The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-25
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astonishing things If they chose. The
queen could dismiss every Tommy Atkins
IN our army, from the commander In chief
10 the youngest drummer boy. She could
dlSDand the navy in the same way, and
sell all our ships, stores and arsenals TO
the first customer that came along. Act
ing entirely on her own responsibility,
she could declare war against any for
elgn country, or make a present 10 any
foreign power OF any part OF the empire.
one could make every man, woman ana
child in the country a peer Of the realm,
with the right, in the case of males who
are OF age, TO a seat in the House OF
Lords. With a single word she could dis
miss any government that happened 10
be in power, and could, it is believed. par
don and liberate all the criminals in our
jails. These are a few of the things the
queen could do If she liked, but 1t is not
necessary TO say that her majesty never
acts in matters of state except on the ad-
vice of the government for the time be-
ing.
The effect Of European clothing upon
japanese women is quite remarkable.
says the Chicago Record, for whenever it
Is adopted modern manners and customs
usually go with it. The educated Japa-
nese say that when native woman
adopts modern dress she insists upon the
same treatment and courtesies that her
sisters in Europe receive. 1t is a Gu
rlous fact that when a woman is dress
ed in the Japanese costume her husband
always precedes her when entering a
room or in walking the streets, and
treats her as Japanese husbands gener-
ally treat their WiVeS-that is, like ser
wants. But when the same woman puts
on modern dress the conditions are re-
versed Her husband paws her the same
Difference that European and American
husbands show their wives and recog-
nizes her as an equal. Therefore dress
reform has had a powerful influence in
the advancement of japanese women, and
those who have embraced Christianity
and are laboring for the emancipation of
their sex are all working quietly, zeal
ously and effectively to promote the re-
form that IS going on in the home and
Some respectable statisticians hold
says the London Telegraph. that the
strong marked tendency of the inhabi-
tants of Saxony to become dwarfed in
stature is in a great measure one of the
mischievous results OF over-indulgence in
so-called coffee, which in the families
OF the poorer classes is drunk from early
morn TO deWy eve, and is a substitute
for tea, soup, flesh meat, dessert etc,
like the miraculous mamma of the ancient
Hebrews. The stuff employed in Saxony
which plays such havoc with the nation,
has, of course, little or nothing in COM
mon with the beans of Mocha, whose
Jollifying effects upon the unsuspicious
goats that cheWed them first drew at
tention of Mahometan monks to the won
Oertul properties of the berry. Most
articles of food are liable to adulteration
especially when they do not happen to
be primary necessaries of life, merchants
and middlemen acting on the principle
that ii is always profitable to mingle the
useful with the agreeable But few, prob
ably none, have had so many excellent
substitutes offered in their stead as cof-
fee in which not particle of the origi-
nal article has place
"A novel way of annoying the Paris
police has been discovered by one of the
class who look upon them as their natural
enemies, says a Paris letter Some fell
low has several times pretended to COM
nit suicide by jumping from the Pont
Neuf, near the statue of Henry ", which
has given rise TO one of the most widely
current French proverbial sayings Just
when a number of people are passing to-
ward dusk, he gets up on the parapet,
says, Il am tired of my life," and ap-
pears to jump into the Seine Instead of
jumping into the water, however he falls
on the parapet and crawls along in the
semi-darness to another part of the
bridge, when he climbs up and joins the
crowd in order to watch the fun" Po-
hcenen run up, boatmen make off to the
rescue and in the midst of the hubbub
the cause of it all says what is the French
SLAMS equivalent of II say, aren't those
hobbies going it?" and then runs away
laughing. Up to the present he has not
been caught, but the whole performance
was witnessed the last time by a police
man in plain clothes. Owing to the con-
fusion and the number of vehicles in the
roadway this particularly Objectionable
practical joker was able to make his es-
cape.
Two writer's in the Revue d'Hygiene
recommend that drunkards anxious to
conquer their habit be encouraged to
drink non-alcoholic preparations that
suggest alcoholic wines or liquors. One
such preparation consists of sugar, hulled
barley, hops, coriander seed, extract of
violet, elder flowers, vinegar and water
IN the proportion of two and a quarter
pounds of the first to an equal part of the
second, half as much of the third, 49,
grains troy of the fourth. an equal
amount of the fifth 3S7lb grains troy of
the sixth, one and three-duarters hints
OF the seventh and a trifle under eleven
gallons of the last These are all put into
suitable cask, with square hole at the
bung, four and three-quarters to five
inches on a side, the ingredients being
thoroughly mixed in the cask with pad
die before the water is added and the
sugar being put in the first of all After
eight days of infusion the mixture is
strained into bottles and strongly corked
-Four days thereafter il is ready for use
To the moderate drinker all this sug-
gests nothing very agreeable but the
mixture is said to look like white wine,
and taste much like champagne. The
man that has sworn off drinks 1t with a
relish, and no harm follows. The cost
OF the mixture is less than two cents a
quart.
The rarest species of bird now ex-
tant and one which is almost extinct.
has its home in the jungles of South Amer
lea, says the ST. Louis Republic This
pathological curiosity is known to sci
ence as the Palamedra Cornuda, and to
the common people as the horned
screamer." As a rara avis nothing could
excel the cornuda, unless it would be the
accidental discovery of a living moa or
an epinornis. But few of the bird books
even let you know that such a horned
paradox ever existed. let alone telling
you that living specimens of the queer
creature are still occasionally met with.
The only one now in captivity in North
America, If the writer has not been mis-
informed is that belonging to the aviarv
of the Philadelphia geological gardens
and which arrived in this country about
three years ago. The creature is about
the size of full grown turkey hen and
OF blackiSh brown color One of it's
distinguishing peculiarities is a ruffie of
black and white which surround the head
The horny appendage which caused the
early South American explorers to write
so many chapters on the wonderful
rhinoceros bird of the jungle" is about
four inches in length and grows straight
up out of the heaviest and broadcast Dor
ton of the head. But the above is not
the only natural offensive and defensive
weapon with which the horned screamer
has been provided. On each wing at the
elbow joint he has a three-inch spur.
and just back of that another an inch in
length. He is said to be a match for any
ten game cocks.
The advance made by women in the
professions is strikingly brought out bv
this new census paper, says the London
News. In the civil service the number of
women officers and clerks has risen from
less than 5000 in 1871 to 1916 in the last cen
sus year. In the local government in the