The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

many saloon keepers will be forced out
Of business by the new temperance law,
and some Of them might be tempted to
burn their places in order TO get the in
surance
in some eastern countries chldren's
hair Is not cut until they are 10 or L
years Of age, the girls then being con-
sidered marriageble. says the Pittsburg
Dispatch Up to that time il is coiled
on top Of the head and adorned with
fresh flowers. When the great DAY Tor
cutting comes there is a grand ceremony
and much feasting. One who was pres
ent at a royal hair cutting tells us that
the darling of the harem was rpbed in
long, flowing garments of silk and lace,
confined at the waist by golden girdle.
Her long hair, coiled Tor the last time,
was fastened with diamond pins, winch
cleaned and glittered among fresh white
nOwers and green leaves like pearly drops
of morning dew. There. in the presence
of the ladies' her father aud an officiating
priest, surrounded by her handmaidens,
some 200 in number, she knelt while
ful tresses being unbound, her royal
father, dipping his fingers in rose-water
and drawing them carelessly over her
head, clipped about an eighth of an inch
of hair and threw it into a golden basin,
depositing at the same time on great
salver placed ready to receive them pres
ents of jewels and gold. The priest cut
the next piece, her mother the next, and
so on, each guest serving in turn until
the little lady was shorn. All gave costly
gifts intended for her marriage dover,
princes, ministers of state and digni-
taries of all sorts, who waited in the outer
courts, sending in their contributions by
the attendants. The day ended in FEAST
ing and display of fireworks.
AS Easter approaches it is interesting
to know something about the historical
facts that determined the date of this
sacred feast, says the New York AdYer-
tiser We are accustomed to think of its
spiritual significance only, and blindly fol-
low the almanac as regards its exact date.
Inc book OF common prayer tells US that
Easter always comes the first Sunday af-
ter the full moon which appears on or
after March q, and if the full moon
comes on Sunday, then Easter day IS
the Sunday following. This, of course,
we accept, and keep the festival at that
time from year to year. Let US look a lit
tie more closely into the matter and see
for ourselves how this was determined.
The French Paques, Italian Pasqua, Swed-
1sh Pask, and the names OF the feStiYal
In several other languages come from the
Latin pascha, meaning passover, and or
iginated with the belief that Christ was
typihed by the paschal lamb slain al
the feast of the Passover which was or
dained by Moses in remembrance of The
passing over of the Israelites when tie
first-born Of the Egyptians persisted. The
early Christians continued to keep this
Jewish feast for only short time and
then celebrated in its place the Christian
Passover, Instituted by Christ at the last
supper. the Passover supper before his
crucifiXion. The Greek and Latin
churches however. did not agree as to
the exact time of the Easter celebration,
memoratiOn of the passion, others were
rejoicing in the resurrection of the Savior.
Neither church wished to celebrate 1t at
the same time as the Jews and as there
was no Gregorian calendar to help them,
1t was a difficult matter to settle, and
toward the end of the second century the
dispute on the subject became warm. The
Jews celebrated the feast on the fourteenth
of the month Nissan Tor March, and the
Christians kept Easter in the same
month, but always on Sunday; still. in
some years the Christian festival coin
cided with the Passover of the Jews.
Finally, at the Council of Nice, A. D. 325,
II was ordered that from that time Easter
should be solemnized on the Sunday fol-
lowing the first full moon after the YER
nal equinox, supposed to fall on March
2. Many centuries elapsed before all
discrepancies ceased. 1t was, however,
unquestionably settled when both, the Eng
lish and Roman churches having adopted
the Gregorian calendar, there could be
no more cause for dispute.
Elias b. Dunn, the weather observer
at New York, has been studying atmCs
pheric electricity for two years, says the
Boston transcript. The sergeant, as they
used to call-the farmer, as they call him
now-said the other day that he will live
to see the day when electricity collected
from the atmosphere and stored by some
means which an Edison or a Tesla Will
have to devise, will revolutionize the
world. The prophet expects that cities
will be lighted and heated by atmospher-
ic electricity; that every train and car will
be run, lighted and heated by it; that coal
VIII become CURIOSITY Inat steam neat
ing will be granny talk to the children
of the next generation; that the telegraph
and telephone companies will lose their
! monopolies that war will become a farce
the British Grenadiers, or the German
Uhlans, or the Scotch Highlanders sit
Even the dreams of eommunication with
the inhabitants of Mars will become real
tiles, and a man will be able to strike
up electricity as he does a parlor match.
There will be more trolley strikes
because there will be no more trolleys-
Mankind will tap the atmosphere for al
clothing, and even the clothing will be
woven, and the food cooked, by atmos-
pheric electricity; street cleaning will be
change!" and everybody will live COM
paratively happier ever after. Mr.. Dunn
is sure that his ideas are practical and
probable. The atmosphere is his con-
slant study, and, having introduced gem
eral humidity to the public as the prin-
| cipal element in uncomfortable days, he
has determined that the potent element
| for good in the air we breathe shall no
longer be wasted. Why, he said, the whole
atmosphere is soaked with electric
is a storehouse of electricity.
| That it passes from the clouds to the
earth we can see IN every thunderstorm
The earth is a good conductor, espec'S lily
damp earth, and water is the best con-
ductor possible. Every person is pos
sessed of body electricity. The vital force
is ali in The electrical movers voIi con-
tain in your body When the body is
damp you become weakened through the
loss of your bodily electricity, because
the atmosphere is greater conductor
of the electrical fluid than your body
and, consequently, what is in your body
will pass to this moist damp air That
is the cause of that tired feeling This
passing Of electricity to the atmosphere
enervates you to such a degree that a
person in a naturally weak state will col
lapse or become much worse by the loss
of this bodily electricity. The atmos-
phere being charged with electricity, and
the earth being q storehouse for it, if
there We're some comfortable method of
storage devised by which you could draw
Off a moderate amount of electricity at
will and keep that force on tap all the
time with an appliance by which power
could be generated-and there's no reason
why that can't be done-then atmospheric
electricity would make all the wheels
in the world go round. The barons would
be done up. There would be no more
need for coal There ought to be enough
electricity in the atmosphere to supply
light and heat as well as to do all the
work