The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-23
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new church IN that city. He says ne IS
{ the seventh son OF a seventh son. born on
Christmas day. and has the power 10
either punish or reward mankind. In a
| bright red flannel vest which he wears at
all times, the negro believes turks. the
mysterious charm which gives him his in
nuence over all children of the earth. he
proposes TO establish a church and pro-
vide the members with pieces OF his holy
garment. thus enabling them to perform
the same wonders as their chief. Brad
shaw lives In a hut at the outskirts Of the
city. He has accumulated considerable
/ money, and proposes 10 spend part in
the erection Of church.
1t is perhaps one of the signs OF the
times, 20 those alert for indications. that
the art OF breathing has become more and
more subject Of attention. says Harpers
Sazar- OcUlist as Wen as Psychologists
50 deeply into its study in a way hardly 10
be touched upon here. Physicians have
cured aggra waited cases of insomnia by
long drawn regular bredths fever-striCken
patients have been quieted stubborn forms
OF Indigestion made to disappear. a tend
ency 10 consumption may be entirely over
come, as some authority has within the
last Few years clearly demonstrated, by cx-
erclses IN breathing. Seasickness, too,
may be surmounted, and the victim OF hyp-
motto influence taught to Withstand the
force OF any energy directed against him.
There is famous physician of Munich.
VINO mas written an extensive work upon
the subject of breathing. He has besides
formulated system by which asthmatic
patients are made to walk without losing
breath, while sufferers from weaknesses
of the heart are cured. At Meran, in the
Austrian Tyrol his patients almost ev>
| cry royal house of Europe is represented
are put through certain system of
breathing and walking. The
mountain path are all marked
colors. each indicating the number of min
uieS I'm which a patient must walk the Civ
| en- distance. the breathing and walking be-
! ing IN time together As the cure pro-
| crosses the aScentS are made sleeper and
| sleeper
Ia antiquity" says Cosmos. NJ arch 30.
besides lndigo and purple, few colors
| We're employed and these were obtained
Tor the most part from the vegetable king
| uom, but their purity was so great that
! they have kept well to our own times, af-
| ter having undergone for centuries the ac-
| ton of the air and the sun. The fact is
| particularly remarkable in the Egyptian
| tombs; the stone has been disintegrated
/ by weathering, while the colors have been
preserved. The color that we meet most
| frequently is mixture of reddish brown
oXid of iron (red hematite) and clay
| known under the name of Pompeian red
| This color, which has resisted for 1900
| years the sun of Egypt and the action of
| the air, Is equally proof against acids
The Egyptians reduced il, by rubbing be-
| tween stones under water, to a degree of
| hneness that we cannot obtain nowadays
| by chemical precipitation. An equally
precious yellow pigment, also much used
! was formed of a natural oxid of iron
mixed with much clay, chalk and water
| mixture of the two cOlors gives orange
| For this yellow color, gold bronze or gold
lear was also employed. For blue. they
used glass cOlored with copper minerals (:
| this pigment was not less permanent than
! the preceding, even acids having very little
! erect upon IT, Gypsum or plaster of Paris
! furnished white and also formed the ba-
| sis of pale colors when organic pigments
| We're added to II, probably madden for
red The colors were always thinned and
! rendered adhesive by means of gums. 1t
| interesting know n
scriptiOns that the artists regarded their
| colors as imperishable."
| On scores of streets Of the older Cali
| fornia towns such as Santa Barbara Riv-
erside and Santa Ana, says the Philadel-
| phia Ledger, there are rows of pepper
| trees, up whose shaggy bark Cloth of Gold.
! Beauty of Glazenwood and Devoniensis
| roses nave been planted and trained to
| climb so tightly as to conceal the trunk
| from sight. In the months of blOssoming
! roses there can hardly be a more royal
| sight than row of these pepper-trees, en-
! veloped from the earth clear to the branch
! es In mantle of thousands of roses Of all
| Imaginable hues, and bearing aloft ponder
| Gus branches of fine, thick green foliage.
! Painters and photographers have sought in
| vain to represent the combination of color
| presented in such scenes as these. The ra-
| ptd growth of all rose plants is a matter
| of establishment with all new Corners to
| Southern California. Climbing roses that
| bear from 10000 to 1890 blossoms at one
| time are common in every locality in South
ern California. There are some
of the bushes that are about 10
years old in Pomona Valley that have an
! nually for several years borne from 20000
| to 10000 blossoms at a time There is in
! Ventura a magnificent specimen-a white
| Lamarque rose. 1t was planted from a
| cutting in November of 1876 and has been
| trained over a large arbor Its main stem
| Immediately above tire ground, measures
| feet and inches in circumference. Two
branches start from it, and each is 2 feet
and inch in circumference. 1t has been
| cut back and pruned heavily each year.
/ ana last year over wagon load of run
nings was taken away from 1t. For several
years the girls and boys of Ventura have
| every March and April-counted the num-
| Der of blossoms on this mammoth bush In
| five years there have been annually over
| 1900 roses, and last April they numbered
| 2l,640. BotaniSts say they can discover no
! sign of degeneracy due to cid age or rare
productiveness, in the wonderful plant.
The donkey who rather undeservedly,
| has come to be considered one of the natu-
! rails of the animal world, was dedicated
| by the ancients to Bacchus, while the ass
| of Stlenus was raised to a place among the
| stars, says the Gentleman's Magazine APP
| parently he was more intellectual person.
! age in early days than he is supposed to
! be at present. Ammonanus, the gramma-
| rian. possessed one who invariably attend
] ed his masters lectures on poetry and
| would even leave the choicest luncheon of
| thlStleS to do so. wicked as a red ass"
ran an old proverb, which the Copts be-
! heVed IN so firmly that every year they
/ sacrificed an unhappy animal of the de-
! tested color by hurting it headlong from
| wall In an old black-letter translation of
| Albertus Magnus the donkey figures in the
! following extraordinary receipt: Take an
! Adder's skyn, and Auri pigmentum, and
! greeke pitch of Reupirticum and the wax
! OF neWe Bees, and the fat or grease of an
! Asse, and breake them all, and put them
! all in duh seething pot full Of water, and
| make 1t to seeth at a glove fire and after
| let 1t wake cold, and make a taper and
| every man that shall see light of IL shall
| SCENE headleSSe." Burton, in his "Ana+O-
! my of Melancholy" mentions as a valua-
| bic armlet "a ring made of the hoofe of an
| asses right foot carried about" A tract
! written by a certain "A. b" in 1895. emit
| tied The Noblenesse of the Asse" is ex-
| ceedlngly laudatory of that excellent ami
| NAL. He refuseth no burden he goes
| whittier he is sent without any contradic-
! ton He lifts not his foote against anv one.
| he bytes not: he is no fugitive nor mali.
! cious affected. He doth all things in good
| sort, and to his liking that hath cause 10
| employ him." But what chiefly fills the
| worthy author with admiration is the don
! keys voice-his "goodly. sweet, and CON
! tinuall brayinGs,' which form "a melodious
| and proportionate kind of musicke''
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