The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Duke of Marlborough is having
the lakes. around Blenheim dredged at
cost of $4,000.
1t is stated by the Popular Health
Magazine of this city, in its June issue,
says the Baltimore Sun, that ''redness of
the nose Is caused by Indigestion, not in
temperance. The remedy, it is stated, is
TO abstain from OYer-indulgence in fats
and sweets This dictum will be appre
clated by many worthy people whose
noses are Upduiy rosy. For years they
nave been rGfsJudged by irreverent SCOT
fers who did not scruple to ascribe the
nasal tint to excessive imbibitions. Now
science comes to their relief. 1t is flats
and sweets that make the trouble caus-
ing indigestion, which produces a rush of
blood to the nose Some persons given
to alcoholic stimulants do indeed have
red noses, but the redness is stomachic,
burn out ones cOppers," and thus in
directly produce the luminous prObOscis,
out ITS owner Is now in position to as
sert that 1t is an error to say drinking
did it."
The annual production of gold in the
United States is increasing steadily and
Will continue to do so for a good while
TO come, says the New York World. There
are vast gold fields as yet thought to De
undiscovered in this country, which are
destined to yield wealth to fortunate pros
pectors and mine owners. Arizona and
New Mexico are still to a great extent
uneXplored, and their mineral resources
are only beginning to be known. There
is a future in the working of the low
grade ores OF North Carolina, Alabama
Virginia and Northern Georgia. So
greatly nave mechanical processes i'm
proved l4Iat ores which ten years ago
We're deemed wholly valueless can now
be turned to, profitable account. Ores
which a decade back could be made 10
now forced to yield 9S per cent, with one
half the labor Ores of such a nature
as to be easily treated, though contain
ing only s. worth of gold TO the ton,
are handled at profit.
The Liverpool Post claims to have
unearthed the head of Oliver Cromwell,
which is said to have been found in the
possession of the Wilkinson family, of
Seaichart, Kent, says New York World
Gable. According to documents which
they have Oliver Cromwells emDaimed
mead, after his body had been disinterred,
after the accession of Charles IL. to the
throne, was placed on a pike with those
of lreton and Bradshaw over Westmins-
was broken, the head fell to the ground
and was picked UP by a sentry, who con-
cealed it in his cloak and took it home,
where. fearing discovery, he hid it in The
chimney. On his deathbed the soldier
confessed what he had done to his at
tending doctor, VINO took possess IN of
the head. After various Vicissitudes, IN
GLIDING being placed on exhibition in
public show, CrOmwells head passed into
1T was kept in an oak box, is still impal-
eG on a pike head and has evidently suf-
fered from exposure and smoke.
"A nice little animal story is given in
this months Nature Notes, which raises
the interesting question whether mice
have a fondness for music, says the Lon
don News. 1t is contributed by a must
clan, who says: "One evening 1 was
somewhat startled at hearing my plano
suddenly giving forth sweet sounds, APP
parently of its own accord. A mouse
so 1t proved, had got inside the instru-
ment, and was making music on the wires.
Whether this was intentional on mousie-s
part or not cannot say perhaps he was
trying to make nest for himself there
some Years however. while
piano was being played in the dining room
of my ola home, several mce came OUT
upon the hearthrug and began to jump
about, apparently with delight at the
sound of the music, and one was either
so absorbed or overcome by it that he al
lowed himself to be carried away in u
tongs by the housemaid." After this.
ladies ought to lose their antipathy to
mice; indeed, we may soon expect some
humanitarian dame to commences musica,
parties for their delectation. 1t would DE
amusing TO see them dance, and would
FORM really humane method of catching
them.
Il don't know a greater shock" said
the young woman thoughtfully, when the
front door had closed after Maine and we
writer In Harper's Bazar-"hardly that
OF seeing what illness has done to the
face-than coming upon a man whom we
have always known with a nustache or
beard and finding him with none Sides
of his character we never suspected, weak
nesses of win that have always been hid
think, she added. laughing, that a full
long beard to many a man is like a vine
TO crumbling wall-a provision OF nature
10 cover that which otherwise could not
have been relied upon. Without his beard
now many patriarch would be revealed
me me S 191Sspqt' now many philanthroplst
the lower part of the face that reveals
the man you meet every day. You get
his intellect, the qualities he exercises con
sciously. his power to think and niau
all in the upper part of the face This
may be fine. almost Greek in line and
proportion but the lower part of the face
Is the text to a mans nature; his re-
there.
Everybody, is familiar with the name
of Tommy Atkins, representing the Brit-
ism soldier says the Chicago Inter Ocean
but how many know the terms OF endear
ment by which the German soldiers are
called? Some of these are applied to the
entire regiment, some to an individu4I
corps; The guards are called "hammel"
or sheep; the guards call the soldiers
of the line field rats" the infantry speak
of the cavalry as "grooms;' and the csVN
airy return the compliment by bestow-
ing upon the infantry the names of sand
pers." The cuirassers are known as
flour sacks" the pioneers as ''moles,"
are also called astronomers, and I've
engineers water rats" In these divis-
ions again the corps have names for them
selves and their rivals. In the cayairv
the Seventh Cuirassiers are the "wnita
smiths; the First Hussars the 'deafh's
heads as their shake bears this emblem:
and the Fourth Hussars from their brown
uniforms, are called ''partridges,' the only
brown in the German army preserved
IN remembrance of Frederick II, who
used all the cloth found in CanucbiD
convent for his soldiers. The green uni
form with yellow facings has given to
the Sixth Hussars the name of Spinach
and eggs" and for a similar reason the
Tenth Hqssars are called parrots" In
rel .
are az ga, called tin heads" in poetic allusion
frogs" the First Grenadiers. "notatn
P fro f5a,r the hea aUssars glow worms,
'dusties," from their dull, yellow rim,
mings' and the Pioneers, earth worms"
The suffering caused by a burn upon
the skin, whether small or great is intense
as every one knows, and medical scienca
has only been able. thus far, to palliate
but not to remove the pain entirely SAYS
the New York World. Chance led 10 tRs
discovery in the Paris Charity hospital the
other day. of remedy which. it is claim
ed, will cause burns to cease from haiar