The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-23
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FISH II the butter or jelly is placed near
them they will take every bit of it, and
don't care what becomes of other people
! Otherwise they behave well enough. The
! French are charming and witty, but they
! shock the sober German danes by their
| propensity to stay out late at nights.
behave correctly, live soberly, are good
natured and truthful. But the Russians
| Don't mention them! They are dirty
race"
! In the accidents which have attended
| the manipulation of liquid air and other
| substances in his laboratory, says Lon
| don exchange, NJ. Raoul Pictet has dtStin-
| guished two degrees of burns from the in
| tense cold. In the first the skin IS red
| dened, turning blue the next day. The
| spot doubles in area on the following
| days, there is intense itching, and five
| or six weeks are usually required for
! healing. In the more severe burns. those
| of the second degree, the SKIN is rapidly
| detached. \ long and stubborn suppura-
| ton sets in, and healing is very slow and
| altogether different from that OF burns
| from fire. On one occasion NJ. j1ctet,
| while suffering from burn due to a drop
| OF liquid air, seriously scorched the same
hand The scorched portion was healed
| in ten to twelve days whereas the cold
ward.
One elephant, says a writer in a London
exchange, which the officer commanding
| ell battery of the Royal Artillery lent to
| assist in extricating some camels which
| were being engulfed in the quicksands,
posluVely marvellous. 1t was with the ut
| most difficulty that we could get him to
! go near enough to attach drag rope to
| one camel wanted to rescue. In spite
| of our being about so yards from the bank
| or the river, he evinced the greatest
anxiety, while his movements were made
| with extreme caution. Despite coaxing,
| persuasive remonstrance, and at last a
| shower of heavy blows dealt upon his
| head by the exasperated mahout, this ele-
! phant stubbornly refused to go where he
| was wanted, but, with his trunk showed
| out in front of him, kept feeling his way
| with his ponderous feet placing them be-
! fore him slowly, deliberately, and me
! thodically, treading all the while with the
| VelVety softness of a cat and taking only
| would break out into a suppressed kind
| OF shrek and retreat backward in great
haste When the animal had nearly com
| pleted a circuit of the ground with the
| same caution and elaboration, he ad-
| Vanced to within ten yards of the poor
camel but not another inch would he
move though several men were walking
| between him and the camel without any
signs OF the ground giving way.
An interesting historical study on the
| pocket handkerchief has just appeared
IN German magazine, says the Westmin-
! ster Gazette. 1t appears that mankind
is indebted to Italy for the introduction
OF that modest but Indispensable acces-
sorry to civilization. According to The
| writer, the use of the pocket handker-
! chief was unknown in society until the
| first half of the sixteenth century About
the year 1910, an unknown Venetian lady
first conceived the happy idea of carrying
| a 'fazzoletto," and it was not long before
! her example was widely followed through
out Italy. The handkerchief then crossed
| the Alps into France where it's use was
Immediately adopted by the lords and
ladles OF Henry lis court. The handker-
chief of that period was an article of the
| greatest luxury. 1t was made of the most
| costly fabrics, and was ornamented with
| the rarest embroideries. In the reign of
Henry III it began to be perfumed and
received me name of ''mouchoir de
| Venus. 1t was not until 1880 that the
| handkerchief made its way into Ger
! many and then its use was long confined
to princes and persons of great wealth.
| 1t was made the object of sumptuary
laws, and an edict published at Dresden
In 1875 forbade it's use by the people at
large. Slowly but surely, however, the
Vulgarlzauon Of the pocket handkerchief
mas peen accomplished, and to-day even
the humblest is superior in one important
respect to Petrarch and Laura, Dante
and Beatrice, who-it is somewhat painful
TO think-iYed in handkerchief age.
A discovery has been made and has been
demonstrated at the bee exhibition held
in connection with the Austrian Horti-
cultural and Agricultural Society in vi
emma, says the London Telegraph, which
Is the talk of the capital at the present
moment, and the truth of which is
Vouched for by hundreds and thousands
OF visitors, besides being duly attested in
writing by thirteen trustworthy and COM
petent witnesses including members of
the artstocracy, scientists and physicians.
And this discovery is of a nature to over
throw all the theories about the political
constitution of bees which play such a
prominent part in political and scientific
literature. Heretofore it was looked upon
as an established fact, which could not
be called in question by the most skepti-
cal that each community of bees was
distinguished by it's ultramonarchial prin-
clples and It's loyalty to one queen. The
members of the hive would never hear of
a pretender, still less of a duumvirate or
triumvirate, and any attempt to bring
about such change in their political sys-
TEN would have produced a revolution.
But the lawful queen herself would not
allow things to go to any such extremes
The moment a rival presented herself
she would, speaking figuratively attack
her tooth and nail, and the duel would
end only in the death of one or both.
I'VE have changed all that now" the Aus
trian bees seem to say to their human visi-
tors. For Prof Cater of Simmering has
just exhibited a thriving hive, the mem
bers of which are governed conformity by
two queens and the bees apparently ap-
prove the innovation. Nay, what is still
more remarkable, the two mouarchs get
along most satisfactorily, and without
the slightest friction. Not only are there
no signs of rivalry, jealousy, or attempts
at these feminine amenities which are the
last resort of cultured females of the hu-
man race when compelled to endure each
others society, but the two queen bees
are positively affectionate-so affection
ate, indeed, that one might be tempted to
suspect that one of the two was a king
in disguise, If such a hypothesis were not
rendered absolutely untenable by the
strongly accentuated physiological char
| dt-tti AlCo VI lHG queen Dee. one OF the
greatest authorities on apiculture DR.
Dzierzon, whose name is favorably known
throughout the world in connection with
several ingenious inventions for the com
fort of bees, sat for hours at a stretch
observing the conduct of the two queens
They approached each other from time to
time without the slightest antipathy, and
on two or three occasions actually ca
ressed each other most tenderly and then
separated quietly and peaceably, fol-
lowed by their devoted suite Prof CAT
ter has just received the first prize for
his sensational exhibit, which is attracting
crowds to the bee show, and the mem bers
of the agricultural and horticultural So
cieties of Vienna are proud to think that
no such extraordinary spectacle as this
was ever witnessed or recorded in the his
tory OF bees. The document drawn up
signed and duly attested will be preserved
in one Of the museums of Vienna and
copies OF II will be sent to agricultural So
cieties throughout the world.
Awarded