The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-19
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fore having four toes, the hinder five
Scarcely an instrument in the orchestr,
escaped Mozarts attention. A born vo-
linist. he wrote concert for violin ans
orchestra which, though without he
emotional elements of Beethoven and
Spohr are greatly priced. To a tenor
violin. which had been deemed wortbv
only of filing up tutti passages. he gasa
a voice and place of its own in the or.
chestra. The clarinet was raised to great
Importance by him, and forthwith took
nearly all his scores IL received special
attention; while the fresh, beautiful and
exceedingly masterful work, the quintet
in A major for clarinet and strings ana
the fine clarinet concerto which he com
posed for Stadler, have impaired to the
instrument an aH-age reputation which
can never be impaired. Then his shark.
ling genius spent itself in writing for
that fine reed instrument. the basset
horn, the splendid properties of which
he deemed more suitable than even the
clarinet for his Requiem" For the
oboe Mozart did much, according it a
prominence which IL had never reached
with any previous composer. His Opus
10S' has a rare oboe part, and in the
Mass No. 70 is some fine, if difficult
music for It,
Mr.. Duchartre recently made known
TO the French Academy OF Sciences the
results Of an experiment made by Max.
ime Lecompte in Congo upon tree Of
. the nus Musenga. Upon making incis-
ions in the trunk of it and placing a pail
at the foot of the tree more than Ten
quarts of pure water collected in thir
teen hours The gorillas. il seems are in
the habit of Stacking their thirst al these
hidden fountains, and regulate the flow
of liquid by pulling off diherent-sized
branches Many years ago DR. WaliCh
found in the province of Marathon
Africa, d plant belonging TO the same
natural order, whose soft and porous
wood DISCHARGED, when wounded, a very
large quantity of pure and tasteless fluid
which was quite wholesome. and used as
beverage by the natives. This plant
vine, and has been placed in the genus
Phytocrene. which signifies plant f0un-
tain. These plants form a remarkahla
exception to the usual character Of the
order. which embraces species that pro-
duce a milky juice, such, for example
as the celebrated COW tree, or Palo DE-
" Co-,, on s s,,,ll, AI IN Whlch yiedS
d copIouS supply o. rich and whole
and used for the same purpose.
OF Cleopatra's nose. on which. accord
ing 10 PaschaL, hung the fate of the
world, nothing is known. says the Bel
geratlon of tie nose with which Mr.. Du
Maurier commonly equips his duchess
In this shape il may be called too long
even beaky, but We may hope that the
coin is not a good likeness, Concerning
the nose of Mary Stuart. Mr.. Charles
Kirkpatrick sharpe conceived after
TWO noses-one low and one high Per
heps, like Milton, she modified her nose
by mere force of Chara cuer; perhaps her
painters were extremely untrustworthy
Little can be asserted of scientific value
about noses in relation to character
while portraits are such dubious like
nesses and while convention is so pow
ertul in art. Among poets, Byron had
Greek nose. Lord Tennyson high
and well-shaped nose. Scott a nose o.
no particular architecture, and Keats
nose approaching the Hebrew type No
poet then need despair on account Of
MS nose. Genius rises superior TO IFS
nose, and so does beauty very often
The only permanent racial nose" is the
semitic, 1t is the same on Assyrian and
Egyptian monuments as it is to-day But
II the Jews survived by dint of their
noses. why did the Phoenicans and Car
thagenians perish? Nnox is usually rep
resented with nose between the Jewish
and the Roman, but our author gives him
a 'cogltatiVe nose a broad nose, with
deep extensive foundations. Homer is
credited with a similar nose but a con-
temporary portrait of Homer has still
TO be discovered, on the other hand this
was certainly the nose Of SIoliere Luther
IS said to have had a Roman nose, while
Erasmus owed his want Of balance to
a sharp Greek nose. On the whole an
agnostic attitude is wsest here. and We
cannot really assert that mankind fol.
lows It's nose IN Predetermined directions,