The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

l population OF about a million and a half
! than Ireland.
/ In Sweden it is believed that if a bride,
during the marriage ceremony, can keep
/ her right foot in advance of the bride
/ groom's, she is destined 10 secure future
I breeches."
/ The death Of the oldest cat in Connect
7 cut, al the age Of p years and months.
is recorded at Hartford. The cat was
named Dick, and was a handsome fellow,
Maltese and white, bright and intelligent
ABOVE the average Of his race, and had
I associates.
An English working girl on
an an em3igIant ship wrote this to
land: Dear Madam--I hope this finds Won
Wen as II leaves me. The ship is in the
mlddle or the Red sea. and il is fearful
MI A.. am m IN q terrible state of melting
an an Gay long But honored madame,
know you will be pleased to hear that 1
land u --''e
glsI tells of a remarkable fall of stones
winch took place at some early date in
the history OF Mexico. He describes four
teen huge masses in all. and advances the
very likely theory that they orieinaIlv
formed a single meteoric mass that was
shattered by the intense heat ingendered
WINE passing through the earth's atmos-
phere. me fragments of this immense
meteorite are scattered over a section OF
country siXty-six miles in length and TWEEN
ty-two miles in width, and il is estimated
that its total weight was but little short
OF 1000 pounds. One piece of il now in
me National Museum at Washington
weighs 400 pounds, or little more than
one-forth of the estimated total.
Life in the French penal colony at New
Caiedonla has been pictured as so agree
able; both by reason of the climate as well
as tne lenlency with which cOnvicts have
been treated, that TRANSPORTATION seems
70 have lost most of its terrors, says the
New York Tribune. Criminals do not con-
ceal their preference for a long sentence
IN the beautiful Pacific island to a much
shorter term with hard labor in one of
the penitentiaries at home, and when per
petrating a misdeed have sought as a rule,
10 render their offense as serious as DOS
slDie, so as to entail transportation If cap
tured. IL is with view of putting an
END TO this sentiment that the French
government has now decided to stop send
ing conVicts to New Caledonia. and is
nniaklng arrangements TO deport them in
stead to the Gaboon, the fever-stricken
ana most pestilential of all districts of
French Congoland. in Africa
The color of New York is red" said a
much-traveled American artist to the
reporter of the Philadelphia Record. II
mean, he went on, that look down on
New York from any hight sufficient to
give you a good birds eye view of the
CITY, and you will have a distinctly red
ERECT. Now Washington, on the other
hand, seen from the monument or from
the porch a Arlington. looks green The
color of Chicago from the observat ion
point at the top of the Masonic Temple
Is whity-drab. So is san Francisco,
seen from any of the SUBMITS of it's seven
hills. st. Louis is still whittier, when you
look down al it from the top of the ex-
change; while Boston, looked at from the
hills back of Cambridge, is gray. Phila-
delphia, from the scafoldng on the city
hall tower, is red and Baltimore as YOU
get glimpse of it from Druid Hill. is also
red, but a deeper red-something ap-
preaching burnt sienna.
The wedding ring is almost invariably
placed on the fourth finger of the left
hand, and all because many centuries
ago the Egyptians believed that certain
small artery proceeded directly from the
heart to the termination of that digit
In the "Attick Nights" we read: 1.-THE mo-
ton of this artery may be felt by touch
ing this finger to the pulse, it being an
index, in cases of sickness, or where per
sons are weary or over-labored, always
informing when the heart is overburdened
or offended" Further on in the same
article he says: This finger rarely hath
govt on account of the sympathy and
neighborhood it hath with the heart
1t is the first finger that a newborn
babe is able to move, and the last of which
the dying man looseth control. 1t is
also the one last to swell when the vital
heat is abating in one that is passing
over"
A valuable discovery has been made at
Pianella-Setteimini, near Pompeii. on the
property of a certain Mr.. Vincent dc Pros
CO. A house has been unearthed which
was covered at the time the city was
buLltuf anu IL IS SdlQ 10 De IN a more
rect condition than any building yet dis
covered. it contains several large apart
ments, and three bathrooms with the
basins in sculptured marble, and with
leaden pipes, ornamented with bronze
faucets. The three rooms correspond.
says a writer, in describing the discovery,
10 the calidarium, tepidarium and frief-
oarlum, winch We're always to be found
in ancient houses of the first class In
consequence of the eruptions of Vesuvius
in A. d. 80, the Pompeiian houses brought
to light heretofore have been roofless al
most without exception. Fortunately.
however, that on the. property of NJ de
happy over that fact. The roof measures
almost forty-four feet in length"
Inc vast majority of people are abso-
IuteIy wrong on the subject of feeding.
says Sir Il. W. Richardson in Longman's:
they think that rich and luxurious peoDIe
feeding on the richest and most luxIiri
Gus FOODS, are the most fortunate and
healthy people. l am the director of an
insurance company, and am obliged often
TO form an estimate of the commercial
value of life; if, then, two persons Of 49,
same age and constitutional buiid cor9e
Tor calculation as to the monetary value
OF their future lives, and if one be rich
and luxurious, and the other be comDetent
ana frugal, frugal even to abstemiousness.
l would value the life of the frugal person
as ~ per cent. at least better than that of
the rlch and luxurious person Dives dies
IN plenty, Lazarus in poverty DO NOT
die like Lazarus if you can help it, and do
not die IKE Dives if you have the oppor-
enough to find if you determine to learn
how on least food you can do the most
ana best work. Never eat until Won arc
satated; never eat in the day one heavy
meal, but divide your food into three
light meals, equally distributed as to time
and quantity; eat slowly take small
mouthfuls; masticate, or chew. your foo5
We'll; touch your food with your fingers n |
little as possible; do not cry out for ami /
mai food more than twice a dav at most.
have all animal food we'll cooked ana IL, /
not forget fruit as food In Queen Eliza |
beth time the orange. the golden frIIit /
OF the Hesperldes, might find its wav 10 |
the queens table; but such fruit was in
deed scarce Joints of meat were cut M
with the trill OF paper round the end Of |
the joint to hold by, forks being unl<nov,Di
and her royal subjects, a short-lived raca
knowing little how to make the most ~ /
lie IN the matter of feeding and dripiJ
ing, suffered from diseases which were of
the most avoidable as well as obiectfoUoi
dinerent reign: we have fruit galore and
have clean forks, instead of dirty An sp IirI
to raise our food with two adyants s5as
equally sweet and wholesome, though GO
different in kind e0ueh SO
Awarded
Highest Houors- Worid,e ro,-a