The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-31
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and it is a remarkable fact that his kick
is forward, never backward.
Young doves and pigeons are fed with
a sort of pap secreted by the parent bird.
1t is necessary to the existence OF the
squads They die without it,
An owl cannot move his eyes. as they
are fixed in their sockets. The deficiency
is atoned for by great freedom of motion
in the muscles of the head and neck.
Eagles always drive away their young
as soon as the latter are able to ny we'll
Business is never very good with the
eagle, and he does not enjoy competi-
ton
The humming bird. in protecting it's
nest, always flies at and pecks the eyes
of its adversary. Crows have been found
totally blind from the humming birds
bill.
Several kinds of birds are known to
follow COWS, horses and other stock about
the pastures for the purpose Of feeding on
the insects disturbed by the feet of these
animals.
Wild ducks, cranes, swallows and sew
eral other kinds of birds assemble in
focks as the time of migration approach
es and seem to discuss the departure and
the route.
An authority on hypnotism says that
| hysterical persons are very difficult to in
fiuence. They are so welded to their own
Fundamental and physical-that they
prove very obstinate hypnotic patients.
Even If an influence is gained, ii passes
off very quickly.
The great De Lesseps Panama ditch is
a melancholy wreck. The wharves are
falling into the water, and acres of ma
chinery are ruSting to dissolution. On
the isthmus are nearly 1000 miles of steel
track, with locomotives and thousands of
dump carts, now half hidden in the tropi-
cal growth. Seventy-siX great steam
shovels stand side by side in the excava-
ton, buried in luxuriant vegetation.
Fang and Mang' anja are the two latest
languages to appear in print. Fang IS
spoken on the Gaboon river, in West
Africa, and for it the British Religious
Tract Society and the American Board
of Foreign Missions have combined to
issue a catechism and a primer, Mane'an-,
ia is the language of the district south
| of Lake Nyassa, and into 1t THE Peep O
| Day" is being translated through the eff
! forts of a woman missionary at Blantyre.
| A Charlottesville, Ind, man has adver-
| tised his home for sale as follows: In
/ order to raise sufficient funds to supply
my 15-year-old daughter with all the tom
/ foolery required by the high school fac
! ulty as a starter for an education CD in
! our boosted fine educational institution
| | find that, my salary being lnsutnclent'
! l am compelled to sell my home. AT the
rate the school faculty is going they
won't turn out a scholar with enough
! common sense to set dinner table,
In dredging the harbor of Bizerta, in
! Tunis a silver sacriticial bowl was found
which is the most valuable piece of work
| manship in the precious metals yet dis
/ shallow, has two handles, and weighs
| twenty pounds. The inner surface is or
! namented with a design IN lnlalQ SOlu
| representing the contest between Apollo
| and Marsyas. The work is by a Greek
| artist of the first century after Christ.
! The bowl is now in the BardO museum.
Last May Queen Victoria visited Man
| chester for three hours to open the new
ship canal. The bills for the celebration,
amounting to $50 600, are now being in
vestigated. Among the items is one Of
| $1,000 for badges for the city council. At
the banquet they ate Strawberries at $40
a pound, asparagus at 81 a bunch, and
tr,ara ,1ng aTNTn n
look after the queens horses and car
riages. The auditor reported that it
looked as though something else had been
opened besides the canal
Faith in the dictionary created distur-
bance on the Strand recently, says the
New York Sun. A draughtsman needed
some thumb tackS, and ordered young
French clerk to run out and get some OF
these" holding one up. The French for
thumb tack is punatse On looking the
word up in the dictionary, the only mean
ing the Frenchman found was bedbug; 50
he rushed into "A stationer's store and
asked for siXpenny worth of bugs. The
Frenchman insisted that he must have
them right away, and at last, sure that
he was dealing with a lunauc, the sla-
toner called in the police.
That swordhishes combine with thresher
sharks in attacks on whales is, according
| to DR.. Gunther'S article in the last edl-
tions of the Encyclopedia britannica, an
| often repeated story which has it's toundd-
! ton in the imagination of the observer.
| The story. nevertheless, has been re-
peated once more to a Liverpool CORE
sDondent nv observers who saw they saw
such battle very clearly. Dr. GuntheT
said that such stories were disproVed 10y
the fact that the dentiton of the thresheI
. shark was much too weak to make any
| impression on the skin of the cetaceah
In the LiVerpooPs correspondents story
however, the shark did not fight with his
teeth, but in the manner described of old
, by Samuel Clarke in the following pas
sage in the book about the Bermudas
E1nVa dc N "a r
, attended with the swordflsh and the
thresher. The swordfish, with his SHARP
and needle-liIe fin Gaw) pricking him into
the belly when he would dive and sink
into the sea, and when he starts up from
his wounds the thresher, with his clut
, fins (taiD beats him down again"
Before the advent of the white man the
Sioux believed that the earth was nat
with Il circular form, and was suspendel
: in a dark space, and sheltered by tbs
heavens or sky in the shape of hollow
r hemisphere, says a writer in the Popular
| Science Monthly. The sun was regarded
i. the father and the earth the mother OF
all things that live and grow, but as cheJ
had been married a long time and had be
come the parents of many generations
they were called the great grandparents
AS far as can judge, the moon seemed t.
be their servant. at least, she was re-
quired to watch together with hel
brothers, the. stars, over the sleeping
universe. while the sun came down tC
rest with his family. In the thunder
bird they believed that God had a warrior
/ VINO presided over the, most powerful
elements-the storm and the fearful cy
clone. This symbolic creature is depicted
as an impatient and wrathy god Of war
at whose appearance every smiling grand.
father, the sun, hides his face In the
realm of water the whale is the symbol
lied chief of the fnny tribes. In every
t great lake the Sioux imagnes a huge
fish as the ruler of its waters. Yet none
of these possess the power of speech The
Great Mystery had shown them some
truths denied to man, but he did moi
! trust them fully, therefore he made then
dumb. They can only show to man some
supernatural thing by signs or in dreams
! as, for instance to fOreteH future events
or explain the use of certain powerful
. remedies. The savage holds that the key
: of heaven is vested in the visible phenUln.
ena of the universe All creatures. save
man, are assigned to a peculiar paradise
in which there is a forbidden fruit
ing. Hence the animal and mammal
f things are exempt from sin. Thus il Is
! that rocks, trees and rivers are surrounded
. with an atmosphere of grandeur beauty
: and mystery. Nature is the interpre lei