The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

without pockets, and although their
shape made them look small. they prOba-
bly, had about as many square inches OF
surface as the carrOm table Of to-day. The
rounding Of the cushions must have in
creased the cost Of the tables. No new
rules were needed, but the angles were all
changed, and at first the game was in
teresting for that reason
The design for the s. certificate is a dash
ing, neryy composition Of horses and an
gels and swords and lightnings by Wal
Ter Shirlaw. 1t is said TO represent pro-
gress, and conveys the idea very well, al
though the Imagination of the artist has
been given free rein. But there is spirit
ana dash in il. with several very well
been gicen free rein. But there is spirit
as II they were on their way to a IRE
with a hose cart behind them The SO
design, by Reinhart. will he accepted, /
tnlnks as the most artistic of all. 1t haSnt
the Vigor of Shirlaw's composition. and IL
isn't nearly as complicated as Lows, but
Just enough of action is furnished by a
meet OF White cruisers upon fOamy green
sea, ana just enough of repOse in splen-
Qld inquire or vulcan, with his tools around
him, seated at the end of a bench, while
az the other end is a bunch of fat little
urchins playing with dOlphins and por-
posses and other forms of sea fruit
Paradise opinions seem to owe much of
Inelr popularity to peculiar local fitness.
The Inhabitants of the Congo basin be-
HeVe that paradise is valley of peace"
where good spirits float about, continually
engaged in catching mosquitoes, and thus
protecting the sleep of kings and great
llAIA " 4o dIt IN a perpetual SluIQDtE. Inc
inhabitants of the hot. sandy, shadeless
dessert island of BOtocu imagine paradise
TO be land of cool streams, well shaded
by gigantic forest growths. 1t may be
well to mention in this connection that the
heaven ideas of all dessert jewellers pict-
ures thickly wooded hereafter. The va
Roots of Eastern Siberia believe that
heaven will be country provided with
ready-lighted fires and many blubberins
kettles and fish oil. When the Rev. Claus
Hansen, a Norwegian missionary, was
nlpfnT1nR heaven
age fatty refused to embrace Christianity
because, according to his idea, the here
after should provide plenty of ice, snow
shoes and sea monsters.
1t is now certain that neither DR.. J. /.
Guillotin, who is said to have died upon
the instrument which has a name so strik-
ingly like his own, nor DIR. J. b. V. Guillo-
tine who has also been given the credit
of being its inventor, was the designer of
the French instrument of capital punish
ment. 1t is known to have been in use in
Italy at least 500 years before the time of
either of the gentlemen mentioned, and
was the recognized instrument used for
inflicting the death penalty in Scotland
during both the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
centuries. Conradin of Swabia was eX-
ecuted by such a machine at Naples in
the year 1865 and that it was in use in
France more than 100 years before the
time of DR.. J. I. Guillotin is proven by
the fact that the Due de Montmorency
was decapitated "by a sliding AK in 1892
The word pea is derived from Pisa, a
Greek city of Ellis, which seems to have
been the center of the pea-growng in
dustry for years before the time of
mess pottage,' for which Esau sold his
birthright, was a dish Of peas. In those
times they were called 'lentils," and even
al the present day the English common
people of several of the English shires,
notably Middlesex, and Oxfordshire, still
call them "tils" dropping the len" In
the time of Mary they were called pea
sons" and in the time of Charles l.,
peasse. Prof. L. H. Baily is authority
for the statement that peas have been in
cultivation in Europe for more than 1000
years.
The recent attack by brigands on the
little town of Tartoli Sardinia reads like
a page from the history of the middle
ages. 1t is the robber baron business all
over again. A band of scoundrels, some
100 strong, armed to the teeth and all
masked, marched down out of the noun
tains and proceeded to invest the village.
Pickets were stationed at the end of
every street leading to the country, and
then the main body marched into town.
yelling like demons, and discharging their
weapons to intimidate the inhabitants.
The garrison consisted of only two gen
darmes in charge of brigadier. These
three brave fellows turned out on hearing
the firing. and, being Joined by several
courageous and well armed citizens OBJ
posed the bandits advance The fight
which ensued lasted several hours, and
dusk had IT in before the defenders of
the town wore finally routed leaving the
brigadier dead on the ground, and the
two gendarmes and several citizens
grievously wounded. The brgands now
spread all over the town, helping them
selves to every thing of value exposed in
the shops, and breaking into and looting
private houses. The inhabitants were
terrorized and nobody ventured into the
streets. The strongest detachment of
robbers made for the house of Signor De-
pom, formerly syndic of Tortol, and we'll
known to be possessed of ample means
The servants had been warned of the
projected attack, and had bolted and
barred the house The brigands, howev-
er, soon forced an entrance, and after
a short fight, in which the syndics
coachman was killed, the defenders fled
The robbers then went through the house /
and secured, among other spoils q OO0 !
lire in gold 10000 lire in paper currency. |
and jewelry worth 5000 lire. With this |
and other booty. they marched off to |
their retreat in the hills.
Who of our medical readers, asks the st, |
Louis Republic, can furnish Information |
concerning the ability, or even the Droh-
ability of representative of the human /
family living, If only for a few seconds /
after the heart had been punctured or re- |
moved from the body? My old friend. DR.. |
Whitelatch. tells of case reported in his |
medical journal of a Mexican peon who /
ran nearly the fourth of a mile after he /
had been stabbed in such manner that |
a portion of the heart, weighing p ounces. /
was entirely severed from the main part /
of that organ. In English Notes and
Queries for July %, 1854 there is an ac-
count of priest, presumably a crusader.
whose heart was cut from his bodV nv
the Turks and who. after that had sum
cient vitality left to pick up the removed
organ of life and carry it in his hand
from Dalmatia to Italy! In Lord Bacon's
works, Historic Vitae ct Norris Volume
il, page us, edition of 1740), l find the fol-
lowing wonderful story related: Il remem-
Der to have seen the heart of a man who
was (dis)emboweled as a traitor, which
upon being thrown into the fire according
to the custom, leaped out at least a fool
and half, and then less by degrees for
the space, to the best of my remembrance
of seven or eight minutes" Ancient ira
dition, and worthy of credit it is, tells of
man who was emboweed in pursuance
of that kind of punishment, and after the
heart was entirely torn out of the BODY
and in the hands of the eXecutioner. he
was heard to say distinctly three or four
words of his prayer, In Haynes Life Be
yond the Tooth Meridian there is a story
of Kiowa Indian who had been captured
by some Comanches, and who, after his
heart had been removed and impaled on a
staghorn pike pole. continued to live for
some little time. While in that awful con-
dition, one of his captors, thinking to
torture the poor victim the more. Haunted
the bloody trophy in the face of the diving
man, whereupon the supposed helpless
wretch seized his own heart and threw II
into the face of his tormentorl
AuynFdaA