The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28
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allowed TO get dry. OF the tips Of the leaves
will become yellow and brown. and the
appearance Of the plant viii be greatly
need moist atmosphere. which is difh-
cult 10 give them in aesFindow.
in us an actress appeared on the
stage OF a Paris theater in the character
or rustic Greek maiden in the time of
Pericles. She wore a pannier five yards in
circumference under a skirt of silver
gauzc. trimmed with puffs of gold and
pink Grape, and bouquets Of natural roses
here and there fastened to the material.
Each family of standing in Honolulu
Keeps telephone for which the charge is
$40 a year. The invitations to all social
functions are sent by telephone. This is
not only a saving to the hostess in the mat
ter OF cards and postage, but it also OBJ
that attaches TO such work Some houses
have dozen telephones scattered about
the different rooms, 50 that the family
may communicate with friends without
having TO leave their chairs.
In one of the wards Of the insane asy-
lum at Dayton, o., is an entire family
one hallucinatiOn they are bright and in
telligent. Their name is YOuart The
eldest daughter taught school for years,
though insane all the time They believe
that great fortune awaits them in Ian
canshire. England. 1t was left to them by
their father, and consists Of vast estates
When talking on this subject their eyes di-
late, the face becomes flushed and the
hands are clasped nervously. The young
est son, boy of Is, is as crazy as any of
the others Experts believe the family will
become violently insane with homicidal
tendencies. 1t is strongly marked case
of paranola.
The popular impression is that all
pearls used for ornaments and jeWelry
come from the high seas; this is not
so, however. Some of the handsomest
pearls ever found and set into ornaments
are from the bed of the River Elster, in
Saxony. The fishery for pearls in that
valley is by no means Of recent date;
in fact, the first authentic document re-
Ierrlng TO inland pearl fisheries Is the
edict of the electoral Prince John George
/, dated 1921, granting the rights of the
fishery of pearls to the family Schmerler,
at Oelsnitz. Some of these pearls are
as large as bullet and as clear as
milk, having blush tint. Several are
exhibited in the Green Vault of the Ores
| den museum, although, as above men
toned they are popularity believed to
have originally come from the orient.
The total annual find is diminishing rap
idly; while over fifty valuable pearls
were found in 1893, the year 1894 netted
only thirteen pearls, only four of which
were valuable, while four were absolute
ly worthless.
"A sham marquis has been sentenced
to five years Imprisonment for swindling,
says Paris letter. He had opened what
he pleased to style bank, but only with
a view to pocketing the money, which he
made the clerks whom he had engaged
hand over to him by way Of a guarantee.
By these means he had obtained 5000
francs, and in order to gain time for his
| escape, he said that the house of business
would be closed on the following day.
| The clerks received a letter announcing
| the death of his wife, the marquise, de-
scribed in the missive with deep edged
PACK border r as NINE dn Ber1hemin de
| and inviting them to the funeral They
| went the next day to the church, which
| they found hung with sable draperies,
! while a tall catafalque, fianked with lam
padaries, rose in the center of the aisle
But they waited in vain, for, neither the
"Compte de kerangal,' made an appear
ance. At last the adventurer was ar
rested, and one more condemnation has
been added to the score of sentences pre-
viously passed on him.
The original constitution Of the Uni
ted States, says Harper's Young People,
was written upon long roll that was
afterward cut up and put under glass in
five oak frames two inches deep, and
fourteen by nineteen inches in size In
four of these frames are parchment
sheets, easily filing the space on which
are written the constitution of the United
States In the fifth frame are the sigma
lures, and the resolution submitting the
document to the states for ratification
| This is he original of our national consti-
tutiOn-the only constitution our republic
ever had. Most states of the union have
had from two to half dozen constitutions
and the Empire State has recently changed
its constitution again. The lines of this
original constitution of the United States
run across the sheet, and the penmanship
Is very coarse. The preamble which so
many of you can repeat, is separated from
the text by narrow space, and there is
no attempt at fancy lettering in the open
ing words, as there is in the articles of
confederation. Many of the signatures
are the same as are found at the bottom
OF the declaration of independence. The
amendments, even the very first one, do
not form part of this original, but are
written upon separate rolls of parchment
| and preserved in tin tubes that stand in
the corner of a closet. The number of
these tubes Is greatly increased by those
that contain the official ratification by the
states. The earlier of these Publications
includes approval of the constitution and
OF the earlier amendments. Later amend
ments, such as the celebrated fourteenth
and fifteenth, adopted at later dates re-
CURED separate notifications, and separ-
ate tubes.
Lake Superior has been reputed to
pc the biggest body of fresh water on
! Victoria Nyanza, the largest African
lake, may not be ahead of it in size
Reclus, indeed, gave Victoria $4,000 square
kllometers, to 1000 for SUPERIOR but on
the other hand, several of best sources
OF Information agree in placing the area
OF Lake Superior at 81 200 square miles,
and OF Victoria Nyanza at about 10000
square miles. The fact is that these great
lakes are nearly equal in size and we
cannot tell exactly how they compare.
because our Information about Victoria
Nyanza is still very imperfect About
TWO years ago DR.. Baumann discovered
on the southeast coast of the lake a deep
bay that no one had heard of before,
and which is jest beginning to appear
on the maps. He was five days walking
around the shores of this indenta tton.
which is now known as Baumann Gulf
A while before this discovery Father
| Schynze surveyed the southwest prolon-
cation Of the lake, which Mr.. Stanley
did not discover during his voyage Of
eight days around its shores. These two
discoveries have added many square
! miles which are not included in the es-
Inmates here given of the lakes area.
and the shores of the lake are still so
nadequately explored and surveyed thai
hundreds of square miles are iikely to
be added to or subtracted from our pres
ent computations of the area Meanwhile
Lake Chad, on the edge of Sahara NAV
continue to stand off at one side and
smile at the pretensions of both these
rivals for first place. In the rainy sea-
son this lake loses all semblance of its
former self and spreads over a vast
area, until it covers more ground than
the Wanted Lake Superior itself. 1t is
1t is all Lake Chad and if its outlines,