a nursery than living room. Yet the Span
| ish proverb is not wholly true that There
are no birds in last years nest" There are
| a good many that use the same f amewOrk
| year after year; repairing it no doubt at
| least refining 1t; but IL is the same nest If
| rocks do sometimes rebuild from the same
| nest it seems as if the majority were content
| to repair what the storms had spared Of their
| Old tenementS. House sparrows certainly
| often use the old nest again, and some of
| them probably inhabit the family mansion all
| the year. kingtshers have been known to
| resort to the same hOiC in the bank for wears
| together. And there is a case on record in
which "a hole was lnha oited by a pair of king
| fishers, or their descendants, for thirty wears
| at a stretch. The tycatcher. too is very con
| slant to her old haunts, and will come back
| to the old spot and repair the old nest for
many successive years We all know how
! the swallow returns year after year to her
nest among the rafters; and the martin
to her ola home beneath the caves sand
martins too. come back without fail To
the bank Of the river, and when they are on
served 10 begin a fresh tunnel IL is perhaps
N ore because the OLD quarters have been rem
dered Untenaule by swarms OF tieas than from
any gre q hankerlng after better view or a
drier situation. The most extraordinary case
Of all probably is that Of the blue tits which
built their nests in bottle hung in q tree TO
Drain. in "a garden near Stockton on Tees in
the year 1875. I heir tenantcy, or that of their
descendants lasted, with two short intervals
only, for close on to ninety years. But many
birds the majority, no doubt have no such
dwelling to resort to, and in these hard times
when darkness begins to settle down over the
Ian Escape, are fam to creep away into the
shelter Of ivy and evergreens into roofs and
stacks and hollow trees. But even those that
make no nest at all come back year after
year to the same SIot, to the same solitary
corner OF the upland pasture, the same ledge
OF rock, the same stretch OF shelterless
shingle. The ringed ployer win stay ali the
year within cry OF the beach whore lust
above high water mark she will Law her four
great eggs in a little hollow among the peb-
bles
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