The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-14
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descendants should be called Hebrews"
or "Israelites" or Jews is still kept up
in the JeWIsh-H ebraic-Israelitish papers.
The Ttdings sums up the case in a rev
words. THE majority of the people who
profess the Jewish religion prefer to be
called Jews not because they are ashamed
of upholding the illustrious name of Is
Taeite, but because jew. covers the ground
fully. The adherents of Judaism are the
direct descendants or the Old HEBREW
speaking people and the old lsraelitsh
nation, ana are as we contend. bound to
gether now by nothing but religious tie.
The Jews are not a nation and are not
HebreW-spsak people. They are 2 re-
iigious community"
An IDOLS head of baked clay has been
recently discovered among the sand dunes
near Tangier, where it had been uncovered
by the wind. 1t is said to have in extra
ordinary degree a likeness to the idols
found in Mexico, particularly to the god
called &ipe. Eyes and ears are very little
modelled and on the top of the head is a
pointed object. Nipe was q god wOrShiped
on the coast of Mexico with rites OF IN
common cruelty he was also the goa OF
smiths and gold workers. His human sac
( ritiCeS We're hayed alive The Iangler lQOi
has been decorated with gold mica The
discovery may revive old theories OF a
primitive connection between the Phoe-
nicians and the Indians of Central Amer
lea.
The giant of all the feathered bipeds
was the colossal epiOrnis of Madagascar,
says the St Louis Republic. The scientific
announcement of the discovery OF the re
was made by Godfrey St. Hlaire, the
great French SaVant, on Jan. y, 1881.
scriptiOn had been found in a guano bed,
and stood over twelve feet in height
/ The egg found among the bones, de-
scrlbed by the scientific Frenchman, was
as large as a two-gallon- jug, an ex-
pertinent proving that it would hold the
contents of six large African ostrich
eggs, or 14S common hen eggs. The giant
moa, which is believed to have but re-
Gently become extinct in New zealand,
was larger in point of weight and bulk
than the epiOrnis, but It only stood nine
! feet high, quite high enough, however,
when it is known that its weight was not
/ less than LOCO pounds. The great aux
| is another species of bird but recently
/ extinct The most remarkable thing
about this large aux is the fabulous
/ prices now asked and given for specimens
/ II It's eggs quite recently an egg OF tnls
/ species was sold in London for Sl,225.
/ Ganeys were extensively used in the
/ Mediterranean until the end of the
( eighteenth century, says the Washington
4 Post. The Venetian vessels OF this class
/ were sometimes above 100 feet in length.
4 Four vessels, called galeasses, about
were employed in the Spanish Armada,
each one being rowed by 800 galley slaves.
/ Motley in his History of the United
( an enormous towering fortress at the
/ stern, a Castellated structure almost
! the rowers amidships. At stem and stern
/ ana between the slaves benches We're
/ heavy cannon There were splendid
/ apartment. state cabins, Clapels and
/ pulpits in each, all gOrgeously decorated,
/ and amply provided with awnings, cush-
| ions, StreamerS, standards, gilCed saints
/ ana bands of music. " COnViCtS or galley
/ slaves, chained to the benches propelled
with oars these floating hells. During
the French war the notorious AlgeTine
corsairs committed most OF their piracies
! in swift galleyS, rOwed by the forced
/ labor of Christian slaves. Criminals. al
! though retaining their original title, are
I IN in paP~
/ but are set to labor in the docks and
| military narbOrS of France, Italy and
! Spain, where they have gained an IN
! happy notortety for misery, filth and vice
and the utter degradation Of human
/ nature.
A picturesque but decidedly uncomfort-
! able aspect of India is presented by the
annual return OF the number OF deaths
/ for which wild beasts and snakes are re-
/ sponsible says the Manchester Guardian
! In the official year 1888, 2,S0i persons We're
! killed by savage animals, as against
! 1858 in the preceding twelve months. These
/ figures have very formidable appear
/ anCe but when the vast population Of the
/ Indian empire is remembered 1T viii be
| seen that the proportion is not more than
! one per 1900. The deaths from snake
/ bite numbered 212l3. a considerable in
/ crease on the fatalities from this cause in
I the preceding year. when l9,O2j deaths
/ were registered. So also with regard to
I the killing Of cattle there is an increase,
/ the figures being 1925 in 1893 and 81 G6S in
. 1892. The tigers are responsible for the de
. structiOn of Z $40 cattle in Assam and of
! S,7l6 in Bengal, while leopards killed 10, 35J
/ cattle in Bengal and 1865 IN Madras. There
| We're, of course reprisals for 1899 wild
| beasts We're slain, and the siaSers received
| RS. lGi,SiO in reward for their eXertons.
/ The figure includes l,267 tigers and 4,O8S
! leOpards whose enterprising careers were
/ thus ended. The war against snakes has
resulted in the determination of ll7,120 Of
/ these foes of man. The number killed in
/ the previous year was 81, I89. The snake
/ killers received Rs 2,607 from a grateful
ST Of
figures may help US to realize some dis
I agreeable conditions of daily existence
IN Hindoostan, all the more disagreeable
If, as has been often limited, death from
. snake bite" sometimes covers poison by
| a mans nearest relations.
The onion tribe has received a proper
/ share of attention in folk-legends, says
/ the Pitsburg Dispatch. Some species of
the leek were sacred Oaths were sworn
/ on them in Egypt, where they were the
| symbols of wisdom. 1t is, perhaps, mostly
| celebrated as the national emblem of
! Wales. Various stories are told as to
| the origin of the Welsh custom of wearing
| leeks in their hats on the natal day Of
| their national saint, David, well as
as at other various times. 1t was a
| custom to assemble in the spring and as
| sist each other in ploughing land, and
| leek was contributed to the Cymortha
/ or feed by each participant Another
I account places the origin of the custom
/ much earlier, alleging that at victory
obtained over the SaXons in $40, the Welsh
( led by st. David wore leeks as dstin-
/ gushing badges. Shakespeare refers the
I custom to the battle of Crecy Fluellen
says in Henry Y" dv: - 'if your
/ majesty is remembered of it, the Welsh
men did good service in a garden where
leel<s did grow, wearing leeks in their
/ Monmouth caps, which your majesty
I knows to this hour is an honorable badge
/ of service; and do believe your majesty
/ takes no scorn to wear the leek on ST
/ TaVy's Day The poet DraytOn gives
another origin still to the custom. ST
/ David, he says. lived in contemplation
1 in the Valley of Enias-
And did so truly fast.
| AS he did only drink what crystal Todney
yields,
And fed upon the leeks he gathered in the
fields
In memory Of whom, in each revolving
year
The Welshman. Oh his day, that sacred
herb do wear.
ITO eat the leek' was the Welsh fo,, m
| swallow your own words ShaEesDeare
| uses this phrase IN the play mentioned
above An old English author recon-
! f,, I Cd.