The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-04
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back, Is out almost daily in New York
ana takes rides against time. though he
Is Seldom IN the saddle more than an
hour.
There is one Christian minister for ev-
cry go OF the population in Great Britain,
ana there is but one I'm every llfO0 in ia
pan. one in l65.0So in India, one in 222,0C0
IN Africa, and one I'm 5000 in China.
The Japanese religion demands that
man must worship on the soil every day.
Princes and rich men evade this by spriu-
ling little dirt in one corner of the room
on a square Of cement made for that pur-
pose.
The pneumatic principle has been ap-
pied to boots. The air tubes lie between
the upper and lower soles, and give a
springy movement to the foot calculated
to reduce friction with the ground and to
alleviate fatigue.
Once upon time. says the New York
Advertiser, a certain woman applied to
the patent Office for a patent upon her
dlmple-producing process. but as IL was
refused the secret is now common prop
elty, ana any one who cares TO expert
ment may try it, Her claims were as fol-
lows: Smear a small spot on the cheek
or chin with colOrless shellac varnisu,
| mixed with glue. With pencil or pen
holding 1t there until the substance on the
face becomes dry and hard. The stiIened
lamentations thus retains the exact shape
OF a dlmple. and little face powder care
Gully busted over the artificial dimple-
viii completely conceal the varnish and
glue compound. Some care must he oh
served IN smiling too suddenly or the
dimple may be broken But with ordinary
gentle usage IL will retain its pretty shape
a whole evening. if not longer. While the
1lmple process is applicable to those whose
races comprise soft, velYety or pulp sur
face, as then very deceptive dimpie can
be produced, it is not so available for thin
or oony faces, nor where the skin is very
thick and unyielding."
Some French statistician has turned
himself loose on the subject of wasted
words and letters. TIE French and En-
gllsh languages are, as he proves with
many hgures, especially open to criticism
IN TINS matter, and money is lost every
year by lack Of verbal economy The
i rra,nch language contains 13 per cent. CT
useless letters. There are $500 Journals
published in the language and they print
iVsVoWO,COO letters every year, so that
l4,aJOUOON words are printed not because
they are needed, but because they have
come to be used in the French Language
as 1t is spoken. The writer computes,
that Sl,9SS,O0 is the annual cost of this
useless expenditure of printers ink IN
france alone. Of journals printed in tie
English language there are 1900, and they
are larger. Twelve per cent. of our print
ed letters are skipped over by the tongue
| in pronouncing the words, and SO s.. 900 600
IS thrown away. Useless letters he goes
on to say, fill up large amount of space
on paper and in this way is lost ST., 100000
among English-speaking people and So
l 6OOOOO in France. The time taken up in.
writing these useless letters, if estimated
| az 20 a DAY journalist, is worth $i,50O00O.
Grand total S2,6OO,OOO.
The common snail has lungs. heart
and a general circulation, and is, in ev-
cry respect an air-breathing creature
says the st. Louis Republic. This. not
withstanding, he can live on indefinitely
/ without inhaling the least atom of air
/. that which Is usually considered the essen
tlal to existence in all creatures sup
piled with lungs. Leppert says: ITO all
organized creatures, the removal of Oxy-
gen, water, nourishment and heat causes
| death TO ensue." When that statement
was made he does not appear to consider
me snat as one among the great host
OF organized beings" for the experiments
made by Prof Spallanzani prove that
any or all the usual life conditions can DC
removed in its case without terminating
! It's existence or in any way impairing j IS
| functions. 1t Is q fact well known that the
| common land snail retreats into his she'll
| on the approach of frosty weather in the
ran, ana that the opening or mouth of the
| shell is Theoretically sealed by a secre-
| ton which is of a silky texture and abso-
| lutely imperviOus to both air and water.
| IN this condition IL is plain that he is de-
| prived of three of the four clements of
| life mentioned by Leppert, viz: Air, water
| and nourishment. Taken after he has been
thus handicapped for months. he may be
| plunged into chemical mixture 100 de-
| grees colder than the degree marked a
| Fahrenheits zero. and allowed to remain
| IN that chilly solution for weeks. Yet,
| ture, life is renewed, and the snail soon
retains his natural powers. clips the silk
| en- curtain from his house door and begins
| to feed as naturally as though Just aWaK-
| ening from a winters sleep. Spallanzant
| kept snail of the great helix family her
metically sealed in glass tube, from
| which all air had been carefully removed
| for period of four years and two months,
| yet he declares that the creature regaincd
all its normal functions within less than
an hour after being exposed to Temporal
ture of 80 degrees.
The history of Notre Dame is in a great
measure the history of France saws an
exchange. During the wars the standards
taken from the enemy were suspended
there; and after victories the old church
rang with the glorious chant of the tie
Deum. In 1l35 Heraclius, patriarch of
Jerusalem who had gone to Paris TO
preach the Third Crusade, officiated at its
high altar. Here, too, in the early part of
the thirteenth century, st. Dominic
preached from book given him by the
Blessed Virgin, who appeared to him after
an hours silent meditation, radiant with
beauty, and dazzling as the sunlight;
whether the congregation saw the vision
or not history does not relate On Nov
q, 143l, the child of Henry VI. of England
was crowned king of France in the choir
of the cathedral. But the pomp of this
ceremony was soon eclipsed by a greater
the singing of the TIE Deum' to celebrate
the retaking of Paris by the troops of
Charles NIl in Easter week 1496. In the
thirteenth century the Feast of the As
dor; the whole church was hung with rich
tapestries, and the pavement covered with
understanding flowers and herbs; but two
centuries later grass from the fields of
eGntilly seems to have suficed to do hon
or to Our Lady on her fete day. The same
custom prevailed there as at the st. Cha
nellie and other churches; that of letting
fly pigeons and throwing flowers and
torches of flaming fax from the windows
in celebration of the descent of the HOLY
Spirit upon the day of Pentecost.
1t is common idea" says a Cinoin
natl horse dealer, that the change of mo-
tive power for street cars and the conse-
quent disuse of horses, thus reducing the
demand, is largely responsible for the de-
cline in prices of horses. That is true Is
to a certain kind of horsehesh. but NOT
the best kind. What affects nv business
more than anything else is the bicvcie
This diminishes the use of a better cIas
of horses-a class not affected materia11v
by the substitution of electricity for horsaSS
on street railways. The bicycle takes tbe
place of the gentlemans riding horse of
the ladys riding horse, of buggy and car
riage horses and Of the youngsters nom,
People in general do not realize how disaS
trous the bicycle has been to the marttet
for these kind of horses"